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SBWire orginally distributed a press release about terminal LCD display market.
Increasing demand for consumer electronic goods, technological advancements in the manufacture of high-quality displays, and decline in LCD display prices are driving the growth of the terminal LCD displays market. The market for terminal LCD displays is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 4.3% during the forecast period from 2015 to 2022. The global terminal LCD displays market was valued at US$ 13.09 Bn in 2014.
This report aims to provide a comprehensive strategic analysis of the global terminal LCD displays market along with revenue and growth forecasts for the period from 2013 to 2022.
TFT and monographic LCD displays are the two types used today. As TFT LCDs are available in a wide range of sizes, manufacturers prefer this technology in large displays with requirements for good color quality. This research study on the global terminal LCD displays market provides a detailed analysis. The report offers an in-depth study of the market drivers, restraints, and growth opportunities. The report includes a comprehensive coverage of the underlying economic, environmental, and technological factors influencing the terminal LCD displays market. The report aims to provide a comprehensive, cross-sectional analysis of the terminal LCD displays market across the major geographies of North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.


text: Hi! It's tax-loss selling time again, and that means it's time to buy those stocks that are really getting beaten down for tax losses. Think GM in December '05. Even Captain Kirk got into the game! Now this year, there are many in the retail, financials, insurance, and REIT space. I've already jumped on MET, JCP, JOSB, KEY, CMA, WB, VNQ, AIG to name a few. I expect all to be big winners. So let's get the discussion rolling! We're looking for good stocks 1)that are down on the year, 2)that are now going through even more downside pressure as investors take losses to offset other gains, and 3)that are likely to bounce once the new year gets underway. Closed-end funds are notorious for this phenomenon as well. So go ahead. Don't be shy. Fire away!

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Every month, ATDI compares different propagation models for a given service based on very accurate measurements.
This month, WIMAX
Last Episode: FM
Propagation model versus Artistic vision
Rule #1: a propagation model must be reversible (A->B = B->A)
Test LOS:
. Tx/Rx antenna height (A): 10 m (AGL) 863 m (ASL)
. Rx/Tx antenna height (B): 10 m (AGL) 228 m (ASL)
. Tx power 10 W (EIRP)
. Distance: 22.678 km
. Type of path: LOS (line of sight) – Subpath free – Clutter class: Open
. Frequency: 900 MHz


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I think Derby has the biggest difference in tide heights of any where else in Oz - up to 10 mtrs high.
We visited the jetty on 3 occasions, during the day at low tide, evening high tide & evening low tide showing an amazing sunset behind the wooden structure. I love sunsets, & this 1 is our 1st on the west coast of WA.
20 kms out of town there's a fresh water wet land that I as a bird watcher, had to get Rod to drive me to (for company of course). The area is really pretty & there were plenty of birds to spot.
There's a boab tree just out of town, that has historic significance. It is reportably to be over 1,500 yrs old. This boab has a large hollow in it's trunk & was used as a prison tree before transferring the prisoners to Derby town in the late 1800's to after WW2.
Not far from the prison tree, there's Australia's longest water trough. Built at 100mtrs long around 1917, it was used by the drovers along a very long stock route for their thirsty cattle.
Nearby also, a small swimming pool was built for the diggers during WW2. It's not very big, but a welcome cool down in the very hot climate of the NW of WA.
We also visited a very old Boab tree in town that every photographer has to have a pic in their collection. I've got to admit, watching the sun set behind it was pretty amazing.
We visited Fitzroy Crossing - the town - to go see Geike Gorge.
The town is on it's name sake River as well. Funny that!!!
The Fitzroy River is not the biggest river in Oz length wise, but is the largest for water volume & in full flood during the wet season, it drains the equivalent of 1 Sydney Harbour volume of water every 12 hrs into King Sound on the coast south of Derby. Thats a massive amount of water. No wonder the bridge over the 100mtr wide River is so high & long!! It's hard to tell from these pics. There's tonnes of sand everywhere along the river as well.
On the way back from Fitzroy Crossing, we stayed at a camping spot not far off the road, on a cattle station called 'Ellendale'. We were camped next to the lake / dam & the views were relaxing. The dam is the drinking water for the locals of that particular paddock- friendly bunch they were too - could almost pat them. Some of them were also licking the ash from peoples camp fires.
Whilst camping here, it was census day / night. 100 kms from the nearest town, census collectors turn up to give out & collect forms - just making sure we are all counted I guess :)
We moved onto Broome & the southern end of The Kimberley. Broome is famous for it's pearling history. There are hundreds of men buried in cemetery's in town. Japanese, Malay, Aboriginal & Austalian to name some who lost their lives to the pearling days.
Streeters Jetty is the original jetty built in the late 1800's for access across the mangroves from the street to the Roebuck Bay wharf used by the pearl luggers.
The jetty goes no where now :(
This is the newer deep water wharf built in the mid 1900's......I think ???
Views of Roebuck Bay, looking back from the jetty.
Johnny Chi Lane was 1 of the lanes / streets of China Town during the early pearl lugging days when half of the towns population was from many Asian countries like Indonesia,Japan or Malaysia.
Cable Beach is a beautiful beach frequented by probably every traveller who comes to Broome. The turquoise waters next the white sand was picture perfect. This day is low tide.
One of the main reasons that Cable Beach is so popular, is for the sun setting over the Indian Ocean.
We bought ourselves some 'Noodle Box' for dinner, some beverages to toast the event & sat & watched the beautiful sunset .............like hundreds of other like minded folks. We stayed up on the grassed area this night.
Cheers :))
The Pearl Luggers Museum was interesting. Rod is trying out 1 of the helmets used by the divers from the late 1800's to 1940's. It weighs over 15kg.
It took 1 hr for the divers to get ready in the morning - donning at least 2 layers of warm under garments before the water proof diving suit
The shoes weigh over 35kg - Each. Can't imagine how they walked in them.
This machine is the air for the diver to breathe whilst on the ocean floor looking for pearl shells. An assistant on the lugger turned the handle all day long.
This pic shows a miniature version of a pearl lugger.
After the 1 hr history lesson, we were taken into the shop to be shown some gorgeous gems........................
We were allowed to hold this beauty & guess it's value. Some lady started at $500.... after being shown a neck chain of pearls worth $3,500............. daft woman. I mentioned $10,000 & was told more....... so every one kept guessing upwards til we got to.....................................................................................
$95,000. What a little beauty - about the size of my thumb nail.
I made sure they saw me replace it in it's box !!
Hundreds of 4x4 vehicles drive onto the sand at low tide to watch the sun setting. We decided that we should join them !! Another beautiful day turning into just as beautiful a sunset. Looks like staircase to the sun :)
We drove out of town to a bird observery. The bay views are still pretty. Roebuck Bay extends for many kms.
Gantheaume Point is at 1 end of the 22km long Cable Beach, just on the south western side of town. The area must cop some bashing from many a cyclone over the centuries. It is quite rugged but beautiful. We were able to wander amongst the rocky area that has a light house nearby.
The sandstone colours are gorgeous against the red earth & green trees behind.
Cape Leveque is a 170 km peninsular that juts out from the mainland north of Broome. Access is by 90kms of sandy & corrugated dirt road. The rest to the tip of One Arm Point is bitumen.
Beagle Bay has a famous catholic church built around 1915 by the German priests & brothers who lived in the area as missionaries to the local aboriginal people. ( they were under house arrest due to WW1)
The church is beautiful & constructed of hand made bricks & cement made by burning shell & used as the mortar & plaster.
We decided to take our tent to Cape Leveque for our 2 day visit. We stayed in the Middle Lagoon area overlooking 1 of the beautiful bays on the western side. We were high above the beach & bay, separated by red cliffs. This was our view from our tent / camp spot for the 2 days.
The secluded area called 'whale song' with only 6 camp spots had unusual toilet & showers. I felt safe using both as you turned a wooden sign around 'free' to 'in use' even though both are in the open air. Very private !!
A loo with a roof, but no door & great views of the bushes & birds whilst going about your business :))
'Stir case to the Moon' is an event that occurs during the months April to November. It happens when there's a full moon & the tides happen to be low, exposing the mud flats or sandy beaches depending where you are. Many tourists time their stay in Broome for this event. We were just lucky with our timing in Broome. I took this pic when we were @Cape Leveque. Grass fires around the area prevented me getting a decent pic in Broome the previous night -a thick smoke haze on the horizon blotted out the rising moon.
My camera can only go to ISO of 400, so my pics aren't as good as expected. My pic is also over water as we were up on the cliffs.
One Arm Point is at the tip of Cape Leveque. On that particular day, a blustering wind was blowing most of us away in the Kimberley region ! So this is how the water was whipped up by the easterly winds coming across Kind Sound.
Further around the tip, the tide comes in & out through a 100mtr wide channel. The pic doesn't do justice to what I want to show you, but the tide is flowing fast into King Sound, but the waves are pushing against it.
One Arm Pt has an aquiculture centre, where trochus shells are farmed & then cleaned for sale to the public. Some of the holding tanks had marine creatures like these green turtles.
After leaving pretty Broome we headed south towards Port Headland. 130 kms down the road is a place called Barn Hill. 10 kms off the main raod, it is a 430,000 hectare cattle station owned by 5 members of the 1 family but split up into sections. 1 female member, has ownership of some of the most pristine coastlines we've seen on this trip thus far. The cattle station has a 40 km beach frontage. Not just any beach either. We had the most gorgeous views out our back window of the van. There were cliffs & pillars of sandstone rock on the beach edge. Exploring the many bays was fun.
I like to take pics of something other than the scenery :) The sand had these patterns every where at low tide.
Another sunset - Rod took this one whilst I was talking to some other Kedron owners. More fires in the area created this smoke haze that made this sunset different.
We had to BYO everything - bar the food of course.
Roast Beef never tasted so good. It was our 1st roast in 4 months on the road.
I hope you enjoyed the area as much as we did. Love those western sunsets :))))))))))))


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Lines drawings for Miss Clamdigger ( aka Sprite), designed by Atkin & Co
I invented a motto when I started out as an artist that continues to inform most everything I do or make: All vessels originate with an imagined voyage. The motto flows naturally from my lifelong obsession with wooden boats, whose deep history and continually evolving technology are foundational to my development as a craftsman, regardless of the material or context at hand.
While my preferred medium is wood, my work as a sculptor and artisan/designer takes many forms, almost always as public art- cast bronze, welded aluminum, cast GFRC and FRP, ceramic enamel and glazed ceramic lenticular murals. Whatever my current project, I'm always simultaneously dreaming of building a boat, studying plans, hunting for obscure texts and histories. In many ways, I think of the boat-dreaming as the 'real work', and it often has profound impact on the forms I'm commissioned to make in cities across the country. This impact is not necessarily visually evident, but is more like an ethos, more of an approach to making. I can trace this ethos most directly to the working craft of the Eastern Seaboard where I grew up- clam skiffs, lobster boats, lifeguard boats and seabright skiffs, marina launches, fishing and utility boats. The common, often home built boats I loved as a kid just seem to belong on the waterways of their origin, timeless in their purpose, elegant in their simplicity. Also, their proportions and methods of construction say as much about local material streams, know-how and resources, as they do of the conditions of weather, wind and wave. I've tried to internalize this ethos, and codify it into a set of principles applicable to everything I make. I call this set of principles Deep Craft.
Looking back, it appears that I build a boat about every twenty-five years. I've built two so far, each one marking a significant time in my life, the focus required of boat-building serving as a kind of meditation or even as a rite-of-passage. I built the first boat with the help of my now wife when we first met in the late 1980s. We were living in a one-room cabin perched on a sea wall on the Eastern bank of the Hudson River near Hyde Park. I was apprenticing with a traditional house builder nearby and salvaged wood and hardware for the boat from a modified, timber-frame house we were building further north in Germantown. The boat was a flat-bottomed sharpie for oar and sail based on a design by Steve Redmond. I was drawn to the design for its simplicity, versatility and light weight, perfect for car-top gunkholing on the Hudson and on nearby bays and coastal estuaries. With an LOA of 15'-6" and 42" beam, the design was also perfectly suited for construction on our long and narrow front porch overlooking the Hudson. The boat's lithe proportions promised speed under oar and nimble handling under sprit-sail, leeboard and rudder.
Calabash, a 16′ lightweight rowing/sailing sharpie
Most important, my newfound love and I got to know each other as the boat took shape over the course of about six months of evenings and weekends working together. It became emblematic of our bond and the optimism and enthusiasm we shared for our future lives together. I named her Calabash, slang for 'girlfriend' in the West Indies. We launched her one summer evening directly from the porch into the slack tide of the Hudson directly below, lowered by ropes and pulleys from the rafters of our porch. For our maiden voyage we rowed Calabash ten miles north on the Hudson to Rhinecliff and back with the changing tide. We married in late summer of the same year and took Calabash along on our honeymoon on the Jersey Shore, dreaming of circumnavigating Brigantine Island. When we moved to Providence, RI the following year we sailed Calabash around the urban edges of Narragensett Bay and along the shallow shores of Point Judith Pond, beaching on mudflats to picnic and snooze. Like a tiny Navy, we became expert deckhands, captains and crew, knowing just where and how to sit for optimal trim and balance, when to point upwind and how to ride a following sea. The boat became like our first real home during our nomadic early years together, eventually following us cross-country to California.
Fast forward twenty-seven years. We still have Calabash and use her primarily for single-handed rowing on Tomales Bay near the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco. The conditions on our primary waterways nearby, Tomales Bay and Bodega Bay, are much rougher than those to which we were accustomed on the East Coast. The water and air here are much colder, winds stronger and more constant, tides more swift, with steep and frequent wind waves and white caps. Calabash is better suited to mellower conditions, but she still makes for a lively and able rowing skiff when single-handed in rougher seas, despite her age and delicate disposition.
I've been dreaming of building a boat better suited to our local conditions since we moved our home and studios from Oakland to the Sonoma Coast just over ten years ago. I imagined a small but seaworthy craft for fishing, crabbing, and exploring the remote beaches along Point Reyes. Ideally, the boat could handle the occasional passage offshore under favorable conditions when the salmon are running. I vacillated between a traditional Dory, after John Gardner, and something more like a traditionally planked seabright skiff, like those developed post-war by William and John Atkin. I now had a full woodshop and the space to build a larger and more ambitious boat. I even had the trees to mill, a barn to dry the wood, and a good friend with a woodmizer to do the milling. I just lacked the dedicated time.
Whether skiff or dory, I knew I would be building a lapstake hull between 14'-16' LOA, so a couple of years ago I had the foresight to fell and mill an incense cedar tree that grew on our property, and neatly stickered the full width planks for drying in the barn. Incense cedar is not thought to be a preferred wood for boatbuilding, but the grain was tight and resinous, knots free of bark, and the wood had surprising flexibility and stability across the grain. Plus, the tree grew and matured on our land, was essentially free, and was perfectly dimensioned for planking a small boat, so it had ample intrinsic value. The trunk of the tree even grew in a slight S-curve, so the grain followed the contours of a typical lapstrake plank. My daughter and I used some of the shabbier boards to build a chicken coup during her summer break from college, in order to test the material for strength and workability. We found it to be remarkably supple, strong but very light, and not prone to cupping, splitting or twisting. I'm certain that slowly air-drying the material in our cool, shady barn added to its performance.
Around the same time as building the chicken coup, we decided to sell our sailboat, which we had kept at the Berkeley Marina for several years as a sort of floating crash pad for excursions into town, our own 'pied a mer'. We had not been using the boat enough to warrant paying the dock fees, so decided it best to localize our energies and not spend beyond our current needs. I decided to sell the boat, a 1978 Hunter 25, without the motor, which I had recently purchased new and had only run for 10-12 hours. It's a 6 HP Yamaha long shaft outboard, which would be perfect to power the small boat I had in mind. Having the motor on hand, along with air-dried planks in the barn, helped me to narrow my search for the proper boat to build. I carefully studied Gardner's flat iron skiff and other dories modified for outboard power, but they all seemed to compromise the performance of rowing or sailing, without adding much to performance under power. Then I stumbled upon an article by Mike O'Brien in Boat Design Quarterly #4 from 1993. The article profiles Sprite, a flat-bottomed outboard boat by Atkin & Company. I had seen the boat plans before, but Mike emphasized aspects of its design that held more resonance for me now. The Atkins designed Sprite for maximal stability and performance for 6 hp, capable of handling rough water. At about 14'-10" LOA and 4'-10" beam, the plans would make perfect use of my 16' cedar planking. I wrote to Pat Atkin and purchased a set of plans, not sure if/when I would have time to build the boat despite my material readiness.
My dad in Westbrook, CT, when he was in medical school, 1959
Also around the same time as building the chicken coup, my aging dad was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. A retired family doctor, he had been living on his own since the sudden death of my mother about six years prior. He was otherwise healthy and has a family history of longevity, so my siblings and I were all quite unprepared for this tragic turn. He was given anywhere from three weeks to three months to live, and was put under immediate hospice care in his home. I traveled to Philadelphia to help my siblings navigate next steps, and essentially to say goodbye to my dad. There was not really anything any of us could do as he slowly lost his ability to move or to take care of himself, which was shear torture. It seemed a blessing and a curse that his mind remained sporadically sharp. He lost the ability to talk, but knew the date, could recognize people, and retained his signature composure and quiet dignity. We were all devastated. I returned home to California but had difficulty concentrating on my work and needed to postpone or delay current projects. Three months came and went and my dad's vital signs remained strong; he was in stable, if slowly failing, condition. The doctors stopped trying to put a timeline on his eventual death, although they agreed it was highly unlikely he could live out the year (this was at the end of July).
I decided it was time to build the boat, as much for me as for my dad. If he was going to hold on for dear life, and as long as his mind and sensory perception were functioning, I would give him something to think about and help to send him on his way. Building the boat would also show him that I was OK, that life was moving forward, and that he taught me well. He appreciated small boats as much as me and was an accomplished oarsman as a lifeguard in his youth. We were both certified in 'Basic Seamanship' by the Coast Guard Auxiliary when I was a teenager, and spent summers exploring and fishing the back bays of South Jersey in our Boston Whaler. I calculated that if my dad could hold on for another couple of months, I could probably have the boat ready to launch by the end of October, or Thanksgiving at the latest. I would build the boat solo, and could realistically devote 2-3 days a week to the endeavor.
Joanie, my mom, the original Miss Clamdigger, 1971
Before lofting the offsets I decided to name my boat Miss Clamdigger, in honor of my mother, who was crowned Miss Clamdigger in Westbrook, Connecticut as a teenager in the early 1950's. She grew up on Long Island Sound just up the coast from Noroton, where the Atkins drew the plans for my boat in 1953. I reasoned that small wooden utility skiffs like Miss Clamdigger were once ubiquitous along the shores of Long Island Sound, and had similar merits as my mother- good-looking, reliable, stable, low maintenance, elegant but practical, fun. I knew I would be thinking of both of my parents as I built Miss Clamdigger, remembering their stories, their laughter, friendship and wisdom, and feeling thankful for all that they gave me, including a sensitivity to the beauty of traditional wooden boats. I sharpened my chisels and planes, stocked up on the best pencils, and set to work.
Setting up the backbone
Laying chine logs over the molds
We rarely experience rain or even heavy fog along the Sonoma Coast between August and October, so I set up my backbone outside, on a level deck outside my woodshop. My dad had helped me shingle the woodshop when my parents came out to visit soon after we bought the property about ten years ago. He also helped me build the deck during one of his more recent visits, so he was already with me in spirit as I laid up the forms on heavy timbers running parallel to the length of the deck. I knew my dad would appreciate seeing how the cedar shingles and cypress decking had silvered over the years. I decided to use long timbers in lieu of a horse, knowing I could pivot them to form a ramp to the ground when the boat was ready. The finished boat would be pretty heavy, around 250 pounds, and would be awkward to carry, with very little extra space for people to maneuver around it on the deck.
Shaping the stem and stem-knee
With the forms set up at their stations along the timber foundation, I carved the stem from a solid piece of yellow Narra. I generally avoid using tropical hardwoods, but had acquired a store of Narra by accident when it was buried inside a unit of Monterey Cypress. The dimensions and grain quality of the rough Narra were perfect for my requirements, and I carved the stem from a single piece, then scarfed it to a stem knee I had made of Monterey cypress. I cut my transom from a single board of Deodar cedar I had been saving, having learned intimately of the wood's attributes from another project. With the stem and transom secured in place along the backbone, I was ready to fit my garboards and lay up planking. To be continued…


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Bank of Scotland is planning to close 23 branches across the country, 14 of which have been identified as the "last bank in town".
A spokesman said the decision is part of a three-year strategy of closures, announced by the lender's parent Lloyds Banking Group, in 2014.
Of the branches closing, seven are in the North-east, four in Tayside, and three in the Highlands. There are two in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. Branches including those in Broadfoot on Skye and Edzell in Angus have been identified as the last bank in town.
The bank spokesman said: "As part of this strategic review, we can confirm today that Bank of Scotland will be closing 23 branches. In most cases, this is as a result of falling customer demand while in others it is because of overlaps with other nearby branches.
"These changes will not result in any compulsory job losses. We aim to redeploy everyone currently working at a closing branch to alternative Bank of Scotland branches."
• READ MORE: TSB to close eight 'underused' Scottish branches
Referring to the 14 bank branches deemed as the last in town, the spokesman added: "Our customers' behaviours and the way in which they interact with us are changing. We know they value the branch experience, but do so alongside our other channels such as online, digital and phone. We have made the difficult decision to close these branches because of changing customer behaviours, resulting in customers using them less often.
"However, the majority have at least one free cash machine within walking distance and all branches also have a local post office within walking distance. We are also looking to expand our existing mobile branch service to support some of the more rural communities."
Aberdeen Central MSP Kevin Stewart said he was writing to Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, António Horta-Osório, urging the company to reconsider their decision.
"I am disappointed that Bank of Scotland are planning to close yet another branch in our city. I hope that Bank of Scotland will take another look at this decision.
"After the recent closure of the Old Aberdeen and Mile-End branches, many people who rely on in-branch services were already having to go further out of their way. Now a number of people in the George Street area will now find themselves in a similar situation.
"My office has already had assurances that no jobs will be lost as a result of this decision but I still have concerns about the impact this could have on the local area, in particular the large number of small, independent businesses, some of which will just be starting up, and also some of the local residents who may struggle to get to other branches."
In June, it emerged TSB was to close 25 "less well used" branches – including eight in Scotland – in a move it said reflected "evolving customer demand". The lender, spun off by Lloyds Banking Group and now owned by Spain's Sabadell, also said it would create a new £2 million "flagship" branch in Aberdeen, due to open in November.
Full list of Bank of Scotland closures:
Aberdeen John Street
Aberlour, Moray
Bishopton, Renfrewshire (last bank in town)
Broadford, Isle of Skye (last bank in town)
Coupar Angus, Perthshire
Cullen, Moray (last bank in town)
Currie, Midlothian (last bank in town)
Drumnadrochit, Highland (last bank in town)
Edinburgh St Andrew Square
Edinburgh Stockbridge
Edzell, Angus (last bank in town)
Fochabers, Moray (last bank in town)
Glasgow Central Station
Inveraray, Argyll & Bute
Kinghorn, Fife (last bank in town)
Lochcarron, Wester Ross (last bank in town)
Macduff, Aberdeenshire (last bank in town)
Melrose, Borders
New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire (last bank in town)
Perth West End
Polmont, Falkirk (last bank in town)
Portsoy, Aberdeenshire (last bank in town)
Scone, Perthshire (last bank in town)


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People in the U.S. are watching more digital video as traditional TV viewing declines, and it's not just young people driving the trend, according to a new report from Nielsen.
The measurement firm said Wednesday that the amount of time spent watching video on computers and smartphones each day among those age 55 and up increased 55% in the third quarter, compared with the same quarter last year. Meanwhile, traditional TV viewing among that demographic didn't change in the quarter.
Among adults 18-to-49 years old, a group cherished by advertisers, daily viewing via the old-fashioned tube decreased 3% compared with last year, while digital viewing grew 53%.
The decline in regular-TV viewing was 2% among 25-to-54-year-olds, compared with a 62% bump in viewing on computers and mobile devices. (Still, the TV screen accounts for far more watching than the newer viewing methods.)
The shifts in TV viewing are part of an ongoing trend brought on by the proliferation of new streaming websites, apps and devices people now use to watch television programming.
Those changes were illustrated in Nielsen's Total Audience Report, renamed from its quarterly Cross-Platform Report, which indicated that the shift is happening accross the demographic categories.
Media executives have been placing pressure on Nielsen to change its ratings to account for more of the digital audience as their live ratings continue to fall. In the third quarter, people watched about 141 hours a month of traditional TV (no DVR use or video on-demand), down 7% from a year ago.
Last month Nielsen proposed that the TV industry should adopt a more inclusive ratings standard to account for the growth in alternative viewing methods.
"Now is the time for a fundamental industry change," Dounia Turrill, Nielsen's senior vice president of insights, said in the new report. "Our goal is to deliver comprehensive measurement of all audience and all advertising by following the consumer."
Compared with a year ago, time-shifted viewing through digital recording devices and video on-demand grew to 14 hours and 20 minutes a month, from 12 hours and 31 minutes a month last year.
Watching of video on the Internet exploded to 10 hours and 42 minutes a month, a big surge from six hours and 20 minutes a year ago.
Follow Ryan Faughnder on Twitter for more entertainment business coverage: @rfaughnder


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Saturday, July 11, 2015
I'm Back, and I'm in Iceland
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Hello Tony , yes I hope to! I'm glad you've made the pilgrimage too, it really is stunning. Thanks very much for your blog encouragement & hope all's well.Delete
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Troy Ave Affiliate Banga Killed In Irving Plaza Shooting
The man killed in the shooting at Irving Plaza last night (May 25) was Troy Ave's BSB affiliate Banga.
The New York Police Department reported that a 33-year-old man was shot at the New York venue where Atlanta rapper T.I. was headlining a show. He was brought to Beth Israel Hospital on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he was later pronounced dead. Another man and a woman were also shot in the incident and hospitalized. Troy Ave's leg was reportedly grazed by a bullet, sending him to hospital.
Banga was the CEO and head trainer at Big Bizz Fitness in Brooklyn, and a long-time supporter and friend of Troy Ave's, even linking to Ave's projects in his Twitter and Instagram bios.


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I first started this blog due to "popular demand" for me to to share my cooking and quilting results in blog form as it was easier for friends and people who know me to see what I'm up to, especially compared to just an image hosting site. Now I blog because I enjoy sharing what I do and hope that I do in some way inspire people to try new things out as well.
Thursday, 4 May 2017
May the 4th - Extra Freebie Pattern
So today as a May the 4th special here is an extra freebie pattern from me so you too can have a cute BB-8 Fob in your hands!
Finishing instructions are included in the pattern to make things easier for you.
You can find the pattern here
May the 4th be with you!
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July 14, 2012
A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away…
It truly was a long time ago, some time in 1994 or 1995; the farway galaxy was CompuServe. Â I had my whole electronic family on Prodigy (including a Wicked and E-VILE grandfather who was an ax murderer), but there was something compelling about CompuServe. Â Nearly two decades later, I couldn't tell you what it was that drew me in.
Warning: random digressions and parenthetical ramblings ahead.
I did (eventually) find a group of fantastically neat people in Section 17… in the Issues forum, I think.  They'd planted Teh Gayz in that somewhat out-of-the-way place, because LGBT folks… listen, I'm just making this up as I go along because I didn't see the point of hiding the LGBT folks where they were hard to find (and I was LOOKING for them!)… but the story I'm making up is that they figured all we did was talk about sex, sex and more sex.  Oh!  And talk about the Gay Agenda and try to recruit impressionable young people to be Teh Gayz with us.  (That recruiting stuff?  Yeah, never worked.  There were straight folks in the forum, too, and I don't think we managed to turn a single one of them Gayz.)
Yeah, well… except we didn't. Â Talk about sex, sex and more sex, I mean. Â But lordy, the things we DID talk about! Â Politics, obviously. Â Coming out. Â Dealing with friends, family members, lovers — and for some, themselves — who were HIV+ and LWA. Â Having amiable discussions with people who disagreed with Teh Gayz Lifestyle…
Ok, sorry… had to take a break there, I was laughing so hard. Â There were no amiable discussions with the right-wing fundamentalist dive-bombers. Â You know the term "flame wars"? Â Yeah. Â That. Â A lot of that.
But we talked about goofy things, too.
One goofy conversation (ongoing over a period of months) with a particular individual was about Star Trek. Â Hey! Â Queer people like Trek, too, and always have! Â Nyah! Â But one day, this particular individual happened to mention he played over in the RPGames forum, as the Captain of a Galaxy-class starship, no less. Â I was somewhat intrigued, but really couldn't get my head around the idea of roleplaying on a spaceship (D&D gal here, from way back), and especially had a hard time grasping the whole "message-based" gaming idea. Â But said individual continued to nag me (yes, I said NAG!) to at least lurk his game.
Reluctantly, and with much eye rolling, I agreed.
After a few weeks, however, I realized it was actually starting to make some sort of sense. Â I'll admit I was lurking a few other ships in the online "fleet" known as Star Trek Ships (STS), and not all of them made sense. Â (Hey, sorry guys… I know you're going to ask, but I really don't remember which ships they were. Â And if your ship was going through a twisted and convoluted story line like we later did with Dan Woo, when then yes, I'm probably talking about you.) Â So the next time this certain individual asked if I might be interested in joining his ship, I tentatively and hesitantly said yes.
As many of you know, that individual was none other than (cue angels' choir) Rodney, and the ship was the USS Eclipse. Â So the "tentative" part of my agreement was completely ignored, and before I even knew what the heck was going on, I found myself playing a young Irish lass from County Tipperary, Lieutenant Moira O'Shaughnessy, the new Holodeck Programmer/Technician for the Eclipse.
From that day forward, one of my favorite mantras as been, "Everything is Rodney's fault."
Why? Â Well, for one thing, I met some of the nicest, smartest, most wonderful, most twisted and diabolical, most evil, and most FUN people I had ever met. Â I also met the unbelievably talented guy I eventually married. Â So yeah… all Rodney's fault.
It didn't take me long to get completely hooked on this message-based roleplaying game concept. Â After all, back in high school, three of my buddies and I would pass spiral notebooks back and forth and write our collaborative fan fiction (oh, yes… definitely… most of it was Trek, but there was that M*A*S*H-Trek mashup thing that I will never forget). Â The writing… the writing as a particular character… the writing in a group setting… Â Yep, that was already in my blood.
Many things happened on the Eclipse, not all of them good (for the players, the characters or the game), though by the time CompuServe had its meltdown, my sweet little Irish lass was Captain of the Eclipse. Â Wow.
Not only did many things happen on the Eclipse, but I created characters for other ships, too.
Agnes was the ship's counselor on the ill-fated USS Odyssey. Â (And Ken, darling… that was strike one; SG7 was strike two. Â Just saying.)
Jasmine was the ship's counselor on the USS Hawking. Â (Good heavens, what a fun character! Â On her own, she was ok, nothing spectacular… but she was from one of the ruling families of her planet in an arranged marriage to a guy she absolutely despised. Â We sure did have fun with that, didn't we, Ian?)
Rachel was the ship's doctor for the Hellbound, a privateer.
I was in the process of putting together a tactical officer for the USS Renegade.
I had even put together a character for the world my then-fiance had created. Â Yeah, I'd gone slumming among the Fantasy games. Â That poor girl hadn't even met all the members of the adventuring party before the fecal matter came into forceful contact with the rotating oscillator.
And then it all went to hell in a hand basket, as my dear old grandmother used to say. Â Not just CompuServe, of course, for if you've read previous entries here, you'll know late 2000 and early 2001 was not the best time in my life.
I still wrote, of course. Â When you have that compulsion in your blood, it's hard NOT to write. Â But there was something missing. Â I could never really put my finger on it, but writing just wasn't as SATISFYING as it could have been.
And by gum, I missed my friends!
Life got better, I met other folks were are just as dear to me as those I'd left behind on CompuServe, but there was always that nagging voice in the back of mind whispering about one or another or a whole bunch of them.
Oh, I tried finding them… you betcha! Â But even the mighty Google was no help. Â Until…
Last spring or perhaps early summer, I'd plugged in an old external hard drive to see if there was anything on there I needed before tossing it in the electronic recycling bin.  I spent days, possibly weeks, reading through old files… remembering good times… tearing up over some of those passages.  And that THING in my heart that had been whispering and whimpering and whining and even wailing at times, "I want my people back" convinced me to give it another try.  "Ask Google again," the voices of all those long-lost characters nattered at me.  Not surprisingly, the voice nattering the loudest had a thick Irish brogue.
So I tried my usual search term — CompuServe RPGames STS — once more, not really expecting any better results than I'd had at any other point in the previous 11 years. Â But this time… oh, my dear Lords and Ladies! Â The second result the great and mighty Google served up was a link to Kalyr's post about the demise of the RPGames forum, and it included copies of some posts from Nightshift, one of the Sysops. Â I remember those posts. Â I remember reading them the first time back in early 2000, I remember how they ripped my heart out as I sat there in my musty basement in despair, and there I was re-reading them… feeling all it all over again. Â Damn you, Kalyr! Â (But thank you, thank you, thank you!)
Then I got down to the bottom of the post. Â And my heart almost exploded. Â You know how the Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day? Â Well, that was nothing compared to how I felt when I read this:
Predicably all hell broke loose, and many a nasty word was said. People were called nasty names, like 'George'. While some people kept their games on Compuserve's GAMERS forum, and some other moved to the rival GSITE forum, one dedicated group including two former sysops moved heaven and earth and created a new free-standing forum in two weeks flat.
Two years later, Dreamlyrics goes from strength to strength. Beginning with a nucleus of RPGAMES members and games, including my own game KLR, the forum continues to recruit new member and recover old ones from the distant past.
I followed the link to DreamLyrics.
And I found my Tribe.
Today is my one year anniversary on DreamLyrics. Â As I'm sitting here writing this, I'm crying a bit thinking how wonderful it is to have reconnected with those people I considered friends, to get to know folks I hadn't known very well on CompuServe and to now call them friends, to meet new folks and make new friends.
I think the first thing I did when my account was established was respond to a slightly old post Art had regarding a Trek game he was thinking of starting.  Actually, I'm not sure if I was responding or if it was that Irish lass in my head yelling very, very loudly.  But if that O'Shaughnessy woman was going to be going anywhere, there were a couple of people she really wanted going with her… Emerald Drake and Donovan Kahallan.  So I immediately fetched two other ex-STS folks and ever-so-gently twisted their arms to sign up (they are now known as iRalph and Wolf, respectively).
Captain O'Shaughnessy commands the USS Clarke, whose mission is to return an alien ambassador to his home world. Â Just reading that, you know things are not going to go well. Â Still, the ship hasn't been attacked by the Borg, by pirates, or by psionic energy-based aliens, so I consider that a point or three in the win column. Â Plus, I'm writing and having fun!
Then my newest e-Sister, Pam, somehow corralled me in to co-moderating a collaborative writing experiment (it is not a game, and we are not evil GMs!), and I have a darling character there who is the eternally cheerful quartermaster for the Arist Guardsmen, Joni.
Not long after that, the unbelievably talented guy I married, Wolf, decided to begin another campaign on The Heartwood, so I resurrected that character from long, long ago that I barely remembered. Â Of course, in the past seven or eight months Daxia Yurisdotter has gotten to be as loud as that Irish lass in my head. Â But what do you expect from redheads, eh?
I brought Jasmine duBois and Falcon, my shapeshifter, over from CIS, along with Delia Shodi from FurryMuck for the short-lived Hitchhiker's Bar and Grill.
I created a redheaded linguistic anthropologist, Lorraine Corcoran, for another short-lived game based on Stargate SG-1. Â (Remember Ken, this is strike two.)
Nivek was kind enough (because I pestered him incessantly) to allow me to play a cat (named, appropriately, Cat) in his 1970s-era police drama game, as well as the precinct secretary, Evie Maloney (another redhead… are you sensing a theme here?). Â Playing Cat, though… what a freakin' blast!
I've brought back one of my original Trek characters, Ni-Sha, created when I was in high school, for Sam's Red Shirt Blues game… a redheaded Vulcanoid (heh heh heh).
Also from the STS world, Doctor Rachel D'Konis (NOT a redhead… in fact, being half Deltan, she's bald) has been on the faculty at the Miller-Levy Adjunct Training Campus for the past four years and will be heading back to Earth with the cadets of the current graduating class in Art's latest game, Unknown Stars.
And to round out the voices in my head, there is the redheaded Healer Chumani, cleric of the Goddess Kia, in Dugan's upcoming game, Great Island Adventure.
Of course, that's not to mention all the NPCs (non-player characters, aka minor characters) that are in my head… Moira's twin brother, Padraig; the Caitian engineer Timor and the sweet, quiet Hindu engineer Patel Jefferson; the extremely brilliant and terrified of Captain O'Shaughnessy programmer, Lou Erickson (named after a dear, dear friend); Rachel's best friend and sometimes-lover, Tony. Â And there are other voices that want their chance again to be heard. Â (Ian, Â buddy… Jehane is starting to get loud, and she isn't even a redhead.)
In addition to writing, I recruit… and I do a far better job of recruiting new players for DreamLyrics that I ever did recruiting impressionable young people to be Gayz. Â First, I pulled in Stealth, one of Wolf's best pals. Â "Real life" (and just what is "real" anyway?) got in the way for a while, but there is writing to be done, and Stealth is just the one to do it! Â (Dude, you can't deny it; that is one complex and challenging character… and I know you would excel!) Â Next, there was Mokie, a coworker with a sense of humor that rarely quits. Â He's playing our plucky comic relief Squire on The Heartwood, but don't let the slightly bemused demeanor fool you… when Squire Dean decides something needs killing, he not only kills it, but hacks it into bite-sized pieces (not that anyone would want Eastern Hunting Beast stew). Â And soon there will be Falco, another coworker who seems to be almost as giddy as I am about the writing. Â He'll be playing a Trill science officer on the Clarke.
Pam remarked several days or a week or some time ago as we were having a great time creating a back story for our characters in Great Island Adventure that we were writing so much it could probably turn out to be a novella. Â And that got me thinking… Â there's really only one statistic the DreamLyrics system tracks, and that's the number of posts a player has made… public in-character and out-of-character, in the game forums or the general discussion forums. Â I started wondering about word counts… just for in-character posts (both public and private)… would I have written short stories or novellas for each of the games I have played or currently play?
I should disclose at this point that my nickname is Super OCD Woman. Â So I went to town and did a word count of every in-character post, both public and private, that I made in the past year. Â Here's how the numbers break out (HBG has not been archived and is not available just yet; will add those numbers when the files become available… because I'm OCD that way, you know):
28 Precinct 6,461 Clarke 207,546 Great Island Adventure 5,003 The Heartwood 137,117 Hitchhikers Bar & Grill no data yet Red Shirt Blues 8,397 SG7 12,084 Unknown Stars 4,093 Wither the Wind Blows 16,255
Simply because I'm a geeky nerd and all of the above — with the exception of 28 Precinct — would be considered some sort of science fiction or fantasy story, I'm going to go with the page count guidelines from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award Rules.
Short Story < 7,500 words Novelette 7,500 - 17,500 words Novella 17,500 - 40,000 words Novel > 40,000 words
So, at the moment, Sis, we're still at the short story stage for Chumani and Vrienne, but now that this particular bit of OCD has been completed… and some of the madness (and therefore stress) has died down at work… I'm confident we will have no problem reaching the novella category.
I wasn't really surprised that I'd surpassed novel length in the Clarke and Heartwood games; what did surprise me was by how much I surpassed them.
I've ignored this blog, my word blog, for a long time. Â I'm not going to promise any kind of regular posting here because… well, look at the voices in my head and notice how much a certain pair of redheads just LOVE to talk! Â But I will try to get over here more often… maybe talk about what's going on with aforementioned voices in my head.
Or other things… these days, you just never know.
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Brad Lidge's struggles are well documented. Before the game, Charlie Manuel discussed Lidge's fate. Unsure if Lidge would pitch in the next save opportunity, Manuel said he would go with his gut feeling. It was not the prettiest game, but the Phillies edged the Nationals 6-5. The Phillies played small ball and long ball to beat the Nationals.
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2 comments:
- Ted said...
Lidge just isn't a good closer right now.
He leaves the ball up and it gets hit a long ways. :) I don't see why he wouldn't try and change something mechanically to throw off hitter's but I guess he is being "Brad Lidge."
And when he sucks,... he really sucks!! Make sure you stop by my blog I have a new post. ;)
--Ted "TTW/T"
- September 10, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
ANDY TRACY got called up by Phils - that makes IronPigs fans very happy for our hero.
Tracy was second in IL with 26 HR, 96 RBI and could surprise somebody with his power down the stretch.
He has 140 games MLB experience.
Mostly, we are happy to see him bag some MLB loot for a month.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM


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Black and Blue
5 rounds of:
10 Power Cleans (135, 95#)
10 Burpees
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Black and Blue
5 rounds of:
10 Power Cleans (135, 95#)
10 Burpees
Post Scores to Comments.
Compare Scores HERE.
Black and blue: 9:38rx
29 seconds slower but 10# heavier
Black and blue: 11:34,rxReply
Black & blue: 7:45 (75#) 1:03 prReply
Black and Blue (hotel version): 6:30ish with 45 # dumbbellsReply
Props to you. To do 5 rounds of anything in a hotel gym in less than 10 minutes takes mental strength. And 45# DBs are no joke.Reply
Ditto! Hotel WOD's suck.
B&B: 8:59 (85#) – :10 PRReply
B&B: 7:00 Thanks Rachel!!Reply
B&B 8:38 70#Reply
10:18 with 75#Reply
Black & Blue: 7:36 85# – Only broke power cleans on 3rd round. Felt better as the rounds went on and think I can definitely push the burpees next time. CV was fine!
When I saw this WOD I really wanted to do it, and did not get up this morning. SO glad for snow today – BBall game was postponed so I got to come in tonight! YAY!
Day two of PT challenge: three sets today 😀 2/17Reply
Way to go!Reply
5 rft; 10 SDHP 97# KB/10 24″ box jump: 4:02
great WOD but pulled something in my foot- injuries suckReply
B&B 6:49 rxReply
BxB 7:41 130#
Czech RebublicReply
Black and Blue: 8:33 Rx – PR by 2:23Reply
Black and Blue: 7:42 (65#)Reply
Black and blue power clean 75 lbs 8:59Reply
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DS Group ventured into the lucrative and fast growing Dairy business by acquiring the state-of-the-art Dairy Plant at Reengus, near Jaipur, Rajasthan. The Dairy Plant spread over an area of 10.2 acres has a capacity to process approximately 6 lakhs litres of milk per day.
The Plant conforms to the highest sanitary and hygiene standards. The DS Dairy Plant has highest quality and process certifications such as, FSSC: 22000:2013, Certified by export inspection agency Govt. of India, Agmark, BIS Certification, FSSAI License, etc. Milk is procured directly from farmers through village level milk collection centres. Immediately, after collection, the milk is chilled and is brought to the plant in tankers.
DS Group is looking at outsourcing and creating own facilities to produce the best quality of milk and milk products.
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Unfortunately we cannot make changes to an order once it has been placed. This includes adjusting a size or color, applying a discount code, or adding and removing items from the purchase. We apologize for the inconvenience.
I think we've all had that little inner heartbreak upon realizing your dream top is sold out in your size - am I right ladies? Some styles will sell pretty quickly (Urgh.) – so it's a good idea to grab them while they're still hot and available. If you've missed out – don't worry! You can sign up to receive an email once the product is back in stock. Simply visit the product's page, click on your size, enter your email and you're done! We'll let you know ASAP when it's back!
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Marriage 1920's Style - Part 1
I've been thinking a lot about marriage lately. Being married is not always easy, but it can be extremely rewarding for those who have the courage and tenacity to keep working to improve that marriage and to build a strong and lasting relationship with their spouse. Still, I see and have occasionally felt how tempting it can be to take the easy way out and quit trying to build a good/great marriage. I see how many people just surrender altogether and file for divorce. Most of all, I see how our core attitude toward marriage makes it more difficult for us to keep our wedding vow "'til death do us part."
One of my favorite secular authors is Emilie Loring. She wrote romance novels (stories about love overcoming adversity, not filthy, se*ualized stories) from 1914 until her death in 1951. Her books are clean; kissing is the extent of the romantic involvement depicted, and many of the books do not contain any swear words. (It wasn't until the 1960s that her male heroes were allowed to say d--n.) Reading her books is like taking a trip into another era, one in which character traits like honor, loyalty, bravery, and courage were valued highly.
I recently re-read The Trail of Conflict, which was originally published in 1922. The story is about a couple whose marriage is arranged and depicts the rocky path they follow on their way to a real, loving marriage. Because this book addresses problems rampant in today's society, I'm going to share relevant passages with you.
"...One doesn't take the vow 'and forsaking all others' to break it, does one?" gravely.
"I deduce from that that you do not believe in divorce?"
"Divorce! While I acknowledge that there may be situations where it is unavoidable, I hate the word. Always to me it takes on the semblance of Medusa's head in my school mythology, its snaky, hissing locks striking, stabbing, stinging, scarring indelibly. I believe in keeping covenants."
"It's hard sometimes."
"It is, but life isn't intended to be all joy-ride."
"Do you know, I fancy," with an exact imitation of his earlier voice and manner, "that the future first families of America's 'Who's Who' will be those who can count back at least four generations of ancestors who have, in spite of disappointment and disillusion, poverty or riches, sickness or health, kept their marriage covenants."
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This next passage follows the reading of a will which required the heroine to give up her family fortune and follow her husband to live on an isolated ranch for one year. Her father is speaking in the first sentence.
"Come, Jerry, give this thing up. Settle down here at the Manor and be happy."
For the first time since she had come into the lives of the Courtlands Jerry looked like her father. There was the same determination about her eyes, about her lips.
"Be happy! Does smooth going necessarily mean happiness? Does jogging along on the path beaten by our social set mean happiness? Do you know how I feel, Dad? It is as though Steve and I had come up against an enormous sign-post bearing the startling information, ROAD CLOSED: DETOUR. The detour may be hard going, detours usually are, but they also offer more thrills and adventures than the broad highway. I'm willing to take a sporting chance if - if Steve wants me--"
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More to come in Part 2.


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The Blue Jackets and Dallas Stars were tied 1-1 through two periods last night. By that point, the crowd had been treated to an unwatchable first period, brought to them by both clubs, and a largely frustrating second period for the home team, which frittered away 10 minutes of power-play time - including two full minutes of a two-man advantage.
The Blue Jackets and Dallas Stars were tied 1-1 through two periods last night. By that point, the crowd had been treated to an unwatchable first period, brought to them by both clubs, and a largely frustrating second period for the home team, which frittered away 10 minutes of power-play time - including two full minutes of a two-man advantage.
Yet, they cheered. Derek Dorsett scored the tying goal late in the period, and it brought about a full roil. These fans, they do not need much. Alms for the poor, sir? They got to their feet and roared as the clock wound down and the second intermission arrived. It was a generous display of loyalty.
The Jackets wound up with a 2-1 victory before a crowd of 10,475 on a night when the crowd should have been smaller. These are two struggling franchises that have not drawn well in recent years, especially when they play one another - in either city - especially on a weeknight. It felt like a much bigger throng as the home fans whipped their horse down the stretch in the third period. The evening ended with one last ovation.
Once again, one of the best Jackets was 20-year-old center Ryan Johansen. He set up the winning goal, for all practical purposes. He collapsed the Stars' defense with a foray to the net, danced right around Alex Goligoski and nearly scored. Seconds later, he laid the heavy screen that allowed Vinny Prospal's shot to sneak through the legs of Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen.
The fans roared. They have been through a lot and they do not need much now, just a glimmer - a sense that they're heading north, as John Davidson, the new chief of hockey operations, likes to say. Johansen is a glimmer.
"He's really blossoming into the (fourth overall) pick we were hoping he was going to be," defenseman James Wisniewski said.
The Jackets have a history of prematurely promoting their high draft picks. Their fans are aware of every washout, so there is no need to make a list, and space is limited. This trend must be checked. It appears the effort is under way.
"We know that we've got to get our guys in the draft, develop them and let them cook," said Chris MacFarland, assistant general manager and overseer of the team's American Hockey League affiliate in Springfield, Mass.
Johansen was brought to Columbus as a 19-year old in the fall of 2011. He endured a difficult campaign and there was some thought that he, too, was rushed. General manager Scott Howson defends the move by saying that Johansen had nothing more to accomplish in juniors, so it was time to expose him to another level.
"If he'd gone back to junior, it would have delayed the learning process he went through last year," Howson said. "If he didn't go through that then, he'd be going through that now."
Johansen played a half-season in Springfield during the lockout. He moved back to his natural position and went to work. He did not tear up the league, but when he got to Jackets camp last month, he was a different player.
"Down in Springfield, it was about learning the complete centerman's game," he said. "I feel I have a bigger role in the middle right now, and I have a good amount of confidence in my game. Plus, I might have a little extra motivation."
He does not want to get sent back down. Neither does defenseman John Moore, who looks better-cooked than he was during his last twirl in Columbus and is benefiting from his pairing with veteran Adrian Aucoin.
"We're not going to take chances with young players," Howson said. "The first example is Boone Jenner, who we had in camp here and sent back to junior. He could have survived here this year, but that wouldn't be right for him and his long-term development."
Long-term development is not something the Jackets have done well in the past. Right now, it is all they have to sell - that, and hard work. And at this point, the fans don't need much.
Michael Arace is a sports reporter for The Dispatch.


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Why Indo-Fijians did not join Fiji army during the wars: What Girmitiya descendants need to know
Thakur Ranjit Singh, Auckland, New Zealand
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Fiji marks a memorable day. That is Remembrance Day on 11th November each year. Americans call it Veteran's Day. Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Historically, arguments have raged since the wars on reasons why Indo-Fijians did not join the army in numbers. Since Fiji's history fails to tell this, descendants of Girmitiyas (indentured labourers) need to be told the reasons why their forbears did not join Fiji army.
Every now and then Fijian (read I-Taukei) leaders in all sizes and shapes have levelled accusation at Indo-Fijians for being disloyal to Fiji by not joining the army during the world wars. Among others, a Fijian nationalist academic who was behind the racist 1990 constitution, late Dr Asesela Ravuvu had accused Indo-Fijians of not being interested to fight for the maintenance of democratic rule in the world and were selfish while Fijians gave their lives for this cause. He accused Indo-Fijians of demanding more pay and special protection for their families and property. It was such non-cooperation, according to him, that partly contributed to difficulties in acquiring trust and acceptance of the Fijians as good neighbours and countrymen.
Dr Brij Lal, an Indo-Fijian academic and one of the Commissioners behind the 1997 constitution wrote about the reasons and I take liberty to quote him to inform the world that deserved to know this a long time ago.
It is agreed that while to some extent, government's refusal to grant Indo-Fijians the same conditions of service provided to European soldiers is one of the reasons for them not being in the military, there are others which need to be clarified to counteract accusations of Fijian nationalists who castigate a whole race for something they were not guilty of. The reasons why Indo-Fijians did not join in the World Wars in the Fiji army are the following, among others:
1) Recruitment for Fijians was well-organised and even supported by chiefs, including Ratu Sukuna in his military uniform. His support and efforts perhaps was because, he was a beneficiary of the things that came from
hence the need to protect them. Furthermore, by recruiting greater number of
Fijians, there was an intention to display Fijian loyalty to the British to win
their support for the Fijian community, as pressures were being exerted by the Indo-Fijian
community for more say in the government. Britain
|RATU SIR LALA SUKUNA: Recruitment for Fijians was well-organised and even supported by chiefs, including Ratu Sukuna in his military uniform. INDIANS WERE DISCOURAGED FROM RECRUITMENT THROUGH OBJECTIONS FROM FIJIANS AND EUROPEANS
2) Easier access to Fijian villagers to recruit, as they lived in stratified structure collectively and were more easily accessible than scattered Indo- Fijians.
3) While Indo-Fijians said they would fight if Fiji was attacked, they refused to fight for the empire in the other parts of the world unless government acknowledged the principle of equality between European and non-European soldiers. What they said was that an Indo-Fijian life should be valued same as a European life.
4) The government was reluctant to recruit Indo-Fijians because of objections from Fijians and Europeans, as they did not wish them to be equipped with this skill. There have been instances where Indo-Fijians were requesting their sons to be recruited, but were refused. One Indo-Fijian is reported to have gone to New Zealand to enlist in the Maori regiments because the Fiji army was not taking in Indo-Fijians.
5) Europeans were fearful of Indo-Fijians because of Gandhi's 'Quit- India' campaign and Subhash Chandra Bose's collaboration with the Japanese.
6) There was reluctance by CSR (sugar millers) to grant leave for the farmers to fight the war, as they needed to meet their contractual arrangements on the cane farms. Indo-Fijians were not unemployed and "free' like most of the villagers who were not fully utilised and were available for military without any constraints elsewhere. Indo-Fijians had a difficult choice of selecting between enlisting for war and keeping their farms. Fijians on the other hand did not have the difficulty of such a choice, as they had no farming obligations.
7) The government proclaimed that the most important contributions the Indo-Fijians could make were to increase the production of foodstuffs and maintenance of essential agricultural interests. This had been their contribution to the war, as soldiers do and cannot fight wars on a hungry stomach.
8) Membership in the British Empire was no badge of honour for the Indo- Fijians. Local Europeans owed their power and prestige to British colonialism, and Fijian chiefs were grateful for the security and privilege they and their people enjoyed as a result of British policies. On the other hand, Indo-Fijians had been subjected to most inhuman racial humiliations and denigrations on a daily basis during indenture (girmit), and fighting a war for the British would have meant a fight for preservation of a system that was oppressive and humiliating.
The conclusion by Dr Brij Lal in analysis of the above reasons is that the Indo-Fijians were neither seditious nor disloyal. It was the European propaganda and the exuberance war efforts of the Fijians that made them appear so. It was concluded that there was no evidence of any opposition to war by Indo-Fijians who had displayed full loyalty for the government with a fervent hope for the victory of the Allied Nations. It is obvious that a vacuum in the true historical facts have clouded this issue.
The question that I pose here is would Fiji's history have been different if the British had encouraged racial balance in the Fijian Military during the wars? What may be the history of Fiji if Indo-Fijians were encouraged and even forced to join the army during the two world wars?
The answer perhaps lies in the next question and answer.
Question: Why
Papua New Guinea and India,
despite being so divided on regional, provincial, language, cultural or ethnic
lines have little chance of success of a racially-instituted military coup that
saw? Fiji
Answer: This is because their military do not have the type of racial, ethnic, traditional or religious polarisation that
military has. In those countries the diverse make up of the soldiers would
thwart, discourage and even prevent uprising based on racial, religious or
regional superiority. Fiji
For argument sake, assume if Fiji military in 1987 had, say 30 to 50 percent Indo-Fijian soldiers distributed equally in all ranks, would Rabuka still have been able to topple the then Commander (now Fiji's President) and institute a racially-based coup?
The chances would have been slim, and may even have resulted in a mutiny as comradeship in the military transcends race and reason may have come out of such a treasonous suggestion.
The bottom-line is, to remove coup culture in Fiji, for the military to venture on racial balancing of the Fiji Military forces and encourage Indo-Fijians to join the military service. There is no shortage of such people to join, the only problem is that, like in those colonial days, they are not taken in, and in turn are blamed for lacking patriotism.
I hope Indo-Fijians will learn the reasons why they are not represented in the Fiji army, and rebut any uninformed people who accuse us of lack of patriotism towards Fiji.
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(About the Author: Thakur Ranjit Singh is a political analyst and a media commentator, based in Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated with Masters in Communication Studies (MCS) from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in 2011 and the above was an extract from a project paper he had done on coup culture in Fiji)


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Clutter is a bummer — literally. New study shows a link between depression and the amount of stuff in your home.
Dishes in the sink, toys throughout the house, stuff covering every flat surface; this clutter not only makes our homes look bad, it makes us feel bad, too
Read this article to find out what researchers have found about clutter and depression. You will also find some tips to declutter your home.


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Superior National Forest: North Shore Forest Restoration Project
Superior NF staff completed the Adaptation Workbook for this project in March 2013 as part of the NEPA project planning process, and they refined their ideas for an Environmental Assessment, published in December 2013. A final Decision Notice for the project was issued in August 2014. Implementation will continue for the next several years.
Project Area
Management Goals
Coastal forests provide many critical ecosystems services in the Great Lakes region, such as stabilizing stream banks, increasing infiltration, improving water quality, and providing habitat for wildlife like wolves, bears, and moose. In addition, Minnesota's coastal forests support a thriving recreation and tourism economy, and many outfitters, restaurants, and lodges cater to the tourists who frequent the area each year.
Like many other landowners in the area, the Superior National Forest is trying to restore forests in this area through active forest management. The North Shore project has several overarching goals:
- to restore native vegetation communities, particularly through regenerating stands of birch and aspen and increasing conifers across the landscape
- to improve conditions in riparian areas by increasing long-lived conifers
- to improve growing conditions in white spruce and red pine plantations through thinning
- to reduce hazardous fuels, particularly in WUI areas
Climate Change Impacts
Adaptation Actions
After going through the Adaptation Workbook, SNF staff continued to think about possible adaptation actions and refine the North Shore Forest Restoration Project. Importantly, the team recognized that many of the management actions they already had planned also had benefits for climate change adaptation. Also, northeastern Minnesota may turn out to be one of the best possible "refuge" areas in the region for boreal species like paper birch and white spruce. Therefore, the team ultimately decided to proceed with many of the original goals and objectives of the project. Several modifications were added to the Proposed Action to increase diversity and future management flexibility, and some of these included:
White pine
5.2. Maintain and restore diversity of native species.
6.1. Manage habitats over a range of sites and conditions.
9.1. Favor or restore native species that are expected to be adapted to future conditions.
Plant white pine on over 6,200 acres on a range of site conditions.
2.3. Manage herbivory to promote regeneration of desired species.
700 acres of white pine, cedar, and birch will be protected with single tree or up to 10 large deer exclosures, 5-20 acres in size.
5.2. Maintain and restore diversity of native species.
Plant 5,800 acres of white spruce, 729 acres of yellow birch, 150 acres of black spruce, 344 acres of cedar, and 150 acres of tamarack.
Plant 250 acres of northern red oak and bur oak.
Paper birch
5.1. Promote diverse age classes.
Regenerate and plant paper birch on roughly 980 acres, and
2.1. Maintain or improve the ability of forests to resist pests and pathogens.
5.2. Maintain and restore diversity of native species.
Group selection cuts on 147 acres, followed by planting a diverse mix of tree species mix
Riparian areas
1.3. Maintain or restore riparian areas.
5.2. Maintain and restore diversity of native species.
Roughly 1,350 acres of white pine, red pine, northern white cedar, and white spruce will be planted in riparian areas.
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Asustek has announced that they will be launching their new tablet PC on Friday this week in Taiwan. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is one of the first tablets to be equipped with Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS specially designed for tablets.
The new Eee Pad Transformer allows you to benefit from both the portability of a tablet device with touchscreen capabilities and also provides the comfort of being able to use a full QWERTY keyboard add-on that transforms the tablet into a notebook style PC. The additional keyboard also provides additional power for the device adding an an extra 8 hours of life, doubling the tablets exiting life of 8 hours to 16 hours of useful juice.
There are a number of options available to choose from within the Eee Pad Transformer specifications allowing either 16GB or 32GB of SSD storage combined with Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processors with Nvidia GeForce graphics.
The Eee Pad Transformer is also equipped with a 1,280×800-pixel touchscreen capable of playing Flash video and 1080p high-definition movies. Together with a 1.2-megapixel camera positioned on the front of the tablet and a 5-megapixel camera on the back.
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Having watched his team yield a combined nine goals in th fourth quarters of its past two games, Broadneck coach Clay White challenged his seventh-ranked Bruins to play four quarters in their matchup last night against Severna Park.
White was not disappointed.
The Bruins (14-1) fell behind early, but regrouped to exploit the Falcons' zone defense and claim a 6-4 victory in the Class 4A-3A, Region IV final at Anne Arundel Community College.
"We were real upset with our mental mistakes on defense against Annapolis, and I felt we corrected those tonight," said White, whose team advanced to the region final by defeating Annapolis, 10-9.


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