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Beyonce Admits to Lip-Syncing at Inauguration
Beyonce addressed recent allegations of lip-synching at the presidential inauguration during a press conference for the Super Bowl Thursday afternoon. She admitted to singing along to a prerecorded track due to weather and other conditions. Photo: Getty
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text: Ah, thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately, if I understand you correctly, we would have to talk to our satellite via digital voice, or at 128kbps, which would be great if we could! -Nate On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Tom Azlin N4ZPT <n4zpt at cox.net> wrote: > Well, make that the digital voice part of the protocol. The high speed > digital data part is up to 128kbps which was not what I was thinking of. > > 73, tom n4zpt > > Tom Azlin N4ZPT wrote: > >> Hi Nate, >> >> the D-STAR protocol is only GMSK at 4800 bps and they selected a >> time-bandwidth product of 0.5. 4,800 bps or 4k8 is perhaps not talked about >> as that IS the standard for D-STAR. So the software there might be >> adaptable. that is the reason I thought to suggest it. >> >> Good luck and 73, Tom n4zpt >> >> >> >> Nathaniel S. Parsons wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> My mind had indeed played a trick on me, and I remembered MFSK as MSK. >>> >>> As far as the DStar group goes, I don't see any mention of 4800 bps or >>> 4k8 >>> kbps on the public page, so if it's not the group's focus, I don't want >>> to >>> have to rely on that solution. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Nate KC2SVI >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> >>

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text: Advent and Christmas Resources for Children If you are looking for some books, DVDs, and other materials to help your children understand the true meaning of Advent and Christmas, Aquinas and More has just what you are looking for. In today's society, reindeer and elves are everywhere, but the world often overlooks the true reason for Christmas – Jesus Christ. You can take care of that in your home with these great resources – from prayer and meditations to religious art and activities – that help convey the true meaning of Advent and Christmas. Advent Resources for Children Often times, children's books begin with the Christmas story of Christ's birth. But it is never too soon to introduce children to the meaning of the preparatory season of Advent. Aquinas and More has resources that can aid in teaching Advent to Children. Prayer and Education – Several books are available that will help teach and encourage Advent devotions for children.Advent: A Family Celebration is a guide of prayers and activities for each day in Advent, specifically geared towards families. It contains a pair of daily reflections and Advent readings for children for each day of the season, one to be used for families with younger children, and one for older children. It also includes Sunday prayers and prayers to say while decorating the Jesse Tree. Advent is for Children is a great, inexpensive book of stories and prayers, along with some activities to help elementary-aged students understand the importance of Advent. The Year and Our Children is a book that focuses on the entire liturgical year, including, of course, Advent and Christmas. Celebrating Advent with the Jesse Tree is a full color book designed to teach children about the season of preparation for Christ's birth. Art and Activities for Advent – Enhance family time during the Advent season with art and activities focused on the liturgical season, such as Advent, Christmas and Epiphany in the Domestic Home, which includes project ideas, stories, sewing patterns and more. The Advent coloring book is a great way to pique a child's interest while also teaching him or her about the liturgical season of Advent. Creating and decorating a Jesse tree for the home is also a great activity for Advent. After reading Celebrating Advent with the Jesse Tree as a family, check out our Jesse Tree ornament kits by clicking here or here. A Stocking for Jesus is a neat preparatory book and activity that is good for families and even smaller children. Advent Calendars – Advent calendars are another pre-Christmas tradition that children of all ages love. However, many calendars available unfortunately focus only on the secular with pictures of Santa, piles of presents, and snowmen, but no sign of Jesus, whose coming we are preparing for. Aquinas and More is excited now to offer a selection of religious Advent calendars that use beautiful artwork to convey the reason for the season. Some options include a sticker Nativity scene calendar, which allows children to add to the manger scene each day leading up to Christmas, and an Adoration Advent calendar which features a Bible verse behind each window for the child to open. Christmas Resources for Children Books and DVDs – While many Christmas books for kids focus only on Santa and presents, Aquinas and More offers a large selection of Christmas books about the true meaning of Christmas: Christ's birth. We carry many beautiful picture books about Jesus's birth such O Holy Night, The ABCs of Christmas, Christmas Interview, and The Story of the Birth of Jesus. Saint Francis Celebrates Christmas shows children how the Nativity scene, or Creche, became a part of Christmas tradition and The Catholic Christmas Book is a great treasury of Christmas traditions and customs. If you are looking for DVDs, take a look at Christmas for Little Children, a sing-along with puppets and a professional ventriloquist; The Veggietales Holiday Double Feature; or The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Art and Activities – Teach children the importance of the first Christmas in a hands-on manner by helping them to build their own Nativity scene with this kit. As always, a Christmas coloring book is a favorite for kids of all ages. If you'd like to sing carols as a family, check out A Child's Book of Christmas Carols. The book mentioned above, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany in the Domestic Home, includes activities and projects for children and the whole family, not just for Advent, but Christmas and Epiphany as well.


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Michael S. Rosenberg
Age: 40
New position: Managing director, La Jolla Playhouse
Responsibilities: Strategic planning, financial management, marketing, development, production management and labor relations
Experience: Co-founder and executive director of Drama Dept., a New York theater company; head of theatrical ventures for production company East of Doheny; producer of Broadway revival of "American Buffalo"
La Jolla Playhouse has tapped a veteran producer from artistic director Christopher Ashley's extended creative family to become the theater's managing director.
The Playhouse's board is announcing today it has chosen Michael S. Rosenberg, 40, to take over the theater's top administrative job, effective May 4. He replaces Steven B. Libman, who left last fall after three years.
Rosenberg was co-founder and executive director of Drama Dept., a prominent New York theater collective for which Ashley directed five shows. His key partner in the company, artistic director Douglas Carter Beane, is a favorite Ashley collaborator, most prominently on the Broadway hit "Xanadu."
"I think one of Michael's great strengths is the huge diversity of his experience," Ashley said, noting Rosenberg's work in a wide range of commercial, nonprofit and educational settings. As managing director, his duties will include financial oversight, marketing and production management.
"One of the reasons I'm really excited to work with him is that our tastes really overlap (concerning) adventurous new work, and the kinds of artists we're excited about," said Ashley, who joined the Playhouse in October 2007.
As for what role Ashley's history with Rosenberg played in the board's decision, "I think they cared a lot about picking someone I'd have great chemistry with," he said. "But they had a whole list of other things that were also important to them, and justifiably so."
The nonprofit Playhouse was founded in 1947 and has gained a national reputation for generating new plays and musicals, many of which have gone on to Broadway and regional theaters. It has three mainstage theaters on the University of California San Diego campus – the Mandell Weiss Theatre, the Weiss Forum and the Potiker Theatre.
Ralph Bryan, the board's immediate past chairman and the head of the search committee, said Rosenberg was chosen from an initial field of some 25 solid candidates.
"We needed to have somebody who has a strong nonprofit and business mind," Bryan said. "Somebody who is an enthusiastic fundraiser, somebody who motivates staff, somebody with a deep understanding of producing plays.
"He's been involved with creating plays from scratch his whole career – it's something he's really good at."
The Playhouse declined to disclose Rosenberg's salary or the terms of his contract. His predecessor, Libman, was being paid about $242,000 a year at the end of 2007, according to tax records.
Rosenberg got his start in theater as a student at James Madison University in Virginia, serving an internship in the New York theater world and putting together shows for the school's "black box" space.
It was during that period in the early 1990s that he met Beane, then an aspiring playwright who was moonlighting as a doorman at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre. He wound up producing a Beane work that eventually went on to an off-Broadway run.
After college, Rosenberg produced educational shows for Kaiser Permanente, as well as works for the Kennedy Center and the National Dance Institute.
In the mid-1990s, he and Beane (along with actress Cynthia Nixon) launched Drama Dept., a collective that grew to some 100 artists and included prominent names such as playwright Richard Greenberg, writer-performer David Sedaris, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and actor Billy Crudup. The group, which has staged 21 shows, is officially on hiatus.
Most recently, Rosenberg worked for the theater and film company East of Doheny before becoming a producer on the short-lived Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" last fall.
"It's exciting," Rosenberg said of the Playhouse post. "When Chris and I first started talking about this, I was interested, and I certainly knew the reputation of the Playhouse and of Chris. But as I did my research, and I met the board and then the staff, I thought, this is an incredible opportunity."Copyright © 2018, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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August 5, 2014
A study published in the journal AIDS "suggest[s] potential mechanisms that might lead to increased risk for cardiovascular disease in HIV," according to its authors. HIV-infected men were found to have more epicardial adipose tissue, which in turn was associated with coronary artery plaques, than HIV-uninfected men.
The U.S. trial administered noncontrast computed tomography (CT) to 932 men between 40 and 70 years of age. Of these, 579 were HIV-infected and 353 were not infected. CT measured epicardial adipose tissue volume and coronary artery calcium in all participants.
The HIV-infected participants had substantially more epicardial adipose tissue than those not infected (P = .001), a difference that was even more pronounced for those who had been on antiretroviral therapy for a long time (P = .02), especially if they had taken zidovudine (AZT, Retrovir) (P < .05).
The study also showed that epicardial adipose tissue was linked to having coronary artery plaque (P = .006), and specifically to having noncalcified plaque (P = .001). Noncalcified plaque is the most likely type of coronary artery plaque to burst, and therefore the most dangerous. In those with coronary artery calcium, its volume was associated with having epicardial adipose tissue (P = .006), but not with HIV status as such.
The researchers concluded that the greater volume of epicardial fat in HIV-infected men and its link to coronary plaque, as well as to long-term antiretroviral therapy, may be one of the reasons for the higher cardiovascular disease risk in HIV-infected people.
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Imagine this: You volunteer to go on a rescue mission to not only discover the ship infested with the most horrific kinds of monsters that the imagination can conjure, but that it's all part of a larger conspiracy involving a pseudo-cult that believes these monsters are the next phase of evolution. Oh wait, it gets worse. You manage to escape with your life, destroy the giant marker device that drove everyone insane and led to this mess, and find yourself suffering from delusions and severe mental trauma as a result. Finally, once you make it back to civilization, the first thing anyone does is lock you up because they're convinced you're crazy and that these 'Necromorphs' are just figments of your damaged mind.
This is Isaac Clarke's situation at the beginning of Dead Space 2. The real problem for him, and everyone else for that matter, is that just because he's losing his mind doesn't mean he's not right.
Looks like someone broke the embargo on the reviews for dead space 2!
Haha...I know. We're a newer site, and I thought it would be nice to take a look at a game that we weren't around to review at the time. The heading in the article itself is [LTTP], standing for Late to the Party. :)


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Way too lazy for formula
Like I said in my earlier post, he stopped the food throwing around his second birthday. It was almost like overnight we went from daily food flinging to nothing but accidental spills.
My little man was born 12/17/2010.
Baby girl was born 4/30/2014.
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Okay, there's a summary and a few pics out now. Here's what's known so far:
-Chapter title is "Pirate 'Maelstrom Spider' Squado". The cover pic shows Robin.
-Sengoku orders the PX army (which is 20 strong) to attack the pirates. They march forward, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Meanwhile, admiral Kizaru is the one to stop Luffy this time. He kicks the young rookie away, but Jinbei catches him. It's at this point that about 5-6 of Whitebeard's division commanders take on the admiral so Luffy can advance towards Ace.
-Buggy's group of prison escapees manage to secure one of the denden mushi cameras and interviews their captain. Buggy boasts about his days in Gold Roger's crew, and speaks of his relation to the Yonkou Shanks. He even goes as far as to brag about how he survived being sliced up by Mihawk. Sengoku, fearing that the marines' reputation will be tarnished by Buggy's antics, orders for the clown and his followers to be eliminated......
-Mihawk and Vista decide to postpone their duel in light of the advancing PX army. Moria, meanwhile, is facing off against Whitebeard's 10th division commander. The New World captain Squado appears in front of Whitebeard, who is ready to give him orders. Suddenly, the pirate unsheathes his sword and stabs the mighty king of the seas. Luffy, Ace, Marco and several other people witness the scene in shock and confusion.......
Hmmm, definitely some intense stuff, here! Here are the pics, by the way:
Well, this further confirms the theory that Whitebeard will meet his end during this war. Even if he survives Squado's stab, the wound will probably start to wear him out as he continues fighting, and.... well, his legend will come to an end. Still, I guess we should have seen this twist coming since it was pointed out that Squado had disappeared a couple of chapters ago, anyhow.....
Also, I love how Buggy was pretty much the first thing shown on the TV when the re-airs. Of course this further pushes the clown's rise to the top. I also can't wait to see Moria's battle against the 10th commander. Should be an interesting match, indeed.....
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Looking at the pics, Whitebeard is stabbed in the abdomen area, not the chest.
It's about time somebody wounds the old fart. I really like how it was a traitor of all people that injured him first. Gotta love the conniving bastards .
From here on now, everything goes downhill for Whitebeard. His incessant bleeding is going to greatly affect how well he'll be able to perform in his duels.
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Thats a promissing chapter...
However i dont think that whitebeard could be defeated by a low trick like that...
We're talking about the most powerful man in op world...
How bad that wound is remais yet to be seen but i dont think so it will be that big of a deal... Whitebeard doesnt even seem bothered by the wound at all...
Well if i am wrong... then that will for sure shake the world.
Finally the revolutionary army comes into play...
Im looking forward to see Dragon in action...
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Heh, I'll bet Crocoboy is sulking over the fact that it wasn't him who got to stab ol' Newgate first.
Anyway, a translation of that summary appeared (thanks to Svg for the trans, by the way). Marco helps out Buggy in mid-air, but the clown ends up landing in front of Mihawk again. Suddenly someone from the revolutionary army confronts Hawk-Eyes (so.... uh, what happened to Vista. then?). When the TV broadcast re-airs, it's mentioned that Buggy is actually being interviewed (oh, lordy....). Also, the PX army attacks Doflamingo, and he uses his string powers to manipulate them, as well. The rest we already know (Squado being a spy, and all that).
However, the summary still hasn't been fully confirmed to be legit yet, which is why I haven't updated my first post yet......
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Isn't the captains name Squardo not Squado?
That being said, nice touch making the person Whitebeard wants to lead the New World Captain's into the first person that wounds Whitebeard. Can anyone say Silver Medalist?
That being said, I love that Bugy is supposedly being interviewed by a news network that works with the Revolutionaries. This has Mr. Satan written all over it...which is why it is probably fake...
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Actually, the part about the Buggy interview is what has me most convinced that the spoiler summary is real. It would be a great way to hype his infamy even further (and he has a huge group of followers who will back up his words, so the public will definitely be convinced that he's a big-shot criminal).
But yeah, Buggy's definitely turning into the Mr. Satan of One Piece. His brief fight with Mihawk was already proof enough of that.
To be honest, I'm not sure. I've mostly seen him referred to as "Squado" so I just stuck with that......
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Oda added another surprising twist. Who could have guesses there was a traitor among the new world captains that came to help Whitebeard? Whitebeard's life span just get shortened. But, this will add more suspicions for WG's actions. I think the possibility of someone among the Marines capable of altering the mind of someone is greater than 0. So, a forced traitor, he would become. I don't think the aim was taking Whitebeard by surprise, rather to create problems among Whitebeard's supporters. If that is the case, it was a really dirty tactic. But, understandable. And, it may show to the world how not strong WG really is compared to one of the Yonkou.
The revolutionaries entering the scene. That is another great development, expected, but, I am sure, they have different plans. And if they are continuing the broadcast, the next few chapters we will see some hatred growing towards WG. Sengoku's face at that moment should show some emotions.
And, about the Pacifistas attacking or maybe targeting Shichibukai. I wonder if that will become a costly mistake for the WG.
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Squado is this guy, in case anyone's forgotten:
Y'know, now I'm wondering if Doma and Makugai are in on the assassination, as well. It certainly would explain why we haven't seen either of THOSE guys in action during these past 10 chapters......
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wow, thats a shocker at the middle of the night
However, Squardos actions raise a few questions, e.g. why noone noticed him getting near Whitebeard, why Whitebeard wasn't able to react, how Squardo thinks he's actually going to get out of there alive (he is a pirate after all, dont expect him to sacrifice himself for the WGs cause) etc. ... in the end, this scene with WB getting pierced reminds me a little of sasuke piercing through Itachis chest ... so i can't really see Whitebeard suffering heavy disadvantages from this blow yet, if any at all. On the other hands... it's Oda were talking about.
Also, what about the PX's actions MarvelB mentioned? WG Forces attacking (still?) loyal shichibukai? Any further info on that one?
But compared to all the real twists, im somehow the most interested in the most expected one: the revolutionary army ... how are they going to be presented in this battle... how is their organizational structure build up and of course a lot of new named characters (will they have someone to top Ivankovs design? )
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Squardo/Squado is now favorite character! Stab WB again if you can! It's about time he took some damage. The question is what does he gain from this?
What are the Gorosei doing? You would think they would have some opinions about this major event, which appears to be consuming thier forces.
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I'm pretty sure Whitebeard is a Paramecia. An earthquake may be a naturally occurring phenomenon, but it's not an "element". Besides, I'd think it would be pretty difficult to draw someone literally transforming into seismic energy.
Besides, if he were a Logia, I doubt Crocodile would have been so eager to impale him with his hook in the first place. And I can definitely see some blood splashing from Whitebeard's back in that spoiler pic where he's stabbed, so yeah, he's definitely solid......
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text: The Samsung Stratosphere has not really been talked about since originally being leaked, but this comparison chart above might change that. The future LTE Android powered device's specs were recently leaked in a comparison chart pinning it against the competition. The device, looking at the spec, might turn out to be quite a bargain in the mid-tier category. It has Android 2.3, a 4 inch screen, 4G LTE, a single-core 1 Ghz processor, and a 5 megapixel rare camera along with a front-facing sister with 1.3 megapixels for video calls. The device does not have a release date so far, but I'm sure that will be leaked soon. Via: AndroidCentral


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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White, 23, has wowed snowboarding fans—and millions who didn't know they were snowboarding fans—with his daredevil double corks and other wild moves. But just as entrancing is White's lush mane of natural red hair. How does he get it just that fabulous? "My secret is an awesome new product – called water," White deadpans. "It's pretty curly on its own. I just use the hotel shampoo and conditioner and wash it every other day, because otherwise it gets huge. Two days of snowboarding in a helmet helps — it looks better dirtier." Right now, a friend trims his hair for free every two months. But the stylist does more thinning than shortening. "I feel I've lost something if I cut it short; but I need to take the weight off." Though he has tried to brush off the nickname "Flying Tomato," he has no plans to change his signature color. "If I did, I'd go black to make it Danzig-looking," he says with a laugh, referring to the punk band. "Black hair looks OK with freckles." –Lorenzo Benet


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Carter trial begins: Prosecutor says charge is theft, defense says conversion
KNOX — Jennie Carter's trial for theft, a Class D felony, began Wednesday in the Starke County Circuit Court with Judge Kim Hall presiding, and will continue at 1 p.m. Monday. The trial, originally slated as a jury trial, was changed to a bench trial during pretrial motions held Tuesday, Feb. 19. The charge is based on a $7,748.40 check from the Starke County Tourism account that allegedly was written by Carter, who was then a member of the tourism board, and used for her personal expenses.
At the start of the trial, Carter's attorney, Bryan Truitt, of Bertig and Associates in Valparaiso, questioned the charge of theft, suggesting it might be conversion based upon lack of criminal intent. He presented a document to Judge Hall stating that Carter admits to using the funds, but the money has been returned.
In his opening statement, Starke County Prosecuting Attorney Nicholas Bourff outlined events that led up to Carter's arrest. On June 2, 2011, a check for $7,748.40 was issued on the Tourism account to the Indiana Department of Revenue. The state has no record of receiving the check.
Truitt opened by explaining the reasons for Carter's actions, saying she is a single mother supporting two daughters and a long-time resident of the area. She is employed as a contract employee by Drug and Tobacco Free Starke County (DTFSC) at a salary of $19 per hour. DTFSC is supported by grant money, which was delayed in 2011, and Carter wasn't getting paid. He said that she called on relatives and friends to help her, and her ex-husband lost his job and couldn't pay support. She knew she would eventually get a paycheck and always intended to pay the money back.
The first witness for the prosecution was Indiana State Police Detective Chris Campione, who outlined the results of his investigation. On March 8, 2012 he interviewed Carter; the video and audio recording of that interview was played for the Court.
The second witness was Debbie Mix, executive director of Starke County Tourism and the Chamber of Commerce. Mix first explained circumstances surrounding a previous questionable transaction for $7,140 between Tourism and DTFSC, however that issue is not part of the theft charges.
Mix then outlined the steps taken by the Tourism Council to investigate the check for $7,748.40 for taxes that were not received by the State. It was later determined that the payee on the check was something similar to Indiana Department of Revenue, but was deposited in a private account at Chase Bank, Valparaiso.
The only witness for the defense was Jennie Carter, who testified about events that led to her actions and admitted to using the $7,748.40 for personal expenses. Truitt asked her about any prior arrests or improprieties (there were none), and questioned how she felt about using the money, to which she replied, "I felt bad."
Judge Hall questioned Carter about her actions and intent. He also asked if anyone at DTFSC had questioned what happened or investigated any of Carter's actions with them. He asked Carter if she thought it was OK that she still was employed by DTFSC.
Bourff's closing comments centered on Carter's unauthorized control and use of funds as being the point of theft. He said, "Theft occurs whether or not she intends to pay it back or does pay it back."
Truitt responded by saying that intent is an issue, that she in fact started paying back the money before charges were filed. He referred to Carter as a "victim."
Judge Hall summarized the status of the case as being a dispute between whether the charge is theft or conversion. The case was continued until Monday at 1 p.m. when the attorneys are to present case law and final arguments.


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I've decided to bring the Coalition secret faction in next turn. Command will go to jifel unless he designates somebody else.
The Pirate Boarding Frigate rams the Noral Escort, but only does one point of damage because of its low health.
The Defense Frigate moves to cover the freighter.
The Republic ships move up, but miss.
The freighter continues to accelerate.
The escort frigate fires its main laser, doing two points of damage to the Trick Shot.
The Trick Shot fires back, but misses.
The Nurse Shark decelerates and drops a mine. It will detonate if an enemy spacecraft comes within 4" of it. Mines can be destroyed, but they are difficult targets.
The Tiger Shark slows down.
The Hellfury boosts towards the Escort Frigate and looses its missiles. Unfortunately, neither of them hit. It has 6 heavy missiles left.
Space Overwatch.
The secret faction will emerge from this asteroid.
Noral Shipping: 1
Pirates: 3
Coalition: 2
Cutlass Squadron: 1
Pirates: 2
Coalition: 3
Damage points given
Cutlass Squadron: 1
Noral Shipping: 3
Damage points taken
Cutlass Squadron: 1
Noral Shipping: 1
Trick Shot: 2
Awaiting orders for turn 5. 48 hour limit as usual.
A pirate rifleman kills the freighter's captain.
And another pirate steals his seat. The freighter is now under pirate control.
Captain Cutlass beheads the Coalition hero.
Two pirate riflemen open fire, killing the rifleman with the hyperdrive part.
The Coalition stealthtrooper reappears behind the pirates, and opens fire...
... hitting one of the pirate rockets, and killing a pirate in the explosion.
The clone bazooka trooper opens fire...
...and the pirate with the hyperdrive part goes down. The clone has only one rocket left.
The R2 medic revives another security guard.
Freighter Overwatch.
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The biggest threat to U.S. grain and oilseed production may not be Brazil's expanding production capability in these crops. It's what it feeds its grain to, according to Roger Borges, soybean and small grain state specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Since 1991, Brazil has grown from ninth to fifth on the list of the world's largest agricultural exporters. Borges, speaking at the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants annual meeting in Tucson, Ariz., said grain production is one of the biggest engines behind the growth. The expectation for Brazil's 2006 grain crop (which includes soybeans, wheat, corn, etc.) is 123.8 million metric tons.
Soybeans are still the crown jewel of Brazilian grain production, a rank made possible with the opening of the Brazilian cerrado. This cerrado is an ecosystem characterized by deep, acidic soils, which are very high in aluminum and iron oxide.
Soybean production was introduced into southern Brazil by the Japanese, who were looking for an alternative market to the United States. "Brazil took the available germplasm and expanded soybean production north, until they ran into the cerrado with its longer day length and low pH soils."
In the 1970s and 1980s, after soybeans tolerant to the cerrado's climate and soils were developed, another expansion began. The cerrado region is twice the size of the U.S. Midwest soybean-producing region, although only a small portion has been opened for agricultural production.
The soil's physical characteristics are enviable — deep, easily workable, hard to compact and not given to crusting. "You can typically find topsoils of 30 feet to 50 feet in the cerrado. It's not rare to find soils that are 90 feet deep."
The average high temperature in the cerrado is always above the optimal temperature for growing soybeans. In the Midwest, those conditions are reached for only a few weeks out of the year.
With wonderful weather and good soil physical conditions, the area is ideal for soybeans as long as growers can find lime and fertilizer, noted Borges.
Brazilian farmers have been very successful at expanding and cropping the region, noted Borges. "They have very aggressive knowledge generation and transfer ability. Their farmers are young and looking 20 years to 40 years into the future."
Of the 183 million metric tons of soybeans consumed in the world today, 20.9 million metric tons are produced in the Brazilian cerrado, compared to 60 million metric tons produced in the United States. The potential for soybean production in the cerrado is 230 million metric tons, although this is not likely to be reached any time soon.
Slowing further expansion of soybean production in Brazil is the cost of moving grain from the cerrado to ocean ports. That's changing, but not quickly, according to Borges. "Brazil privatized its ports in 1995-96. Prior to that, everything was government-owned, very expensive to ship. Now prices are going down and that has helped lower the cost of exporting soybeans and importing fertilizer."
Brazil has only 5 percent of the paved roads that the United States has, and its railway system represents only 11 percent of the U.S. system. The rail systems were constructed piecemeal, according to Borges, meaning large sections are unconnected and may even have different dimensions. "You can't start a train trip from the north and get to the south."
In addition, the huge Amazon River has been opened up as an export route for agricultural goods. Today, "agricultural goods are shipped up the Madeira River to the Amazon and out the Gulf."
In addition, Brazil has opened a port in Santarem, but its success depends partly on the reopening of Hwy. 163, which connects to farming regions in the cerrado. "This hasn't happened yet due to environmental concerns in Brazil. Collectively, Brazil is very protective of its natural resources."
Because of Brazil's transportation bottlenecks, "it makes a lot of business sense to feed grain locally and haul meat out. It's less weight and more aggregated value. Livestock operators are moving in to take advantage of the cheap local grain. This is something for U.S. agriculture to keep an eye on.
"Brazil has more cattle than the United States in the number of animals, but they are mostly grass-fed, so productivity is slower and production is less. But Brazil's beef production is growing faster than ours and outpacing its own growth in consumption. Therefore exports have grown tremendously and for the last year and a half they have been the largest beef exporter in the world."
Brazil's pork production is also off the charts. This has been accomplished through increasing the size of current farming operations by expanding into the cerrado. One 54,000-sow project is expected to use 213,000 acres of corn and 105,000 acres of soybeans for feed.
Temperatures are moderate enough that no climate control is needed, one reason why Brazil is the cheapest pork producer in the world. On the other hand, "Brazil is new to the export market and had to deal with a lot of sanitary issues in building its market."
Factors which will continue to support Brazil's agricultural growth include cheap and abundant land, the young age of its farmers and their entrepreneurial spirit, the ability to grow 1.5 to 2.5 crops a year, cheap labor, a growing international market, an improving infrastructure and a respectful attitude toward research.
Limiting factors begin with the real/dollar exchange rate. "This has hurt Brazil tremendously," Borges said. "Their currency lost more than half its value from January 2000 to October 2001. It has regained most of that back in the last three years. But the last two years, fluctuations in the value of the real versus the dollar has taken 20 percent off the Brazilian farmer's bottom line."
In addition, Asian soybean rust cost Brazilian growers $2.1 billion, or $1 per bushel, in 2004, from the cost of spraying and lost yield. Add the 20 percent loss from the exchange rate and a 10 percent to 15 percent increase in fertilizer cost, and you have a slowdown in expansion, according to Borges.
Brazil's farmers "will diversify more in the short-term. They will further expand meat production. They will vastly expand biodiesel and ethanol processing businesses. They will stay committed to business. They will eventually open Hwy. 163, which will mean a lot to the upper cerrado region. They will continue to expand railroads and they will look at opening a Pacific route over the Andes."
The outcome of the WTO negotiations will impact both U.S. and Brazilian agriculture, according to Borges. "A big question is whether or not Europe, the United States and Japan compromise on farm support to gain some ground on manufactured goods.
"Third world countries are more interested in agriculture and the United States is more interested in manufactured goods. So if negotiations move forward, I think it's fair to expect that agriculture in the United States will take a bigger hit. That could put a big dent in our competitiveness."
There is little doubt that Brazil will continue to impact the United States by increasing its low-cost meat production," according to Borges. And if Brazil can export meat to the United States cheaper than U.S. meat producers can raise it, things could get ugly.
"Our biggest market for meat here in the United States is our internal market for grain and soybeans. We have a differential advantage by using the grain in the country versus getting it from Brazil. Livestock in the United States is healthy and expanding because of that."
But if we lose our livestock, we're in bad shape. We don't eat a lot of corn and beans ourselves. Our livestock does. We let that go, we would be in a difficult position. We need the livestock."


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Alain Vigneault certainly sounded cocky and confident Friday. As this shortened training camp begins, the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks is evidently pretty certain his team will be getting a centre back in an impending deal most everyone in this city is anticipating soon.
Vigneault patted himself on the back for developing every player on his roster who has had any level of success, including the Sedins.
The man many of his former Montreal Canadiens players used to call Mr. Gant — short for arrogant — and who has GM Mike Gillis's undying loyalty, certainly projected the good feeling a team needs heading into what the coach terms "uncharted waters."
Nobody would feel that confident unless he felt he knew something, because if you look at the roster as it presently stands, there are nothing but question marks everywhere. Unless there are some subtractions and additions, there's no doubt A.V. faces perhaps his most difficult challenge since taking this very demanding job seven years back.
Unless the Canucks do get that centre, there aren't many attractive options to a team which alleges — verbally at least — that it wants to play an exciting, uptempo style. After the Sedin line, no matter how the lineup might be augmented, it's a pretty murky task trying to put together three more lines that might actually produce. And let's be clear here: With games coming as quickly as they will in this condensed schedule, having an effective fourth line will be increasingly important as the season wears on.
Consider A.V.'s task as the roster stands. Try to make lines that you know have a good chance to succeed and you'll find it's as Harry Neale always described: like trying to carry three pounds of bleep in a two-pound bag.
There are a number of lines that might work, that could be effective short term, but none that has even the most remote chance of taking any team's defensive focus off the twins. So get that centre in here quickly and pray it's not Sami Pahlsson.
Either that or get Ryan Kesler to Lourdes, and hope his recovery pace quickens once he sees his teammates in action.
It's not just the forward lines that threaten to cause difficulty as the roster is presently listed. After what is expected to be the No. 1 defensive pairing of Kevin Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis, it gets a little more tricky. Do you move Chris Tanev up to the second pairing, by virtue of the fact he shoots right, and pair him with either Jason Garrison or Alex Edler? Or does Tanev slide down to the third pairing alongside Keith Ballard? The latter is most likely. So you'll have Garrison on the right side with Edler, to get mountains of ice time, and that third pairing starting out will also get lots of work, but their time will diminish as the need to win games increases. That's always the pattern with this coach. That's why they always start out trying to limit Kesler's ice time, and why he often ends up playing more than 20 minutes a game.
Then we come to the twins, where this team may have literally become addicted to brilliant goaltending. That is precisely what Cory Schneider and Roberto Luongo provided almost every night last season, particularly during the second half and in the playoffs.
One presumes Luongo will be gone, and the job will be turned over to Schneider who, as good as he has been in this town, has played just 68 NHL games and still has not yet proven he can be a No. 1 guy. Of course, Schneider's done everything but multiply loaves and fishes here, including getting this team its only win in last year's playoffs, but until he has shown that he can backstop a team in the vast majority of its games, there will still be an element of risk in a Luongo deal.
There are more risks if they keep Luongo here for any length of time, but there will be just that bit of angst about the goaltending when Lui boards that eastbound plane. Remember, Dan Cloutier was thought to be the next Marty Brodeur when he came from Tampa — and he had played 42 more NHL games than Schneider has when he arrived.
So is this team really a Cup contender? We'll have a revised answer when Kesler returns, particularly if he regains top form, but until then your answer would not be words people in this town want to hear.
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|2009-04-14, 22:08
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I'm starting to feel a tinge of regret at having voted a 9 already, because watching ToraDora again, though I loved it the first time, I see so much more yet to love. There is much hidden depth that you can't really notice perfectly the first time around, starting especially with the story arc at Ami's villa. I urge anyone who liked it at all to start watching a second time... I think you'll be surprised how much more depth there is to notice once you know the main story already.
|2009-04-14, 22:23
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A ten.
Not because the technical artistry is perfect. (It isn't.)
Not because the characters all got equal development. (Isn't it sad, Amin?)
Not because the music was the best. (While good, it wasn't.)
Not because of a fresh premise, or brilliant voice-acting (although it was pretty damn good), or any other individual facet of the show.
But because the sum of these parts was one of the only romances (comedy or otherwise) I've ever watched or read where I could describe it as feeling "real", and where the ride was enjoyable from start to finish.
The only similar anime/manga that are on par with it, as far as I'm concerned, are Honey and Clover, Love Roma, and Solanin. And I really can't give praise much higher than that.
Bravo, Takemiya Yuyuko and J.C. Staff. Bravo.
|2009-04-15, 03:09
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I really need someone to explain what Physics sees in Honey and Clover. From what I watched it's an occasionally funny show where characters inexplicably pine after a love interest in one-sided relationships with little to no validation other than "Love at first site" for years after the expiration date. How he figures it's better than Toradora which actually takes the time to justify why the characters think and feel the way they do is beyond me.
Yeah the show was funny and had some good music (Killer opening) but the romantic angle of the show was always pretty bad. By the time the second season rolled out Yamada had moved from "Sympathetic sad girl" to "the most pathetic character in the history of anime". Goddamn girl, get a grip. At least Takemoto put some effort into finding things other than his crush to occupy his thoughts.
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Having just finished watching both seasons of H&C, I'd have to somewhat agree with typhonsentra over this. It's not really all that great, and certainly, not "leagues better" than Toradora! - IMHO, of course.
|2009-04-15, 10:56
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|2009-04-15, 12:27
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A lot of my attachment to H&C comes from that feeling of 'reality' it put out (despite the wacky surrealism) plus the fact that it was the first series I'd encountered that was set in a COLLEGE setting with college-age people who had more adult pressures. Life and social protocols in college are much less constricted than high school.
OTOH, Toradora! had fascination for me because it breaks a lot of the "standard crap" one sees in rom-coms. We had two physical altercations, for example, both of which were females fighting (rather than helpless submissive nonsense). The girls Had Their Own Goals -- not just passive dolls. There wasn't Just One Guy, we had a number of males in the cast who were also goal-oriented and seeking female companionship.
That's one area where it jumped in front of Lov*Com - in that series all the relationships were stable except for the central "couple" within a few episodes.
|2009-04-15, 14:52
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Hmmm, I think I'm just relating that college provides many more options than high school in terms of potential story plot, character evolution, and such. High school is a pretty constricted path (which makes it easy to pump out the highly repetitive variations we usually see).
|2009-04-15, 16:35
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I don't feel that the setting was pivotal in telling the story, however. The basic plot is simple character drama and romance, and I personally would not see anything strange about it taking place on a space station, or in a medieval setting with middle-aged characters, or even with a primitive or alien tribe comprising the cast. A good romance, to me, feels timeless. Wouldn't the additional contrived happenstances that one could implement in a less "formulaic" setting simply have distracted you from being able to empathize with the characters?
(Note that I don't think the story would have been worse told in an alternate manner, per se, but rather that the total amount of time within a season of an anime would make it prohibitive to tell a larger overarching story in addition to the core character drama that I loved. My favorite romance/fantasy author, Lois McMaster Bujold, constructs beautiful, epic romances, but even a single volume of one could not possibly be translated accurately into a single season of anime. There has to be adequate pacing or you will butcher the story. The pacing of ToraDora! was a bit too fast, but the story didn't have to change too much from the novels because the extended dialogues and narrations themselves aren't essential. I'm sure some fans will feel they butchered the light novels, anyway.)
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I think you're twisting my point a bit (or we're just shooting past each other o.O). There are quite simply choices available to characters in a college setting that are not available to a high school setting. This changes the complexity that can develop. You also can factor in the additional maturity of the characters in addressing their situations. Sure you can grind a story down to "he wants her, there are obstacles and hard choices, oh the angst" but few high school stories seem to pivot on the motivations and dreams of the girl -- a deficiency of most eroge adaptations but less a problem with manga or light novel sources as we've seen.
The college (or adult situation like Hataraki Man) - most of the players are past that "first crush/love" period that high school stories tend to focus on.
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|2009-04-15, 17:53
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It wasn't even love at first sight for most of them. It was suggested that Morita appreciated and slowly grew to love Hagu for her artistic excellence, just like his; Yamada was pathetic, and she was stupid, but it's not as if there aren't people like her in this world. There are women like that. And there are people who fall in love at first sight. And there are people who grow to love an older woman because of her frailties.
It's a surreal series, but I personally perceive it's more grounded in reality than Toradora.
|2009-04-15, 23:33
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What's supposed to not be grounded in reality? The unrequited yet mutual first feelings of "really like" between Minori and Ryuuji? The slowly evolving, overwhelming love that unfolds between Taiga and Ryuuji? Someone's family story? Help me suspend my belief.
|2009-04-16, 11:53
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Here's where I'll differ from physics223 in that I thought Toradora had a more "realistic" feel than many high-school rom-coms (and as real as any romance no matter what the setting). *All* these stories have elements of unreality or statistical unlikeliness (e.g. Taiga's massive wealth, Ami as supermodel, Sumire as astronaut-trainee) -- but the characterization is sophisticated enough to get by those. I don't think there's any point to comparing H&C and Toradora since they both excel in delivering a feeling of reality for me.
|2009-04-16, 13:20
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Another prominent failure of physics (because it's that realistic) is the fisticuffs between Ami and Minori in the snow. Minori's hairclip wouldn't have flown that far for Taiga to disappear without them noticing it if it was actually realistic. No matter how good a punch Ami gives, she couldn't have made it fly that far.
I also assume a hairclip is opaque in the dark. No, I'm pretty certain it's opaque in the dark. I am quite certain that it won't be seen (had it really flown that far in reality) by the naked eyes of Ryuuji in a snowstorm. Even with the sharpest eyes you couldn't see much in a snowstorm.
Also, why didn't the rescuers find Taiga? They're supposed to be good at their jobs, aren't they? I mean it's quite obvious Taiga fell through that deformed part of the fence, but it's probably because the snowstorm clouded their visibility to that extent, in which case a small hairclip shouldn't have sparkled.
That's just from the tip of my thoughts, for a show that's supposed to be grounded in reality, as you say. H&C never had those pretensions: it knew it was surreal. I'm sure you could complain about the magical unicorns in one episode, but it never pretended to be realistic. Its surrealism merely directed me, at least, to perceive what was really important, which were the interactions among them.
|2009-04-16, 14:10
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If I wanted reality in my shows, there's always Mythbusters.
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|2009-04-18, 01:12
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I'm late in posting this, but I did say I was going to.
Toradora! is really quite a wonderful series. I walked into this anime (just as it was about to end, so I got to marathon the entire thing) expecting a retard-ass harem anime (I was reluctant to watch it, and I was even more bewildered when I actually started doing so - this is what I get for not doing the research before properly checking it out), but I found myself subtly liking the first episode. I pressed on, and a few episodes later, I was quite hooked. It really wasn't anything like my expectations at all - well, most of them, anyway. Ryuuji is actually an admirable male lead rather than one among the hundreds of ball-less Keitaro Urashimas I've seen over the years, and even though I wasn't a fan of tsundere characters, I found Taiga to be surprisingly enduring, and her bond with Ryuuji even moreso. Each of the supporting characters really helped to get the series moving along without ever detracting from it, and I found each of them likable in their own ways. I wish Yuusaku got a little more development, though, at least as much as the other girls.
I was quite sad to see it end, and personally, I felt the ending itself is a little rushed (I've expressed before of how I'd love if there had been just one more post-series episode detailing how all of the characters are doing in their lives, as well as focusing more on the bond between Ryuuji and Taiga), but it was still pretty satisfying. I liked how it wasn't a reset ending and that it definitely secured the relationship between the two, so as to not leave their futures negatively ambiguous. That doesn't mean I don't want to see more of these characters though, pft.
I walked into it with extremely low expectations, but what I got was a pleasantly surprising romance with enduring characters and a fun observation of these characters' relationships with one another. This is definitely one of the best rom-com anime I've seen, anyway. I'll be watching it again in the future.
|2009-04-18, 23:20
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Just finished watching last episode after stalling for a while. What can I say that hasn't already been said? The character development was the main attraction to the show. The studio developed each character really well and made really nice scenes without the overused gags.
As people have said before, it's easily the best high school romantic comedy.
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7.1 surround sound is the common name for an eight-channel surround audio system commonly used in home theatre configurations. It adds two additional speakers to the more conventional six-channel (5.1) audio configuration. As with 5.1 surround sound, 7.1 surround sound positional audio uses the standard front, center, and LFE (subwoofer) speaker configuration. However, whereas a 5.1 surround sound system combines both surround and rear channel effects into two channels (commonly configured in home theatre set-ups as two rear surround speakers), a 7.1 surround system splits the surround and rear channel information into four distinct channels, in which sound effects are directed to left and right surround channels, plus two rear surround channels. In a 7.1 surround sound home theatre set-up, the surround speakers are placed to the side of the listener's position and the rear speakers are placed behind the listener.
PS3 is indeed a tech BEAST but the problem is unless the game is design for ps3? games like Black ops 2 or nba 2k13 or any multiplat titles doesn't sound the same as xbox 360. 2K on the xbox 360 you can hear footsteps on the court, crowds giving players the blues at the free throw line. It just decoded different from the ps3 version TOO ME! But ps3 EXCLUSIVES games & Bluray movies goes HAM! psn: cedaridge / xbl: cedar4Thunder
I got a true 5.1 headset for my PC and man, once you go surround you never go back.
Warhawk and LAIR are definitely my favorite uses of 7.1. They were craaazy
I have wondered too why game review sites never list this awesome feature that only the sony playstation 3 can do as a plus. I dont have it, but my friend does, and playing killzone with 7.1 audio is an experience on another level.
stick to 5.1 most people havent but many games, movies and blu rays and its great. 7.1 is still not widely supported


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I'm voting for method 2 - I'll be using this chance to play a Rune Knight, hoohah!
EDIT: Nix that, my mind isn't made up entirely yet. Soon, though... soon.
EDIT: Nix that, my mind isn't made up entirely yet. Soon, though... soon.
Final Fantasy: Song of Harmony
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For those who asked for it, and any more who wish to participate...
Forgot to mention, post applications in the forum under "Character Applications". All characters start at level one. Max HP/MP for first level.
*Disregard voting for Limit Breaks; we are going to use method two due to it being voted for unanimously*
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The city of Tramont is known for its festivities. Not a day passes in silence; a constant flood of travelers, mercenaries, and merchants keeps it active at all times. Everyone has a different reason for coming. However, even if your reason is not shared by anyone else, your destiny will be intertwined with many others. For this is the city where the king of the continent of Bravonia lives, and he has requested the help of people who wish to be heroes. Heroes, such as yourself.
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The search for free web space continues! You would think with all the advertising sponsored sites out there you could find a decent free web provider with service that would actually work most of the time.
I think I found one that might do the job, if you get a chance, sign up for an account with www.100free.com. Their free service appears to work pretty good, lets hope they stick around for a while.


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Rebecca's Vintage Brownstone Kitchen
Brooklyn, New York is filled with brownstones &mdash everywhere you look there's another amazing brownstone just waiting to be renovated and brought back to life. Rebecca found her diamond in the rough and filled it with a breath of fresh air.
Rebecca purchased this Brooklyn brownstone 14 years ago and fully planned on doing all of the renovations herself. She wanted the home to be uniquely her own, but life wasn't on the same page. Rebecca lost track of time and hope, so she called in the big guns &mdash Gita Nandan from Brooklyn's Thread Collective.
It was extremely important to Rebecca to keep as many of the original details as possible, and Gina was right on board with that. There wasn't much of the kitchen that was salvageable, but Gina got creative and found ways to salvage pieces from other places. The marble countertops are actually a salvaged bench from Wall Street!
We find the bold and bright backsplash to be incredibly intriguing. The dark maple cabinets and white walls help to tame the boldness of the backsplash, but still let enough interest pop through to attract the eye. There's just something about greens and dark browns that just warm up a space.
&bull See the full tour: Rebecca's Vintage Brownstone - at Re-Nest
Related: Chris & Hannah's Spectacular Reclaimed Kitchen
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is that from Contra?
Yes and sadly enough I can still remember that..
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Margot Heyerhoff, an artist and a tireless volunteer, grew up in Montreal, but she spent a lot of time in the Eastern Townships. She studied at Bishop's University and later followed an interior design course in New York City. Life intervened when Margot met her husband, Peter, and moved to Ontario where the couple raised two sons.
In 2000, Heyerhoff was staging an art show in the Townships when the friend with whom she was staying suggested she and Peter look for a cottage in the country.
"I wasn't at all enthusiastic about the idea, so my friend actually made an appointment with the real estate agent," recalled Margot, "The Townships just seemed too far from our base in Oakville.
"We drove here and there, up and down hill and dale but when I saw this place, a former pig farm, I must admit it did have some appeal. The house had good bones and there was quite a bit of land. Peter isn't one to sit on a dock all day and read. He loves to work outside. I went home, told the family what I'd seen and the next thing I knew we were putting in an offer!"
The farm, which cost $215,000, was one of six that had once belonged to a single owner, down a remote country road near North Hatley. (The Heyerhoffs subsequently bought a couple of the other properties giving them over 81 hectares of land.)
The farmhouse was actually two properties in one - the original building ("a standard 24 foot-by-24-foot house dating back to the 1840s"), onto which had been tagged another old house, moved from the village, some time in the 1940s.
"This was the farm manager's house and it had been enlarged to accommodate his growing family," said
Heyerhoff. "Some of the rooms were small or badly designed, so we decided to add a third extension."
The 3,400-square-foot, two-storey home now has four upstairs bedrooms, two bathrooms, an open plan kitchen/ dining area, a living room and an L-shaped library and formal dining room with a shared fireplace. The Heyer-hoffs are art lovers and antique collectors, and the house is furnished throughout with Canadiana, such as a finely crafted 18th-century armoire, which sits along one wall in the dining area, just off the kitchen.
"I like old things, the history behind them and the fact that they're made by hand. The carpenter who built the armoire was a real craftsman. It's not a primitive piece, even although it's old. You can see that from the little details. The shelves are different thicknesses so you know where to place each one. They get thicker towards the bottom."
"From time to time, we like to change the paintings around because we've got more art than we have wall space! By doing that - usually when the seasons change - they give a fresh look to a room. It changes the colour scheme a little and makes us appreciate the pieces more than when we're looking at the same ones all the time."
Two years after the Heyer-hoffs bought the old farmhouse, they decided to move to the Townships full time, prompted by three major events - Heyerhoff 's mother died (Margot had been her full-time caregiver and was now free of that responsibility), Peter decided to retire because of ill health and their sons were finishing school.
According to Margot, although they had already modernized part of the house by upgrading the kitchen ("the work surfaces were 1950s laminate") with custom-made maplewood blue-grey cabinetry, a butcher block counter space and sienna ceramic tiled floors and installing a swimming pool ("We needed something to amuse the kids because we're not on a lake"), 2002 was when they decided to get into even more major renovations.
One of the first things was to demolish an existing room to create a larger living room and install a fireplace. Next, on the second floor, they divided one long room into two bedrooms, then created a new main entrance with a dormer window on the side of the building. The final challenge was creating the L-shaped extension with the library and formal dining room. The work was undertaken by a local contractor - Sherma Construction Inc., in Magog- with input from Margot and her husband.
In the early stages of the renovation, one of the Heyer-hoff 's sons was still at school in Ontario, so Peter had to hold the fort.
"Peter was living in the mess more than me. He used to meet the foreman every morning at 7 a.m., and they'd have a little chat in fran-glais."
The Heyerhoffs hired an architect to help with some of the technical problems, like lining up the roofs of the three sections of the building to make sure that they were attached in the correct manner. There was also a structural issue with one of the walls in the about-to-be enlarged living room.
"The wall running north/ south was a supporting wall and we were wanting to lengthen it from 3.6 metres to 4.8 metres. That wasn't really safe. The second floor could well have come down."
The solution was to replace a wooden beam with a steel one in order to make the new living room ceiling structurally sound. To make it look old in keeping with the rest of the building, the contractors suggested covering it with a hollowed-out wooden beam, hiding the steel one underneath.
In another made-to-look-old move, the fireplace that straddles each section of the L-shaped extension was constructed out of antique bricks (they have a more mellow tone than modern ones), while the ornately carved wooden mantle was sourced from an old log house in Ontario.
In addition to creating the three-in-one family home, the Heyerhoffs have renovated two old barns on their property. One was a play area for the children when they were younger. The other serves as Margot's studio and a space for staging art shows and fundraising events.
The designs for the renovations were mostly Margot's ideas. With her artistic background, she was able draw up detailed plans on graph paper then go back and forth between Peter and the contractors.
Some of the discussions took place on the phone because one of the Heyerhoff sons was still finishing his school year and Margot had to spend chunks of time in Oakville. That made it difficult at times to visualize just how things would work out, but, according to Margot, all went well.
The Heyerhoffs are delighted with the end result. Best of all, the sale of their Ontario house paid for the renovations.


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Hey Matt, did you happen to watch the game tonight?
Why I oughta... * JediMAC slaps EVERYONE, especially his dumba$$ Laker team! Fortunately, I'm still at the office, and not actually watching this CRAP. Unfortunately, my wife keeps calling me and giving me updates on the madness... ::Stomps off in a grumpy huff::
You're no Laker fan, huh? I figured you were just on the Bandwagon, seeing as they won three championships in a row.
Do you think the Lakers will advance past the Spurs? Anyone???
BTW, is it just me, or is Matt really quiet lately
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This section lists details of organisations and people that would like to receive books, magazines, CDs, etc. donated by you. It also lists details of Collection Centres, and other useful resources such as list of people with books to donate, list of books that you can purchase and donate, etc.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – A man has been charged with sexually assaulting a female inmate after the two were placed in the same jail cell alone on an Indian reservation in Arizona, federal court documents show.
Emmanuel Burnette was jailed Saturday at the White Mountain Apache Detention Center on tribal charges of assault and being under the influence of alcohol when the incident occurred. He now is charged federally with two counts of engaging in a sexual act with a woman against her will. He's scheduled to appear in court Friday in Flagstaff.
The episode highlights what has become a cause of concern at tribal jails on Indian reservations.
Many tribal jails are decades old and face issues with overcrowding, unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and are plagued by staffing shortages, according to a 2011 report by the U.S. Department of the Interior Inspector General. It's unclear what led correctional officers at the White Mountain Apache jail to have Burnette share a cell with a female.
Tribal officials did not immediately return messages left Thursday by The Associated Press. The FBI and the federal prosecutor declined to comment on the case.
Tribes have begun to take on the building and renovation of jails on their reservations but generally rely on the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to staff them. The White Mountain Apache Tribe operates the detention center in Whiteriver under a contract with the BIA. The tribe was awarded nearly $950,000 in stimulus funding in 2009 to renovate the adult and juvenile detention centers, but federal data shows the project still remains in the design stage.
The tribe's jail is one of 14 in Indian Country that accounted for more than half of all inmates held in tribal jails at midyear 2011, according to another federal report.
New jails are scheduled to open this year in the Navajo Nation towns of Tuba City in northeastern Arizona and Crownpoint in northwestern New Mexico. Jails on the reservations currently can hold a combined 50 people, which means that hardly any inmates serve out full sentences.
Tribal jails generally can hold people only for misdemeanor crimes that carry a maximum penalty of a year in jail. Law enforcement on the Fort Apache reservation typically deals with domestic violence, sexual assaults induced by alcohol and drugs and a growing problem with violent crime among juveniles, authorities have said. Major crimes are referred to federal prosecutors.
According to an FBI agent's affidavit, a video at the White Mountain Apache jail showed the 21-year-old Burnette lying down beside the 23-year-old woman and engaging in a sexual act before corrections officers entered the cell and separated them. The woman told authorities that Burnette said to her that "it's OK, it's OK to have you, they put me in here."
The woman, who was being held on tribal charges of public intoxication, didn't say anything to Burnette but later told authorities that she tried to push him away and that she was scared not only of him but the corrections officers, the affidavit states.
Burnette told an FBI agent that he was moved to the cell with the woman after he was banging his head on the door of another cell and kicked it several times. Burnette said he knew what he did with the woman was wrong, according to the affidavit.
Burnette has been appointed a federal public defender. She did not return calls for comment.
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USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display
This article based on work done by Ramuk at Linkstationwiki.org
|These instructions are essentially for a USB LCD Display[1], a USB docking Palm-OS device can emulate a USB LCD interface so that no external adapter is needed. The same instructions could be used with some modification to add an LCD with: Add a Serial port to the PowerPC Linkstation as a matter of fact someone on the kurobox wiki has done just that[2]
This article is for people that want to add an LCD display to their Linkstation but don't want to crack it open[3], and happen to have a USB cabled Palm OS [4] device lying around. Using PalmOrb [5] you can emulate an external (20x4),(40x4) or (26x16) character LCD display.
This article assumes that you have installed FreeLink. A 2.6 Kernel Upgrade to the 2.6-kernel (ppc only) has better USB support, but a 2.4 Kernel would probably work as well. For these instructions you will need a USB cabled Palm-OS Device.
- Install PalmOrb on your USB cabled Palm-OS Device. The v1.1a4[6] version has the most font options for a (20x4) emulated LCD, there are several other versions available on Sourceforge[7]. It emulates a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 LCD.
Configure the PalmOrb app to use the USB Port: Menu -> Options -> Serial:Device:USB
- Install and remove LCDproc using apt-get (this should take care of any dependencies) The Debian Stable Version only has the LCDd Daemon program but not the lcdproc client, so you'll have to install lcdproc from a tarball. Kind of an ugly solution to get the dependencies resolved, but it works:
apt-get install lcdproc apt-get remove lcdproc
- Get the LCDProc[8] tarball and compile/install it. Make sure you have installed the Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS first.
wget http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/download/lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz tar -xvzf lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz cd lcdproc-0.4.5 ./configure make make install
- Use these instructions to configure LCDProc to run with PalmOrb properly[9] make sure that the MtxOrb part of /etc/LCDd.conf looks at least a little something like this:
........ [MtxOrb] # Matrix Orbital driver # Select the output device to use [/dev/lcd] device=/dev/ttyUSB0 #device=/dev/usb/tts/1 #device=/dev/ttyS1 # Set the display size [20x4] size=20x4 ........
- You may have to initiate the appropriate module for the palm[10]
modprobe visor
- Attach the USB enabled Palm-OS device and start the PalmOrb app. Do a dmesg of your linkstation; if things went well you should see lines like this at the end:
usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
- Run the LCDd (LCDproc Daemon) and LCDproc client with some options to see if it works.
LCDd & lcdproc C M X
- Hopefully you got some output on the Palm-OS device as an LCD. For other clients Google:lcdproc to see what other LCDProc clients you can find. Or just go here[11]
What's the point?
|Palm as Terminal (untested)
|Enable terminal access with this command: getty -h -L ttyUSB0 9600 vt100, and use a terminal program like ptelnet[12]
Well if you happen to have a USB enabled older Palm OS PDA lying around and want an external LCD display for the price of nothing, now you have it!
Shell Scripts
#!/bin/sh # lcdmon.sh # Kill any LCDd that are running first, Start the Daemon and # fork it to the background. Then run LCDProc with the Time option and # fork it to the background. # You can run lcdproc -? alone to see what options there are. # Run another client: netlcdclient which gives U/Dl speed # You could run this script at startup. killall LCDd LCDd & lcdproc T & netlcdclient -i eth0 -a LinkSTN -d
Related Links:
- ↑ www.crystalfontz.com CFA-635 USB LCD
- ↑ LCDKuro - Add a Display and Keyboard to your Kurobox
- ↑ The NSLU2-Linux project where this idea was hijacked from: Palm as LCD-Display or terminal
- ↑ The Wikipedia: Palm OS devices
- ↑ The PalmOrb Page: SourceForge:PalmOrb
- ↑ Sourceforge.net: palmorb - alpha/beta releases Latest v1.1a4
- ↑ Sourceforge.net: PalmOrb
- ↑ The LCDproc home: LCDproc
- ↑ How do I configure LCDproc for PalmOrb?
- ↑ Handspring−Visor with Linux mini−HOWTO by Ryan VanderBijl
- ↑ LCDProc Site:Clients
- ↑ ptelnet - a powerful communication software for the Palm Computing platform
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Requirements: Android 2.1+
Overview: Bria Android Edition is a highly secure, standards-based mobile VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.
Using the device's existing contact list, Bria Android Edition facilitates easy and effective communication management with an intuitive interface. Deskphone-class calling functionality includes the ability to swap between two calls, merge calls and perform attended and unattended transfers.
Bria Android Edition incorporates advanced security settings which allow for secure call signaling. It also contains enhanced audio features including G.711, GSM, iLBC and an optional G.729 codec.
Bria Android Edition works seamlessly with other CounterPath desktop and convergence solutions, as well as with enterprise and carrier infrastructure equipment from major vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, BroadSoft, Metaswitch, Avaya, Cisco and NEC. Bria Android Edition also supports Asterisk-based telephony systems.
Standard Phone Features
★ Bria Android Edition has all the standard telephone features, including:
★ Support for 8 accounts on any SIP-compliant server
★ Multi-tasking support for background operation, such as fielding incoming calls while using other applications
★ Call display and voicemail indicator
★ Voicemail support
★ Speakerphone, Mute and Hold
★ A detailed call history pane that displays dialed, answered and missed calls, along with ability to delete entries
★ Contact List – leveraging the phone's native address book
★ The ability to work with the native dialer (a.k.a. Call Intercept)
★ Ringtones and contact avatars
★ Dial plan support (softphone-side)
★ Multiple call support
✩ Swap between two active calls
✩ Merge calls (three-way conferencing support)
✩ Call transfer (attended and unattended)
★ Audio codecs include G.711a/u, G.722, iLBC and GSM
✩ Operational G.729 codec
★ Automatic codec selection to ensure optimal call quality
★ Noise reduction
★ DTMF support: the ability to enter number into an auto attendant
✩ via RFC 2833 or SIP INFO
Advanced Features
★ NAT traversal
✩ Application managed, server managed or user specified
✩ Global IP support
✩ STUN and ICE
★ Media efficiency and quality
✩ VAD (Voice Activation Detection)
✩ QoS (Quality of Service)
✩ ToS Marking
★ Security and encryption
✩ Logging support for trouble shooting
✩ DNS SRV record lookups
The following accessories are supported:
★ Headset with microphone: Bria uses the ear-piece and microphone on the headset.
★ Headphones (no microphone): Bria uses the ear-piece on the headphone and the built-in microphone on the phone.
ITSP/Operator/Enterprise Features
Bria Android includes features specifically designed for business and enterprise users, including:
★ Optional customized branding for graphic assets and SIP settings
★ Additional security settings
What's in this version:
Additional Contacts and Call Log improvements
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Courtesy of Daniel Webster College Sports Information
NASHUA, N.H. – Following a 30-16, 30-26, 30-24 decision over Daniel Webster College, the nationally-ranked No. 13 MIT men's volleyball team picked up its ninth straight North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division victory on Friday. Winners of four in a row and nine of their last 10, the Engineers improved to 23-7 on the year and 11-2 in conference action.
Alex Becherer and Troy Tamas led a balanced attack with nine kills apiece while adding six and five digs, respectively. Patrick Vatterott tallied eight kills, four blocks, and two aces as Garrett Winther posted eight kills and three blocks. David Thomas totaled six kills and two blocks while Mike Demyttenaere chipped in four kills. Eric Reuland had a solid outing in the back row, racking up 13 digs and 24-errorless service receptions. Caine Jette amassed 29 assists and 12 digs while Tim Lee dished out 13 assists in the opening frame.
Chris Shannon notched nine kills, seven digs and three blocks for the Eagles (5-9, 5-7 NECVA) while Eric Smith just missed a triple double finishing with nine kills, 15 assists and nine digs. Elson Abotsi added seven kills while Ian Catenzaro chipped in with four kills and three digs.
MIT controlled game one from the opening serve jumping to advantages of 14-2 and 21-9 closing the set on a Winther kill.
Daniel Webster jumped ahead in the second frame, building a 5-2 lead on a Shannon kill and held a slight edge as late as 20-19 before MIT answered with four straight including kills from Tamas and Winther. The Eagles would tie it at 24 on a MIT error, but a kill from Thomas sparked a quick 4-1 spurt to take control as the Engineers captured the 30-26 win.
Daniel Webster again stayed close through the final set, knotting it at 21 on a Smith kill and two MIT errors. Back-to back kills from Tamas and Becherer helped open a 26-22 lead and Becherer would close it out with two more kills on the match's final two points.


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Jamie's Thrifty & Peaceful First Home
Name: Jamie
Location: Austin, Texas
Thrifty and peaceful. Nature-inspired and simple. I love all 987 square feet of my cozy little condo. Craigslist, Good Will, and blogs are my inspiration. There are 2 bedrooms, the master and the multi purpose room. The MP room is my sewing, crafting, office, and guest room, all in a 12x14 foot space. The small living room accommodates 11 seats to entertain friends. As a first time home owner, my space inspires others to use your space wisely and make your house a home on a budget.
You can see more of my home at my blog: C.R.A.F.T | Creating Really Awesome Free Things.
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|Spring Arbor, Mich.
|High School:
2010-11: Second-year member of the team.
2009-10 (Cross Country): Did not compete in any
races … (Indoor Track & Field): Ran a
season-best time of 2:56.39 in the 800 meters at the ODAC
Championships … posted a height of 1.35 meters in the high
jump at the VMI Relays … (Outdoor Track &
Field): Logged a season-best time of 18.53 in the 100
meter hurdles a the ODAC Championships … ran a 1:18.72 in
the 400 meter hurdles at the W&L Carnival.
High School: Three-time letterwinner in both cross country and track & field at Parma Western … helped lead the cross country team to four conference championships … led the track team to a pair of conference championships.
Personal: Undeclared major.
Personal Records
100m Hurdles - 18.53
400m Hurdles - 1:18.72
800m - 2:48.25