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After a rather steady dose of generally seasonal temperatures, with a few above-average days, we're in store for a return to winter this weekend.
The strong cold front I wrote about yesterday is still headed for the Carolinas and will cross the region Friday night. The front is expected to be moisture-starved, but there could be a few rain showers Friday evening. Some wet snow could mix with the rain in the foothills, and the higher mountain elevations probably will pick up an inch or two of snow.
Saturday probably will start sunny, cold and breezy.
Highs on Saturday likely won't climb much above the lower 40s.
During the day, an upper-level low pressure system will approach the area from the northwest. That means clouds will increase, and a few showers probably will break out Saturday afternoon and evening.
Harry Gerapetritis, of the National Weather Service office in Greer, S.C., says temperatures Saturday will be above freezing in the Charlotte region. But the air mass covering the Carolinas will be quite cold (below freezing except near the surface), and the precipitation could fall as a rain-snow mix during the afternoon and evening.
With temperatures above freezing, accumulations won't be an issue. But if you're interested in seeing snowflakes, you might get your wish sometime Saturday afternoon or evening.
Once the upper-level low moves off to the east Saturday night, skies will clear and temperatures will nose-dive. Don't be surprised to see readings in the upper teens Sunday morning, and despite full sunshine, the afternoon highs aren't likely to be much more than about 45 degrees.
The cold snap will be short-lived -- two days. That means afternoon highs will be back in the lower 50s by Monday.
Incidentally, as we move into the second half of February, our average daily high and low temperatures are climbing. At this time of the year, Charlotte's average highs and lows are 55 and 33. That's about 4 or 5 degrees warmer than at the coldest point, back in early January. By March 1, our average high is 59 degrees, and we reach the 60-degree mark March 5.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Cold weekend; rain-snow showers Saturday, maybe
After a rather steady dose of generally seasonal temperatures, with a few above-average days, we're in store for a return to winter this weekend.
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- Anonymous said...
Weather has become so iffy around here over the past twenty years. It's almost as if we don't have a real change of seasons here any more. A few days in the 40s, some cold nights, then back to the high 50s and low 60s. Whatever happened to winter time?
- February 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wed - "Cold, but no snow". Thur -"Cold weekend; rain-snow showers". At least try and disguise the fact that you are hyping nothing but not writing contradicting storylines back to back.
- February 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
A couple days of "cold" then "milder" temperatures. Like a broken record. This "cold" is without snow, is very dry, causing cracked skin, itchy legs, and constant static shocks through the day. 30 at night, then 60 by noon---a roller coaster ride of 25-30 degree difference. Wear a coat to work, lay out for a tan during lunch, then bundle up again when the sun goes down. Look around for a miraculous snow flake to appear once or twice all winter, while a few states up 'The Day After Tomorrow II' is playing out.
- February 15, 2013 at 9:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
It has come to this: "Cold" weather lasting more than a couple days is now shocking during winter. Now imagine this in mid-July:
"A brief 'hot snap' is on the way that will last a couple days, then back into cold temps with a slight chance of sleet. For those who enjoy seeing your breath in July, you will love it!"
- February 15, 2013 at 1:41 PM


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What is now Shea Stadium will become a parking lot, which is how these things work, but I wish there would be a way to prevent an old Volvo from leaking oil on the site where the ball got by Buckner, or where Cleon Jones caught the final out of the 1969 World Series, or where Tommie Agee made those catches, or the mound where Tom Seaver excelled for so many years.
Go ahead, make it a parking lot, but on those spots and others, block off the area and preserve it with a plaque, or small statue, or something that reminds future generations something special happened here.
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I don't know about you, but I find myself perplexed over why Google can't seem to do TV right. For over a year now I have been waiting for an android box worthy of my living room, but so far no dice. To me, a good device needs to pack a version of android akin to jelly bean with specs comparable or better to the best tablets like the Asus Transformer series. Is it too much hassle to ask for something like the Revue or Vizio's new offering with a Tegra 3+ and plenty of memory so I can do some gaming a la On Live or Splashtop to my PC? Throw in DVR powers, 3rd party support, beautiful design like the Q, an affordable price point, and I would be in. What do you all think?
Edit (8/29): I suppose I should try and tie this in with Mobile somehow since this is an Android forum and they're promoting mobile entertainment this week…Below AirPlay was discussed and Google tried this with the Q in a way. While mobile broadcast to a TV from a tablet or phone is clearly the best thing to hit the living room since the DVR or remote control, Google moreso than Apple must realize they can't restrict this to the Nexus line in relation to items like the Q. They need to leverage their open platform to allow ANY device to send media over, including begrudgingly, Apple devices. Like it or not, they are a big player in mobile entertainment and the sooner Google plays nice, the sooner more people will find devices like the Q attractive. The demo they did at I/O earlier this year was neat and all, but let's face it; no group of friends are going to own nothing but Nexus devices for AirPlay like sharing. We can promote adoption of the Nexus line all we want as self-proclaimed accolades of Google's domain which I'll be the first to say how awesome it is, but we do live in a real world, and the sooner Google realizes this and builds this technology to work with their own and all their OEM partner ecosystems (meaning native Android feature), the sooner we can all enjoy sharing pics and videos on the fly at our next mixer with friends.
Just my two cents. My desire for a good Google living room box ranks right up there with wireless smartphone in-dash mirroring / speaker integration in my car so I don't have to rely on crappy, proprietary navigation systems anymore (not that I do thanks to my trusty lifehacker made binder clip smartphone holder). Expand on that with Google's still-baking Glass tech on the windshield for amazing holographic overlays, and my friends, you can finally say "welcome to the future," even if they don't quite have the car flying yet, lol.


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Nobody gave Atlanta any respect. Let's see if that'll change when they beat 49ers.
The model for the NFL prototype QB is changing rapidly.
3 out of 4 were here last year. Not such a good year for parity. But it means I get to root for the Harbaugh Bowl again.
I'll take both road teams and since the playoffs are now Packer-free I can enjoy them to the fullest.
Right now the Ravens are a team greater than the sum of their parts and if there's an upset to be found I think they'll find it.
And Pete Carroll gets my vote for the "Dennis Green Moron Of The Century" award. Not merely for icing the kicker, which is the most overrated ploy in football, but for not taking the points when down 13-0.
On the road — you have to put points on the board. Had he done so, the Falcons have to drive for a touchdown instead of a field goal on their last possession — or the Seahawks might have been ahead on their last possession, in which case the game probably has a different ending.
Well as a Pats Fan I am enjoying this run immensely. The Pats are going to win the SB this year.
The team has been totally rebuilt the past 3 years, they are a much better team this year than last. There are ready for another 3-4 year run like the early 2000's, depending of course on Brady's health going forward.
Hard to bet against the Pats at home.
I agree. The Pats should be favored to win.
But don't discount the power of the retiring legend. Remember the Jerome Bettis Farewell Tour?
As a Steeler fan, I remember that very well. And Jerome damn near blew it in the divisional round at Indy when he fumbled on the goal line and only Big Ben's shoe string tackle and then a missed field goal by one of the best kickers in the league gave the Steelers the win. I remember it very well. I never thought they would make it all the way, but they did.
As a life-long Steeler fan, I should not say this, but I wish all you Ravens fans the same kind of good fortune this week. But if I'm betting on the game, I'd have to go with the Pats.
Good luck. All I'm hoping for is another entertaining game like last week. That was a lot of fun to watch.
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Hi to all
I am a newbie in SA and I am not much of a all-time cyclist, just a grad student.
Lately there has been multiple theft of bikes in North Terrace Campus of University of Adelaide and UniSA.
It has not been clear about these theft of bikes (apparently reporting to police seems to be daunting), but there has been about more than 14 bikes missing in the campus in the past few weeks, I got my bike stolen in a protected storage facility (student/staff id is needed for entry), after I got back from the family reunion in NSW, it was stolen. Later I went back and told my mates about this, they said they had their bicycles stolen not a long time ago.
Yesterday, my roomie got his bike pinched too.
If there's any students or uni staff in this forum, please reply this post, cuz I want to figure this out.
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Thanks for the heads-up!!! I work at the RAH on North Tce but always take the bike into the office, i dont trust the bike lockup sheds(we have them at the RAH too). I guess you cant take your bike into a lecture...
PS whats the best lock to buy?
PS whats the best lock to buy?
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Postby trailgumby » Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:11 pm
Kryptonite or Abus u-lock. Get the small one - besides being lighter and easier to carry, it gives thieves less room to get a car jack in to prise it apart without damaging the bike, which defeats the purpose.
I'd also get a heavy cable lock. Thieves will carry what they need to defeat one style of lock but apparently are less likely to carry tools for both.
I'd also get a heavy cable lock. Thieves will carry what they need to defeat one style of lock but apparently are less likely to carry tools for both.
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Postby Dahondude » Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:39 pm
I work at Adel Uni and bikes are being stolen from outside our building all the time....one every couple of weeks. My commuter had the seat and wheels stolen on separate days within 2 weeks of we starting work here. Stuff goes missing from inside the building too...wallets, computers, handbags etc. Being close to the city you just have to put up with the fact that the campus is an easy target for thieves. The "secure" bike lockers are not really any more secure than just locking your bike up outside. Hundreds of people probably have access to the lock-ups via their staff/student cards. Bike thieves walk around with those big cable cutters in their clothing bags and can cut through most locks pretty quickly and be off before anyone notices. The only really safe place is your office, if you have one, and keeping the door to your office locked at all times. At the end of the day, bike thefts are pretty low on the list of priorities for the police and Uni security. Most bikes stolen are worth much less than $1000 and unless someone gets hurt during the theft, its just another of the hundreds of property crimes that occur in SA every day of the year.
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Postby Biffidus » Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:40 pm
You're much better off leaving your bike in a busy area (preferably near a much more expensive bike). Those bike sheds near the Bar Smith Lawns are very secluded.
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Re: Anyone has the same thing before?
Postby hillman » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:31 pm
I like the idea of carrying two differn't types of locks... very smart!
How do Kryptonite stack-up these days? To be honest I lost faith in them since the inside of a Bic pen could open the round key-type U-lock.... What a PR disaster!!
I might need to look into a Abus U-Lock and a Motorcycle chain-lock?
How do Kryptonite stack-up these days? To be honest I lost faith in them since the inside of a Bic pen could open the round key-type U-lock.... What a PR disaster!!
I might need to look into a Abus U-Lock and a Motorcycle chain-lock?
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"Ironic that your whole column is you being a harpy scold."
That tweet, sent to me by @Kevin4851, seems a fitting launch to a longer dialogue about gender balance in "The Lego Movie," which I wrote about last week ("Movies, TV shows taking all the fun out of being a girl").
I liked the movie just fine. My only complaint is that it leaves girls out of the fun and brings them into the story mostly to act as killjoys.
But enough of my thoughts. Here are yours.
Having taken my nephews (11 and 8) and sister to see "The Lego Movie," I disagree strongly with your analysis. In fact, you sounded a lot like Emily, the character in "Thomas the Tank Engine" who is "a little bossy and thinks she knows best."
In the scene where Emmet hears "blah blah proper name place name back-story stuff," it is because he is so enamored and falling in love with Wyldstyle that he isn't paying attention to her words, only the beautiful, gauzy way she looks.
What would the movie be without Wyldstyle? A buddy movie perhaps, but not nearly as much fun. She is the one who can build whatever is needed when Emmet is staring into space. She is strong and willing to act on her strength, not hide it. She also sees Batman's character for who he is: a self-centered guy who is never going to put her needs above his own.
At 61, I spent my childhood watching Snow White and Sleeping Beauty falling asleep and waiting for some prince to rescue them. I would have killed for a role model like Wyldstyle.
— Linda Trytek
I saw "The Lego Movie" with my 7-year-old Lego-loving daughter. We were both disappointed by the constant references to Wyldstyle's boyfriend, and the hair-tossing scenes were just awful. It may have been meant as funny for adults, but to me, it just encouraged the young boys in the audience to tune out anything a girl says and focus on her appearance. Lego had a great opportunity to market to girls, to make a prominent female the main character, and they blew it. They turned a kids movie into a pathetic love triangle. Makes you wonder who this movie was targeting, and if they paid attention to the messages they were sending to the kids who would see it.
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That girl character who is "hilarious, mischievous, brave, joyful and relatable"? Pippi Longstocking. I think I'll booktalk that one to my second-graders this week. I've got a huge poster of her in my library — carrying a horse over her head.
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With my wife and I having raised a daughter and son, a lot of your experiences hit home. I want to suggest two movies — a young girl is the strength of both movies. "Whale Rider" runs the gamut from despair to determination to triumph to appreciation. And in "In America," the older daughter with the camcorder is the quiet strength and narrator of the movie. Look for the line toward the end: "I've been carrying this family on my back." It took me three viewings to pick that up. Go figure.
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I too was disappointed that WyldStyle was reduced to a nag and an object, and it was disappointing to see Emmet tune her out to watch her hair wave in the wind. Then there was the weird portrayal of her relationship with Batman.
But in the end, what was most objectionable to me about the whole storyline is that it's supposed to be the imagination of a kid who looks to be somewhere in the 8- to 12-year-old range. Maybe there are some boys that age who would imagine that sort of plot, but even if they did imagine a romantic plot line, it wouldn't have that kind of adult detail and stereotyping.
I did enjoy the movie, but it was disappointing that after all of the conversations people have had about Lego, the film went for the least common denominator and persistently diminished a fabulous female protagonist.
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The pressure on CFM is therefore intense. Not only does the Leap inherit the vast medium-thrust, high-bypass market dynasty created by the CFM56, it must also maintain from Day 1 the CFM56's mature reliability rate while concurrently improving fuel burn by a step-changing 15%. Just as challenging to GE and Snecma, the large backlog means production is set to start at record rates from the get-go. Delivery rates are set to exceed 1,700 Leap engines per year within just three years.
For the first time since its formation in 1974, CFM is also facing a competitor from the start: Pratt & Whitney's PW1000G geared turbofan. This powerplant not only challenges across a broader thrust range than the International Aero Engines V2500 which it succeeds, but will enter service on the Airbus A320neo ahead of the Leap. Although the Leap and PW1000G only compete head-to-head for the Neo, the engine contest is as cutthroat as ever.
The air of expectancy is therefore almost palpable at GE's test site here in rural Ohio where the first Leap-1A engine is in the early phases of evaluation following its start-up on Sept. 4. The Leap-1A is destined for the A320neo, slated to enter service in 2016, and will be followed by the aero-mechanically identical Leap-1C for the Comac C919, as well as the architecturally common Leap-1B for Boeing's 737 MAX. The C919, the Chinese airliner project that officially launched the Leap in late 2009, is scheduled to enter service in 2017, although CFM is maintaining its original engine development schedule, which calls for the -1C to be certificated in mid-2015. The Leap-1B is on track to enter service on the MAX in 2017.
"The engine is running fantastically," says Ted Ingling, engineering lead for the Leap-1A/C. Initial work is focused on aero-mechanical engineering tests to look at the high-order attributes of the engine and establish that the "fundamental architecture is working as expected," Ingling says. "We are making sure the thrust in the rotor architecture is where we want it to be, and to make sure we understand the fundamentals of the engine. We do those kind of tests while we're developing initial software loads for follow-on runs. We use the first engine to tune that software," he adds.
Staying on track will be critical to the success of the busy test effort that quickly ramps-up before the end of this year and into 2014 when, at one point, up to 15 development engines will be running in parallel. "That is unprecedented and that's only part of the overall test plan," says CFM Executive Vice President Chaker Chahrour. The overall test and certification program will eventually include 60 engines. Some 28 will be development engines for the Neo, MAX and C919, while the balance is made up of compliance engines which will power the three new airliners during their certification campaigns.
From a schedule perspective, the monumental effort got off to a good start when the first engine entered testing three days earlier than the target date established when the program was laid out in 2010. "We also got combustor light-off first time, and the first day we did mechanical check out," says Ingling. Full power was achieved five days later with a run up to 33,100 lb. thrust to cover the highest rating required for the A321. The first engine was then pushed further, demonstrating more than 35,000 lb. thrust and with it the availability of fundamental growth margin, should it be required, adds Ingling.
"In early testing, we're looking at the initial performance of the engine, vibration and the aero-mechanics," he says. "We do runs to check the fan and compressor blades, the engine dynamics and the bearings. There's also a lot of starting to map out the start envelope, figure out the fuel schedules and see how the starter interacts with the engine."
The Leap's basic architecture is based on a scaled version of the same eCore design at the heart of the GEnx, with an advanced low-pressure (LP) system from Snecma. However, while the Leap core is designed to operate at a higher pressure ratio than the latest CFM56, it is deliberately tuned to lower pressures than the bigger GE engine that powers Boeing's 787 and 747-8. "We're well inside GE's experience for these kind of pressure ratios," says Ingling. "The GEnx is the high watermark in terms of pressure ratio and temperature and, although we had the option to mimic or even exceed the GEnx, we didn't because we wanted durability for this marketplace. We want it to be a copy of the CFM56 in terms of time on wing."
The third version of the eCore ran earlier this year in the build-up to Leap testing. "Using this, we have done aerodynamic, stall, performance-mapping and so on, but what we don't get effectively is interaction with the LP system and we don't get transients [rapid changes between thrust demand]," says Leap program manager Gareth Richards. The full-up engine is also therefore the first to check the full operability characteristics of the integrated LP and high-pressure (HP) systems. Testing includes "bodies"—or throttle bursts and chops—that check the related response of the compressor.
The engine is also fully configured with standard systems such as the eductor-based surface oil-cooling mechanism that, like the same system on the GEnx, consists of surface coolers mounted around the inner lining of the fan duct. The eductor device produces a venturi effect, which ensures a positive pressure to keep oil in the lower internal sump.
Engineers are also verifying the performance and behavior of the composite fan using "clearance-ometers" developed by Snecma to sense the exact motion and vibration of individual blades. The sensors are mounted in the fan case at the leading-edge, mid-chord and trailing-edge positions to measure variations in the local magnetic field as each blade passes by. Using careful "per-rev" calculations, engineers can deduce from the measurements whether the blades—and specific parts of each blade—are passing the sensors early, late or on time. The results indicate whether the flexible blade, made by Snecma using a resin transfer molding (RTM) process, is untwisting to the correct degree with increasing rotational speed.
"The untwist we're looking for is right on the prediction," says Richards. "That calibrates the engine models, which say as the engine speed goes up, forces act on the fan, and we use those sensors to be witness to the fan mechanical characteristics. All of this is confirmation of our analysis. We are validating what we expect the engine to be doing."
In the case of the fan, CFM also continues to run parallel validation tests of the final blade configuration in a demonstrator, even as the first Leap engine starts to run. The final phase of the Mascot 2 program, which involves testing an RTM fan on a CM56-5C, is now underway with a series of crosswind evaluations at Peebles. "This is building confidence ahead of further runs," adds Ingling.
The first engine, designated 598-001, is festooned with 1,300 pieces of instrumentation. These include thermocouples in rotor cavities "to understand the secondary systems, feed and purge cavities, loads and temperatures of the bearings," says Richards. "We also have performance rakes to understand how the fan is pumping and how the core is pumping," he adds. Following its first phase of testing, the first engine will go through a second build cycle in readiness for early icing tests at GE's dedicated facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
"This will include a full demonstration of the certification test profile [a year before the actual certification test], plus an engineering test for icing. It is another risk burn-down, and we have taken lessons learned from GEnx icing and then some," says Richards, referring to the ongoing development work at GE to tackle the core icing issues encountered particularly on the GEnx-2B. The engine will undergo a third and final rebuild in readiness for use in the destructive blade-off test scheduled to take place in Villaroche, near Paris, next September,
The start of engine tests comes as CFM continues to rack-up record orders for the current CFM56-5/7 as well as the Leap models. The GE-Snecma joint venture has taken orders for 2,196 engines this year, outpacing the 1,972 booked over the whole of 2012. The 2013 orderbook is split almost evenly between current and next-generation engines, with booking taken for 1,094 CFM56s and 1,102 Leap units so far.
"The two CFM product lines are doing very well so far," says CFM president Jean-Paul Ebanga. "At this stage of the Leap program, we have more than 5,000 engines already on order. In terms of backlog, we are in good shape, and on the CFM56, our backlog is also above 5,000."
The sales success continues to put greater onus on preparations for meeting delivery demands and ensuring a smooth production ramp-up. Cedric Goubet, CFM executive vice president, says the goal is to achieve an accelerated delivery curve that will see Leap production rise from zero to 1,700 engines "within less than three years." Overall, the plan calls for "1,700 Leaps by the end of 2018 and start of 2019, and maybe going up to 1,800 by the end of the decade," he says. All these exceed the recently achieved historic maximum annual delivery rate of 1,500 engines for the CFM56.


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ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2: ULi Dual x16 SLIby Gary Key on March 2, 2006 12:15 PM EST
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"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."This quote by Abbe' D'Allanival conveys our feelings about the ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 product. ASRock began operations in 2002 as the value brand group for Asus. ASRock has a history of providing very unique and, at times, unusual products based upon alternative chipsets at inexpensive price points. Although ASRock offers a complete line of products based upon mainstream chipsets from Intel and NVIDIA, it is their products based upon ULi, SIS, and VIA chipsets that are usually far more interesting. More information about the entire line of ASRock products can be found here.
The ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard is based on the ULi M1697 and M1695 chipsets. ASRock has done a masterful job in utilizing these recently released chipsets to create a board that might make you think twice about spending any additional money for an NVIDIA nForce4 dual X16 SLI solution. In fact, this board fully supports NVIDIA SLI technology and it works seamlessly with the included ULi PowerExpress Engine Enabling driver although the board is not SLI certified by NVIDIA. Of course, now that NVIDIA has completed their acquisition of ULi, we have to wonder how many manufacturers will be able to provide a similar solution utilizing these chipsets or how long this driver will be available.
Our initial impression of the ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 upon opening the box was like a child opening a birthday present, full of surprise and wonderment at the object that we were holding. We were impressed at the extensive list of features included on the board and were very surprised that a board this feature-laden sells at a retail price of US $85. After the initial excitement over our gift from ASRock wore off, we began to wonder if this present would be one that we would toss in the closet, regift to an unsuspecting editor, or cherish over time. The old adage, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." began to enter our minds as we studied the board's extensive features and read the marketing materials. The only way to come to a decisive conclusion was to test the board thoroughly and utilize it in a variety of situations. We accomplished our goal of running this board through the gamut of test suites with various peripherals while also utilizing it as our everyday office/game system. We were impressed with the board, and our results might change the way that you look at a value based solution.
During our testing and general usage of the ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2, we found the board's stability to be exceptional and it delivered competitive results in the latest synthetic and game benchmarks. However, our initial impressions were not as positive at the beginning of the test phase as the board would sporadically produce random results in the synthetic benchmarks while generating lockups in the memory benchmarks. Our issue was with the pre-release test BIOS and was not visible in the production release BIOS on the shipping boards. While the performance of the board was slightly lower in most benchmarks, the stability was superb with the release BIOS.
ASRock utilizes the ULi M1695 HyperTransport PCI Express Tunnel chip for the North Bridge. The ULi M1695 is designed to interconnect seamlessly with other HyperTransport based Host or Bridge chips and, in this case, is interconnected to the ULi M1697 acting as the South Bridge. The M1695 fully supports one PCI Express x16 lane or two x8 lanes for graphics cards and two PCI Express x1 or one PCI Express x4 expansion slot. The M1695 offers transfers of up to 16-bit HTT downstream and 16-bit HTT upstream links at 2.0 GT/s, ensuring an excellent communication path between the processor and connecting bridges.
ASRock utilizes the ULi M1697 HyperTransport PCI Express chip for the South Bridge. The M1697 fully supports one PCI Express x16 lane or two PCI Express x8 lanes for graphics cards and three PCI Express x1 or one PCI Express x4 expansion slot. The M1697 also offers transfers of up to 16-bit HTT downstream and 16-bit HTT upstream links at 2.0 GT/s. The M1697 provides dual channel Ultra-DMA IDE support, four SATA ports featuring NCQ, 3Gb/s, eSATA, Hot Plug, RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD operations. High Definition Audio is natively supported along with eight USB 2.0 ports and 10/100Mb/s Ethernet utilizing a properly supported PHY. PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet can be utilized as a discrete solution with a properly supported PHY. Further information about the ULi product line can be found here.
The ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 offers the full complement of options available including two PCI Express x16 connections (fully supports NVIDIA SLI with PowerExpress driver); one PCI Express x4 connection, three 32-bit PCI 2.2 connections, and a unique CPU upgrade port that fully supports the AM2 940-pin CPU with an AM2CPU daughter board. The board also offers HD audio via the Realtek ALC660 HD 5.1 codec, PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet via the Realtek RT8111B PHY, eight USB 2.0 ports (utilizing two USB 2.0 headers), four SATA 3Gb/s connectors, two eSATA 3Gb/s connectors (shared with two SATA 3Gb/s ports), two ATA133 Ultra-DMA IDE connectors, and IEEE 1394 support via the TI TSB43AB22 1394A capable chipset.
Let's find out if this alternative offering leads to a difficult choice.
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Gary Key - Saturday, March 04, 2006 - linkIt works very well on this board with an Opteron. ;-) Reply
Kiste - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - link
The 1.31 driver release has now eliminated all stuttering in our current benchmarks while improving performance across the board except in Serious Sam II.
In the past, Realtek has solved performance issues by reducing the number of buffers and disabling EAX effects without telling anyone. I hope someone will have a really good look at these integrated audio solutions one day, one that isn't just FPS and CPU utilization.
Gary Key - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - link
n the past, Realtek has solved performance issues by reducing the number of buffers and disabling EAX effects without telling anyone. I hope someone will have a really good look at these integrated audio solutions one day, one that isn't just FPS and CPU utilization.
To date with the HD Codecs, Realtek has not decreased the buffers nor have we noticed changes in EAX2 output except for the positive. It is a very subjective area to comment on but in BF2 I like the sound quality of the 1.29 drivers better but Serious Sam II seems to have improved a great deal in the 1.30 and 1.31 drivers. While the on-board audio solutions are still lacking in most areas compared to the add-in solutions at least the manufacturers (board/chipset) are trying to improve quality in this area instead of pumping out the same old AC97 codecs. If it were not for the cost I think we would have seen several additional Audigy-SE solutions on the motherboards by now and even possibly an improved offering from Creative. While the A-SE is an older chipset it does offer better performance and audio quality in gaming than the current HD codecs from Realtek, C-Media, ADI, and SigmaTel. I really thought the VIA Envy24 series would have had greater market penetration on the motherboards but one can only speculate as to why this never happened. ;-> Reply
tjpark1111 - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - linkis it just me, or does this thing have a 20-pin power connector. ?!?!?!??!??? Reply
kelim - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - linkYes, the board does in fact use a 20-pin power connection. If you have a 24-pin PSU, this shouldn't be a problem, since most are 20+4-pin, meaning you can detach the extra 4 pins and only use the ones you need. Either that, or the uneeded pins will hang off the side. Reply
Gary Key - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - linkYou are correct, it is a 20-pin ATC connector as stated in the article. I was surprised also and did a double take after removing it from the box. :) Reply
dab - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - linkIt says that this motherboard supports ddr2,
"(4) x DIMM, max. 4GB, DDR2 400/333/266, non-ECC, un-buffered memory..."
Is this a joke? There's no 240pin slots on that board, only on the riser (which is not included). s939's IMC doesn't support this either..
Am I mistaken? Reply
Gary Key - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - link
"(4) x DIMM, max. 4GB, DDR2 400/333/266, non-ECC, un-buffered memory..."
I was just changing that to DDR, sorry about the mistake. The AM2 daughter card will have slots for DDR2 memory. Reply
Puddleglum - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - linkThe figure is noteworthy, but it's actually the only Firewire 800 test result I can find in AT's reviews. Reply
Gary Key - Thursday, March 02, 2006 - link
The figure is noteworthy, but it's actually the only Firewire 800 test result I can find in AT's reviews.
I know we only have it in a recent review and probably should drop it. I keep hoping Firewire 800 will be implemented on the higher end boards or those designed for HTPC life. :) However, it appears to be a dead-end option at this point and the technology itself seems to be going away without a fight. Reply


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Lil Boy Rapping To Waka Flocka Flames "OH Lets Do It" With All Them Curses In The Song!
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"Many boys and girls grow up dreaming of playing sports in college and the pro ranks. But of the nearly 8 million students currently participating in high school athletics in the United States, only 480,000 of them will compete at NCAA schools. And of that group, only a fraction will realize their goal of becoming a professional athlete.
For the rest, the experiences of college athletics and the life lessons they learn along the way will help them as they pursue careers in other fields. Education is a vital part of the college athletics experience, and student-athletes treat it that way. Overall, student-athletes graduate at higher rates than their peers in the student body, and those rates rise each year.
These charts show the probability of competing in athletics beyond high school – both college and professionally. The percentages are based on estimated data."
To read more about this visit: http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/probability-competing-beyond-high-school


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List of Audio Applications
From Openmoko
Audio applications, music players (hamradio, midi, mixer, sequencer, tuner, audio-video editing, audio player, recorder, musical software).
|Openmoko Mediaplayer 2
Media player originally written for Om 2007.2.
Source code: (feel free to fill out for us)
|Qtopia Mediaplayer
Plays music.
Openmokast is a digital broadcasting application that can use a USB DAB/DMB device to receive mobile multimedia services.
Mokoko is a media player program, you can use it to play mp3 and ogg files on Neo.
Pythm is a media player frontend, designed to control mplayer or mpd with one GUI on the FreeRunner. As of writing, you need to download python-mokoui separately.
Thomas's K. mediaplayer project (pre-alpha).
Source: http://www.gup.jku.at/~tkoeck/audioplayer/audioplayer.tar.gz
Building instruction: Since epeg is still not in the debian repository so I compiled it from the source package I got from http://debian.alphagemini.org/dists/unstable/main/source/libs/ Here are the compiled packages: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/~tkoeck/audioplayer/libepeg-bin_0.9.1.042-0cvs20080608_armel.deb
Instructions: Place the binary and the edj file into the same directory (the edj file has to be in the working directory) and start it with:
audioplayer <music-root-dir>
Also nomminated: qmmp, sonata, quasar.
See also
Most of the video players also play audio:


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Featuring laser-etched maple that's finished to resemble carbon fiber, the Majesty guitar boasts a super-lightweight body with unparalleled fret acce...Click To Read More About This Product
John Petrucci says he's proud of this guitar that has everyone talking.
Featuring laser-etched maple that's finished to resemble carbon fiber, the Majesty guitar boasts a super-lightweight body with unparalleled fret access, DiMarzio voicing and an ebony fretboard with the Majesty logo (for Dream Theater's original moniker) above the first fret. Music Man's Majesty guitar was a hot topic leading up to the 2014 NAMM Show.
The Majesty comes with Music Man's Game Changer technology, which is used to enhance the switching speed of the 3-way and the piezo to HH switch. True to form, the audio signal is never digitized or modeled in any way, providing a transparent analog signal path for the absolute purist.
Includes case.
"The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality.
I wanted to push the boundaries of sound, feel, design, ergonomics and esthetics and from day one Sterling and the Music Man engineering team were completely on board and committed to the project. It's all about asking the right questions; 'How can we make this guitar sound and look better, feel lighter and easier to play?' 'How can we make access to the upper frets even easier, make the guitar an even more versatile creative tool while designing a modern, sleek and beautifully crafted musical instrument?'
Those questions were pondered and answered by head engineer on the project, Drew Montell and tested, tried and questioned again and again by myself Sterling and Dudley over the past 2+ years. Things that we learned and loved about my previous JP signature models were carried over such as the fast neck contour, fretboard radius and stainless steel frets while new additions such as the Game Changer circuit were added to make the Majesty even more incredible.
The preamp and volume boost from the JP13 that I absolutely love was also kept onboard along with my signature DiMarzio 'Illuminator' pickups while a complete change to the body design and the incredibly creative "Maple-Carbon-Fiber" laser etched top was added as a really slick aesthetic touch.
Lastly, the mirrored 1st fret Dream Theater 'Majesty' logo and beautiful pearlescent frozen paint make the guitar look like its ready to be wielded on the battlefield. Truth is, I can't put the Majesty down! I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!"
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This wouldn't be the first time, but The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday on a rumor that Apple is at work on a new iPhone that's cheaper than the current models.
According to the report, the cheaper iPhone that Apple is supposedly developing would answer to the fact the company is under increasing pressure to make a more affordable device in the face of «an onslaught of lower cost rivals powered by Google Inc.'s Android operating system,» which are snapping up more and more of the market.
Citing «people briefed in the matter,» the report says that the lower-priced iPhone would look more or less like the standard iPhone but would forego the iPhone 5's aluminum backing for a cheaper polycarbonate shell. And on the inside, the rumored smartphone would have some recycled parts from older iPhone models.
True, as the WSJ's Digits noted, even older versions, like the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, are pretty steep without carrier subsidies. «The iPhone 4 without a contract, a phone two generations old, for example, costs $450 on Apple's store,» writes Digits.
But even coming from the WSJ, others warn not to read too much into this rumor. There was similar speculation as far back as February 2011, and nothing ever came of it.
In tackling the reasons we should be skeptical, Gizmodo probably put it best:
Is Apple working on prototypes made from cheaper materials? I'm sure it is. It's also working on prototypes with more expensive materials, and has been exploring both since the very first iPhone came out. But why would Apple sell an iPhone with iPhone 4S parts when it already sells the iPhone 4S? Why make an iPhone 5 out of cheaper materials when in less than a year's time the iPhone 5 will be discounted heavily to make way for a shiny new iPhone 6 (or 5S, or whatever)?
Nevermind that you can actually buy a cheap iPhone 4S through the Apple store already, or get a free iPhone with a contract. In other words, you can hope and pray for a new, lower-priced iPhone – just don't hold your breath.


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Shelburne Falls Yoga
Welcome To Shelburne Falls Yoga
Thanks to all who donated to the food drive. The West County Food Pantry is very grateful to you all!
Shelburne Falls Yoga is a vibrant and welcoming community of teachers and practitioners offering a range of classes in Yoga, Fitness, Qigong, Dance, and Tai Chi for students of all ages and levels of experience. Within this uniquely beautiful and beloved setting, Shelburne Falls Yoga offers a spacious studio overlooking the nearby Salmon Falls and Glacial Potholes with experienced and committed instructors dedicated to guiding you toward greater levels of vitality, health, and well-being.
Each of our offerings honors the individual, promotes self-compassion, and seeks to elicit the full potential of each student with classes designed to bring the breath, the body, and the mind into optimal alignment. Many students notice significant gains in strength and flexibility, and experience greater levels of calm and clarity, as they learn to harness the power of breath and body working together.
The practice of Yoga is both ancient and broad. Given the wide variety of interpretations of yoga teachings and the range of skill and intentions amongst teachers and studios, it can be hard to know what to expect when entering a yoga class setting. Our aim is to provide a nurturing and challenging environment in which you will learn the skills for discovering and sustaining long-term health and vitality at whatever depth and level of practice is suitable for you. Listed below are just a few of the practices you will have an opportunity to explore as a member of our unique yoga community:
Safe and Efficient Movement Patterns- Learn to identify how muscles are in use in a given posture, how the spine, pelvis, and limbs relate to one another, and where to initiate motion and effort for safe and effective movement.
Non-Judging Awareness- Practice suspending judgment while anchoring attention to the present moment, cultivating a more meaningful and realistic relationship with your body and your surroundings
Stability and Mobility- Find a functional and dynamic balance between strength and flexibility, allowing for optimal range of motion while avoiding the potential dangers of excessive mobility.
Balance- Promote balance in thought, in motion, in breath, and in the systems of the body to create a strong foundation from which to choose your next course of action both on and off the mat.
We look forward to welcoming you to Shelburne Falls Yoga!
Director Kate Pousont Scarborough, E-RYT 500
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More Fun At Safeco Field (9/27/2011)
We were right back at it on September 27, 2011. It was the second-to-last Mariners game of the season. Once again, my dad, Tim, Kellan and I headed down to Safeco Field for BP and my mom and Colleen met us just before game time.
We started out very much like the previous afternoon. My dad took Kellan and I took Tim. And we all headed to the SRO area in CF. Casper Wells was shagging balls in CF and he would directly and indirectly hook up both sets of us. First, he tossed a ball to a couple fans and they botched it. The ball fell down into the gap. Casper is still relatively new in Seattle and apparently did not know what it looked like behind the fence. He ran over, jumped up, hooked his arm over the wall, and peered down into the gap.
Casper saw the ball was a lost cause so he hopped down and gave the fans a shrug like, "Sorry! Nothing I can do about it now!"
Thirty second later, an usher walked through the gap and grabbed the ball. I knew just what would happen next. The usher looked up at the fans as he walked through the gap. He passed by the fans to whom Casper had thrown the ball and then he saw my dad and Kellan. He reached up and handed them the ball.
So after this, I figured that Casper was in a giving mood. When he caught his next fly ball, I called his name. He was a good distance out into the field, but he turned around and saw us and fired the ball to me and Tim. Here is Tim holding the ball from Casper with Casper in the background:
Check out that spiffy argyle mariners hat. That was in Tim's sorry-you-got-beaned-by-a-BP-foul prize bag. It's a kinda funny hat, but Tim loves it.
As 5:10 approached and the rest of the stadium was going to open, Tim and I headed over to the area behind the visitors' bullpen. The sun streaming over the infield grandstands wreaked havoc on my camera. Here is a blurry panorama of the view from behind the bullpen:
Last season, it would have been impossible for a player on the field to throw a baseball to a fan behind the dugout But with the new "The Pen" set up…
…that is exactly what Jamey Wright did, and we were on the receiving end. It was an impressive throw over the bullpen.
Thanks, Jamey!
When the rest of the stadium opened, Tim, Kellan and I headed up the stairs…
…and scooted over to the corner spot in section 152.
Down below us and a little bit toward CF was…
…Brandon League, Jamey Wright and Jeff Gray. Someone hit a liner down the LF line that rolled to a stop on the warning track. Gray jogged over, grabbed the ball, walked out into LF until he could see us, and then tossed the ball up.
Thanks, Jeff!
Mere minutes later, something crazy happened. Shawn Kelley spotted us up above the hand-operated scoreboard and came over to toss us a baseball he'd just caught. On his walk over, he caught another ball. When we reached a spot below us on the warning track, he tossed the first baseball to me, and then he tossed the second. I couldn't believe it. It was one for each
kid. But as I caught the second baseball, a fifty year old guy second ten feet behind us (and completely out of Kelley's view from down on the field) let out a big gasp, "Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!" I turned around and looked at him and he explained, "Ah, I totally had that one!"
Kelley clearly was throwing a ball up for Tim and a ball for Kellan, and there was a zero percent chance of him catching the ball, but I figured *what the heck* so I turned around and tossed the guy the second baseball. "Thanks, I gotta give this to someone actually." And then he left the section. It was bizarre. But, whatever, at least he said thanks. A little manners goes a long way.
After the Mariners finished hitting, we met up with my dad and we scooted around to the LF foul line. We saw the usher who had come to Tim's rescue the day before with the foul-ball-to-the-hand incident…
…and went over to thank him again for his help. Another usher was standing there and she asked to hear the story. In that last picture, Tim is showing her the bruise on his hand.
Understandably, we were a little nervous about hanging out in the foul ball zone. So we headed down the line closer to third base where it would be less likely that Tim (or any of us) would get beaned by another foul ball. A random Athletic came walking by and signed an autograph for a visiting A's fan. It was Rich Harden, but for some reason, I didn't recognize him and had no clue he was at the time. After he signed a baseball for Tim, I asked if he's pose for a picture with the boys. Right when I trained the camera on them, someone hit a bouncer that landed right behind Harden and the boys:
Harden had no clue the ball was coming. At the last second, I reached out with my bare left hand and the ball clanked right off of my palm and rolled further down the warning track.
Harden gave me a *holy cow* look, paused for the picture, and retreated so he wouldn't get hit by the next foul ball.
We continued on our way. Down to home plate and around to the Mariners dugout we went. Steve Delabar was hanging out on the stairs of the Mariners dugout signing autographs….
…so we worked our way through the little line that had formed got ourselves our very own Delabar autograph.
And then we headed down the RF line:
We were hanging out behind a little screen set up on the edge of the grass. An A's coach was fungoing grounders to several A's first basemen. He was hitting hard shots that required the guys to dive toward the foul line. Several of them snuck by the fielders and game to a rest by the screen behind which we were hiding. Two groundskeepers were standing on the warning track a little further down the line toward Mariners dugout…
…one of them walked over and grabbed one of the baseballs that had been fungo'd down the line, and came over and handed it to Kellan. Kellan was like, "Hey, thanks, man" as he sat in my arms clutching his new baseball.
So, BP was pretty crazy for us. We moved around a lot and had come away with five baseballs. BP was still going strong, but we decided it was time to track down some 2011 Mariners
pocket schedules. None of the concession stands had them. So we head over to the fan assistance office, which is right next to the First Aid room we had visited the day before.
Sometimes teams are out of pocket schedules at the end of the season so I wasn't sure if we'd have any luck. As we approached the window, I didn't see any pocket scheduled out on display. When I asked the lady if she had any pocket schedules, she looked left and right, stood up, walked to the back of the room, reached into a small cardboard box, pulled something out and handed me this:
Tons and tons of Felix Hernandez 2011 pocket schedules! (And that's the Delabar autographed baseball included to give perspective of how many schedules we received.)
Tim posed with one of his schedules and Shelly in front of the big bat art thingy hanging above the main entrance rotunda (which is just to the right of the fan assistance office):
And then I took Tim's picture in front of the First Aid station we'd visited the day before:
Just then, a Mariners employee walked by on her way into the fan assistance office and asked if I wanted her to take a picture of all three of us. Thanked her but declined the offer explaining that I was just taking the picture because Tim had visited the First Aid office the day before. She asked what happened and, after hearing the story, announced that she had something that might make him feel better. We headed back into the fan assistance office and she disappeared into the back office area. When she returned, she presented Tim with a Felix Hernandez bobblehead!
New prizes in hand, we headed back to the field. The A's were still taking BP. We met up with my dad in CF.
There is a little break outfield seats in deep RCF – its like a little tunnel for groundskeepers to access the tunnel under the seats. My dad was in the front row on the RF side of the tunnel. Tim, Kellan and I went to the corner spot on the CF side of the tunnel.
Over the next ten minutes, Tim got two new souvenirs. First, A's September call-up Graham Godfrey tossed us a near-pristine Angels 50th Anniversary Commemorative baseball…
…and an usher named Tim gave both Tim and Kellan each a big back of baseball cards (both featuring an Ichiro card)!
And that was it for BP. As the A's cleared the field, we sat around in the seats and ate some snacks:
Soon, my lovely wife…
…and mom arrived for the game.
I grabbed a big batch of fries with the tastiest garlic dipping sauce and we reported to our seats in section 109:
I knew this game had the possibility of being a tough one. The A's had Trevor Cahill on the mound, and (despite his unimpressive 2011 ERA and W-L record) he's a quality pitcher. Unfortunately, he had his *a game* on this day, and Mariners starter Blake Beavan did not. The A's scored three runs in the top of the first inning – on a 3-Run homer by Josh Willingham. And that is all the A's needed to win the game.
The Mariners offensive highlight of the day was Ichiro's first at bat:
He watched that pitch, but then slapped a single for his 184th and final hit of the 2011 season. I don't think any other major leaguer would be disappointed with a 184 hit total, but it was sad see Ichiro fall short of 200-hits for the first time in his MLB career. Hopefully he'll bounce back and top 200 hits and a .300+ average again in 2012.
I had noticed this the night before, but not photographed the new "Dave Niehaus 1977-2010" sign that was added above the TV press box:
In the second inning, this camera man…
…knelt next to me for about 10 minutes with his camera trained on Tim and Kellan. I have no clue if the boys were actually on TV. But the guy was there so long it was almost uncomfortable. I mean, how are you supposed to act when a guy has a camera on you like that for 10 minutes?
As the Mariners were giving up two more runs in the top of the third (to make it 5-0 A's), we enjoyed some nachos:
In the middle innings, Colleen and I visited the team store to do a little shopping. On the way, we wandered through the Mariners Hall of Fame area behind the 3B concourse. The M's Hall of Fame is nothing compared to the Reds super-impressive Hall of Fame, but it has some really cool stuff in on display. Here are a few of them.
The bat Ichiro used to set the new all-time Mariners career hits record in April 2011:
Dave Niehaus's score card with notes regarding the first Mariners game ever (April 6, 1977):
Ichiro's and Griffey's clubhouse lockers full of memorabilia:
Anew display case memorial to Rick "The Peanut Man" Kaminski:
There was a book for fans to write notes about the Peanut Man…as you can see, I left a note.
On the way back to our seats, I passed through "The Pen" once again:
I really like that "The Pen" sign with the old school Mariners logo.
I also checked out the action in the Mariners' bullpen – Brandon League was chatting with a teammate:
The score continued to go in the wrong direction. In the top of the fifth, Beavan gave up a 2-run homerun to Scott Sizemore. That made the score 7-0 A's, and that would be the final score.
Despite the bleak prospects of winning the game, we still had a lot of fun. The boys spent some quality time with their Grandma…
…while Grandpa went on a food or bathroom run.
I got an exciting picture of the Safeco Field RF gap…
…which now features a net that would prevent fans from falling to the concrete below.
Colleen got into the picture-taking action. After Tim danced around in the front row, she got this cute picture of him:
Kellan and I posed for this picture featuring my new Ryan Rowland-Smith "Hyphen" T-shirt:
I *tweeted* a similar picture to RRS so he would know people are still thinking of him at Safeco Field, and he retweeted it to his followers and sent this reply:
After Tim did more dancing, this time in the stairway, Colleen got another cute picture of Tim:
And she took a bunch of shots of Ichiro playing RF:
And a nice action shot of Ichiro grounding out:
Win or lose (but hopefully win), a Mariners game is a great backdrop for some quality family time. Kellan enjoyed some quality family time talking baseball with his grandpa:
After the game, we got another family picture:
And then we headed for the exit. On the way out, I took this panorama of Safeco Field from the CF concourse as the roof rolled closed:
Definitely would have preferred a 7-0 over this 0-7 loss, but it was still a great day at Safeco Field with the family and our Mariners.
|2011 C&S Fan Stats
|32/8 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|22/11 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs, Angels, Indians, Reds, Giants, Tigers, Yankees, Marlins, Pirates, Athletics; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels, Mets, Indians, Yankees, Phillies, Braves, Marlins, Nationals, Athletics]
|23 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (3), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1), Reds (1), Tigers (1), Marlins (2), Braves (2), Rays (3), Pirates (1)).
|107 Baseballs (24 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 8 Orioles, 5 Umpires, 4 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 6 Phillies, 2 Mets, 6 Rays, 8 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 2 Easter Egg, 1 Glove Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 5 Angels, 4 Indians, 2 Giants, 1 Tigers, 9 Marlins, 1 Pirates, 4 Athletics)
|14/6 Stadiums [Tim – Camden Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park, Comerica Park, Yankee Stadium, Sun Life Stadium, Turner Field, Tropicana Field, PNC Park, Safeco Field; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Safeco Field]
|19/10 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez***, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders, Chad Durbin, Russell Branyan, Brandon League***, Brendan Ryan, Mike Cameron, Brandon Guyer, Russ Canzler, Rich Harden; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders, Tony Sipp, Chad Durbin, Rich Harden]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|23 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino, Aroldis Chapman, Jack McKeon, Brandon League, Jaime Navarro, Brendan Ryan, Dan Cortes, Josh Lueke, Blake Beavan, Jamey Wright, Jack Zduriecik, Carl Willis, Tom Wilhelmsen, Casper Wells, Mike Cameron, Brandon Guyer, Russ Canzler, Scott McGregor, Steve Delabar, Rich Harden)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|9/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird, Mr. Redlegs, Gapper, Slider, Sebastian (U. of Miami), Homer, Raymond; Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|3/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington), N.L. East (Citizens Bank Park, Shea Stadium, Citi Field, Nationals Park, Sun Life Stadium, & Turner Field), A.L. East (Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Yankee Stadium (1923), Yankee Stadium (2009), Fenway Park, Rogers Centre, Tropicana Field); Kellan – N/A]
|2 Line-up Cards (Royals vs. Rangers; Indians vs. Orioles)
|*includes Spring Training**divisions where we have seen each team play a home game***2011 All-Star


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Pennington on public intoxication arrest: 'I made a mistake'
A video of the press conference can be found here: http://bentoncourier.com/content/video-sheriffs-press-conference-after-w...
Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington says he takes full responsibility for an error in judgment Saturday night that led to his arrest on two misdemeanor charges and a brief detainment by the Benton Police Department.
Pennington apologized for his actions Monday afternoon during a news conference at his office, blaming no one other than himself while simultaneously commending police department personnel for "doing their job."
"I made a mistake and I'm here today to apologize to the citizens of Saline County," he said. "Nothing like this will ever happen again.
"I broke a rule and I will pay my fines," he said.
In the conference, Pennington stated that earlier accounts saying he had been charged with public intoxication were not accurate.
"I was charged with drinking in public and failure to submit to arrest," he said. "I will pay my fines and we'll go on from here."
Benton Police Chief confirmed Monday that the official police report states that the charge was public intoxication.
In the conference, Pennington reiterated his pledge that "nothing like this will ever happen again because of my poor judgment."
The incident that led to the arrest occurred about 7:45 p.m. at Denton's Trotline in Benton.
In response to a query about how much he had to drink, he said, "Two drinks."
He said he knew he needed to leave the restaurant, which was extremely busy. He said he had already gotten into his car and had texted a friend to come pick him up, but the police arrived in advance of his friend.
Pennington said he realized he did not need to be driving. He said he had had nothing to eat and had worked in his yard all day.
"At no time was the key in the ignition," he noted. "I could have easily driven off, but I wouldn't do that.
"I'm human, though, and I will pay for this," he said.
He said he was raised to accept the consequences for his actions.
Pennington was not given a sobriety test, he said.
The arresting officer, Lt. Mike Kassel, transported Pennington to the Benton Police Department, where Chief Kirk Lane and Kassel remained with him for more than three hours, Lt. Kevin Russell said previously.
Pennington was asked about earlier reports stating that he had become belligerent during the incident.
He referred to the numerous alcohol-related arrests he has made during his career and said he "never saw one that was happy."
"I can just say this will never happen again with me," he added.
He said he never requested special treatment during the incident.
Pennington noted that he has been in law enforcement for 40 years, 24 of which were with the Arkansas State Police. He retired from that agency around 1996, following an investigation into DWI allegations that he says were "unfounded."
He said those allegations were brought against him by another trooper who, Pennington says, was involved with his former wife, and the allegations were dismissed, he said. "Nothing ever came of them," he said.
In response to a question, Pennington said he does not believe he has a drinking problem.
"I stand accountable for my actions," he said. "I'm human. I made a mistake."
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With all these new technologies doxing is going to be much easier. More info should become available on the Internet about each of us. Eventually people will understand and learn how to take care about their personal data and whether it is worth sharing info on sites like facebook
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By Julie van der Poel Dec 11, 2011 0
A Lumpy Assessment
In an earlier column, I mentioned that Cameron was participating in a mentoring program with the Gallup organization, coordinated by Special Olympics. As part of this program, participants are asked to take a self-assessment called the Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer. The StrengthsExplorer is designed to help children ages 10-14 identify their talents and build on those talents to achieve success. Cameron and his peers in the program are all over the age of 14, but based on their learning disabilities, this assessment is the proper tool for them to use.
I helped Cameron take the assessment by reading the questions to him. The questions are the type where you are given a statement, and you rate how much the statement applies to yourself: "Almost never, Sometimes, Almost always," and the like. There was also an option to respond "I don't understand this question."
I actually had to take care when reading the questions to Cameron, because a few of them caused a significant lump in my throat. These were the questions pertaining to having friends and enjoying helping others. What mother doesn't want their child to have plenty of friends and want to help those in need? But when Cameron responded to these types of questions, he inevitably chose "Almost never." I so badly want Cameron to have friends that I have dreams about it! I recently dreamt that Cameron had been drinking beer with his friends. The conflict became whether to punish him for underage drinking, or give him a high five for having a group of friends! I woke up laughing at myself for creating this conflict in my subconscious. At the same time, I also felt a little sense of relief that I don't have to face typical teen drama … just yet, anyway.
But back to the StrengthsExplorer assessment. As Cameron answered the questions I read to him, I was struck by how well he knew himself. He answered "I don't understand the question" two or three times, but for the most part there was no hesitation to his responses. The results of the assessment are what really blew me away. I couldn't believe how 10 minutes of basic questions had yielded such an insightful report on my son. Here is a summary of the results:
TOP THREE THEMES FOR: Cameron
ACHIEVING: You have more energy and more goals than other people. You love a sense of accomplishment. You are in a hurry to get started and make things happen because you almost always have a list in your mind of the things you want to get done. It is fun to achieve small goals and even more exciting to achieve big goals that challenge you. The more you get done, the more you feel like a successful person. And the more successes you have, the more you want to have. Finishing a project feels good to you because you love a sense of accomplishment. An award, a good grade, or praise can mean a lot to you because it feels good when your effort and ability are noticed. Because you are a hard worker, you always feel that you could and should be doing more.
DEPENDABILITY: Trust is important to you, and you care about being seen as responsible and trustworthy. People count on you to do what you say you will do. When you make a promise, you mean to keep it. You like being chosen to be in charge of getting something done because you know it means others see you as dependable and trustworthy. Sometimes, being asked to do more is like getting a reward because it means people believe in you. Maybe you have special chores or responsibilities at home or at school. Whatever job you are given, you want to get it done. Some people might say you act older than other kids your age because you are so responsible. You can be a good example to other people. Earning the praise of teachers and parents for getting things done and doing what is right feels good to you. People count on you to do what you say you will do.
ORGANIZER: Scheduling, planning, and organizing your world makes life better. People count on you to get the details right and pull a plan together. You like to create order in your world. Schedules help you feel in control of your life. Planning makes you comfortable and calm about what you are going to do. It is fun to think ahead, organize, and include all that you want to do in your plan so you don't leave anything out. You like to think about both the big ideas and the details. It feels good to make something absolutely perfect, whether it is as simple as your hair or as complicated as a big project for school. It is important to you to be on time or even early so you are ready to start whatever you are about to do. Not only do you like order and rules for yourself, you like them for other people too. You help yourself and others by pulling all the pieces together.
There's that lump in my throat again. But this time it's because I'm bursting with pride!


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WESS Cataloging Discussion Group: agenda
Saturday 20 January 2007 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Council Room
Agenda (preliminary)
I. Introductions Including any brief announcements (open positions, special projects, etc.)
II. Report on German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP)-Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt conference, held in Frankfurt 6-7 October 2006: "The World According to GNARP: Prospects for Transatlantic Library Partnership in the Digital Age"
Charles Croissant, St. Louis University, will report on the Frankfurt presentation "Comparing Cataloging Cultures in the US and Germany = Komparatistik der Katalogkulturen in USA und Deutschland."
(This presentation was made jointly in Frankfurt by Charles Croissant and Gudrun Henze, die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.)
III. Discussion: Cataloguing cultures on both sides of the Atlantic
Possible topics:
• What general differences have you experienced or learned of between approaches to cataloguing in Europe and in North America?
• Are there any things that North American cataloguers might learn from approaches in Europe?
• Are there any opportunities for further international exchanges of ideas and information at an institutional or cataloguer level, not just at the formal level of national libraries or IFLA?
IV. Ideas for WESS Cataloging Discussion Group meeting at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC
V. Other, as may arise


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Memories of a wonderful barn
I was blessed with a wonderful barn when I was a child, and because I remember that barn so fondly, I still have an affection for barns. (You may have noticed that barns are a recurring theme on this blog.)
I would estimate that the barn of my childhood was built before 1920, and possibly as early as 1900. [See the comment below from Hills of KS.] It was part of the headquarters of the A & D Cattle Company, a ranching operation in southern Rock County, Nebraska, located just a mile south of the Duff post office. Duff's location is recorded on this mail service map from 1897 and this map from an 1895 U.S. atlas.
The barn was built for workhorses. My brother and I have discussed how many horses the barn would have held, and we agree that 40 horses is a conservative estimate. It was one of the biggest barns in Rock County.
The core of the barn was two stories with a big haymow upstairs. Two "sheds" wrapped around the barn's core on the north and west sides.
The east side of the barn had three doors at ground level that faced our house. A large sliding door on the south end led into the horse stalls in the south part of the barn. The small door in the center opened to the walkway between the stalls and the inner rooms. The large sliding door on the north side had ample width to drive a team of horses and a wagon into the long north shed.
In the center of the barn on the ground floor, there was a large stout set of pens where a stallion could be kept and a couple of tightly built rooms where grain and feed were stored.
The haymow (the second floor of the barn) had a large door that was used for bringing up loose hay. A grapple-hook, attached to the roof beams, could grab a big handful of hay through the door and dump it on the haymow floor.
By the time we moved to the ranch in 1958, the days of workhorses had gone by and the big old barn had undergone some "repurposing". Eight or ten of the big 2-horse stalls had been left in the south shed for saddlehorses. Near the south door that opened to the corral, a long horizontally mounted post held saddles and saddle blankets.
The stallion's pen in the center of the barn had been equipped with a stanchion where cows who needed assistance with calving could be contained. The center rooms of the barn were still used for storing bagged cattle feed. The west shed of the barn had become one big pen where a little group of cattle could be kept.
When we moved to the ranch, some loose hay still lay in piles in the haymow, but later, my dad stored square bales of hay there, brought in by a bale elevator through the small haymow door. I don't remember the big haymow door ever being opened or the grapple hook used.
The long north shed had several stanchions on one end of it where we milked cows. We used the back end of the north shed when we tied up calves and tamed them so they could be washed and groomed and led about. (My dad sold show cattle.)
In the summer, there was respite from the sun in the barn and in its shade across the yard, but its greater purpose was the shelter it provided in winter.
I remember frigid winter days when the winddriven snow felt like tiny arrows and the air froze my nostril hairs. Inside the barn, the air was not as cold as outside and out of the wind, the chill was easier to endure. In the bitter cold of winter, my dad parked his tractor inside the north shed overnight and closed the sliding door. The tractor had to be started every day so hay could be fed to the cattle, and the barn helped.
My parents moved to Missouri in the early 1970's. My dad had a bad leg that bothered him in cold weather, and he needed a shorter, milder winter. Hard times soon came to the agricultural sector, and the couple who bought the ranch from my folks went into bankruptcy and then got divorced. (Or maybe it was the other way around -- I'm not sure.) The ranch and some adjoining land was eventually bought by a family from out-of-state (maybe Texas?). They also came upon hard times.
When I visited seven or eight years ago, someone was still living in the ranch house, but the barn was in a sad state of disrepair. Much of the roof and some of the siding had fallen off the north shed, so that weather could blow onto the haymow floor, the very heart of the building.
I've heard that the ranch has changed hands again since then. I hope that maybe the new owners will have the desire and the resources to restore and preserve the barn, but it may have deteriorated so much that it's not practical to do so.
Willa Cather wrote in O Pioneers!, "The land belongs to the future. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." Something similar could be said about the buildings people have made on the Nebraska prairie. People have built, used and loved them, but they are temporary.
I talked a bit about this barn in my post, "Kids and Kittens." I will write another time about the fun we had as children playing in the barn, especially in the haymow.
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A Public Library in Oregon was fined $10,500 and ordered to permit religious organisations to hold services and proselytise in the library, overturning that library's rule against such practices. The religious were represented by the Christian law organisation Liberty Council.
Seaside Library Changing Policy after Federal Lawsuit (link to Seaside, Ore. Signal)
Just as in politics, the religious are starting at the bottom and working up. Evangelicals did not start at the top of the GOP, nor will they start at the top of other governmental organisations, like libraries.
And the atheists stay asleep at the switch whilst the religious slowly take over everywhere . . . if we say we do not wish to involve ourselves in the political sphere, we cede it to the religious, who in every way want to dominate it.—James.
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Actually, I am all over this one. If they can do it, no reason we couldn't. I think I would like to start having an "un-church" in my local public library. Perhaps an atheist book discussion? I wonder how many members we could get. I think it would be a blast!
There is a problem though: if the library becomes a public forum, it can't really be a library. Neo-Nazis, Democrats, the NRA, anyone can use the forum. The I Amendment does not allow you to differentiate in a public forum.
"if the library becomes a public forum, it can't really be a library"
How so? Please expand on that thought.
I'm not terribly thrilled about having religious groups use libraries either. For that reason, I went and read the article. While the religious groups, along with everyone else (as best as I can tell), can use the library, it did not give the go ahead to use the facility as a base from which to proselytize. When they start hassling other library users to join their congregation THEN they have a problem. I wonder if there will still be rules in place to curb their enthusiasm.
There is an upside to this ruling, we just need to turn our thinking around to see it. By forcing the evangelicals to sue for the right to meet in a library, they've turned this into the forbidden fruit. We all know how that went last time. How many of the congragation are going to fall from grace after reading a few science books? Unfortunately, I'm sure their pastor/circus barker will catch onto that quickly, at which point he will begin screeching about books that need to be banned from the library (think about the children!!!!). I hope they keep us updated to the ensuing fiasco.
That's a violation of separation of church and state to let religions hold services in buildings paid for by tax dollars! *argh* Maybe local atheists should begin proselytizing right before and after those services. Harass them the way they harass others. What's good for the goose...
What the religious don't realise is that separation of church and state is the best defence for religious liberty.
If they choose to turn libraries into public fora, that means all organisations have access, not just them. But then many Evangelical groups consider the Bible to be above the Constitution. They would just as soon tear out the I Amendment, because they believe it is their religious faith that will win out.
The I Amendment is not there to protect the speech of the majority, it doesn't need protection. Last I checked, we were decidedly the minority. It is there to protect us.
Turn libraries into public fora and they will become government-owned churches. Partner libraries with churches and the church will exert its influence on what can be read, purchased, loaned, or seen in the library.
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the Heineken Experience is a little touristy, but as part of the Amsterdam history not to be missed.
Overcrowded. Don´t go in the weekends!
One of the better attractions of Amsterdam. Nice combination with a free canal cruise
Sensational tour! It was great to get behind a bar and learn to pour your own beer.
Very friendly guides and their English was awesome.


text: I reported in the SM/CM thread on our MRI results, which were NOT good. We have a tough battle ahead. But not here to get into those details. Wanted to share this for discussion. When we were talking with neurologist before the MRI, he said he could not REMEMBER when he scanned a Cavalier that did not have at least some chiari malformation.... Including Cavs who were there for other symptoms or illnesses that required MRI. He thought it was at least 2 years since he had seen clear MRI. Now he did say that he sees much smaller % with major syrinx formation but that he kind of assumed CM in all Cavaliers, especially under age 7. This floored my husband, but I thought this was very consistent with statistics we have seen reported here. what do you think?