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Lawmakers and policyholder advocates have panned a proposal by Citizens Property Insurance to allow private insurers to borrow up to $50 million in exchange for taking over Citizens policies. Citizens officials defended the plan to set aside $350 million of the company's surplus cash to dole out to private insurers but agreed to hire an outside financial consulting firm to assist with the roll out.
What Citizens Property Insurance learned form the firm it hired, Goldman Sachs, apprently wasn't good.
Citizens President Barry Gilway told members of the company's Board of Governors that for now he won't be asking for them to sign off on the surplus note proposal after all because he doesn't think any insurance companies will want to participate.
"I seriously doubt even if the surplus note program was approved by this committee and the board that we'd have any real takers," Gilway said today, "takers that meet the financial requirements that we believe would be appropriate to make a $50 million or $25 million loan to."
Goldman Sachs will still complete its study, and the results are expected next month, Gilway. But that information will be used to inform Citizens as it moves forward with other ideas to reduce the number of policyholders, currently at 1.4 million.
He presented a brand new proposal today. Gilway wants to create a "clearinghouse" to help ensure that people purchasing property insurance have access to all the policies they are eligible for, in hopes that other companies rank higher than Citizens. Right now, because many agents only have access to a handful of companies, homeowners are chosing Citizens despite having other options they don't know about.
"Technology did not exist a year ago, two yeas ago to do this," Gilway said.
The board's Depopulation Committee authorized Gilway to move forward on this proposal, and he will make a presentation to the full board next month. There are still legal hurdles that must be navigated, and insurance agents will likely question how the clearinghouse will affect them. Plus, Citizens will have to come up with a program that makes private insurers want to sign on.
"We're going to encourage as many carriers as possible," Gilway said. "The more carriers that participate...the more effective that this is going to be."
Sean Shaw, founder of the Policyholders of Florida who works for a company that represents policyholders, applauded both of these new developments.
"The surplus lines program seems to be off the table, and that's great news," Shaw said via email. "This looked like a bad deal for policyholders, and we shouldn't be handing out cash without full vetting by the Legislature. I'm proud that a handful of advocates and lawmakers made sure this proposal was actually studied."
He said the new clearinghouse idea "makes sense."
"It gives policyholders and the private insurance companies a better platform for connecting, and at the same time keeps more policyholders from being forced into Citizens based solely on agent authority," Shaw said.


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Bruno Mars has said that Unorthodox Jukebox represents his freedom, and it lives up to its title as Mars moves through genres and eras, veering mostly into retro soul. The follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2010 debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans opens with the '80s pop-influenced "Young Girls" and lead single "Locked Out of Heaven." "I got a body full of liquor with a cocaine kicker and I'm feeling like I'm 30 feet tall," Mars indulges on "Gorilla," an animalistic sex jam. "Natalie" and "Money Make Her Smile," about a gold-digger and stripper respectively, follow in that gritty tone, while the retro-disco "Treasure" paired with "Moonshine" play out like a cinematic love story.
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Is your church bowing to the 'green dragon?'
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WASHINGTON – Christianity, warns author Dr. Calvin Beisner, is facing a new and growing challenge that threatens to infiltrate the church and degrade its gospel message from within.
Beisner, national spokesman for the biblical environmental stewardship group Cornwall Alliance, spoke to WND about the danger of the radical environmentalist worldview encroaching upon the church's message and the church's growing capitulation to environmentalist thought.
The Cornwall Alliance describes itself as "a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development," but Beisner says that vision is very different from the green agenda being pushed by the world.
Beisner describes radical environmentalism in stark contrast from a biblical worldview on the environment through the use of the term "Green Dragon."
The "Green Dragon," Beisner explains, is a "term to refer to teachings … that are opposed to Christ and his work in his world, because they come from an environmentalist worldview and perspective."
The centrality of this teaching according to Dr. Beisner is the exaltation "of the creation rather than the Creator." He adds that it is designed to "undermine a biblical understanding of the world and man's place in the world."
Discover the deception behind radical environmentalism with the DVD set and study "Resisting the Green Dragon."
In contrast to the Christian doctrine of Imago Dei, meaning man is created in the image of God, thereby giving him highest value on this earth, the environmental movement looks at humans as the source of evil and earthly problems, for they are in the environmentalist worldview "consumers and polluters, rather than stewards."
"Environmentalism, because of its denial of the Creator-creature distinction," Beisner says, "is anti-biblical."
Beisner contends Christians should be diligent in their faith to prevent any type of syncretism with the "religion" of environmentalism. He warns that Christians, by abandoning the absolute authority of Scripture, have begun to tolerate the introduction of non-biblical and anti-biblical views that have grown commonplace in the wider culture.
Christians, Beisner warns, "simply accept … different claims made by different environmental organizations" without investigating the issues themselves. Such topics as species extinction, manmade global warming or climate change and rapid depletion of farmland, he says, "lack solid empirical evidence" and are "based upon modeling, rather than empirical observation."
You don't have to be a scientist in order to understand the subject matter at hand, Beisner told WND, but Christians "also need to learn as much of the science and economics of environmental matters as we can, so that we're able to make wise discernments amongst the various claims, rather than simply taking the word of some different scientists for that.
"We must be careful not to subjugate the authority of Scripture to the authority of science," he said. "We also must be careful to not naively think that science is some monolithic body of knowledge when it isn't."
Furthermore, Beisner claims, the failure of intellectual and spiritual integrity on the part of the faithful has lead to Christianity actually working to promote radical environmentalism.
"All of the large ecumenical organizations have jumped onboard [with the green agenda]," he said.
But Christians aren't merely the victim of their own ignorance, Beisner says, for external forces are working behind the scenes to "green the Christian message."
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), Beisner states, "was funded heavily by the Rockefeller Foundation and other such foundations and heavily influenced by … Green Peace and the World Wildlife Federation."
"It had the specific agenda of infiltrating synagogues and churches, to 'green' the message that comes from the pulpits," Beisner says.
The agenda behind this greening? Removing the human "scourge" from the planet, claims Beisner.
"The Rockefeller Brothers Fund was founded by David Rockefeller in the late 1950s," Beisner told WND, "specifically because he thought that the Rockefeller Foundation, which was very powerfully supporting population control, wasn't going far enough because it didn't support the use of incentivization and coercion in abortion in population control and family development programs in developing countries."
The radical environmentalists, according to Beisner, believe that "humans should be breeding in a manner that puts as little imprint upon this earth as possible, [to] go back to a hunter-gatherer society, because they despise industrialized society. … They put the ecological health of the earth over the health of humanity."
Beisner adds that this nature of environmentalism inherently makes it totalitarian.
"The environment is literally everything, which means that environmentalism is everything and we have another word in the English language for 'everything,' and that is totalitarianism," Beisner said. "Environmentalism has a natural tendency to totalitarianism toward wanting to run every aspect of our lives, from the minutest detail to the largest world-scale aspect."
When asked what Christians can do in response, Beisner told WND, "Our task is outlined for us in Genesis 1:28, in summary that we are to be fruitful and multiply … our dominion over the earth is to reflect God's dominion.
God is very creative, and He likes an abundance of variety," Beisner added. "Our task is to reflect the creativity, the love of variety, the love of fruitfulness that God shows in His creation, so that we come to enhance the fruitfulness of the earth, to enhance its beauty and to enhances its safety to the glory of God and the benefit of our fellow man, whilst addressing simultaneously the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbor."
Beisner warned, however, that Christians need to be balanced by Scripture rather than by modern culture, citing how often Christians get wrapped up too much in supporting capitalism for capitalism's sake, even when it is detrimental to the environment, because they do not want to be in anyway supporting socialism.
"Business is a God ordained thing, and I think it happens best in a free market society," Beisner said, "but at the same time, business people are sinners like the rest of us. They are going to want to minimize their costs."
The failure of Christians to be intellectually engaged in the environmental discussion is not inevitable, and it is possible for a reverse, Beisner advises, but it can only be done through a strict adherence to biblical principles, rather than the world's.
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Enjoy great live music in park at 30Avenue, SoWal's newest lifestyle destination at Inlet Beach. Music on the green every Thu-Sun this Fall in South Walton. You'll love strolling the streets under the palms and discovering the beautiful new shops and eateries with great music in the center of it all. A few shows will be held at Barbacoa Mexican Grill at the southeast corner of 30Avenue.
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Dual piano concert at Quick Center
Back in the late 1950s, as American composer Walter Piston got to work on one of his few compositions for piano, he had the hands of Melvin Stecher and Norman Horowitz in mind.
Piston's "Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra," became a showcase for the internationally renowned duo-pianists -- first, in its original form, and later, as an arrangement for two pianos.
Both versions found audiences in the 1960s, but has rarely been played since then -- a situation that is expected to be remedied come Sunday, Feb. 17.
Jonathan Coombs and Igor Lovchinsky are set to come together at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield to present the "Reflections of Walter Piston," as part of the Young Artists Series. (This is the rescheduled Nov. 4 concert that was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy.)
The work included in the program will feature Piston's complete piano repertoire, as well as a work by his colleague and friend -- fellow American composer Aaron Copland ("El Salon Mexico,") -- that was transcribed by Piston's student, Leonard Bernstein.
Coombs and Lovchinsky are being presented by the New York City-based Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, the organization the famed piano duo has been running since 1960.
In 2002, Coombs and Lovchinsky met for the first time during the foundation's New York International Piano Competition. In that year, Coombs emerged as a second-prize winner and Lovchinsky was a finalist.
"This is music people do not get to hear very often," said Lovchinsky, who echoed Coombs' sentiments that piano duos are a rarity among classical ensembles.
Also, Coombs said Piston's works carry a great energy.
"They are so cohesive from beginning to end," he said of the late composer's works. "You are really drawn in to the dialogue of the score."
Coombs and Lovchinsky, who both started playing piano as toddlers, said they are pleased to be performing the music of a composer, who, for many, remains largely underrated.
"I'm as guilty as anyone," said Lovchinsky, who added that he has come to "appreciate it more and more."
These Juilliard School graduates said they are enjoying the chance to play together for the first time. Individually, both have earned national and international awards, and performed on stages around the world.
Coombs is well into a more than 20-year career as a performer, educator and administrator. He has presented solo, chamber and orchestral concert performances throughout the United States. He teaches a small group of students and is assistant to the directors of the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation.
Russian-born Lovchinsky has performed throughout the United States, as well, as a concerto soloist and presented recitals in Poland, China and Canada.
Preparing for the concert has taken some doing, since Coombs is based in New York City and Lovchinsky in Boston. But both are pleased they have been given this opportunity.
"This is a very unique type of ensemble and to be able to do this with a musician I greatly respect is an absolute blast for me," Coombs said.
Lovchinsky said he is pleased to be bringing such a rarity to the Fairfield County audience.
"It is very different and quite difficult," he said of Piston's dual piano piece. "But ... that is a lot of fun. I have always enjoyed the opportunity to play something new."
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|2010-01-14, 19:32
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If for you art only encompasses being crazy awesome and stuff blowing up, I'd have to say that's a really sad look on art forms in general.
PS: again, I'm not saying you have to like it. The title of this thread, "Anime you hate but everyone seems to like?", refers to the fact that it's somehow hard to understand why people like what they like. In order to fully appreciate art in general, you need to step away from your own perspective for a second and try to understand what others see in things that one might find not as pleasurable.
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I would have to agree with Synaesthetic that the anvil dropping in NGE was a pretty blatant thing and the plot was kinda weak.
But here's what I think coming from someone who has watched the tv series and movies multiple times and would like to see the new ones Yes, I even like the TV ending
The "depth" isn't where some might think it is. Ignore all those Christian symbols for a second
A lot of people like to bash Shinji for being a wuss, and being a failure. Hell, I do it in jest sometimes too, just because Anno seemed so insistent on it. But let's consider the standard cliche hero for a moment. Shinji acts that way because he's just a kid that was yanked off the streets quite literally. If you had Shinji all hot blooded and GAR, ready for blood, that wouldn't come off as normal. In fact, that would make him a psychopath! So yea, I think Shinji cries and Shinji moans because he has a conscience. This is most evident when he is ordered by his dad to possibly kill his friend.
By the end, Shinji isn't emo; he's actually gone insane. The things that helped him keep sanity-- other people-- were slowly taken away from him. Then he learns his entire mission was a sham. And with that, he simply completely breaks down.
The point was that, no, you can't just put a poor kid in and hope he wins because he is the main character. And for its time, it was something new.
And interestingly enough, Asuka's more like the traditional hot blooded hero. If Shinji and Asuka were switched genders, you'd get a pretty ordinary story of a hot blooded hero and a pitiful partner that needs saving. But Asuka's case gets deconstructed, as we see what happens to the ace who suddenly loses potency and thus confidence, because as we know, hot blooded characters are fueled by this confidence.
While the plot is pretty obtuse when it comes to these things, it is the playing around with the psychology of these characters that made it memorable. And yes, I would think a lot of it is really just Anno getting over depression, but it's still an interesting study of that area.
I hope some of that made sense to those who got confused or just apathetic. Or at least offer another perspective with something less abstract.
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I got to the point where I was just laughing hysterically every time something bad happened to Shinji. He's an unbelievably amped-up Cosmic Plaything, to the point where it's just not realistic.
Not to mention every other character had a pile of neuroses and twenty thousand tons of emotional baggage, it was just numbing. There was no "control" character in NGE TV to compare the fucked-up-ness to. Everyone had skeletons in the closet. Everyone had some deep, dark past.
The Rebuild films changed this. Shinji's angst is pared back to a much more believable level. Asuka is five hundred times less annoying and much more badass in general. The new character, Mari Illustrious Makinami, is a Crazy Awesome Blood Knight, as well as trying to unseat Misato as the resident Miss Fanservice.
The movies are just... better so far.
What I ought to do, especially once all 4 movies are out, is watch the TV series, then the movies, and really try to nail this down.
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NGE was a good anime, but I think that it suffered a bit from the lack of an important "control" character or two, as you said. In fact, I would say that the lack of such a "control" character actually undermined Anno's goals with Shinji, Rei, and Asuka (i.e. to use them to critique popular anime archetypes).
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Perhaps part of the reason why Rei didn't come across the way that Anno wanted her to is because there wasn't a female teenage character in the anime that, through comparison, could serve to highlight the neuroses and emotional issues with Rei.
Asuka, of course, had her own issues.
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Saying that, his rare appearances in Railgun are great, I guess he's a character thats best when seen in small doses
I gotta say only recent anime I've somewhat come to dislike is Haurhi S2, nothing can save it from that endless crap stuff>_<
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Actually there were control characters. The classmates, especially Hlkari were pretty normal. Yes, they were relatively minor, but they did have that point. Their disappearance near the end signifies the start of insanity for the main cast.,
But it seems like rebuild seem to offer something diffrent rather than being a simple rehash, so that's something I can look forward too.
|2010-01-15, 22:32
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I'm inclined to believe, based on Kaworu's actions in Evangelion 2.0, that the Rebuild films are not intended to replace the original series, but are a sort of alternate continuity... and Kaworu's in on it.
If this is true, it could lead to some incredible mindfucks in Evangelion 3.0 and Evangelion Final...
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First post, might as well do it here.
Chrono Crusade
I really tried to give this anime a shot, I really tried. It had "Chrono" in the title and vaguely resembled Chrono Trigger, which I love a lot, and it had great reviews, so this had to be somewhat decent, right? No, I forced myself through five episodes and could not go on. I hated the characters and did not care for the story at all. My distaste for this series is only rivaled by my distaste of the next:
Elfen Lied
The first thing that came up in almost every review of this series was the bloody opening to the first episode, that it made people sick to the stomach, and was quite the hill to overcome, but as I watched it, the violence didn't phase me one bit. The violence, obscene as it was, seemed so empty to me, as it had no context to it. I felt more disgusted at less violent shows because of the context it was in, NGE being a prime example. Still though, that was just the intro, I kept watching, but yet came to hate the main characters, especially the main male lead, and on top of it all, I though the animation was not as detailed as it could of/should of been for such a violent show.
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I loved Chrono Crusade! xD ROFL
Anyway, I know I'm going to get so much hate for this but... but... (*builds barricade*)
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya!
I'm not implying that I think people shouldn't like it; I mean... it had great music, good characters, and a very original plot, but I just couldn't bring myself to like the series itself (believe me... I tried).
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Also, I thought many attributed the trolling to Kadokawa, not KyoAni.
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|2010-01-17, 22:54
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I'd bet both Kadokawa and Kyoto Animation were laughing their asses off at the NERD RAGE on 2ch, 4chan, here and countless other anime message boards during endless eights...
Shit, I don't even work for either company and I was laughing my ass off. ^^;
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Can be a bit slow.
Thumbs up for avoiding Adobe.
Mozilla's Firefox web browser now includes a built-in PDF viewer - allowing users to bin plugins from Adobe and other developers. The move to run third-party PDF file readers out of town comes after security holes were discovered in closed-source add-ons from FoxIt and Adobe. The new built-in document viewer is open source, …
Yep, since the Foxit issue I've been opening PDF's in Acrobat. Nice to have a light viewer back in the browser, and (naive as this may seem) I trust Mozilla's approach to security much more than Adobe or the maker of a third party reader.
Also, no speed issues at this end (so far).
Apple's desktops have long since had native PDF ability. Since 10.2 i think.
Because of this, not only can you view pdf files with just the system tools, but also makes it very easy for any app to render a pdf doc - hence Safari has been displaying PDFs from the web for years without needing to install a plugin. A nice side effect is that because it's part of the system, any application on a Mac that uses the default Print dialog should be able to print directly to a PDF document instead of a printer.
So i assume the same Quartz code that is baked into OS X was also included in iOS from the start as well.
The boring historical version is that PostScript was the standard for high end printers so several vendors built desktop platforms around PostScript as the description language for drawing on-screen rather than rolling their own versions of QuickDraw or GDI or whatever — Sun was one (with NeWS), Next Computer was another. PostScript is a full programming language* and when adapting NextStep into OS X Apple looked at the licensing fees for the implementation NextStep had used and decided instead to keep the same primitive drawing semantics but do away with the language.
Separately, over at Adobe they designed PDF as a record of the output of a PostScript program (so, to spend storage in order to save on complexity, at least initially). So PDF also inherits the same primitive drawing semantics as PostScript.
That made it easy for Apple to add PDF rendering and print to PDF to its operating system and all applications just work. There's no translation layer whatsoever, the drawing operations are just serialised and stored or deserialised and performed. As iOS is a close relative of OS X, with exactly the same graphics operations and frameworks, the same stuff just naturally carried over.
The same is not true of Windows because even once they were looking to do something beyond the GDI Microsoft insisted on inventing its own document format in XPS and tied WPF, its modern drawing framework, around that.
(*) trivia: the original LaserWriter — a key component in the early desktop publishing revolution — had a CPU 50% faster than the Mac it was meant to be attached to because it had to do all that high resolution rasterising.
Do any websites use WMP? Given it's not supported on Linux or Mac (or at least not without uncommon extras) I'd be very surprised.
And I disabled Flash years ago, and haven't missed it at all. Probably in large part as a result of the iPad, most sites seem to have got rid of flash now.
So hurray, no plugins required!
I find more frustrating that some sites automatically trigger PDF loading in the browser, and others force you to download. I use Chrome and the PDF integration is really good since I don't have to both downloading files.
I imagine this being a new project, it will be worse than Adobe's version for now but if they have drawn a line in the sand, it will inevitably improve if people report bugs. Not totally convinced JS is the right tool for the job though personally; on a mobile device CPU is a precious resource.
I just tried the PDF viewer there and while it works the print functionality is a bit crap. Printing appears to render a lossy jpeg snapshot of the page into an HTML page with headers and footers and the whole lot is printed. The font kerning also looks iffy with characters not properly spaced. I hope that future versions improve on this.
So while it's okay at a pinch to use it's no substitute for a proper PDF viewer. I switched back to the Adobe plugin from the Applications options almost immediately.
Hmm. That kind of kills it really. PDFs are meant to represent actual "documents" so quite often you need to print them. When you print a PDF it should print exactly as laid out in the PDF - that's one of their major advantages compared with HTML. Not being able to print them properly kind of kills the whole point of PDF. Especially as FF is bad enough at printing web pages - I often get better results telling FF to print to a PDF then printing that from Reader...
Chrome's PDF printing is also lousy.
"PDFs are meant to represent actual "documents" so quite often you need to print them. "
No Tom, the point in having them electronic is that you DON'T have to print them. There are only 2 reasons why you'd print something these days, one if to sign it for a company who don't understand technology, and the other is to send it to someone who doesn't understand technology.
That someone is usually working in the public sector.
No, I'm a technical architect and part of my role involves helping companies reduce their reliance on paper. If you can think of more reasons to print a PDF from a web page then go ahead, but don't accuse me of being a student just because you can't work out ways to stop people printing PDFs from the internet in your organisation.
I feel I need to spell this out to you so I will. I didn't say anything about a paperless office, or reducing printing as a whole. I just said that there are only 2 reasons to print a PDF from the internet and I stand by that.
I also happen to know lots of ways to reduce overall printing in organisations, not just PDFs, as well as the regulations people often misquote as requiring a paper copy or a signature. Unfortunately for smug forum posters like yourself, that's not what we're talking about here but I'd be glad to help you out if the users your helpdesk supports (you must work on 1st or 2nd line to be so jaded right?) insist on printing everything.
I can give you three very good reasons for printing a document that you haven't mentioned:
One, a print copy, once made, cannot be modified or altered. The problem with electronic documents is that they can be readily altered and the change erased to suit someone's agenda - for example, to facilitate corruption, fraud or theft, or to rewrite history. This is why many companies (including ours) still maintain filing cabinets with paper records of all meeting minutes, quotes, invoices, and transactions.
Two, a paper record is human-readable without requiring any machine or power to display it. In the event of a disaster, or even a protracted power outage, paper records can be retrieved, read and acted on even if there's no power for recharging phone or tablet batteries, or running PCs.
Three, a paper record does not rely on document or media formats that may quickly become obsolete or unreadable. Many records have been lost because they were stored on things like 8" floppy disks, which you can no longer obtain drives for, or in cryptic 70s and 80s file formats that modern spreadsheets and word processors cannot read.
A paper record has a permanence that cannot be contested in the way an electronic document can. This is why law courts, for one thing, want everything on paper. If, in a trial, you were to try to hand up a tablet with a Word doc on it, the judge would throw it at you. They want solid paper records than can be filed, retained, and retrieved without question or difficulty.
In the end, it's not about "not understanding technology." It's about understanding the limitations of technology and using it in its place, just as we need to understand that paper copy also has its place and purpose, and for the reasons posited above, will continue to do so for a long time to come.
How about having a paper copy of a manual so I don't have to lug my computer into the garden when I'm trying to set up the timings on my sprinkler system (or keep swapping between the program I'm running and its oh-so-helpful pdf manual)?
Yes, I know I could get a tablet device of some description or a second monitor, but paper seems to be a low-cost alternative that works in both cases. Or do I just not understand technology?
I'm not just being contrary here. Lusty didn't mention anything about a paperless office and neither did I, nor did I state or insinuate that he had. As for documents specifically being "from the internet", how does that invalidate my argument? My first point in particular has validity here, since documents on a website can and do change frequently, so printing one out as it was on such-and-such a date is prima facie proof that this was what the document stated on that date. This is especially true of things like ToS and EULA documents where a print copy made before an online change could make or break a court case.
Lusty stated that he could think of only two reasons for printing a document, from the internet or otherwise. I added three more reasons to explain why people print out documents. So no, I didn't just feel like disagreeing. I simply articulated the arguments that were most likely to be behind the downvotes he got (none of which are mine, BTW.)
Unfortunately all three of your reasons still rest on someone not understanding technology. It's perfectly feasible to take a copy and lock it from being changed in electronic form. Using e-reader style technology will give you a month to get the power back on, even though in reality power outages are generally fixed in minutes and are so local that you could take a bus accross town to recharge your laptop. Finally, PDF is nearly as old as ASCII text documents and it is unlikely to stop being supported any time soon. If you don't move your stuff from your old PC to your new one then there is just no helping you, but the rest of us managed the transition from floppy to zip to CD to DVD to portable hard drive to flash just fine and I see no reason we can't all continue that tradition. Some of us have even managed that with backup tape formats and SAN with business data on - customers would be pretty pissed if I switched off their old storage and told them the information was gone because it was locked to the old format!


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Allison Yahnke was just a timid fourth-grader in the special education program at Solana Highlands Elementary School in Carmel Valley when she was introduced to Junior Seau, the San Diego Chargers linebacker, in the fall of 2001.
Her mother, Julie, was in charge of nearby Carmel Creek Elementary School's "Red Ribbon Week," a drug and violence prevention awareness campaign. Her father, Dale, the treasurer of the Junior Seau Foundation, came up with the idea to surprise the kids with a "mystery" keynote speaker: Seau.
Although he had torn his biceps muscle in a game the day before, and had stayed up most of the night analyzing game film, Seau happily appeared at Carmel Creek, on time, all smiles and raring to go. Dressed in a blue silk suit and flip-flops, he towered over the children, who were sitting cross-legged on the floor and bursting with excitement.
"Size 15s coming through!" he proclaimed, circling the room, introducing himself to each and every child, shaking hands or patting backs.
To temper the commotion, Seau began by putting Allison on the spot.
"Junior started off by talking very fondly of this one little girl, and I didn't know who he was talking about," Allison recalled. "He said that he'd just met her a half an hour before, that he was struck by her kindness, and that she was his friend, his buddy.
"Then, he said, 'Allison Yahnke, will you please come up to the front of the room?' I had full-on bug eyes. I was so scared that I didn't go to Junior, I ran straight to my dad, who was standing in the back.
"Junior called me his buddy, and I can't tell you how special that was. I had a place in his heart. That was so special."
From that moment on, Seau became like a big brother to Allison. When she turned 12, she insisted on serving mashed potatoes at his charitable Thanksgiving dinners at Seau's restaurant in Mission Valley. For the next nine years, she dished up meals to 700 people from various nonprofit agencies and the military, often for four hours straight.
"He'd say, 'Allison, do you need a break?'" she said. "And I'd say, 'No, Junior, I'm going strong.'"
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Today, Allison, 22, is enrolled in Pathway at the UCLA Extension, a two-year certificate program for students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. She is thriving in and out of the classroom — she is happy, secure and becoming more independent — and she is on track to graduate this spring. She said that she owes her accomplishments to her parents and to Seau.
"I got a lot of confidence in life and success from Junior," Allison said. "He encouraged me to do my own thing, in whatever I wanted to do. He showed me how to treat others. He taught me to be thankful for my family.
"I loved being part of his life. I was his buddy, and he was mine."
Irreplacable treasure
Thursday marks the first anniversary of Seau's tragic death. After a 20-season career as one of the best linebackers in NFL history, Seau, a 12-time Pro Bowler, retired from football in January 2010, with the hopes of spending his free time surfing, golfing and enjoying his four children.
But his transition into the real world proved to be difficult. He struggled with the loss of his self-identity and the lack of structure in his life. He suffered from depression, insomnia, anxiety, alcoholism, sex and gambling addiction, emotional detachment, mood swings, violent and suicidal behavior, failed businesses and near bankruptcy.
In late April 2012, the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, where Seau had gambled millions of dollars during his lifetime, called in a $400,000 marker he had owed for 18 months. But the gambling debt was returned to the Bellagio because Seau's account had insufficient funds.
A few days later, on the morning of May 2, Seau put a .357-magnum to his chest and shot himself in the heart at the age of 43.
His children donated his brain tissue to the National Institutes of Health, and researchers concluded that Seau suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage found in other deceased former football players.
Although Seau never had a documented concussion during his NFL career, most of the problems he was wrestling with in the 2½ years leading up to his suicide are issues also associated with those suffering from CTE.
In the year since Seau's death, there have been many changes in what was his world. His children and his parents have filed wrongful-death lawsuits against the NFL and official-helmet maker Riddell, Inc. His beachfront home in Oceanside has been sold. His restaurant has closed, and the 15,000-square-foot space has been temporarily leased to Eastlake Church.
And though its role has been reduced, the Junior Seau Foundation remains open and still serves the youth of San Diego. During his 20 years at the helm of the foundation, Seau distributed more than $4 million to almost 200 organizations throughout San Diego County, providing services to children and young adults, including $1 million in scholarships to college-bound students through his Scholars of Excellence program. He was arguably the most generous — and the most successful — philanthropic athlete in San Diego history.
"Junior was an incredibly special, giving human being," said Dan Engel, co-founder of the Miracle League of San Diego, one of Seau's favorite charities. It offers special-needs children the opportunity to play in an organized baseball league. Seau donated $30,000 over three years to purchase uniforms for the 200 Miracle League players.
"We are incredibly grateful to him. His death is a tragic loss for our community," Engel said. "It's hard to describe the hole his death leaves because how do you replace an individual who cared so much and put so much of himself into helping the youth of San Diego? And Junior was a force of a person. By the force of his personality, he was able to raise a lot of money. How do you fill his hole?"
Seau's childhood friend Frank Zimmerman, the varsity boys' soccer coach at Oceanside High School, where Seau was a standout football star, believes Seau was a community treasure that is irreplaceable.
"Junior was able to connect deeply with people, and that's a gift that few have," Zimmerman said. "That's gone. I'm sure the foundation could continue, but its ability to raise money is not the same."
At the time of Seau's death, the foundation had amassed an endowment of more than $1 million, a personal goal of Seau's to perpetuate his charitable giving in San Diego well after his retirement from the NFL. However, there are no longer any full-time employees. Its largest fundraiser, the Junior Seau Celebrity Golf Classic, and its highly successful Scholars of Excellence program, have been suspended for this year, and that may be permanent. There will be no more of his Thanksgiving dinners at Seau's.
Although the board of trustees want to continue Seau's favorite program, Shop with a Jock, held in December, they are still trying to determine the foundation's future.
"The board continues to have discussions about the future of the foundation and the goal is to have an impact on the youth of San Diego," said Dale Yahnke, the foundation's treasurer. "Junior was the face of the foundation. Without him, it will be very difficult for the foundation to function in the manner that it did."
Seau's four children understand that the foundation was dear to his heart, but they, too, are wrestling with its future.
"My siblings and I feel it is still important to keep the foundation open, to carry on his charitable legacy and to do what he felt was right," said Sydney Seau, 19, a freshman at USC, Junior's alma mater. "But I'm not an adult. I need to get my education. If there's some way to keep it going, to run it properly and professionally, we're all for it."
In the meantime, the foundation continues to accept donations. Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, the new host of the 15th Celebrity Championship golf tournament at La Costa Resort and Spa, May 17-19, has taken the reins from quarterbacks Stan Humphries and Drew Brees. Faulk has selected the Faulk and Seau foundations as the event's charitable beneficiaries.
Last December, in memory of his friend and former Chargers teammate, Brees honored a commitment to support two charities that were special to Seau: He donated $55,000 from the Brees Dream Foundation to the Miracle League of San Diego and to the Oceanside High School Athletic Department.
The Miracle League will use the donation to upgrade the fields and support operations while Oceanside High will use the money to improve the athletic training room, the weight room and the conditioning facility.
"The easiest thing is to give money, but there's no connection," said Larry Perondi, the superintendent of the Oceanside Unified School District. "People give and what we really want is their time and their connection. Junior was all about making an intense, lasting connection. His message was, 'I'm from Oceanside. I'm an Oceanside kid. If you work hard, you can do it, too.'"
Personal involvement
Even before he had played his first snap in the NFL, Seau already was focused on helping the youth of San Diego. Don Montamble, who was Seau's varsity basketball coach his senior year at Oceanside High and later became a mentor and friend, said when Seau left USC after his junior season to enter the 1990 NFL Draft, he inquired about ways that he could help his fellow Oceanside kids.
"I remember him asking, 'What do you need for your program? I'll write you a check,'" Montamble said. "I told him, 'No, there will be time when I'll need your support, and I'll let you know.'
"The next season, I had a young group of athletes on the team, and we were struggling. We were playing in a Christmas tournament in Chula Vista. I called up Junior and said, 'I need you to do something. … We play at 3 p.m. today. Come to the locker room at 2:30 and talk to the team.' He said, 'OK!'
"He explained to the guys what it meant to put on basketball jerseys with Oceanside on the chest and all of the days he played. He challenged them to live up to the legacy of the program. I asked for his help, for his high school team, and he did it, no questions asked."
But Seau did not stop there. He asked Montamble what else he could do for Oceanside High. "I said, 'Put your money into scholarships,'" Montamble recalled. "I said, 'Give kids something that can set them up in life.' He understood that for so many Oceanside kids, nobody in their families had gone to college, and they couldn't grasp the idea.
"He said, 'How do I go about it?' I said, 'I'll help you with Oceanside High.' And then it grew to the whole city."
Next, at the Boys and Girls Club of Oceanside, Seau funded Club 55, a teen center offering adolescent counseling, athletic programs, computer skills leadership training and an interactive media center. He also hosted Club 55's "Steak Night" dinner — the boys ate steak, their fathers ate hot dogs.
"He taught the kids, 'If you give the hard work and commitment, I'll help you with the tools,'" Montamble said. "He wasn't an athlete to write a check. He was a person who got personally involved in everything he did."
In 1992, Seau and his then-wife, Gina, launched the Junior Seau Foundation, and they ran it together, out of a guest room in their La Mesa home, and the project became their labor of love.
"From the beginning, Junior said, 'I want to do something for the youth of San Diego,'" Gina said. "He remembered growing up in Oceanside, not having the advantages other kids had, the support he got from the Boys and Girls Club of Oceanside, and what it felt like inside when someone cared."
The day they sent out a news release announcing the creation of the foundation, Junior and Gina received more than 70 messages on their answering machine.
"We were so excited that people were excited about the idea," Gina said. "They left messages asking, 'What can we do to help?' The community rallied. Everybody wanted to be affiliated with him."
Within weeks, they had signed up sponsors and held their first fundraiser, a golf tournament in Poway. Their first foundation donation was to the Vista Hill Foundation, which improves the quality of life of individuals and families by providing mental and behavior health, educational and social services. Over the next few years, the Seaus donated to a wide variety of children's causes — from children's hospitals and child abuse prevention facilities to helping to underwrite the Christmas pageant for the children from Father Joe's Villages.
In 1994, Seau was honored as the NFL's Man of the Year for his philanthropic efforts.
Philanthropic power
By 1999, Seau decided he wanted to expand the reach of his foundation because he felt as if he had so much more to give. He hired Bette Hoffman to be his executive director. She was a local dynamo who'd worked for the United Way of San Diego County and had started her own consulting business specializing in assisting nonprofits with fundraising.
"Junior and I were a good team," Hoffman said. "We started with a blank page, and we brainstormed. 'How do we make this the best, and most impactful, foundation possible?'"
Together, they met with dozens of noted San Diego sports, business, political and community leaders and built one of the most powerful boards of directors of any foundation in the city. They brought aboard major corporate sponsors. Hoffman taught Seau about the "four R's" of fundraising: "research, romance, request and recognition," and he was a quick learner.
Hoffman drew up a detailed timeline for each year, as well as for each event. Analyzing the timeline, they decided to move the foundation's annual golf tournament from June to March to increase the participation of NFL superstars, and with the help of corporate sponsor Nordstrom, Hoffman transformed the fundraising dinner and its sports memorabilia auction into an elegant event.
Seau was involved in every aspect of the tournament, which grew to 800 people at the dinner, including writing the script for the evening's presentations (which he memorized), choosing the music and reviewing the seating assignments at the dinner tables (which he also memorized). He insisted on having a detailed rehearsal the day before and a sound check the morning of.
The Junior Seau Celebrity Golf Classic would bring in $500,000 annually.
"Junior loved the foundation, it was his heart," Hoffman said. "When I first started working for him, he was so excited about the board meetings, the concept of going out and asking people for money. He was so good at it. His mind never stopped racing with ideas. It quickly became apparent to me that we needed to raise more money because he wanted to do more and more things."
Eventually, a fall fundraiser, the Teammates Luncheon, was added. It also grew to 800 attendees and raised about $200,000 annually.
And, last August, these fundraisers allowed the foundation to award $5,000 scholarships to 25 college-bound students.
"Junior was the heart and soul, and Bette was the brains," said Yahnke, who helped select the scholarship recipients from 400 applicants. "He didn't have to have a foundation to make himself look like a star. He did it because he loved San Diego and he loved helping kids. The happiest I ever saw him was at these events."
As on one Saturday morning in October 2011, when Seau took the mound for the Miracle League on Celebrity Pitcher Day. He knew the children needed at least several pitches to make contact with the ball, so he slowly worked his way into the game, lobbing the first pitch softly over the middle of the plate.
"But the kid tees off and hits it a mile, right over Junior's head," Engel said. "Junior's jaw dropped. When the kid reached home plate, Junior engulfed him. He laughed and said, 'Buddy, how did you have the nerve to do this to me?' It was so charming."
The home run barrage did not stop there. The next batter hit the ball a mile, too. And so did the batter after that.
"Junior got rocked that day," Engel said. "He was all smiles. The kids were all smiles. He was just so giving to everyone on the field. He stayed around afterward and talked to the kids. He wrapped them up in his arms. He was so gracious with his time. He was so loving with the kids. It was a day none of us will ever forget."
Magical moments linger
Seau was a master at creating unforgettable moments.
Like at Thanksgiving when for 15 years, Seau opened the doors of his restaurant to those less fortunate, serving meals to more than 700 clients of nonprofit agencies, including homeless shelters and rehab facilities, victims of domestic violence, military families and wounded warriors.
"Junior posed for pictures, signed autographs, made sure to talk to each and every person," Allison Yahnke said. "He was in his element. Those who came got so much more than a Thanksgiving dinner. They got a lifetime experience."
Like at Christmas time when for 18 years, Seau teamed up with Target and more than 250 local professional and college athletes for Shop with a Jock, taking 250 underprivileged children from all of the Boys and Girls Clubs in San Diego County shopping for Christmas gifts. In order to be considered for the shopping spree, Seau insisted that each child write an essay explaining for whom he or she would like to buy gifts, and why, and the winning essayists each were given a $100 gift certificate from the foundation to shop for their loved ones.
"Thousands of kids, at the most impressionable ages, are learning the most valuable life lessons — that the holidays are about giving, that life is about giving, not receiving," said former Chargers special teams star Hank Bauer, the team's longtime radio analyst. "And without the foundation or Junior, that opportunity most likely would never be provided. These lessons are tangible for these kids — they will take them going forward for the rest of their lives — and as the tentacles grow outward, hundreds or thousands of lives will hopefully be affected."
Seau's ex-wife, Gina, his four children and his closest friends all said that Seau believed his calling in life was to give back to his community, to help make people's lives better and lend a hand to those less fortunate. The rewards he received from opening his heart to others, they said, far exceeded the awards he earned on the football field.
Those he touched believe that he changed their lives forever.
Toki Lewis was a star running back and linebacker at Oceanside High School until he broke his ankle in the first scrimmage before his senior season in 2004. That spring, he received a $5,000 scholarship, becoming the first in his family to attend college.
"I was invited to the Scholars of Excellence ceremony, a dinner at Seau's," Lewis said. "Junior came in and talked to us about goals, and later, he went around the room and talked to each one of us individually. To have Junior say, 'We want to help you be successful when you get to the next level,' well, at that moment, everything changes. His belief in me was an enormous inspiration."
Soon after, Lewis became a volunteer for the foundation. He graduated from the University of San Diego with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Today, at 26, he is a product line manager for a division of Teamwork Athletic Apparel in San Marcos. And he remains influenced by the lessons Seau taught him.
"He and I grew up in the same neighborhood," Lewis said. "We went to the same middle school and the same high school. He taught me dreams are achievable. He showed me the importance of treating every person as a friend. He was never too big or too important to care about others."
Those Seau life lessons permeate throughout Oceanside. To experience his aura, join the 80 to 100 people on the beach in front of Seau's former house on The Strand at 6 a.m. Saturday mornings, from May until July. Be ready to challenge your body, and your mind, to the toughest boot camp ever: The Junior Seau 55 Workout.
Twelve years ago, Seau phoned Paul Paopao, his best friend from elementary school, and shared his concept of beach boot camps as a way to help Oceanside kids, who couldn't afford personal trainers or private coaches, to advance to more elite athletic levels.
"Give me 10 of your football players," Seau told Paopao, then working at Oceanside's Boys and Girls Club. "Well, if you're a kid, and you can work out with Paul Paopao at 6 a.m., would you go? No. But if I told you that you were going to work out alongside Junior Seau, what would you do? All 10 came, early."
Before you knew it, dozens of kids showed up on the beach. "Grandmas and grandpas were dropping them off at 5 a.m.," Paopao said. Soon, Seau and Paopao were holding boot camps four days a week from March until July. Seau's grueling regimen was old school, an hour without water breaks: running sprints and long distances in the sand, running up and down stairs, firefighter carries, bear crawls and wheelbarrow carries in the sand.
Eventually, parents and professionals joined the boot camps, and the group grew so large that Seau and Paopao enlisted 15 to 20 volunteer coaches to help. Seau worked out right alongside everybody else, and the boot camps always were free.
Afterward, Seau brought everyone together for prayers and fellowship. He struck up conversations with the boot campers, asked each of them how they were doing, and often handed Paopao cash to give to those kids whose families were struggling. At the end of the summer, he would bring in a truck from Seau's to serve breakfast to the entire group.
To a person, the boot campers felt a strong connection to Seau. And they still do.
Paopao's son, Israel (Tofi) Paopao, 18, the starting quarterback at Oceanside High who led the Pirates to two San Diego Section championships in three years, said he wouldn't have excelled in football without his Uncle Junior's support. This fall, he will play football at Florida International University.
"I'll always remember the things he taught me, first and foremost, 'Whatever effort you put into something is what you'll get out of it,'" Israel said.
Matthew Segi, a boot camper who now volunteers as a coach each Saturday morning, said Seau forever is in his heart.
"When we were training, Junior would tell us, 'Bring someone else with you,' and I'd think, 'I'm dying here, how can I possibly worry about me and somebody else?'" Segi said. "But that wasn't the point. It was about motivating and influencing others. Go out of your way to help someone. What's the benefit of doing only for yourself, if you can't share it?
"That's the Junior Seau way: He has brought everyone with him. He went out of his way to bless them, so they'll return the deed and bless someone else."
Because of Seau, Segi, 22, has chosen life and career paths that emphasize helping others. He is working in the after-school program at an Oceanside elementary school, is volunteering as a youth leader in a local church and is studying to be a youth pastor.
"Junior did simple deeds," Segi said. "He blessed people immeasurably. They were touched by him. They were moved by him. That was his foundation.
"His death has left a physical loss, but I don't believe it has left a hole. He's still working his magic through others he touched. Those he influenced still continue to do his work. One does a good deed, the next does one, and it all comes back to the first deed done. Junior's still very much alive today, living through others."


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I'm really liking 'Faunagraphic' and her work at the moment. I walk past a peacock that she did everyday on the way to the studio and it brightens up my day. I'm thinking we need to get her to do a fish on our studio wall at Hagglers Corner!
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Aug 2012 11:32 UTC
One company's response to the jury verdict in Apple vs. Samsung was still missing: Google's. The company has now responded to The Verge, and there's almost a certain bitterness in their language. Not, as you would expect, directed at Apple; no, the bitterness is directed at Samsung. The message Google is sending to other Android OEMs? Stick to stock Android, and you'll have no problems.
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RE: phone makers will simply abandon the USA
by tuma324 on Tue 28th Aug 2012 15:07 UTC in reply to "phone makers will simply abandon the USA"
If the laws become too difficult phone companies such as Samsung will simply stop selling in the USA. No big deal. The future market is for sub-$100 phones not $500 models.
Everyone should abandon USA, not just phone makers.
Software developers should also abandon USA, there's no point to feed up yourself with software patents and all that crap, and have the rest of the world be affected because of the bullshit patents going on in USA.
USA has no future, unless their citizens force the government to change things for the betterment of everyone.
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2011 Weekend on the Edge Event Results and Pictures
Weekend on the Edge 2011 was an awesome competition and display of diesel power! Edge Products are already making plans for 2012. Below you will find the results from the Drag Races, Dyno, and Sled Pulls.
Drag Racing Winners from Friday August 19 at Rocky Mountain Raceways.
ET Bracket Class
1st Chris Kendall Rock Springs 15.00 14.99 91.00
2nd Karl Matin Riverton 16.13 16.10 82.66
Quick Diesel sponsored by New Era Diesel
1st Lynn Ross Marblehead, OH 12.14 103.92
2nd Jason Hurt North Ogden 12.62 115.26
1st Dimitri Millard Highland 10.30 133.13
2nd Josh Gruvs Zimmerman MN 10.51 131.63
Edge Products August 20th, Dyno Winners
-Highest Horsepower Overall 1st: Custom Auto 2001 GM 1356.9 HP 2173.8 TQ
-Highest Horsepower Overall 2nd: Alligator Performance 2006 GM 1099 HP 1852 TQ
-Highest Horsepower Overall 3rd: Johnny Curtice 2005 Dodge 879 HP 1326.9 TQ
-Highest Horsepower for Dodge 1st: Lance Croft 2004 Dodge 840.4 HP 1588.7 TQ (excludes overall winners)
-Highest Horsepower for Ford 1st: Houston Denter 2010 Ford 563.5 HP 1169 TQ (excludes overall winners)
-Highest Horsepower for GM 1st: Zach Fuller2005 GM 842.6 HP 1468.1 TQ (excludes overall winners)
-Highest Horsepower Fummins 1st: Greg Lance 2002 Ford Body Cummins Engine 679.6 HP 1306.8 TQ
-Highest Horsepower on Diesel Only: Alligator Performance 2006 GM 1026 HP 1654 TQ
-Lowest Horsepower: Colby Neeley 1985 GM S10 39.5 HP 75.4 TQ
-Lowest Torque: John Hall 2001 Ford 229.2 HP 453.7 TQ (Excluding lowest HP winner)
Pioneer Stadium August 20th, Sled Pulling Winners
Mod class-
1st- Ken Jones Ogden, Utah 288.8 ft
2nd- Terry Thain North Logan, UT 272.1
3rd- Jason Stott Rock Springs,WY 269.6
Super Street-
1st- Jefferson Broady Divide, CO 282.3
2nd- Todd Reinert Pinedale, WY 260.5
3rd- Jeremy Neff Elko, NV 256.7
3.0 Class sponsored by Premier Performance
1st- Tom Hansen Grantsville, UT 271.3
2nd-Rowdy Bydalek Fort Lupton,CO 268.1
3rd- Todd Reinert Pinedale, WY 265.3
2.6 Class sponsored by Industrial Injection
1st- Rowdy Bydalek Fort Lupton, CO 269.9
2nd- Chris Vorhies Lakewood, CO 266.4
3rd- Tom Hansen Grantsville, UT 265.9
Workstock Class
1st- Chris Kendall Rock Springs, WY 286.4
2nd- Chris Stecklein Idaho Falls, ID 280.9 *tie
2nd- Sean Garn Fielding, UT 280.9* tie
3rd- Matt Martinez Plain City, UT 280.7
To view more results and pictures visit www.weekendontheedge.com/.


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Treat Dispensing Foraging Ring ToyPlace treats inside toy's opening and your dog will need to bounce, toss or roll the ring to release the treats. Great for exercising your dog's jaws. Even floats!
Sizes: S, M, L
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"Larger than expected!"
I was expecting a toy half the size of the one I received, but I suppose that isn't a bad thing, per say! I was also expecting it to be a hard plastic toy, but it is actually a rubber toy. There are also slits along the inside of the whole toy, plus 4 holes for treats to come out of, so treats come out very, VERY easily. I use kibble for my treat dispenser toys, and as soon as I put the treats inside this toy, they all came out onto the floor. I wouldn't recommend getting the largest toy (9 inch) unless you're going to use it as a chew toy, or you have some very large sized treats (the size of a Nickel or larger). Otherwise, the toy seems great! The material is very nice, especially for my puppy who is a very active chewer. However, he isn't as interested in this toy as he was some of the other ones I bought him from Jeffers.. maybe when he gets a little bigger it will be more of a hit! Thanks Jeffers!
"Spoiled Chihuahuas"
I have two chihuahuas who tend to ignore toys unless Mommie is playing with them 24/7. This toy is different. My bright little ones actually spend some time getting their treats out of the toy, and then roll and bounce it for fun! Tell me, is this toy dishwasher-safe? I'd love it if it were. Thanks for a great product!
"Happy Pup"
Our dog distroys every toy, except this one. It is really durable and it keeps her occupied trying to get the broken bisquit pieces out. We love this product. We highly recommend it. When our dog wants a treat she will bring her ring over and give it to you. She knows she will get a dog bisquit in it.
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VoIP system using open source software component in tertiary institutions: The case of the University of Namibia.
(Polytechnic of Namibia, Department of Communication., 2007)
Governments and their agencies are often challenged by high cost and flexible telephonic, Web based data services. Emerging technologies, such as those of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that allow convergent systems ...


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Lexington IF Ebert Rosario has been promoted to High-A Lancaster
Rosario was hitting .272/.307/.372 for Lexington with 21 extra-base hits and 31 RBI in 88 games (320 ABs). And 26 errors.
Tri-City DH Jeff Hulett was also promoted to Lexington.
In 53 ABs for the ValleyCats, Hulett was hitting .189/.246/.208
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Ebert Rosario promoted
Labels: Ebert Rosario, Jeff Hulett, Tranzactionz
2 comments:
- Andrew said...
I'd like to what would happen to Rosario's game if he bulked up a bit--he currently clocks in at 6' 3" 165 lbs, which is about as lanky as you can be.
- July 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- The Constable. said...
No kidding. Maybe that's why they're promoting him - to see if those numbers can inflate a little bit in the thin mountain air. And maybe he'll eat a little more (though to be honest, if he isn't getting enough to eat in Lexington, Kentucky - I don't know that there's anything we can do.)
- July 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM
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- Underwear: I've let my underwear go to the point that some would assume I was a single man. Here are links to two different stores and they type of underwear I usually wear. I tend to wear "boxer-briefs" as they're the most comfortable for me. (Examples from KingSizeDirect.com and CasualMale.com. I wear a size 5x, as embarrassing as that is to admit.)
- Socks: We work very hard to continuously "recycle" my socks and keep things "fresh". But there's only so much we can do. (Examples from KingSizeDirect.com where I wear white, 2x and from CasualMale.com where I, again, wear white.)
- Shorts: I tend to wear shorts because, at my weight, I tend to stay very, very, warm. Now my hospice provider has put me on a continuous pump of a drug called Dilaudid (The link there goes to an oral or rectal version of the drug. For some reason it's important to me that you know I'm not taking the "rectal". I'm actually receiving the drug by infusion into a port that goes directly into my heart.) in order to deal with my pain. When I go out I need to be able to wear a belt so I can carry the heavy pump on my waist. Currently I only have two pairs of denim shorts with belt loops. (Examples from KingSizeDirect.com where I wear a 66 "big" and CasualMale.com where I, also, wear at 66 "big".)
Also, also, wik: Also, don't forget to celebrate with me, today's two year anniversary of the day the oncologists guestimated I would die. These days it feels more like, "C'mon Jamison! Die or get off the urn." I guess you could pray, along with us, about that too. That God will lead us or show us His decision.
|Tattooed expiration date on the back of my neck "BEST ON OR BEFORE 08/24.2009"
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In order to help manage the overall maintenance and accessibility of content contained within a Web site, CommonSpot supports the notion of sites and subsites.
A site, (commonly referred to as a top-level site), is a collection of pages and subsites whose content is managed in a common database within CommonSpot. For each top-level site created in CommonSpot, a new Content database is created that holds all of the content for that site. A top-level site can be broken down into logical sections, or subsites. Subsites, in turn, can have their own logical sections. This hierarchy maps closely to drives and directories. Think of top-level sites as being drives, while subsites are the sub-directories under a drive's root directory or other nested sub-directories.
The primary distinctions between sites and subsites are:
That being said, top-level sites and subsites are also very similar in that they both contain CommonSpot pages, and as such are managed similarly through the Site Administration and the Subsite Administration dashboards within the CommonSpot Administrator. From these dashboards, administrators can set the following configurations/permissions:
If you have more than one logical unit that you wish to create Web content for, you need to determine the architecture within CommonSpot for structuring the content. Two options are available:
This arrangement of a single site with multiple subsites allows for the sharing of templates, Elements, uploaded files, images, etc. between subsites.
This scenario may be more suitable for an intranet, where typically the department or business units – Human Resources, Customer Service, Finance & Accounting, Sales, Marketing, IT, etc. - define a subsite. The site-to-subsite relationship allows for consistency across the site and no wasted time "re-inventing the wheel" for the similar efforts.
In a multiple site configuration, each site is isolated from the other. This means that each site's templates, image repositories, uploaded files directory, and page categories cannot be shared with other sites.
Depending on your security constraints, this may offer a security advantage. This scenario may be more suitable for an environment where the intention is to support more than one site, with different purposes, whether it is an Internet, intranet and/or extranet site. Additionally, this separate site configuration allows a different Users database to be tied to individual sites, therefore keeping sites separate and distinct. For example, an Internet Service Provider might use this structure to set up different sites for each customer at a hosted site to preclude any other customer from being able to share templates, images, etc. with any other customer.
For a more detailed list of the pros and cons of a site vs. subsite approach, refer to Sites vs. Subsites – Pros and Cons.
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Flames billowed from a nine-bedroom house in Ocean Sound Village � a gated neighborhood in North Topsail Beach � Saturday night.
Flames billowed from a nine-bedroom house in Ocean Sound Village � a gated neighborhood in North Topsail Beach � Saturday night.
At 8:30 p.m. Saturday, the flames were visible from the mainland side of N.C. 210; at that time, the structure�s form was shrouded by the massive fire.
The 4,903-square-foot house at 114 Oceanview Lane in North Topsail Beach was worth $651,000, according to documents at Onslow County Register of Deeds. Its 1.3 acres were worth $325,000. It was built in 2005 and its most recent deed to 114 Ocean Sound, LLC is dated July 3, 2007.
In 2010, Wilmington-based 114 Ocean Sound LLC was dissolved for failure to file its annual report to the N.C. Secretary of State, according to documents from that agency's website.
About 8:35 p.m. Saturday, a neighbor in the adjacent Hampton Colony subdivision went outside to find out what had illuminated her street and beachfront on an overcast, windy night. She was inside her house shortly before and noticed the beach appeared day-lit; even the breaking waves were visible.
As she described the experience, the flames already had shortened the structure.
North Topsail Beach officials have deferred releasing official comment until Monday.
The house stood less than a mile from North Topsail Beach Town Hall.
Sunday, the structure�s charred remnants were exposed to drizzle.
Soot had washed over Oceanview Lane and into the lot across the narrow road.
Two windows on the home�s southwest side were broken out and large glass shards littered the yard.
Other debris had fallen into the neighboring yard at 116 Oceanview Lane.
That house sits closely to the burned house but had not caught fire.
The neighboring three-story home�s upper, adjacent exterior wall's siding was darkened by the blaze.
On that wall, trim had melted and was sagging from a glass-block window.


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Oct. 26, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Arlis Reynolds added to her collection of record-breaking performances while leading the MIT women's volleyball team to a 30-19, 30-13, 30-19 victory over Smith College on Tuesday. Reynolds, whose 29 digs helped the Engineers (26-7, 8-0 NEWMAC) hold the Pioneers to a team hitting performance of .014, eclipsed an 11 year-old mark for digs in a three-game match.
For the second time this season, Tech rebounded from a weekend upset to defeat a conference opponent, having swept Wellesley College after a 3-2 loss at the Ithaca College Tournament in September. Held to a team hitting percentage of .029 in Saturday's contest, MIT looked in danger of repeating that season-low performance in the opening frame after Smith took a 3-0 lead on a pair of hitting errors.
Despite building a 4-3 margin on Lindsay Hunting's serve, the Engineers were unable to generate any momentum. The Pioneers took advantage of the situation as they maintained a three-point cushion for several rotations. With a series of deep float serves, Caroline Jordan disrupted Smith's offense and knotted the score at 17. Austin Zimmerman continued the service line attack with a seven-point run, as Rose Zhong and Briana Stephenson combined to convert four free ball opportunities into points to open up a 25-18 lead. The Pioneers mustered only one more point as Reynolds closed out the game with a five-point service run. Tech scored 22 times through kills after having found the floor only 35 times in Saturday's entire match.
Jordan's service rotation proved to be a turning point in the second game as well, as her three-point run created a 7-4 lead as a result of kills from Stephenson and Zhong. MIT held its own against the conference's leading defensive side by out-digging Smith by a significant margin, extending its lead with several successful long rallies. Later on, Jordan extended the Engineers advantage from seven to 15 points during which the Pioneers attempted to adjust their serve receive formation. Reynolds ended the second game with an ace, with the 30-13 margin marking Smith's most lopsided defeat of the season.
The Engineers continued to dominate in the final frame, with Reynolds collecting 12 digs and Frances Rogoz blasting six of her match-high 13 kills without an error. Reynolds turned a 7-7 tie into an 11-7 advantage during her first trip to the service line on a service ace and a clever kill from Zimmerman. After Smith libero Megumi Sasaki's errant touch on a Rogoz blast looked to be a sure kill, NEWMAC dig leader Kate Sorensen pursued the ball beyond mid-court, evading the second official and nearly colliding with MIT head coach Paul Dill to return the ball to its side of the net. On the ensuing free ball, Zimmerman recognized the disarray in the Pioneers' defense and sent a first-touch set deep into the Smith backcourt within inches of the end-line.
Tech extended its lead to 18-13 before Reynolds' second trip to the service line put the contest out of reach, as her match-high fourth ace gave the Engineers a 24-13 margin en route to a 30-19 victory. Zimmerman finished the match with 36 assists as MIT hit .248 as a team. Jordan and Stephenson each tallied 11 kills, with Jordan needing only 26 swings to record her match-high .385 performance.
This Saturday, the Engineers will host the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in their regular season finale at 1:00 p.m. For the second consecutive year, the regular season championship will be decided between these squads with the winner hosting next week's NEWMAC Championship Tournament.


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Black Law Students / Re: Black Folks and Religion« on: July 05, 2007, 10:13:01 AM »
wait...what? Black ppl are not held back by religion. Black ppl are held up by other black ppl in a system that is not our own. Nothing to do w/ religion.
Wow and I thought I made a blanket statement. Religion in this country plays just as much a role in the brainwashing of blacks as it did when James Baldwin was writing about it. Surely, black people cannot be the entire or even half of the reason that other blacks are not able to achieve the american dream. If the system is not our own and it is structurally lacking in the ability to let minorities move further maybe it was designed that way.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives.
The measure Obama signed Thursday applies to presidents elected after Jan. 1, 1997, specifically Obama and former President George W. Bush. It reverses a 1994 law that ended Secret Service protection 10 years after a president leaves office. Under that law, the Homeland Security secretary could extend such protection on a temporary basis.
A sponsor of the bill, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, says increased terrorist threats and the greater mobility and youth of former presidents made the change necessary.
The new law also authorizes Secret Service protection for the children of former presidents until they turn 16.
The bill is H.R. 6620.
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George Brown: Canada
George Archibald Charles Brown Born 25 Dec 1875 Canterbury, New Zealand.
Died sometime in 1957 Canada. Also went under the name George Charles Brown.
Rosemary Brown Born 1943 Christchurch, New Zealand
I am looking for Rosemary Brown. Mother: Elaine Norna Brown nee Buchanan second marrage Greenhalgh.
Father: Ernest Harold William Brown. Lived in Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
John Aeneas MacDonnell & Helen Lesilie Glengary Scotland
Can someone help me this is as far as I have got with this family.
I would like to know who John and Helen's parents were.
I have there children and the rest of the tree back to me.
John Aeneas MacDonnell & Helen Lesilie
I am looking for the parents of the above.John also had 3 brothers that went to Ontario.John MacDonell of Leek, Allan MacDonell Of Collachie and Alexander MacDonell of Aderchalder.I am looking for birth dates for all.
I would also like to know if John has any sisters. His daughter Jaobina Maria was my 4x great grandmother.
Can any one help please.
Kathleen Patrick New Zealand
Kathleen Patrick lived in Kaeo Whangaroa.Marred Leonard John ManLesn Patrick about 1955. He died 25 Dec 1968
I can not find her after 1978. Have looked in my librarys genealogy room. Can some one help please.
Constance Leonore Hawson, Fettes, Davis.New Zealand
I am looking for the death date of the above.She was born in 30 Dec 1871 Dunedin, Lived in Christchruch, Wellington and Auckland.
Died about 1979 Hamilton, But can not find her there.Can someone help please.
Looking for the death dates of Leonore Isabel and Alexander Smith. NZ
Looking for the death records of Leonore Isabel and Alexander Smith marred in Wellington 28 April 1909
Leonore died 1956.But can not find where nor Alexander.
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Louis Vuitton Sues Hyundai Over A Louis Vuitton Basketball
from the do-morons-in-a-hurry-play-basketball? dept
Louis Vuitton is notoriously (and ridiculously) aggressive when it comes to trademark infringement. A couple years back we wrote about LVMH (parent company of Louis Vuitton) suing a Darfur fundraiser for creating a t-shirt of a Darfur victim "pimped out" to look like Paris Hilton, including a designer handbag with symbols made to look like the LV symbols.
So, yes, that's exactly what this lawsuit is about. DSchneider points us to the Consumerist's article laying out the details and I've embedded the lawsuit filing below:


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The Bordo Bello Skateboard Art Show and Fundraiser is gearing up for their 5th annual event and here's your chance to be a part of it. Every fall Bordo Bello assembles artists from all over the world to contribute their designs to the medium of skateboards to benefit the AIGA, the professional association for design, and their mentorship program…
Past artists involved in the event include renowned designers Gary Baseman, Scribe and sket-one and this year will be no different. Evan Hecox and Mike Giant, as well as design companies Johnny Cupkaes and Big Spaceship have been confirmed for this year's Bordo Bello with more to be announced soon. In conjunction with AIGA, this year's event is also being sponsored by BoardPusher Custom Skateboards, Eye Candy Graphics, and Odell Brewing Co.
Bordo Bello already has over 300 registered artists and, even though registration is closed, BoardPusher.com has curated a final spot in the art show and wants you to have a chance to fill it. A design contest is being held until August 25th in which the winner's design will be included for the duration of the 2012 Bordo Bello show. For details on how to submit your design for the contest head over to www.customskateboardsblog.com.
We look forward to seeing what you come up with.