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This is a greatly expanded, revised, and updated version of my latest print column:
There are noteworthy rumblings of discontent on Barack Obama's left flank. Liberals in his own party can't understand why the guy who racked up more votes than any presidential candidate in history, the guy who posted the biggest Democratic victory in 44 years, nevertheless seems so eager to placate the Republicans whom he so recently – and deservedly – banished to the political wilderness.
Liberals – or, as they prefer to be called these days, progressives – can't understand why Obama keeps chasing the "post-partisan" dream despite the reality that Washington remains a pit of vipers, and that every time he reaches out to opposition members, they treat it as a sign of weakness and use the opportunity to stiff him.
Obama may not be interested in playing hardball, but Republicans certainly are. That's what they do, and two successive electoral thrashings will hardly change their nature. And when their de facto leader speaks, they fall into line. For instance: Rush Limbaugh, on his Jan. 28 show, coined the term porkulus as a synomym for stimulus; within hours, Republicans and their followers were dutifully invoking porkulus.
In other words, while Obama in his early weeks has seemed so focused on wooing the people he defeated, on somehow winning their approval of the economic recovery package (fat chance), he might be well advised to pay more attention to the people in the Democratic base who got him nominated and elected. They're already restive.
Rachel Maddow, the left-leaning MSNBC host, wondered the other night: "Is it really that important to bend over backwards to try to make the Republicans in Congress happy right now?" That's the polite way of putting it. After Obama excised family-planning money from the stimulus bill, to mollify Republicans who were railing about "contraceptives," feminist Katha Pollitt said it was "bewildering that he sacrificed low-income women's rights and health in a vain bid to woo antideluvian right-wing misogynist Republican ideologues who will never, ever vote his way."
And after the Senate forged a compromise deal last Friday night on the recovery package – by (among other things) slashing the money for job-creating school construction, slashing proposed federal aid to the beleaguered states, and putting greater stress on tax cuts that won't sufficiently stimulate the economy – liberal commentator John Nichols faulted Obama for being too passive. Nichols wrote in The Nation magazine:
"These (compromises) are the fruits of bipartisan fantasies…President Obama, who should have been on television addressing the nation and doing everything in his power to rally support for a sufficient stimulus plan, will be lucky if he gets anything by the President's Day deadline he set."
Paul Krugman weighed in this morning, condemning the compromises in The New York Times: "I blame President Obama's belief that he can transcend the partisan divide - a belief that warped his economic strategy...He let conservatives define the debate, waiting until late last week before finally saying what needed to be said - that increasing (government) spending was the whole point of the plan" to boost the economy.
I heard some of these concerns the other day, when I lunched with Mike Lux, a Washington strategist who, in a previous life, worked in the Clinton White House as liasion to the liberal community. He has a new book, The Progressive Revolution, which argues that America typically changes for the better only when progressive reformers are bold enough to defeat conservatives in partisan battle. He sees the same opportunity today.
"There is no such thing as 'post-partisanship,'" he insists. "Conservatives are going to oppose progressive policies, period. If that's the way they want to play it, that's OK…Our problems right now are so big that Obama is going to have to go with more progressive, bolder, unconventional thinking. At the end of the day, he won't have a choice."
Lux and his brethren, of course, are pleased with many of Obama's early moves – particularly his executive orders on Guantanomo, labor, civil liberties, and abortion rights; and his signing of new laws that expand children's health insurance and make it easier for working women to sue for sex discrimination. There were also murmurings of approval late last week, when Obama finally hit back at the Republicans, in a series of venues, by pointing out that a record number of Americans "went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change," and that the surviving Republican lawmakers are trying to peddle "the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis."
(Indeed, now that budget-busting George W. Bush is gone, GOP lawmakers have suddenly dusted off their old small-government rhetoric – even though their rhetoric doesn't fit the current crisis. Yesterday, for instance, GOP Sen. John Ensign of Nevada insisted on NBC that the states don't need federal help because their budgets are "bloated." Classic denial. In the real world, the recession has precipitated deep budget deficits in 43 of the 50 states; 34 states have responded with deep cuts in education. Nineteen governors, including the Republican governors who run Florida and California, have signed a letter pleading for the federal aid that Ensign and his Senate GOP colleagues deem to be wasteful.)
While liberals are rooting for Obama to hammer the GOP over the stimulus package, they remain wary of Obama's priorities on other fronts. The president has wobbled on his campaign pledge to speedily revoke the Bush upper-income tax cuts. His foreign policy team is comprised of people who voted for the Iraq war. He has decided to postpone lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the military until the military fully assesses the policy's likely impact on discipline – thus prompting at least one prominent blogger, John Aravosis, to suspect that Obama might renege on his campaign vow and instead perform "a major and devastating flip-flop."
Indeed, even before Obama took office, he named so many centrists and Republicans to the Cabinet that another noted liberal blogger, Chris Bowers, lamented: "Isn't there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?"
The big liberal concern today is that Obama may again decide to indulge the GOP partisans who think it's just fine for the federal government to spend upwards of $1 trillion on a war in Iraq that was predicated on nonexistent WMD evidence, but who consider it a scandal to spend the same amount to confront an economic crisis at home (and who have a vested interest in thwarting Obama's priorities, because a successful recovery plan tailored to those priorities would doom them indefinitely to minority status).
It's not unusual, of course, for Democratic presidents to get heat from their left. It happened to Clinton, as Mike Lux well remembers. It happened to Jimmy Carter. It happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was frequently tagged by the left as overly timid. But liberals today are hungry after long years in exile, and their technological reach is certainly stronger than before.
Lux said: "With all the online capability, with the blogs, progressives can push much harder than they did during the Clinton years. They can push Obama with the speed of light. This president won't have as much rope as Clinton did. It's also because of the desperation of the times, because people are so scared (economically) about what might happen. He's going to have to respond" to that pressure – on a broad range of issues, from universal health care to goodbye, Iraq.
And what's the point of Obama sweet-talking the Republicans when they clearly prefer to fight? Consider Texas congressman Pete Sessions, who chairs the GOP 2010 election operation. Last Wednesday, he publicly shared his party's credo for good governance in these perilous times: "Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes."
He said it, folks. The Taliban.
With Republicans likening themselves to the Taliban, it's no wonder that liberals have little faith in Obama's "post-partisan" ideal. Author/commentator Robert Kuttner argued the other day that the ideal is dead, and "good riddance...Obama's real challenge is to mobilize public opinion – not just to win general approval ratings, but to make it very hard politically for anyone in either party to oppose his recovery program…That's what leadership is all about."
Indeed, Obama may soon decide, however reluctantly, that there's no point in extending a hand to a foe who won't unclench his fist.


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Checking in on… the NECPosted by rtmsf on December 11th, 2009
Ray Floriani of College Chalktalk is the RTC correspondent for the MAAC and NEC conferences.
LYNDHURST, NJ – The latest news in the Northeast Conference centers around the start of conference play. As it is for most conferences, the bulk of the action is after New Year's. But the NEC members get a few games in the books prior to January 1st.
The tempo free breakdown, with gratitude to Basketball State.
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Player of the Week. Devin Sweetney (G/F), SR, St. Francis (PA) – Sweetney recorded a pair of double-doubles in a 2-0 week for St.Francis. The Red Flash posted victories over Wagner and pre-season favorite Mount St. Mary's.
Rookie of the Week. Jamal Olasewere (F), FR, LIU– The LIU frosh averaged 11.5 points, a team-high 8 rebounds and shot over 70% from the floor as the Blackbirds got off to a 2-0 start in conference play.


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Sisters of Compassion-the Power of Prayer
- Jareen, CNN iReport producer
As 2012 comes to an end, most of us are focused on the holiday season and the New Year. People scurry to purchase last minute gifts, holiday lights twinkle and glow, and in colder regions, snowflakes are slowly drifting down to the ground as you look out your window at the evening wonderland.
At midnight, on a late December evening, a soft glow can be seen coming from a stained glass window of a small chapel. Inside, is a story of a small group of Sisters sitting and kneeling in prayer- a vigil of continual prayer unbroken for over 134 years. For the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration- this is their story of compassion and prayer.
The roots of the Franciscan Sisters can originally be traced back to Bavaria. Eventually the group founded an order in Milwaukee in 1849. In 1871, the Sisters moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin and later the first Maria Angelorum Chapel was dedicated three years later. In 1878 the Sisters began their Perpetual Adoration, a round-the-clock prayer vigil. Appreciating how much history has passed since the Sisters began praying, uninterrupted, is difficult to comprehend. Understanding the power of prayer and compassion is both fascinating and enlightening. To better understand their way of life, the Franciscan Sisters provided a private behind-the-scenes view of their world.
Sister Ronalda Hophan, a member of the Franciscan Sisters, provided a tour of the Convent and some insight into her world. Each day she receives phone calls, letters, entries in a devotion book, and e-mails from people requesting prayers. She said, "We get a lot of prayers for military people who are in Afghanistan and Iraq… people who are dying, people who are having surgery…and we get a lot of children with cancer…just a lot of prayers for children." Sister Hophan answers hundreds of requests each week. She answers every one of them.
She commented, "Some will tell me I can tell you were praying for me, or the minute I knew you were praying for me, I felt better." She reflected, "People will write back, sometimes a year later."
It is easy to see the compassion in Sister Hophan's eyes and voice. Each day she collects all prayers and groups them into categories for the Sisters to pray for. Sister Hophan said, "Just the thought that somebody cared enough for them right now, every minute of this day and night for this week" means a great deal. As the Sister spoke, tears welled up in her eyes. Struck with emotion she said, "It touches your heart. I feel for them…and partly because my sister just died and was buried (several) weeks ago… It gets to you, especially with the children…that are sick and dying of cancer...and the babies 2 or 3 months old dying of cancer." She shook her head and smiled through the tears.
Nearby I took a photograph of Sister Hophan in front of a stained glass window depicting Archangel Gabriel, known as the Messenger of God and whose name means "God is my strength." The photo appears to capture Gabriel's message to Sister Hophan herself, as she endures the weight of other people's pain.
Sister Hophan continued the tour as we walked to the Mary of the Angels Chapel in St. Rose Convent. This Chapel is breathtaking. It is here visitors can pray and attend prayer services. Inside are large towering arched ceilings, bathed in warm glowing light. The architectural is visually stunning. Above the altar is a painting by Thaddeus von Zukotynski (1855–1912) depicting St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order.
Sister Hophan ushered us though a large wood door which leads into the Sister's private Adoration Chapel. It is here that Sisters pray unseen by the public, 24 hours a day, 7-days a week- more than a century-old tradition. Sister Hophan sat quietly in silence in the back of the Chapel and prayed.
After a few moments we left the private Chapel and Sister Hophan spoke about her life. She talked about her conviction of helping the homeless in the community. She said we should "treat them the way you wish to be treated if you were in their shoes." When asked what she would like her legacy to be, she paused and said, "The legacy I want to leave…is compassion."
When talking about prayer Sister Hophan says that her greatest satisfaction is when people write back to say they felt the presence of prayer, even though they didn't get what they wanted. "I think that is the greater satisfaction." She continued, "Prayer is not always going to give you what you want, but somehow it will touch you and change you. That you can handle whatever it is that has come and placed on your shoulders."
With the afternoon tour completed, the next visit would come about nine hours later, just before midnight, to photograph the Sisters in prayer late into the evening.
At precisely 11:40pm I was met at the door by Sister Antona Schedlo. She greeted me with a warm and friendly smile, and led me through a darkened hallway to the private Adoration Chapel. The room was warm and extremely quiet. In the Chapel two sisters were kneeling deep in prayer. At the front of the Chapel was an impressive white altar. A prominently displayed mantle clock chimed on the quarter hour. In the stillness, you could almost hear the ticking gears in the clock as it counted the passing seconds. As the clock struck midnight, the Sisters in unison recited a prayer aloud. On each subsequent hour, a new group of Sisters would enter the Chapel to begin their own round of prayer.
The scene was impressively serene and peaceful. It was an incredibly moving scene- these Sisters praying for thousands of people who they will most likely would never meet. At 1:00am, the clock chimed once again and another group of Sister's entered the Chapel. This time one of the Sisters was wearing a colorful sleeping robe. The prayers continued.
As we left the Chapel, Sister Antona took a few minutes to talk about her life. She came to the Convent back in 1952. She described her experience of continued prayer as "relaxing in the presence of God…very powerful and peaceful." She spoke of the importance of taking care of the homeless. "It is sad these people have no place to go. Living in the wintertime. It shouldn't be. It just doesn't seem right. It is something we all can work for."
She reflected on the Newton, Connecticut tragedy saying, "Words cannot describe how I am feeling as I keep hearing of the tragedy. How can someone do this to innocent children and adults? I beg God that He will hold them and comfort them…I pray for the community, school, parents, siblings and all those suffering from this that they will not let hate or revenge stay in their hearts. God be merciful to the one who did this to them."
As with each of the Sisters who pray here, they bear the weight of the pain of others, and try to provide guidance and comfort in prayer. The prayer continued through the evening as it has for so many years before.
As I left the Convent Sister Antona greeted me at the door and waved goodbye. The outside air was damp and cold for this early December morning. For a moment, I wondered how the homeless were surviving tonight. I looked at my watch- it was 2:00am. I packed my camera gear into the car and briefly reflected on what I had experienced. I drove pass the Convent heading home, and there standing in the door entrance was Sister Anonta- making sure I was safely on my way.
Back in the Chapel the Sisters continued to pray hoping to provide comfort and hope in the world. Certainly these Franciscan Sisters are truly the Sisters of compassion and prayer.


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Now its time to send data from your Tessel1 device to IoT service on the cloud platform.
By Craig Cmehil
Connect your Tessel device to the IoT Services for sending data
Now its time to send data from your Tessel1 device to IoT service on the cloud platform.
Open your existing
climate.js file in your editor and make these changes to the section after you assign the climate module to port "A" and before you actually read the temperature from the module itself.
These changes set the parameters needed to post your data. Notice you will need to make the changes for your information for the TOKEN, Account, Device ID, etc.
If you are using the same code from the previous sections you will need to modify it to match your message type definition now.
In this example instead of sending a single value as you did in the previous section you are sending multiple values.
// Connect to SAP IoT Services parameters
var hostIoT = 'iotmms########trial.hanatrial.ondemand.com';
var portIoT = 443;
var pathIoT = '/com.sap.iotservices.mms/v1/api/http/data/';
var authStrIoT = 'Bearer e352bcc5dfdec1cdc6fc3e5ea0b2a66b';
var deviceId = '78863a3a-e7b0-47df-acd3-b0d8ca67067e';
var messageTypeID = '6c7a02f24cc32ee07174';
Insert the new
updateIoT function at the bottom of your
climate.js file. After the very last line of your current code.
function updateIoT(temp, humid) {
var http = require('https');
var options = {
host: hostIoT,
port: portIoT,
path: pathIoT + deviceId,
agent: false,
headers: {
'Authorization': authStrIoT,
'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8'
method: 'POST',
options.agent = new http.Agent(options);
callback = function (response) {
var body = '';
response.on('data', function (data) {
body += data;
response.on('end', function () {
console.log("END:", response.statusCode, JSON.parse(body).msg);
response.on('error', function (e) {
var req = http.request(options, callback);
req.on('error', function (e) {
console.log("time was:");
date = new Date();
time = date.getTime();
req.shouldKeepAlive = false;
var jsonData = {
"mode": "sync",
"messageType": messageTypeID,
"messages": [{
"temperature": temp,
"humidity": humid,
"timestamp": date
var strData = JSON.stringify(jsonData);
console.log("POST jsonData:" + strData);
messageTypeneeds to be changed to match your
Insert the call to
updateIot just after your
console.log output of your sensor data and before your
setTimeout loop continues.
updateIoT(temp.toFixed(4), humid.toFixed(4));
Check that your Tessel is still connected to Wi-Fi by running the command
tessel wifi -l. If you do not get a response like that below, you should reconnect to the network with the command below with the correct SSID and password. If your access point has spaces in the name then just put it inside of quotes like this:
"Wifi name".
tessel wifi -n SSID -p password
Run your code, and you should see an output like the one below:
tessel run climate.js
Return to the IoT Services Cockpit, click the View messages received, use sample clients, etc. tile, click the View stored messages tile, then select your table. You will see the latest messages showing up there. You can also click the REFRESH button as your script runs.
You can switch as well from table display to live chart to see climate data changing in real-time.
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LODI - Lodi tourism experts revealed its new brand at its annual luncheon Tuesday, displaying a marketing campaign they hope will let people from out of town know that, yes, Lodi is a burgeoning wine region but also much more.
LODI - Lodi tourism experts revealed its new brand at its annual luncheon Tuesday, displaying a marketing campaign they hope will let people from out of town know that, yes, Lodi is a burgeoning wine region but also much more.
The Visit Lodi! Conference and Visitor's Bureau will buy advertisements and signs that show what is "behind the wine." Headlined by a new logo that reads "Lodi California behind the wine" with a wine glass blending into the "o" in Lodi, the campaign features different photos of people kayaking on the Mokelumne River, skydiving, and visiting local art galleries and theaters.
One ad says, "Your story starts here" with a photo of a local wedding. Another ad says, "There's more magic to Lodi than what's in your glass."
Visit Lodi! CEO Nancy Beckman said the first ad in Via magazine has been met with rave reviews.
"It really is flexible and lets us show all the different things we can see and do here," Beckman said.
The campaign caught the eye of an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who attended Tuesday's luncheon as a guest.
"I came to Lodi several years ago, and I remember it being a charming place, but I couldn't remember why it was charming. These ads remind me," said Barry Morrow, who won Hollywood's biggest award for his work writing the 1988 film "Rain Man."
"It's been 10 years since I last visited Lodi. My lasting memory is of the Mission-style archway downtown. Now I'm looking at a revitalized downtown and the people here. ... I've never met a grumpy person here," Morrow added.
Beckman said the conference and visitors bureau spent 18 months working with North Star Destination Strategies, which poured hours of research and testing into the $76,000 campaign to find out how to attract more people to Lodi.
Lodi businesses will be allowed to use the new logo in their materials and labels as well.
North Star CEO Don McEachern said coming up with "behind the wine" is "a little science and a bit of art."
"We came to an agreement on a strategy. It isn't enough for Lodi to take its place in the wine galaxy," McEachern said. "It's giving people a way to see what is different."
Branding has been done elsewhere locally in recent years. In 2008, the Downtown Stockton Alliance spent $125,000 on its Celebrate Stockton campaign. A total of 120 cheerful banners were placed downtown with messages for people to celebrate different facets of the city.
Last year, the Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission launched a hefty advertising campaign for its LoCA brand. Billboards highlighting wine and leisure were placed along Highway 99, and other print ads and social media sites are using the campaign to bring more awareness to Lodi as a wine region.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-5257 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Sarcoma – Consequence of Irradiation
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Sarcomas are malignant tumors, which occur everywhere in the body. They occur with a frequency of 2 new cases by 100,000 inhabitants/year.
A genetically disposition is not known but an irradiation applies as a secured risk factor. Patients with an irradiation dose ≥50 Gy have a higher risc to fall ill with a second cancer. Often the diagnose "sarcoma" is made in an advanced stage, because the tumor grows infiltrativ but slow.
We report on two cases in which patients get a sarcoma within the radiation field. In both cases it was diagnosed in the cancer follow-up investigation, one after 7, the other after 13 years. Both cancers were treated with an endoscopic laser surgical ablation. Previously no recurrence could be demonstrated.
A long-termed and periodic monitoring of irradiated patients is very important because of late genesis of second cancers within the radiation field. With this periodic monitoring is it possible to detect and therapy some patients with a recurrence before they notice it.


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"Following questions posed by the Belgian and to be posed by the UK court, the ECJ will be deciding on an issue which is of significant importance for the future of the European border seizures practice. It concerns the legitimacy of the application of the so-called manufacturing fiction, when ascertaining whether goods seized by customs agencies pursuant to the Counterfeit Goods Regulation infringe upon an IP right."
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. - The Coker College baseball games scheduled for Sunday (Feb. 17) at home against Alderson-Broaddus have been has been canceled due to winter weather. No make-up date is scheduled at this time.
The Cobras will return to the field on Wednesday (Feb. 20) at home against Claflin University. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Coker's Tom J. New Field. Live coverage of the game will be available online at www.cokercobras.com.


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Kevin Gray's On Baseball: In town for Baseball Dinner, Carpenter says he'll keep pitchingBy KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 17. 2012 11:24PM
MANCHESTER -- Chris Carpenter finished the 2012 season with another postseason victory, one fewer rib and a refreshing outlook on his future.
The Cardinals ace spent almost the entire season on a comeback mission from nerve-related shoulder weakness, which included the removal of a top rib in July. He returned earlier than expected and eventually beat the Nationals in the playoffs.
Today, at 37 years old, there's plenty of life in that lightning-bolt right arm. The Trinity High of Manchester graduate might continue pitching until someone rips the jersey off his body.
"If I can be healthy, I want to keep pitching until I can't pitch," Carpenter said at the annual Granite State Baseball Dinner, held at the downtown Radisson on Saturday night. "My kids love it. My son was just telling me on the flight about how much fun it is being able to go into the clubhouse and be part of everything. It's important to him."
Carpenter said he wouldn't hesitate pitching into his 40s. He's thrown more than 2,300 career innings, including the postseason, and fashioned a 144-94 career record through 15 seasons.
"I'm going to do whatever I can to pitch as long as I can," he said, "but I won't be the guy out there when it just doesn't work. I can promise you that."
The dinner, hosted by the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, was another smashing success. Organizers upped the ante this year by adding Hall of Famer Wade Boggs and former home run champion Cecil Fielder, among others. Boggs, who flew from Tampa on Saturday afternoon, was flat-out excited to meet up with former teammates Rich Gedman, Bob Stanley and share stories with fans.
"It feels like Old Home Week," Boggs said. "Look at all these guys here."
Boggs made his debut for the Red Sox in 1982 at age 24. He always hit, batting .349 and .361 in his first two seasons for Boston. Once considered a defensive liability in the minors, Boggs became a solid corner man for Boston and a Gold Glove winner with the Yankees in 1994 and '95.
"They said I couldn't run. Can't field. No power. You know what? I was doing something I loved and kept working at it. Now I'm in the Hall of Fame," Boggs said. "I just kept swinging the ax and going about my business. I was getting paid for something I loved - not a lot - and I never dreamed of doing anything else."
Boggs arrived at the dinner in good hands. David McCarthy, former executive major of the New Hampshire State Police, spent the day traveling with Boggs. McCarthy is also executive director of the Ted Williams Museum and often a chaperon for the stars.
"Of all the big names and Hall of Famers I've worked with over the years, Wade Boggs is one of the best guys," McCarthy said. "When I told him how important this baseball dinner was to New Hampshire, he made sure we didn't miss it."
Trinity High alumnus Mike LaValliere, a former Gold Glove catcher with the Pirates, returned to the dinner and sat next to Boggs during the two-hour autograph session. The Pirates haven't had a winning season since "Spanky" was behind the dish in 1992.
Rays outfielder Sam Fuld of Durham began the day at USA Training Center in Newington, signing autographs and talking with young players about life in the big leagues. Fuld is eligible for "Super 2" salary arbitration this winter and should double his salary to about $1 million, thanks to baseball's new labor contract.
Pirates lefty Jeff Locke, a Kennett High of Conway product, beat the Braves for his first big-league win on Oct. 1. The southpaw has conquered the minors and feels ready for a full-time role in the Pirates.
"You can spend an entire career waiting for the opportunity I have right now. I'm ready. I'm going to spring training with the plan to become part of that starting rotation and help lead the Pirates to the playoffs," said Locke, who turns 25 on Tuesday.
Locke always manages to find a seat near Carpenter at the dinner.
"I've been seeing Chris at this dinner since I was 8 years old. I always tell people he's been my role model. We come from the same type of woods," Locke said.
Cubs minor leaguer Brad Zapenas, a Nashua North graduate, has already had a productive off-season while returning from shoulder surgery. In addition, he'll earn a finance degree from Boston College next month.
"Going back to college this fall was a nice experience, but it really made me miss playing the game," said Zapenas, who hopes to play for the Advanced-A Daytona Cubs.
Yankees minor leaguers Jordan Cote from Winnisquam Regional of Tilton and Joey Maher of Bedford High were among the rising stars on the guest list.
Last year's event raised a combined $155,680 for Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, the Fisher Cats Foundation and the Ted Williams Museum. Saturday night's event was expected to push charitable earnings to about $1 million through the past eight years.
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Quentin Tarantino Has a Longer Cut of Django Unchained
"I make these scripts that are almost novels."
"I make these scripts that are almost novels," Quentin Tarantino said at a Django Unchained press day in New York on Sunday. "If I had to do this whole thing over again I would have published this as a novel and done this after the fact." Tarantino confirmed there's a longer cut of the film he may roll out at some point. "I could do what Kevin Costner did with the expanded edition of Dances with Wolves, and I could very well do that. Because if I put some of that in I have to change the story. But I want this version to be the story for a while." He also spoke about avoiding his "usual narrative tricks" with Django, saying a chronological approach was essential. "It had to be an odyssey ... At one point Harvey [Weinstein] was talking about splitting it up [into two films]. And I said, 'No, it won't work here.' You have to follow Django's journey to the end."


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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Roy Oswalt may have had interest in a return to the Phillies, but it wasn't mutual. At least not yet.
With Oswalt's decision to "evaluate his options" and an intention to pitch for a contending team sometime this season, the Phillies theoretically have a fallback plan if needed. It's not so far-fetched: Think Pedro Martinez in 2009.
Of course, a lot of things would need to happen to facilitate this scenario. First, the Phillies would require a need for Oswalt. At this point, an injury to one of the current starters would be the most plausible situation.
Next, Oswalt would have to prove he's in decent pitching shape. His agent, Bob Garber, said Oswalt plans to stay in shape by throwing regularly in Mississippi. But Oswalt has chronic back problems and not going through the typical routine of a normal spring training could make him more suseptible to injury in a midseason return.
And then there's the whole money issue, which is apparently paramount to Oswalt's thinking. He reportedly turned down a $10 million offer from Detroit and drew serious interest from Boston and St. Louis.
Lance Berkman, a longtime teammate and friend of Oswalt's said he's spoken often to the pitcher this winter.
"To me, it's strictly a money thing," Berkman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "The Cardinals have budgetary concerns and they could only go to a certain point. And that wasn't what Roy was looking for. That wasn't enough to lure him out of Mississippi."
The Phillies never closed the door on Oswalt this winter, but were never seriously involved because of the sticker price. If the team could find a taker for a chunk of Joe Blanton's $8.5 million salary, then the odds of a reunion increase. But Blanton must prove his health and even then, it's unlikely any acquiring team will want to absorb most of Blanton's salary.
Plus, Oswalt's desire to keep pitching is still in question. He is said to prefer a job in Texas or St. Louis. He didn't dislike his time in Philadelphia, but mostly he was aloof.
Now, the rest of the baseball world waits to see how long Oswalt sticks to this strategy.
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Army of Darkness (US - BD)
Gabe is overwhelmed by possible one-liners to stick in this header spot...
At the end of his last battle with the unnameable evil of the demon spawn Deadites, Ash William (Bruce Campbell) was accidentally thrown back in time to Arthurian Medieval England. Ash's timing is expectedly bad, as a battle between King Arthur and Henry the Red is stewing among the awakening of the Deadites' evil. Mistaken for one of Henry's men, Ash is taken back to Camelot to be executed. After fighting his way out of the execution, Ash makes clear his innocence, and an effort is put forth to help him return to his own time. Now labelled 'The Chosen One' Ash must retrieve the Necronomicon, which possesses the power to save the kingdom, and send him home. Now if only he could remember those secret words…
I'm far too close to Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness to be at all trustworthy when it comes to a critical analysis of pros and cons. Instead of a review I'm penning a brief love letter, and won't blame you if you want to skip to the end. Upon the film's initial release I was too young to see R-rated movies in theatres, but discovered the Dark Horse comic book adaptation, and was transfixed by the mix of horror, adventure, action and comedy. Raimi and his brother Ivan managed to distil everything a thirteen year old boy loves into three perfect issues. Eventually the film became a cable television mainstay, and I was able to actually see the film version. I was initially taken aback by the much more prominent physical comedy, and how humble the special effects were, especially compared to the intricate illustrations of comic artist John Bolton. But by this time I was in High School, and could appreciate irony, and had recently discovered punk rock. Army of Darkness is mass of DIY punk rock energy, and like all Raimi's best films it's an extremely personal piece of work. Raimi's far too big a sweetheart to give us the finger, but one assumes that he doesn't really care if you don't like Army of Darkness (or any of the other Evil Dead movies), because he likes it, and that's all that really matters.
At the time I saw Army of Darkness I was almost entirely unaware of the other two Evil Dead movies (I remember the Evil Dead 2 poster art creeping me out at the local video store, but that's about it), even though it was clear that the film was a sequel based on the opening scenes. Fans even younger than myself may be unaware that at the time of release Army of Darkness was considered a failure by most fans, who were expecting something darker, more along the lines of the original Evil Dead. Ironically enough, or rather, entirely un-ironically enough, the same thing happened with Spider-Man 3, which was also co-written by the Brothers Raimi. Anyway, the less horrific and generally PG-13ish (the original cut was given an NC-17, and even with studio cuts was awarded an undeserved R) appealed to a younger version of myself, and proved to be a gateway drug to harder horror, which I proceeded to fervently hunt down for the following decade and a half of my life. Since horror movies are themselves a gateway drug to a more general movie obsession I personally owe a lot of wasted time to Army of Darkness specifically.
The long and winding road of Army of Darkness on digital home video is an exhausting story. I'm not sure if any copyright protected film has ever seen so many official home video releases. Anchor Bay alone released the film six times between the US and the UK, and Universal released a non-anamorphic disc before that. This is the third HD release, following the HD DVD and the UK Blu-ray. I have no idea if this transfer differs at all from the other two, but am going to assume it doesn't. This is about as glorious a transfer as I was expecting for the film, which is to say the quality is totally inconsistent. The shortcomings are pretty much all in keeping with those that have sullied the film upon every release.
When things are dark, or where the B-level optical effects are concerned, the transfer is grainy with a capital Grr, and the image sharpness is problematic. However, in bright lights the transfer quite literally shines, really, really brightly, and details are sharpened to blinding degrees. The only problem with these bright scenes is that the sharpening is extreme enough to cause some noticeable edge-enhancement, which increases in frequency as the camera pulls back. Colour consistency is also an issue, especially in the heavily processed optical effects and matte shots. The scene where Ash is tortured by tiny versions of himself is awash with a warm tint that overtakes the black levels. This problem is repeated a few more times in other effects heavy shots, but overall colours are relatively pure, and blacks are much darker than the DVD releases. A perfect example of the transfer's inconsistent detail is found in the early daylight castle scenes. Watch in terror as the detail is sucked out of the up shot of Ash and Henry the Red looking into 'The Pit'. Then it happens again as Ash starts up his newly acquired chainsaw. But like I said, these have been issues since the film first hit home video, as have the occasional artefact, such as hair on the gate, or small smudges on the lens. This is the best I've seen the film look, and I'm not sure if there's much room for improvement based on the source material's condition. The framing is a constant source of argument as well. Apparently 1.66:1 is the original transfer, but many releases have been 1.85:1. This one is 1.85:1, for what that's worth.
Did you hear that? That was the sound of Ash's boom stick. It seems that Universal was unable to get a hold of all the Anchor Bay extras, or MGM's remastered director's cut version (if they even tried), but my ears tell me they got their hands on the formally THX certified 5.1 remix. The strengths and weaknesses seem to match the whole way through. The original mix was a rather aggressive and super-stylized Dolby Surround medley, so the remix is a lot more organic than the Evil Dead remixes. There isn't an excess of surround effects, but the stereo channels are quite lively, and are filled with directional movement. The mixes greatest strengths are in the clarity of duelling elements. Even at the height of noise the throwaway jokes are still plenty clear. The most obvious shortcoming is the occasional centre channel bleeding, usually during otherwise quiet talking scenes. The prime example comes when evil Ash is barking orders at his troops. Again, this has been an issue for the audio mix since the first 5.1 version was released. This DTS-HD version offers obvious lossless advantages, including heavier bass, more pronounced directional effects, and general clarity. Joe LoDuca's score (which is augmented by one Danny Elfman cue) is the tracks prime example of enhancement.
If I could express my screaming disappointment at this, the first official US Blu-ray release of Army of Darkness, in written words I would. It's just not possible. When the disc was first announced Universal was all 'Woo, extra features!', but apparently something went wrong along the road, because damn, is this sad. Apparently the UK disc didn't go too much better, but even a SD transfer of the director's cut is better than just the alternate ending.
This disc features four extras, two of which can be considered 'new' in the most technical sense of the word. The most substantial new extra is a featurette entitled 'Creating the Deadites' (21:30, HD). Though similar to the 'Men Behind the Army' featurette that accompanied Anchor Bay's release (including much of the same behind-the-scenes footage), this look at the special effects production with KNB Effects members Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger features at least a handful of new stories from the front. Entertaining enough. In the place of the excellent extended edition commentary is a U-Control option that displays production photos. It's not the same. To their credit, however, Universal has supplied the original ending that test audiences found too depressing in non-anamorphic, standard def video. I suppose the ending is the most important of the differences between the theatrical and director's cut versions, so new viewers should be thankful for small favours. Extras end with the original US theatrical trailer (SD), the one with the faux-Metallica soundtrack.
Dear MGM,
Please find the time to release a Blu-ray version of your excellent, entirely uncut version of Army of Darkness. I'm sure Universal means well, as their Blu-ray version of the theatrical cut looks and sounds sizably better than any version of the film I've ever seen, and God bless them, they included the original ending, but we really want that director's cut, that Raimi, Raimi, Campbell commentary, and those deleted scenes. I promise fans will find the money to buy this release.
Yours truly,
* Note: The above images are taken from the UK Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th September 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Surround 2.0 English, DTS 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Creating the Deadites, Alternate Ending, Production Photos, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ted Raimi
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy and Horror
Length: 81 minutes
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TL;DR I suck, database tuned, automation applied.
The longer story: You may have noticed, when attempting to get to the forum, that there were occasionally some errors to the tune of "Error establishing connection to the database." I tossed Chatty on an out-of-the-box install of MySQL (okay, okay, MariaDB. Sheesh.) and left it at that, also sharing the database process with a few other low traffic sites on the same server.
A few things weren't tuned, and oomkiller would handle low memory situations by murdering MySQL. That should, hopefully, be a thing of the past now. Also, I dropped in some automation to handle things just in case there was more murdering, there can also be some resurrecting.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Hindu nationalists won a resounding victory Thursday in state elections in western India, buttressing the political strength of Narendra Modi, the Hindu ideologue and polarizing figure whose supporters believe could become prime minister in 2014.
With almost all results counted, news reports from Gujarat state, where Modi has served as the state's chief minister since 2001, gave his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party 115 seats in the state assembly, two less than the 117 seats in the last election. Its closest rival, the Congress party, took 60 seats, one more than it held before.
"Indian voters are mature enough to understand that what's good for Gujarat is good for their future. The people of Gujarat have given a vote for good governance and development," Modi told cheering crowds that had gathered to celebrate his victory.
Analysts noted that Modi gave his victory speech in Hindi instead of the local language, in order to reach out to a larger national audience.
"My work will not stop, I will not tire in my effort to fulfill your dreams of development," he said as the wildly jubilant crowd broke into applause.
The Congress, which leads India's national government, has seen its position dramatically weakened in recent years, its reputation battered by clumsy political maneuvering, weak leadership and a seemingly endless stream of corruption scandals.
The BJP's top leadership has long presented Modi as a potential future prime minister. On Thursday, as supporters danced in front of party offices holding signs calling for Modi to take the country's top position, party officials dodged questions of his role in the next national elections, expected in 2014. Modi himself made clear he was thinking of the future.
"No need of looking behind, FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite courage, infinite patience..." said a quote on his personal Twitter site.
Behind Modi, though, lies one of the grimmest times in recent Indian history, when marauding mobs of Hindus killed and burned their way through Muslim neighborhoods in Gujarat in 2001, leaving more than 1,100 people dead.
While he was never charged with a crime, his many critics say Modi did little to stop the three months of rioting. Some have accused him of encouraging the violence.
Since then, Modi has been a deeply divisive figure in Indian politics, a man revered by supporters as a defender of Hinduism and reviled by opponents as an ideologue who has taken advantage of his state's religious divide.
While earlier campaigns highlighted his Hindu credentials, this year's avoided divisive issues. Gujarat has become a wealthy state over the past decade, a magnet for companies eager for business-friendly regulations. His campaign showcased his claims that he molded Gujarat's transformation, bringing industries, jobs, electricity and water in a country where power outages and joblessness are epidemic.
Certainly, Modi is the most powerful man in Gujarat. He runs nearly every major state ministry, and his face is omnipresent on posters. One TV station does little but broadcast adoring reports about him.
While Modi is a masterful politician — his latest campaign included high-tech holographic speeches that took his image to dozens of towns and villages at a time — it's unclear if he could become a national leader. His polarizing history would make it difficult for a Modi-led BJP to forge the alliances it would need.
"It's not going to be that easy for the BJP to settle on Modi" as a national leader, political analyst Zoya Hasan said on NDTV television. The party "desperately needs more alliances to create a government in 2014."
His political rivals, not surprisingly, insisted Thursday's victory did little to push him to national power, since the BJP did not dramatically increase its seats in the state parliament.
"This Gujarat election proves that it's not open skies for Narendra Modi," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters.
The Gujarat elections were held Dec. 13 and 17, though official counting did not occur until Thursday.


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Percent Necrosis in Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma After Preoperative Radiation Alone Versus Preoperative Radiation and Chemotherapy
Scientific Session: Percent Necrosis in Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma After Preoperative Radiation Alone Versus Preoperative Radiation and Chemotherapy
Studies of soft tissue sarcomas from UCLA suggested that in soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities, necrosis (tissue death) is associated with better outcome. This study investigates whether there was a difference in the amount of necrosis between patients treated with preoperative radiation alone versus those treated with radiation and chemotherapy. They also looked at whether differences in necrosis could be correlated with patient outcomes.
Medical records of 357 patients, over age 18 years, were reviewed, and 196 were found to have information on necrosis available for analysis. Five-year overall survival ** was 76% in the radiation alone group (RT) versus 70.4% in the chemoradiatiotherapy group (CRT). Five-year disease-free survival ** was 59.8% (RT) versus 58% (CRT). Five-year local control (meaning no recurrence in the area of the original tumor) rates were 86.2% (RT) versus 92.2% (CRT). None of these differences were statistically significant, meaning they could have just happened by chance. The average percentage of necrosis, however, was significantly different: 51.5% (RT) versus 77.6% (CRT).
So, was this necrosis rate predictive of anything? The only correlation was seen in the CRT group, for whom necrosis rates of less than 30% were associated with higher rates of local recurrence. Otherwise, necrosis was not predictive of disease-free or overall survival in either group or local control in the RT group.
Given these results, it may be appropriate to treat patients with less than 30% necrosis after CRT with further therapy. This study was a "look back" (retrospective) at previous patients, and not a "gold-standard" randomized study, making it difficult to know if newer pathology or radiation techniques may change the results. The study shows that, for now, it is difficult to use necrosis as any sort of predictor of outcome.
** Overall survival is the number of patients alive, regardless of whether they have active disease or disease progression. Disease-free survival is the number of patients alive who have not had any disease recurrence.
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"Doppelgänger", or look- alike works, have existed in the collection in Vienna since the beginning of the seventeenth century, when Emperor Rudolf II commissioned his court painter Joseph Heintz the Elder to make a copy of Parmigianino's Cupid Sharpening his Bow (1535). For a long time original and copy were displayed beside each other in the Imperial treasury, where they became one of the highlights of the collection. A myth sprung up around the paintings, claiming Heintz died in despair of never equaling Parmigianino in his art.
The Picture Gallery invited you to have a closer look at the Doppelgänger. A selection of paintings will be displayed with look- alikes from the museum's store, many of which have rarely been seen before. Visitors are encouraged to decide for themselves what differentiates an original work and its copy. Can we, for example, still relate to Max Friedländer's 1942 comparison of the original as 'organism' and the copy as 'machine'?
Further questions concern the various aspects of the art of copying: does a copyist in the artist's workshop paint differently from someone who copies a work over a hundred years after its original completion? Is a copy made for documentary purposes executed differently from one conceived purely as an artistic endeavor? How much freedom of interpretation can a copyist allow himself? Why are copies made in the first place?
Masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Albrecht Dürer, Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Jan Brueghel the Elder will be displayed with their look- alikes in Rooms I, III, XII and XV, and in Cabinets 2 and 14. To encourage the visitor to come up with their own conclusions, original and copy are not identified on their display labels. The 'solutions' to all Doppelgänger can be found in Room XII.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A popular software magnate has bowed out of South Korea's presidential race, setting the stage for the main liberal opposition candidate to take on conservative front-runner Park Geun-hye in elections next month.
Independent Ahn Cheol-soo's announcement Friday night ended a tense, weeklong tug of war between the two opposition figures on finding a single challenger to take on Park, the daughter of late dictator Park Chung-hee. It came after last-minute talks on merging campaigns with liberal Moon Jae-in appeared close to breaking down.
Ahn threw his support behind Moon and said he was withdrawing to keep his public promise to decide on a single candidate to challenge Park before formal registration for candidates begins Sunday.
"It is important for me to become president and unfold a new kind of politics," Ahn said. "However, keeping a promise I've made with the people is more important."
Media polls have shown neither Ahn nor Moon could defeat Park in the Dec. 19 elections if the race came down to three candidates, so it was seen as crucial to throw liberal and independent support behind a single person. Moon is a former human rights lawyer who served under former liberal President Roh Moo-hyun.
Current President Lee Myung-bak ends his single, five-year term in February. Term limits prevent Lee from running again.
Ahn, a political novice and bookish entrepreneur who made his fortune in software before turning to philanthropy, has been called South Korea's Bill Gates. His political message rang true with many young people and with those disgruntled with traditional South Korean politics. Moon and Park are from South Korea's two major political parties.
Despite his popularity, there had been skepticism about Ahn's ability to govern a country of 50 million people that faces the ever-present threat of rival North Korea on its doorstep.
Ahn was 26 when he developed South Korea's first antivirus program in 1988. He distributed the program to computer users for free. After working as a medical professor and a navy doctor, he established AhnLab with only a few employees in 1995; it has since grown into South Korea's biggest information security company.
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R.A. Salvatore Co-Writes "Dungeons & Dragons: Cutter" Miniseries
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IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce another action-packed entry in their line of Dungeons & Dragons comics! This April, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: CUTTER, a five-issue miniseries written by R.A. and Geno Salvatore with art by David Baldeon and covers by Steve Ellis, weaves the tale of a family fiercely divided and at odds with itself, with a legendary sword hanging in the balance!
When the battle-hardened Drow renegade Tos'un must choose an heir to his legacy, his half-Drow son Tierflin and daughter Doum'weille become locked in vicious competition. But what will the prize, the bloodthirsty sword Khazid'hea, have to say on the matter?
"These comic series have become a wonderful tool for me to fill in the blanks and to crystallize my thoughts on the Legend of Drizzt novels going forward," explains R.A. Salvatore. "The fallout from the twisting events in Neverwinter Tales not only came into play in the last couple of Drizzt books, but allowed me a strong plot line for an upcoming novel I've yet to pen. The same is true for Cutter – I see it already. So while these comic stories are self-contained, they open up to the wider stories going forward."
From the writing team of powerhouse Dungeons & Dragons veterans R.A. and Geno Salvatore comes a tale steeped in action and intrigue, woven into the fantastically imaginative world that can only be found in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Rounded out by the vivid art of David Baldeonand Steve Ellis' striking covers, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: CUTTER is sure to be a wildly fun ride for fans of Dungeons & Dragons and comics everywhere, not to mention an unexpected tie-in to this summer's blockbuster R.A. Salvatore novel!
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Tricks of the Trade: A Table for Your Trim Router
I was looking for a safer way to use my trim router for everyday chores around the shop. My solution was to build a router table that hangs off the end of my bench on a French cleat. When I'm not using the router table, I store it under the end of the bench on the floor. When I need to use the table, I simply hang it on the French cleat.
The router table is light enough that it is quite secure when mounted this way. This setup is great for doing small roundovers, chamfers, flush-trimming and the like. A standard router base plate is used in the table, so it's easy to pop the router out of the table for freehand work.
It's been a great addition to my shop, it doesn't take up much space and it is a good way to store the router when not in use.
Tricks online: We post tricks from the past and film videos of some Tricks of the Trade in use in our shop. They're available online, free. Visit popularwoodworking.com/tricks to read and watch.
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My Epson 4000 printer is located in Colorado at 8,000 feet above sea level. If I do not print at least every day, I must run one, or several, nozzle cleaning cycles before I can print. I seem to be using far more ink cleaning than printing. Is this a problem with the Epson 4000; all printers at this altitude; or something I am doing wrong. I have contacted Epson support with no results or usable suggestions. Thanks for any analysis you can provide.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=74460\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
concensus seems to be (and my personal experience with 4000 clogs bears this out) to bite the bullet and run a power cleaning cycle. performance should improve after that. I suffered with daily cleaning cycles until I ran the power clean, and performance has been significantly improved.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=74469\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
concensus seems to be (and my personal experience with 4000 clogs bears this out) to bite the bullet and run a power cleaning cycle
Tim wrote:Tim: I've heard this has worked for some folk, too. My experience, FWIW: didn't help me one bit, while costing me more than $200 in wasted ink and a flooded maint. tank to no avail. Von: are you using 110 or 220 ml cartridges? Right now I'm working on the theory that the 220s I was using don't make perfect contact with their connectors and am switching back to 110s as the 220s go dry. This theory is based on the presence of bubbles I see in the ink lines together with the fact that when a clog in one colour shows and I do a cleaning, often a clog in another colour shows. Can't yet say whether 110s are going to solve the problem, because it so happens I've been printing every day since I started the switch over and naturally haven't had a single clog. Anyone using a 4000 with 110s and still having the frequent clog problem?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=74476\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
my most frustrating days were when I was using 110's
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Ink droppages can occur because of the accumulation of air bubbles in the feed lines ... in principle they absolutely should not be there
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Epson has recommended to run a print between cleaning cycles
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.a brown ale by Big Sky. I had wondered whether it might conform to the general rule, the uglier the label or its name, the greater probability that I'll like it. I did indeed like Moose although I found it considerably less assertive than the typical ale, revisiting a q which has long escaped definitive answer. How often can a brew which most of us consider bland, instead be labeled "subtle"
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That certain lot or parcel of land with all the building and improvements thereon situated on Spindrift Street in the Town of Jamestown, County of Newport and State of Rhode Island, laid out and designated as Lot No. 290 on that plat entitled: "JAMESTOWN SHORES PLAT NO. 1 IN JAMESTOWN, R.I. OWNED BY JAMES G. HEAD Scale 1" = 100' April 1947, E. NEWMAN, ENG.'R", said plat being recorded in the office of the Jamestown Town Clerk and designated as Hanging File 1A, excepting here from that portion hereof taken by the State of Rhode Island for highway purposes.
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Handbag Porn: Wallet Edition
Wallets tend to be the last thing I think of when it comes to putting together my look. And that's exactly why I carried the same one from college until about age 27 — I just never thought about it.
Rather, I never thought about it until a friend accused me of carrying a mom wallet. And she was right — my shit-brown, worn-out billfold was stuffed with coins, old bobby pins, and the signature mom item: a checkbook.
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Terry Freedman on ecards
It's good to see that more and more people are turning to e-cards now instead of the traditional ones. And surely this is an area in which governments and businesses should set an example?
It's true that traditional cards look nice when they're displayed as part of the Christmas decorations, but it's much more eco-friendly to send e-cards. That's what I've been doing for some years now, and it looks like several more companies are doing so this year. At least, that's my perception based on the number of e-cards I've received from business contacts -- although it is not just strong perception, as "Report on number of Christmas cards sent" from the USA suggests.
In fact, I've noticed two developments this year:
Firstly, as I said, I seem to have received more e-cards. Perhaps this is for financial reasons rather than "green" ones, but it does suggest that, for whatever reason, e-cards have become more acceptable.
Secondly, when looking for e-cards that I would feel happy sending to clients and other business contacts, I was delighted to see that 123 Greetings has a business section. Perhaps they always have, but I don't recall seeing that elsewhere when I was looking last year or this year. That means that one no longer has to try and select the least noisy, drawn-out, cheesy or otherwise unsuitable card.
For example, this year I sent this card to my contacts.There is a musical accompaniment to it, but (a) it's more choral than "cartoony" and (b) you can easily turn it off.
I have quite a large Christmas list, so using the e-route helped save a small tree I think! It also saved money, an important consideration in these times. For that reason I was rather dismayed by a Bermuda report in the The Royal Gazette to the effect that the government of Bermuda spent $20,000 on sending Christmas cards. Why? Oh, and by the way: that government is us, the Brits!
Also, a recent Report from New York" from New York highlights the enormous waste of resources associated with sending cards and wrapping Christmas gifts.
So, here are some questions which may be useful to discuss with your students -- not necessarily in relation to Christmas, but other festivals as well:
Is it curmudgeonly and "scroogish" to be considering issues like waste and finance on these sorts of occasions?
-Do e-cards have the same impact as physical cards?
-Although it can be much more efficient to send e-cards (less wasted cards due to making a mistake when writing the message, that sort of thing), should we eschew such considerations at times like this?
-Should governments be spending money sending physical cards, especially during a recession?
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It's time to cleanse yourself of all the useful Friends knowledge you've been holding on to since 1994 in a trivia battle that's sure to stump even the most fierce Friends fans.
Come prepared with a team of up to six people and join us tomorrow night at 7pm in the Melody Bar for $5 bottles of Mill Street and lots of TV Trivia. Your lively hosts, and extra special guest host and The Grid TO contributing writer, Paul Aguirre-Livingston, will lead you through a night of trivia questions, including audio clues, skits and more. Winners will be awarded prizes & prestige!
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The struggling euro currency, the sovereign debt issues of Europe and the growing European economic recession with the implications those developments present to economies throughout the rest of the world continue to confront currency traders more than three years after they first emerged.
Despite a flurry of activity ahead of a European Central Bank (ECB) meeting in early August and promises to do everything possible to save the euro made by ECB President Mario Draghi, foreign exchange traders and analysts were left with the conclusion that little had changed in the slowly unfolding Eurozone drama.
"The central bank ultimately has run into a pushing-on-string type scenario whereby they can do all the QE (quantitative easing) and all the monetary easing they want, but at the end of the day these problems have to be addressed in some way, shape or form. That's probably going to involve pain," says Dave Floyd, head of market strategy for the Aspen Group. "That's what everybody wants to avoid, and that's understandable, but it's probably going to take a while for this thing to unfold and it's probably going to be like a slow train wreck rather than some sort of sharp, drastic event. Most of the potential scenarios that could happen are known at this point. It's that wild card that nobody sees coming."


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Kyriakos Michailidis was born in 1982 in Drama, where he lives and works today. He studied Business and Administration at Kavala. He deals with photography seriously from 2006. He has attended Platon Rivellis' seminar about the art of photography and has participated in many exhibitions. Kyriakos tries through his lens to discover the magic of things which are in constant communication with himself. He is the president of the Photographic Group of Drama with the name "EFODOS», since 2014. www.efodos.com. He is a fine art photographer that shoots only colour and only square format with fujifilm x cameras.
I photograph landscapes usually within the limits of the urban, interior spaces of abandonment, eerie and surreal pictures of my city, there are rarely people in them. My photos easily resemble photographed by viewing almost always head to the issue and a purity and rigor to the form. This gives an easy first reading of my images that slowly deepens when you will discover many things.
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Food appears so often and takes on so much importance in Jami Attenberg's novel The Middlesteins, that while reading it I sometimes felt like I was on a kind of literary cruise ship. But excess isn't presented here wantonly; instead, it's laid out and explored with sympathy, thought and depth. Early on, the parents of the main character think, "Food was made of love, and was what made love, and they could never deny themselves a bite of anything they desired." And so the novel takes off from the evocative starting point known as appetite.
The child of those parents grows up to be Edie Middlestein, the obese matriarch of the novel's eponymous family, who reaches well over 300 pounds before the book is through. The other Middlesteins know she is killing herself with food, but they are helpless to stop her.
After her husband, Richard, leaves her, Edie's adult children, Robin and Benny, become enmeshed in their estranged parents' lives. The family members' interactions and overlaps, their dissonant styles and divergent needs, create much of the drama of this novel, which sports a blurb from Jonathan Franzen and has its own Corrections-y, multiple-viewpoints-of-a-Midwestern-family feel to it, though with distinctly Jewish flourishes.
The way that adult children and their parents make their way through life, sometimes like a shared waltz, other times more like people shackled together on a chain gang, is rendered beautifully. The complicated dynamic between Robin and Edie comes through in a scene in which Edie takes Robin to a Chinese restaurant she frequents, and there Robin sees her mother not through the Middlestein lens, but through a new one:
"It was early, not even 5:00 PM, and the restaurant was empty, except for a young Chinese woman sitting before a giant pile of green beans spread on a table. She ... rushed toward Edie with open arms, and they quickly embraced."
When Edie finally introduces Robin, the woman says, "'The schoolteacher! What an honor to have you here. Your mother talks about you all the time. We love your mother. Just love her. She's our hero.'
"Robin was stunned, and a little stung, too, that she had no idea what was going on at that moment. 'Why is my mother the hero of a Chinese restaurant?' "
She may challenge Edie's heroism in this context, but as a reader I never questioned why Edie is the hero of the novel. She is helpless before life's temptations, even as they promise to take her away from all she loves.
When I started the book, I thought about how overweight people often suffer from prejudices and hostility, and I wondered whether the author would be fair to her character. I'm pleased to say she is. She doesn't overcompensate for the character's weight by, say, making her excessively cuddly and loveable. Instead, she does what good writers do, which is to make her real. She doesn't have to defend her character; she just has to let us get to know her.
The Middlesteins is a tender, sad and funny look at a family and their mother. In fact, it's so readable, it's practically edible.
Meg Wolitzer's new novel, The Interestings, will be published in April.
Finally, this hour, a book about kids and parents, specifically about that moment when we first see our parents as the rest of the world sees them, as real people with hopes and fears, remarkable talents and terrible flaws.
Here's reviewer Meg Wolitzer.
MEG WOLITZER, BYLINE: There's so much food in Jami Attenberg's novel "The Middlesteins," reading it is like being on some kind of literary cruise ship. It's a book about excess and appetite, but it's presented thoughtfully and explored sympathetically. Edie Middlestein is the matriarch of a Jewish Midwestern family. She's a big woman. By the end of the book, she's well over 300 pounds.
The other Middlesteins know she's killing herself with food, but they can't stop her. After Edie's husband leaves her, their adult children become even more involved in their parents' lives. The family members interact and overlap, their different wants and needs are the basis for the book's drama. The book is also a beautiful portrait of how a family makes its way in the world.
Sometimes people move together like a shared waltz, other times it feels more like they're shackled. Edie and her daughter Robin have an especially complicated dynamic, this shows in a scene where they go to a Chinese restaurant and Robin sees her mother not through a Middlestein lens, but a new one. Attenberg writes: It was early, not even 5:00 PM, and the restaurant was empty, except for a young Chinese woman sitting before a giant pile of green beans.
The woman rushes toward Edie and they hug. When Edie finally introduces Robin, the woman shakes her hand and says: The schoolteacher. What an honor to have you here. Your mother talks about you all the time. We love your mother. Just love her. She's our hero. Robin was stunned, and a little stung, too, that she had no idea what was going on at that moment. Why is my mother the hero of a Chinese restaurant? Even though Robin doesn't think of her mother as a hero, I'm convinced that she is.
When I started the book, I'll admit I was a little worried. Overweight people often suffer from prejudice and hostility. Would Attenberg be fair to her character? In the end, I'm relieved to say she is. And she doesn't overcompensate by making Edie urgently cuddly or too loveable, either. Instead, she just does what good writers do, which is to make her real. She doesn't have to defend her character, she just has to help us get to know her.
"The Middlesteins" is a tender and funny look at a family and their mother. In fact, it's so readable, it's practically edible.
CORNISH: "The Middlesteins" by Jamie Attenberg, our reviewer is Meg Wolitzer.
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Bonnie Stephens, 84 - April 04, 2012
Bonnie Marie Stephens, 84, of Gothenburg died April 4, 2012, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 10, at First United Methodist Church with Dr. Jeff Thurman officiating.
Interment will follow in the Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell.
She was born July 21, 1927, in Gordon, daughter of Clida J. and Florence A. (Glover) Cunningham.
She grew up at Gordon and graduated from high school there. She lived in Gordon, Rushville, Norfolk and Gothenburg.
She married Johnie E. Stephens on June 28, 1954, at Rapid City, SD. To this union, five daughters were born: Verona, Jolene, Kari Lynn, Celeste and Roxanna.
Stephens worked as receptionist and bookkeeper for Dr. Craig Bartruff for many years. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. She was also very active in United Methodist Church in the UMW and Bible studies.
She loved reading, enjoyed arts and crafts and always enjoyed visiting with new residents and showing them around at Stone Hearth, family members said. She also enjoyed the activities and exercise classes.
She was preceded in death by: husband, Johnie Edward Stephens in 2002; her parents, Clida J. and Florence A. Cunningham; son-in-law, Kevin Bell; grandson, Brent Beguin; granddaughter, Jessica Wiebelhaus; sister, Hope Saxton; sister, Doris Carpenter.
Surviving are: her daughters and their families—Verona and Perry Beguin of Spearfish, SD, and their children Shawn, and Tina; Jolene and Mark Aragon of New Braunfels, TX, and their children Timothy, Jeremy, Curt and Nicole; Kari Lynn and Bill Wells of Norfolk and their children Andrea, Mitch, Corey and Tiffany; Celeste and Mike Schuhmacher of Chadron and their children Casey and Crystal; Roxanna Bell of Wittmann, AZ, and her children Zac and Samantha; 17 great grandchildren; brother Wayne Cunningham; two sisters—Delores (Bill) Nydahl, and Marva Jeanne Holst; along with numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.
Memorials may be directed to the Johnie Stephens Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o American Legion, 304 16th Street, Gothenburg, NE 69138.
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