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I rant about things that are bad in the industry, and I rave about things that I like about table top role-playing games.
This is my first blog entry, so here goes.
What is wrong with wizards of the coast. They said that their D&D insider software would be ready by the release date of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition books.
This obviously did not happen. It has taken them months, and now finally they have the character generator available.
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Ok so, I have received some requests to shoot kiteboarders. Sofar have only shot them from the beach (and once from helicopter). The problem with shooting from beach is of course that it is difficult (well in my case impossible) get close enough to get nice close low angles to include both the rider and the kite. Shooting tele and just including the rider works, but as the "strings" to the lite are so long, images with rider AND kite just look boring... What I would like to be able to do is shot wide angle, in the water, close. This of course presents some problems. I imaine I should have camera housed, but working with a housed camera our of the water is difficult, especially on fast moving subjects. Then there is the qustion of how to be there and getting the shots and not getting killed (or at least not getting camera pulverized).
I have a little Zodiac type dingy, but I don't think shooting from it would be a good idea as the kitesurfers ride in very shallow water with lots of reef and I wouldn't want to zip over the reef (not good for the reef nor for the outboard).
Anyone shoot kiteboarders (or maybe even windsurfers) and have some ideas as to how to do this?
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Indiana food stamps is a program that helps provide food for low income individuals and their family members. In order to receive Indiana Food Stamps an individual must fill out and submit an application form which will be reviewed to determine if you meet the criteria set for the food stamp program.andhe was the one
What is the Criteria?
In order to qualify for the food stamp program you must meet certain guidelines, these guidelines have to do with your income your assets and the size of your household.
Maximum gross and net monthly income limits
Household size Gross monthly income Net monthly income
1 $1127 $867
2 $1517 $1167
3 $1907 $1467
4 $2297 $1767
5 $2687 $2067
6 $3077 $2367
7 $3467 $2667
8 $3857 $2967
Each additional member $390 $300
Besides your income you must also be a legal US citizen or resident there are some exceptions regarding immigrants who have been in the US for at least five years and fall on their one of the following categories.
* lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), including Amerasian,
* refugee admitted under section 207 of the INA,
* granted asylum under section 208 of the INA,
* paroled under section 212(d)(5) of the INA for at least one year,
* deportation withheld under 243(h) or 241(b)(3) of the INA in effect prior to April 1,1997,
* granted conditional entry under 203(a)(7) in effect prior to 4/1/80,
* Cuban/Haitian entrant as defined in 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, or
* immigrant, parent, or child of an immigrant who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty in the U.S. by a spouse, parent, or by a member of the spouse or parent's family residing in the same EU as the immigrant at the time of the abuse. There must be a substantial connection between the battery or extreme cruelty and the need for food stamp benefits and the individual must not reside in the same household as the abuser. In order to qualify you also have to have assets no greater than the amount set, households with a disabled member or a member age 60 or older may have up to $3,000 worth of assets and still qualify for food stamps. Other households may have up to $2,000.Once you have reviewed the criteria and have made a decision that you believe that you qualify you are ready for the next step which is to fill out application.
Application Process
The first step in completing an application for Hawaii food stamps is to go online and download the application. This can be done online The application is pretty simple if you have gathered the information that I discussed above income, expenses, and social security numbers for everyone in your household. The individuals in your household that count as household members are
§ Parents
§ Children under 22 years old
§ Children, except foster children, under age 18 who are under the parental control of a person other than their parents who is exercising parental control. For example, grandparents may apply for grandchildren in their care, even if they do not have "legal" custody. The application should take you about 20 minutes. It is important that you fill out the application as fully as possible. Once you are done with your application you should return it to your local Food Stamp office.
What happens next?
Once your application is submitted it will be reviewed by a caseworker who will then determine if more information is required from you.You will get a letter in the mail stating what your caseworker has determined is needed if anything is needed. You also probably get a date for an appointment in the office or for a phone interview. It is important that you get the additional requested documents by that date of this appointment in order to make sure you are improved as quickly as possible. It is also very important that you keep your scheduled appointment, or having to reschedule will also set you back. Once you have attended your appointment and provide all the necessary information which may include income verifications such as pay stubs, expense proof such as rent receipts or mortgage payment receipts, also childcare receipts. After the appointment you will receive another letter stating that decision in your case. If you have been approved you will then get another letter that will include your plastic EBT card, the card will have to be activated which is done by telephone in order to be used. Once it is activated you will be able to make food purchases where Indiana Food Stamps are accepted. The amount that you are approved for will be based on the size of your household and your income and expenses. The amount that you receive can be anywhere from $200-$1200.


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Two 2001 Music Scores? Oneword's Score Plays Them Both
I was listening to The Score, a programme about film music on Oneword Radio, a UK digital station.
On June 24 they played both scores for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was unaware there were two scores but you may not be so ignorant. However if you are then it is a fact that Stanley Kubrick commissioned Alex North to write the score for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but decided against it in favour of the classics we know. North's score is in two movements, reflecting the first and second chapters of the film.
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'The 2001: A Space Odyssey score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.'
'North, unaware that Kubrick had decided not to use the score in his film was "devastated" at the 1968 New York City premiere screening of 2001 not to hear his work, and later offered this account of his experience:
"Well, what can I say? It was a great, frustrating experience, and despite the mixed reaction to the music, I think the Victorian approach with mid-European overtones was just not in keeping with the brilliant concept of Clarke and Kubrick."'
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By Terril Yue Jones and Sally Huang
BEIJING (Reuters) - As the United States debates its gun laws after the Newtown school massacre, China is doing its own political soul-searching after a shocking knife attack on a Chinese elementary school.
On the same day as the Newtown shooting, a crazed man broke into a school building in central China, stabbing and slashing 23 pupils in an attack that, although not fatal, lit up the Internet - but barely registered with official state media.
Instead, media gave top coverage to the U.S. shooting and barely mentioned the Henan school attack, a decision that has drawn sharp criticism of the ruling Communist Party's readiness to reflect on the ills of U.S. society but not on China's own.
"On the same day as the U.S. shooting, 22 children were slashed at the school in Henan, but mainstream media were virtually mute on this. Are the lives of Chinese children worthless to them?" a microblog user wrote in one of many such posts.
According to China Digital Times, a website following social and political developments in China and run by the University of California, the government's central propaganda department ordered all official media to downplay the Henan attack.
The Internet criticism of official media coverage follows the installation last month of a new Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping, who has signaled a more open style of leadership and told the media not to shy away from focusing on genuine news.
However, last week's Henan attack has been largely missing from Chinese newspaper and TV reports. The Xinyang Daily, whose circulation area includes the school, devoted its page-one story on Monday to lauding the local education system without mentioning the attack, according to the Global Times newspaper.
The Xinyang paper later apologized for the story.
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The Bulls couldn't hit from the floor and couldn't hit from the free-throw line. What else you got? Nerf basketball, anyone?
Derrick Rose was bad. Carlos Boozer was awful. Luol Deng was useless in the second half. Everybody else followed.
And that's how the Bulls made a mess out of Game 2 of their Eastern Conference Finals against Miami.
You name the spot, the Bulls missed shots.
The thee-point line that was their friend in Game 1? They were 3-for-20 in Game 2.
The free-throw line where the Bulls hit 17-of-20 on Sunday night? They missed 10-of-26 on Wednesday.
The total misery from the floor where the Bulls converted 44 percent in the opener? They missed almost two-thirds of their shots a couple days later.
But wait. It gets worse. The Bulls scored only 29 points in the second half. They made only four baskets in the fourth quarter, all by Taj Gibson, and scored only two points in the last seven minutes.
Poof, there goes home-court advantage.
The stretch, though, is where the Heat killed the Bulls. Miami ended the game with a 12-2 run, nine of the points by LeBron James, the other three by Dwyane Wade.
And where were the Bulls' offensive leaders? Anybody? Hel-lo?
Rose didn't make a basket in the last 13 minutes, finishing with 21 points on a dreadful 23 shots. Deng didn't score, period, for the last 19 minutes and missed 10 of 15 shots in all. Boozer, meanwhile, was on the bench.
Just because Miami forward Chris Bosh was doing nothing doesn't mean that Boozer had to match it.
I don't care how many Big Whatevers the Heat has, Boozer is just as important to the Bulls as the second scoring option as Bosh is to Miami as the third. I'm sure Boozer knows it. I'm also sure he needs to act like it.
Boozer spent most of the first half looking tentative or bad, or both. He passed up chances to take shots, and when he did, he missed 5 of 7. To be fair, Boozer's five rebounds led the Bulls in the first half, and he had a block and a couple of steals.
But still, he has to do better than five points because he has trouble turning a bad offensive start into a good game, and this was another example, as he finished with three baskets on 10 attempts.
The Heat were trying to involve Boozer in pick-and-rolls because of his weak defensive abilities and they were killing the Bulls in the paint, making Boozer's missed layins all the more aggravating and making Taj Gibson all the more necessary.
As if you needed more numbers to indict the Bulls, the Heat out-rebounded them and had more assists.
Oh, and Udonis Haslem came off the bench to strafe the Bulls for nine points in the last five minutes of the third quarter, finishing with 13 points and providing all kinds of game-turning energy. Haslem brought the kind of spark that Joakim Noah usually gives the Bulls and more points in that stretch alone than Boozer managed all night.
The whole thing was painful to watch. Most of it was self-inflicted. That's actually a reason for optimism. The Bulls held Miami to 85 points, and the Bulls usually win when they do that to an opponent. So, it's just a matter of making shots, and they can't possibly shoot as horribly in Miami.
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The Roadshow is over
THR heads for bankruptcy
Not so long ago, Jeffrey Parsons was on top of the world.
J. Parsons, the west side store that sells everything from socks to shoes to hats to watches to pants to historic documents to gourmet cheese, opened the day after Thanksgiving. Parsons was fast becoming a household name in Springfield, thanks to television commercials for the store that were in heavy rotation during the Christmas shopping season, each one featuring himself looking dapper in expensive suits.
Help wanted billboards erected in Springfield promised six-figure salaries to folks who went to work for THR & Associates, a company formed in 2008 that almost overnight became a multimillion-dollar firm. With Parsons as its president, CEO and sole shareholder, THR set up buying events in hotels throughout the nation, luring customers through newspaper ads, then convincing them to sell coins, jewelry, watches, antiques and anything else of value, especially if it contained gold or silver.
The goal was to buy low, sell high, and THR did a lot of it. In 2010, the company had revenue of $125 million and Parsons reaped nearly $9 million in profits. Revenue last year was $211 million, with a net profit of almost $11 million, according to testimony in the pending divorce case of Parsons vs. Parsons, which has laid bare the inner workings of THR and the largesse of Jeffrey Parsons, who had finally hit it big. But not for long.
THR is headed for bankruptcy, and its bank accounts have been frozen by the Internal Revenue Service, according to recent testimony in the divorce case. The Illinois attorney general's office has launched an investigation, and a federal criminal probe could be in the offing.
Between delinquent payroll taxes and unpaid personal income taxes, the state and federal governments are owed about $13 million by THR and Parsons, who resigned as the company's chief executive officer on July 13, a Friday. He deposited his final paycheck in the account of his live-in girlfriend and mother of his infant child so that the IRS would not seize the money. He testified last week that his own bank account has a balance of $360.
Four secondhand stores remain in business in Springfield, Jacksonville and Urbana, but Parsons testified that the stores, called Buy Sell Trade, are putting proceeds into safes instead of bank accounts. Paying taxes has never been a priority for Parsons, who didn't file tax returns between 2002 and 2008, according to court testimony, and has racked up a series of IRS liens dating back to 1996.
THR's main bank account at Chase Bank is overdrawn by $6,000 and virtually all employees have either resigned or been laid off, Sally Runyon, company bookkeeper, testified last week. In addition to freezing THR's bank accounts, the IRS has levied accounts at The Gold Center in Springfield and Heritage Auctions in Texas, where THR has sent coins and scrap metal to be either melted or sold to collectors. The pipelines of cash have been huge, with Heritage sending at least $14 million to THR this year and The Gold Center sending $43 million between January and May.
It is all gone, according to Parsons, who last week testified that he signed over a $10,000 cashier's check, remnants of a THR account at PNC Bank, to a bankruptcy attorney on July 18, with a Chapter 11 filing expected. The company is facing 29 lawsuits, many from creditors, and landlords are evicting TRS from its offices, Runyon said. An unknown number of employees have not been paid wages due.
"They owe me about $2,500," says Warren Myers, a former Springfield resident who worked as a buyer at THR shows and now lives in Nebraska. "I've actually tried to talk to the attorney general, trying to put pressure on them. Someone has to put pressure on the attorney general to press charges."
Natalie Bauer, spokeswoman for Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan, says the attorney general has received nearly 100 complaints from consumers about THR, mostly about bounced checks, and has been in contact with other agencies, including federal law enforcement entities.
"We've launched a full-scale investigation on the civil side," Bauer said. "Many, many consumers have called our office. ... This is a very serious situation – we recognize that. We're doing whatever we can to investigate and get this to the attention of the appropriate authorities."
Lives of luxury
While employees, vendors and the IRS go unpaid, Parsons and his estranged wife live in luxury, she in a mansion near Athens, he in a Panther Creek home worth more than $1 million.
Parsons in January testified that $2.8 million has been invested in the Athens home, but still it had issues that Buraski Builders, a Springfield company, estimated would cost nearly $300,000 to fix. The tab to repair a doggie door was $500, repairs to a garage that was home to a feral raccoon would cost $40,000 and fixing a two-story indoor fountain that had damaged the home's interior due to materials that weren't waterproof would total $2,000, according to a February report from Buraski.
The couple also owns vacation property at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri where four boats, including one dubbed Dirty Money, are moored. Parsons last week testified that the boats have a combined worth of more than $100,000. The property is now listed for sale with an asking price of $2.8 million. Home furnishings at residences in Illinois and Missouri are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, Parsons testified, and include a Chinese wedding bed once owned by Johnny Cash and his wife, June.
The bed pales in comparison with the half-share of a Cessna jet that THR purchased last fall for $600,000 in silver coins. Parsons testified that he has taken the jet to Florida, New York and Las Vegas, although he said those trips were for business. The company also owns a Piper Cherokee airplane. Cars include a Bentley bought last year for $80,000 and a 2009 Cadillac Escalade hybrid driven by Parsons, who used silver coins to buy the hybrid from local car dealer Todd Green, who also accepted silver for the Cessna.
Jennifer Parsons, who filed for divorce last year, owns a Rolls Royce and a Mercedes. She survives on $25,000 a month given to her by her estranged husband.
Jennifer Parsons last week testified that she spends $2,500 a month on swimming pool and lawn maintenance, $1,250 a month on clothes and $2,000 a month on food for herself and a daughter.
"Where do you buy your food?" asked Gregory Scott, attorney for Jeffrey Parsons.
"Different places," Jennifer Parsons answered. "Sam's Club, County Market."
Jeffrey Parsons, who vowed to limit personal spending to $25,000 in a January agreement with his estranged wife, has also been shopping. A March tab at two Florida fishing tackle stores totaled more than $23,000, according to THR financial records.
Panther Creek Country Club bills incurred by Jeffrey Parsons include a March tab for $4,328 and an April bill for $5,919. Parsons last week testified that he is cutting back. Since THR has tanked, Parsons said he will no longer have business associates to fete in the clubhouse and so will limit himself to using the golf course.
While the company is behind on rent for its headquarters and other properties, it was current as of June 15 on payments to Green for the Panther Creek house where Jeffrey Parsons lives. Since closing a deal for the home late last year, THR has paid Green at least $55,000 in monthly installments and spent an additional $88,000 on improvements, according to court testimony. Parsons moved in after paying Green an upfront fee of $100,000 in silver coins. Last spring, Parsons used silver to buy a boat from Green, who testified the coins were worth $150,000.
Not surprisingly, the IRS has taken an interest in divorce proceedings where THR's finances are discussed. Besides purchasing transcripts of court hearings, the IRS has been in touch with Jennifer Parsons' legal team.
"The IRS…has a team of people working on this, and has countless resources, has not closed the book on this," said Peggy Ryan, Jennifer Parsons' lawyer, during a February hearing. "We are constantly getting calls from them. We are constantly aware of subpoenas and so on and so forth. They have not been able to put things together."
With tax collectors closing in, Jennifer Parsons sent a text message to her estranged husband in May, offering a way out.
"If you sign things over to me, I'll share them with you so the IRS can't take it," Jennifer Parsons wrote in the message.
Jennifer Parsons testified that she sent the message because she wanted a settlement in the divorce case – the court file is 16 inches high and growing. Much as he might dislike paying taxes, Jeffrey Parsons apparently hates paying his estranged wife even more.
"He told me he'd rather they (the IRS) have it," Jennifer Parsons testified.
A series of ventures
THR is just one in a series of businesses launched by Jeffrey Parsons, the consummate Energizer Bunny of entrepreneurs.
During the mid-1990s, Parsons sold fruits and vegetables out of tents, with one in Lincoln and two in Springfield, where a city health inspector found that he was selling foodstuffs without a proper license. Then Mayor Karen Hasara intervened, refusing to shut down tents set up outside White Oaks Mall and at JC Penney, despite health department concerns. After a health inspector informed White Oaks Mall that Parsons didn't have a proper license, Hasara suspended the inspector for five days.
The inspector, who went on to become an FBI agent, sued the city for violating her free-speech rights and collected a $41,000 settlement. It's not clear what happened at White Oaks Mall, but the 15,000-square-foot tent on Dirksen Parkway blew away during a 1998 windstorm and ended up draped over a utility pole.
As a businessman, Parsons has long lived on the brink, time and again racking up liens for unpaid state and federal taxes. In 1997, he filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy and said he was doing business under a half-dozen names, including American Passport Publishing, Amish Valley Farms, Big Lake Properties, Parsons Produce, Illinois Safe and Sane Fireworks and Totally Nuts.
After making more than $118,500 in monthly payments to a trustee, Parsons was discharged from bankruptcy in 2002. But a flow of state and federal tax liens dating back to at least 1996 never went away. Liens started fairly small, with a $3,098 levy by the by the state Department of Revenue in 1996. The IRS followed a month later with a $25,000 lien for unpaid payroll taxes and a few months later filed a $29,544 lien for unpaid 1994 income taxes.
Parsons paid the 1996 liens, but he has never stayed current with taxes for long. In 1997, the IRS levied liens totaling nearly $39,500 that weren't paid for five years. Liens of six and seven figures began in 2010, after THR began churning millions of dollars in profits. Parsons has testified that instead of paying his taxes he put the money into THR to expand the business.
By 2003, Parsons had moved from vegetables to firearms, becoming director of the International Gun Safety Council, which offered to purchase guns for $25 apiece at events dubbed gun buybacks that were typically held at hotels. Parsons told the media that the council was performing a public service by purchasing guns for resale.
"We're an outlet for these folks to legally, responsibly get rid of their unwanted firearms, so law enforcement should be tickled to death," Parsons told the Beacon News of Aurora in 2003.
Police were less than amused.
"What they are doing is not illegal," Dan Ferrelli, Aurora police spokesman, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "However, the words 'gun buyback' imply this program has law enforcement associations, which is not the case. We feel their advertising for the event is misleading."
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms asked the International Gun Safety Council to remove the agency's name and phone number from fliers promoting buying events, saying it neither endorsed nor had any involvement with the organization. Gun control advocates were also concerned.
"Sounds like Jeffrey is trying to make a quick buck and masking it as a public service," Thomas Mannard, executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, told the Sun-Times.
At the time, Parsons was also selling fireworks and running afoul of the state fire marshal, who alleged that Four Seasons International, the fireworks company, was selling illegal wares. In 2003, Parsons signed an agreement with the state in which he promised not to sell illegal fireworks, but he was soon back in Menard County Circuit Court, where the state presented the judge with affidavits from several fire chiefs who said that Parsons had broken the agreement.
"If I were you, I would be very careful not to be selling anything that was agreed to in that order, and the order was a very specific order," warned Menard County circuit judge Carol Pope, who told Parsons that he faced jail and fines if he continued selling fireworks deemed illegal and the state pressed the matter.
In 2004, Parsons set up un-manned vending machine stations under the business name Get And Go Express on vacant lots in Springfield, taking advantage of a loophole in zoning regulations that aldermen soon closed by requiring landscaping, parking spaces and other amenities. Dubbed "Home of the 25-cent Soda," Get And Go would eventually offer pizza cooked in under two minutes along with soft drinks, candy and other snacks, Parsons predicted, and franchises would sprout nationwide.
The crumble began in the fall of 2005, when Four Seasons declared bankruptcy. According to court documents, Parsons had intermingled funds between Four Seasons, Get And Go and other businesses to the point that they were all the same enterprise for purposes of the bankruptcy proceeding.
Making matters worse, the attorney general in 2005 sued Parsons for alleged violations of consumer protection and deceptive business practices statutes, saying that he had promised good wages to people who responded to newspaper ads to staff fireworks stands, then never paid them. The lawsuit is still pending in Sangamon County Circuit Court.
When the dust settled, more than $306,000 in bankruptcy claims went unpaid. Springfield's last remaining Get And Go on Dirksen Parkway is covered in dust and hasn't quenched thirsts in years. Two Sangamon County lawsuits filed against the Home of the 25-cent Soda for nonpayment of debt remain open.
A new beginning
On Aug. 12, 2008, Jeffrey Parsons, by then a defendant in more than 20 Sangamon County lawsuits alleging nonpayment of debt, started fresh by filing incorporation papers for THR & Associates with the Illinois Secretary of State.
The schtick – traveling the nation buying valuables for resale – remained the same, but Parsons operated under no fewer than 17 names, ranging from the Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery to Mississippi Valley Gold and Silver Refinery to Cash For Tools to the International Vintage Guitar Collectors Association to International Gold and Diamond Buyers Association to Treasure Hunters Roadshow.
Awash in cash, Parsons became a darling of civic leaders, including Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce officials and former Mayor Tim Davlin.
Davlin and chamber representatives attended when Parsons held a 2010 press conference to mark the opening of THR University in a Wabash Avenue office building, where he said he would train people to appraise and buy valuables. He used stretch limousines to whisk reporters between the new facility, company headquarters on Pleasant Run and a processing center on Springfield's west side through which millions of dollars worth of precious metals flowed.
Civic leaders proclaimed themselves delighted.
"The hiring plan they're looking at right now is phenomenal," Davlin gushed in a 2010 story published by the State Journal-Register. "These are good-paying jobs, too."
However, no paychecks would be issued until prospective employees completed five weeks of unpaid training, a full-time endeavor. That didn't bother the chamber.
"I don't think it's problematic, especially because of the wages they say they're paying," Erich Bloxdorf, executive vice president of the chamber, told the SJ-R in 2010. "It looks like they've had pretty strong growth over the last three or four years. … The headquarters is here, so the wealth comes back to Sangamon County, so that's a good thing."
But cracks were appearing even as Bloxdorf and Davlin gave thumbs up.
Checks written to customers who sold items to THR bounced in 2008 and 2009; the company blamed an accounting snafu. In 2010, WGBH, the Boston public-television station that produces "Antiques Roadshow," sued for trademark infringement, saying that consumers were getting pennies on the dollar for valuables and were confused by THR's use of the name Treasure Hunters Roadshow as well as a logo that was similar to a treasure chest logo used by "Antiques Roadshow."
"Defendants capitalize on the Roadshow name in order to try to purchase products on the cheap for purposes of resale," WGBH said in its lawsuit, which was settled for more than $300,000 and a promise from Parsons to start using disclaimers and stop using the treasure-chest logo.
It was the second time that WGBH had sued Parsons, who years earlier had agreed to pay the station $21,500 after getting hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit for using the term "Antique Toy Roadshow" when setting up shows to purchase old toys.
Parsons is now facing more than two dozen lawsuits, but Don Craven, a Springfield attorney for WGBH who last month sued Parsons on behalf of a local software company that is owed more than $100,000, doesn't like the odds of plaintiffs recovering anything.
"I think it's going to be very difficult to trace any hard assets to collect any judgment that might be awarded by the court," Craven said.
End game
Jeffrey Parsons declined comment after a July 18 hearing in his divorce case, but in a voice-mail message sent later, he said that all assets purchased with THR monies belong to the company, not him. He also predicted that employees who haven't been paid will ultimately receive their wages.
"It's my belief that THR and Associates' assets far outweigh any debt, including those employees," Parsons said. "We decided to declare bankruptcy, and they've tied my hands as far as spending any money."
Jeffrey Parsons has otherwise had no comment after recent court sessions in his pending divorce. It's not hard to imagine why.
When asked about Rolex watches he once plucked from THR's inventory to wear, Parsons last month testified that he doesn't do that anymore.
"Melted and gone," Parsons answered when his estranged wife's lawyer asked about the timepieces.
Time and again, Sangamon County associate judge Steven Nardulli has issued verbal spankings, threatening Parsons with receivership and wondering aloud whether assets are being hidden.
"Real estate can't disappear like gold and silver can disappear," Nardulli said during a June hearing when the fate of the Ozarks property was discussed. "That's a big part of my concern about all of this."
After a private investigator hired by Jennifer Parsons last week testified that he had recently seen vehicles coming and going from the Wabash Avenue processing center where THR's treasure has been stored, Nardulli ordered the parties to lock the building up immediately and keep separate keys pending an inventory.
"Two sets of padlocks," the judge said.
What happens next is anyone's guess. J. Parsons is going out of business, with all proceeds of the liquidation sale due to go to the IRS. Proceeds from the sale of THR's vehicle fleet are also supposed to go to the IRS, but the first check written to the IRS from vehicle sales didn't clear the bank, Runyon testified last week.
A lot of little people have been hurt along the way, Craven says. Some employees quit good jobs to go to work for THR, he says.
"You have bags of silver used to buy planes and boats and automobiles," Craven said. "We have no explanation as to why there aren't little bags of silver to pay the employees."
Tiffany Poe of Springfield, a THR employee who was laid off last spring, says that she can't understand why Parsons hasn't been charged with a crime.
"He's bouncing checks to employees," Poe says. "Somebody's protecting him. Anybody else would be in jail."
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SEATTLE (AP) — A big explosion and fire destroyed three buildings, damaged several others, sent debris flying for blocks and jolted people awake early Friday in a Washington town, firefighters and North Bend residents said.
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I took the scenic route from Northampton to Palmer last week, avoiding the highway in favor of Bay Road through Hadley and Amherst and Route 181 through Belchertown. On the sunny morning of Election Day, my ride was not only relaxing but a feast for the eyes as I rolled by lots of open country, past beautiful farms, through charming rural villages.
How, I wondered, could a casino complex do anything but spoil what makes this part of Massachusetts special?
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The signs of tension were clear on Election Day. A union man holding a pro-casino sign on Main Street said the drivers passing by were expressing their opinion in one of two ways: "thumbs up or the middle finger." Around the corner, a small group of casino opponents repeated a litany of grievances against the well-financed casino campaign and the company behind it. But bitter as they were, those same folks told me they thought Palmer would reject the casino. I was a bit taken aback by their confidence.
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Gaming Blend "At first the PS4's Unreal Engine 4 demo looks like it contains the same kind of parity as the PC Demon Knight demo, but after things really start cooking and the effects start flying, we begin to see that the parity is not the same and there is an obvious gap in the visual fidelity between the PS4 real-time demo and the PC demo from a year ago."
That guy uses the word "obviously" a lot!
Given this is an old tech demo, it was likely created on old dev kits. Previous dev kits did not have full PS4 specs, and I doubt this early in the game devs have completely utilized all of the final hardware capabilities.
The fact that they weren't able to get dynamic lighting in their engine to run on next-gen consoles
tells me that they didn't really put that much effort into it developing their software for consoles. If CryEngine 3, FB2 , Fox Engine, Guerrilla Games and a few others were able of achieving this on the PS3 then U4 with next-gen hardware should of had no issues at all.
Even NVIDIA themselves are reporting that the 720 will be less powerful than the PS4. Hot damn!
all you need to see right here
I watched the videos side by side, thanks to Ambrosia's links below. Most of it looks exactly the same, some of it looks better on the old one, a tiny bit looks better in certain areas on the PS4 one.
The screenshot on the article is the thing that probably stands out the most. I think they just need more time with the PS4. Also, like everyone keeps claiming (and we already knew), they don't have access to the full PS4 kit, yet.
Also, I don't know what he's talking about with physics differences... I didn't see anything like that.
It's too close for it to actually make a difference to me. I mean, some parts even look sharper on the PS4 one. I don't know what everyone's complaining about.
There are a lot of links that suggest that this was done in a hurry and not optimized at all. Plus, that's with the old dev kits.
3 main things make the difference:
* Sparse Voxel Octree Global Illumination (SVOGI) is a lighting system that Epic didn't put in the PS4 UE4 engine
* the GTX680 can do 3.1 TFLOPS, the PS4 1.8 TFLOPS
*the PC used for the demo has 16gb of DDR3 RAM, and the GPU has 2gb of GDDR5 ram.
the demo was made on the PS4 Devkit according to Epic, IMOO very impressive if it is this close to the top of the line PC.
Therevis a more elaborate discussion in Neogaf thannin this article:
Man, we all know that PC will always be more powerful than consoles because they are customizable with no cost limits for consumers. What is wrong with these PC elitists? Why do you people waste so much of your time trying to prove that consoles are weaker? Console manufacturers have to make consoles which are affordable! They cannot put GTX Titan/Radeon 7990 in a console then sell it for $400 to keep it affordable while taking immense losses or sell it for $1500 to make a profit while not selling enough. Consoles have to balance power and price; thus making them weaker than PC. PC Master Race! I yield! I always acknowledged that consoles are weaker so please leave us in peace now!
All in all it is VERY close to that of a high-end PC, which is impressive!
I don't know why, but in some of the screens the PC version uses (volumetric?) fog in the background, which is taxing, but at the same time relieves it from drawing the actual background (in the PS4 version you can see out the open door).
And the lighting seems very different in some screens - why?
I just shake my head in dissapointment when read some of these comments coming from some in the PC community. I always had the impression that you guys, of all people, would have a better understand of how power works.
I'm no techie, but I fully understand that a top of the line PC is many times more powerful than a console. The same way I understand that V8 Corvette CR1 or Ferrari Italia with some 500 HP is more porwerful than my motorcycle, which is a 636 Kawasaki Ninja with just 115 HP.
But you best believe that my Ninja which cost me $6000.00 can keep up with your $150K Ferrari, or supped up Skyline R34, or whatever type of car you pull up next to me with.
And I think that's the whole point of a console really. People have cars to do more than just one thing like, going to work, bringing kids to school, groceries, some have trucks for heavy-duty work, etc. And than there are cars built for petrol heads, and they can customize them, and make them faster, and even race them.
But a motorcycle is mostly built for 2 things, which "riding" and "riding fast". So you're looking at a machine with its sole purpose being "speed", so it's been designed specically for that. So it's very small, very light, doesn't use much gas, only needs 2 wheels, Radial tires (very different than car tires) and doesnt need a huge engine like car either. It doesn't have seat belts, airbags, no AC units, none of these stuff. Simple turn the key, and get on the throttle.
So I think some of you have shown that despite all of your knowledge of computers and specs, you guys haven't quite grasp the fundamentals difference between dedicated machine, and a PC.
"Sparse Voxel Octree Global Illumination (SVOGI) is a lighting system that Epic didn't put in the PS4 UE4 engine"
SVOGI won't be featured on any console not just the PS4.
@Cupid_Viper_3: The whole point of a console is that you pay much more money for the games and you are bound to a hardware that can't be upgraded and is not a bit, but much less powerful than a one year old PC when it is not even released!
On top of that you cant compare a console and a motor bike to a PC and a Ferrari! The motor bike is much lighter and and you will be wet when it rains! With your PC you can do anything plus you can game plus you can upgrade plus you save much money on games that you can use to buy a Ferrari! :D
Couldn't this difference just be changes they've made to the engine as a whole? It doesn't mean there's a difference at all.
Only Sony fanboys are comparing ps4 to high end PCs
Pc fanboys are comparing ps4 to low-mid end PCs
Epic's Mark Rein has already confirmed htat there PS4 demo was running on only 28 to 29% of the PS4's power. They didn't have time to optimize.
Guys, they 'obviously' haven't optimized it for the PS4 hardware yet. They even said as much.
Next generation will likely be just like this generation: PCs will have vastly more power, but very little to show for it unfortunately. Games are mostly made for multiple devices and the differences we see between the versions is minimal.
Even now at the end of the generation the difference in game graphics between my high-end PC and the lowly PS3 and 360 hardware really isn't that vast (aside from maybe a couple games like Crysis 3 and The Witcher 2). Better frame rates and resolution and anti-aliasing, but by and large the same graphics in most games.
Here is a very good Unreal Engine 4: PS4 vs PC comparison video:
What do you think?
Oooh boy. Prediction time!
1 - Journalists swarm over this, claiming "PS4's hardware power was way exaggerated!"
2 - When Microsoft announces their console, Epic uses the same target video to showcase the new Unreal engine
3 - Journalists pick apart the trailer again to "prove" the NextBox is more powerful
4 - Internet explodes
5 - Six months later, it turns out the PS4 video was unoptimized code running on beta PS4 hardware, whilst the NextBox video wasnt running on the NextBox at all
6 - Internet pretends none of this ever happened
Haha, relax, people. The original UE4 trailer was running on a PC where the graphics card - just the card, mind you - is going to retail for more than the entire PS4 console.
what these pc elitist don't seem to grasp is this
when you're actually playing the game the difference between what the pc does and what the next-gen consoles will do, will be moot. the diffs are there yes but it's on things you don't see unless you are actively trying to find something thats inferior in one way or another.
personally though i think that tech demo looks f'en great. i remember the first tech demo they showed one of these sites did a comparison and said how the eyes didn't look like they where on fire, but now we can clearly see in this vid that they are. also this article said the lava didn't look as good, i think his eyes needed checking.
I personaly don't give f*** if pc's are better, as long as consoles cost less and don't need upgrades every year im ok if they're behind, everytime I see a pc "elitist" I think to myself, do these guys have a life, or are they that stereotypical nerd ass muthaf***as, that live in mommas basement and eats pizza all day, and all they have going for them is their super computer, which by the way won't be so super when a new card comes out or whatever, you don't see a guy that has a sports car tell someone who likes a regular honda that the sports car is superior all the time, sorry abot the long rant.
I totally agree. That kind of capability is uncanny for a system about to launch this year. Besides like someone said above it's in beta right now. Honestly, the thing that I care about is the fact that we have this kind of gaming technology right now. Either PC, Xbox or PS we have wonderful games to play right now, and that's amazing. I'm an original NES junkie, born in 84. I've played it all from Atari to 360. My grandparents would shit themselves at the graphics out today.
The thing is people don't think about other costs with consoles, often times DLC you pay for on consoles comes free on PC. You don't pay for online services monthly, games are usually always £10 cheaper than the console version.
Then comes the performance bit, get a good base system to begin with, like if you still have an i7 from 2008 there is little difference between them and the new ones for game performance if you want 1080p and 60+fps you'd pair either one with a high end video card. Unless of course we get the odd poorly coded game like Crysis.
But a lot of people make out you need to keep spending on PC's to get better than console performance which aint true, you could even sell your high end card every 2-3 years and put that cash toward a new one. Simple.
Plus PC will always have better performance, frame rates are touch and go on console. Not to mention PC has some great exclusives, online Co-op games like Killing Floor.
What console gamers don't understand is the fact that the numbered of characters on screen is going to be a problem for any thing under 2tflops.
Or maybe they will just not have as many characters on screen. I think you would be happier with a pc in this situation, if you are going to play ur4 games. Hey but if you can't afford a pc with a 680 then the ps4 should be fine but seriously I don't want to hear the lame ass excuse of develOpers not optimizing code. Certain qualities take power.
Typical sonydrone comment. PC will always be better in terms of graphics, get over it.
Epic fail by Ps4. Its a shame Nvidia is telling from start that the Next gen consoles are extremely low powered and this proves it. Every game will have poor image quality.
Look at how horrible that texture on the character is on the Ps4 version. What is the use of adding 8gb DDR5(the next cell processor)? Complete disaster and fail from start
The fact that you use the term "epic fail" tells me all I need to know about you.
You do realize that Nvidia will be pushing hardware of their own, right? Don't you think there's at least a little bit of an agenda on their part with all this rhetoric?
Also, I dont recall anyone claiming that next gen consoles would be as good as high end PC's. I think most reasonable gamers recognize that PC tech stays ahead of consoles and it SHOULD considering the price discrepancy. However please tell me where I can play Gran Turismo, God of War, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Infamous, Journey, Twisted Metal, Heavy Rain, Killzone, Resistance, Demons Souls, etc on PC? Oh you cant can you? Game over!
Lester the point is how much will you pay for inferior tech? Sony has to get that right or risk a vita,3ds problem or even a 3do like situation.
We know a pc can run this engine but the ps4 is a lot of hoping. Wasn't the ps3 like that for the longest time? Skyrim along with other games still suffered. I like the bar Sony is aiming for yet if the next Xbox can run unreal4 just fine or better then Sony is going to have some problems. Ms can simply upgrade the gpu instead of adding more ram.
So why get a ps4 when laptops with 680s are coming. Would you watch a blu ray with half the framerate? Almost isn't good enough when paying over $500 after taxes.
It is going to be interesting.
Ok PC looks slightly better but its a £1000 plus PC VS £300-400 console. Not bad at all for a static small box, not bad at all.
The little more details on high end PC isn't gonna make a consoles weep as console gamers do not spend huge amount of time staring at the world.
Looking very closely i can say that PC version does look slightly better but as a console gamer...is that gonna make me weep and go to PC? Not a chance.
These details and others i have seen are not enough to merit it over next gen console especially when high end PC that this is run on is not worth the cost. Its something for the PC super geeks who like to spend as much time looking at the graphics an pixels as playing the damn game. If the graphics on next gen console games look similar to Killzone shadow falls, its good enough for me.
PC will have better graphics but console is all about the best exclusives and simplicity of booting the disc and ur good to play. No driver issues, no need to worry about over heads and bottle necks. Boot the game and play with our scientifically formulated controllers. Simple as.
People talk to much in terms of consoles matching pc and less about turning down pc to match consoles. Devs tend to do the second one.
I was bored enough to investigate, I used Ctrl + F and I only found 2 "obviously" in the whole thing. :P
here's what I don't understand why do people compare the PC to the PS4 version..
When two things- one, it's unfair - your comparing a demo running on a PC using a (Gefore Titan Graphics card) - that card alone is over a 1000 dollars... I didn't even add the price of the PC..
And never-mind the fact that the Titan has the power of a Dual GTX 690 -in other words the Titan is one seriously badass graphics card
and Two - the PS4 is going to cost like 529 - 550 under 600... that's for the whole PS4 not just the graphics card in it...LoL
So if people think a console can surpass a high-end GAMING PC - which has like 16 gigs of ram and an i7 processor with SSD drives running in RAID 0 config - that most likely cost over 2500 dollars for the whole PC..
Then those people have no idea how Games are made and what they need to hit that kind of fidelity..
The fact that the PS4 even comes close to that PC, means you are getting one seriously Badass gaming console.. -that's all you really need to know-
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actually the demo uses GTX 680, a <$500 card now (and will cost less by end of the year), a PC build with it will probably cost $800-900. yes it costs more than a PS4 but the comparison here is between PS4 and mid range 2013 PC, not high end
@ aquamala
LoL... you are right it was running on a 680 - I was looking at this when I was replying to this story - http://bit.ly/XsUlU5
So I over stated my point, which just was the PS4 can't be compared to a high-end PC - in the article above they are comparing it to the Titan... which is crazy
That's what I was talking about when I was saying it is crazy that people are comparing it to a High-end PC
I'm sorry, but 680 is high-end. Dual setups (including the Titan) is more like very-high-end.
Why do Sony fanboys keep trying to Say Ps4 is more powerful than a high end PC?
That is the real question
No console is going to compete with a £1500 games rig but the Ps4 get's close and it's a lot cheaper and that will do for me .
PS4 vesrion looked better
are you on crack?
No, I think Walker smoke 1 kg cannabis, and using very dark sunglasses + missing one eye. Look avatar.
-UE4 PC version better, yet- No doubt.
No, he's drunk on Sony-flavored Kool-Aid.
Walker is a Sony Zombie just like his avatar.
sdf repellent: whats the difference with a zombie like u #ms side# ?
For trolls like u or greenpower #even some ps and nintendo ones# i wish this site had real bans.. under some requisits..
BACK ON TOPIC: The pc one looks better, yet if it looks good, idc if pc get this better.
or we can always assume hes trying this new trend called trolling...
Quote from the article
"More than anything, though, this shows a huge difference between last generation PC tech and new generation console tech, and how old PC hardware still runs circles around consoles that haven't even been released yet."
Sorry bro.
but the games was showen on ps4 already look much better than that demo
and they are running on old ps4 kit
even killzone SF/Deep Down/Knack/Infamous:SS etc are not running on the final kit
they didn't even know that sony upgrade the RAM from 4GB to 8GB GDDR5 RAM
this has nothing to do with ps4 power
more like how lame UE4 really is on the new consoles..and it also 3rd party engine which will never use ps4 to it full limit
wait untill you see ND,SSM etc of sony's first party engines on ps4
of course i will get disagrees
facts here always get fanboys angry ;)
LOL an PS3 has an APU (no dedicated graphics card) and 8 gb of RAM. Many high end Gaming Rigs now have 16gb RAM and a dedicated graphics card at least. APU's were meant for low end computers, so PS4 would be at most a mid range machine when it releases, and be considered a low end machine within 1 - 2 years.
stop drinking that Sony kool-aid
Ram really has no effect on video performance. I doubled the ram in my pc to only see a around 2fps improvement, from 4 to 8 gb. In some cases it even slowed it down.
The games looked ok, but nothing there was truly impressive.
Killzone looked good, but there are already games on the market that look just as good or better.
PS4 will be nice, but it's no power house.
Well duh...........THE PS4'S ALREADY 5 YEARS OLD DEVELOPMENT TIME............
The comparison below is better than the one in this article.
More comparison pictures can be found here:
There not using the full dev kit yet.
I'll give you a bubble for pointing out the obvious. You forget that people on here know it all and know that this was made with 100% final hardware. I really don't give a shit because I'm not a PC gamer but they both look great. It's also impossible for this to look any better as developers get used to the hardware according to people on this site. Ok, the PC is better. You feel better now. Did this make your day? Your PC is the best. We all get it. Same shit different day.
Looks like Nvidia was right all along, oh well at least it will only be $500.
Thats about the price of a graphic cards for these comparisons alone haha
I guess it's true then, you get what you pay for.
Oh you pc gamers cry to much. Go back and play your world of warcrap. Conoles win.
If you're going to attempt to start a flamewar, at least put in the effort to not make it obvious what you're doing. It's almost embarrassing how blatant that was.
I miss the days where trolling was actually good.
Why would we play WoW when there's tons of PC exclusives consoles don't have?. PC is the home of FPS games, and that's where they stay.
Killing Floor ftw.
I'd like to point a few things out, UE4 isn't optimized for consoles yet and definitely not in this demo.
Just as UE3 wasn't during the early stages of the PS3 (happen later on during the console life cycle).
Of course the PS4 GPU won't out match a GTX 680 but it will come very close.
Quote from John Carmack: "Consoles run 2x or so better than equal PC hardware".
PS4 GPU is somewhere between 7850 - 7870 / GTX 660/660Ti, so I'd say it will come close to a GTX 670 in terms of performance.
Epic did say that the demo was basically rushed and not optimized very well. I didn't know Carmack said that either and if what he says is true then my excitement for next gen just got a boost.
Agreed. What Carmack said is true. It has everything to do with the optimization. ie JUST cause you have a beast rig, doesn't mean you will just have beast games.
I own a HD 5770 and a lot of games that I couldn't max (cause I thought I just couldn't) turned out I could with a lot of tweaks.
ie getting programs to turn off a lot of background programs, getting a SSD JUST for gaming that has pretty much no security or anti virus running (I don't use it to go on the web so I don't really worry, not much on my PC to take anyway)
and it GREATLY improved my performance. Like 35 fps to 60 fps. It goes to show that though I LOVE PC gaming because I have a lot of choice and its pretty cheap if you know how to pick parts and WHEN (this is a big key thing in building a great PC at a great price), but its very much true that consoles have such great optimization, that when you play a game, the system is not just using some or a little of it.....its using the hardware to the fullest.
Now if they came out with a program that fully optimized a HDD to have it run the hardware to the fullest on certain programs, it would be really great. But consoles have that sweet spot right now. Its actually why I'm getting a PS4 before I build my next rig.
Ok Arai, They said the same thing about the UE3 on the ps3 demo they showed in 05. it was "unoptimized"
when the game came out it looked like shit compared to the demo they showed at e3.
optimized means quality chopped, either mathematically or straight out. optimized means compromised precision for different algorithms that run faster and get a "similar" Result.
Similar meaning less precision (Quality) faster code. similar look.
there is of course the rare occasion where there is better quality and cheaper on resources. but those are far and few between, fxaa was a good example of that, however some would argue over aesthetics and perceived quality.
What PC elitist always forget is that consoles have low level APIs (The PS4 has 2 one that grants programmers direct access to the hardware and the other API is called a wrapper which supposedly emulates the APIs on PCs) and with consoles developers can optimize for the hardware that they are given.
Which is why consoles outperform PCs with similar specifications.
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TILTON - Police are looking for man who held up a clerk at a downtown antique store with a handgun Thursday night.
Just before 5 p.m., the suspect walked into Ella's Antique and Consignment Store at 261 Main St., according to Police Chief Robert Cormier.
The suspect was wearing a dark ski mask and was 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall, he said.
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Sorex alpinus
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Language: English
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|Sorex alpinus Schinz, 1837
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|Near Threatened ver 3.1
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|Hutterer, R., Amori, G., Kryštufek, B., Meinig, H., Bertolino, S., Spitzenberger, F. & Zima, J.
|Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
The species has a fairly wide but very fragmented distribution. In the core of the range the population appears to be stable but declines are occurring in some isolated populations at the edges of the range. Overall, there is a slow population decline, but not at a rate high enough to trigger a threatened category. The extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are above the thresholds for Criterion B (>20,000 km² and >2,000 km² respectively), although the area of occupancy may not be much greater than 2,000 km² and there is ongoing habitat loss and degradation. Assessed as Near Threatened as it almost qualifies as threatened under criterion B2.
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|The Alpine shrew is endemic to Europe, where it has a disjunct range in the Alps, the Balkans, the Carpathians, and a number of isolated mountains in Germany, Czech Republic and Poland (Spitzenberger 1999, Meinig 2004). It previously occurred in the Pyrenees, where it is thought to have gone extinct in the early 20th century, and in the Harz (Spitzenberger 1999). Its vertical range is from 200 to 2,500 m (Spitzenberger 1999).
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Native:Albania; Austria; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Czech Republic; France; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Liechtenstein; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Switzerland; Ukraine
Possibly extinct:Spain
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The glow of the 2014 Stanley Cup triumph and the reassuring words and promises from Mike Richards were enough to persuade Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi against using a compliance buyout with the veteran center last summer.
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Graziano da Silva meets with Vice President of Malawi
31 January 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva congratulated the government of Malawi on the outstanding commitment of President Joyce Banda to eradicating hunger as he met with Vice President Khumbo Kachali on the sidelines of the African Union Summit.
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Graziano da Silva meets with Sudan's Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation
27 February 2014, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met with Sudan's Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, Ibrahim Mahmod Hamid, at FAO headquarters today.
Graziano da Silva congratulated the Minister for his recent appointment and thanked him for the launch of the Country Programming Framework (2012 – 2016).
FAO Director-General and Minister Hamid discussed the great potential of Sudan's agricultural sector. In that respect, Graziano da Silva highlighted the special significance of fisheries and aquaculture in the country.
"FAO is an important organization for Sudan, with which we share continuous and fruitful cooperation", the Minister highlighted after the meeting. The Sudanese Minister expressed his interest in receiving FAO's support to build an agriculture information system.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – PGA Tour rookie Patrick Reed shot a 6-under 64 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the Wyndham Championship.
He had an 11-under 129 total.
John Huh had the best round of the day – a 62 – to move to 10 under. John Deere winner Jordan Spieth was 9 under after a 66. Spieth is a PGA Tour rookie, and Huh is in his second year.
Charlie Wi, Bob Estes, Rory Sabbatini, Brian Harman, Jim Herman and first-round co-leader Ross Fisher were 7 under.
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