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Google makes more WiFi promises
Original post made on Jul 25, 2013
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a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jul 25, 2013 at 11:50 am
Google "free WiFi" is such a joke.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jul 25, 2013 at 12:18 pm
You get what you pay for though it looks like you can still complain that you didnt get more.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jul 25, 2013 at 12:52 pm
While I can see the whole "you get what you pay for" argument I will counter with this.
We are paying for this. Google gets to use tax payer funded utility poles throughout our city to put up their hardware.
Google requires every user of their "free" service to create a Google account. There's a value to that even if it's not a directly payment from the user. Google get to charge for ads based on how many accounts it has. So Google isn't getting nothing from all of this.
So if the deal with us, the people of Mountain View, was to provide wifi internet access in exchange for letting Google use our utility poles then we have every right to complain when the deal isn't being kept by Google.
A few years ago I could use Google wifi. These days it rarely shows up on my phone and when it goes it doesn't work.
If Google doesn't want to keep their end of the deal then they can take their hardware and be done with it.
Otherwise our city administrators need to hold Google accountable.
When people I work with hear I live in Mountain View I frequently get asked "Oh, you get free Internet from Google!"
I then explain to them what free actually gets you in life.
a resident of Jackson Park
on Jul 25, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Moreover, Google's deal with the city included providing WiFi service at the Mountain View Public Library. Google has not kept their end of the deal: the WiFi network there is frequently nowhere to be seen.
Like Otto, I lost anything resembling useful connectivity several years ago. I can stand directly underneath WiFi node mounted on a city streetlight and not be able to log onto Google WiFi. This happens everywhere, even on downtown Castro Street where one would expect them to prioritize service.
Google has made empty promises to improve the system before, and yet the end result has been zero action. My optimism about Google WiFi is fading.
a resident of Slater
on Jul 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm
gcoladon is a registered user.
There is a node right outside the front windows of my house, and for the last couple of years I have barely ever been able to connect, let alone load a webpage.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jul 25, 2013 at 2:37 pm
There is a node 2-3 houses down from me across the street. I use it occasionally for backup access. Always works but is sometimes slow.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jul 25, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Waldo is a registered user.
Google WiFi doesn't work, nor does Google's VPN solution for security. The city of Mountain View should ask Google to remove their equipment from the city's light poles, and let Google deal with the negative publicity.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 25, 2013 at 3:10 pm
I can stand directly under one of these poles and cannot get email to download even though my iPhone4 says I'm connected.
Same experience with other pole locations in Mtn View. It shows I'm connected to GoogleWiFi but cannot get email or access any web page !
I agree with 'Posted by Waldo' comment above.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Jul 25, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Google Wifi is useless. I agree with "you get what you pay for" and that the service shouldn't be relied upon, but Google shouldn't get free PR for something that they aren't really providing.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Jul 25, 2013 at 4:21 pm
All we have is google wifi and it' works 50% of the time.
Although the yahoo email act. never works at all.
It's useless.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jul 25, 2013 at 4:27 pm
When Google WiFi was introduced in Mountain View, I gave it a try. Even with the recommended $100 box sitting in our front window, access was only a sometime thing. After a few days of that, I took my $100 box back for a refund and stopped trying to use Google WiFi.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jul 25, 2013 at 4:29 pm
I used to LOVE the way it worked, because I use one of those building to building wifi antennas, via a hawkings usb wifi receiver with the antenna removed, so I could almost playvideo games online via my PS3! But yeah, around 2012, it all went downhill. My computer had to be reset, because pretty soon after, all my automatic windows update downloads ende up corrupted, and one of those corrupted updates was JUST good eough to install itself on my computer, causing major havock!
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jul 26, 2013 at 7:13 am
I use and EnGenius usb wifi receiver and get excellent reception in some areas and very weak reception in others. Using a wifi receiver with a replaceable antenna allows better reception when using an antenna with a large dBi value.
Since it is free, I have no real complaints. If I need to download a large file, such as a Windows "service pack", I can always find a wifi hotspot at some local business.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jul 26, 2013 at 7:35 am
Got AT&T DSL when it was brand new. Didn't work worth beans. Routinely screwed up or Was out all together. That absurdity went on for years before things started working sort of reliably. The big difference is that I paid AT&T regularly while they worked out the bugs. Dumped AT&T U-CURSE recently for Sonic Net which is cheaper and works better. Its reasonable to imagine something else coming along soon to replace the current technology. It's also reasonable that unlike the AT&Ts of the world Google has a genuine interest in improving the societal and ecological Nature of our valley and planet. Anyway, free stuff tends to evoke enjoyably contorted complaints.
a resident of Whisman Station
on Jul 27, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Google WiFii ? Whats that
maybe they should spend some money on its products rather than making sure all their employees have 3 square meals a day....they getting fat and lazy.....they spend too much money on buying buildings up in mtn view and watching companies leave mtn view, and they cant support wifii in mtn view.....hahahahaha they are a joke.........
a resident of Gemello
on Jul 29, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Wow, I thought it was just me- i'm by no means the most tech person that being said I have tried on numerous occasions to connect and never once succeeded. I like what Jay Park said "I can stand directly underneath WiFi node mounted on a city streetlight and not be able to log onto Google WiFi." I have done this with same results.
Why is Google talking about wifi in San Francisco when they can't even get Mountain Views to work? Seriously, they should announce they are bringing it to Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Jose it's just words. WTF
a resident of another community
on Jul 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm
It could perhaps be just a silly rumor,
But if you are not a baby boomer,
The promise of WiFi in every park,
Is only for those up with the lark –
To enjoy it you need a sense of humor.
a resident of Gemello
on Jul 29, 2013 at 7:46 pm
Is that a haiku or something bro? Cause its over my head and make little sense.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Jul 29, 2013 at 8:36 pm
It would be nice if Google provided useful free wifi. But that is not the case. Google free wifi is not working in my neighborhood.
a resident of another community
on Jul 30, 2013 at 1:48 am
I live on San Antonio Circle. There's a node 2 windows down. I've been using Google Wifi from the beginning. The free Wifi system benefits the poor and the whole community. Some of us can't afford to pay for service. Unfortunately, Google Wifi has been down for some time. I think that the people who are saying that you get what you pay for must be pretty well off because they can afford to pay for their services. They don't realize how important this free service was to the community and would be again if it was truly available. I am truly sad that Google Wifi has disappeared. Don't get rid of it! Replace it! Rebuild it! My services have been a very kind donation since Google Wifi's service disappeared.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Jul 30, 2013 at 5:53 pm
Google should fix MV WiFi first. I haven't been able to get on from any location for 2 years.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Jul 30, 2013 at 10:22 pm
I second what everybody is saying above, GoogleWifi has been corrupted for months. You cannot download 1MB without corruption. We eek on by with gmail being browsed in basic html mode (ie no fancy flash stuff). We also get by using mobile versions of websites, the whole m-xxx.com convention you often see websites maintaining. Hopefully Google follows through with their promises and comes up with a fantastic design to handle all that rich content for as many users as they find logging into the system.
a resident of North Whisman
on Aug 5, 2013 at 5:27 pm
rolo8ab is a registered user.
Lets toilet paper their trees !
not sent from my Ipad
a resident of North Whisman
on Sep 2, 2013 at 9:41 pm
rolo8ab is a registered user.
I simply have STOPPED using Google...........
If their name is attached to somthing I won't use it....
a resident of The Crossings
on Sep 3, 2013 at 2:22 pm
The way Google makes statement, is like we, people of Mountain View, all enjoy free Wifi provided by Google. But the truth is no such thing available to us. They should not declare anything untrue and get credit for. And it is regarded as LYING.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 pm
My problem is that it's gotten feasible for municipalities to run free wifi networks, but places like MV are much less inclined to embark on such a project (or explore other options) if they've already been "given" free wifi by google. We end up with crap wifi and little momentum to build new options.


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Terror, horror, and the gross-out: games that made you squirm
"The closest I want to come to definition or rationalization is to suggest that the genre [of horror fiction] exists on three more or less separate levels, each one a little less fine than the one before it. . . I recognize terror as the finest emotion . . . and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." - Stephen King, "Danse Macabre"
There is a remarkable consistency across most of the reviews of Dead Space 3. Most critics have said some variation of the following: "Dead Space 3 is a solid action game, and the co-operative play is well-implemented, but it isn't even trying to be scary anymore."
I must confess that the original Dead Space scared the crap out of me. Mainly I found it was the sound design; the sounds of the grotesque necromorphs skittering and screeching inside the walls was nearly constant, along with the many industrial clanks and whirs. It was difficult to tell whether the sounds you were hearing were just ambient background noise, or were the telltale footsteps of a clawed horror sneaking up on you, getting ready to pounce.
I feel that the game that started this franchise was unfairly criticised for simply relying on cheap scare tactics. Sure, it shouted "boo!" a lot, but those shocks were made more effective by the build-up of tension. You'll get a much better reaction if you shout "boo!" after spending several minutes wearing down the player's nerves.
Visual design was often clever and unnerving as well. The scene in which Isaac Clarke first encounters one of the crawling bat-like things that is going around reanimating corpses was a particularly memorable one. Rather than seeing it directly, the player sees the grotesque coupling and ensuing transformation as looming shadows, cast at gigantic size on a wall by a light fallen on the floor.
I would argue that the focus of the Dead Space franchise has shifted over time, and in order to discuss it, I will first refer to the Stephen King quote at the top of the page. Early on in his novel-length essay Danse Macabre, about the origins, themes, and meanings of horror fiction, King nominates three broad categories of emotional reaction that successful horrific media may generate in its audience.
First there is terror, the numbing fear of the unknown, as exemplified by W. W. Jacobs' classic short story The Monkey's Paw. King argues that this is the "finest emotion", and the one he strives for in his writing. Effective terrors gives us sly hints, and plays on the fact that whenever the monster is finally revealed, it will never be as bad as what our imagination has invented.
Next there is horror. This is a combination of psychological fear and physical disturbance, invoked by showing the audience something that is subtly or overtly wrong, grotesque, or disturbing. When horror works, it shows us something that disturbs us in its very wrongness.
Finally, there is straight-up revulsion, the gross-out. As a long-time horror fan, I am a diehard defender of well-made repulsive media. When the subtle hints of terror and the more explicit jabs from horror don't quite push us over the edge, something outright revolting can deliver a massive emotional blow that more subtle media cannot. You need look no further than Regan's famous projectile vomiting in The Exorcist or the bloody birth of titular creature in Alien to see how impactful and memorable these scenes can be.
Getting back to the Dead Space, I would argue that the series debut dabbled in terror, drawing out long periods of tension, but ultimately did most of its emotional heavy lifting well within the realms of horror. Its notorious death scenes, tailored for every enemy type, in which Isaac Clarke is impaled, decapitated, disembowelled, and otherwise dismembered, were its only clear ventures into revulsion.
The scene that is burned into my memory is the death of Hammond, one of Clarke's human allies. You are forced to watch through thick glass as he is cornered by a hulking beast, which bashes him senseless and then slowly, excruciatingly, tears his limbs out of their sockets. While it could have been made as a gross-out scene, it is instead deeply horrifying, as your friend is alive and screaming right until the end.
Dead Space 2, on the other hand, dwelt far longer in the realms of the repulsive, and I would argue that it did a fine job of it. The opening sequence, in which Clarke's would-be rescuer is transformed into a necromorph in disgustingly close detail is skin-crawlingly grotesque, but it is also deeply disturbing and frightening, not least because Clarke is still strapped into his restraints and is powerless to move.
The other sequence that everybody was talking about when Dead Space 2 was released is the infamous "needle in your eye". Clarke needs to have some hurried surgery performed by an automated medical machine that has to get into his brain through the pupil of his eye. In a profoundly horrifying minigame, the player has to guide the needle to Clarke's pupil and press a button when it is aimed correctly. If you make a mistake, the apparatus stabs Clarke fatally through his eye and into his brain, resulting in a shocking shower of blood. If you get it right, well... some would argue that success is even worse.
Sadly, Dead Space 3 seems to have abandoned its horror roots entirely, which is a sad loss to the gaming community. It is a very enjoyable action game, sure, but we already have a lot of action games. In this environment, it was nice knowing that we had at least one high-selling mainstream franchise dedicated to delivering a horrific experience. Most mainstream shooters and action games are violent these days, but Dead Space was consistently disquieting in a way that a million splattery headshots could never match.
To finish up, I want to nominate some of the games that have scared me the most over the past two decades, and I invite you to list your own in the comments below. Note that there is no Silent Hill in the list, as I have never played any of them (I know, I am a terrible person).
Aliens versus Predator (1999)
Reaction level: Terror
The original AvP game, made for PC and Mac in 1999 by Rebellion, was a genre-defining title. It was brutally difficult, extremely atmospheric, and incredibly frightening while playing as a human marine. Like Dead Space a decade later, AvP used sound to great effect, teasing the player with blips on the motion tracker, faint alien screeches, or the spine-chilling skittering of a facehugger. It also limited player saves (and originally allowed none at all!) so there was a lot riding on not getting killed.
Metro 2033
Reaction level: Terror
While the Metro universe is full of literal monsters, it was the human enemies that frightened me. Several of the game's levels were intricately designed rabbit warrens, full of blind corners and dead ends, and simultaneously stalking and being stalked by murderous bandits in the dark, straining my eyes for broken glass on the floor that would make a noise and give me away, absolutely shredded my nerves.
Condemned: Criminal Origins and Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Reaction level: Horror
Both Condemned titles are worthy of inclusion in this list for lots of reasons, including a lot of unnerving psychological horror, but what truly disturbed me about both games is the combat. Condemned does not grant you distance by giving you a gun or placing you in a third person or isometric perspective: it puts you right in there, engaging crazed enemies in desperate, bloody fistfights to the death. The fact that most of your enemies are innocent homeless people driven mad by a mysterious supernatural force only adds to the horror.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Reaction level: Horror
This attempt at a serious interactive tale set in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos had major flaws, and it took so long to come to market that it ended up being studio Head First's only game. It was broken in many parts, and many people could never finish it because of weird glitches. Even so, when it worked, it worked very well indeed, with a long, panicked flight from murderous villagers through a succession of deserted buildings being a highlight. The visual and audio effects of the protagonst's degrading sanity are also memorable.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Reaction level: Terror
Some would class this as the scariest game ever made, yet it is a game almost entirely without on-screen violence or blood. The fear in Amnesia, and there is a lot of fear, comes from the primal threat of being chased by a nameless, unseen enemy. You spend most of the game exploring a creepy deserted castle, deserted that is apart from some kind of creature that is dogging your footsteps. You never see it clearly - if it gets too close, its features become blurred - but it is very angry, and it definitely means you harm.
Honourable mentions: F.E.A.R., System Shock 2, Thief, Bioshock, Realms of the Haunting, ZombiU, Slender: The Eight Pages, SCP-087
- James "DexX" Dominguez
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Hi everyone, in in a situation where client agrees the 10k budget for the project, but refuse to pay any deposit until I complete the site development.
He said he paid some one before and that developer took the money bit was unable to finish the project.
I told him I have 100% confidence I can finish it, and I also already provided mmany page of draft designs. I already spent so much time in this project, I do not want to lose it.
Client also said he will put money in escrow account and release until he satisfy.
I don't know what to do now. Any suggestions? My worry is what if he changes his mind and cancel the escrow while I worked half way on the project.
tell him that you wont start till you have a deposit.you could try an escrow service.....
You shouldn't have done so much work on the project before getting a deposit.
Also what does your CONTRACT say? If the contract specifies a deposit to be paid before you start work then you shouldn't have started work before getting that deposit. If it specifies progress payments as certain stages in the work are reached then then you should stop work at those points until the progress payments are made.
you do have a contract, right?
How much % of the project is the deposit? And how much % of the project have you completed so far?
And yes, the usual tut-tut about contracts etc. But ultimately you set the payment plan for a project. If he's been burnt before that's a shame, but he needs to get over it and realise both sides need to take a bit of a risk in these situations. The escrow thing won't work well for you and you know it. Hard cash upfront, as this guy sounds like trouble. Reduce the risk for him by reducing the size of upfront payments - split the project into several $1.5k stages - don't begin the next stage until the cheque clears for the previous stage. If he's not willing to do that, walk away, it's too much risk for you, just not worth it. Currently it's effectively an unsecured $10k loan.
i like the idea of splitting it into deliverables.split it into chinks and get paid for each chunk as you do it
Get rid of the client.
Thanks for the replies, I was trying to show client some mock up designs to show him what I could do for him. Then he liked it ask for revision, I did one revision. Im just about tto send the contract but he said he won't pay until I finished. I feel he don't respect my work.
And today, I just offered him another way for him to pay in several parts. He refused again.
I just get rid of him from my list.
Good decision dropping him. I also suggest you stop creating free mock ups for clients. Let them use your portfolio, case studies and testimonials as a guide to your skills. If they want mock ups, they can pay for them - the mock up process is an important part of the project, it shouldn't be free - also it requires a lot of consulting to create a decent mockup, so you're either just banging out a quick mock up which will invariably fail to impress, or you're spending a lot of time on it, in which case the potential client is thinking 'wow, this guy does all this work for free, is he really worth the $xx per hour he's eventually going to charge me? Or maybe he's desperate?'. Is it any wonder the guy didn't feel like paying you upfront? He simply doesn't value your time at all.
I must admit, this is the first time I've ever heard a prospect request a revision on a free mock up. That's pretty cheeky
Anyway, best of luck - most clients are not like this, just develop the sixth sense to sniff these time wasters out at the earliest possible opportunity.
to cut it short create a contract, before project start 10% downpayment next payment after delivery 60% (of course there will be issues and revision) and the remaining after full completion. etc etc.
Dropping him is the right decision. Good faith is a two way street. He wants you to do all the work and hope that he pays. Why should you be the only one showing any trust?
Drop him. When I used to freelance I had a simple policy of not moving even a single pixel without upfront deposits and thanks to it I have never been ripped


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I have been through the experience of buying two Washing machines and with these two I think I have gained some tips on how to choose and buy them. I was also around snooping when friends were buying them.
***The look***
Sounds silly when you have so many technical details when it comes to washing machines but I do think look is still one of the most important aspects, especially if you will keep your machine in a visible place. There is nothing worse than hating what you bought (for a long period of time), if the machine totally breaks you will probably buy a new one but if it is just plain ugly and works well you will have to look at it for ages. Choose something you are comfortable with even if that means paying a bit more. I think this is the first steep you have to do when buying it, browse through them and find a selection of ones you like.
***The price***
Always buy something in your price range (logically), also keep in mind what you need the machine for. We were buying a machine for one of our rented (uni) apartments so logically we bought the cheapest one possible, it was totally rubbish but for the time we were needing it (2 years) it was more than perfect. Keep in mind that high prices do not guarantee high quality. Do a list of the ones that you can afford and do more investigation on the models. Thankfully sites such as Dooyoo will be more than helpful to provide you with information needed to help you decide.
***Costumer service***
Another thing you should check before buying, it will do you no good if you have an amazing looking pricey washing machine and there is no one to help you if it breaks down. Check if there are any local repair services for the brand. Getting a spare part for a brand that is not local, or God forbid not national can be a real pain.
***Energy use***
Since we are both economical and eco friendly a washing machine that uses less energy is more than desired, check the label and although the more economical washing machines can be pricier the money saved on electricity will soon make it even or even give you profit.
***Technical details***
If you are not a tech person find someone that can assist you here, preferably someone who can operate a washing machine not just be a smart mouth to help you determine what kind of washing machine you actually use, it is logical that a single person needs less washing capacities than a family with 4 children.
***Use the salesman***
There is a chance that the salesman is a honest person not just wanting to persuade you to just buy anything (or something he/she gets more profit from) so there is no harm in getting information from them, ask which washing machines get sold the most or if people have complained with some...
***The shopping act***
If you have a wife/husband that has nothing to do with laundry leave him/her at home. Nothing more annoying when someone who knows nothing about these things tries to persuade you what is the best for you :).
There these are my little tips to buying a washing machine, the last one being "humorous" (or not), hope they will make your shopping easier.
I recently bought a Zanussi washing machine in October 2001 and Its great. It is an FJS1225W Zanussi Jetsystem 1200 washing machine. It is so amazing, the clothes come out really clean thanks to a A rated wash performance and the Jetsystem wash system which showers water onto the clothes through a pump. The water cascades onto the clothes from a jet at the top and gets them really clean. It has electronic controls to make it advanced but simple to use. All you do is select the Fabric type e.g cottons, synthetics, delicates, wools etc and then set the temperature and spin speed ranging from 500-1200. Then select any options Prewash or super rinse and press the green start button. Its so easy to use its unbelieveable. It has a delay start ranging from 1-24 hours and LED display so you can see how long the wash will take. The only thing I can fault the machine on is the wash times for example for a cotton 60 degrees wash cycle it takes 2hrs 8mins but it is worth the time considering you are getting really clean clothes. What I like about it is you can pause the wash cycle and open the door if safe to do so and add any clothes you have forgotten. An the door unlocks straight away as soon as the wash cycle has completed. No more waiting 2-3 minutes for the the door the open. Also it uses cold water only so its cheaper and it gets an A Energy efficiency. I would definately recommend the Zanussi FJS1225W Jetsystem washing machine because it has A Energy Efficiency A Wash Performance and B Spin Performance. Also because it uses 44 litres of water for a typical cotton 60 wash. It uses 0.95kwh of Electricity and is 57db really quiet when it is washing.
I rue the day I decided to buy a Whirpool washing machine. I was tempted by a £40 cashback offer, the "A" energy rating and the fact that the machine was supposed to be very simple to use. Which it is, when it is actually working! There are four of us in our house, including two small children, so I do at least one wash everyday. I also use washable nappies, so I rely on the machine to be working so that I don't have to pay for disposable nappies. The problems started when the machine was five months old. When turning on the machine one evening, the digital display went blank. I called customer services the next day, an engineer came out two days later and I was told that it needed a new timer and the part would take about a week to arrive. A week later, I had heard nothing, so I called customer services. The part still wasn't in stock. Another week passed - still no part. So began four months of complete frustration and annoyance. I would call once a week to either be told that the parts were still in Italy, or that they *had* got some in stock, but they had all gone to other customers. I wonder if they had waited four months as well? Eventually, after twice-weekly launderette trips and a lot of handwashing in between, my ancient tumble drier broke down. We went to the shop where we had bought the washing machine, a small local shop who actually care about their customers. When we mentioned the fiasco with the washing machine, they were horrified. Within the week, I had a replacement washing machine in my house. Not through Whirpool, though. This was from their own stock. Ironically, a few days later, I received a letter from Whirlpool informing me that the part was now in stock and they would be visiting in a few days' time to install it. I called customer services to tell them that I no longer needed a service visit and that I needed to transfer my guarantee over to a new machine. I ha
d paid around £30 for a one year, free service contract. The machine came with a free 10 year parts guarantee. I was told that they didn't transfer guarantees over from one machine to another and that I would have to pay for another guarantee. I pointed out that it ws scarcely my choice to have a secod machine withing the space of nine months! They finally agreed, and I was sent a new guarantee. More on this later! In all that time I didn't receive a single apology from anyone at Whirpool about the delay and inconvenience caused. And at least that would have made it more beaerable, instead of being treated like a nuisance because - surprise, surprise - I wanted a washing machine that actually worked! Nearly two years later, it broke down again. I called Whirlpool with my guarantee details (the free service had expired, but I still had the parts guarantee) and was told that it wasn't on their system. Several phone calls later to different departments, I discovered that the guarantee had been printed with the wrong contract number, hence it not being on their system. That was three weeks ago and I am still waiting for a new contract to be sent to me. I have reminded them twice already! Fortunately, the parts only took two weeks to arrive and the engineers called round yesterday to repair the machine. I loaded it up when they had left and it didn't work - the drum wouldn't spin round. The parts they had replaced? The motor and the drum. So, I called customer services, who spoke to the engineer. His reply? "Well, it was working fine when we left." Meaning, I suppose, that I had somehow damaged it by setting it to do a normal wash. The fact is, they did a quick rinse cycle and didn't even reinstall the machine properly because they claimed the dranage pipe outside my house was blocked and they couldn't get the washing machine pipe through. I dismantled it and found that it wasn
39;t blocked at all. I now have to wait until tomorrow for him to return (anytime between 8am and 5pm, so stuck indoors with two children all day- great fun!) because he is to busy. When I asked why another enginner couldn't come out, I was told "How would you like it if we rang you and said we couldn't come to you because someone else wants their machine repaired?"!! I am thoroughly fed up with Whirpool. If I won the Lottery tomorrw I would go out and buy another machine like a shot. As it stands, I cannot afford to do anything but put up with the shabby treatment and complete lack of courtesy they provide. All I can do is to advise anyone considering buying a Whirpool product - don't do it!
Extraordinary. I bought a rather expensive Whirlpool oven. It came with an instruction manual. This included descriptions of various functions which were described in a completely cryptic and contradictory manner. So I telephoned Whirlpool customer services. I asked what, the various functions did. For example, the "pastry function" was described as "static plus fan". Static was described as "no fan". What on earth? The person read the instruction booklet to me. I replied that I was an averagely intelligent human being who could read an instruction manual all by himself, and I wanted to know what was meant by "static plus fan". "Oh, that's probably......." came the reply. I explained that I was a very keen cook and I wanted to know what the oven DID. I could work out the "probably" and the "perhaps", and the person's opinion of what they thought it "probably" did was very welcome. However, I had telephoned the compnay to speak to someone who knew the product and find out exactly WHAT it did, not what someone with no knowledge of the oven thought that it PROBABLY did. So I got transferred - the first of many transferrings. I finally spoke to someone who admitted he had no idea of what the oven actually did in terms of the functions, such as pastry and the difference between turbo-grill and fan. He was also keen to offer me his suppositions and guesses. When I informed him that I wanted to know what the oven was actually doing, he told to me to stick a couple of meat pies into the oven and see how they turned out. He told me I would have to do this as there was no-one at Whirlpool who knew what the various functions were. If I wanted an explanation of what the functions were, he said that I would have to telephone the manufacturers in Italy. If I spoke Italian, that is. Oh,
the Whirlpool delivery service is a whole other story. I'll do a review of that one when my gas hob finally arrives. It's only ten days late so far. - Bernie
When our trusty Hotpoint washing machine died after almost 10 years of service, we were faced with a rather daunting range of choices for a replacement. We relied a lot on personal recommendation of friends and opinions here at DooYoo. we also looked carefully over the specifications of the alternatives to make an informed decision. The purpose of this essay is simply to explain the considerations we took into account when making our decision. The point is that the technology had changed a lot since our previous purchase, and we wanted to know what features we had to consider, what the options were, even before thinking about brands and models. Wash time: For us, this was extremely important. Many modern machines improve their energy efficiency rating by washing for longer at lower temperatures. Since we often cram our family of five's washing into a single day, the longer washing times reduce our throughput. If you're better organized, then this may not be as much of a problem. Also, many washing machines have some sort of "reduced wash" button that will be faster and use less water and that are fine for lightly soiled clothes such as shirts that may have been for a day at the office. Water capacity: The less water the machine uses the better for us, because we're on a water meter, and the better environmentally too. The differences can be fairly substantial. Timer: Again, this depends on your needs, but our electricity tariff gives cheaper prices midnight-7 a.m., so we want to be able to set the washing machine to work in that period whenever possible. For us it was, therefore, essential to have a machine that allowed us to set the start or end time, or a delay period. In the old days, you could plug a washing machine into a timer, and it would start when the timer let the electricity through. That's no longer true. Many home appliances (including ovens and dishwashers) require YOU to push
a button or something before they'll start functioning. It is very irritating and one reason we ended paying a fortune for a top-of-the line Bosch washer. Spin speed: The faster the spin, the more water is extracted from the clothes. That means they'll dry faster, whether in a dryer or in the air. We plumped for a high speed of 1600, but note that many of the wash programs -- including the one we use the most -- don't operate at that speed because the force it generates may damage some fabrics. This sort of detail isn't usually pointed out in the sales literature, you need the operating manual for that. Irritating buzzer or horrible chime: Essential if you want to know when the wash is finished. Has to be loud enough to cover the sound of arguing children, rock music or blaring television programs with canned laughter. We don't need it for overnight washes, but for those one-after-another all-day-Sunday times, it's an absolute necessity. In any case, it should be possible to turn the noise off if you don't want it. Clever ideas: Our Bosch's timer works by letting you say when you want the wash to end. So you need to be able to set the time, otherwise how would it know when to start. One of the nicest touches is a quick menu switch to change between GMT and BST. It's not too fiddly to change the time twice a year, but this is a neat touch. Price: You've probably already identified this as a consideration.
Lovely clean clothes fresh from the machine! Having washed your dark coloured socks and undies at forty degrees you would be forgiven for thinking that they are as clean as they smell. Well probably not. Forty degrees is only slightly warmer than blood 36-38 degrees and is a good temperature at which to grow germs. I recently pinched a pair of my Mum's socks from the drawer (sorry Mum!). My Mum suffers rather badly from foot rot (athlete's foot). She is very careful about sharing towels when she has this itchy condition and would never dream of putting on another person's sock for fear of them catching it and having to spend a fortune on antifungal treatments. A few days later I was washing my feet and noticed the tell tale scaly red patches appearing between my toes. Fortunately a chiropodist friend of mine immediately gave me some cream which nipped the problem in the bud. Nasty shock though to get something like that from a pair of clean socks. Tests done on people's washing machines have indeed revealed that, probably due to all the low temperature washing that goes on nowadays, they contain a lot of potentially harmful bacteria. Washing powder is not renowned for its bacteria killing ability. It's not just socks and undies is it? How many people do you know who wash and reuse their floor cloths, possibly in the same load as the dishcloth and the dusters, together with the half a pair of knickers that they wipe the loo with? Imagine all the germs from all those places ending up on your skirts and intimate garments on the next wash. Many of us have infectious skin diseases like my Mum's foot rot at some time or other. Impetigo is quite common and highly contagious as is ringworm (always popular with cats and children alike). Wouldn't it be awful if your trusted washer became a source of disease? So if, like me you use a washing machine make sure that you put a hot wash on now an
d then to keep the germs at bay. Don't wash linen which might be infected (eg, clothing and towels if you have a skin comlaint, dirty nappies or soiled dog blankets) along with with the undies of healthy members of the family. Rinsing your machine through with half a cup of bleach and an empty drum will also kill any germs that might be lying around. Don't wash loo cloths, floor cloths and dishrags. Throw them and their germs away and use a fresh one on a weekly basis for dishes and on a single use basis for loos and floors. Remember, everything is out to get you.
A while ago, we purchased a new washing machine and dishwasher made by Whirlpool. We decided to take out a 10-year parts guarantee with them and when we purchased them from Comet we took out a 5-year labour guarantee. We have had a number of fairly minor faults over time where we have had to have engineers out to fix the fault and had never had a problem until the last time. Lets give you a bit of history first that will explain why I am so frustrated, A short while ago we had a burst water pipe in our kitchen, when the plumber was moving the washing machine to get to the pipe, he ripped the lino, he explained that as the lino was wet it ripped easily, but not to worry as the household insurance would cover it. On this occasion as there was water everywhere I had no problems calling my household insurers and they had no problems in covering the cost of repairs. So here I am with my gleaming new kitchen floor when the washing machine goes wrong again. No problem I thought just phone Whirlpool they will come and sort it out. I phoned up and booked the appointment and the Whirlpool engineer turned up on the day he was supposed to. We explained to him that we had just had a new floor and could he put something under the washing machine before he moved it so he didn?t damage the floor and then left him to it. When he shouted to say he had finished, I checked the machine was working and then said goodbye. I then went back into the kitchen and picked up the wet towels he had left on the floor (I assumed to soak up the water that had come out of the machine while he was fixing it) only to find a large rip in my nice new lino. So I got on to the phone to Whirlpool Customer Services and spoke to someone giving them all the details, She said ?that is our senior engineer for the area I am sure he didn?t know he had damaged the floor otherwise he would have said something?, they then put me on hold while they called the engineer
. Apparently the engineer denied he had caused any damage to our floor. I suggested they get the engineer to come back so I could show him the damage as it certainly was not there when he arrived, the operator said he was on his way to another job so he couldn?t. Even though the engineer had said he didn?t do it the operator said to get 2 quotes for replacing the floor and to post it into them with a letter detailing what happened. So after ringing round lots of companies and several visits and even having to pay a £30 charge for producing insurance quotes, I posted off my letter along with 2 quotes. Just over a week later I get a letter back saying they had spoken to the engineer who denied he had caused any damage (I have heard this before somewhere) so they were not going to fix my floor. I was obviously upset by this so I tried to speak to the person who had written the letter, but after a number of phone calls and emails I had still not managed to speak to the lady dealing with my claim, or with the customer service manager as they were never available and I left a message every time I called they were never returned. When I did eventually speak to the Customer Service Manager he basically said tough, they are disputing liability in this case and there is no place for an appeal or complaint in the company. I am now in the situation where I am going to have to go back to my household insurers again to repair a floor damaged by a Whirlpool engineer. The reason for writing this opinion is to warn any potential purchasers of Whirlpool and the other makes they look after including Bauknecht and Ignis equipment. The Customer Service Department appear to have no idea of the concept of Customer Care. I phoned to report the problem, they had already decided that it was not there fault, but they made me go out and waste time getting quotes anyway. No concept of the customer is always right; their Engineer sa
id he didn?t do it so basically tough on the poor customer. No one returned my calls or emails; I had to keep phoning over several days before I got to speak to someone. Then the attitude was basically tough. I do not have a problem with either appliance, but the after care service is absolutely dreadful. I will certainly never buy a Whirlpool appliance again, neither will any of my friends after I explained this story to them, and I advise you to look for another manufacturer as well
Last Christmas, after seventeen faithful years, our washing machine (a Hoover 1100)finally died; it's electronic switching gear had fizzled out and failed to start up the spin-process. We were told it would cost at least £100 to fit a new electronic-pack, so it was clear that a new machine would have to go on the Christmas-list. We eventually settled on another Hoover and were encouraged to take out all the usual "extra cover and extended guarantees" ...which we always refuse to do and did so again on this occasion. It was with some amazement that we were told we would be lucky if our machine got through it's first year without needing repairs; and even luckier if it was still working after a further five years. "People don't expect any more than 3 to 5 years" said the sales-man, "they just bin it and get a new one." Now, I took note of the fact that 17 years ago we paid around £200 for our old machine; and now we were paying just over £300. Not much difference in price; but when you consider that the first one lasted 17 years and the next is likely to fail within 5, that makes the new one darned expensive on a monthly basis. £200 over 17 years is about £12 per annum, or £1 per month; £450 over 5 years is £90 per annum and £7+ per month. Therefore, you've got to save 7 to 8 times as much money, in order to replace your machine; and have your wages gone up seven-fold in the last 17 years? I doubt it. So when you ask yourself are you getting a good deal on your washing machine purchase, the answer is really no. They don't build them like they used to, and we are all paying through the nose for the convenience of a throw-away society; which, strange to say, is what the majority actually want, rather than quality. As for our new Hoover, well we've had it about seven months now and it is going fine; so let's pray for many more years like it, because at the
moment I ain't got another £300 to spend on a new one! It's easy to operate. hasn't got too many complicated settings and operates in general just like the old one; the simplest things are always the best.
Due to a stupid kitchen designer, the space in our kitchen for a washing machine was just under 60cm width. Now I am sure you know most washing machines are made to be 60cm. So I was very fortunate to find the CREDA 1200 washer dryer that was around 595. It doesn't sound much but trust me, in our case it made all the difference. Weve only had it for a year but it is doing a marvelous job. 10lb for washing and 5 lb for drying. And if you stick to those basic rules and don't overload it, it should be OK. Washer/dryers are much more likely to break down, but the convience, specially for people living in flats with smaller kitchen areas outways this. So the washing machine cleans clothes and does a good job, not to many silly buttons to confuse me. I'm happy chappy UNTIL UPDATE MY DRYER DIED A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE GUARANTEE WENT I HAVE PHONED CREDA ITS TAKEN THREE WEEKS TO GET AN ENGINEER IN WHICH TIME THE BLASTED WASHING MACHINE IS NOW LEAKING AND IS UNUSUABLE LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ENGINEER COMES LATEST UPDATE Well they came, fixed the problem and my washing machine is fine once more. Interesting to note that the HOTPOINT parts are the same as CREDA the only difference is the carcas of the unit. (If you do buy this machine, put on economy mode when washing wools or your jumpers will get mucked up, economy off means additional heat) Charlie
I purchased star trek:voyager elite force as soon as it came out and the first thing i noticed was the speed it took nearly 2 minutes to load and all of the setting were wrong so i had to change them wich took a considerable time after that when i fianlly got in the game i noticed it was excellent the borg looked like they should and the main characters from the show where in it but i had yet anouther wait when i changed levels. overall this is a great game if you have a very fast processor and a decent graphics card like the geoforce.
We bought the above washing machine 7 years ago and with it we bought 3 years warrantee. In those 3 years we needed 3 call outs, all were fairly minor faults. In the past 4 years nothing has gone wrong with it.(touch wood). I do on average 3 washes a day and one of those is a boil. I have really been lucky with this machine. I have 'forced' it on to spin only, stopped it and restarted it when I forget to put a garment in it, and it still hasnt let me down!. Whats the odds that when it does eventually 'die', I bet I cant find another one!
We have had our Indesit WDG1095W Washer / Dryer for about a year now and we cannot believe how slow this washing machine is. Although it does clean the clothes well, every wash cycle is so long, that it is beginning to drive us mad. When we use the "White Cotton" wash it takes over two and a half hours to complete the whole wash; and this is without using the dryer function! We have given up using the dryer completely. When we did use the dryer, the loads had to be so small, and take so long that the cost of electricity for any load to dry is ridiculous expensive. We bought our machine from the Tempo store in Nottingham and we were not mislead at all. There are a good variety of washes available with the machine and everything works fine. The machine looks very nice and was easy to fit into place. The Tempo store delivered the machine for us and it arrived exactly when we were told, so top marks for the store, but a mention of the cycle time would have got them the gold star from us. The washer cost about £275, so it is not expensive, as far as washing machines go, but I think soon we may have to change it, as every weekend we seem to have the washer working almost permanently throughout both days in order to get everything washed for the following week. I would not recommend this machine to anyone unless they have a lot of time to spare.
We have had our Philips Whirlpool 800 washing machine for approx. 9 years.It was originally on the radio rentals rent and buy scheme, which I think they still do. The advantage is that while it is still being "rented", so to speak, any problems are sorted out free of charge. Then when the rental period is up, you have purchased it. I must say though that it has been a good buy, it has let us down a few times over thoe years, but nothing serious-touch wood. The only thing that i not perfect at the moment is the spinner, which does not dry the washing enough, before being put out to dry. The programmes are easy to use-they must be for me to use it-and the drum is quite large, and it is not that noisy considering the age. It has been used for the washing for a family of five, so it's had a lot of wear and tear.
We have a great washer/dryer by Indesit. We got this one 5 years ago, having left our last one behind when we moved house (not enough room in our van!). Despite friends telling us that it would wear out fast because it is a combination machine, we have had few problems with it. It has several useful programmes, including high temperature washes for white cottons, cycles for delicates, woollens, even a non-crease wash. It is easy to select a wash that is appropriate, and easy to use the machine. The dryer function is controlled by a separate knob. It has 2 heat settings. If you want your wash to be tumble dried, you just set the dryer mode and when the wash cycle is finished it automatically moved on to the drying. There are useful safety features to this machine. The door cannot be opened for 2 minutes after the cycle/drying is finished. Also it will not tumble dry the load if it has just been washed on a woollen cycle - very useful! From time to time I do find that the swing arm which sends the jets of water into each part of the drawer to dispense powder and conditioner does get stuck, this is just due to a build up of gunk and a quick clean does the job. I find it often frees itself if I leave it alone, I just use Bold for a few days and then it seems to fix itself. I would definitely recommend this make, very reliable, sturdy, I can see it lasting another 5 years easily.


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Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Cheats
Enter these in the cheats menu located under options.
getheadk - Pumpkin Heads
getheadj - Yelloew Smile
R04r - Special move Roar
allin - Special move Zone
ontheroad - No damage
roadtrip - Unlock all cities
getheadl - Bunny ears
dfens - Special move Agro
getheadn - skull head
getheadm - snowman head
trythisathome - flaming head
haveyouseenthisboy - chrome body
crosscountry - All cities unlocked in arcade mode
urbansprawl - Faster pedestrians/All cities in arcade mode
hyperagro - Increase car mass in arcade mode
When the race ticker is counting down right before the race begins...hold R1 and X right after when the 2 disappears. Then as soon as the 1 disappears, LET GO of R1 and you'll shoot off.
Free Neon
To obtain green, blue, white and red neon without a purchase cost -- enter the Neon menu. Select No Neon with the amount $0. Exit the menu. If you re-enter the neon menu, you'll notice that the colors are all purchased. This apparently is a glitch.
Cheat: Unlockable cars and accessories
Atlanta Police Car: Beat Roy
Lamborghini Murcielago: Win the US Champ
Cadillac Sixteen: Win the US Champ
1968 Chevy Corvette: American Royalty Car Club
Kawasaki Ninja ZX 12R: Original Riders
Hotmatch Skully: Chopper of America Bike Club
Police Motorcycle: Chopper of America Bike Club
Mercedes Benz G55 AMG: Big Playas
Spider available as a rider: Beat Spider
Kioshi available as a rider: Beat Kioshi
2002 Nissan Skyline: Beat Ceasar
Cadillac Cien: Detroit City Tournament
Chrysler ME Four-Twelve: By Invitation Only
San Diego Police Car: Beat Vanessa Twice
1957 Chevy Bel Air: San Diego Stage Tournament
Lexus IS300: San Diego City Tournament
Chrysler 300c DUB Edition: Balboa Park Tournament
Hotmatch Cuevito: Beat Phil
Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG DUB Edition: San Diego DUB Tournament
Escalade EXT: Atlanta DUB Tournament
Vito available as a rider: Beat Vito
Ducati 04 SS1000 Prize: Hotlanta Tournament
Mercedes Benz CL55 AMG: Beat Angel
Rockstar Vinyls: Collect 12 Rockstar Logos
Rockstar License Plates: Collect 24 Rockstar Logos
New Riders: Collect all 36 Rockstar Logos
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My wish to have traffic stats for user generated content hosted by Google is partly fulfilled. Google Docs has a new option to track published documents using Google Analytics. You need to go to the Settings page, enable the tracking option and add a Google Analytics profile ID. It's not clear whether you need to create a new profile or use an existing one, but both options might work.
After publishing a document, you'll see a small message: "Tracking visitor traffic with Google Analytics."
The screenshot below shows the source code of a published document: the first Google Analytics tracking code is used by Google, while the second tracking code is associated with your account.
The other hosted Google service that allows you to add Google Analytics code is Project Hosting. It's also easy to add the tracking code if you develop iGoogle gadgets.
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Update: The option is no longer available in the settings, but even when it was available you couldn't use it because the Analytics code was broken. Hopefully, Google will fix the problem soon.
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Boston's most famous number 12's
Tom Brady, Patriots
The calendar has reached 12/12/12, and it's probably safe to say that no future Patriot will don jersey No. 12 after what Brady has achieved while wearing No. 12 the past 13 seasons. Brady joined the Patriots in 2000, has thrown 329 touchdowns and collected three Super Bowl rings while appearing in two other NFL championship games.
Check out some other notable Boston athletes who wore No. 12, starting with the incumbent and then looking back at days gone by.
Ryan Sweeney, Red Sox
The most recent Red Sox to wear No. 12 was outfielder Ryan Sweeney. He came to Boston in 2012 and hit .260 with 16 RBIs in an injury-shortened season. Before coming to Boston, the 27-year-old played four years with the Oakland A's and two with the Chicago White Sox.
Brian Rolston, Bruins
The 30-year-old Rolston returned for his second stint in Boston last season, collecting 15 points in 21 games. He previously played for the Bruins from 1999-2003-04, scoring 31 goals in 2001-02. He won a Stanley Cup in 1994-95 with the Devils and took home a silver medal with Team USA in 2002 Winter Olympics.
Leandro Barbosa, Celtics
Barbosa joined the Celtics this season after stops with the Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors, and Indiana Pacers. Barbosa has been serving as a backup point guard to Rajon Rondo. He is averaging 5.6 points through 19 games.
Tom Ramsey, Patriots
Before Tom Brady, former QB Tom Ramsey (far left) wore No. 12 for the Patriots. A former standout at UCLA, where he was MVP of the 1983 Rose Bowl, Ramsey played three seasons in New England.
Mark Bellhorn, Red Sox
Flash back to the 2004 World Series. It's Game 1 against the Cardinals and Red Sox second baseman Mark Bellhorn, wearing No. 12, steps up to the plate in the eighth inning and smashes a two-run home run off Pesky's pole. He became the first second baseman to homer in three consecutive postseason games.
Tom Fitzgerald, Bruins
A native of Billerica, the right wing played one season with the Bruins, collecting four goals and 10 points in the the 2005-06 season.
Ricky Davis, Celtics
Shooting guard Ricky Davis played in Boston from December 2003 until January 2006 when he was traded to the Timberwolves. His nickname, "Get Buckets" came from his high-scoring play rate. While wearing No. 12 for the Celtics, Davis scored 1,309 points in 82 games in the 2004-2005 season.
Wayne Cashman, Bruins
A rugged left winger and card-carrying member of the Big Bad Bruins, Cashman scored 277 goals and 793 points in 17 seasons in Boston. He also won Stanley Cups in 1970 and 1972. After retiring as a player, Cashman held several NHL coaching positions, including going 32-20-9 as head coach of the Flyers in1997-98.
Pumpsie Green, Red Sox
The first African American player for the Red Sox, Green played from 1959 to 1962. The middle infielder was a career .246 hitter in 344 games. He finished his career with the Mets in 1963.
Adam Oates, Bruins
Oates, who was named coach of the Washington Capitals in June of 2012, was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in November of 2012. Oates played in the NHL from 1985-2004, appearing in 1,337 games while scoring 341 goals with 1,079 assists for Detroit, St. Louis, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Anaheim and Edmonton. Only Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr and Mario Lemieux have averaged more assists-per-game than Oates in the NHL history, and only Gretzky (662) had more assists than Oates (636) during the 1990s.
Jose Tartabull, Red Sox
Tartabull spent three seasons in Boston, from 1966 to 1968. The outfielder and father of major leaguer Danny Tartabull, hit .281 in 1968, and hit .233 in 1967's Impossible Dream season.
Stan Papi, Red Sox
The third baseman/second baseman/shortstop played for the Red Sox in 1979 after being traded for Bill Lee, and was with the team for one game in 1980 before he was shipped to the Phillies to complete a trade.
Jerry Sichting, Celtics
Drafted by the Warriors in 1979, the Celtics acquired the 6-1 guard in 1985 in a trade with the Pacers. The Celtics shipped him to Portland in a trade in 1988, but he was a member of the 1986 Celtics championship team.
Steve Lyons, Red Sox
The Red Sox utility player known as "Psycho" later became a broadcaster, but spent 1985 and part of 1986, and then 1992-93 with Boston.
Ellis Burks, Red Sox
Ellis Burks was drafted by the Red Sox with the 20th pick of the 1983 draft, and he made his major-league debut in 1987. He spent 1987 through 1992 with the Red Sox, then returned in 2004 and was a member of the World Series championship team.
Lyndon Byers, Bruins
The right winger was drafted by the Bruins in the second round of the 1982 draft, and he spent all but the final year of his career in Boston before finishing with the San Jose Sharks in 1992-93. Hockeyfights.com lists Byers with 92 career fights.
Don Chaney, Celtics
Chaney, a guard from Louisiana who was drafted by the Celtics with the 12th pick of the 1968 draft, played 10 seasons in Boston (1968-1975, 1977-1980). Chaney had 6,663 career points and 558 steals. He won championship rings with the 1969 and 1974 teams.
Joe-Max Moore, Revolution
Before he was given the No. 9 jersey symbolic of a team 's top striker, Moore (left), started his career with the Revolution wearing No. 12. Moore is the third-leading goal scorer in Revs team history (41 goals in 96 games), and second in assists (35). He was also a standout on the US national team with 100 appearances and 24 goals. He played in three World Cups (1994, 1998 and 2002), and was a member of the 1992 Olympic team.
Matt Cavanaugh, Patriots
The journeyman quarterback spent five seasons from 1978 to 1982 as a backup behind Steve Grogan. He's now the quarterbacks coach of the New York Jets.


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Moraga School District to Implement the Common Core State Standards
Common Core for Teachers
This section of the Common Core Standards web page will highlight quality resources available for teacher learning. The "CC Instructional Snapshots" library will focus on ELA and Math CC topics and instructional shifts, videos of CC aligned lessons, and CC resources to help teachers learn more about the "ins-and-outs" of the common core standards.
Math -- Daily Set Game
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The Buzz Bus operated by the city of Durango is more than a lift home on Friday and Saturday nights for people who have been out on the town.
Its also a safety net for late-shift employees who end their day after the last trolley has departed.
Kelly Toliver, who has driven the minibus for half of the 15 years the service has been offered, transports tourists and residents who take the Buzz Bus on a regular or casual basis.
Among Tolivers passengers also are employees who get off work late and face a long walk or bicycle ride home because they dont have a car. She also helps disoriented tourists who dont know the trolley schedule.
Toliver is on call starting about 9 p.m. People who dial the citys transportation office number after hours get Tolivers cell. When not on a specific run, she cruises Main Avenue waiting to be hailed.
A ride costs $5 for whatever distance. Some riders will take the 24-seat bus two or three times a night, each time paying the quota.
Toliver said ridership has increased slowly, but it stagnated in recent years as the sour economy keeps more people at home. About 25 people a night ride the bus.
Amber Blake, the citys administrator of multi-modal transportation, said fares cover the cost of the program.
Transactions are fast cash, credit card or a 5- or 10-punch card she said. The punch card can be used by anyone.
Its an alternative to driving while intoxicated, Blake said. Our goal is to keep people safe, so riding the Buzz Bus protects riders and maybe others they could meet on the road.
Blake has reason to urge caution. A Colorado Department of Transportation study found that the 108 drunken-driving arrests Durango police made in 2011 was the second highest among 35 rural law-enforcement agencies in the state.
Theres seems to be no habitué of Durangos downtown restaurant row who doesnt know Toliver, a soft-spoken Durango native whose day job is special-needs coordinator for the Bayfield School District.
Frequent calls of Hi, Kelly greet Toliver as she maneuvers the bus among vehicles and jaywalkers. When she stops, acquaintances give her a quick hug or kiss on the cheek.
Id say 90 percent of my passengers are regulars, Toliver said. Eighty percent are drinkers.
Three or four limousine or taxi companies serve Durango, but Toliver doesnt know if they siphon away possible Buzz Bus riders. On busy nights, she said, they would simply take up the slack by transporting people she couldnt serve anyway.
New Years Eve is her busiest night, Toliver said. She drives one bus and coordinates the service of two other drivers who serve about 200 celebrants.
Bob Brem, a former Durango resident, and Denell Smith, who were vacationing from Scottsdale, Ariz., took the bus from downtown to their motel on north Main Avenue on a recent evening.
Its hard to measure the value of the service by the number of riders, Brem said.
Ive had a couple of DUIs in no-tolerance Arizona that cost me $20,000, so $10 for the bus ride is well worth it, Brem said. I was dumb a couple of times, but not anymore.
Riders may call Toliver several times during a shift.
Take Flora Rocha, who was ready to kick back one recent Friday after a week as a convenience store clerk.
Toliver picked up Rocha at home about 9 p.m. and dropped her at a downtown watering hole. Rocha called at 10:30 p.m. for a ride to a liquor store to buy a bottle to take to a private party. At midnight, Toliver got a call to take Rocha home.
Justin McKelvey, a cook for 25 years, lives on County Road 203 and usually rides his bike to the Iron Horse Inn to catch the trolley to his job downtown.
But on Friday and Saturday when he has late shifts, he hoists his bicycle onto the rack of Tolivers bus. She drives him to the junction of U.S. Highway 550 and County Road 203 from where he pedals home.
Chris Calvert, a senior majoring in psychology at Fort Lewis College, was picked up at the roundabout on Goeglein Gulch Road. He was going downtown to shoot pool with a friend,
Ill call again when Im ready to go home, he said.
Returning from dropping a passenger recently, Toliver saw about 10 people at the transit shelter at Main Avenue and College Drive. They didnt know the trolley they expected no longer stopped there. No one had changed the posted schedule.
She gave the group, which included children, a free ride to Main and Ninth Street to catch the last trolley.
Calls may result in dry runs such as the night Toliver made three trips to J. Bo Pizza & Rib Co. only to find the callers not quite ready to leave.
Toliver will not pick up passengers she has found to be troublemakers. But certain incidents are beyond her control.
One early Saturday morning, Toliver was on 25th Street when a passenger in a vehicle going the opposite way threw a full can of beer at the Buzz Bus.
As chance would have it, Tolivers side window was open and the can hit her in the head. Toliver, who wasnt injured, is sure it wasnt personal, but just an unthinking reveler who misjudged the possible consequence of the action.
Toliver has become a confidante to many regular passengers. She converses easily, but she maintains a reserve that doesnt allow friendships to go beyond the moment.
I enjoy the contact with people, and I think Id drive even if they didnt pay me, Toliver said. But I never give out my personal cell number.


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Nicki Minaj Hoops at Villanova University
Nicki Minaj stopped by Philadelphia's Villanova University for their annual Hoops Mania festival that kicks off college hoops season.
Minaj posed with the school's athletes — both the women's and men's basketball teams — and was gifted with her own pink-accented Villanova basketball jersey.
"Runnin down da court I'm Dunkin on'em LISA LESLIE!!!!" MInaj posted to her Instagram along with several photos from the evening.
Later in the evening Minaj took the stage for a short set that included her tunes like "Moment 4 Life," "High School" and "Starships." Check it out that performance below and more photos in the gallery that follows.


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In His Tree
They are untold: the advantages of entangling
oneself completely in a place like this, up and beyond
all chance of discovery, here where untold means
not in the dark, but numberless, numberless not
without number, but many—and if I sit in the dark
now and wait without number, the difference is
I do it voluntarily. Not the way the yellow leaf
is chased by another but the way the word yellow
can be drawn by hand through the same pond air
and then across an open page. Here the one keeps
evolving into the next, like listening into seeing
thin layer after layer of nacre affix to (to whelm)
the body fastened to sleep in the heart of a pearl.
All afternoon a feeling needed to be described to me
before I knew what I felt. The very terms of this
predicament had disqualified me from the honest
work of that description—prior to my knowledge of
how could I describe a thing?—while the whole
burden of assigning the work to a desk not my own
promised nothing but to deepen the predicament's
bite in my perception, and having watched hours
and even days turn out largely perceptual in the end
I would discover at this crossing no fast distinction
between seeming to be worse and actual worseness.
But an object absorptive of all my attention, a thing
outfitted with otherworldly fire, set to consume
more than I could ever feed it, might so completely
overtake the mind that there would be no room
available for feeling and therefore neither cause
nor way to describe what just wasn't there. And so
I set out to find that thing, drawn down by an under-
water instinct true to the warp and weft of a small
false deafness, locked deep in the blue-green private
compartment broken up into shifts and strung in
accordance to the wiles of arachnid light, a light too
truant from its source to reflect a compact back
with fidelity: the sun its half-remembered lozenge
trapped among the birch. Everywhere suddenly
rivalingly glinting like a new place to contemplate.
Cobbled paths linked by garden bridges arched
over the pond's narrows and ambled on to unusable
amphitheaters brightened by mats of continuous
aquatic vegetation: primarily macrophytic algae
fringed in eelgrass, coontail, and the American lotus
rising a child's height above the water's surface.
Suspended in the air on a firm stalk the enormous
round leaves shaped into bluish, soft-sided cups;
if floating, into plates; if emergent, they were as yet
unopened scrolls, a history of the pond's bottom
unnoticeably written on them. Portions of the lotus
interknit beneath the surface provided habitats
for invertebrates not visible from bridges: cryptic
rotifers and hydras, the larval and the nymph
incarnations of mosquitoes, beetles, damsel- and dragon-
flies fast as horses as adults, but in their youth
sustenance for numberless fish, amphibians, reptiles,
and all the fervid waterfowl whose bills plunge
upward and down with untold destructiveness.
And I could tear my eyes from none of this, probably
because the mind kept seeing more than an eye
or kept wanting to, detecting in what it landed on
what it didn't see but knew, sensing the relation
between things present and between present things
and those remembered or supposed: humanity
in the park's stonework, messages raveled in
long bolts of music stampeding from the ancient
calliope at the heart of the carousel, and the future
bound in decay. A lost past beating in sago palm,
the hagiography of red caladium, and the resistance
to deterministic thoughts on identity implicit in
ten skipjacks convulsing from the shallows at once.
Always a stuntlike communiqué in the loop-the-
loop in which wind blows a paper cup across macadam,
deep in a mushroom, and in 108 sunflower faces
turned to face the setting sun, its diameter spanning
108 times that of the earth, here where we in turn
invest in 108 feelings: the first 36 pertaining to the past,
as many again to the present, and as many again
trailing off into the future, each coruscating dimly
as daystars, or as stars at night through exhaust, each
known by its own appellation, each with a unique
list of probable causes, cures, and a prolix description
reworked as history determines what we can feel.
All afternoon a feeling needed to be described to me
but the wording only veered it nearer to the word.
Or even just to check on it would change the way I felt.
Furthermore it constantly underwent self-started
evolutions I pretty much never managed to observe:
fluctuating on like a soft shifting mass, yielding
instantly to pressure and engulfing any object senseless
enough to have trusted in its surface, incorporating
whatever it can into the grand amalgam of itself
discovering itself and finding everything perfectly
indispensable and pointless as the rowboat comparison
builds for the landlocked hydrophobe in all of us.
Nothing terrestrial could be equal to a force like this.
No leathery general could ascertain its stratagem
squinting through binoculars across the scorched sands.
The TV might be getting warm, but police hounds
can't track it down because it smells like everything.
To surrender to it means you taste its invincibility
deliquescing in your dune-dry mouth, its properties
becoming yours, as when vigilant in a cherry tree
one converts into the branches, the drooping downy-
undersided leaves, the frail umbrella-like flowers
and impending fruit, until you forget what you were
watching for to begin with, the need to know now
culminating not in dominance, not control, but liberty.
Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and The Cloud Corporation. He earned a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a PhD from Princeton University. He is also poetry editor for Boston Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two daughters.


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UMass basketball hangs on to beat Northeastern
BOSTON -- One year ago, the University of Massachusetts earned a comfortable win at home against Northeastern. On Tuesday night, the Minutemen went on the road and needed a late rally to beat the Huskies.
Chaz Williams' layup with 1:51 left in the game broke a tie and helped propel the Minutemen to a 72-66 win over the Huskies at Matthews Arena.
It was a bounce-back win for UMass (4-3) after the Minutemen lost to Miami (Fla.) at home on Saturday. Northeastern (4-4) has now lost four straight.
UMass led by 40-39 at halftime and by eight just 1:37 into the second half. Northeastern came back and eventually led 61-55 with 4:24 left. From that point, UMass outscored the Huskies 17-5 to pull away.
Jesse Morgan's 3-point basket with 3:05 left to play tied the game at 62. Northeastern then had three chances at a go-ahead hoop, missing a trey, a jumper and a layup. Raphiael Putney cleared the board and Williams took it the distance for the hoop.
Williams also had 18 points, while Sampson Carter made his first start and scored 14. Carter was starting in place of Cady Lalanne, who was suspended for a violation of athletic department policy for his conduct at an on-campus function Saturday night after the Miami game.
Reggie Spencer had 15 points to pace the Huskies, while Quincy Ford had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Harvard 79, Boston Coll. 63
BOSTON -- Siyani Chambers matched a career high with 21 points and Wesley Saunders added 18 on Tuesday night to lead Harvard to victory over Boston College -- the Crimson's fifth consecutive victory over its crosstown, power-conference rival.
Chambers scored eight points during a 15-1 run early in the second half that turned a six-point lead into a 57-37 advantage with 121 2 minutes to play.
Ryan Anderson scored 23 with seven rebounds for Boston College (3-5), which was without starting center Dennis Clifford, who sat on the bench with his right foot in a boot.
Andrew Van Nest, who played for Harvard (4-3) as an undergraduate but is now at BC for graduate school, scored four points for the Eagles against his former team.
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