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Although I listen to NPR regularly, I never forget that its reporters too are the products of the filtering process that ensures that only a limited range of opinions is even considered, and that they will not see some obvious hypocrisies even if they stare them in the face. While the best NPR reporters, such as Daniel Zwerdling (whose in-depth features are excellent), Nina Totenberg (legal affairs), and those who deal with internal matters and soft features are worth listening to, others who deal with national politics (Don Gonyea and Mara Liaison) and defense and foreign affairs (Tom Gjelten and Dina Temple Raston) might as well be considered outright propagandists rather than reporters, last two being especially atrocious.
I was reminded once again of this when Gjelten did his periodic song-and-dance routine with his "Oh my god! Iran is trying to kill us all!" alarmist rhetoric about the possibility that that country will wage cyberwar on the US or give that technology to groups like Hezbollah. This is as preposterous as the idea that they will wage nuclear war on the US or Israel but that does not deter Gjelten from delivering these somber warnings. Interestingly he did not even mention that just the previous day, there was a report that a cyberattack had disrupted the Iranian oil industry. Who was behind it? The US media is unsurprisingly not that curious to find out. But it seems reminiscent of the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iranian centrifuges some time ago, for which the US and Israel publicly bragged about being behind it.
In other words, it is the US and Israel who are waging cyberwar on Iran, not the other way around, though Gjelten conveniently ignores that fact in his report.
Then we had the other report by Don Gonyea about Obama righteously condemning Syria for tapping the phones and internet communications of its people and using that knowledge to suppress dissent. You would never guess from Gonyea's report that the Obama administration has created the most massive eavesdropping operation in history that sweeps up all our communication and uses that information to harass people engaged in perfectly legal activities, while cracking down on whistleblowers with a vengeance. It is also creating a massive facility to store all the data it is gathering on us.
The best propaganda media does not do it all the time because then it becomes too obvious and people discount it. It works best when done occasionally by people who have so internalized the system's values that they don't even realize that they are propagandists and would be shocked and offended if accused of being so.


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Post-Bank Transfer Day: Building Ties That Bind New Members
Fresh out of college a few years ago, Tyler Leonhardt accepted a position at Bank of America.
He said he is not surprised at how the financial behemoth tried to levy a $5 monthly debit card usage fee.
"At first, when I heard about the fee, I knew exactly what they were trying to do," said Leonhardt, 26, who is now a loan officer at the $31 million Carolina Federal Credit Union in Cherryville, N.C.
Indeed, in an October statement on its year-to-date financials, Bank of America acknowledged that it wanted to continue to "focus on the retention of profitable customer relationships."
Several economists and research firms have pointed out customers would have to park on average, at least $24,000 in their checking accounts in order for banks to make any profits from them.
Meanwhile, Leonhardt said he now sees the differences between working at a credit union and a bank. One of them being building relationships based on service, not fees.
With Bank Transfer Day slowly fading into history, many credit unions are evaluating how to turn newly gained members into long-term relationships. Critics have argued that within the nearly 700,000 pool of new members that joined in the month leading up to Nov. 5, many of those that switched were likely considered unprofitable by bank standards.
Leonhardt doesn't see it that way.
"Once someone gets here and realizes what the credit union is all about, they can learn about all what they we have to offer," he explained.
For one, even though Carolina FCU is a relatively small cooperative with 3,500 members, Leonhardt said it is considered the dominant financial institution in Cherryville, a town 45 minutes outside of Charlotte, N.C. The one savings and loan there was recently acquired by a bigger bank, he added.
By some standards, the 20 new members the credit union signed on Bank Transfer Day may be considered tiny, but some of them applied for loans, made plans to transfer their direct deposit over and were issued debit cards.
Online banking, including bill payment, e-statements, as well as access to a shared branching network are other channels currently being promoted to new members. A Facebook page has become an active way to woo potential younger members.
The average member's age is 59, and many are former employees and retirees from the defunct Carolina Freight, the cooperative's original sponsor.
On the lending side, Carolina FCU is running a promotion to give $100 to those who bring their loans over from other financial institutions, Leonhardt said.
"We still offer small, personal loans. A lot of [banks] don't do that anymore. And, with our low loan rates, we can do a competitive auto loan or a home equity loan. There are so many opportunities. At some point, a member can be profitable."
Regardless of the type of financial institution, profitability is an important element especially when it comes to safety and protection of equity capital, said Brian Turner, director of advisory services at Catalyst Strategic Solutions, an investment subsidiary of Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union in Plano, Texas and Duluth, Ga.
"The bankers' message referring to these members as 'unprofitable' speaks volumes in my book. If not sour grapes, then it clearly demonstrates that bankers still don't comprehend the fundamentals of consumer banking or their customers' needs," Turner said.
"But bankers would have us believe that there is a natural conflict between the mandate that credit unions have to create member benefits from the services they provide and the fiduciary responsibility they have as a financial institution," he said.
At the $2.2 billion Virginia Credit Union in Richmond, Va., the focus is not so much on weeding out unprofitable new members but sticking to a welcome plan that has proven effective in building loyal ties, said Chris Shockley, executive vice president.
"It's really too early to comment, but I know our credit unions and credit unions in general are very interested in making sure we have meaningful conversations," Shockley said. "It's going to look different for every person because everyone is at a different stage in their lives."
During October, 2,300 new members joined Virginia CU and 95 signed up on Bank Transfer Day, according to Glenn Birch, public relations and media director.
New members get the "two days, two weeks, two months" treatment. Two days after joining they receive a phone call to ask about the new relationships. Two weeks later, another follow-up call is made to make sure they received new member documents and to answer any other questions.
At the two-month interval, a more thorough discussion is had that hones in on daily money management, any planned major purchases, preparing for the unexpected and preparing for the future, Shockley said. This is the time to delve into what products and services may help them get ahead financially.
"You may be four months from buying a car or getting a loan. Then, when we talk later, we can follow up on what those initial needs were," Shockley said.
While the empirical data is still being looked at regarding what accounts were brought over, Shockley said, anecdotally, refinancing and several new loan requests were initiated, according to the credit union's frontline staff. Even if a checking account is the only new opening, it still takes time to move bill payment and direct deposit over, he noted. It is one of Virginia CU's goals to make the switch as smooth as possible.
There's a healthy level of competition between the credit union and community, regional and national banks that dot the area, Shockley said, but one key advantage at Virginia CU is the people.
"They probably don't know me," Shockley said about the members. "But we have a lot of longtime front line people that have great relationships with the members. They tell us they trust us, and that's so important to us."
That trust permeates to the call center representatives, online banking teams and support services, he added.
For many credit unions, growing loans may be one way to silence those critics of unprofitable new members. Still, the data doesn't bode well.
According to CUNA Mutual Group's latest "Credit Union Trends Report," while the total credit union loan portfolio increased in September and this was the sixth consecutive month-only gain, these seasonal increases were not enough to bring year-over-year growth into positive territory.
At $581 billion, total loans were down 0.2% year over year, as of September, the latest month tracked. Looking even further, a 0.3% gain in real estate secured loans was not enough to offset the 1.7% decline in vehicle loans
CUNA Mutual Chief Economist Dave Colby said he is optimistic about how credit unions are faring during the last quarter of 2011. However, member demand for installment credit will remain weak and the retention of new first-mortgage originations may not remain for the long term.
Turner said credit unions have clearly demonstrated their ability to provide lower loan rates and higher savings rates while delivering their products and services at a lower cost. This structure helps credit unions to avoid the need to charge across-the-board fees for its services, he pointed out, adding noninterest income accounts for less than 23% of total revenues.
"Credit unions don't have to be everything to everybody, but they can be the best at five to 10 principal products and services that most of its members need," Turner said. "This requires a complete assessment of member demographics as to best determine specific needs. Many credit unions look to the success of others and try to emulate products and services only to quickly find out that their membership is not interested."

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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Thanks staff for another venue for us. It has been a long time since I played any of the courses that the Pros play. My last one was Medina CC, which, I believe, the Pros have gone there only once. But that being said, if you ever get to Iowa, and are in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area, try golfing at Beaver Hills Country Club in Cedar Falls. While it is listed as private, I have played there and was not a member. Beautiful course and the staff there was great.
A new category... sweet!
Southern Hills is an awesome challenge. And Cedar Ridge is also a great course, too bad the LPGA could not keep a tourney there.
When did this new category pop up, I've only been away from my computer for 2 days???
great new category, great work FJ staff.
When did this new category pop up, I've only been away from my computer for 2 days???
I just stumbled upon it last night. Great new category with endless possibilities!
ya thanks fot the new catagory
Mike / Chris Thanks for getting this added. I knew it would be a welcome catagory.
I think I am the loan gunner in my area. A lot of love in the East though, they could probably get some good golf going.
Cool, thanks for the tip!


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How Hot Is "Hot?"
It's hot. Not hot hot, but hot. There's hot and hot hot and dry hot and wet hot and comfortable hot and miserable hot. But what, exactly, is hot?
Hot is relative, of course. Hot in Maine is not hot in Texas. Hot in Texas is hot hot in Maine. The same hot in Greensboro is not the same hot in Phoenix even though both are the same measure of hot. Dry hot does not feel hot until it's hot hot. Wet hot feels hot when it's not even all that hot.
As we enter summer, it's going to keep getting hotter. People complain about the cold in winter, people complain about the hot in summer. It's a natural cycle.
But Charlotte's Weather-Guru-in-Chief Brad Panovich posed a question on Twitter yesterday:
Remember when the low 90s were just called summer and not Extreme Heat? Ahh... the good old days.
— Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) June 19, 2014
So yes it's hot but it's not hot hot even though we're pretending it's hot hot. It hasn't even begun to get hot hot.
You're on the hot seat: how hot is hot?
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Cutie, cutie!
Style Network's Tamera Mowry-Housley welcomed a baby boy named Aden John Tanner Housley Monday, and he sure is precious. In a tender In Touch photo, the Sister, Sister star gazes lovingly at her and husband Adam Housley's newborn.
Aden, born two weeks after his Oct. 30 due date, was 21.5 inches long and weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces at birth.
"Adam and I feel very blessed to finally be holding our son," the new mom told Style. "He is a beautiful miracle, and our hearts are overflowing with love. Thank you to everyone for your love and support. It means so much to our family."
Tamera's husband, a Fox News correspondent, gushed to In Touch that the first-time parents are "so happy!"
"[Aden] is healthy, happy, strong, beautiful and our families are so excited to have another grandchild, cousin and nephew," he said.
Little Aden already has a built in playmate: His cousin, Cree! Cree is the 1-year-old son of Tamera's twin Tia.
"Now a wonderful new chapter begins for Tamera and Adam," said Style Network in a statement of congratulations.
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Four hundred quid?
Get yourself some homeplug (or similar) kit and just network straight into your tv/blu-ray player/ps3, or grab a little media box as well, you'll still come out ahead.
CES 2012 Week Hey, guess what? There's another way of routing hi-def around your house, in addition to unfeasibly long HDMI cable runs, wireless transmitters and Cat 5. You can actually send it via the ring main, using the HDJuice Box from JustHDMI. HD Juice Box HDMI over Powerline kit The cable guys: JustHDMI's …
Get yourself some homeplug (or similar) kit and just network straight into your tv/blu-ray player/ps3, or grab a little media box as well, you'll still come out ahead.
I like the idea, but compared to say Sky multiroom (and I never thought I'd be saying Sky are cheaper than something/someone) in the UK, it seems a very expensive option! Especially if I can't get my full fat BluRay, for example.
I do accept this kind of thing isn't globally available though, but even then - a second TV with a free to air receiver and a BR player would still be less expensive than this.
There is nothing in ordinary fuse boxes to block this or Ethernet over mains. But "next door" on both sides are usually on the other two phases.
What about EMI/RFI from this?
What power levels and bands does it use?
In reality anything that goes beyond about 0.25Mbps on mains is probably really a transmitter and will very likely work between adjacent rooms that are not even on the same mains. The mains wiring just extends the range.
As there are current measuring sensors in RCDs (to detect inbalance in live and return), which have some of the characteristics of a choke, could they block the PLC signal?
If so it'll have problems in "modern" wired houses that have different sets of socket mains on different RCDs.
I don't know if this is what they mean by "can't get past a fuse box" but it could be....
If it isn't, you're likely to have interference from the people 3 doors down who are on the same mains phase - even if they've just got another PLC networking product....
it's the power-factor correction stuff in the electricty meter that prevents ypour neighbours evesdropping (and vice-versa).
I use homeplugs, one is on the downstairs ring, one is on the upstairs ring and one is on the extension ring. I did have another that went to the shed via another ring (with RCD at the other end) but that one DID drop out occasionally.
No issues on the other 3 - I dont "reboot" them either. They do get pretty warm though. XBMC has no issues streaming HD.
You can buy another mede8er or similar and a hard drive for less than this. If it included ethernet and was about £150, it would be interesting, at £410, much less so.
Oh cool just what I need.
Oh, HOW MUCH??? Never mind then.
Already tried Ethernet over power lines and it just doesn't work in my house.
My electrical panel has no less than eight separate circuits, four for the power outlets in the lower and upper areas, four for the lights in the same areas. The room used as office, for example, is not on the same circuit than the living room.
That is significant because the office is where Internet, phone and TV arrive, whereas the living room is, of course, where we watch said TV.
I tried Ethernet over power lines to avoid having to string a cable through the attic. Unfortunately, it never worked.
I doubt this version would work better in the same conditions.
They want to charge you £410 and then give you a cheap remote that looks like the one that came with my rubbish car mp3 player for £5 from china from ebay that never worked!
May I suggest that they divide their price by 10, then we are in roughly the right price area.
How does a passive device on the end of a long wire stop the RF from leaking through the air? What stops me from eaves dropping the leaking RF? Firstly the Fusebox/meter doesn't stop the RF - the RF can be heard radiating in your neighbours house but one without much trouble, secondly I can eavesdrop the RF leaking over the air from your household wiring.
The Powerline AV units have AES encryption if you enable it. That *should* keep the neighbors out unless they're really, really determined and intelligent/patient enough to crack encryption.
£410 for the the old 200Mbs Powerline adapters is no good, even if it does HDMI... The benchmarks bore that out as there was trouble getting to 1080i. They should have the current 500Mbs Powerline adapters for full HD.
Cool concept for having HDMI built in though. Shame to have done some really cool stuff, and then put a lower tier network adapter into it.
I had to bone up on the powerline stuff to help an inlaw out with his 85Mbs one that was a real bottleneck, and much slower than his 18Mbs internet connection (he was getting 7Mbs instead). Found that need to divide BW on powerline devices by 15 to have a margin or error, like for bad wiring and such. That ruled out the cheaper 200Mbs adapters as a replacement due to a lack of bandwith for internet and local net traffice once it goes any distance. Trying to get fast connections over the powerlines in the house is a haphazard affair at best. One thing I found out on one site that was doing benchmarks and interoperability testing, is best not to mix and match slower 200Mbs adapters and faster 500Mbs adapters. The 500Mbs Powerline adapters are typically much faster/reliable than wireless, but actually running some Cat5e or Cat6 cable for true Gigabit is faster still. *If* you can, run real network cable, it'll actually save some time/frustration and you'll be happier with it in the long run.
The article was indicating that SurgeSuppressors were a problem and they are, BUT there are SurgeSuppressors that are compatible with Powerline, you have to research to find them.
Advice - for anyone having a house built new (or a major remodeling job as well) - have 2-4 cable drops put in each room while the walls are open to escape the wireless/powerline problems... Powerline is great when there is NO alternative, but real network cabling is always best.
You're probably hitting HDCP restrictions on the higher bandwidth streams. You'll have to stop obtaining videos through legal means.
... for that budget they could at least have sourced decent remote controls, not the cheap'n'nasty standard part items that they found that just need overlays to customise them.
....mmmm right so I pay 00's for decent kit to play 1080p. It arrives in a lossy compression format, I decompress it then recompress it again in a lossy manner then decompress it again. No thanks
Much better to save source signal and then send it via [link of choice] to something capable of playing it


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Mike Robertson wins Silver in the snowboard cross! Well done!
Mike Robertson wins Silver in the snowboard cross! Well done!
Another GOLD! Maelle Ricker took it home in the Ladies' Snowboard Cross. I didn't get to see much of the Torino games and I don't remember this event at all, but damn, what an exciting sport!
Just one year away... Bruno is almost here!
Fuck ya, shit ya , hell ya .... anyone else pumped for the big game tonight?
The Americans are already flappin' their gums today with their talk about how much they hate the Canadians.
Source - Click hereDo American players dislike the Canadians?
"Absolutely," said defenseman Jack Johnson of the Los Angeles Kings, who offered to fly out his three Team USA teammates to see his appearance in Opening Ceremonies but didn't extend the same courtesy to Team Canada's Drew Doughty of the Kings.
"It was a small plane. There was only room for a few," said Johnson, who hasn't spoken to Doughty in Vancouver.
"I hate them," said Ryan Kesler, U.S. center and a player for the Vancouver Canucks. "It's a big rivalry. I wouldn't say I hate them; you have respect for the other team, Canadians expect to win the gold and anything less is not good enough. It's going to be fun to try and knock them off."
Fun, but emotionally draining. Think about what's on the line when the teams meet: Medal round seeding and a bye; bragging rights between teammates, players, fans and families; defending home ice or seeking to embarrass the home team on it; avenging old losses, settling old scores and, for the Americans, seeking a level of respect in the eyes of the hockey world that only a win against the Canadians can provide.
They're fueled by that underdog desire for validation. If there's hatred in either locker room, as Kesler indicated, it's in the U.S. room.
"It's a big word. I don't hate people," said Team Canada goalie Martin Brodeur with a chuckle. "I think it's hockey. They're going to want to take something away from us, and we have to have that attitude to be ready for it and match what they're going to bring and then surpass it.
"If we know that they're hating us, we need to hate back, I guess."
I'll be honest I'm not a fan of hockey at all-don't dislike it-just couldn't care less. But this game has piqued my interest. What with it being played during the Olympics on our soil and all the trash the Americans are saying about "hating" us. I'm definitely gonna watch this game. I love any opportunity to watch the Canadian teams stick it to the Americant's!
Fuck 'em!!
I'm pulling out my red ass Canadian toque and putting back a few cold Canadians during tonights game! We got this one.
Wow. Canada sucks. BOOOOOOOO Sad loss tonight. Put loungo in
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I'm still bleeding and hurt from last night. Ryan Miller showed why he's not only the best goalie in the NHL right now, but probably the best in the world too. WOW ... simply amazing. Kudos to him.
Yep I know. He is doing really good for my fantasy hockey team as well
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Canada beats Russia and Canada grabs the Gold and Silver in Womens Bobsliegh. Good day today
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Don't forget about Clara Hughes and her bronze and the women short track relay with the silver. Great day from Canada. Great day from the ladies in general.
Fanastic hockey game last night too. Not in a million years did I think we'd blow the Ruskies out the water like we did. Mike Richards deserves to the the MVP from yesterday because he did an outstanding job shutting down Ovechkin. Tomorrow night's going to be a great game against Slovakia.
Lol, read too fast I guess. Ladies Hockey bout to take it home, up 2-0 11 mins left!
Just one year away... Bruno is almost here!
Yep nice win tonight from the Women's hockey. Were climbing p the standings. WATCH OUT NORWAY!!
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Canada is now in a 3 way tie for first in terms of gold medals!
The US and Germany are the other two. We are 4th overall in the medal standings. 8 gold, 6 silver, 2 bronze.
Nuts eh? And how many 4th places have we had so far too? Those 4th's could of easily been bronze medals.
Ah well, great performance from the Canadian women's hockey team tonight too. I love watching and listening to everyone in an arena singing the national anthem. Make you proud to be Canadian.
Ah that was a dissapointing loss in the Aerials
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Man Canada has been on a tear the last couple days. We are now in the lead for most gold medals with 12!!!! Just Amazing! We are third overall with 24 medals and can possibly catch up to Germany by the end of the weekend who has 29.
Go Canada!
25 now. 3rd overall. Good job. We are also gaurenteed one more so we have 26 essentiall
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Hey everyone. I'm not sure how many of you all are into video games, however I know many of us are into Star Wars, and on the off chance you (or someone you know) is into any of the Star Wars Video Games, I wanted to pass this along. A great cause if anyone wanted to contribute, and their events are really cool.
Join TheSpeedGamers as they help those devastated by this tornado season.
Thespeedgamers will be hosting a Star Wars Marathon via live video feed in an effort to raise money for The Red Cross. The marathon will begin on July 8th at 6 PM CST and will last an entire week (168 hours straight). TheSpeedGamer's will be playing through the huge catalog of Star Wars titles while also interacting with the viewers. By donating to help the cause, you will have the opportunity to win one of several prizes that will be raffled off! You can watch the entire marathon on TheSpeedGamers.com
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Southwest softball advances with win over Brandeis
Arocha finds groove with nightfall to pitch Dragons to 8-4 victory.
Updated 12:36 pm, Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Katrisha Arocha didn't attribute her struggles over the weekend to her still recovering shoulder or even the sweltering heat. The Southwest ace blamed it on sunshine.
"I guess it's superstition, but when I'm playing under the lights, I get into this mode where I'm pitching so much harder than I do during the day," Arocha said. "You feel like this is it. This is the real thing."
She felt that on a chilly Monday night on her home field in the decisive third game against Brandeis, pitching the Dragons to an 8-4 victory and into the second round of the Class 5A playoffs. Southwest will face Madison later this week.
True to her superstition, Arocha struggled at the beginning of the game when the sun was still out by giving up a two-run home run in the first inning to Broncos sophomore Anna Parnin.
Once the lights came on in the third inning, however, Arocha found her groove. She collected all eight of her strikeouts and allowed four hits after that point.
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The Dragons' offense also kicked in during the third. With Southwest trailing 3-1, Celeste Hernandez and Kamerie Vidales had back-to-back RBI singles to tie the game.
The Broncos threatened in the fifth after a single and hit-by-pitch, but Arocha struck out the side to get out of the jam.
In the sixth, Southwest had the breakout inning it had been waiting for all series. Brittany Avila led off with a flared single to right and reached second on a bad throw back to the infield.
"Our defense failed us," Brandeis coach Liz Beyer said. "You can't have four errors in the playoffs."
Vivian Tijerina broke the tie with a single up the middle to score Avila. Her familiarity with Brandeis pitcher Victoria Silva, her select teammate, paid off.
"All weekend, she's been throwing me outside, so I knew I just had to go with the pitch," Tijerina said.
Catcher Dora Guzman broke the game open with a two-run double off the right-field wall. Southwest scored five runs in the inning.
Brandeis' Christy Trevino tripled to lead off the seventh and scored on an illegal pitch, but Arocha closed the door to send Southwest to the second round, where she would — not surprisingly — prefer a night game.
"Let's hope so," she said. "But with this confidence, we'll do really well anytime."


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In a wide-ranging conversation with Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono, Railway Age's 2014 Railroader of the Year, Amtrak President and CEO Joseph H. Boardman, talks about his lifelong career in transportation, his tenure at Amtrak, and his views on not only the company's future, but on the importance of transportation to the U.S. economy and the nation's standing in the global economy.
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Kanye West won't be content until his design acumen has touched every aspect of consumer life—from clothing to shoes to home decor. With the first two underway, West made a bold play for IKEA's attention this week, urging the Swedish furniture manufacturer to "allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing." He added that he has ideas about both beds and chairs! Somebody get him a meeting.
Related: Would You Buy Kanye West Designed Furniture?
IKEA Australia heard the call and answered it in cheeky form—the company shared a blueprint to Facebook of the YEEZY bed, mocked up from the extra-wide king featured in his "Famous" video. Yeezy himself controversially populated the bed with nude wax figures including Taylor Swift to Bill Cosby.
Doesn't the average consumer need a the-more-the-merrier frame to house their sinister, ironic, genius ideas? Think of it as a bedroom sculpture garden.
Check out the YEEZY, a beautiful dark twisted fantasy where all the magic happens below, kudos on the caption as well.
Of course, this is just some savvy social media managers having a little fun at Kanye's expense.
A spokesperson for IKEA told CNBC "Although we are really flattered by Kanye West's high interest in IKEA and the speculation around a joint venture, we have no plans to collaborate at this point in time."


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MANCOS The Weber Fire grew overnight to 9,155 acres. The growth brought it closer to U.S. Highway 160, but it remained within established containment lines Wednesday morning.
Firefighter are gradually bringing fire down to established containment lines, a news release from the federal incident management team fighting the fire said. Crews continue to work conducting burnout operations and constructing and strengthening fire line.
The fire is now 30 percent contained meaning firefighters had created a secure line around that percentage of the perimeter.
Highway 41 has been reopened, but evacuated residents still need an escort into their homes, according to the release.
No structures have been destroyed but about 120 people remain evacuated.
Steep terrain and the risk of rolling embers made direct firefighting tactics unsafe in some areas.
Rough terrain, unpredictable weather, and heavy, dry fuels have made this a hard fought battle. Incident Commander Joe Lowe was quoted saying in the release.
The release cautioned that residents and visitors should expect to see and smell smoke over the next several days.
Fire officials on Tuesday said they expected to spend a couple more days building containment lines and several days after that on mop up work. Presently, about 500 people are working the fire.
Deputy incident commander Jay Esperance warned residents not to get a false sense of security.
We cant let our guard down, he said Tuesday morning at a community briefing. Weve got a long road to go.
No homes have been lost.
They have been working to protect communication towers on the north end of the fire that serve as a backbone to the entire region.
One firefighter suffered a cut shin in a fall Monday night. He was treated and released.
The fire started Friday afternoon along a road in Weber Canyon.
Federal land officials said the official cause remains under investigation.
But Butch Knowlton, director of La Plata Countys Office of Emergency Preparedness, said the fire was started by people target practicing on federal land. He made the statement Monday during a special meeting to brief county commissioners on area fires.
A bullet passed through a target, ricocheted off a rock and landed in dry vegetation, starting the fire, he said.
Federal land officials did not dispute the explanation, but they insisted it is an ongoing investigation.
I cant say, said Connie Clementson, field manager for the Bureau of Land Management. The fire is still under investigation. We absolutely know its human-caused.
Weather forecasters predict isolated and scattered thundershowers today and Thursday in the region with a drying trend for the remainder of the week. The best chance for rain showers will be north of the fire in the San Juan Mountains, said Travis Booth, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
Thankfully, we dont anticipate any of the really strong winds, he said.
However, isolated storms could produce strong gusts.
Fire crews planned to continue containment efforts today and Thursday, Esperance said. They will use hand tools and bulldozers to dig a fire line. They clear vegetation and conduct burnouts or back burns to eliminate fuels, he said.
Resident can expect to see heavy smoke during the next several days as the burnouts operations are done.
After the fire is contained, firefighters will begin mop-up efforts, which involve extinguishing all hot spots around the perimeter.
Firefighters will use their hands to feel for heat on the ground, Esperance said. They will use hand tools to expose embers and douse them with water, he said.
Its dirty, but its extremely critical, he said.
After mop-up, firefighters will do rehab work, which is repairing fences, culverts or anything else damaged as a result of fighting the blaze, he said.
Mancos resident Julie Desm said she is feeling better about the fire.
It will be another couple of weeks, and even those couple of weeks wont be anything to worry about, she said. Except for those guys working it.


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Here are some of the notable quotes from around Major League Baseball this week:
"I feel fine. I wasn't in the original lineup. But I said, 'Please, pretty please.'"
--Braves third baseman Chipper Jones on how he talked his way into the lineup one day after leaving the field with a sore ankle. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"If you start worrying about where you're pitching, you've lost the battle already. I was told a long time ago they can't hit
the ball out of the park on the ground. Work the sinker, change speeds, let them hit the ball on the ground and every park
plays exactly the same."
--Marlins pitcher Kevin Gregg on the challenges in pitching in a hitter-friendly ballpark like the Marlins' Triple-A affiliate in Albuquerque. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
"This game's crazy. Anytime you get a hit, it's like, 'Aaaaaaah.' But if you go 0 for 3, you're like, 'Oh, crap. Here we go.
I need to get a hit. I need to get a hit.' It just makes it a little tougher when you're not on the team, when you don't have
a job."
--Veteran first baseman Travis Lee, who is trying to win a job in Spring Training with the Nationals. (Washington Post)
"You believe a non-athlete? One thousand home runs, that's not realistic for anybody. ... Whatever I end up with, I'd be
happy with."
--Barry Bonds dismissing talk by his agent that he could possibly hit 1,000 home runs in his career. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"I came in second last year. I'm looking forward to taking it this year.."
--Angels pitcher Jered Weaver on his expectations for the team's annual NCAA pool. Weaver said he would fill out three brackets and pick his alma mater, Long Beach State, to win it all in one of them. (San Jose Mercury News)
"I was coming off the field and (Mark) Ellis said, 'Don't push it, it's early.' I'm not concerned at all. I don't want the
fans to be worried. I feel all right, I just hate the fact that it was on TV and people might be concerned."
--A's outfielder Milton Bradley on leaving a Spring Training game with a sore knee. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"He's valuable everywhere -- on the field, off the field. He's legitimately the best catcher that I've ever seen. The way he receives, the way he handles a pitching staff, his blocking, everything he does behind the plate, is tremendous. What he brings in our clubhouse, his demeanor and how he interacts with people, he's no doubt one of the biggest leaders on the club."
-- Former Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell on Astros catcher Brad Ausmus, who has caught 1,696 games, including a franchise-record 1,056 with the Astros and is one of the most respected players on the team. (Houston Chronicle)
"I can sum up what happened in two words: Mike Matheny. He got hurt, and I started to lose confidence. He was telling me I could win 20 games, and I was throwing everything he called with complete confidence. I'm not the only guy who struggled there after he got hurt. "I think this year I'm more confident in myself. I'm going to throw all the demons out and challenge guys. I'm going to stop giving opposing hitters too much credit. I've got good stuff, and I'm going to have a big year." -- Texas Rangers pitcher Jamey Wright on how his 2006 season went downhill after a good start. Wright was 5-3 with a 3.84 ERA through May 22 before struggling throughout the rest of the season. (Dallas Morning News)
"This is a big week for me, but they all are, now. I'm a bench player, and I see everyone else getting ready, and I want to show that I can contribute to the team. It's a bunch of little things that bother me, which is sometimes the case after surgery. I need to get over the hump, and hopefully, I have." -- Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Jeff DaVanon, who is recovering from surgery on his shoulder and ankle, about his rehabilitation. (East Valley Tribune)
"I've been trying to stay in touch with him to figure out what it takes for him to get ready based on the cultural differences between our camp and the camp he's used to. Mechanical issues like (with his swing) is very fixable over time. ... Next year at this time we'll have a benchmark. Right now we have to rely on what he has to say, watch some video, come up with a couple little things. I still have full confidence he will be ready by the beginning of the season." -- Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon on how trying to learn how infielder Akinori Iwamura got ready for the season as a player in Japan compared to what he's been doing here in the United States. (St. Petersburg Times)
"I felt like I had good stuff. I would have liked to have had better results, obviously, in the first inning. It's nice to be able to get in situations and try to pitch your way out of it, and get the feel of what it's going to be like during the first of the year." -- Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield on his start against the Yankees Monday night. (Boston Herald)
"I've been impressed with him. The thing I like about him most is he doesn't seem to have any fear. He's an interesting guy to look at and we'll get a chance to see a little bit more of him down the stretch." -- Mets manager Willie Randolph on 22-year-old reliever Joe Smith. The right-hander is in his second professional season and hasn't pitched above Double-A. But after Monday's perfect 1 1/3-inning outing in the Mets' 5-5, 11-inning tie with the Marlins, he still hasn't allowed a run in 5 1/3 innings and is in the running for a spot in the bullpen. (Newsday)
"He gave me a bad break on a ground ball to first. He's not moving quite like he used to. His reaction time's not real good. I was thinking, 'Just don't get hit with a bad hop.' I'd feel terrible." -- New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte commenting on seeing former teammate Don Mattingly play first base during Pettitte's simulation game. Mattingly was slow to react to a ground ball that got past him for a single. (Newsday)
"(This) just fulfills the scouting report we have on him. If this guy stays healthy, he'll play in the big leagues."
-- St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, discussing the two-hit day by former pitcher and current outfield prospect Rick Ankiel. (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
"It's a two-way street. If I pitch the way I'm capable of pitching, good things will happen with this team. I also realize
that if I go out there and throw competitively and throw consistently, good things will happen for me on this team."
-- St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Kip Wells, acknowledging the relationship between him and his new team. (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
"I am doing everything I can possibly think of to try and get it. The only thing I can do is go out there and pitch and try
and win it. It's not really up to me; it's what the coaches and managers think."
-- Chicago Cubs pitcher Wade Miller, who is competing for the final spot in the starting rotation with the Cubs. (Chicago Sun-Times)
"I like to play hard like that. I like to play the game right and hustle all the time."
-- Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano, explaining why he wanted to show off his bumps and bruises from a fall he took running the bases earlier this week. (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Being on the mound when the team comes out and everybody shakes hands, that's pretty cool. The fans are on their feet when
you get that second out. It's kind of a rush."
-- Pirates pitcher Sean Capps, who recorded his first Major League save against Colorado last July, describing the feeling a pitcher gets while in a save situation. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"When I'm healthy, I'm as good as anyone here."
-- Pirates pitcher Sean Burnett, assessing his chances of breaking into the starting rotation in Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
"This is where I want to be. I do want to see this organization win. When you've been through what we've been through, I want
to see this city win. I know this is a great city when you win. I know the fans are there and the passion's there. I want to
see that, I really do."
-- Baltimore second baseman Brian Roberts, who earlier this week signed a new deal that will keep him in Baltimore for three more seasons. (Baltimore Sun)
"You want people to remember you, so hopefully that will be the case after I retire. Hopefully 10 to 15 years from now,
people will say something positive about my career."
-- Minnesota pitcher Johan Santana, winner of the AL Cy Young Award in two of the past three seasons, on the legacy he hopes to leave. Santana turned 28 on Tuesday. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Created: 09/22/2013 6:55 PM KSTP.com By: Scott Theisen
Rep. Paul Ryan
Photo: Photo: MGN Online
Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 2012 and a rumored presidential contender for 2016, has a book deal.
The Wisconsin Republican has an agreement with Twelve for a book about the state of conservatism. Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the book is called "Where Do We Go From Here?" and is scheduled for August 2014.
Books have become a virtual requirement for national candidates and Ryan's deal was negotiated by Robert Barnett, the Washington attorney whose clients include President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush.
Because of rules governing the House of Representatives, Ryan was not permitted to accept an advance, only royalties from sales.
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Vermont Farmer Goes CRAZY, Smashes 7 Police Vehicles with Massive Indestructible Tractor
The 'livin n lovin' Roger Pion got mad after he he was busted last month for resisting arrest and possession of marijuana.
Hell hath no fury like a farmer scorned.
Roger Pion - pronounced pee-on - of Newport, Vermont, drove his massive tractor over seven vehicles in the parking lot of the local Sheriff's Department Thursday afternoon, leaving them looking like they were crushed by a monster truck.
Pion, 34, then led cops on a low speed chase through town before being apprehended a mile away.
Pion was arrested last month for resisting arrest and possession of marijuana, according to Orleans County Chief Deputy Sheriff Phil Brooks, an arrest that clearly put a crimp in the "livin (sic) n love having fun" quote listed as his favorite on his Facebook page.
Brooks described the tractor as really big, really red" and added that "it looked like an army tank."
Pion used a Case MX255, according to Newport Express publisher Ken Wells. The "virtually indestructible" diesel beast has eight wheels, weighs over 20,000 pounds and costs more than $130,000.
Police initially tried to stop Pion by laying a tack strip across the road, said Wells, having no effect on the giant tractor's solid rubber wheels. Cops eventually brought the low-speed chase to a halt a mile from the Sheriff's office.
Despite the destruction of half of the department's vehicles, Brooks' sense of humor remained. He mentioned that it was a good thing they had recently moved to a bigger office with a bigger parking lot - "big enough for a giant tractor to fit."
Also, when asked about how Pion was apprehended, Brooks replied that he "was not involved with the actual apprehension of him, obviously we had no vehicles left to apprehend him."
F***king cops are classic. A guys decides to have some fun by innocently smashing a couple of police cruisers and they get all snippy.
If you're going to go after property, go after PRIVATE property. Else we all pay douchebag....


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A typical state list may appear as follows. Diseases marked with an asterisk (*) were reportable to the CDC at the national level in 2010:
The county or state health department will try to find the source of many of these illnesses, such as food poisoning or amebiasis. In the case of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) the county or state will try to locate sexual contacts of infected people to make sure they are disease-free or are treated if they are already infected.
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On December 7 one of our masterpieces will be going into storage—Yama and Yami, an eight-foot-tall Tibetan ceremonial painting (or thangka) from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. If you're coming to the museum this week, make a point to come up to the Ahmanson Building's fourth floor to check it out (you'll pass it on your way to the Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles exhibition).
It is a vivid and viscerally affecting painting. Yama, the Lord of the Underworld and judger of souls, dances violently with his sister, Yami, atop a blue bull, which makes itself at home upon a nude woman—it's basically the most frightening dogpile you might ever imagine. Yama, who has three eyes and the head of a buffalo, holds a staff in one hand and a noose in the other, and is surrounded by a wall of flames (note, however, the apparently heat-resistant birds fluttering around his head). He wears a crown of skulls and a necklace of severed heads, while Yami, similarly adorned, offers him a cup of "demon-blood elixir." Adding to the vibrant lunacy of the painting are more severed heads, flowers, clouds, water, and five miniature versions of Yama—in blue, red, white, and orange—placed in the corners and apex of the painting. I can't believe we omitted this painting from our Halloween post on creepy works in the museum; it's definitely right up there.
The painting is chock-full of imagery—more than I can describe nor even understand, especially in the space of this blog post. Happily, you can take an online tour of the painting's meaning, as well as read the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the long conservation process that restored Yama and Yami to all its terrifying glory. It's a more than worthy read, before or after you take a look at the painting in person.


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please , is there an example script to use with the -exec switch ?
I would like to trigger different QCad scripts from an another application and the -exec switch could be an easy way to do it.
I don't have a lot of experience with Javascript so I'm encountering some problems writing a script for the -exec argument.
I read in the forum that the script must have :
- filename equal the class name
- beginEvent function
In example it's not clear to me when and where the object should be created.
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function TestClass () {
this.animal = "cat";
this.name = "toby";
TestClass.prototype.beginEvent = function() {
qDebug("TestClass beginEvent");
QMessageBox.information(null, "Animal", this.animal+" "+this.name);
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Discussion in 'Mens Basketball' started by cloneteach, Jun 4, 2013.
Austin Grandstaff @AustinGstaff17m
Visiting Iowa State in August with my boy @ClaytonCuster3 ❤
Austin Grandstaff - Yahoo! Sports
Yes, please!
Appearently the last weekend of August. Hines in the know.
Good time for him to visit: Students should have just arrived, campus will be immaculate, and the weather is usually good. The ISU/UNI FB game is Aug 31st, I'd assume he'd get a game day experience in to. Like it. (Plus going with C. Custer is an added bonus.)
Travis Hines @TravisHines2111mA source confirms Austin Grandstaff ('15, TX) is slated to visit to Iowa State the last weekend in August. Grandstaff tweeted it earlier.
BTW...Grandstaff is an AWESOME last name.
Would love to see this kid commit to the good guys! Keep it up CFH!
I think he will commit to the cyclones, not the good guys. He does seem like someone they have a very good shot of getting with his friendship with Custer.
Matt Thomas 2.0 aka Fred Hoiberg 3.0?
I just hate when people say "the good guys". I don't know why but it drives me crazy.
The good guys the good guys the good guys the good guys The good guys the good guys the good guys the good guys The good guys the good guys the good guys the good guys The good guys the good guys the good guys the good guys
Gotcha. I thought you were a fan of a different team or something.
Holy Crap - Fred is doing it! Hope Clayton can help to impress.
Iowa State is reportedly in his early top three with Oklahoma and Okie State.
I think Grandstaff will ultimately be a top 30 recruit before it's all said an done. He has a great shot, good handkerchief, and a good amount of athleticism. He's already ranked higher than Thomas, actually.
So relieved to see Marquette is in there among the offers. I've only been following recruiting since Hoiball started (and thus it became fun to follow) but it seems that's the one universal truth. Since I only follow recruiting for one team I like to pretend Marquette offers every high school senior in the nation.
The possibility of playing against a recruit always makes things a bit more interesting.
How many good guards ISU is in on only reinforces how huge a get Niang was for the Cyclones.
A good handkerchief is critical in Fred's offense. smile:


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Looking for info on getting QEMU running on Mac and targeting ARM running Debian. I saw an entry on the QEMU forums where awilcox had done this, but the post has been removed. Thanks -- Kramer
not able to build gdbm module..
Hi, i m not able build gdbm module in openembedded build system. While building i m getting below getting errors..
cat ./gdbm.proto2 >> gdbm.h
| chmod -w gdbm.h | chmod: gdbm.h: new permissions are r-xrwxrwx, not r-xr-xr-x | make: *** [gdbm.h] Error 1 | make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting ERROR: Build of recipes/gdbm/gdbm-native_1.8.3.bb do_compile failed ERROR: Task 1854 (recipes/gdbm/gdbm-native_1.8.3.bb, do_compile) failed
Please do the needful...
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Some stories are too hard to tell. I went to do an interview with Barbara on post-traumatic stress (PTS, also known as PTSD) and ended up going through my own soul-searching quest of the mind.
I went with a list of questions and a goal to achieve the answers to those questions. In return, I left with more questions than I arrived with. I left wondering why there is so much pain and suffering in this world and how do we go about soothing and solving the heartaches of the mind. One thing that I took away was a quote that was given to me from Belleruth Naparstek which states, As hard and painful as the journey to healing is, once people come through it, they usually discover that it brings an unanticipated windfall of blessings. This bounty, bought, admittedly, at far too heavy a price, is almost always shared readily with others.
I could give you the details of Barbaras life, how she suffered through PTS and the ways she has found peace in her life. We could look at her story and dissect the situations and solutions, but in the end we would simply have just looked at one life going through PTS. I know that Barbara would not want this, but would prefer that others, through her story, would find help for going through PTS.
Defined by the National Alliance on Mental Illness on its web site, PTSD includes both an event that threatens injury to self or others and a response to those events that involves persistent fear, helplessness or horror.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness also explains, Recent scientific understanding shows that experiencing traumatic events can change the way our brains function. Especially with severe or repeated exposure, the brain can be affected in such a way that makes a person feel like the event is happening again and again. Repeated experience of the traumatic event can prevent healing and keep a person stuck in a pattern that may induce anxiety, sleeplessness, anger or an increased possibility of substance abuse.
With so many service members, victims of abuse and survivors of natural disasters suffering with PTS, we as a society must step up to the calling of those in need of help. We have all seen the stereotyped veteran who goes through nightmares of a past experience. However, what would we do if that veteran was a friend, a family member or even you? We would all call for more studies and more monetary support for those suffering, but where do we start in reaching recovery for the individual?
There are therapies and medicines for those suffering with PTS, and no one should have to suffer when there are tools in reaching recovery. No matter the illness schizophrenia, bipolar, depression or PTS we are all worthy of the recovery that is waiting for us.
For Barbara, recovery found a renewed purpose with an injured and battered stray dog. Barbara found something that was in need of help. The dog that couldnt help itself was also battling injuries that most would have judged too difficult to recover from. In nursing this dog back from deaths doorstep, Barbara, with the help of her husband, realized that her own life, bruised and battered, could be healed as well.
May we all have the compassion and love to take the time to help those who are in need of help, even if we may never see the results of our help.
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Massive Tidal Waves In Spain Are Washing People Away
Huge surging waves nearly forty feet high off the coast of Northern Spain have been crashing onto land and washing people out to sea.
On Sunday, a teenaged boy who had been bicycling around the waterfront with a friend died after 30-foot-high waves crashed down on him and pulled him out to sea. Authorities have not been able to locate the boy's body, but according to reports his friend escaped safely.
The week before, massive waves washed over a wall and swept away a Senegalese man who had been walking down a pier. The Red Cross tried to rescue him after the incident (which was caught on camera) but they were unable to revive him.
And today, five sailors had to be rescued by a helicopter near the Spanish port of La Coruna after the waves pounded their supplies ship, which was "in danger of sinking."
One group happy about the waves, however, are surfers. Andrew Cotton, a British surfer, may have taken on the biggest wave ever last weekend in Portugal when he rode an 80 foot wave near Nazare.
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I posted a phone picture of this top when I had completed it. It was my first completed quilt top since my accident in April. I have had it quilted and just finished the binding. I am proud of how it turned out and hope they really like it. I will be leaving on October 18th to go to West Palm Beach for the wedding of my Grandson, Bobby to Kelly. Bobby is in the Air Force and stationed in Alaska. My DD and her hubby are flying me down. The wedding is on the 21st. It started out as a wall hanging and just grew and grew. About 80 to 90% of the fabric used is from the 50's and 60's. I just love the quilting. Thanks for looking and letting me know how it looks. The white on the outside of the quilt is a sheet, not a border. The backing is white tone on tone with a 3" strip of flag material in the shape of a plus (had to cover up where I pieced the back) sign.
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Dice-K available out of bullpen
Right-hander volunteers service with just one day of rest
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
During Friday's optional workout, starter Daisuke Matsuzaka let Francona know that he could work out of the bullpen if necessary.
Matsuzaka went in to Game 6 with just one day of rest, after giving up five hits and five runs over four-plus innings and throwing 82 pitches in Thursday's Game 5.
For Matsuzaka to be used Saturday, it would probably be an emergency situation, such as extra innings. But if the Red Sox make it to Game 7, Matsuzaka could be in line for a more significant role.
"Tomorrow, with an extra day, would really help," Francona said. "I think what we do today is maybe kind of hold him back so we can use everybody and maybe match up. I don't know if we're dying to do it, because we also have [Paul] Byrd. Who knows how you get there?"
More than anything, Francona was appreciative that Matsuzaka would volunteer for a role he hasn't performed in since 2004, when he pitched in relief for the Seibu Lions in a clinching victory in Game 7 of the Japan Series. Previous to that, Matsuzaka came out of the bullpen for Seibu in Game 4 in 2002 -- a clinching loss -- in the Japan Series.
"It's just kind of nice from where we sit, when we come out yesterday for the workout and they say, 'Hey, look, here's what I can do,'" Francona said. "You know what, in a day and age where maybe guys look at people making a lot of money, this reinforces how we feel about a lot of guys. It makes you feel good."
Aside from those two situations with the Seibu Lions, you'd have to go back to Matsuzaka's high school days find his last relief appearance. In fact, Matsuzaka became a legend pitching out of the bullpen at the famed 1998 Koshien Tournament a day after he had thrown 250 pitches in a start.
"I think you can do this from time to time," said Francona. "It's not something that you would ever do in the middle of the year, because it doesn't set up for a guy long-term. But the next thing you're really looking at is Halloween or Thanksgiving if you can win. If one of our trainers came in today and said, 'You shouldn't do this,' we wouldn't do it."
Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, who lasted just 2 2/3 innings in his Game 4 loss, might also be available. However, the Rays have pounded on Wakefield's knuckleball the last two times they've faced him, so that might be less likely.
"We'll see," Francona said. "Some of it depends on how he feels. There could e a role for everybody."
One thing Francona was decisive about is that he's not going to over-use any of his relievers, including ace closer Jonathan Papelbon. Don't look for Papelbon to duplicate the efforts of Rays reliever Dan Wheeler, who went 3 1/3 innings in Game 2.
Though Papelbon came on in the seventh inning in Game 5, Francona said there was no chance he would have pitched as many as three innings that night.
"You have to know your guys," Francona said. "He's pitched a lot lately. No, we couldn't have done that. There is no temptation. I wouldn't do it. I couldn't do it. That was actually pushing it the other night. You can look at a pitch limit all you want, and we do. Every pitch he threw to [B.J.] Upton, you could see him taking a little more time, a little more time. He was gassed when he came out after that [eighth] inning. It's Oct. 18. That's a lot [to ask]."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I purchased a Necchi Lydia 544 at GW on Tuesday. The price was $29.99 but with I had a 10% off coupon and it was senior citizens 10% off day so she cost me $24.00. She does not have the cover, or any other attachments. But she came with the foot controller and I was able to plug her in to test the motor. She runs.
I had to think long and hard about adding another girl to the hoard/herd but I could not leave her there to an unknown fate. I will have to find a manual because this sewing machine is not intuitive. I don't think I would have ever figured out how to thread her without finding a Youtube video. She is one grimy, dirty girl and will be today's cleaning project. I am fascinated by this sewing machine because she is so different in every way from any of my other sewing machines. I will be posting pictures of her later today.


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I am taking the family on vacation for the rest of the week. (Homeschool advantage!) All of my fleet at home will be shut down during this time. Returning Sunday night.
That race to 500k in SZTAKI is looking smoother and smoother
Have a great trip!
Have fun! Cya when you get back...
Just to let everyone know, I'm down due to heat for at least 3 days. Only GPU machines remain on. I think I got the bad GPUGRID machine back online. So 2 on Collatz and 2 on GPUGRID.
Just moved some big fans outside and pointed them southwest. Hopefully will push some cooler air down there...
Thanks for reminding me of MDK2!
@Oatmeal, Thought for sure you cross-forum posted. It wasn't until I got out of this thread that I saw to what you refer.
I blew out a circuit breaker today. Since I will need to get an electrician to fix it, I will need to dismantle the farm and put the boxes away. It also means I will not be able to run at full speed anymore.
Since I was planning on cutting back 50% in January, this is not a major problem. Well, it really is, because I don't think I would have been able to voluntarily cut back. The addiction is bad with this one.
At least I will be able to get my flat screen now.
My apartment is quiet, spookily so. No blinking lights, no rush from a myriad of fans. Most of my boxes are on the balcony. Stacked on top of each other, waiting. The dining room is empty. I've only seen it this way almost 5 years ago when I moved in. The white carpet with brown rectangles.
I watched a TV show about the National parks and how they came into existence. I've seen so few. I love this hobby, I mean how could I not? I've spent 10's of thousands of dollars upgrading and replacing. I wonder how many trips to far off places I could have had.
I think I will take a long, hard look at returning to DC. Maybe this problem, which could have possibly burned down my abode, was fortuitous.
I will retire soon. Maybe it's time to move to something new, or old.
The doctor says: take 2 GTX 260s and call me in the morning
Yeah, when I shut everything down for our recent vacation I actually felt a little depressed at the silence.
Shortly afterward, I replaced fans in two of the kids boxes with Scythe S-Flex's. #@+*&%@+#*%& What a difference! I'm doing the rest ASAP.
Oh, for actual content...
I suggest you do some math. Figure out the absolute most efficient combinations up to limit X. (Where X can be watts consumed, number of cores, whatever limit you want to place.) I would then optimize around that, to your limit and sell off the rest.
I'm thinking 80+ Active PFC power supplies, default clocked CPUs, and perhaps dual GPU configs. Selling off some of your less efficient gear should help fund some new, high-efficiency PSUs.
When I first started back in June of 2008, you were what I looked up to
Ever since, Boogie and I have slowly been building up our farm to try and keep up with you. Then Whizbang and Tostada come in and start playing rough... we were starting to make quite the team. Not to mention everyone else we had to bump elbows with.
Maybe cut back half the machines and keep the GPU production up
You'll be missed.
Drgn - I think he meant he is retiring from his Real Life gig.
Ah, a philosophical question you pose. Just what is "Real Life"? Are some parts of life more real than others? Does societal conditioning determine what we feel is real? Are the same things real in every culture? Is there an ultimate reality at all? Does reality exist as relative "layers" independent of each other? Don't get me started...
To get back to the subject, Leav was making a good point. Maybe set a limit of how many machines you want to have and stick to it. For instance I recently downsized from 12 to 9 machines (including my notebook), got rid of the single cores and the less efficient of the dual cores. Added another quad. Added GPUs to each machine: most recently the two HD 4770 cards since they are very fast at the projects they can run and are far more energy efficient then the alternatives. Using 80+ rated power supplies cut the energy usage by another 15-20%. If you want mega power in few boxes think about selling off the quads and buying some i7s or wait for the 6 core version due out mid next year:
AMD will have a 6 core desktop chip out around the same time, the server version has been around for a while now.
I've got 4 quad core GPU machines up and one regular quad so far.
Just finished firing up 8 GPU quad cores and 10 other quads. Fixed the electrical problem, just need to clean up.
edit- Alas, it appears I can't get away from this place. I felt very useless when I wasn't running any boxen. Nothing to look up on the Web. No stats equals no life.
Bejeebus, I love the smell of burnt wiring in the morning!! It smells like... victory!
Did you happen to mention to the electrician that work order wanted the 15As upgraded to 50As?
I'm glad your recovery was rapid.
Bring on 50 degree weather, so we can get those summer-temps-stressed farms back into the fold.
Yeah, I use PPD/W as my primary criterion for which machines to turn use. That has caused me to power down all dedicated crunchers that do not have a GPU and to move GPU's to low power dual cores. Away with the Q6600's. Down with the Phenoms. They get plugged back in for simap once a month. And I do mean plugged in, no phantom load either! I should get them on their own power strip to make the full shutdown easier.
And, if you are having problems blowing breakers, do remember that Watts = volts * amps * power factor. You can easily blow a 15 amp breaker with 1000 watts of computing with crappy old power supplies. The same circuit will power 1500 watts of computing with .99 power factor supplies.
Which is why I have my 8 systems and laser printer spread across 2x 20A breakers.
More Power... AR AR AR....
/Tim the Toolman
I'm going to be dropping off the map starting tomorrow till the 3rd of Nov due to wedding and honeymoon. I'm not a big producer but wanted to let you guys know as some of you seem obsessive about tracking gains and losses.
Obsessive? Twitch, twitch...
Congrats!!! Have a GREAT time!
I will be going dark starting immediately. A very big problem has arisen and I don't know if I can fix it. I will continue to monitor the Team.
Good luck to you all and have a great Christmas and prosperous New Year.
****! ****! ****! ****!
I guess I'll be ordering that Nvidia GTS 250 tomorrow instead of later. Until it gets here, one quad is out of service.
LMK when you start parting out the farm. I have a feeling some more quads are in my future.
The most noble of Teammates. Most valiant of Companions. The most fierce and feared competitor on the battlefield.
May your troubles soon depart you. May your heart be lightened. And may you again join with your friends and teammates here. For we will surly miss your presence and companionship.
Agent GleanerC /out
Thank you, everyone. I am humbled.
Hope everything is okay, outlnder. Hurry back... if it's possible.
My sentiments exactly. Hopefully things aren't as grim as your post sounded.
Good luck dude!
At least it is nice to know that if any of us hits hard times we can probably offload our workers to the rest of the group pretty quickly.
Not as bad as others, but I'm taking a hit over the break.
As many of you know, I have many of my test machines at work (aka "worker bees") that I keep crunching when they are not in use otherwise. This adds significantly to my bottom line. Well, the entire network is going down for 4 days over the break. No connections from the desktops to the Intarwebs.
My goal is to figure out a project that has at least a 7 day expire on WUs, and load the machines up before they go dark. I can then remote back in and get them moving again once things come back online.
Seti has a 14 day min on shortie WU and 28 days on long WU
The World Community Grid workunits I just downloaded have a report deadline of 12/31.
Agent GleanerC /out
Just a heads up if you are going to fill up on SETI WU do it soon. The latest tech news posted by the staff is saying the AC in the server closet is failing as it is the holidays on the university campus they don't know if they will be able to get it fixed before the new years. Several of the servers are running 10+ C over temp and close to thermal self protection. If they shut themselves down the project says they will stay shutdown until the AC is fixed.
I've never run Seti and don't have any plans to do so. I was hoping to be off WCG by then, GleanerC, but duly noted.
As some of you have noticed, I have continued to do DC since the Primegrid challenge. I'm not sure what's happening right now, except things are not good.
I have retired, but my income is greatly lowered.
I will continue running DC until I can't. There is a possibility that the court will throw the whole thing out. Let's hope. I civil thing, not criminal.
^^^ Hoping ON (not just that your court situation is resolved well, but that your retirement situation improves)
The retirement check showed up and it's half of what I was hoping. All non-GPU machines will be shutting down once their work has been completed. They include the PSP machines. Sorry guys and gals.
Well, rats. My employer is closing our office. I'm going to lose more than a dozen old P4s which were ~95% available to me - the same ones that three years ago vaulted me to the lead of Ars, a 1st tier producer (but now they produce about the same as the single best machine at home). They're all of my non-Macs, though, so this will really limit my projects for a while. So, I drift lower again - now to 3rd tier producer from 2nd tier producer
Going to be moving once again this spring, so expect my credits in GPUGRID & yoyo to stop flowing for a good part of April and possibly beyond, if power bill costs increase in my new residence. But at least I will have some beautiful female company.
It is time. I am shutting down slowly. Anyone wanting a quad or ten, please email or PM.
Thanks for the good times.


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I have an Asus PT6 Deluxe LGA 1366 x58 motherboard and 18 GB of RAM installed. For reference it is an old Alienware Area 51 x58 desktop. Anyway, after a new installation of windows 7 Pro 64 bit on a new hard drive, the OS only shows 14 GB of RAM, like one of the slots with 4 GB isnt working. A quick look at CPU-Z revealed that all 6 slots were working (3 4GB PNY sticks and 3 2GB Corsair) and showed a grand total of 18 GB.
I checked the specs of the motherboard and it shows max supported memory at 24 GB.
I did not find any settings in the BIOS that would "turn off" a memory slot and if CPU-Z is detecting all 18 GB of RAM wouldn't that mean that the slot and RAM were working correctly? In the BIOS it reads only 14 GB of RAM so I am assuming it has something to do with the BIOS settings...
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In reply to Jakub's post in the now closed 3.0 Draft forum:
The only difference between implicit and explicit barriers is the fact that the latter map to a barrier construct. The glossary entry for barrier is unequivocal in this respect. (I always wonder why the funny idea of possible differences between explicit and implicit barriers surfaces from time to time, but that's another story)
Thus, no matter its flavor, a barrier forces completion of all tasks generated by the implicit tasks and their descendants up to the barrier location.
The apparently redundant statement in section 1.3 (which should be read together witht the following one), is to explicitly stress that you cannot generate a task in one parallel region to perform it in a different one.


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Donaldson, Lowrie making All-Star case on the field
By Jeff Kirshman / MLB.com
OAKLAND -- When Josh Donaldson explains his reasoning behind not checking the vote totals for this year's American League All-Star team, you're inclined to believe that he means it and isn't resorting to false humility.
"Why would I?" Donaldson said. "Miguel Cabrera's going to get voted in."
Donaldson doesn't feel defeated. He just recognizes the vote totals should be going to the Tigers' third baseman -- last year's AL MVP and Triple Crown winner. Cabrera enters Saturday leading the Majors with a .377 average and 81 RBIs, and his 24 home runs are second only to Baltimore's Chris Davis (28).
"He's already had what some guys feel would be a great year," Donaldson said.
Not that Donaldson's any slouch. Oakland's most consistent contributor this season is batting .308 with 12 home runs and 51 RBIs entering Friday. As of last Saturday, Donaldson sat in fifth place in the AL All-Star third-base votes with 635,581. Cabrera leads the position, and all of baseball, with 4,337,223.
Which is why Donaldson thinks fans should vote for shortstop Jed Lowrie to become the first A's position player to appear in an All-Star Game since Ramon Hernandez was selected as a reserve catcher in 2003.
"That sounds great to me," Lowrie said, laughing. The most recent totals placed him in fourth with 1,207,486 votes, behind Baltimore shortstop J.J. Hardy's 2,548,682. "If that's what he thinks, I'll take it."
Lowrie mirrored Donaldson in thinking the A's are deserving of at least one position player selection, in large part because of the team's overall success.
The A's 46-34 record -- third-best in the AL -- matches the best start by an A's team over the past 21 years. They're 103-60 since last July, which is the best mark in the Majors over that span.
"To have a team that's played as well as we have, the most consistent performers throughout the first half deserve to go," said Lowrie, who is batting .306 with a team-best 21 doubles and .378 on-base percentage in his first year since joining the A's from Houston. "And I can say that because I was on a team last year that had one representative, and he was very deserving, but I thought I was too. But because we were on such a bad team we only had one guy go.
"That's always kind of been the way it's been. When you have a winning team, more guys are represented."
Norris or Jaso to spell Vogt behind plate for matinee
OAKLAND -- Bob Melvin isn't sure who will play catcher in Saturday's matinee against the Cardinals, just that it'll be somebody different.
The A's manager will turn to either John Jaso or Derek Norris in place of recent callup Stephen Vogt, who has started the past three games.
An abrasion on Jaso's left palm and Norris' quiet bat prompted the recent insertion of Vogt into the starting lineup. Norris will most likely get the nod Saturday unless Jaso's health proves satisfactory.
"Not yet to the point where we feel like he can start a game and get four at-bats, but definitely more available to pinch-hit, whether it's tomorrow or Sunday," Melvin said of Jaso before Friday night's game. "I think we'll definitely be out of the woods with him once we get through with this series, but it could be in this series that he gets a start."
Norris is 4-for-39 over his last 13 games and is batting .151 since May 1 after hitting .283 in April. Melvin called Norris "the catcher of the future," but his playing time has decreased during the recent slump. At 24, Norris is the youngest player on Oakland's active roster, which Melvin acknowledged is a difficult age to experience adversity.
"It's tough, but what's a little bit of a double-edged sword too is that you do have some time to work on some things and have a little bit of separation from what has been a tough period for him," Melvin said. "It's no fun. A guy wants to play all of the time, and based on the personnel we have, it's going to be mostly against left-handed pitching.
"It's important that we keep Derek up to speed, too, and that we haven't seen too many left-handed starters. We will see three here before the break, but we've seen predominately righties and it's tough for a younger guy to sit on the bench for a while. We also need to sprinkle him in and get him some at-bats too, so if Jaso doesn't catch tomorrow, Norris will."
Jeff Kirshman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A family vacation proves unexpectedly gay as Myrtle Beach, S.C., gets Pride
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor
The trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., had more to do with a family reunion than finding a good destination for gay travelers. After all, Myrtle Beach is a pretty lazy, conservative town in the perennial Red State, one where teenaged spring breakers and families gather to enjoy the warm surf and the resort-town appeal of seafood and beachcombing and overpriced cocktails. Queer travelers can hit one of the three gay bars, all within blocks of each other — Club Traxx, Time Out! and the Rainbow House (a lesbian club).
But the weekend I arrived , just by coincidence, it turned out to be Gay Pride.
Keep in mind, the gay community in Myrtle Beach is small, so "Gay Days," plural, felt more like Gay Day, singular: One major event and then life as usual in Coastal Carolina.
The major event, though, was an ambitious one: Gathering members of the LGBT community and their allies to form a "human rainbow flag:" People signed up to wear a pastel-colored T-shirt and arrange themselves in the traditional configuration. A few others wore black, forming the flagpole.
The entire event was threatened by showers late Friday and early Saturday, but despite a slightly muddy field, nearly 200 people turned out, huddled closely on a muggy afternoon, while a photographer flew above in a helicopter.
Numbers weren't uniform; there were too many reds and too few purples; but the effect was one of a flag waving in the breeze.
In order to do the shoot, members faced each other before bending forward to allow the broad field of their shirts to form the colors. Directly across from me stood Elke Kennedy, a resident of Greenville in the Upstate. Elke and her husband established SeansLastWish.org, raising awareness of anti-gay violence, after their gay son was beaten to death and his killer spent less than a year in jail.
Elke spoke at a rally following the photoshoot, and dozens in attendance listened to her recount her son's harrowing attack and death before two drag queens performed and a DJ spun dance hits. People started to file out after a while, off to the beach, or the clubs, or even the boardwalk, where the Texas Star-like Skywheel gives great views of the beach … and sits next door to the campily named souvenir shop the Gay Dolphin.
The latter was always may favorite place when I was growing up; you'd think my parents would have caught on sooner.
Click here for additional photos.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 26, 2011.


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Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z Announce Their New Tour!
Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z Announce Their New Tour!
Justin Timberlake paid a visit to the BBC Radio 1 studios in London today. He took photos with fans and signed autographs as he made his way into the building. It's a big day for Justin since he and Jay-Z announced their new Legends of Summer tour. Their highly anticipated show will kick off on July 17 in Toronto and will continue through the US and Canada until Aug. 16. Fans can get early access to tickets on Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z tour's Facebook page, where concertgoers can start buying presale tickets on Feb. 27. The new tour may mean that Jay-Z will have to spend time away from Beyoncé as it will overlap with her Mrs. Carter tour, which runs from April 15 through Aug. 3.
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Discussion in 'Equipment' started by LoneStar, Nov 29, 2012.
Happy you found a helmet that fit you, that's what matters
Hi. I have Nolan N84 helmet and it has an issue with pinlock: during process of visor opening or closing, pinlock touches rubber compactor (?) *rubber strip on the perimeter of viewport (eye-port)* and after several time begins to scratch the main visor and itself. This helmet had same problem?
This question is mostly addressed to people who had used this helmet for some time
P.S. sorry for my English
Здравствуйте д33т,
Нет. Царапины, не проблема.
PS - sorry for my Russian
RomaDakota, thanks :)
And one more question: is it possible to breath normal in this helmet when riding offroad? In N84 it was mostly impossible even with all vent's and visor fully opened, because amount of air in helmet was very small. In AFX FX-39 (last time i rode in this helmet) it was a much easier to breath and and only in very difficult situations became not enough oxygen.
Figures I find the features I'm looking for in a helmet not available in the US. The FC-Moto price is $494 shipped to the US. Kind of stuck if the size is off. I guess I'll wait and see if it makes it to the US market this year. I know how to speed up that process. I'll buy another helmet and BOOM the Nolan will be shipping from US sources for hundreds less.
I'm still curious to know how well the peak blocks the sun. Is it like the Shoei (which gives little to no shade on the eyes) or like the Arai which does a great job and they even realized they needed black tape on the bottom to further reduce glare.
I guess it is a moot point anyway since they don't ship to the US. My head is a tweener... right between L and XL depending on the brand.
Ducatirdr for sure
Cliffy - at it's highest position it is slightly lower than the Shoei and at it's lowest goes further down than the XD3. Visor/Peak is excellent.
When I bought mine the price was a little over $300, which was a STEAL for the quality of the helmet. I haven't priced it in a month but if it's $500 shipped they've really gone up
BTW, when you look at the price in US dollars on the site, it includes VAT, but when you put it in the cart it knocks the VAT off which is about $61. I also used the DHL shipping which was about $20 vs $50-60 for UPS
Sorry for annoying, but still: is this helmet suitable for off-road riding? It looks more road-oriented than similar helmets of other manufacturers.
And one more question: it comes without pinlock?
P.S. i try to make decision between this helmet and AGV AX8 DS EVO
Actually, they do ship to the US, DHL or UPS. UPS costs 2x more, but in reading other threads regarding FC Moto, it seems to be a more reliable option.
Mine included the pinlock shield with tabs
Loving this helmet
LoneStar, thanks for answer :)
One quick question that you almost touched on: what size did you get? Or did I miss it? My XD4 is an XL and fits decently and having recently returned to riding, don't have much helmet comparison data.
Not sure if you were asking me or not but if so I wear a XXL in helmets. My XD3 fits perfectly in XXL, and bought the Nolan in XXL. It runs true to size, but the design fits more "snugly" as in less head movement in the helmet, which is a tribute to the designers.
By snugly I don't mean tight or binding in any way. In fact it's the most comfortable helmet I've yet worn - after about 10 mins you forget it's on almost.
Keeping in mind it's my head and all the yada yada disclaimers lol
The neck port is smaller than the XD3, and that initially makes it seem a bit tighter slipping on but its actually not.
And it has more visibility than the XD3
I really hope they get this thing DOT approved before I really need a new helmet. My head measures 58 cm yet every size large helmet I try is FAR too tight. My chin hands out beneath most of them. A size large Nolan N104 feels like a clamp is pressing in on my jaw. The XL feels much better but is a bit loose. It drives me nuts. I really must try on and ride with a helmet before buying it (yes, my local dealer carries Nolan and they do allow test rides with a helmet which is why I will gladly pay a little more to buy from a brick and mortar store).
I dont think they have any plans to bring it to the US.. they arent even trying to get it DOT approved.. have you heard differently?
Had a few months with this helmet now and have really been pleased with it. Coming off a 2 week trip into the desert mountains in west Texas, I experienced very high winds combined with interstate speeds, heavy dust, temps from 28 to 90 and have nothing to complain about - lovin it.
As mentioned before I think the noise is about the same as XD and I think the venting might be less. Only gripe has been I can't mount my GoPro on it as easily LOL
Will probably order another and a couple of spare shields in case they don't bring them over here
great review!
I forgot to mention that removing the visor and face shield are a breeze... couldn't be simpler.
Visor is held on by three plastic wing nuts... comes off easily.
Shield is simply raised to highest position, and then you press the center pivot donut, which is a spring loaded button, and move the visor forward slightly and it pops off.
No fiddly parts to keep track of or gyrations and voodoo magic required.
Takes longer to describe it than to do it.
Rock on bros...
Damnit. Why the hell wouldn't Nolan get this DOT approved? Grrrr... :huh
Just returned from Mexico trip and it's been great - upwards of 90 mph for hours with visor/peak attached and slips through the wind perfectly. Now that the foam has fully broken in, it's slightly looser. Still not enough to warrant having gone down a size - just an observation
I went online to look at buying a second for a spare and sheesh the price has gone up! Base model is $450-ish and top paint job is $622
Yikes - glad I snagged one early


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According to a Russellville Police Department (RPD) report, Donny Ford, 33, allegedly fired a pistol into the ground during an argument at the residence. After police found the pistol with a spent round indicating a shot had been fired, Ford was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct, second degree terroristic threatening and discharging a firearm within city limits.
No one was injured during the incident.


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Kevin Grandia | June 3, 2008
By Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 22:10
There's political rhetoric and then there's Inhofian rhetoric.
And even for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), this is completely over the top.
Or to put it more bluntly, there's a train-wreck and then there's an Inhofian train wreck.
On the Senate floor today during the
Republican filibuster debate on the Climate Security Act, Inhofe made the outrageous claim that "everything" in the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth has "been refuted many times" by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
Now Al Gore's done his movie, almost everything that's been in his movie, in fact everything has been refuted. And interestingly enough the IPCC on sea levels and other things, scare tactics, used in that science-fiction movie have been totally refuted and been refuted many times by the — by the IPCC."
Where does one even begin? Or does one even have to begin to refute this?
Of course we all know that Al Gore and the IPCC were the recent recipients of the Nobel Prize for their respective work on climate change, so do we need more refutation than that?
I would suggest not. At this point, with the scientific evidence and observational effects of climate change diametrically opposing Inhofe's wild-eyed blanket statements on climate change, it's much better to sit back and watch the train wreck.
Here it is:
ThinkProgress was on this story first and has more analysis on this, as does their Wonk Room.
Contrarian Bastards replied on Permalink
Inhofe = Pinocchio
Inhofe is a bare-faced liar!
How does this guy sleep at night?
Perhaps someone should make him eat all the science that he says has been refuted, but hasn't.
I don't think he's lying . . .
I think he really believes what he's saying, and that's even scarier. The trouble is, there are people like Inhofe who are in a position to influence policy who are just too blinkered to get it. For whatever reason, he will never accept what the science is saying. In fact, it appears as though he won't even look at what the science is saying.
Fern Mackenzie
Dan replied on Permalink
unlike Red Rose Tea
"I think he really believes what he's saying, and that's even scarier. The trouble is, there are people like Inhofe who are in a position to influence policy who are just too blinkered to get it."
Oh, good. So it is not just in Canada, eh? That's a relief, somehow.
Traciatim replied on Permalink
You'll notice the Goracle
You'll notice the Goracle never won a Nobel prize in science, he won the peace prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
You'll also note that his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies. Why can't the AGW fanatics just use facts to spread the word … oh right, they don't support the theory.
Oh noes! Gore Derangement Syndrome!
"You'll also note that his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies."
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"Al `Fat Al' Gore [is fat]" – Harold Pierce
aardvark replied on Permalink
AGW Fanatics & References
References for 'his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies' please!
BTW Regarding 'AGW fanatics', I've ever met one, but I know quite a few people who are very concerned by the implications of the science. I strongly suspect that the vast majority of those who have been convinced by the scientific evidence, rather wish that the evidence didn't say what it does!
Which rather makes me wonder: Presumably, since you seem to despise 'AGW fanatics' (whatever that means) so much, why do you believe that AGW doesn't exist? The objective peer-reviewed science doesn't support your view, so you appear to have got everything backwards.
exusian replied on Permalink
How to tell a whopper:
"You'll also note that his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies."
Dan replied on Permalink
well, yeah
"… have been refuted many times, and refuted by the IPCC"
Yes, as any well-invested denier knows, the IPCC was set up to investigate and refute popular science films like the Inconvenient Truth. That is why it is called the Indagare Propaganda Clima Comitato (IPCC), or in English, the Committee to Investigate Climate Propaganda.
End of proof.