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The new Windows Phones are exclusive and colorful, is Microsoft to blame?
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Sep 2012, 09:13
We have been wondering how come each new Windows Phone 8 handset this season is so distinct and different from each other, yet Nokia's and HTC's handsets have some overarching similarities that are impossible to go unnoticed...
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1. jimjam (unregistered)
No it is apple's fault as usual - the ipods are glaringly colorful
2. Aeires (unregistered)
Colorful phones are like purple cars, they look great until the fad passes.
14. troutsy (Posts: 334; Member since: 17 Feb 2012)
The colorful cars fad has lasted a lot longer than the "all cars are black" fad.
Granted, a mint green car can outlive the time when the color is considered attractive. A phone is a pretty safe bet that you won't be using it 10 years from now.
3. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4567; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Yes, i blame Microsoft, but i am putting a good positive blame. At least i won't be hiding a Windows phone when someone holds the same piece... Thank God for colours!!
4. Seymur (unregistered)
8 Pro/RT, 920/820, 8X/8S..
5. Daniel.95 (Posts: 89; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
This is Good but i choose Black or White Again
6. wendygarett (unregistered)
And I thought it was Michael article but nice one Daniel...
Yup, ms just wanna revived the colourfulness of the phone from the black and white trend made by Apple... Ms just wanna differentiate themselves tho....
7. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
nokia and htc phones were always known for the build quality.....the good thing here is that samsung was forced to leave plastic and make a metallic phone, which is really good......
8. Nookie4u (Posts: 133; Member since: 13 Aug 2012)
I prefer the neutral classic black or white please, bright colors tend to get boring pretty soon. but perhaps theres a younger crowd who prefer colorful phones???
9. Daniel.95 (Posts: 89; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
I like htc+MS
but 8X isn't that which i want.. and Again i should wait to new htc phone come with a 4.7 inch display and a Quad-Core Qualcomm SoC
10. tigermcm (Posts: 861; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
yes please bring colors!!!!! When flip phones where the fad they came in different colors at least I remember sanyo and LG with colors but the stupid iPhone made everyone turn to black or white only
11. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Differentiation in progress
12. cGmC11 (Posts: 152; Member since: 02 Apr 2012)
I fall in love with the Nokia Lumia 920 hardware & the HTC 8X impresive design and quality! And both coming to my carrier AT&T! ...BYE BYE ANDROID...SEE YOU ;-)
28. pookiewood (Posts: 631; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
I'm coming from Sprint for over 10 years to switch to AT&T so I don't know the SIM card game. I suppose I could get the 8x in November and then the 920 next year and swap back and forth depending on how i want to accessorize! :D Hmmm. SIM cards for the win!
13. KingShango (Posts: 89; Member since: 16 May 2012)
Who can blame them? The hardware for the WP7 launch was lackluster at best. Remember the weird HTC phone with the slide out speaker?
In addition I would think that the OEMs would want to differentiate themselves as much as possible and if they have a certain in-house tech (Pureview, Beats Audio) why wouldn't they put it in their flagship offerings.
At least there are choices and options, audiophiles might like the 8X while shutterbugs might like the 920. Anything is better than the one-size-fits-all option from a certain other frutiy manufacturer.
15. No_Nonsense (unregistered)
Nokia has Dolby for audio enhancements, doesn't it? Just asking.
16. kanagadeepan (Posts: 1026; Member since: 24 Jan 2012)
Good.. They can't differentiate in software and NOT much also in hardware.. So they are let with no choice other than differentiating with colours...
17. Commentator (Posts: 3722; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
So, why hasn't anyone made a green-colored phone yet? I'd certainly take that over banana-yellow.
18. Mobile-X-Pert (Posts: 565; Member since: 20 Dec 2010)
Yeah, the weed smokers would be happy with a green-colored phone lol
29. RichieRich379 (Posts: 21; Member since: 23 Mar 2012)
22. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
There's been a few green ones here and there, but I agree, green would be nice.
19. speckledapple (Posts: 892; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)
This is what Microsoft and Windows Phone will keep some serious butts in the coming years.
20. Pdubb (Posts: 248; Member since: 08 Aug 2011)
What i find interesting about the new phones is the lack of need for a case. I cannot say when the last time I have seen an iPhone without one. Amazingly people say how beautiful they are and then put some gaudy case or bumper over it leaving only the front screen and the Apple logo visible.
21. Allen3697 (Posts: 86; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
I love the bright colors.
23. Hunt3rj2 (Posts: 396; Member since: 11 Nov 2011)
HTC does best when they don't have to market themselves.
24. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1587; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I think Microsoft is really serious about staying in the smart phone business. The windows smart phones may never outsell the Android or Iphone but there will always be enough of them sold to cause an OEM like Samsung , HTC. and Nokia to make a model or two each year. if you have noticed this is true except for Nokia most OEM's are now making new model after new model of Android smart phones but only make 2 Windows smart phones for the whole year. Microsoft will continue to make their smart phones software better and better and as years continue. the net result will be that Microsoft smart phones will not take a back seat to the Iphones or Android smart phones. right now the Microsoft smart phone OS can run Dual core or quad core CPU's and HD screens and and have all the High tech electronics and camera's the Other smart phones used to boast they have that the Windows 7 series smart phones do note have. in the End People will see that Microsoft smart phones are sound and work well causing more People to buy them and microsoft smart phones will stay around to the surprise of Android and Iphone fans
25. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1587; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I forgot to mention above that the New Windows Phone 8 smart phones can now run dual , Quad core Cpu's and use HD screens and all the smart Phone electronics and cameras the windows 7 series smart phone OS could not use. the new windows smart p0hens use the well renown NT operating system core which is better OS thanwindows 7 series smart phones used. Microsoft will push their OEM's to make better smart phone because now they are using an OS that handle anything they want a smart phone to do.
26. Amiya (Posts: 11; Member since: 08 Sep 2012)
But, I like white one........
27. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
Blah HTC and Nokia are too similar I wished HTC kept the design language of the one series for their wp8


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In today's economic environment, more people than ever before are freelancing or doing contract work. Freelancing is fraught with uncertainty–that's the nature of the game–but Carol Tice figured out a way to earn a six-figure salary as a freelancer. Tice, a writer, then took an even bolder step and built a business that coaches and teaches others how to make a living in a freelance world. Tice also has advice for businesses looking to work more effectively with their growing freelance staffs.
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Rays Shock Red Sox Nation to go 3-1 in ALCS
I was reading a blog the other day by a Red Sox supporter that was commenting on the huge amount of noise in the Trop. during the game that they could not enjoy watching the game. Well, after watching the crowd in Fenway basically sitting on their hands the last 2 nights, I will take the noise any day.
I always find it odd when people are commenting and grumbling about crowd noise in a baseball game these days. The game has become very interactive with the fans in the videos, the player at bat intor songs, and the small segments, like the Pepsi Race at Tropicana Field. It is not like the usual baseball fan has any bouts with ADD at all.
If they did, that fan would be the one hit by every foul ball in the place. The reason I really love my seats in Rightfield is that I can actually be part of the game sometimes. If a foul ball comes into my section, I usually try and see if I can get it without killing a massive amount of women and children. Seriously, I catch about 7 a season, and maybe 3 end up in my bag for another time.
The people who usually get my booty is the kids or a person at ther first baseball game. I remember last month, during the Orioles series there was a dad and his two sons from Denmark sitting in the Bullpen Cafe. I made sure that Bobby Ramos got them a ball before they left, not to get another Rays fan, but to get another kid to love the game of baseball.
With the appeal of the World Baseball Classic a few years ago, and another in the near future, the popularity of our great sport will rush like the wind into the nooks and crannies of Europe and we might actually have a real World's Championship before I leave this earth. I can dream can't I. Think about it, South Africa playing Iraq in a quarterfinal match, or maybe even Israel playing Syria in another match. It could change the way we see crisis in the future……..but I can dream can't I?
Game 4 Facts and Figures
Coming into tonight game, Akinora Iwamura was chasing Darin Erstad's record of consecutive games with a hit. Iwamura had hit at least once in all 7 of the Rays games until tonight. Iwamura unfortunately went 0-5 on the night and dropped his postseason average to .222 for the playoffs.
The Rays have now scored 9 plus runs in 3 consecutive games. That is the first time in history that a Playoff virgin team has won so many games in a row to start their playoff career. The Rays have also scored 31 runs on 39 hits since the Game 1 loss at home last Friday night.
B.J. Upton is the first player to hit five or more home runs in a single postseason after hitting fewer than 10 home runs during the preceding regular season. I loved looking at the attendance at Fenway Park tonight. They had a total of 38, 144 people in the building, which rounds out to 104 percent capacity for the Park. Guess it is true you cram everyone and their brother into a building at playoff time.
Andy Sonnanstine
How can you find fault with a guy who has been a thron in the Red Sox side the entire year. Sonnanstine came into this start not giving up a earned run to the Rex Sox in his last 2 starts. He might not be in the Rays top 3 pitchers' this postseason, but he is almost as reliable as the sun coming up in the morning for the Rays.
Sonnanstine always gives you a chance to win with his off-speed pitching stytle and great control. And tonight was another great example of why he has won Pitcher of the Year awards all throughout the Rays farm system. Consistant strikes and blazing the corners with his slider and curveball.
Sonnanstine went 7.1 innings tonight throwing 97 pitches before heading to the showers. He got only 2 strikeouts on the night, and gave up only 4-run on 6-hits to the Red Sox. It is kind of funny that his old Triple-A catcher, Kevin Cash is the guy who took him long tonight. Sonnanstine did his usual job of not beating himself and put together a great game to help the Rays go up 3-1 in this best-of-7 series.
Unusual Errors on the Night
Coming into this series the Rays have not gotten alot of defensive mistakes and baserunning errors. But in tonight contest, the Rays committed 3 errors, most after the game was already in the Rays hands. Evan Longoria committed 2 errors tonight, one on a ground ball, and the other on a throw to first in the 2nd inning on a ball hit down the line by Jason Bay.
Longoria lost concentration on the ball and it stumbled a bit near his feet before he got the ball and threw a bullet to first. Un fortunately Carlos Pena could not get the ball and it rolled into the Red Sox dugout, and put Bay in scoring position for the Red Sox. The Rays ended up getting a 4-6-3 double play and erased Bay from the basepaths to ease Longoria's mind.
In the 8th inning, with Jed Lowrie on second base, Dusitn Pedroia hit a ball into shallow center that B J upton over ran and had to go retrieve the ball. Lowrie scored and Pedroia ended up on second on the error. Pedroia did come back to haunt Upton as he scored when Kevin Youkilis hit the first pitch he saw for an RBI- double and Pedroia scored with ease to put the score at 13-4.
Willy Aybar did not get charged with an error, but more of an error in judgement when he was caught leaning towards second on a single in the 5th inning after singling to left. As the ball was coming back towards the plate for a play on Carl Crawford, Aybar leaned a bit too far towards second, and Youkilis intercepted the throw and tossed a bullet to Mark Katsay who tagged out Aybar for the 2nd out of the inning.
Carl Crawford is Back
Coming into this series, everyone was questioning if Carl Crawford was at full strength and could be a factor in this years' playoff race. After tonight's performance, I think those skeptics will put that notion away until next season. Crawford went 5-for-5 tonight, with 2 stolen bases and 3 runs scored and 2 RBI's. It tied the ALCS record with Paul Blair of the 1980's Orioles, and the Yankees' Hideki Matsui for a perfect 5 at bat night. Carl is currently hitting 9 for 18 in the series, or a .500 average for the ALCS.
Crawford got the party started early when he smacked a double to right in the 1st inning. Crawford kept his most controversial hit for the next at bat when he hit a soft grounder towards the area to the right of the pitching mound that Red Sox starter, Tim Wakefield had to come off the mound to handle. Wakefield had to sprawl out on the turf to glove the ball and could not get the ball to first in time to save the infield single to Crawford. He ended stealing second base, then scored on Willy Aybar's homer in the inning.
Crawford then got another double off the Green Monster in left and again scored on Aybar's single to shallow left. He came up again in the long 6th inning and hit a blooper single into left to score Upton from third base. Carl ended up being stranded on base at the end of the inning.
In the 8th inning, Crawford hit a ball into the gap in rightfield that was barely missed by J D Drew as he claosed in on the ball. The ball went off the outside of his glove and went to the wall. At the end of the play, Crawford was standing on third with an RBI-triple. On the play, Pena had ran from first to home and scored easily on the play.
Willy Aybar's Wild Ride
Another guy that was having a banner night was Willy Aybar for the Rays. He was inserted in the lineup to bat right-handed against Wakefield, and the rolling of the dice again by Rays Manager Joe Maddon came up "7's" across the board. Willy came on and got 5 RBI's on the night, while going 4-5 at the plate. He shares a current .500 ALCS batting average with Crawford.
Aybar got the scoring going with a 2-run homer out of the building and over the Green Monster in the 3rd inning. He then got an RBI-single in the 5th, but was picked off by being too aggressive on the bases tonight. In the 6th inning he hit an RBI single to left that scored Crawford. And in the 8th inning he hit a single to right to score Crawford again to finish his 5-RBI night.
Evan Longoria
When he came up after the Ray's first 12 games this season, you knew he was going to have a fantastic season for the team. But you can bet Maddon and Andrew Friedman could not imagine the total domination this rookie has had at the plate during the playoffs this season. Longoria went 1-4 tonight with 2 runs scored and 2 RBI's.
His first RBI came off his blast into the Green Monster in the 1st inning. the shot went long and deep into the high section and it put the Rays up 3-0 at the time. With the homer, Longoria became the new holder of the rookie home run record in the playoffs with 5 for the postseason and counting. But that was not the only time Longoria got on base tonight as he walked in the 6th inning and got another RBI off the walk-in of Iwamura on the play. It was is 6th RBI of the playoff series.
Carlos Pena
Because he is hitting between the twenty-something tandem of Upton and Longoria, Carlos Pena has been seeing alot more breaking balls and off-speed pitches this postseason. But becuase of the recent onslaught of both players' hitting more homers for the team, opposing pitchers' have been picking their poison by pitching to Pena this series.
And with his solo blast in the 9th inning last night, Pena has now homered twice on the last 3 pitches he has seen this series. His 2-run homer in the 1st inning gave the Rays an early lead 2-0 tonight. For the night, he went 1-3, with 2 RBI's and 3 runs scored. He also got 2 walks tonight to get on base 60 percent of his chances tonight.
Carlos's shot over the Green Monster tonight gives him 3 unbelievable shots in the section this season at Fenway Park. Before this year, he had never homered into the Green Monster against the Red Sox. In the 6th inning, his walk loaded the bases for the Rays as they scored 5 runs in the inning. In the 8th, he walked on 6 pitches and scored on Crawford's triple to right.
Edwin Jackson
Most people already know how I feel about Edwin Jackson as a pitcher for the Rays. It take a certain kind of pitcher to adjust from being a starter to going to the Bullpen, to going back to a starter, to switching into long relief or clean-up roles in the Bullpen.
I think Jackson has done a great job adjusting to the new role in the ALCS, and I hope if the Rays hit the World Series he is still on the 25-man roster to fulfill the same role in the Rays next step. For the night, Jackson came on and went 1.1 innings and gave up a single walk and got 4 strikeouts on 25 pitches. But his biggest job was to shut down the Red Sox from trying to gain momentum and try and get back into this contest.
Jackson came on toirelieve Trever Miller, who threw 1/3 of an inning and got 1 strikeout on 5 pitches. Jackson quickly got Jason Bay to strikeout to end the 8th inning. He came out in the 9th and got pinch-hitter Sean Casey to strikeout and then walked both Coco Crisp and pinch-hitter Jocoby Ellsbury on 4 pitches each to put a man in scoring position for the Red sox. Jackson then buckled down and got Jed Lowrie and Kotsay to strikeout to end the rally and the game for the Rays.
How much do you think the last few games have taken out of the confidience of the Boston Red Sox. The fact that in the last 2 games their pitching staff has given up a total of 7 home runs to the Rays. Tonight's starter, Tim Wakefield was pitching for the first time in the last 16 days.
The Red Sox pitching staff has given up a total of 10 home runs in the 4 games so far in this series. The staff has a ERA of 7.17 in the ALCS, and we might have more games to play. They have allowed 43 runs and 17 walks in 37.2 innigs in this series.
Combine that with the Red Sox currently hitting .232 as a team, with Jacoby Ellsbury hitting .000, and David Ortiz is batting .071, with only one extra base hit (triple tonight). Cather Jason Varitek is also hitting .000, having gone 0-10 so far in the series. Combine that with 1 stolen base by Dustin Pedroia and 5 total homers in the series and you have a team searching for an offensive identity right now.
I am not trying to wake up the Boston bat's, or throw the pitching staff under the bus here. But without Daisuke Matsuzaka's great game 1 performance, this series might be over tonight. The rematch on Thursday night will be a true test to the moxy that is the Boston Red Sox.
Maybe this day off is coming at the right time for this team and they can pull it together enough to give a aggressive and expected effort in the last game at Fenway Park this season against the Rays. But you got to remember, as of tonight, the Rays' have now won 4 straight games at Fenway, something they could not do earlier in the 2008 season.


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It's a battle between tradition and change, and it could decide how far Congress is willing to go to make the Pentagon confront a growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the ranks.
Top Democrats and a few Republicans want to take the cases out of the traditional chain of command — where an accuser might be reporting the crime to the very person she's accused.
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Military hawks say no way. Commanders need to maintain authority over their troops.
The dispute has exposed the latest fault line in the military's handling of a reported 26,000 sexual assault cases last year, and one that could decide just how far Congress is willing to go to force changes on the Pentagon.
( Also on POLITICO: Hagel to cadets: Fight sexual assault)
The Senate is holding hearings on sexual assault Tuesday, where the clash was on full display.
On one side of the fight are those seeking the change, like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Mark Begich, who argue sexual assault cases need a separate lane in the military — even if that threatens the top-down culture of the Pentagon.
On the other side are institutionalists, including hawks like Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Buck McKeon, who argue the chain of command is fundamental to leading the greatest military fighting machine on earth — and shouldn't be tampered with lightly.
( Also on POLITICO: Sex assault scandal tests Pentagon)
While senators like Gillibrand are grabbing headlines for keeping the cause front-and-center in Washington, they will still need to win over colleagues reluctant to impose such a fundamental shift at the Pentagon.
"The problem is the military is a little different than other institutions and if you take accountability and responsibility out of the hands of the commanding officer, we shouldn't do that lightly," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, told POLITICO.
Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, took to the floor Monday evening to rail against the idea. He reiterated his position at the Tuesday hearing.
"To take the commander out of the process will invite failure. These commanders have to make decisions to send our brave troops into battle. How ludicrous is it that we would say to our commanders, you've got to make a decision to send one of our kids into battle where they may end up losing their lives," Inhofe said Monday. "But however, you can't participate in the justice system of the troops. It doesn't make any sense at all."
On Tuesday, senators will review seven bills aimed at combating sexual violence in the military. Not all of them would take cases out of the chain of command.
"We're building support," Gillibrand told POLITICO on Monday. "It's just a question of having more time to talk to more colleagues."
Top military leaders will also testify. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has previously been reluctant to support changes to the chain of command.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, said legislation like what Gillibrand is pushing will be needed.
"I think it's very serious. You have nearly 30,000 of these in a year indicates there's a real problem," the California Democrat told POLITICO. "My view is that these either should be court martial-able events or there should be special prosecutors. It should be removed from the commanding officer."
Other leading female voices in the Senate say the Pentagon needs a cattle prod.


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All right, since I am now the official author of a fanfic, I have to edit my personal info, just in case my readers want to actually know me. I still won't give out my name because I want to be mysterious, but here's what I will give you.
(fact 1) I am fifteen (finally) years old, and my birthday is on July 31st. Awesome, huh, I'm connected to Harry Potter, although remotely.
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now. Though you a lot of your
dreams never seem to leave your own mind. You've
created your own little world
inside that head of yours and you're most beautiful
when your mind is in
the clouds with sparkles in your eyes. You'd rather
be asleep than awake and
people find it hard to have long conversations with
you as you mind often
wanders and you aren't a big fan of reality. You
are long and almost child-like
probably with a great love for Fantasy or Science
Fiction. You're very creative
and most likely love to write wonderful stories or
draw and even sing, anything
creative that you can use that vast imagination of
yours. You're a bit of a
puzzle to people love to wonder as to what is going
in your mind.
Some Things
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Water, Wind Animal: Eagle Color:
Purples, Blues,
Pinks, Misty Colors Song: Imaginary by
Evanescence Expression: Blank Stare
Rose Quartz Mythological Creature: Unicorn,
Fairy Planet: Saturn Hair Color:
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That may have been too much, but I like them. Hehehehehehehehe. It's funny to see what it says about you, huh? I got the idea from magic_pen - I loved all the quizzes that she put up, so I decided to do it, too. :)


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Does anyone know if there's a way for building POCO with MSBuild from the Windows SDK 7.1 CLI instead of having to install VS Express or MSVC2010?
I read here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff660764.aspx that there is a way using SetEnv.cmd and some other stuff to call vsprojs and slns but I don't really understand how the poco buildwin.cmd works.
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Sadly, Blockbuster has cut down it's maximum trade-in value from $33-$35 to $25 or so and dropped all other values along with it. So welcome to the new world of Blockbuster featuring Gamestop trade-in prices (but without the Edge card and frequent trade-in deals to make it more appealing). Continue on if you feel like there is any need...
ALERT: Buy 1 Get 1 50% off sale through June 7th!
Blockbuster is currently running a Buy 1 get 1 50% off sale. Below is a list of $14.99 and under games from the last sale just to give you an idea of prices. However, all games $4.99 and UP count for this sale. So, for example you could get God of War III for $39.99 and get half off New Super Mario Bros. Wii (also $39.99 normally).
What is this thread for?
The primary function of this thread is to discuss current trade-in and sale promos, post any trade-in values you have obtained, and discuss new and used game selection and availability. Please post trade-in values with the date of the trade (or quote) and system.
It is also permissible to discuss system availability, credit issues, etc. As long as it is related to game trades or sales at Blockbuster it is generally OK to discuss it here.
Unlike more tightly focused clearance threads, it is OK to discuss more general Gamerush/Blockbuster issues here as well as trade requests as long as they are kept to a minimum (and usually just during specific deals).
Due to the questionable stability of the Gamerush (and Blockbuster for that matter) brand, it is also permissible to discuss ways of converting credit from Blockbuster to other stores (ie, which games may be used for trading in to other stores such as Gamecrazy or EB/GS). As of right now, we have no indication of Gamerush's imminent demise, but given Blockbuster's ongoing financial difficulties we need to be aware of the possibility.
What is this thread NOT for?
Please do not discuss the flipping of games from one Gamerush store to another should another such opportunity arise (through trade-in deals). It is one thing to "play the market" with trade-in values from one chain to another (GR to GC to EB) - free market buy low/sell high and all that. But taking advantage of loopholes in a single store's policies/promos is frowned upon and has, in the past, led to trade-in bans from GR.
Blockbuster Game Trading Info
- You must sign up for a trade account in addition to your regular Blockbuster account
- You must sign up for a new trade account at every store you wish to trade at, even if using the same main account
- Trade-in credit can be placed onto your store account or onto a "Value" card
- Credit on store accounts can only be used at that one store
- However, credit can be transferred from the store account to a card at any time
- Value cards can be used at any location
- Clerks at one store cannot see your trading/purchasing history at another store via your account
- Gamerush stores often do not get new game stock until the Friday of the release week, thus a few days later than most retailers
- Depending on state law you may or may not get sales tax added to your trade-ins (and thus get more than normal). You will always be charged sales tax where applicable on purchases, even when using credit from a Value card.
Gamerush vs. regular Blockbusters
All Blockbuster game-related discussion belongs here. Most threads created in the Deals forum will be merged in to here. There seems to be the impression by many CAGs that if they don't have a Gamerush store near them (see here for a list of GR stores: http://www.blockbust...meStoreList.pdf) then this thread does not apply to them. However, regular (non-GR) Blockbuster stores often run the same promos and generally have the same trade-in values. I'm going to elaborate on the last sentence as people apparently don't understand that when I say regular BB's have the same trade-in values as Gamerush that it means [highlight]regular Blockbuster stores accept game trade-ins just like Gamerush stores[/highlight].
The key differences:
- Only Gamerush stores sell used video game hardware and generally have a much wider selection of new hardware. Many regular BB stores had a PS3 bundle available over Christmas 2007 and since then they have expanded their hardware sales. As of right now (Dec 2008) most Blockbuster stores are selling PS3's, Xbox 360's, Wii's, and DS's. They do not sell PSP's. However, they have also started selling other electronics including Blu-ray players, portable DVD players, and digital picture frames. As a result of not selling used hardware, however, regular Blockbuster stores will not take hardware in for trades.
- Both Gamerush and regular Blockbuster stores take preorders for new games for a $5 deposit (or you can pay any other amount beyond that). Gamerush stores will get many more games in than the regular stores but unfortunately a preorder at either place is not a guarantee you will get the game. Sometimes they do not get certain titles in even if you preorder them months in advance. And even if they do get them, it tends to be a few days later than other stores.
- While many Gamerush stores have cut back on their new game stock, most regular (non-GR) Blockbusters have started selling new games. They usually have a very limited selection of top-selling new 360, PS3, and Wii games.
- Trade-in values are controlled centrally and are uniform across all Gamerush and Blockbuster locations EXCEPT if the Blockbuster is a franchise location. You can tell from the receipt if your store is a franchise store. All Gamerush stores are corporate-owned so they will have uniform pricing.
Featured Preorders
Most Blockbuster stores (in addition to Gamerush stores of course) are featuring several games for preorder. $5 is required for a deposit. There are a few others in addition to what is listed below:
Beatles Rock Band
Madden 10
They usually get these featured games in on release day like any other game retailer (though note - as of late they have been very bad about this and have gotten many games several days late!). Note that you can preorder just about any other game as the system will allow them to preorder anything they have listed (yes, even at regular stores). I have preordered Mario Super Sluggers and Dragon Quest IV myself even though they are not "featured" as preorders. However, if it is not a featured preorder they may or may not get it in, and it may arrive as late as Friday of the release week (postscript - Mario Super Sluggers did indeed arrive on Friday when every other store had it Tues. or Weds. and Dragon Quest IV never arrived).
Of course you can cancel a preorder at any time and get your deposit back or switch it to another game, even after the game comes out. So don't worry about preordering something they might not get - you can always switch it to something else. However, since I've always used credit for purchasing things at Blockbuster I'm not sure how they would handle a cancellation of a cash deposit. They may simply issue a credit to your account so beware of that if placing a cash deposit on a preorder.
Current Trade-In Deals
There are no trade-in deals at this time nor have there been for a very very long time. They did however just recently cut down all their trade-in values to Gamestop-like levels (but without deals to make them more appealing as at GS).
Trade-In Values
Trade-in price quotes will now be maintained by CAG Friend of Sonic in the THIRD post of this thread. The second post will continue to highlight specific games used to transfer credit from Blockbuster to Gamestop and vice versa.
Trade-in prices are usually universal at both Blockbuster and Gamerush, but can be wildly different at franchise Blockbuster stores. Used game prices change on Sunday with trade-in price drops following the next day (Monday). Thus any quotes given in this thread will almost certainly be good through Sunday of the current week. If you want to be sure to get the same value another CAG has reported then do your trading by Sunday as the price may drop on Monday.
Also note that many stores will no longer accept video games without cover art. This is the official policy for DVD trade-ins but apparently many clerks will confuse the two and not allow it for games either. Just beware that it might be a hassle if you have a disc-only game to trade.
Gamerush website
The old Gamerush web site is now defunct, but the following link will take you to Blockbuster online, which may or may not have some info there about games. I dunno - I haven't looked at it in years.
Links to previous Gamerush Threads (dating back to June 2005!):
1 (by no means the first one but the earliest that can be found - check it out for some drama)
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Now all you have to do is replace TeX. And I mean that. It will have to be done eventually. Why wait? Evolve now and avoid the rush later!
If documents are destined to be read on paper they should probably be PDFs. If they are long technical articles/papers then TeX et al. would seem appropriate. But what about documents with significant amounts of data in them - say your phone bill. How should that be tackled? Or were you thinking about different classes of docume


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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by Jeyl, Apr 8, 2013.
That reminds me - hottest tactical officer EVER.
A planet isn't likely to be sent to the Neutral Zone or to fight the Borg.
It seems rather unlikely the Saratoga was the only ship with civilians on board (though perhpas a few docked at a starbase may have had time to offload some non-essential personnel). Why they didn't stick them on shuttlecraft and tell them to clear the battle zone before the shooting started (this would keep the escape pods free if they needed to abandon ship) is beyond me
Do they even have enough shuttlecraft to evacuate all the civs?
Conversely, a planet near the Neutral Zone or under attack by the Borg can't easily be sent elsewhere...
While Admiral Hanson maintained a brave face, most of the crews and families probably understood that there was no point in surviving the battle of Wolf 359. That is, unless the battle went for the Federation, which didn't really look all that plausible at the time.
Timo Saloniemi
It was one of those episodes that made space (and time) seem mysterious, unexplored and large. The kind of atmosphere which only existed in TOS and the first two seasons of TNG.
I like it when Geordi arrives in disarray on the bridge, tells Picard to destroy the probe and Picard doesn't hesitate to act. With Jellico in command the Enterprise wouldn't have survived.
I agree that overall season 1 and 2 maintained that atmosphere and feeling on a more consistent basis, but I think some of the middle to late TNG episodes (the price, clues, cause and effect, the nth degree, night terrors, timescape, all good things, and a few others) still recreated that feeling from time to time, albeit sporadically..
What in the world does Jellico have to do with this episode? Or did you figure it was a chance to get a random slam in on a character you dislike?
The episode showed that Picard totally trusts Geordi and thus provided a leadership lesson.
He had also been serving with Geordi for anywhere from thirteen to fifteen months at that point and had appointed him Chief Engineer. A totally different situation than the one Jellico was in.
I'm sure Picard was a terrible commanding officer for all time because of this exchange with his new first officer...
Another fantastic season 2 entry. I was always get annoyed when people say TNG "wasn't good" (or variations thereof) until season 3. Season 2 is completely where it's at, before people in front of and behind the camera got too complacent.
Season 2 is underrated. I think it's on par with season 6.
S2 has some excellent episodes, but it also has The Outrageous Okona (IMO the worst episode of any Trek series), The Icarus Factor, Samaritan Snare, Manhunt, Shades of Gray and four episodes that don't even exist.
Please feel free to mention the episodes that don't in future Episode of the Week posts if they occur after Pen Pals. I'm curious to see what you would consider worse than Shades of Gray to the point that it doesn't even exist.
S2 has 22 episodes. The others have 26. The four episodes that don't exist are 2x23, 2x24, 2x25 and 2x26.
Ah, writers' strikes. Responsible for four missing TNG episodes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and reality shows.
Unions, yaaaaaaay.
Yup. Damn those folks who want a fair share of the pie for their hard work...
Doh! I thought that was sarcasm.
The 2007/2008 strike caused the CBS show "Cane" to fizzle and caused Nestor Carbonell to come back to "Lost", where he belonged.
On the downside, it also led to "Pushing Daisies" never quite finding it's audience, and both "Heroes" and "Sarah Connor Chronicles" dropping some storylines altogether.
If "Enterprise" had gone seven seasons, like it should've, the strike would've occurred during the seventh season. I always wondered how they would've dealt with it; coming back with some episodes later, or just ending the season early and coming back with another season, as many other shows did.
You can't really blame reality shows on the strike. They were around long before that. I think they're probably the offspring of "Survivor", which itself was a product of the game show craze that happened in the wake of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". Much as I loathe them all (Millionaire only because they aired it FOUR NIGHTS A WEEK), we probably wouldn't have had "Lost" without "Survivor".
Just a curious bit of trivia -when Picard is on the Warbird -We hear a countdown in Romulan -I belive that is the first and only time we get to hear it spoken in all of the various TV series-I know we get words said here and there "jolan Tru" etc but thats the first time its been done as "spoken"
I rewatching TNG from the beginning for the first time in over a decade and I was really surprised how much better S2 was than I remembered. A big jump in quality from S1 to S2, not that it didn't have it's stinkers (and I hated, HATED Pulaski).
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Rolling his wheelchair up to the Meydan Racecourse, Rene Douglas wasn't sure how he would feel.
It had been nearly four years since the Panamanian jockey was paralyzed when his horse fell on top of him at Arlington Park and this week was the first time he had been to a track.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Rolling his wheelchair up to the Meydan Racecourse, Rene Douglas wasn't sure how he would feel.
It had been nearly four years since the Panamanian jockey was paralyzed when his horse fell on top of him at Arlington Park and this week was the first time he had been to a track. A winner of more than 3,600 races, Douglas said he thought about his 27-year career — including winning the 2006 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with Dreaming of Anna and 1996 Belmont Stakes on Editor's Note — but also his new life as co-owner of Private Zone, who races on Meydan on Saturday in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen.
"Happiness and sadness at the same time," Douglas said of first trip to Meydan. "My heart started pumping a little bit."
Douglas, 46, is part of the richest day in horse racing, a nine-race card that culminates with the $10 million Dubai World Cup. The day of races attracts some of the biggest names in the sport and this year the Dubai World Cup features 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, two-time Eclipse Award-winning Royal Delta and defending champion Monterosso, owned by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
But there may not be a more inspiring story than Douglas' at the track.
Douglas grew up in a racing family and was sent by his father to the United States to start racing at 15. It all came to an abrupt halt in May 2009, when Douglas was aboard Born to Be during the Arlington Matron Handicap. His horse went down at the top of the stretch, tossed Douglas over her head and landed on him. He was under the horse for five minutes.
"They couldn't get me out. They didn't have the machines," he said. "The horse saved my life. When the horse went down, it was paralyzed and couldn't move. If it would have moved, it would have crushed me death. I'm here for a reason."
Douglas spent six months in the hospital recovering from broken ribs and a punctured lung as well as struggling to come to terms with his new reality. He fell into a deep depression, mostly cutting himself off from the racing community that was his world for so many years. What was hardest for Douglas was the fact he had been scheduled to race at Royal Ascot soon after his fall.
"I was getting better at the time that I was supposed to go to Ascot to ride for (trainer) Wesley Ward," he said. "Riding in Ascot would have been huge for me."
For much of the time in the hospital, a group of five friends from Chicago — including a doctor, a judge and Hall of Fame hockey player Denis Savard — were with Douglas almost around the clock alongside his wife Natalia.
"For him and for me and for my family, they were like life savers," Natalia Douglas said of the group. "At the beginning, it was so hard. They were there every day for us, to sit with us, to keep his spirits up. One of the reasons he is doing better now is because of them."
But it was through horses that Douglas found his way back.
In an effort repay his five friends, Good Friends Stable was formed. Douglas served as the unofficial eyes and ears on the search for a possible contender. He helped arrange the purchase of Golden Moka for $60,000 in 2010, and the horse went on to win the $500,000 Prince of Wales in Canada before getting injured and having to be euthanized.
"One of the biggest healers was getting the first horse for my friends," said Douglas, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses at the Meydan Hotel which overlooks the track. "They were there for me. Inside of me, I felt like I have to give back to them."
The loss of Golden Moka sent Douglas in search of another horse, this time purchasing Private Zone last year from his brother Rogelio in Panama for $80,000. The horse seemed at first like a bad bet, with trainer Rogelio calling the horse "crazy" and "nuts" for its tendency to abruptly stop and ignore instructions from its jockey.
But Douglas, who now lives in Aventura, Fla., turned to his network of racing friends who have helped turned the 4-year-old into a winner.
He hired Doug O'Neill — who had just won the Kentucky Derby with I'll Have Another — as the trainer and an old roommate and good friend Martin Pedroza to ride him. Over the second part of last year, Private Zone finished second four times and third once in his past five races leading to the Dubai invitation and dreams of the biggest payday yet for Good Friends.
"If I win, I honestly don't know if I'll pass out," Douglas said. "Maybe that is the day I'll stand up and walk. I told one of the owners I want to go into the winner's circle on your shoulders. I'll be on somebody's shoulders for sure. I want to lift the trophy."
Savard said it would be "very special" to see Douglas in the winner's circle.
"I remember with Golden Moka, we were all screaming and cheering. Hopefully we can have that feeling again," Savard said. "For him to have picked two horses of this caliber for our group is amazing. These horses have taken us everywhere. We have seen the world because of him."
But winning would be just one of the highlights of the Dubai trip. It also has allowed Douglas to reconnect with many of the horsemen who he once rode for, including Sheik Mohammad, whom he met Thursday night as well as trainers including Ward and Dale Romans.
"My favorite jockey of all time," said Romans, who has Dullahan in the Dubai World Cup, as he chatted with Douglas. "Everybody is so glad to see him back around the track where he belongs. He is the best horseman jockey that every rode for me. He could tell me more about a horse on the ground or on his back of any rider I had."
Ward admitted seeing Douglas for the first time since the accident this week "was emotional" but was comforted to know his former jockey was finally finding a new role for himself.
"The last time I saw him he was up on my horses and talking very vibrantly," he said. "You see him in different eyes now. You feel really bad for him but at the same point it's good to see him come out of his shell and moving forward."
With his recent good form, Douglas said Romans and others have encouraged him to start scouting horses for them. It is a good feeling, he said, to be recognized as "having an eye for horses."
"Now, I'm back," he said. "I feel like, you know, I want to be in these races. Of course, I have to find other horses. But I will."


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Vivid Bought Joe Francis' Sex Tape, But (Thankfully) We'll Never See It
Last time we heard from professional toolkit Joe Francis, someone had stolen his girlfriend Abbey Wilson's iPad and began peddling footage of the two bumping uglies, causing Francis to freak out (ironic, given how the 'Girls Gone Wild' honcho made his fortune).
But Steve Hirsch — the Vivid Entertainment founder who previously bought Farrah Abraham's
sex tape porno — came to Joe's rescue.
Hirsch and Francis are buddies, so when the people selling the tape came to Vivid, Steve did Joe a huge solid by buying the footage for an undisclosed sum. (Pornographers code, bro.)
TMZ reports that he then returned the footage to Francis, along with a promise that the tape would never see the light of day.
"Because of the time-sensitive nature of the situation I made a decision to expedite the process and return the movie to its original owner," Hirsch said of his decision to eschew police presence in the stolen-iPad caper. What a pal.
So no one was arrested, no one had to watch Joe Francis having sex, and we all lived happily ever after. (Except for Joe himself, who currently has much bigger problems to worry about.)


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Animal Species:Smith's Cuttlefish – Sepia smithi Hoyle, 1885
This species can be recognised by its pale body colour and numerous papillae scattered over its upper surfaces.
Alternative Name/s
Smith's Cuttlefish
Sepia smithi can be pale buff pinkish brown, light brown, or greyish brown with white blotches and spots – which are sometimes joined to produce irregular transverse bands. Three pairs of arms have a band of orange-red colouring, while sucker rims are yellow brown. Paired dorsal 'eye spots' are present in both sexes, and the dorsal mantle often has pinkish or purplish scattered spots and blotches. The club has around 20 rows of small suckers.
The cuttlebone is oval with distinctive yellowish ridge at posterior end. The ventral surface is flat with a broad median groove in the striated zone. Dorsal surface is granulose with three distinct longitudinal ribs.
Size range
Males up to 14 cm mantle length, Females up to 17 cm mantle length.
Similar Species
·Sepia whitleyana
Smith's Cuttlefish is found in the Indo-Pacific region; northern Australian waters from Shark Bay in Western Australia around to Moreton Bay in Queensland, including the Timor and Arafura seas.
Distribution by collection data
Biomaps map of Sepia smithi specimens in the Australian Museum collection.
S. smithi is often found on sandy and muddy substrates and is known from depths between 10 to 138 metres.
Other behaviours and adaptations
S. smithi thought to be a day-active species, being observed at night lying on the sea floor or burying into the sand.
Mating and reproduction
Male displays during courtship include irregular zebra stripes and a wide greenish band around the base of the fins.
- Species:
- smithi
- Genus:
- Sepia
- Family:
- Sepiidae
- Order:
- Sepiida
- Subclass:
- Coleoidea
- Class:
- Cephalopoda
- Phylum:
- Mollusca
Jereb, P., & C.F.E Roper (eds) (2005) Cephalopods of the World: Chambered Nautiluses and Sepioids, Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, Rome, No. 4, Vol. 1
Lu, C.C (1998) A Synopsis of Sepiidae in Australian waters (Cephalopoda: Sepiodiea). In: Voss, N.A., Vecchione, M., Toll, R.B. & Sweeney, M.J (Eds) Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, Vol. 586, 159-190.
Norman, M., (2000) Cephalopods- A World Guide, ConchBooks, Germany (Hackenheim)
Norman, M & A. Reid., (2000) A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia, CSIRO Publishing, Victoria (Collingwood)
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French Influenza Outbreak Traced to Irish Horse Sales
November 13, 2012
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LYNDEN — The Granite Falls softball team's magical run ran into a buzz saw Friday night.
Lynden's Brooke Bonsen mowed down a potent Tigers lineup, allowing just four hits in a complete-game shutout, to lead the Lions to a 5-0 win in the 2A District 1/2 softball tournament championship game at Bender Fields. It was the first time Granite Falls had been shut out this season.
"Her speed wasn't anything we hadn't seen before but she was really hitting her spots," said Granite Falls coach Jillian Piland of Bonsen. "This is our first shutout of the season so she must have been doing her job."
Hardly all is lost for Granite Falls, which had already advanced to the 2A state tournament courtesy its win over Burlington-Edison on Wednesday. But the fact Friday's game was just for seeding didn't mean the Tigers were playing out the string.
"We wanted to win this game," Piland said. "These girls have gone to state five years in a row and being defending district champs they wanted it. And for me being a first-year coach I wanted it just as bad. That's what we talked about before the game: not being complacent and just taking the No. 2 seed. We wanted to take this one home."
Unfortunately for the Tigers they ran into the top pitcher in the Northwest Conference. After shutting out Cedarcrest in the tourney opener and holding a potent Sedro-Woolley offense — which averaged 11 runs per game in the tournament — to just four runs, Bonsen had little trouble with a Tigers offense that averaged nearly seven runs per game this season. Granite Falls got just three balls to leave the infield — all three singles — and could muster just four hits total against Bonsen.
"We were just a little slow at the plate; a little hesitant," Piland said. "We weren't quite as aggressive as we usually are."
Granite Falls made the most noise in top of the seventh inning. Trailing 5-0, Granite Falls got the first two hitters on base courtesy a hit batter and a single to right by Lacey Downs. But after a sacrifice bunt moved the runners to second and third, Bonsen snuffed out the rally, striking out Makenzie McLaughlin and getting pinch-hitter Emily Fitzgerald to ground back to her to preserve the shutout. It was the sixth putout for Bonsen.
Granite Falls pitcher Lauren Harding was good, but a few big hits by Lynden were the difference, including a home run by Destinee Matter and RBI singles by Trisha Snydar and Bonsen.
"(Lauren) did a great job. A couple of balls got up in the zone a little bit and with a better hitting team they're going to pound on it," Piland said. "But yeah great composure and really strong … I'm excited to have her at state next week."
After walking the first batter she faced, Harding coaxed the next batter, Taylor VanDalen, into a soft grounder to shortstop Caitlyn Munce, who went home with it. But in the ensuing rundown the VanDalen rounded the bases to third before the tag out. The next batter Trisha Snyder hit a laser to center field to score VanDalen and give Lynden a 1-0 lead.
Lynden broke open the game in the fifth. Following a leadoff double, Lynden took advantage of a walk and a bunt single to load the bases. A Granite Falls' error on a grounder and an RBI single by Bonsen each scored a run as Lynden tacked on a pair of insurance runs to make it 4-0.
Lynden scored a run on three two-out hits in the sixth to finish the scoring.
At Bender Fields
Granite Falls 000 000 0—0 4 1
Lynden 110 021 x—5 8 1
Lauren Harding and Lacey Downs. Bonsen and Warner. 2B—Hannah Rothwell (L). HR—Destinee Matter (L). Records—Granite Falls 17-7. Lynden 19-4.


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Cheaper than the Mac version?
Surely not! ;-)
Apple's MacBook Air may have put off some potential purchasers by eschewing a built-in optical drive, but it's not the only laptop to do so. The whole new wave of Small, Cheap Computers skimp on opticals for size and price reasons. Which is good news for makers of external optical drives, among them LG. Where once it would …
Surely not! ;-)
If LG have got an eye on Air owners for this product it must be a glass one. From the review it seems that you require two usbs to run this device (one for power and one for power/data), the Air has one usb!
Personally I don't think those who bought Airs will want this anyway, if they can afford the Air they can probably afford the extra cost for the SuperDrive and will want to keep everything nice and pretty.
On the other hand, great for a netbook although imho you may as well start saving for a ultra portable laptop if you're going to start lugging around/paying for extra CD drives etc. The netbooks seems to be getting more and more expensive, personally I'd rather save my money and get the better spec of a proper laptop.
Plextor PX-608CU
...has only one USB port though...
I've got an LG GSA-E50N which I use with my EEE PC 701 and it works great with Linux or Windows and fits in the case I bought for the EEE, I was really surprised at just how small, cheap and good it was. I also get less coasters with this little drive than I do with either of my internal desktop dvd writers.
The drive operates from a single USB port - the second cable's there if you're still on USB 1.1, or your laptop's vendor has reduced the USB power output. This drive works just fine on an Air's single USB port.
Very nice. Works with all my PCs including Linux and EEE.
So nice not to have to use an external power brick
By the way, you dont normally need more than one USB since power seems more than adequate from just one - so presumably would be ok with the Air
Don't need any stinkin' included software with linux - just use k3b (which is standard) and works just fine!
If you needed a DVC/CD reader/writer then what was the point of buying a netbook? Why not just get one of them thar new-fangled laptop thingies and get the DVD built-in 'for free' - and a decent screen resolution as well?
and I well remember the 'portable' CD-ROM drive I bought at great expense (and returned for a replacement as the first one was DOA) in the mid-'90s. It connected to my Powerbook 165 via SCSI and could allegedly be powered on about 12 AA batteries. The CD mechanism sort of detached so you could use it as a portable audio CD player. Either way it was shit.


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Padres, Rain, and Christmas
There is not much going on in baseball right now. Well, the Yankees signed A.J. Burnett, I guess that's big news. The Padres non-tendered Clay Hensley and Charlie Haegar recently. Now, Haegar I can understand. He is a knuckleballer, and not too good at it. He lost at least 3 games for us, I'd say. It was kind of sick. But Clay Hensley is a bit of a head-scratcher. Clay is a fairly good pitcher, and he's been with the Padres for quite a while. But he has been riddled with injuries for the past few years. It's kind of sad, because he is a great guy, but obviously the Padres don't have him in their plans.
Speaking of plans, let's take a look at the Padres rotation for 2009. We will (hopefully) have Jake Peavy, Chris Young, and Cha Sueng Baek. From what I've heard, the other two spots will be filled by young guys who pitched with us in '08, like Josh Geer. I am guessing that the other spot will be filled by a young pitcher. We'll probably get to look at a lot of guys in Spring Training. Wade LeBlanc and Chad Reinike might get some looks, but it's very likely that we will get another starter sometime this offseason.
The weather is so beautiful here in San Diego. It is raining like crazy, and it's supposed to rain all day. I absolutely love the rain. It's like amazing.
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I've started learning OpenGL through Nehe's tutorial. I was playing around with the code of tutorial # 31 which basically loads and draws a model. I modfied the code and drew a chessboard and i'm having 2 problems. First, i tried to draw multiple models but every time when i run the program only one of the Models is drawn. It seems the second Models doesn't apper or maybe something else which i don't know how to solve.
Second, I can't draw my chess piece on the chess board. The chess piece model is always drawn behind the chess board.
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pModel -> drawChessBoard(); // Draw The chess board
// Draw The Models
glTranslatef(-270.0f, -50.0f, -640.0f);
bPawn -> draw();
glTranslatef(-350.0f, -50.0f, -640.0f);
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Some members emailed us back and asked if they should complete it if they have never attended a rally. As you can see, we definitely wanted their feedback as well.
How did we generate the list of members? We used a computer program to generate the random-list of 2000 from the members whose email addresses we had. If I recall correctly, that was around 27,000.
One of the key things we pulled from this survey was that the last three weeks in July continue to be the preference, although the end of June is certainly popular as well. The 4th of July week is definitely out.
Not included in this survey was the feedback from the Key Committee Chairs, who overwhelmingly still prefer the last two weeks of July. While this is an important factor to keep in mind when scheduling rally dates, the members who took the time to fill this out showed us that the end of June should be a consideration as well.
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Princeton faculty retirement program wins award
Princeton University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its innovative work in faculty retirement.
Princeton was recognized for demonstrating best practices in the development of a portfolio of retirement programs so that faculty who are eligible for retirement (at least age 55 with at least 10 years of service) will have choices about when and how they want to make the transition to retirement. Princeton also provides support for emeritus faculty who wish to continue their research and scholarship after retirement. A faculty survey conducted by ACE showed levels of satisfaction with Princeton's programs and policies that were the highest among all the awardees. The grant will fund continued development of innovative practices.
"We are delighted that ACE and the Sloan Foundation have recognized the work that we have done over the years to provide positive and constructive transitions to retirement for Princeton faculty members," said Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin, noting that "we are are particularly pleased with the results of our new Faculty Retirement Plan that was instituted two years ago."
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Animal Species:Sea Tulip
Growing from the rocks on a long stalk, the Sea Tulip is commonly encountered by divers around Sydney.
Standard Common Name
Sea Tulip
The Sea Tulip is covered in lumps and bumps, giving it a kind of warty appearance. It comes in a variety of colours such as orange, purple, yellow or pink. These bright colours aren't the work of the Sea Tulip but are from an encrusting sponge, Halisarca australiensis, which covers its surface.
Size range
32 cm
The Sea Tulip is found in coastal waters to a depth of 80 m.
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The Sea Tulip is sessile (unable to move around) and so waits for the currents to bring food to it. Like all sea squirts, the Sea Tulip is a filter feeder, pumping water in and out of its siphons and extracting the plankton.
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Many sponges contain compounds to deter predators. In the relationship between the Sea Tulip and the encrusting sponge, the Sea Tulip gains protection from predators by using the sponge's defence, and the sponge benefits by having a surface on which to grow.
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When I speak at workshops and at state and national conferences, one of the questions I'm asked most frequently is: "How should we, as school board members, interact with district administrators other than our superintendent?"
The questions then go deeper: "What are the dos and don'ts we should pay attention to in dealing with the people who run the district on a day-to-day basis? How do we know when we've lapsed into dysfunctional behavior, such as micromanagement?"
Before getting into the details, I always remind the audience that governing really is a team sport, involving what I call the strategic governing team: the school board, the superintendent, and senior administrators.
Obviously, no school board can go it alone in the governing game; close interaction and collaboration with -- and strong support from -- your superintendent and senior administrators is essential in making effective governing judgments and decisions. If you build a cohesive strategic governing team in your district, you are much more likely to be a well-governed educational enterprise that is guided by a clear strategic vision and long-range goals, that sets sensible operational targets and allocates precious resources rationally, and that rigorously monitors district educational performance.
So, by definition, you want lots of contact and interaction among board members and administrators, since this is a tried-and-true team-building strategy. That said, effective school board–administrator interaction depends on well-designed structures and processes that provide you with clear "rules of the game."
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Santa Lucia Mountains > Pico Blanco > Climber's Log
Pico Blanco Climber's Log
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|From Bottchers Gap
Date Climbed: Feb 20, 2015
|From Bottchers Gap, found the trail to be in pretty good shape until the use trail heads off from point 2194. From here it is a bit iffy until emerging from the dense vegetation. Fun class 2 rock on the summit ridge, looks more difficult than it actually is. Register on top has nothing to write with. 3 hours to the top, 3.5 hours down, as a few wrong turns on the cross country descent led to having to regain an extra 400 feet to avoid thick brush choked with poison oak. Started at 1:15 PM so finished in the dark at 8 PM. Overall a very fun day, worth repeating again someday. TR is HERE.
|Posted Feb 22, 2015 2:51 am
|NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Jan 19, 2015
|For a Ventana peak tame bushwhack and some fun cl2 scrambling along the ridge.
|Posted Jan 19, 2015 6:54 pm
|North /Launtz Ridge
Date Climbed: Dec 23, 2007
|Some bushwhacking. Gosh I hated the yucca! Dense vegetation on the ridge top.
Was getting dark on the way down and we somehow missed the turn-off to get back on Launtz. Ended up getting lost in the dark and eventually decided to bivy for the night. Space blanket worked wonder! The following morning we managed to get back in-time before they would send out search and rescue team - sheriff left a voice mail on my cell! What a little adventure before Christmas Eve.
|Posted Sep 17, 2012 3:06 am
|southeast side
Date Climbed: May 28, 2011
|straight up from near pico blanco camp
|Posted Jun 1, 2011 10:29 pm
|From Old Coast Rd with a stop at Pico Blanco Camp
Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008
|Took the route in from Old Coast Road. Trail was passable to Pico Blanco Camp. From Pico Blanco Camp made way up the SSW ridge, eventually hooking up with the overgrown 4wd road. Followed this road to just below the summit. Great views to the ocean and down the spine of the Santa Lucia Range.
|Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:19 pm
|South Face from Bottcher's Gap
Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2008
|Tough day hike, great weather, there's a sign down in the Boy Scout Camp, so it took 10 minutes or so to locate the trail. Just continue up past the new structure across the river. From the meadow, we found the "off-trail" trail, but missed its continuation across the 4WD road. Scrambled up the valley between the peak and the south-west ridge (do not do this, it is far from optimal). Saw a snake (it didn't rattle, but tried not to get close enough to find out). Views were incredible, worth every bit of effort. All in all, ~15 miles, 7.5 hours of hiking, and some great memories!
|Posted Mar 28, 2008 7:29 pm
|Northeast face from Launtz Ridge
Date Climbed: Feb 3, 2007
|Nice easy (and fun!) bushwhack from Launtz Ridge. Took a nap on the summit on this beautiful day with superb views.
|Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:29 am
|Midnight Summit
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2004
|I was staying with a friend at Pico Blanco Boy Scout Camp and we decided to climb Pico one night. We watched the sun set fro mthe top of Cardiac. Dubenck's Hole (the cabins) is kind of spooky at night. Summited at 10:30 PM and returned to camp at 3:00AM. We went up the south face.
|Posted Oct 8, 2006 4:30 am
|Pico Blanco
Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2006
|05/07/2006: From Bottchers Gap via Pico Blanco Camp and east slopes.
01/15/2006: From Andrew Molera State Park via Old Coast Road, Little Sur Trail, and south slopes.
05/07/2005: Foolish attempt to reach Pico Blanco via a cross-country route from the East Molera Trail. Succeeded only in getting poison oak and destroying my pants.
|Posted May 14, 2006 9:32 pm
|Route Climbed: Firebreak from Launtz Ridge Date Climbed: 2004-Nov-14
|Sunny day and great views of the northern Ventana.
Pics are here.
|Posted Aug 22, 2005 12:34 am
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: North Ridge (ascent) / East Slopes (descent) Date Climbed: Jan 16, 2004
|What Matthew said. Trip Report
|Posted Aug 17, 2005 12:07 am
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: North Ridge (ascent) / East Slopes (descent) Date Climbed: Jan 16, 2004
|Bob and I set out aiming for the somewhat obscure Kandlbinder Peak via the Little Sur River and Jackson Creek, but we missed the turnoff up Ventana Creek. After a delightful hike up the Little Sur River (some interesting scrambling, and a dozen or more stream crossings), we eventually realised our mistake, and settled on this as a consolation prize on the way back. The hike up there from the Little Sur is steep!
Started in the dark, and got back in the dark too. All in all, one of the most enjoyable days I've spent in the Ventanas.
|Posted Aug 16, 2005 2:32 pm
|Route Climbed: South Face, as described in Date Climbed: August 13, 2005
|See my write-up on the getting there section and Route Info. A steep climb but well worth it. 3 of us made it to the top, me and 2 camp staff members. 5 others in the group either turned back or waited for us below.
|Posted Aug 15, 2005 4:12 am


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Location: Commodity Utilization ResearchTitle: Characterization of D-glucaric acid using NMR, x-ray crystal structure, and MM3 molecular modeling analyses Author
|Denton, Travis
|Hardcastle, Kenneth
|Dowd, Michael - Mike
|Kiely, Donald
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Publication Acceptance Date: 8/17/2011
Publication Date: 8/31/2011
Citation: Denton, T.T., Hardcastle, K.I., Dowd, M.K., Kiely, D.E. 2011. Characterization of D-glucaric acid using NMR, x-ray crystal structure, and MM3 molecular modeling analyses. Carbohydrate Research. 346:2551-2557. Interpretive Summary: The structure of D-glucaric acid, a diacid derivative of glucose that is useful for generating amide-based polymers, was studied by NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and computation chemistry methods. In general, the methods produced a picture of a molecule that prefers a "bent" conformation that does not have potentially 1,3 oxygen-oxygen interactions. The X-ray and lowest-energy modeling structures were in good agreement but with NMR data in solution yielded a somewhat different "average" conformation. The data should be of interest to researchers working to understand the properties of polymeric materials formed from D-glucaric acid.
Technical Abstract: D-glucaric acid was characterized in solution by comparing NMR spectra from the isotopically unlabeled molecule with those from D-glucaric acid labeled with deuterium or carbon-13 atoms. The NMR studies provided unequivocal assignments for all carbon atoms and non-hydroxyl protons of the molecule. The crystal structure of D-glucaric acid was obtained by x-ray diffraction techniques and the structure was a close match to the low energy conformation generated from a Monte-Carlo-based searching protocol employing the MM3 molecular mechanics program. The molecule adopts a bent structure in both the crystalline and computationally generated lowest-energy structure, a conformation that is devoid of destabilizing eclipsed 1,3-hydroxyl interactions.