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1 From the full order of food and beverages to the utensils, provide the customer with everything he needs the first time. Frustrations arise when something is forgotten.
2 Mistakes happen; it's inevitable. In the event of an inaccurate order, correct the error by embracing responsiveness, responsibility, and action.
3 Greet with a friendly, enthusiastic, two-part greeting. "Welcome to Burger Palace. May I take your order?"
4 "Please" and "thank you" spark feelings of appreciation and build loyal customers.
5 Direct drive-thru staff to share sincere smiles and make eye contact with guests.
6 People love their dogs, and distributing canine treats (although not alongside human food) can be a simple effort to distinguish your operation.
7 Who wants to eat a salad by hand or use his dry-cleaning receipt as a napkin? Provide the appropriate amount of napkins, utensils, and condiments.
8 With simple words, such as "Thanks for coming. We'll see you again soon," staff plants the seeds of a return visit in a customer's mind.
9 Customers are clamoring for healthier options in the quick-service sector, so showcase items that incorporate a healthy message.
10 Place the order post as close to the customers as possible to enhance the ease of two-way communication.
11 Offer breakfast. According to Technomic's 2009 Breakfast Consumer Trend Report, 22 percent of consumers named the availability of drive-thru service as one of the top three reasons they visit their preferred breakfast restaurant.
12 Greet the customer within five seconds of the car stopping at the order post.
13 Drive-thru staff should start the ordering process rather than relying on guests to initiate the order.
14 As much as the drive thru is about speed, allow guests time to review the menu should they need that opportunity. Be patient and say, "Please order when ready."
16 A simple sign that thanks guests for their business as they pull away completes the process in an appreciative way.
17 When receiving money from guests, say, "Thank you." Today's customers have innumerable options, but they've selected your establishment. Show appreciation.
18 When using crew to line bust during peak times, distribute a paper menu to allow guests the time and information to complete their order. The same idea can introduce promotions.
19 Toss a hard candy or mint into the customer's to-go bag.
21 Visit your own drive thru to see the process from a customer's eyes. Bring a video camera along to record and later review the experience.
22 Visit other drive thrus with a critical eye and attention to detail.
23 Learn and improve by taking the lessons of drive-thru visits to heart. Be objective and strategic in analyzing strengths and weaknesses. The ultimate goal is to be professionally aware, not personally correct.
24 Knowledge is power. With data that represents current efficiency, management can make operational adjustments to improve drive-thru throughput.
25 Employee recognition and incentive programs for both speed and accuracy can motivate staff to provide swift service.
27 Train the talent. With speed and accuracy essential, thorough training enhances drive-thru efficiency. Drive-thru staff must know the ins and outs of both the menu and the drive-thru operation.
28 Make the drive-thru positions coveted spots. With greater responsibility, provide a greater reward, such as a higher wage.
29 Go off site. With a singular focus on sales and accuracy, outsourced order-taking staffers receive thorough training, including upselling and add-on sales strategies.
30 Given the business a drive thru produces, it cannot (and should not) be an afterthought. From design to staffing, give it the best.
31 Appoint a troubleshooting staff member who is capable of stepping in wherever necessary to fix drive-thru issues.
32 Cross-train staff. As much as specialization has a purpose, team members who can understand and fill multiple drive-thru roles increase efficiency.
33 For multistore operations, consolidate speed-of-service data from multiple stores into a single database to quickly identify problems.
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Investors circle Barnes & Noble as it plans Nook spin-off
Could compete with the iPad...
Barnes & Noble has had a troubled few years. Part of the problem is that it continues to be a tablet business with a chain of bookshops connected to it rather than the other way around – with the tablet and ebook reader business growing at a savage pace, while the bookshop dawdles. But it clearly needs a new owner, and to that extent the financial vultures are circling – and a particularly clever and ruthless vulture, in the form of Jana Partners, has acquired just under 12 per cent of the business, in a new share issue, so clearly a move approved by Barnes & Noble management.
Increasingly the shareholding is narrowing into fewer and fewer hands, with the founder Leonard Riggio still owning 29.7 per cent, and John Malone's Liberty with some 16.6 per cent of the stock, through his $204m rescue of the business last year. A number of companies have fought in the past over ownership and potential breakup of Barnes & Noble.
The war for the fate and ownership of B&N goes all the way back to 2008 when it was harassed by the corporate adventurer Ronald Burkle through a group called the Yucaipa Funds. It built a stock position which forced the company to adopt a poison pill, which was set to expire during 2012, which kept the Yucaipa holding under 20 per cent. This is what necessitated the Liberty rescue move in the first place.
Yucaipa had been buying in an environment where B&N was valued at under $1bn, but had revenues which were around $6bn and growing rapidly, all due to the fact that company was close to having a negative net worth. That holding is still in place at 19.8 per cent and in recent months there has been further activity, with a further 3.3 million new shares (around 5 per cent) going to Dimensional Fund advisors in December, and in February two further new share transactions of 6 million and 3 million shares for FMR and F Asset Management. All this adds up to around 85 per cent of the company's equity – leaving management and outsiders with the rest.
Clearly this is a jockeying for position prior to the company changing direction. Back in December, with the first of those recent investments, Barnes & Noble began exploring strategic steps for the Nook as a separate business, on the back of more stunning Nook sales – up 70 per cent over the previously year.
By separating the Nook ereader and tablet business, Nook can take separate funding from Barnes & Noble, and it has the potential to become a genuine contender to compete with both the iPad, but more importantly the Amazon Kindle Fire and its range of ereaders. Already the company is talking about taking the Nook outside of the US through strategic partners, which would bolster its sales significantly.
By adding Jana Partners' involvement this week there is the potential for an even more convoluted deal. Jana owns a significant piece of McGraw Hill and has been pushing for its breakup as well, separating the text book publishing business from financial services
If the Nook, through the Jana connection, could be sold with a captive textbook market place, courtesy of McGraw Hill, as well as an arms-length bookshop relationship with Barnes & Noble, the deal has the potential to create a mini-Amazon, and through internationalisation, a genuine force in eBooks as well as in tablets generally.
It now looks like the final financial pieces are being set in place to free the Nook from B&N ownership, and turn it into either an independent consumer electronics play, or more likely, a quick sale to a consumer electronics major, as a new front in tablets, already popular and established in the US, with its own content platform.
Shares in B&N climbed higher immediately on the news that Jana Partners had taken a stake.
If the Nook can be sold off or separately floated, it will provide a cash cow for B&N – which will help Founder Riggio focus on the business he knows so well: book sales.
In the quarter ended 28 January, B&N had revenues of $2.44bn, but made only $52m profit, and showed an $11m loss in the nine months of the year to date and it had just $27.4m in the bank – nothing like enough to run a major book retail empire.
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I love the look of everyone's pages! I have to say I am having trouble. I tried a couple of white space pages, and I feel like they are naked. I keep starting over! I am sure I will get one up here soon though that I like.Somewhere in all the madness lies the beauty within
Originally posted by tin tin View PostI love the look of everyone's pages! I have to say I am having trouble. I tried a couple of white space pages, and I feel like they are naked. I keep starting over! I am sure I will get one up here soon though that I like.
Donna I agree the busy ones are much harder, you have done well though. I will send out some alpha now to you who have completed the task.
Sorry Kimmy I didn't see your white space LO, well done, you did control yourself :-)
So Donna and Kimmy you have a PM coming your way.
I do it the same way as you Kaye only I do a bg first. If you like it big and minimal on the page it will be ok when you shrink it. For me it was about fitiing it to the bg, as thats what you see first and it should pull you into the LO. The bg has to be bold enough to carry it off. I really enjoyed the white space.
The full pages were much , much more harder for me. I found them frustrating. I just thought they were messy and really difficult to fill to make things look like they belonged. I was happy enough with the result in the end but felt they could be better.
You really pushed us on this one Kaye, It was a toughie. Thank you for hosting...and for the gift of those lovely alpha's.
I agree Donna the full Lo's are difficult and can be frustrating I am still to master it, I tried doing another last night but ended up getting ridof it cause it just looked messy. I do like doing white space ones, however I don't think I would ever put one into a book! But it is nice to be able to master each different way of doing a lo.
I am going to add a third element to this challenge, I want you to do a lo the way you like doing them, use the kind of kit you like working with. Love to see the results.
Blair Tower
I have this LO for the do your own thing with the challenge. I'm starting to enjoy word art and I like a bit of drama too. I have wanted to do a scene LO but not confident on that. I dunno what this page would come under, but it's what I wanted to do.
A bit of history to go along with this page....
This is Blair Tower. It stands in the village where I grew up. My bedroom window looked out onto the fields where it still stands.
I have many happy memories of Blair Tower. I played there as a child, my mother sent us up with big bowls to collect the Brambles (Blackberries) Blackcurrants and rhubarb that grew nearby, from which she baked pies on a Sunday.
We had many adventures. My brother broke his arm trying to climb up it. I believe I even Kissed a boy as a teenager too.
It was the first thing I saw in the morning and last thing at night. It has always fascinated me.
I no longer live in that wee village, but my older children and their families do. More of my family live in some of the surrounding villages.
When I drive over from the City to see them, Blair Tower is the first thing I see and it makes me feel like I am going home.
Oh Happy Day's.
Right enough of memory lane. I hope you like my page.
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The Air Pollution Control Officer shall deny an Authority to Construct for a facility or modification subject to review under the provisions of
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unless the facility or modification is designed to apply best available control technology for each applicable attainment pollutant or precursor. For an existing facility this requirement shall apply only to new or modified sources.
For applicable phased construction projects, the determination of best available control technology shall be reviewed, and modified as appropriate, at the latest reasonable time prior to commencement of each independent phase of the proposed facility or modification.
In the case of a major facility or major modification which the applicant proposed to construct in a Class III area, emissions from which would cause or contribute to air quality exceeding the maximum allowable increase that would be applicable if the area were a Class II area and where no new source performance standard under 40 CFR 60 has been promulgated for such source category, the Air Pollution Control Officer shall submit the determination of best available control technology to the Environmental Protection Agency for concurrence.
For those facilities or modifications required to meet the provisions of Section A of this Rule, the Air Pollution Control Officer may approve with the consent of the Air Resources Board the use of innovative control technology in lieu of best available control technology, provided that:
The proposed control system would not cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety in its operation or function, or cause emissions in excess of any standard contained in these Rules and Regulations or in 40 CFR Parts 60 and 61; and
The owner or operator agrees to achieve a level of continuous emissions reduction equivalent to that achieved by the application of best available control technology by a date specified by the Air Pollution Control Officer. Such date shall not be later than 4 years from the time of startup or 7 years from the date of issuance of the Authority to Construct.
The Air Pollution Control Officer shall withdraw any approval to employ a system of innovative control technology approved under this Rule if:
The proposed system fails by the specified date to achieve the require continuous emission reduction rate; or
The proposed system fails before the specified date so as to contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety; or
The Air Pollution Control Officer decides at any time that the proposed system is unlikely to achieve the required level of control, or to protect the public health, welfare, or safety.
If a source or modification fails to meet the required level of continuous emissions reduction within the specified time period, or its approval is withdrawn pursuant to this Section, the Air pollution Control Officer may allow the source or modification up to an additional 3 years to meet the requirements of best available control technology through use of a demonstrated control system.
In the event that the Air Pollution Control Officer withdraws approval of a system of innovative control technology, the affected operator shall have the right to appeal such decision to the Hearing Board of the District within 30 days after receipt of the notice of withdrawal or approval.


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Move over "The Voice." FMC has found its own crop of young singers by hosting the "Anthem Singing Contest" to promote its new Anthem herbicide, EPA registration pending. FMC says it is investing in farming's future by hosting the contest, open to active members of a nationally recognized agricultural-related club.
Four finalists remain, and FMC needs you to determine which one you think should win the $25,000 college scholarships.
I once thought I could sing like Barbra Streisand (http://agwired.com/2007/07/30/ams-idol-contestant-jodie-wehrspan/). But I don't stand a chance against these four young crooners, who just returned from Nashville after working with professional musicians to record their own version of the National Anthem. There's Allison Nohre, 18, of De Pere, Wis.; Jessica Smith, 17, from Picayune, Miss.; Katie Wesler, 20, Birmingham, Ala., and; Lexie Sistrunk, 13, Oak Grove, La.
They've all made the Star Spangled Banner their own, injecting licks, trills and runs rivaled only by a girl in a Chinese grocery store, whose video went viral last week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1BaNxAocNow it's your chance to be heard by voting for your favorite.
You can hear their auditions on the FMC website, where you can cast your vote. Voting ends October 19th — http://www.fmccrop.com/grower/Anthem-Singing-Contest.aspx. The four finalists also will be featured on RFD-TV on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 9:00 p.m. (CDT)/10:00 p.m. (EDT).
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Hey everyone! Sorry it's been a few days since my last tutorial. I ended up hurting my back, but after Christmas, I hope to be back in a groove! This is a neat little tutorial I whipped up on "How To Draw Chibi Anime." I hope to fill this tutorial full of lots of little hints to get everyone on their way to drawing their own chibi anime characters! I even included a little tutorial on how to draw my pre-drawn anime character. I hope you all enjoy!
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I'm a sysadmin, WordPress Core Contributor, plugin & theme developer. I've also developed a few non-WordPress websites. I'm a technologist at heart. I enjoy tinkering on many projects. Here on my site you will find some of the projects I've worked on. Whether it's the WordPress plugins I've made, some WordPress tips, various tech tips, or even a couple Halloween props.


text: Monday, December 09, 2013 WEDI Report Sees More Patient Control in Health Care's Future The influential Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has released what it calls a new "roadmap" for the future of health care, and a high level of consumer control is one of the primary destinations. The newest WEDI report (.pdf) comes 20 years after its initial examination of the use of technology in health care. The 1993 report played an influential role in the development of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well as the transition to standardized transaction formats in payment. The newest report focuses on 4 major areas: patient engagement, payment models, data harmonization and exchange, and "innovative encounter models." Although approaches and priorities differ in each area, the WEDI report emphasizes the need for greater coordination of technologies, both to make information-sharing more efficient and to provide consumers with a high degree of control over their own care and information. "Health IT is not the cure in and of itself but, when adequately deployed, can serve as a powerful change agent," the report states. "The rise of mobile and other technologies creates many opportunities for the healthcare industry to move forward together to solve many of the challenges that have plagued the American healthcare system."


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Jermaine Jackson or Jacksun has a problem.
His baby's mama is calling out the infamous celebrity, known for his child support issues and trouble making in the Jackson family, again.
Alejandra Jackson is accusing him of falling behind on child support again, this time to the tune of $30,000, says TMZ.
The Los Angele's Child Support Services Department has filed legal documents asking a judge to hold him in contempt for slacking on his payment for a whole year now.
Last year he was ordered to pay $3,000 monthly to support his teenage boys, Jermajesty and Jafaar. But he didn't do that. Instead, according to CSSD, he sporadically paid $5,621 throughout the year, but still owes $30,378.
CSSD wants him jailed for 60 days if he doesn't pay up by August.
It was in 2011 when Jermaine was behind $90,000 in child support. He eventually settled with Alejandra for $80,000.


text: More than three points at stake vs. Islanders tonight - The Province September 5, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Whitecaps win would nail tiebreaker Marc Weber It's not as if the Vancouver Whitecaps are waiting for the cavalry to arrive. At, or near the top of the table for much of the season, the squad in its present form appears poised for a playoff run. Still, head coach Teitur Thordarson expressed disappointment on Thursday over the transfer deadline deal for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines internationals Marlon James and Cornelius Huggins falling through. James, who twice led the Malaysian Super League in scoring, was to be in the lineup tonight as the Caps (13-6-7) take on the Puerto Rico Islanders (13-6-7) in the second of back-to-back first-place clashes. The teams drew 1-1 on Sunday. "It would have been a good thing to get those players," said Thordarson. "I would really have liked that just because of the depth in the group -- to be able to rely on experienced players down the stretch and in the playoffs. "But I'm confident this group can take us all the way. I just hope that we can stay healthy and not get any suspensions." Three games remain for the Whitecaps after tonight, including a home tilt against Minnesota on Sunday (7 p.m.) that's being billed as MLS Rally Night. The first-place team earns a bye through the opening round of playoffs and Puerto Rico currently holds the tiebreaker over Vancouver based on goals. A Whitecaps win tonight, though, would give Vancouver the tiebreaker. "I think we will approach the game very similar to last time," said Thordarson, not willing to claim a fitness advantage after having watched the Islanders play a CONCACAF Champions League game on Wednesday. "They are one of the teams that has the best depth and I know they rested some players, some of their best players. "We will try to be patient and pick our right moments to attack." - Whitecaps defender Diaz Kambere is on a one-match loan to MLS side Toronto FC, which is missing players due to international commitments. firstname.lastname@example.com © The Vancouver Province 2008 Previous Next


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Today I have the pleasure of introducing Brent Leary from CRM Essentials, LLC. Brent is in the business of helping companies understand and use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and social media to grow their customer base. Brent has had a long relastionship with the SMB and CRM folks at Research In Motion® (RIM®), and has been a helpful resource for us with regards to technical information for small businesses. I have wanted to pull Brent into the Inside BlackBerry for Business blog for some time, as I think he is a wealth of fantastic information for businesses. He understands the nuances of CRM/social media and mobile like no one else I know!
I asked Brent a few questions about some of the things he is currently working on, namely the "Getting Down to Social Business" event he is hosting in Atlanta on February 3rd, 2012, as well as his annually published top "CRM-ish" list.
It seems as if there is a real merger between mobile, CRM and social media, especially for small businesses. Can you comment on how small businesses can take advantage of this to better market themselves and be responsive to their customers?
From a small business perspective, the integration of social media, smart mobile devices and CRM tools has been one of the most important developments of the last decade. One of the main competitive advantages that smaller companies have is their flexibility and nimbleness, which allows them to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. And as the integration of social/mobile and CRM accelerates, small businesses can leverage them to be even timelier in their response to current conditions. In fact, these tools coming together provide opportunities to create new business models and interaction points for better customer experiences – in a fraction of the time and cost than even just a few years ago. So it is truly critical for small businesses to embrace the combination of these services in order to find and keep more customers.
This means using apps on your BlackBerry® devices to stay connected with customers on social networks like Twitter® and Facebook®, as well as using BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™). But now, it also means creating content that looks great on BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets because more of their personal and business interactions are taking place there. Just remember: If you want to have customers eating out of the palm of your hand, you have to figure out how to get into the palm of their hand first.
Why would a business benefit from attending the "Getting Down to Social Business" event you are hosting in Atlanta on February 3rd, 2012? Will any materials from that event be made available in a format accessible for those that couldn't be there in person?
The focus of the event is on the need for companies to transition their approach to "social" away from a narrow, reactionary set of disconnected activities, to a full-fledged business culture strategically aligned to build long-lasting relationships with today's empowered customer. So instead of thinking of social media as a "Hail Mary" pass or a silver bullet, we'll be looking at how companies can integrate it throughout the business to create a consistent game plan for creating exceptional customer experiences that keep them around longer over time.
We will be recording the event and making the sessions available to view online. We'll also make presentations slides available – check out the event web site for details.
Can you explain what the CRM-ish list is and who should be looking for it?
Back before social tools and sites were around, traditional CRM tools focused on three areas: sales force automation, marketing automation, and customer service. The avenues for engaging customers and prospects were limited to few important interaction channels. But now with the rise of social media – and smart devices like the phones and tablets RIM offers – the number of ways to engage customers has skyrocketed. A host of new applications and services are being created to help companies manage the growing number of ways to listen to customers, analyze what you hear, and create content to respond to them. Many of these only address certain aspects of customer interaction and not all the traditional areas. And while these new services are not CRM in the traditional sense, they are definitely related to the areas of sales, marketing and service – which is why I call them CRM-ish.
The CRM-ish list will be comprised of companies creating applications and services helping small businesses to more effectively find, catch and keep customers today. Some companies on the list will be traditional CRM companies, and some will be the newer breed looking to provide help in one or two important areas. But I think any small business looking to understand what kinds of services are available to them – that are made specifically for them – would gain from checking out the list of companies and services that will be included.
Look for the CRM-Ish List to be announced in early March 2012.
Any last thoughts or suggestions that you want to leave the BlackBerry community with?
Now is really a great time to dig in and understand how to best take advantage of tools and services available today that can help you find, catch and keep good customers. But you have to make sure your company is ready from an organizational culture standpoint. It's not enough to ask people to "like us" or "follow us" – we have to give them great reasons to do so. And that may mean needing to change how we approach them – not just the technology we use to interact with them, but also what we say and how we say it. Using new technology to deliver old messages won't get you very far today, so it's important to match social behavior with social tools to really connect with today's customer.
Lastly, really explore how you can maximize the use of your BlackBerry devices. There are a good number of business apps in BlackBerry® App World™ that can help you be more productive, more social and more responsive to the needs of your customers. Many of these services are free or very low in cost, which makes it even more important to see how they can assist you in building great customer relationships today.
Thanks for joining me Brent! To our readers: how do you use your BlackBerry device for social CRM? Answer in the comments below.


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December 2009. The Petermann Glacier in Northern Greenland was expected to calve an iceberg the size of Manhattan. Greenpeace supported independent scientists in researching the physical processing leading to the glaciers acceleration. By canoeing 25km along the melt while carrying a radar from a string of four kayaks scientists were able to map the glaciers thickness. In the event, the glacier did not break up until 2010. Greenpeace ships have hosted many scientific missions around the world.
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Frank Gadsden:Personal Injury Lawyer Of The Future – A Restraining Order for Leibowitz
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Yes, I know it's been a long time. We were putting out our first production, Beware The Moon Wraith: The Orb of Phoebe. We had a release party and everything. Then, silence.
You see, there is this thing called Real Life. You know, jobs, school, family, all that stuff. Now Real Life sometimes can be enjoyable but it is time consuming. And it hit us hard. Frankly, it pretty much derailed us. Curious Echo Radio theater was down… but not out.
Our resident scribe, Louis Gutierrez, was busy. He had been busy not only writing scripts for The Moon Wraith along with Frank Gadsden: Personal Injury Lawyer of the Future and Shadows West. He also set up a home studio to record these scripts. For the last few months, we have been busy recording and editing some programs for you to listen and enjoy.
So the first Frank Gadsden adventure, Time Wounds All Heels will be up in the next few days. And new adventures will soon follow after that. So please tell us what you think of the new material. Tell your friends. Talk about us on your favorite social media site. Thanks in advance.
First off, we have put up the Sunday performance (Elizabethan Radio) from our Necronomicon 2004 appearance in the Listening Room. Simply click on the links to give a listen.
We've also sign up on for a Technorati Profile, so check us out there.
It's time again to vote for us on Podcast Alley. If you enjoy the shows you hear on Curious Echo, take a moment and place your vote. It's only once a month and it lets others discover us and allows us to grow our audience. So click on this link and show your support.
And while you're at it, why not give us a 5-star review on iTunes?
Yes, we have finally got a place for you to buy Curious Echo material. Right now, it's a little meager, but that should change in the near future. So you can click here or go to the Curious Echo Store tab on the top of the page.
Yes, Beware The Moon Wraith: The Orb Of Phoebe is at the CD publisher and will be available soon. We even have a promo for it below.
Here's a nice little video showing some pics from rehearsals and the recording of Beware The Moon Wraith. Unlike most montages, it is not set to a 80′s song and it unfortunately did not take several weeks of effort and shorten it to five minutes. It did many weeks of rehearsals, recording, and post-production. Still, the result was well worth it.


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Globally and in India, the health of our oceans and fish stocks is declining. Overfishing leading to overcapacity, destructive fishing techniques, rampant pollution, destruction of breeding grounds, coastal over development are the major causes behind this decline.
If we continue to fish in an unsustainable manner, it will have far reaching consequences on our economy, on 15 million people who are employed directly or indirectly in the fisheries sector and on ecology. We need change, the oceans need protection.
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Críticas ForeWord Reviews- ""Many climatologists are concerned that the recent spate of drought across several parts of the world is likely to become the new normal, which would prove particularly challenging for farmers, but will also affect everyone from city planners to rural landowners. Creating well-regulated water usage systems and better agriculture production methods are crucial for preventing widespread collapse or water shortages, and Sepp Holzer's excellent thoughts on the topic provide a handy guide for the type of solutions that are needed. Well known in the field of sustainable agriculture, Holzer first introduced his innovative water-retention ideas in Sepp Holzer's Permaculture, a handbook of small-scale, integrative farming techniques that drew on Holzer's experience as a farmer in Austria. Much like that useful volume, Desert or Paradise contains a wealth of practical tactics that can help prevent desertification, reverse poor water policies, and even create areas rich with orchards and crops. In his new book, Holzer offers examples from countries like Russia and Portugal to demonstrate the breadth of landscapes that can be healed with a greater emphasis on natural water management. He covers an immense range of topics, including using pigs to restore forest-fire areas, constructing ponds with proper shallow zones, restoring hydrological balance in the world, and abolishing industrial livestock farming. Despite the wide range of topics he covers, Holzer creates a cohesive, well-argued, and persuasive handbook that aims to help people ""restore paradise."" For Holzer, restoring the earth's balance isn't about economic development and squeezing a few more seasons out of an exhausted stretch of land. It's about a long-term and beneficial view of the world as a resource. He encourages farmers to become rebels, gardeners to become advocates, and everyone to become more self-reliant and community-minded. In a lively, accessible style, Holzer manages to address the issue of endangered landscapes while offering guidance to the home gardener and small-scale farmer. By blending big-picture thinking and achievable local-level results Holzer elevates his book far above a how-to or polemic. He seems the voice of reason in a world where a disconnect from nature is imperiling land, water, and people."" Reseña del editor Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 5,000 feet above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, and waterways, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, in dramatic contrast to his neighbors' spruce monocultures. Fans of Sepp Holzer have come from all over the world to see the productivity of his farm, a veritable permaculture paradise. His first book, Sepp Holzer's Permaculture, offers a detailed guide to what Holzer has achieved on his farm. Many readers might have wondered-but how can we achieve this on a global scale? Luckily, his newest book, Desert or Paradise, examines Holzer's core philosophy for increasing food production, earth health, and reconnecting mankind with nature, applied to reforestation and water conservation across the world. Through years of consultation with other countries, Holzer has developed a core philosophy for reconnecting mankind with nature even in arid or otherwise ""lost-cause"" regions. He details a process he calls ""Grundierung,"" a term from painting meaning ""base coat,"" which goes into great detail the importance of water, and Desert or Paradise offers his concept and guide to construction of large water reservoirs in arid, rainfall-dependent regions with examples from Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal. Holzer describes the ecological and economic benefits of these changes, as well as the use of a variety of plant and animal species for further integration and regeneration of the surrounding areas, including reasons for reforestation and the cause and use of forest fires. Holzer also outlines his ten points of sustainable self-reliance and how these methods can help feed the world, such as the need to regulate the water budget, eliminate factory livestock farming, bring more fallow or unused areas into production, enlarge crop areas by using terracing and Holzer-style raised beds, regionalize instead of globalize, fight for land reform and engage in community building, go back to the ancient farming wisdom, and change the educational system. Also included are Holzer's ideas on beekeeping, humane slaughtering, nature spirits, the loss of roots in our society in general, and in politics especially. Ver Descripción del producto


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My first shotgun was an H&R 20 gauge single shot, Shot a lot of rabbits with that one kind of miss it now that you guys bring them up. My current shotgun I own is A Winchester 1300 12-gauge it had been all messed up I rebuilt it and refinished it. It's a slug gun with open sights shoots very nice.
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text: By Vatican standards, American Catholics (and particularly American politicians) are some of the worst misbehave-ers in the world. Long gone are the halcyon days of JFK, when he could stand up and proudly say that as a politician in America, he was answerable only to his constituents and not to the Pope in Rome. What's worse, long-gone are the days where the Pope in Rome was okay with that. These days, as far as the Pope is concerned, if you aren't toeing the line on abortion in America (which means advocating that it be made illegal), you're going to hell, as the International Herald Tribune reports. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not go to Confession because you will not be forgiven. Well, that's one way to bump up the rolls of the Church, I guess.The IHT writer interviews a bunch of Catholics in Scranton to highlight the back-and-forth about abortion and voting that happens among the Catholic faithful — if not their leaders — while showing at least some of them swinging toward McCain (and one being racist). Although the Church regards the practice of abortion as a sin, excommunication isn't exactly standard practice for the women of Catholic faith who have had them, since you can cross your legs and — as a friend of my mother's did in high school — wear a hat in the pew and never tell the priest about your abortion. For politicians, on the other hand, it's another story. In the last few years, players in the Church hierarchy have begun vociferously pushing the idea that not only are women who get abortions and the doctors who perform them going to hell, but that the politicians who support the right of non-Catholic women to believe that abortion is not wrong - and Catholic women who believe that the Pope is wrong - are also going to hell. Joe Biden, for instance, was warned by a local bishop not to try to go to church in or around Scranton, Pennsylvania (his hometown) as he will be denied Communion. Conservative Catholic groups have called for all pro-choice Catholic politicians to be treated similarly in an effort to pressure them to choose their religious faith over their constitutional responsibilities. (Even Catholic writer and professor Douglas Kmiec was denied Communion (i.e., excommunicated) for having the audacity to support Barack Obama because he and Obama believe that Obama's pro-woman, pro-sex ed policies can actually reduce the incidence of abortion by reducing the economic hardships faced by pregnant women...and the number of pregnancies altogether. Shocking, I know.) Amusingly, as I like to keep repeating, former McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina recently claimed that it is the Democrats who are trying to hold women hostage to the party on the issue of abortion. Well, I'll be damned if too many Democrats go around using their actual pulpits to actually damn people to actual hell (assuming there is a hell to which one can be damned, but Catholics believe there is). Actually, I guess I'll be damned anyway. In addition to Biden, many politicians — Nancy Pelosi, Tim Kaine, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, for instance — are practicing Catholics. As such, they are asked to believe that abortion as wrong. And as politicians sworn to uphold the Constitution of this country, they are asked to commit to this leetle thing we like to call the separation of church and state (and to represent the views of their constituents). When your religious values conflict with your responsibilities as a politician, that's a difficult thing to handle. Most do so in the same way that my mother does: they believe that abortion is wrong, but don't believe their religious views should be forced on people who don't share those beliefs. That's called being "pro-choice." Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes [International Herald Tribune] Denied Communion For Backing Obama [Andrew Sullivan] Abortion's Foes — On Both Sides Of The Aisle [Wall Street Journal]


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ABOVE THE WATER: Being out over the Pacific is always a pleasure. Seeing it from the window of a plane? The little rocks and islands look so wee. Seeing it from a hang glider? Probably pretty epic (we can just speak from watching documentaries, not the act itself, of course). Seeing the water from a big boat? Very nice, and should a group of dolphins swim alongside you have a balcony-type view from the railing above. But what of being practically one with the water, without being *in* the water? That's a bit trickier. Sure, you could find a submarine, but we don't think there are too many of those around, awaiting the whims of day-trippers. Or you could go swimming, but maybe you don't want to actually get fully wet. The best answer, then for extreme water surface closeness without donning your swimsuit is heading out on a fast raft at Fast Raft, a new addition to the Monterey Bay boating scene.
ABOUT FAST RAFT: We said "new" before but the raft has been out on the waves near Monterey for a few months now. You'll be riding Ranger, a "33-ft Rigid Inflatable," out into Monterey Bay Sanctuary. The company refers to their tours as eco tours, and Ranger's engines back that up: They're EPA-certified Mercury engines. Another interesting tidbit is that "Ranger is the only civilian-owned PT1000 in the country." A half-dozen people can board the inflatable, so call this a good group activity, especially if those in your party like keeping watch for seals or otters or gulls or the other beasties that call the Bay home. Tours start at $60 - that's an hour at midday -- and go to $140, for the longer morning and afternoon tours. So, why not get close to the water? So many of us have been far above it and far below it, but rarely right at the surface. Call it a new way of seeing. Or, er, sea-ing, if you prefer.


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Storing Wine
Wine connoisseurs consider the evolvement of a wine in the bottle part of the mysterious life of the wine, and one of its most alluring qualities.
Ever wondered why some red wines improve with bottle age? The various components of red wines continue to evolve in the bottle - fruity aromas and flavors mellow while the tannins and pigment begin to interact with oak compounds imparted during fermentation and barrel aging - softening the wine's tannic impression.
Building a true wine cellar is, of course, the best avenue for superior wine storage. But for the majority of people who enjoy wine, simply mimicking some of the features of a wine cellar will be ample. Note: if you are routinely keeping wine for longer than three months, you should try to store in a location that offers at least some of these conditions.
Wines should be stored on their sides at cool temperatures ranging from 50-60°. Cool temperatures will slow the aging process and help the wine develop properly in the bottle.
Aim for less than 10° temperature fluctuation throughout the year. Temperature fluctuations cause the wine to expand and contract, possibly damaging the cork., causing leakage and oxidation that can ruin the wine. Additionally, excessive temperature swings will damage the wine.
Humidity should be between 60-80%. Less than 60% humidity can cause evaporation and oxidation, while humidity greater than 80% encourages mold.
Excessive light exposure causes wine proteins to become hazy and can create "off" aromas and flavors.
Keep wine away from vibration (from appliances or motors); vibration traveling through wine can hinder its development.
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That's right, boys and girls. Not only was all your PSN information obtained, all your SoE information may have been compromised as well.
May 2, 2011
Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:
Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password.
Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained - we will be notifying each of those customers promptly.
There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.
We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible.
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Police in Pennsylvania say two men and a 17-year-old boy are facing charges after they exploded two M-80 firecrackers on a turtle, killing the reptile.
Northern Lancaster County Regional Police said Wednesday that 21-year-old Taylor Geib, 21-year-old Austin Garner and the teen were charged with prohibited offensive weapons and criminal conspiracy.
Police said the three duct-taped two firecrackers on the turtle's shell on Aug. 3 along Penryn Road in Penn Township and lit the fuses. They're accused of also setting off a third firecracker.
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NORD gratefully acknowledges Rebecca Campen, MD, J.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Assistant in Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, for assistance in the preparation of this report.
The characteristic finding of Dercum's disease is the slow formation of multiple, painful growths consisting of fatty tissue (lipomas) that are found just below the surface of the skin. Pain may vary from mild discomfort when a growth is pressed or touched to severe pain that is disproportionate to the physical findings. Some affected individuals feel that "all fat hurts." Pain can last for hours and may come and go or last continuously. In severe cases, pain may worsen with movement. The exact reason for pain associated with Dercum's disease is unknown, but may occur because the lipomas press on nearby nerves. Lipomas may be found in any part of the body, although they are rare in the head and neck. The trunk, upper arms and upper legs are most often affected.
Some individuals with Dercum's may experience swelling of various areas of the body, especially the hands. Swelling occurs for no apparent reason and often disappears without treatment. Significant weight gain is a common occurrence for most individuals affected by Dercum's disease.
Additional symptoms may occur in individuals with Dercum's disease including fatigue, generalized weakness, a tendency to bruise easily, headaches, irritability, and stiffness after resting, especially in the morning. An association with bouts of depression, memory or concentration problems, and a susceptibility to infection has been noted in some cases.
Additional reports in the medical literature have linked Dercum's disease to a variety of conditions including arthritis, high blood pressure (hypertension), congestive heart failure, sleep disorders, dry eyes, and myxedema, a condition due to an underactive thyroid that is characterized by dry skin, swelling around the lips and nose, and mental deterioration.
The exact cause of Dercum's disease is unknown. In most cases, Dercum's disease appears to occur spontaneously for no apparent reason (sporadic).
Some reports in the medical literature have suggested that Dercum's disease may be an autoimmune disorder- a disorder in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. Disturbances in endocrine function and improper breakdown (metabolism) of fat have also been proposed as potentially playing a role the development of the disorder. One cases reported in the medical literature was linked to the use of high-doses of corticosteroids.
Some cases of Dercum's disease have run in families and several reports in the medical literature cite the possibility that the disorder may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait in these cases. Genetic diseases are determined by the combination of genes for a particular trait that are on the chromosomes received from the father and the mother.
Dominant genetic disorders occur when only a single copy of an abnormal gene is necessary for the appearance of the disease. The abnormal gene can be inherited from either parent, or can be the result of a new mutation (gene change) in the affected individual. The risk of passing the abnormal gene from affected parent to offspring is 50 percent for each pregnancy regardless of the sex of the resulting child.
Dercum's disease affects females more often than males with some reports citing the disease is as 20 times more common in women. Dercum's disease can affect individuals of any age. The majority of cases are women between the ages of 45-60, especially overweight, postmenopausal women. Although an extremely rare occurrence, it has been reported in children. The prevalence of Dercum's disease is unknown. The disorder is underdiagnosed, making it difficult to determine its true frequency in the general population. Dercum's disease was first described in the medical literature in 1882 by an American neurologist named Francis Xavier Dercum's.
A diagnosis of Dercum's disease is suspected based on a detailed patient history, a thorough clinical evaluation and identification of characteristic multiple fatty growths. Surgical removal and microscopic study (biopsy) of affect tissue confirms that these growths are lipomas.
No specific treatment exists for Dercum's disease. Treatment is directed toward the specific symptoms that are apparent in each individual and is primarily focus on easing the characteristic painful episodes.
Various painkillers (analgesics) have been tried with limited effectiveness. Injections of corticosteroids have also been used to treat individuals with Dercum's disease. However, in one reported case in the medical literature, the use of high-doses of corticosteroids was linked as a possible cause of the disease. Intravenous administration of the pain reliever lidocaine may provide temporary relief from pain in some cases. Cortisone injections to treat localized pain may also provide relief.
Surgical excision of fatty tissue deposits around joints may temporarily relieve symptoms although recurrences often develop. Liposuction has been used as a supportive treatment for some individuals with Dercum's disease and may provide an initial reduction in pain and improvement in quality of life. These effects may lessen over time.
Psychotherapy and consultation with pain management specialists may be helpful for enabling affected individuals to cope with long-term intense pain. Other treatment is symptomatic and supportive.
Researchers are studying the use of interferon alfa-2b a potential treatment for individuals with Dercum's disease. Two individuals with Dercum's disease who received this treatment for hepatitis C saw improved in the symptoms associated with Dercum's disease. More research is necessary to determine the long-term safety and effectiveness of interferon alfa-2b as a potential therapy for this disorder.
Alternative approaches including acupuncture, hypnosis, biofeedback and cognitive behavior therapy have also been tried for individuals with Dercum's disease.
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As gay rights advance across the US, there is one group that feels it has long been neglected and isolated - the elderly. But that may now be changing, with a series of retirement housing projects opening to serve the gay community.
Before she moved house, Lucretia Kirby suffered homophobic verbal harassment and menacing notes pushed under her door. On one occasion, she and her partner Sandra were physically beaten and had to seek treatment in hospital.
That all changed in October, when she got a place in Spirit on Lake, an apartment block in Minneapolis marketed to elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT/GLBT) people.
"It's more than what I expected it to be. I thought it was just going to be another apartment complex and I was surprised that we've become a community - we know just about everybody by first name," says Kirby, a 58-year-old former teacher and nun who left her convent after falling in love with one of the other sisters. "I just feel blessed."
A number of commercial, market-rate projects succumbed to the financial crisis, but there are now three affordable or low-income housing developments that cater to gay retirees in the US. The first, Triangle Square, opened in Hollywood in 2007, shortly before the recession. Spirit on Lake eventually followed last year, and the John C Anderson apartments in Philadelphia received their first residents in January. Three other blocks are scheduled to open in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago this year and next.
Barbara Satin
This is an interesting time for the GLBT community because they're finally beginning to realise that age is something that presents some challenges"
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All have a combination of public and private funding, with subsidised, means-tested rental prices.
"I think it's taking off in a big way," says Gayle Gates of Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing in Los Angeles, which developed Triangle Square, "not only because people are beginning to see the need, especially for seniors, but because the baby-boomer generation is so large and ageing".
Many gay pensioners have a particular need for affordable housing. They usually have less family support than straight people and can find themselves at a financial disadvantage too - few or no spousal benefits, less help from children and possibly cut out from inheritance.
"They came of age in the United States at a time when they were heavily discriminated against," says Serena Worthington of the national non-profit group Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). "It was illegal to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, you could be condemned by the church from the pulpit, you could be declared mentally ill, you could be fired."
Elderly gay people may still face prejudice living on their own or in other types of retirement housing - some return to the closet when they enter a residential home, fearful of telling other residents and staff about their past.
"If you think about the folks who supported a whole society that was extremely discriminatory, that is the population that is in the nursing homes now," says Worthington, citing the case of a lesbian couple in Oregon who were told they would have to pretend to be sisters if they moved into a retirement home.
The non-profit Equal Rights Center recently did tests across 10 US states and found that in 46% of cases, gay couples reported discrimination when seeking housing.
Spirit on Lake apartments, Minneapolis
Spirit on Lake has 46 one and two-bedroom apartments
"I've lived in regular apartment buildings and it's like you don't really want to draw that much attention to yourself," says Scott Quail, another resident at Spirit on Lake. "You want to be gay but you don't want to be overtly gay. So in other apartment buildings you try to inhibit yourself.
While campaigners have focused on issues including gay marriage and rights in the workplace, the elderly LGBT community feel their concerns have often been ignored. That's especially true for gay men, says Quail. "It's a very ageist community. It's better to be young and pretty, and I'm not either."
But this may be changing, says Barbara Satin, a 79-year-old transgender activist who played a key role in launching of Spirit on Lake.
"This is an interesting time for the GLBT community because they're finally beginning to realise that age is something that presents some challenges."
Whereas the those already in their 70s or 80s may have lived in relative isolation, "the baby boomers have lived more openly and they expect to be treated with respect and they will push for it".
Ageing challenges include specific health concerns - HIV and, for the transgender community, taking hormones that may conflict with other medicine.
Satin has been involved in a scheme to train local elderly care providers about gay issues. Fountaingrove Lodge, a high-end LGBT retirement home that opened in California in December, says it is the first with a license to provide continuing care such as dressing and bathing residents.
Gay retirement housing is also spreading beyond the US.
Christer Fallman
Elderly people want social security. They don't want to live alone - the possibility of going into the closet again is very big"
In November, the Regnbagen or Rainbow apartments, Europe's first solely gay retirement housing, opened in Stockholm. In Berlin, 24 flats run by the Gay Counselling Centre opened in 2012, with 60% of places reserved for gay men.
A Spanish foundation is hoping to open 40-50 flats near Madrid later this year, and a British developer is building a gated gay retirement village in southern France.
Christer Fallman, Regnbagen's chairman, says all 27 of his flats are occupied, and about 50 people are on the waiting list.
Though Sweden is widely regarded as progressive over gay rights, he says pensioners can face problems in public elderly care, where they are automatically assumed to be heterosexual.
"Elderly people want social security," he says. "They don't want to live alone - the possibility of going into the closet again is very big. They know that here they are not alone. Somebody always looks after them."
Living in such a tight-knit community is not for everyone. Larry Watson, a 76-year-old who volunteers at a LGBT library on the ground floor of the Spirit on Lake building, says he is quite happy living in a standard apartment building eight blocks away.
Larry Watson
"I'm not lonely, I don't lack for activities, I haven't lost a partner fortunately," he says, adding that as gay rights continue to advance, he's not convinced that the demand for separate housing will be sustained.
"I think the course will remain very positive, and 15 or 20 years from now I'm not sure that GLBT are going to be looking for a niche similar to what's available and is wanted by GLBT people right now, as reflected by this community."
Satin says that in a survey conducted 10 years ago in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, about half of those who took part said they would want to live in a gay community in their old age.
In the Twin Cities there are an estimated 30-35,000 gay people aged over 65. With 46 apartments at Spirit on Lake, "we're not even scratching the surface", she says.
Under fair housing rules, the affordable or low-income projects that cater for gay people cannot exclude straight people outright, or they would not qualify for federal subsidies.
This can make for an interesting mix. In Triangle Square, 78% of residents are elderly and gay, but 11% are monolingual Russians. At Spirit on Lake, which unlike the other blocks has no minimum age requirement, the result is still more improbable - about three-quarters gay, and the rest Somali immigrants, many of them young.
That had some of the gay residents worried at first, but they say they now appreciate the diversity, and that there has been no friction.
Scott Quail tells a story of when he was in the lift with a man he was dating and they started to kiss.
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
Larsen vs Petrosian, 1966 1-0
Larsen vs Geller, 1960 1-0
Fischer vs Larsen, 1970 0-1
Taimanov vs Larsen, 1970 0-1
Larsen vs A Matanovic, 1965 1-0
Larsen vs Spassky, 1964 1-0
Larsen vs Kavalek, 1970 1-0
Petrosian vs Larsen, 1966 0-1
Larsen vs Ivkov, 1967 1-0
Larsen vs Portisch, 1964 1-0
NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
Sousse Interzonal (1967)
Palma de Mallorca (1969)
Palma de Mallorca (1967)
Teesside (1972)
Manila (1973)
Biel Interzonal (1976)
Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1980)
Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1979)
Palma de Mallorca (1968)
Amsterdam Interzonal (1964)
Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970)
Las Palmas (1972)
Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966)
Leningrad Interzonal (1973)
Palma de Mallorca (1971)
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Veliki majstori saha 32 BENT LARSEN (Marovic) by Chessdreamer
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my favourite endgames by obrit
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"Larsen's Selected Games" by Bent Larsen by JoseTigranTalFischer
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Rodney and I are both big fans of Shadow of the Colossus, in fact in my year in review I gave it my game of the year thumbs up. If you haven't had a chance to play it yet, you owe it to yourself. Enough with the pimping though.
The game really pushes what the PS2 can do in terms of graphics, in fact a lot of scenes seemed to try to do more than the PS2 is capable of. Overall, the game is a graphical powerhouse, even on the aging system. How did the designers get the title to look that good?
This article has a lot of the answers to that question, but it can be a little thick to get through. The game seems to be much more cleverly designed than it simply being a technical feat. At this stage in the game art and technique really do mean more than just using the brute power of a system. The diagram showing off the AI "awareness" of the Colossi was also pretty interesting.
It's kind of like a magic trick, reading this I felt like I was looking at the man behind the curtain. The world of Shadow of the Colossus feels alive and real, it's kind of a letdown to see how that illusion was made. I feel the same way when I watch behind the scenes specials of movies though, so there you go.
If you're interested in the guts of how games are made, this is a good read.


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NetApp completes low-end revamp
Adds FlashPools; boosts channel
After revamping the big model of its entry-level FAS 2000 arrays last November NetApp has boosted the smaller model and introduced combined flash-disk storage volumes.
The FAS2220 slots in under the 2240 and its 432TB capacity, storing up to 180TB and starting at less than $8,000. It runs on the latest version of Data ONTAP, v8.1.1, and is cluster-ready, unlike the replaced FAS2020 (pdf). The 2220 supports Flash Pools, combined SAS and SATA disk and solid state drive (SSD) aggregates
The 2U form factor 2220 stores up to 180TB of data on 60 SAS and SATA drives, which can include some SSDs. The 2020 held up to 68TB of data on 68 drives. Clearly 1TB drives have been replaced by 3TB ones. The 2020 had 4 gigE ports; the 2220 has 8. The 2220 effectively replaces the 2040 array as well, having three times its performance.
The 2020 started at under $8,000 too and was for the value-oriented customer, as is the 2220. It used an FCAL connectivity method inside whereas the 2220 has 4 onboard SAS ports. The 2020 was not clusterable whereas the 2220 is.
NetApp is positioning the 2220 against EMC's VNXe, HP's P4000 and Dell EqualLogic arrays. It says the 2220 starts at a lower price and has "50 per cent lower capacity guaranteed."
Cheekily, although it doesn't offer tiering itself, the Virtual Storage Tier being a caching approach, it criticises the HP box for not having tiering and the Dell boxes for "inefficient auto-tiering."
The VNXe is said to have limited data reduction tools in contrast to the 2220's A-SIS deduplication. Compared to the 2220 NetApp claims all three competing products have limited management facilities. A 2220 admin person can "manage 2-3x more storage."
Lastly the 2240 upgrade path is all the way through the NetApp range to the FAS6000s and the 9PB 6280, whereas the competing products have limited upgradability.
NetApp is also updating its OneCommand management software to v2.1. It applies to all single node platforms and is wizard-driven.
Flash Pools
Both the 2220 and 2240 support Flash Pools. They extend NetApp's Virtual Storage Tier approach to the mid-market and enable customers to accelerate application performance. It claims; "NetApp is the only vendor offering this unique intelligent caching approach in the entry-level storage market."
A Flash Pool is specific to aggregates and caches both reads and writes; hot data being automatically copied into SSD, 100GB SSD, storage while staying on disk. There can up to 300GB of SSD per pair of controllers. A flash Pool has cached data persistence through failovers and is RAID-protected. All of NetApp's data protection and management technologies work with Flash Pools.
Flash Cache, flash caching for the array controller, is not supported by the FAS2000 arrays.
Flash Pool support is coming for the FAS3000s and 6000s. John Rollason, NetApp's EMEA solutions marketing head, said; "We envisage the 3000s and 6000s will have both Flash Cache and Flash Pools. You can mix and match at both the volume and aggregate level. … I/Os are either to Flash Cache or Flash Pools or neither. It's either or."
NetApp flash caching and tiering thoughts
Caching data on flash is called Virtual Storage Tiering by NetApp, but it is not actual tiering as a base copy of all cached data stays on disk.
Concerning flash, Rollason said; "We use SLC today. We are testing eMLC and TLC and expect to be able to support those within the Data ONTAP architecture as customer demand requires. There is development work ongoing concerning host-side caching. It will be software-led, not hardware-led, and no roadmap is available. He thinks array-side caching is more important than host-side caching and "it could well be a more open approach than the competition."
Automated placement of data on different storage tiers is not looked in favourably by NetApp, separating it pout from all other mainstream storage vendors. There are also no current plans to add compute to its arrays.
Rollason said that FlexPod reference architecture systems, the converged storage, server and network designs from NetApp and Cisco, are available as single orderable systems; "I wanted to point you to the solution we have announced with Avnet in the US: , and that we have similar plans coming for EMEA soon; details to be advised."
Data Protection as a service
NetApp sees a trend for its mid-market customers to backup to the cloud, using data protection-as-a-service (DPaaS) offered by service providers. It's working with some VARs to have them deliver DPaaS, providing disk-based recovery and second site failover capability and give customers OPEX-based low cost alternatives to running CAPEX-based equivalent services in their data centres, especially tape-based ones.
The company's "GetSuccessful Cloud Services Program" links NetApp VARS with cloud service providers in the NetApp ecosystem and provides support to help the VARs become cloud service VARs or even cloud service providers in their own right.
The FAS2220 will start at under $8,000 (6,000 Euros) and be available on June 12 through NetApp's channel network. ®
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There will be new faces on the sidelines at many local lacrosse games this spring, as no fewer than five teams in the area have new hires at head coach.
Springside has handed over the whistle to one of its own graduates, Lydia (Barber) Imperiale, and the Chestnut Hill College men's and women's teams will be piloted by Brian Dougherty and Katie Lee. Just across Stenton Ave. at Mount St. Joseph Academy, the Magic are now performing for Jenna Washabaugh, a 2006 Germantown Academy graduate. With Penn Charter coach and Girls Athletic Director Tori Small extending her maternity leave, the Quakers are also under new management as Mary Fran Riffel takes the helm.
Imperiale won Springside's Phyllis M. Vare Award as a senior in 1997, then went off to play lacrosse at James Madison University. She renewed her formal ties with her high school alma mater last spring, becoming an assistant coach for the Lions' lacrosse team.
She then took over Springside's field hockey franchise last fall, so while her head coach title in lacrosse may be new, she's already familiar with all of the players in her charge and with the current-day athletic program at her old school.
Both of the new stick squad skippers at Chestnut Hill College happen to be former goalkeepers. Dougherty is the second coach in the two-year history of the CHC men's program, getting an early start after being brought on board last October. A product of Episcopal Academy in the Inter-Ac League, he went on to a stellar career at the University of Maryland.
A two-time first team All-American, he helped the Terrapins win the NCAA Championship in 1995, and was named MVP of the NCAA tournament. Both in that season and the following year he received the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award, bestowed annually upon the NCAA Goalie of the Year.
Stepping up to the professional level as a player in the National Lacrosse League, he then joined the ranks of Major League Lacrosse (MLL), playing for several franchises from 2001 to 2009, including the Philadelphia Barrage. He was also the goalie for the United States in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships, capturing gold medals in both the 1998 and 2010 tournaments.
On the women's side at CHC, Lee served as assistant coach for the Griffins last spring, and ascended to the top job later in the year. At the conclusion of her own scholastic career at Camden Catholic High School, she entered the nets at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).
She served as a team captain for the Crimson Hawks from her sophomore year on, and was twice named team MVP. She set an NCAA Division II record for career saves with 961 stops, and once made 33 saves in a single game. She holds a master's degree in sports studies and is the Director of Girls Lacrosse for the Cherry Hill Lacrosse Club in New Jersey.
In becoming the Mount's new mentor, Washabaugh has returned close to her high school roots at Germantown Academy. At GA, she was a four-year varsity athlete in basketball and cross country as well as in lacrosse. In each of the three sports she was an all-league selection in the Girls Inter-Ac, and helped the Patriots win multiple league championships.
An honorable mention high school All-American, she crossed the Delaware River to become part of the lacrosse team at Princeton University. Playing in the midfield, she began to see action as a freshman and started in 15 games for the Tigers as a senior.
The new lacrosse leader at Penn Charter, Riffel, is a Bucks County native who attended Council Rock High School (now Council Rock North). During her four years on the team at Temple University, the Owls made the NCAA tournament field each season after winning the Atlantic 10 Conference championship.
She began her coaching career at the Villa Maria Academy lower school, then became an assistant coach at Great Valley High School and head coach for Penn State's Abington campus team. She is the owner of the Envy Lacrosse Club and is the board secretary of the Philadelphia Lacrosse Association.


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What I like about Brewed is that everything is so damn literal. For most families, it takes a lot to keep things moving along. Here a pot must be stirred forever and each sister has her own spoon. My brother and I sometimes fight, but in the world of Brewed the sisters look like they are auditioning for Fight Club (by the time the play was over there were mangled feet, bloodied noses, and blackened eyes). And sometimes it's a little annoying when ones accomplishments are not given the attention they deserve. In Brewed only one sister bothers complementing Nannette (Meredith Rae Lyons) on being the first woman to win a NASCAR race. And, finally, we all have experienced the stress of introducing a loved one to family. Trust me, whatever your story is, it went down smoother than it does here. If nothing else, Brewed made me happy for the family I have.
Director Anna C. Bahow and cast members do a wonderful job of not letting the story completely dissolve into metaphor. The violence, when it comes, is often unexpected and the laughs appeared natural (favorite line of the night, delivered perfectly by Elise Mayfield, is "Are you all witches or what?"). The actresses put a lot on stage and they really were a joy to watch. Richard Gilbert and Victory Bayona (both credited as Violence Design) deserve a lot of credit too for their wickedly staged fight scenes.
In the end, Brewed made me think a lot of family arguments passed. This in turn made me want a drink so maybe it did have something to do with beer after all.
Bottom Line: Brewed is recommended for its very dark satire and wickedly awesome fight scenes. It is playing at Theater Wit (1229 W. Belmont) Thursday through Saturday at 8 P.M. and Sunday at 7 P.M. To purchase tickets or for more information click here: www.ruckustheater.org or www.tympanictheatre.org . For more theater reviews click here: www.theaterinchicago.com .
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