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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – A balanced offensive attack by Gettysburg led the way in its 48-7 triumph over the Ursinus Bears on Saturday afternoon at Patterson Field in Centennial Conference football action
Gettysburg (2-0, 1-0 Centennial) racked up 567 yards of total offense on the day, including 376 rushing. The Gettysburg rushing attack was led by senior tailback Ted Delia, who rushed for 127 yards and four touchdowns. Delia scored on runs of 2, 33, 6 and 7 yards for Gettysburg
Senior quarterback Kody Smith threw for 205 yards in the air on 15-of-27 passing with one touchdown. He also ran for 129 yards and accounted for another touchdown on the ground.
Gettysburg was led in the receiving department by senior Kyle Davis, who hauled in five passes for 85 yards and the only Gettysburg touchdown through the air, scoring the first 36 points of the contest.
Ursinus (1-1, 0-1 Centennial) saw junior quarterback Chris Curran (Oceanview, N.J./Ocean City) go 14-of-27 for 138 yards with a touchdown.
The Bears did not get on the board until the 6:28 mark of the third quarter when Curran hit sophomore wide receiver Darius Jones (Lawnside, N.J./Haddon Heights) for a 29-yard touchdown, making the score 36-7. The play was set up by a forced fumble on a punt return by sophomore defensive back Kerwyn Ross (Westhampton, N.J./Rancocas Valley) that was recovered by sophomore defensive back Greg DiSanto (Havertown, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) at the Bullet 29-yard line. The Bears scored on the next play.
The Bears rushed for only 75 yards with junior running back Bryan Ellis (Owings Mills, Md./McDonogh School) leading the way with 13 rushes for 35 yards on the day.
Ursinus was lead defensively by freshman defensive end Steve Ambs (Pottstown, Pa./Pottsgrove), who compiled ten tackles on the day, including six solo tackles and one tackle for loss.
The game was delayed for 36 minutes midway through the fourth quarter due to lightning in the Collegeville area.
Ursinus is back on the field Saturday as they travel to Lancaster to face F&M.


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Copper Crane Bells, 650B tires=new stuff in the Soma Store!!
Beautiful copper Crane Bells!! Look and sound great! Pictured above is the Suzu and we've also got the Sakura which has an alloy clamp. I've got the Suzu on my mixte and I am quite fond of it!
And we've got two new 650Bx38 tires! Why two you ask? The answer is why not!? This is America, revel in your choices!!
New B-Line 650Bx38 tires. Perfect for touring or randonneuring!
The specs:
- Standard nylon casing and offers a true 38mm width.
- Raised Pasela tread
- Made in Japan
New Xpress 650Bx38c Skinwall. Puncture resistant Hyper-tex casing makes it extra good for touring and randonneuring.
The specs:
- Uses HyperTex Casing which offers extra puncture resistance without the harsh ride quality of a Kevlar belt.
- The casing reduces the tire's ability to expand to a full 38mm.
- Raised Pasela tread
- Made in Japan
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Charlotte, Nc — When Fitness Management Group Inc., parent company of Charlotte, NC-based Peak Fitness, filed for bankruptcy last month, the future of the company was left in question.
Pending a bankruptcy court's approval, troubled club operator Peak Fitness will be sold to Nevada-based Fuzion Investment Capital LLC. At least one competitor wonders how Fuzion's involvement will impact the company.
"Peak has apparently hand-selected a successor, allowing them to escape most of the liability incurred by their poor business practices and operations," says Kevin Hedley, COO of O2 Fitness, which has five North Carolina clubs in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. "The new owner and company has not been visible as of yet, which makes me wonder if we will continue to see much of the same with the new company and what [Peak's] existing or prior relationship is or was with the new ownership group."
Peak Fitness listed debt between $10 million and $50 million, assets of only $100,000 to $500,000 and more than 100,000 creditors, according to court documents.
Fitness Management Group says the bankruptcy filing came as a result of property leases that were negotiated at the height of the real-estate market, the continued economic downturn and the acquisition of select underperforming assets from the Capital Health Club chain in Raleigh. That group, which operated as Peak Capital Holdings LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April.
Jeff Stec, CEO of Fitness Management Group, says restructuring with Fuzion will allow the business to establish a platform for growth and a commitment to improved customer service.
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The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) recently held a Bowl-a-Thon and raised over $400,000 for abortions. On its website, it highlighted the story of 14-year-old Darcy, who was given a "second chance" when she terminated her child's life pregnancy with money provided by the group's "George Tiller Memorial Fund."
Reminder: George Tiller was the late-term abortion provider that was murdered by nut-job anarchist Scott Roeder in 2009.
Darcy didn't want to tell her mom, but lives in a state with parental consent laws, so she did. The abortion was going to cost more than the rent, so they turned to NNAF to cover the cost. Darcy says, "Getting my abortion means I'm going to get a second chance. And I want to make it count."
My heart breaks for this girl. Abortion doesn't erase bad decisions; it just rips a hole in your heart and tears at your soul. It's the dirty little secret that no one wants to talk about: You have to grieve the loss of your child and your own hand in it while pretending to the world (and yourself) that you're empowered.
Abortion ends a life. How does that make anything better?
Statistics say that Darcy won't take advantage of this "second chance" but will likely be back at the clinic for another abortion. Half of all abortions are performed on women that have had at least one previously. She's also four times more likely to use drugs than if she'd carried her baby to term.
A teen pregnancy is not easy to deal with, but it can provide an incredible opportunity to show love and support to a young girl, and give her the chance to discover that she is capable of great things. Real empowerment doesn't come by trying to pretend that a life never existed; it comes from giving the priceless gift of a child to someone that has waited years for one.
A girl that gives her baby up for adoption has a reason to live, to apply herself to her studies and make something of her life. Handing over her child to someone else to raise will likely be the most difficult thing she ever does in her life, but she will always have the deep satisfaction of knowing she gave the greatest gift that can be given – life.
Young ladies like Darcy should be rallied around, encouraged, protected, and celebrated for taking a crappy situation and making it into a beautiful celebration of life. Abortion doesn't fix anything. It's not a reset button. Life doesn't have a reset button.
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I'm looking for people to hit with around my level ( 4.5+) now that the weather is nice. If you are able to hit weekday evenings and live somewhat in my area let me know and we'll set something up
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i am avaialable earlier Monday through Thursday at 2:30 in the afternoon.
can you play then?
I'd love to play on Dyker Beach Park, But I'm not sure I'm in your league level 3-3,5.
Alex we should meet to hit and then decide if we enjoy playing with one another. I will contact you over the weekend once we see the weather for next week.
you can write me direct at email@example.com, when we play i will have my cell phone on
973 222 8450.
how does this sound?
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Part 3: Monetary Policy in 2007 and Early 2008Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress on February 27, 2008, pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act
Throughout the first half of 2007, the available information pointed to a generally favorable economic outlook despite the ongoing correction in the housing market. Indicators of consumer and business spending were somewhat uneven, but their generally positive trajectories suggested that the housing market developments were, as yet, having little effect on the broader economy. Net exports, spurred in part by a falling dollar, were providing support to economic growth. Outside of the subprime mortgage sector, financial conditions in general were fairly accommodative. The Federal Open Market Committee expected core inflation to moderate from the somewhat elevated level that had prevailed at the start of the year, but high resource utilization had the potential to sustain upward pressure on inflation. As a result, during the first half of the year, the Committee consistently noted in its statement that its predominant policy concern was that inflation would fail to moderate as expected. However, in part owing to indications of increasing weakness in the housing sector, the Committee emphasized in the statements issued at the conclusion of its March, May, and June meetings that its future policy actions would depend on the evolution of the outlook for both inflation and economic growth.
When the Committee met on August 7, financial markets had been unusually volatile for a few weeks, and credit conditions had become somewhat tighter for some households and businesses. Participants in FOMC meetings (Board members and Reserve Bank presidents) noted that adjustments in the housing sector had the potential to prove deeper and more prolonged than had seemed likely earlier in the year, and a further underperformance in the housing area represented a significant downside risk to the economic outlook. Nonetheless, incoming data indicated that economic growth had strengthened in the second quarter, as a quicker pace of business spending offset a slowdown in consumer outlays. Participants believed that the economy remained likely to expand at a moderate pace in coming quarters, supported in part by continued growth in business investment and a robust global economy. Although core inflation had moved lower since the start of the year, participants were still concerned about several factors--including a continued high level of resource utilization--that could augment inflation pressures. They believed that a sustained moderation in those pressures had yet to be convincingly demonstrated. As a result, the FOMC decided to leave the target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 5-1/4 percent and, despite somewhat greater downside risks to growth, reiterated that the predominant policy concern remained the risk that inflation would fail to moderate as expected.
In the days following the August 7 FOMC meeting, financial conditions deteriorated rapidly as market participants became concerned about counterparty credit risk and their access to liquidity. After an FOMC conference call on August 10 to review worsening strains in money and credit markets, the Committee issued a statement indicating that the Federal Reserve would provide reserves as necessary through open market operations to promote trading in the federal funds market at rates close to the FOMC's target rate of 5-1/4 percent. As conditions deteriorated further, the Committee met again on August 16 by conference call to discuss the potential usefulness of various policy responses. The following day, the Federal Reserve announced changes in discount window policies to facilitate the orderly functioning of short-term credit markets. Furthermore, the FOMC released a statement indicating that the downside risks to growth had increased appreciably and that the Committee was prepared to act as needed to mitigate adverse effects on the economy. (The box entitled "The Federal Reserve's Responses to Financial Strains" provides additional detail on the outcomes of these conference calls and other measures taken by the Federal Reserve to facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets over the second half of the year, including coordinated actions with other central banks.)
At the time of the September FOMC meeting, financial markets remained volatile. Liquidity in short-term funding markets was significantly impaired amid heightened investor unease about exposures to subprime mortgages and to structured credit products more broadly. Credit generally remained available for most businesses and households, but the Committee noted that the tighter credit conditions for other borrowers had the potential to restrain economic growth. Incoming economic data were mixed: Consumer spending appeared to have strengthened from its subdued second-quarter pace, but a further intensification of the housing contraction and slowing employment growth suggested a weaker economic outlook. Participants noted that incoming data on core inflation continued to be favorable and that the downwardly revised economic outlook implied some lessening of pressures on resources, but they remained concerned about possible upside risks to inflation. To forestall some of the adverse macroeconomic effects that might otherwise arise from the disruptions in financial markets and to promote moderate growth over time, the FOMC lowered the target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points, to 4-3/4 percent. The Committee also noted that recent developments had increased the uncertainty surrounding the economic outlook and stated that it would act as needed to foster price stability and sustainable economic growth.
At the time of the October FOMC meeting, the data indicated that economic growth had been solid in the third quarter. A pickup in consumer spending and continued expansion of business investment suggested that spillovers from the turmoil in the housing and financial markets had been limited to that point. Although strains in financial markets had eased somewhat on balance, tighter credit conditions were thought likely to slow the pace of economic expansion over coming quarters. Furthermore, the downturn in residential construction had deepened, and available indicators pointed to a further slowing in housing activity in the near term. FOMC meeting participants noted that readings on core inflation had improved somewhat over the year and anticipated that some of the moderation likely would be sustained. Nonetheless, participants expressed concern about the upside risks to the outlook for inflation, stemming in part from the effects of recent increases in commodity prices and the significant decline in the foreign exchange value of the dollar. Against that backdrop, the Committee decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate 25 basis points, to 4-1/2 percent, and judged that the upside risks to inflation roughly balanced the downside risks to growth.
Also at the October meeting, the Committee continued its discussions regarding communication with the public. Participants reached a consensus on increasing the frequency and expanding the content of their periodic economic projections. Under the new procedure, which was announced on November 14, the FOMC compiles and releases the projections made by the Federal Reserve Governors and Reserve Bank presidents four times each year, at approximately quarterly intervals, rather than twice each year, as had been the practice since 1979. In addition, the projection horizon has been extended from two years to three years. FOMC meeting participants provide projections for the increase in the price index for total personal consumption expenditures (PCE) as well as projections for real GDP growth, the unemployment rate, and core PCE price inflation. Summaries of the projections and an accompanying narrative are published along with the minutes of the FOMC meeting at which they were discussed. Beginning with the present report, the projections made in January are included in the February Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, and the projections made in June are included in the July report.
In a conference call on December 6, Board members and Reserve Bank presidents reviewed conditions in domestic and foreign financial markets and discussed two proposals aimed at improving market functioning. The first proposal was for the establishment of a temporary Term Auction Facility (TAF), which would provide term funding through an auction mechanism to eligible depository institutions against a broader range of collateral than that used for open market operations. The second proposal was to set up a foreign exchange swap arrangement with the European Central Bank to address elevated pressures in short-term dollar funding markets. At the conclusion of the discussion, the Committee voted to direct the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to establish and maintain a reciprocal currency (swap) arrangement for the System Open Market Account with the European Central Bank.13 The Board of Governors approved the TAF via notation vote on December 10.
At the Committee's meeting on December 11, participants noted that incoming information suggested economic activity had decelerated significantly in the fourth quarter. The housing contraction had steepened further, and participants agreed that the sector was weaker than had been expected at the time of the Committee's previous meeting. Moreover, spillovers from housing to other parts of the economy had begun to emerge: Consumption spending appeared to be softening more than had been anticipated, and employment gains appeared to be slowing. Participants noted that evidence of further deterioration in the credit quality of mortgages and other loans to households appeared to be spurring lenders to further tighten the terms on new extensions of credit for a widening range of credit products. Financial market conditions had worsened significantly. The financial strains were exacerbated by concerns related to year-end pressures in short-term funding markets, and similar stresses were evident in the financial markets of major foreign economies. Although a surge in energy prices pushed up headline consumer price inflation during September and October, Committee members agreed that the inflation situation had changed little from the time of the previous meeting. In these circumstances, the FOMC lowered the target for the federal funds rate a further 25 basis points, to 4-1/4 percent, and, given the heightened uncertainty, the Committee decided to refrain from providing an explicit assessment of the balance of risks. The Committee also indicated that it would continue to assess the effects of financial and other developments on economic prospects and act as needed to foster price stability and sustainable economic growth. In addition to that policy move, the Federal Reserve and several other central banks announced on December 12 the measures they were taking to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets. The Federal Reserve announced the creation of the TAF and the establishment of foreign exchange swap lines with the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank.
In a conference call on January 9, the Committee reviewed recent economic data and financial market developments. The information, which included weaker-than-expected data on home sales and employment for December, as well as a sharp decline in equity prices since the beginning of the year, suggested that the downside risks to growth had increased significantly since the time of the December FOMC meeting. Moreover, participants cited concerns that the slowing of economic growth could lead to a further tightening of financial conditions, which in turn could reinforce the economic slowdown. However, participants noted that core inflation had edged up in recent months and believed that considerable uncertainty surrounded the inflation outlook. Participants were generally of the view that substantial additional policy easing might well be necessary to support economic activity and reduce the downside risks to growth, and they discussed the possible timing of such actions.
On January 21, the Committee held another conference call. Participants in the call noted that strains in some financial markets had intensified and that incoming evidence had reinforced their view that the outlook for economic activity was weak. Participants observed that investors apparently were becoming increasingly concerned about the economic outlook and that these developments could lead to an excessive pullback in credit availability. Against that background, members judged that a substantial easing in policy was appropriate to foster moderate economic growth and reduce the downside risks to economic activity. The Committee decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate 75 basis points, to 3-1/2 percent, and stated that appreciable downside risks to growth remained. Although inflation was expected to edge lower over the course of 2008, participants underscored that this assessment was conditioned upon inflation expectations remaining well anchored and stressed that the inflation situation should continue to be monitored carefully.
The data reviewed at the regularly scheduled FOMC meeting on January 29 and 30 confirmed a sharp deceleration in economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2007 and continued tightening of financial conditions. With the contraction in the housing sector intensifying and a range of financial markets remaining under pressure, participants generally expected economic growth to remain weak in the first half of 2008 before picking up strength in the second half. However, the continuing weakness in home sales and house prices, as well as the tightening of credit conditions for households and businesses, were seen as posing downside risks to the near-term outlook for economic growth. Moreover, many participants cited risks regarding the potential for adverse feedback between the financial markets and the economy. Participants expressed some concern about the disappointing inflation data received over the latter part of 2007. Although many expected that a leveling out of prices for energy and other commodities, such as that embedded in futures markets, and a period of below-trend growth would contribute to some moderation in inflation pressures over time, the Committee believed that it remained necessary to monitor inflation developments carefully. Against that backdrop, the FOMC decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points, to 3 percent. The Committee believed that the policy action, combined with those taken earlier, would help promote moderate growth over time and mitigate the risks to economic activity. However, members judged that downside risks to growth remained.
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Have to be totally honest and say I am NOT impressed. I really miss my Tyros5 which is away for repair and can't wait to get it back. Not sure whether to return this or not? Only plays music and styles from unreliable flash drives and not from hard drive, music finder missing, most styles and voices sound the same as my tyros 5, takes longer to get where you want on screen.
While I share your concerns about the touch screen menus, in fact, the Genos plays music and styles from the solid state User drive as well, which because it has no moving parts is much more reliable than a hard drive.And I loved the irony of complaining about an "unreliable" keyboard which is working, while longing for the "reliable" one which is "away for repair".Fred
You cannot play mp3 files from internal drive, yes you can play internal styles preinstalled. Also even after playlist converted, yamaha have told me I have to move all my files to the exact same position and tell the playlist where the songs are.This will take hours.
Musicfinder is replaced with PLAYLIST and is much better.I had a TYROS 5-76 and a PSR S970 and found the sounds were much better on the Genos.That is subjective to ones ear though.And I find it easier to get around to what I want on the screen once I got used to the Genos.Gerard
When I received my Genos, I unpacked it, set it up and played it through the Genos speakers. Hmmm! Sounds okay, I thought. ...then played it through my Rokit studio monitors. Hmmm! Sounds very good, I thought....I had a gig and played it through my Lucas PA system. Wow! This sounds amazing, I thought. It does!!


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Practice squad player to emmulate tall WRs for sure
Sounds like you guys had a good time in the gameday thread. Thanks to everyone who hung out and posted up!
Hello ~ new addict here ~ where do I go to find when the Steeler/Falcon game 3 may be replayed ~ living in Orlando, so even we may not get to watch their replay. I'm interested in finding ways to watch their games on game days if we can't get it down here.
Thought we looked great. Catching the replay on NFL network. Darn shame about Leftwich. Just saw the play a few mins ago. Ouch!
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Going to watch the game today. Hopefully. Heard it was pretty damn exciting.
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This is so cute, I love it!!
You are so creative and cute. And this is such a good idea!
What a great idea! SO cute!
This is great! I really want to try it.
That's the coolest case I'd ever seen! Thank you so much for sharing!
shut up. such a good idea. i love it!
this is the best idea. i've seen the studded cases but didn't want to pay the price…this is perfect. i'll be giving this a try fo' sho!
I love this! So very cool! 🙂
Perfect! i've been looking for a tutorial on how to do this! i'll have to try it! 🙂
great info here!
oh hi. you're brilliant. love you.
Awesome DIY. Thanks for sharing!
excellent idea.
Where can I get those studs? I had exactly the same idea but I couldn't find studs :/. I live in Holland so maybe you can send me a website where I can order them? Thank you in advance :).
hi! i wanted to know what size your studs are. there are so many sizes!
Hi Lisa! I got 8mm Antiqued Bronze Metal Iron On Pyramid Studs.
The first thing I thought when I saw this was tetris….I'm going to spray paint the studs and make myself a 'gaming case' 🙂 Thanks for the great idea
hey julie! i just finished making this case for my sister- it's super adorable, thanks for the tutorial!! i'm not the neatest person in the world and smeared glue in a couple of wrong places. if you encountered this problem as well- any idea how to get the glue off the plastic?
Hi Julie! I loved this post. I've seen similar phone cases sell for about $40 bucks. I love making things too. It just means so much more when you can say…"I made it myself." I may grabs some studs from Etsy and make one for my sister on her birthday. She loves anything (and everything) studded.
Hi! is the iphone case rubber?!
depends on what kind you buy
Das ist ja richtig schön geworden. Hast du super gemacht.
What a nice idea. I'm going to make this really soon.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
That is so cute! where do you get the studs?
I bought them on Etsy. Just search "Iron on studs"
Where to buy this kind of studs? I never seen this kind of iphone case. Am also try this. Pelican Military Cases
I bought them on Etsy. Just search "Iron on studs"
I just got one sunday but am terrified I will drop it. A new case would be great! is bubblegum casting legitimate
love the idea i should really try it. one question though…… how much money does this cost to make the whole case including the studs(etc?) Im not a multimillionaire!!!
$5 tops.
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Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country, the United States needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources. A new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases Confronting the Nation's Water Problems concludes that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go annually to water research. Funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation, and other institutional research topics. The book notes that overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and social science topics has declined considerably.
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- An urgent priority for water resources research is the development of a process for regularly reviewing and revising the entire portfolio of research being conducted.
- Funding would be needed on the order of $20 million per year for research related to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of water institutions and $50 million per year for research related to challenges and changes in water use.
- Key legacy monitoring systems in areas of streamflow, groundwater, sediment transport, water quality, and water use have been in substantial decline and in some cases have nearly been eliminated.
- Real levels of total spending for water resources research have remained relatively constant (around $700 million in 2000 dollars) since the mid 1970s.
- The 43 research topics from the Envisioning report are the current best statement of research needs, although this list is expected to change as circumstances and knowledge evolve.
- The context within which research is designed should explicitly reflect the four themes of interdisciplinarity, broad systems context, uncertainty, and adaptation.
- The current water resources research portfolio appears heavily weighted in favor of short-term research.
- The research agenda should be balanced with respect to time scale, focus, source of problem statement, and source of expertise.
- Water resources research funding has not paralleled growth in demographic and economic parameters such as population, gross domestic product (GDP), or budget outlays (unlike research in other fields such as health).


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BRZ is honest-to-goodness sports car
You look fat in that. Of course I'll be late. Your baby reminds me of Gollum's uncle.
This is what the 2013 Subaru BRZ might say if it could talk. The all-new, rear-wheel-drive sports car starts at $26,265, and boy is it honest — perhaps more so than any other car on the market today, save for its mechanical twin, the Scion FR-S. The two were jointly developed by Subaru and Scion's parent company, Toyota, with both assembled by Subaru in Japan.
The question about the BRZ is: Can you handle the honesty? The answer may surprise you.
For starters, only an honest car would dare to tell you that you don't need 8,756 horsepower to have a good time. This Subaru has a modest 200. Torque? A tidy 151 pound-feet. This, from a naturally aspirated (no turbos or superchargers) 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine featuring direct injection. Zero to 60 mph happens in 6.4 seconds, according to Motor Trend.
Such figures may seem quaint when minivans are creeping toward 300 horsepower and the latest Shelby version of Ford's Mustang will have more than double that. (RIP, Carroll.) But remember that the best sports cars of yesterday raised your pulse not with acceleration that compressed expletives out of your lungs but with balance and handling borne out of the car being lightweight and thoughtfully engineered.
This Subaru continues that trend, a difficult feat in an era of ever-expanding safety equipment and crash regulations that consistently have raised curb weights over the years.
A BRZ with the standard six-speed manual transmission weighs about the same as a Toyota Corolla — a bit less than 2,800 pounds. Add 50 more pounds for the optional six-speed automatic. The extensive use of high-strength steel and an aluminum hood helped keep the weight down.
Also keeping things light is the fact that this is not a particularly big car. It has the wheelbase of the small Hyundai Accent hatchback, and it's a mere 4 inches longer. On the road, the BRZ looks larger than it really is.
Subaru and Scion wisely avoided the temptation to turn this car into an overstyled nightmare begging for attention. Instead, the cars have a clean, sporty look throughout. Short overhangs at the front and rear are paired well with softly sculpted fenders. The rear of the BRZ is its most aggressive angle, with a low-slung dark plastic diffuser surrounding the dual exhaust tips and center-mounted backup light.
It's inside this Subaru that its diminution is most noticeable. Although it has a pair of rear seats, consider them extensions of the trunk and not fit for anything bipedal. The front passengers sit in the driving equivalent of the attack position; hips low, legs stretched out, seat reclined.
Keeping the weight of occupants as close to the ground as possible and designing the engine to be compact and low gave the BRZ a center of gravity equal to that of your average coffee table. Subaru brags that at 18 inches, it's one of the lowest centers of gravity of any production car in the world.
Thus, when you throw the BRZ onto curving, sweeping roads, don't expect the thumb-sucking pushover predicted by the naysayers who derisively scoff at its horsepower or torque output.
Instead, get ready for some good, clean thrills from a vehicle not unlike a bigger, more refined go-cart. You only need moments behind the wheel to know this is a purpose-built sports car; everything happens quickly and with reason.
The engine loves to rev high and loud, which is good because you need it to wring out all its power.
Your full bowl of torque comes at 6,400 rpm and horsepower at 7,000 rpm. But the BRZ isn't underpowered if you know how and when to use the power you've got.
The steering is excellent; the compact wheel moves in your hands with a confidence-inspiring resistance; and turn-in is immediate. A touch more granularity to maximize control would be nice, but this steering would be at home on a sports car costing three times the BRZ's asking price. Why yes, Porsche 911, I am talking about you.
The BRZ's standard six-speed manual transmission's performance is on par with the rest of the car. The shifter itself has short throws through a gearbox that's precise yet has a dash of that smooth, rubbery feel that makes you want to row all day. This transmission is rated at 22 mpg in the city and 30 on the highway.
If you're one of the few misguided souls who buys this car with the $1,100 six-speed automatic transmission, you, too, have a good gearbox to enjoy. It happily takes the car near its redline before executing a surprisingly quick shift. This transmission also has Sport and Snow settings. Plus, throttle-blipping downshifts are included, and the automatic transmission's fuel economy bests that of the manual, at 25 mpg in the city and 34 on the highway.
All BRZs come with stability control and traction control, and each can be turned off completely. You're going to want to do so for truly enthused driving; the systems have Normal and Sport modes that intervene with the subtlety of Metta World Peace's elbow. But with those systems off, beware that this Subaru is engineered to perform; and if you're careless, it's just as possible to put it into the bushes as something more powerful.
Hence a significant source of this car's honesty; it isn't one you can pound on with the grace of a drugged elephant and expect it to iron out your mistakes. Instead, the BRZ compounds talent and skillful inputs with one of the highest dollar-per-fun ratios in the automotive landscape.
This honesty is also important to remember in daily driving. While the suspension setup is remarkably balanced and devoid of body roll during any kind of cornering, it's a very firm ride around town. It's also noisy. Your Aunt Gert's 1989 Cadillac Brougham this isn't.
Subaru has wisely kept options for the loud cabin to a minimum. A base BRZ starts at $26,265 and comes with items such as the manual transmission, a limited-slip differential and six air bags. It also has a slow, 6-inch touch-screen navigation system with iPod control, 196-watt amplifier, Bluetooth and XM satellite radio and traffic alerts.
The BRZ I tested added the Limited package (the only one available). For the additional $2,000, you get wonderfully bolstered Alcantara and leather seats, dual-zone climate control, keyless entry, fog lights and an ugly rear spoiler.
Whether that's a good value depends on how you prioritize the fun you expect to wring out of your purchase. This car is undeniably down on power to other performance cars of its ilk. But to dwell on this deficit misses the point of the BRZ. It has a balance of old-school thrills and connectivity to the road that additional power probably would upset.
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AZZA has not traditionally been on my short list of considerations when it comes to enclosing my prized hardware, since the company started manufacturing non-OEM computer cases in 2009. One of their latest creations landed on my doorstep the other day in the form of a Fusion 3000 full tower case and it appears to be a bit of a different direction for them. The palindrome named company that donates 50% of its net profits to the Vision One charity is out to get your enthusiast case business. So have a look with me at what they are up to with the Fusion 3000.
Closer Look:
For the second time in as many weeks, a rather beaten and beleaguered box was dropped on my doorstep. As a matter of fact the top of the box was already 'pre-opened' for my convenience. The front and sides are duplicates of each other, so I will forgo pics on those. Other than a large color picture of the side view of the case on the front and hard specs on the sides, AZZA does not really use the packaging to try and sell you on the design or features of the Fusion 3000 by pointing out each feature and an accompanying dissertation of why it's superior to the competition.
Unpacking the Fusion is an uneventful affair. It is packaged on its back and the first thing I am met with is a smaller box that contains the two base parts with the owners manual. The case is shipped with form fitting cardboard clad Styrofoam on either end.
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|David Fitzgerald Doyle
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February 26, 1997
David was one of Hollywood's most recognizable character actors, perhaps best known as John Bosley on Charlie's Angels.
As a youth, David appeared on the Lincoln stage in community theater productions.
David's early career was focused on the stage. Broadway credits include I Was Dancing (1964) at the Lyceum Theatre and Here's Love by Meredith Willson (The Music Man) at the Shubert Theatre in 1963. His "big break" came when he replaced Walter Matthau in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter in 1956.
His television career began with some uncredited appearances on programs such as 77 Sunset Strip. By the mid 1960s, David was showing up on Naked City, Car 54 Where Are You?, The Defenders, The Patty Duke Show, That Girl, and then on to Hawaii Five-O, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Banacek, Love American Style, All in the Family, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller, Ellery Queen, Police Story, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Murder She Wrote and Hart to Hart, among the more recognizable shows in a long list of credits.
In the 1960s, David appeared with his old buddy and former Nebraskan, Johnny Carson, on The Tonight Show. The phone call network would begin whenever word got out that David was going to be on with Carson. And they always told stories about growing up in Nebraska.
David's first regular TV series with a recurring supporting role was when he portrayed Walt Fitzgerald in 24 episodes of Bridget Loves Bernie during the 1972-73 season. It wasn't too much of a stretch for David to play a Catholic with the name Fitzgerald! We always got a kick out of that. That was one of the underlying themes of the show - his Catholic daughter, played by Meredith Baxter, was married to a Jewish man played by David Birney. The couple later married in real life.
In 1976 came the role that David is probably best remembered for - that of John Bosley on Charlie's Angels. The Angels were hot and, of course, there was that poster of Farrah that showed up everywhere. David appeared in 100 episodes of the show.
During 1986-87, David played attorney Ted Holmes on the ABC afternoon drama, General Hospital. Again, this was not much of a stretch as David's father, L.R. "Lum" Doyle was an attorney as is his brother, John R. "Dugie" Doyle. His paternal grandfather, T.J. Doyle, was also an attorney. David had also planned to become an attorney until the acting bug bit him. David ranked sixth in the state on his law school entrance exam.
David also made the round of TV game shows including Password, Super Password, Hollywood Squares, and the Match Game.
David's film credits include some movies you've probably seen: Capricorn One, Coogan's Bluff, and Paper Lion, as well as several others.
His last work was as the voice of Grandpa Lou Pickles in Rugrats.
David was one of those fortunate actors who always worked. If not in television, there was a film, stage production or dinner theater. Because of being a character actor, David was always employed.
It's fun researching David because there is such a wealth of newspaper articles about him from his entire career. It's especially fun to read those about his early stage appearances in Lincoln. When he went on to New York City, there would be snippets about his latest role in the society column. And whenever he came back home, that made news.
I met cousin David only one time, in 1980 when he was back in Lincoln for a fundraiser.
|Meeting my cousin in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1980
|Presenting David with the Greenwood history book
David died of a heart attack on February 26, 1997 in Los Angeles. He was survived by his widow, Ann Nathan Doyle, whom he met while doing a revival of South Pacific, and a daughter, Leah, from his first marriage. His first wife, Rachel, died from injuries in a fall from a stairway in 1968.
I think David will not only be remembered as the sidekick to the Angels, but as a dedicated, hard-working professional actor who always maintained his Midwestern values.


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October 28, 1925 - February 16, 2013
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William H. Bryant, a lifelong resident of Warwick, NY, passed away on February 16th 2013 at St. Anthony Hospital Warwick, NY. He was 87 years old.
Born on October 28, 1925 in Warwick, he was the son of the late Harold and Florence Hocking Bryant. He was married to Norma (Scheuermann) Bryant.
A World War II veteran of the Navy Seabees serving in the Pacific, he was a charter member and past commander of VFW Post #4662.
Bill retired from International Paper Company as a Maintenance Mechanic, he was a 63 year member of Excelsior Hose Company No. 1, past Chief of the Warwick Fire Department, member of District #6 Past Chiefs, Fire Chiefs Association of Orange County, past Commissioner of Warwick Fire District, member of L & H Railway Veterans Association. He was a member of Good Shepherd Church in Warwick. Bill enjoyed doing woodworking.
A family statement read: "Bill was a man of few words but those who knew him listened closely to them. He was proud of his family, his country, and his community and most of all he was a caring husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather who will be missed by all who knew and loved him."
Survivors include his wife, Norma of Warwick; a son, William K. Bryant of Warwick; his daughters: Donna Lynn Gove of Warwick and Katherine Florence Forsyth of Warwick; three grandchildren: Tami, Jennifer and Robert; one step-grandchild, Jessica; and two great-grandchildren, Kaylie and Emily as well as an expected third great-grandchild, Anna Beth; sister, Ann White of Warwick. He was predeceased by his sister, Grace Miller.
Visitation will be on Tuesday from 2 to 4 & 7 to 9 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home, followed by interment in Orange County Veterans Cemetery, with military honors.
Memorial donations may be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 95 Kings Highway, PO Box 218, Warwick, NY 10990 or Hospice of Orange and Sullivan 800 Stony Brook Court Newburgh, NY 12550.
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This very small Common Lisp library provides a way to add initialization files
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building blocks for creating Trac projects
Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.
TracLegos is software designed to template trac projects and assist with trac project creation. Its goal is to make project creation easy and flexible, allowing flexibility with regards to creation methodology as well as extensibility as a project factory for environments with advanced needs. TracLegos is not [at least by design, yet] meant for project upgrading or maintainence, but only to setup a project with sensible defaults.
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Download the [download:traclegosscript zipped source], check out using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
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> create-trac-project Usage: create-trac-project [options] project <project2> <...> var1=1 var2=2 ... assemble a trac project from components Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -c CONF, --conf=CONF site configuration files -d DIRECTORY, --directory=DIRECTORY trac projects directory -i INHERIT, --inherit=INHERIT .ini file to inherit from -r REQUIREMENTS, --requires=REQUIREMENTS requirements files for plugins -s REPOSITORY, --repository=REPOSITORY repository type to use -t TEMPLATES trac.ini templates to be applied in order --list-templates list available TracProject PasteScript templates --list-repositories list repositories available for setup by TracLegos > create-trac-project --list-templates Available projects: topp_trac_project: The Open Planning Project Trac Template > create-trac-project --list-repositories Available repositories: ExistingSVN: Use an existing repository NewSVN: Create a new SVN repository > create-trac-project -t topp-trac-project mynewproject # create a new project
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The House Select Committee on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act voted 10-5 along party lines to reject an expansion of Medicaid in Florida.
The Florida Legislature opened its annual 60-day session Tuesday. Monday, just prior to the formalities, the House Select Committee on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act voted 10-5 along party lines to reject an expansion of Medicaid in Florida. The expansion would be paid 100 percent by the federal government in 2014 through 2016, then taper to its long-term ratio of 90 percent federal payment from 2020 onward.
The committee rejected the health insurance for additional poor people, based on skepticism that the federal government would pay.
Tuesday, during his speech opening the session in the state House of Representatives, Speaker Will Weatherford cited a family medical crisis that created great debt. The details in the speech, following a Tampa Bay Times telephone interview Tuesday with the speaker's father, Bill Weatherford, 62, of Odessa, left father and son at odds over the facts.
The speaker, in his speech, told of his 13-month-old brother Peter being treated for cancer in 1995.
"Peter lost his battle with cancer, and my father found himself with a mountain of medical bills that he could never afford to pay," Weatherford said. "It was the safety net that picked my father up."
Bill Weatherford was self-employed and uninsured, thus the need for a "safety net."
The speaker did not identify the safety net.
However, his father did. It was Medicaid. The federal-state program paid more than $100,000 for Peter's cancer-care bills, said Bill Weatherford.
"There was no way I could pay that," he said.
The speaker denied it was Medicaid that paid, adding, "I don't know the specifics of what happened."
Wednesday, the speaker offered an explanation: His brother and family had been covered under the state's Medically Needy Program.
This was just another ugly attempt by the speaker to cover up the Medicaid connection.
The Medically Needy Program is a part of Medicaid. It is used in such cases as the Weatherford family, which had massive hospital bills, but otherwise would not have qualified for Medicaid.
It is a "Medicaid program for people who have too much income, or assets are over the limits, for Medicaid," says a state Medically Needy brochure.
Despite what Medicaid did to rescue his family's finances, Weatherford remains hypocritical as he continues his fight against Medicaid expansion.
He may succeed. Despite support for Medicaid expansion by Gov. Rick Scott and Senate President Don Gaetz, the House could kill expansion. In that case, $26 billion in funding would be sacrificed, and Florida would likely pay more overall under its old plan.
"When the House of Representatives says no — if they do — that pretty much shuts down the discussion,'' Gaetz said.
Weatherford should put the record right, and he and his House Republican majority should get over their speculative-and-contemptuous federal cynicism, and vote to help more of Florida's poor people pay for health care — and save the state money at the same time.


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The strategy of vertical segmentation continues to play a key role in the geospatial arena. Often referred to as "verticalization," the vertical approach enables GIS users and solutions providers to focus on specific markets and applications. By leveraging geospatial technologies and software to create specialized solutions, developers can optimize fit to task and help users achieve high levels of value and productivity. The vertical approach also provides opportunities to develop new business and clients in applications where spatial information can improve decision processes and efficiency.
We can illustrate the vertical approach by looking at how utility companies use geospatial information. Utilities need specialized solutions to gather, analyze and share position and attribute data while meeting required levels of precision and detail. For example, electric and water utilities use GIS to locate and manage assets. In times of service outages, they can combine the GIS data with customer reports to pinpoint the location and cause of the trouble. These applications seem similar, but marked differences exist in the workflows and data. Electric crews can use meter-level data to locate poles, but water technicians may need centimeter precision to find valves in flooded streets. Creating solutions for the two segments involves leveraging the similarities while providing tools tailored to the different needs.
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Hi Im new!!
I really want to start taking a Bento box to work, I just love them! But I cannot find a decent seller in the UK, im sorry if this has been asked time and time again!!!
Is there any where out there that does them? I am also really in to Hello Kitty so if there are some of those in the UK that would be awesome!!
Thanks again
Now, I bought my lovely reliable little Daiso bento (shown here, it's the one on the left: http://media.photobucket.com/image/daiso%20bento%20orange/joyce1021/Nov2...) from http://www.japancentre.com/.
HOWEVER! Japan Centre is great, and if you can visit the store I recommend you do (it's in Piccadilly) but sadly their online store has no similar stock at the moment. The stock does vary from time to time, so it's worth checking, or even emailling them to ask about their Daiso range. It's cheap, cheerful stuff that has served me well, especially considering the price.
http://www.japanesekitchen.co.uk/bentobox.html seems to be the only other main UK stockist I can find, but sadly they only do a couple of large lacquer boxes and an array of disposable trays - not the best. It may be worth sending them a query, but I can't vouch for their service as I'm a Japan Centre devotee, I'm afraid. ;)
Looking at eBay, it seems that there are a few lower priced bentos, largely from Hong Kong, some Hello Kitty. A great deal will be pricier due to the import costs, of course.
Of course, if you're just getting into bento, I highly recommend browsing local shops, and buying some very basic storage containers. It really isn't the box, it's what you you put in it that counts...even though a really beautiful box can add a special touch, and is a nice thing to have. :) Try Lakeland or somewhere similar for some lock and lock-type boxes.
I would really be interested if any other UK folk have any other recommendations as I fancy a new bento box soon, along the lines of my Daiso one, and if Japan Centre don't start selling them online again I will be somewhat stumped too!
You could try a website called Mount Fuji
I think they have some
There is also a dept store in London called Mitsukoshi I think which is round the corner from the Japan centre. It is expensive but worth a visit. They might have some.
I know there is a shop somewhere that sells all kinds of cute Japanese things but I cant find the link. If I find it I will post it here. I have o check my other computer.
Good luck.
Thanks for the reply!!
I will look in to it! Lucky I am in London next week!! I might have a look!
Try also www.artbox.co.uk. (Search for lunch boxes). They have some cute bento boxes. The stores are located in Covent Garden, Camden and Top Shop in Oxford St. Also try MUJI, the stores are located everywhere in London. They have a big store in Oxford St.
I've just ordered a couple of boxes from www.tokyojazzpanda.co.uk . Not a big selection but it's a start and free shipping if you spend over£20. I've bought some accesories like picks and cups from TK MAXX and Lakeland. I've also used a lot of my cake decorating tools to get the cutie butterflies, stars, and what not. So it might be worth a shot looking in your local cake decorating store. Hobby craft and The Range are quite good as well for cutters and punches for nori. If anyone else knows of anything or anywhere else to get boxes in the UK I'd love to hear!
I just bought some boxes from www.tokyojazzpanda.co.uk
Also try Hobbycraft, The Range, or local cake decorating store to get cute cutters and punches for nori.
Just so you know, Muji basically has just two or three, very plain and functional bento boxes in their stores. So they aren't really for fans of cute boxes. They are nice though...(but still plastic, which to me is a bit disappointing)
The Big Onigiri.
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Yeah I thought that when I looked at them. Also seemed a bit big as well.
I just bought a stainless steel box from muji
It's great, really love it and it wasn't bank breakingly expensive either. My version is a 1.2l and cost £8.95 might seem huge, but I don't fill it to the top. The top tier also sits inside the lid so, it can be height restrictive. There's also a 1.6l version available, but I felt this was just too big!
Hi Vikx,
I don't know if you're still checking replies to this thread, but I went to Whole Foods last week (in Kensington, London) and found some GREAT square lunchboxes with cute characters on which work a dream for bento-style lunches - they also sell bundles of small containers which fit very easily inside the boxes and make for a great "mini-laptop-lunchbox" style effect!
It's French but click on the flag for English text and shipping costs are very reasonable. Has a HUGE ranch of very smart bento boxes and accessories.
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Texans quarterback Matt Schaub was his normal self Wednesday after practice: even, confident and focused.
Never breaking character and saying the same thing the same way multiple times, Schaub spoke with the media for the first time since throwing a game-changing pick-six Sunday during the Texans' home overtime loss to Seattle.
It was Schaub's third consecutive week with a pick-six. But while many fans have voiced frustration at the Texans' veteran quarterback and media has questioned his long-term standing with the team, Schaub said he's ready for San Francisco on Sunday and as focused as ever.
"Good or bad, it's a long season and I'm not going to change," Schaub said at Reliant Stadium. "I'm going to be the same guy. My team needs me to be the same guy."
The QB acknowledged Sunday's pick-six was the toughest point of his career. But everything from spending Sunday night with his family and children to a players-only meeting and individual conferences with coach Gary Kubiak have helped keep the 10-year vet on target for the 49ers.
While Schaub's aware of the negativity surrounding him, he's spent his entire career building a professional wall around himself.
"You know what? I don't have time to really even process any of that, because it's on to the next (game)," Schaub said. "In our world and what I do, I understand what happens when things occur the way they did on Sunday.
"Much the same as when we take it down the field and we score and we win the game, sometimes you get a little too much praise in this position. So it goes both ways. But at the same time, we're on to the next game and you don't have time to look in the rearview mirror and think about your past."
Running back Arian Foster was among Texans players who stood by Schaub on Wednesday. Foster said the media "sees blood" and stated that fans are "very, very fickle."
"Nobody's talking about it, except for questions from y'all," Foster said. "It's not really an issue, so we won't make it one."
He added: "He's our quarterback and he's our leader. We're riding with him."
As for Schaub's long-inactive Twitter account, which disappeared Tuesday?
"Why have something that you don't even utilize?" Schaub said. "It had nothing to do with it. I'm not a big social-media guy. It has no bearing on anything and it doesn't affect me going forward."
Schaub also didn't pay attention to fans burning his jersey postgame Sunday.
But he added: "My goal is just to make sure when we get done with this thing at the end of this year, he's going back out and he's going to get one to wear."
Foster said fans are often defined by their passion and have a right to speak out. But he questioned whether those attacking Schaub would do the same to a family member or friend in the same position.
"Does it bother me? Not in a sense where I'm losing sleep over it. … They're doing what they feel," Foster said. "But I just feel like if it was their cousin in that position or somebody that they knew that was playing that position and they had a couple rough games, I don't think they would react the same way.
"But that's just the nature of the beast. You can't blame them for it. But I just know that we're very emotional creatures and their emotions get the best of them sometimes."
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Executive chef Brad Wise of Belmont Park and the former exec sous at JRDN, has developed a menu that includes small plates, as well as impressive sushi and raw bar offerings.
In addition to beer and sake, creative craft cocktails are plentiful. There are libations like the Dragonberry Mojito — featuring Bacardi's Dragon Berry rum — as well as the signature Bellyflop mixed with Grey Goose, watermelon purée, fresh lemon juice and cucumber. The Drunken Botanist is made with Bombay Sapphire, lemon juice, raspberry and basil seeds.
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Latin culture is alive and well in Pacific Beach — At the Latin Chef, located at 1142 Garnet Ave., customers can enjoy authentic Peruvian and Brazilian cuisine. But the cultural experience doesn't stop there.
A few nights each week, André Monari performs live music. His style encompasses a combination of African rhythms, Brazilian beats and American blues.
Fernando Pastor, a recording engineer at Pacific Beat Recordings, described Monari's music as rich, creative and free flowing.
"Musically, I don't think there is any place in the world with such variety," Pastor said.
Recently, Monari played guitar and sang with JC Boissy on bass and Michael Atesalp on drums. It was the first time the trio had played together, but they sounded as if they had performed together for years. Midway through the performance, Melanie Atesalp joined in to sing improvising lyrics and exemplify the free-flowing nature of the music.
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How does one discuss something like Baraka? I suppose I should start describing what exactly Baraka is. This isn't so much a movie in the largely accepted form of the word, but a collection of images and sounds that create an emotional response in the viewer without any plot or dialogue. It's not a travel log or a documentary, but a tone poem on film. The idea behind Chronos specifically is to create largely the same response in every viewer—that of the realization of both the largeness and smallness of our world—but the filmmakers depend their viewer's personal prisms to sculpt this view. There are a few other films one could put in this small subgenre, including Godfrey Reggio's 'Life Trilogy' ( Koyaanisqatsi, Powwaqatsi and Naqoyqatsi), and the time-lapse-errific Chronos.
Baraka is likely the best film of its kind (I haven't seen Powwaqatsi and Naqoyqatsi myself), and likely the most accessible to broad audiences that normally ignore art films. The film's very existence is a sort of pretentious act, as the filmmakers are forced to follow their own feelings concerning the feelings of others, but the film rarely comes off as snobbish or overly self-indulgent. The images themselves have been edited and juxtaposed at the behest of a few people, but there's an inescapable honesty to everything on screen. Unlike Chronos (which the filmmakers refer to as Baraka-lite in the making-of feature), Baraka actually manages to tell a story without words, a story that I believe even the least studious cineaste can decipher without being told.
Baraka is filmmaking in its purest form, and its utter simplicity will test some viewers. Keeping the runtime close to ninety minutes is a good choice, because there's a definite limit to how much narrative free, art house filmmaking the majority of us can take. The filmmakers plan backfires a little bit in its mesmerizing effect sometimes, numbing the viewer into near exhaustion. I admit to some very heavy eyelids around the one hour mark, no matter how much I may've been enjoying myself.
Since the dawn of enhanced and high definition television, stores have displayed the sets' abilities using nature photography. Usually there are a few sets with sports of some large budget effects film running, but for the most part it seems that nature photography is the default 'look at me' footage. With images of Best Buy and Circuit City TV departments in my mind I assumed that Baraka would be a reference Blu-ray disc before even sticking it in the player. The film's advantages begin with its 65mm negative, which can be scanned at 8K resolution, which is apparently the highest available in the world right now. The print has been 'over sampled' beyond the capabilities of a 1080p scan, meaning that the image will press any set beyond its limit. Basically the film looks so good that it supersedes high definition.
The numbers don't lie; this is simply the cleanest non-digital film I've ever seen on my set. There isn't a spec of dust, grain, or compression noise to be found. The lifelike quality of the image comes as a shock even after months of big studio hi-def discs. The saturated colour quality and super fine details are second to nothing live-action I've seen so far. The closest I can get to finding a fault with the print is a small amount of over-modulation on some of the harder white details in backgrounds, basically amounting to the slightest bit of edge-enhancement in some of the longest shots, though likely this has more to do with my aging set's limitations than the source material. Those in search of that reference material to show off their sets try chapter seven (Kenyan tribal slo-mo dance), chapter ten (Brazilian cityscape), chapter thirteen (sorting baby chickens), and chapter twenty-one (Iranian mirrored mosque).
If anyone dates Baraka (besides the burning Kuwaiti oil fields) it's composer and music director Michael Stearns, who's soundscapes, though perfectly acceptable within the odd confines of the film itself, are packed with the nuances of '90s New Age. This new DTS-HD Master Audio track picks up every nuance of the soundtrack, from the dissonance of swirling bells to the studious clunk of a drum. The film's supernatural editing is mostly weighted in this soundtrack, and both work best during the bizarre chicken sorting montage. The percussion tracks are tightly wound, and move impressively throughout all channels without drawing too much attention to themselves. The Dead Can Dance track (which was recently re-used by Frank Darabount at the end of The Mist) is inescapably emotionally overwhelming, and the aggressive bass track is at its most prominent at this point (just before chapter fifteen, if you're looking).
Beyond the music there are some huge, reference level sound moments, which is enormously impressive when you stop to think about the difficulty of creating believable and immersive surround from on-set recordings. Crowd shots are the most inspiring, but the best bit is the Southeast Asian group chant scene (I don't know what the ceremony is called). What amounted to a wall of sound on the original DVD release is now a lifelike immersion of dozens of shouting voices bleeding from every speaker, a chest rattling throb emitting from the LFE channel, and a subtly modulating intensity as the camera's swoop and move through the crowd. This track isn't quite as loud as other DTS-HD tracks I've run on this system, but there aren't any moments of obvious or even subtle compression.
This isn't exactly a special edition release, but save a commentary track there probably isn't much more for the viewer to learn. 'Baraka: A Closer Look' is a detailed making-of documentary covering the genesis and production of the film one step at a time. Besides chronicling the huge process and the production behind almost every vignette, the doc also humanizes the filmmakers, who until now have been largely hidden behind the mystique of the wordless feature. I suppose I could've just looked it up, but until now I hadn't realized that Baraka's director/cinematographer Ron Fricke had worked as cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi, and director/cinematographer on Chronos, making him one of the chief architects of the subgenre. The hour and seventeen minute doc (almost as long as the film itself) doesn't go too far into the philosophy behind the film, because thankfully there doesn't seem to be much of one beyond the back of the box thesis of 'the thread that weaves life together', but there's a lot of technical information, including the creation of the apparently revolutionary time-lapse cameras.
'Restoration' sort of speaks for itself—it's a chronicle of the meticulous hi-def remastering process. There's a whole lot of very specific technical information about the restoration process, and it's presented in plainly discernable terms for all us laymen. If the seven minute featurette is to be believed this is a one of kind remastering process at this point in time considering scope and sheer quantity of detail.
Baraka is a unique experience that you'll likely want to experience in high definition. In fact, it's such an extremely impressive hi-def experience that even readers generally disinterested in artsy tone poems might want to give the disc a rent and give their sets a nice workout. The DTS-HD Master Audio track isn't so bad either. Neither is the feature length making-of documentary. In fact, just buy the disc, it's cheap enough, and the box is made out of entirely recyclable material so you don't have to feel guilty about owning more stuff.
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First Ever Health & Fitness Symposium
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Andrews University will host its first Health & Fitness Symposium: Connect & Inspire to Share, from May 10–13, 2012. The symposium will feature a variety of presentations and seminars as well as practical workshops and poster presentations.
"The symposium is a fantastic and unique opportunity for students, faculty and professionals to come together from all over the world to learn, share and inspire each other," says Dominique Wakefield, assistant professor and director of Fitness & Exercise Studies in the Department of Nutrition & Wellness.
Fittingly, the theme for the symposium is "Connect & Inspire to Share." "Many people in our society and community are facing many difficult situations because of their health and lifestyle," says Wakefield. "Many of the answers to the problems we face today can be found within health, fitness and wellness." The goal of the symposium is to educate people on key topics in health and fitness so they can spread those same concepts to those around them.
The symposium will feature an impressive lineup of keynote presenters, including Katia Reinert, RN, MSN, who will present, "The Epidemic of Obesity and Inactivity: What You Can Do" and Don Morgan, PhD, who will give a presentation titled, "Change Your Mind, Change Your Body, Change Your Life." Other keynote speakers include Monica Reed, MD; Ernie Medina Jr., DrPH; Fred Hardinge, DrPH, RD; and Erika Whitman, sport dietician for the University of Notre Dame. Several seminars will also be available on a variety of important health and fitness topics ranging from "New Approaches to Strength Training" to "Physical Fitness and Aging: Keep on Moving."
Besides lectures, attendees can participate in practical workshops dealing with topics such as circuit training, eating vegan, the use of kettlebells, and running at your best. Poster presentations will be given on May 10–11 and there will be a vespers concert on Friday, May 11, from 8–9:30 p.m.
The symposium is open to the community, but registration is required. The registration fee for the full conference is $125 or $55 per day, $35 on Sunday. The student rate for the full conference is $50 or $25 per day, $15 on Sunday. To register for the symposium or see a complete program overview including specific locations, visit www.andrews.edu/shp/nutrition/symposium/. For more information, contact Dominique Wakefield at firstname.lastname@example.com.