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- Chic, modern rooms with black-and-white decor and oak floors
- Sleek bathrooms with walk-in rainfall showers or shower/tub combos
- A rooftop bar with both indoor and outdoor space
- Parker & Quinn, an American bistro inspired by English pubs and Parisian wine bars
- Winnie's Jazz Club, named for the owner of a historic, Prohibition-era tea salon
- Historic building that was a former hat factory
- Cool industrial-chic design throughout
- Convenient location near Bryant Park and the Empire State Building
- Private event space for up to 50 people
- 24-hour room service
- Jazz happy hour
- Some noise complaints (common in NYC)
- Wait time for elevators can be a bit long
Bottom Line
This stylish urban boutique hotel in New York's Garment District is located in a historic building that was once a tea salon and hat factory. The property's past inspired its present industrial-chic design, and small details such as decorative milliner's tools pay homage to the building's former function. In the lobby, cool white stone and Gothic arches are contrasted against colorful contemporary art, while in the rooms, a minimalist black-and-white motif is warmed up by the oak hardwood floors. Features include a fitness center, a lobby bar (named for the historic tea salon's owner), Parker & Quinn bistro, and a cool rooftop bar. The location is within walking distance of popular sights such as the Empire State Building, Bryant Park, and Herald Square. Those who would prefer to be in a trendier neighborhood (and don't mind being farther from popular Midtown sights) might also want to consider The James New York in Soho.


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January 19, 2011
It's a boy.
We're having ANOTHER BOY.
I've been sitting here trying to think of something else to say. Except. ANOTHER BOY.
Jason: If this were the 1500s, you'd be really popular.
Amy: Seriously. Henry VIII would be all over me. He'd probably have you killed.
Doctor: Um, okaaaay...and that's a foot, right there.
Another boy. Another giant-headed, adorable, perfect baby boy.

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Nebraska and Iowa will seek to continue their Black Friday games
[EDIT]: and Wisconsin's Alvarez in a letter to Wisconsin fans said that he wants Wisconsin to play against Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska every year. Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta is quoted as strongly favoring playing vs Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern and Nebraska.
Why is this of interest to Michigan fans, let alone Nebraska, Wisconsin, or Iowa fans? Because its another indication the B1G is going towards a geography-based alignment.
I've read all the threads on this forum on the subject. Its a tough, tough problem. Obviously the major history and tradition of the Big Ten are intertwined with UM and OSU, the conference leaders/legends who must be be respected, no one disagrees with that. And the other ancient instate and border rivalries that are the fabric of the Big Ten. Then you have the newcomers: first the new kings PSU and Nebraska, followed by the media/academic additions Rutgers and Maryland and who knows who after that, maybe some lacrosse schools.
How do you make it all work, balancing equally all the rivalries, power balance, media ratings, recruiting exposure, and strength of schedule? YOU CAN'T, THERE WILL BE BREAKAGE.
I think this news item is another "tell" that the B1G will go to either 2 divisions or 4 pods of East-West and to hell with who's done what and who will do in the future. UM will end up with a OSU-eastern teams marriage and NE-IA-WI-MN+IL's-etc will play in another...until we add the damn southern schools and start all over again.
Go Big Red! Hail Victors!
And meanwhile until its all redone beat Michigan again in 2013 for the Legends!


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Paying Forward a Family's Traditions: The Stull Family Professorship in Entrepreneurship
The Stull Family Professorship in Entrepreneurship honors a family that stands for everything good about business and enterprise, belief in the future, values and hard work. Theirs is a Saint Mary's story and the story of a post-World War II generation.
Two brothers, Aaron '53 and Don Von '55, like many of their school mates at Saint Mary's College, "were eager to get out and get going, start a new life and a new business," as Aaron put it.
And that's what they did. Don bought real estate in Kern County, and, at his father's urging, planted orange trees, starting the seedlings in his parents' back yard. Don assembled a good deal of acreage in orange groves, in a place that had never been developed with citrus before and is now prime agricultural land mainly used for that purpose.
"Don always involved the family in all of his business ventures," Aaron said. In 1968, he, Don and Pat, Don's wife, all weary of working in large corporations, started Pacific Coast Chemicals (PCC), a small firm in Berkeley that sold chemical raw materials to the paint and coatings, inks, plastics and resin industries. Eventually, the company expanded to serve 11 states west of the Rockies.
Don managed the finances "and got us through," Aaron recalled. "We aimed for focused growth. Don didn't let us get in over our heads. We paid all our bills."
Aaron, who possessed the knowledge of chemical technology, used it to develop all the sales for Pacific Coast, while Pat developed and managed the inside sales support, customer service and distribution of products. "Don kept thinking of new things, anticipating problems," she noted, also describing her husband as the kind of manager who kept an eye on everything.
"Every stray cat and dog," she said, chuckling. "He used to stand around with the guys on the loading dock and in the warehouse, listening and talking with them, finding out what was going on. He helped people when they were in trouble."
Pat recalled that around 5 p.m. everyday, the sales force and other employees stopped in at Don's office to just talk about things. Such human contact and communications was the key to their business success, she said. "The human part is so important, and it's the heart of customer service."
Pat first met Aaron when he was consulting at a company where she worked, "and I was complaining about not finding any good men to date," she said, eyes twinkling. "Aaron said he had a completely harmless brother in Los Angeles working at Occidental Petroleum." Aaron arranged a blind date, and six months later Pat and Don were married.
When the three started their company, Aaron focused on sales, and Pat started at the order desk, learning about the customers and the chemicals they purchased, and went on to do publicity and marketing for the PCC. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Golden Gate Paint and Coatings Association.
It's no surprise that the Stull brothers ended up at Saint Mary's. Aaron remembers their father, for whom he was named, as a smart, literate man who loved the Great Books. He read Plato to the boys when they were growing up. He had come west to California from Illinois as a young man to settle in Monrovia and eventually work for Chevron. He taught his sons to believe in possibilities and to work hard. His own father had been a farmer in Illinois who was ahead of his time. On his father's headstone the word "environmentalist" recognized the man's interest in caring for the Earth, perhaps inspiring Pacific Coast Chemical's particular focus on environmental health and safety. Indeed, Aaron credits much of what he and his siblings did in their lives to the spirit they inherited from their father and grandfather: work hard, take care of each other and the environment, and never, ever give up.
The Stulls' mother was brilliant in her own right, Aaron added. "She was offered a college chemistry scholarship when she graduated from high school, but unfortunately was unable to take it." Aaron remembers both parents for their keen intelligence and for being "high energy and creative, thinking outside the box."
Today PCC, located in Berkeley, is owned and managed by Aaron's son, Dominic, who started working at the company when he was a teen, learning the business from the ground up. Aaron is chairman of the board, but Pat, who sold her share of the company to Dominic, when she retired as President, still stays involved "only doing the fun stuff now," she said.
Other family members are involved with the company, as well, including Dominic's sister Deirdre, the chief financial officer, recruited away from her position at the Securities and Exchange Commission by her Aunt Pat.
With the Stull Professorship, Aaron and Pat hope that the values that helped them succeed in life and business will be passed on to future Saint Mary's Gaels. "Don was a mentor. He believed in passing things on," Pat said. "That's what we hope to do with this professorship."
"The establishment of the Stull Family Professorship in Entrepreneurship could not have come at a better time to the School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA). SEBA has recently revised its business curricula and is in the process of implementing the Entrepreneurship Concentration in both undergraduate and graduate programs. This endowed professorship will help SEBA attract or retain high-quality faculty of Entrepreneurship and thus benefit students' learning in the classroom." - Dean Zhan Li, SEBA
In Loving Memory of Aaron K. Stull (September 19, 1927 - August 16, 2012)


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A Brief History
Although South Bay Botanic Garden was officially established in January of 2008, its history really began in 1974. As a new college horticulture program, the garden started as an empty field, one greenhouse, and no plants. However, through the efforts of countless students learning the skills of planting and hardscape installation, the garden has grown into a park-like setting of hundreds of different varieties of plants.
A member of the American Public Garden Association (APGA), the South Bay Botanic Garden consists of 4 acres of trees, shrubs, flowers, grounds covers, various turfgrasses, plant collections, and water features all framed in a pleasant setting. As part of the Landscape and Nursery Technology Program at Southwestern College, the garden continues to be a learning facility for students pursuing degrees in the horticultural fields. Don't be surprised to see a group of students working on the garden or learning a horticultural skill.
The garden is located on the Southwestern College campus in eastern Chula Vista, about 8 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the west and 5 miles from the Mexican border to the south. We are located about 20 minutes from downtown San Diego. Our climate enjoys the cooling effect of the nearby Pacific Ocean but is inland far enough to receive consistent sunshine.
The South Bay Botanic Garden is overseen by a group of dedicated volunteers that help to determine the direction of the garden. They organize activities, hold volunteer work days, and provide input as to the goals and future direction of the garden. If you would like to participate, simply call 619-421-6700 ext 5416 or click here and send us an email. We will add you to our list of garden supporters and keep you informed of meetings and garden events.
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Did you know that Cargo trousers were first worn by members of the British Armed Forces in 1938, and were introduced to the United States in the mid-1940s during World War II. The large pockets characteristic of cargo pants were originally designed to allow paratroopers more room to hold radios and extra ammunition. Today they are generally little more stylish than the camouflage sported by the Army, but still as versatile and practical for leisure and work wear. Our range includes premium heavy duty workwear trousers from Graham Gardner like their Zip-Front Work wear Trousers with teflon coating and internal knee-pad pockets to our low cost Work wear Trousers that start at only £8.45 and offer great quality and value. And, let's not leave out the ladies either - with Uneek's tailored Ladies Cargo Trousers.


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Update: Toddler's death ruled accidental drowning
The death of the 2-year-old Liberty County boy found in a pond last week was ruled an accidental drowning, officials said. Visitation and funeral services for the child will be held at the end of the week.
The body of Devon Davis was found Saturday after four days of searching the woods and bayous of Liberty County. An autopsy showed that the child drowned to death, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner's Office. The toxicology results are pending.
Capt. Rex Evans with Liberty County Sheriff's office said the visitation service will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Neal Funeral Home in Cleveland on Washington St. The service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Cornerstone Baptist Church on Highway 105 between Cleveland and Conroe.
The Liberty County Sheriff's office, Texas Rangers, Texas Equusearch and other volunteers who helped in the search will attend the visitation, Evans said.
Davis was found in a pond that had been searched before this weekend, but plants covering the surface kept the boy's body from view, officials said.
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Distraught father Mike Davis asked to pray Saturday morning with volunteers who had spent four days searching the woods and bayous of Liberty County for his toddler son.
"We knelt down there on the ground next to my van and we prayed that our Lord would lead our searchers to the young boy, and give the family peace," said Texas Equusearch coordinator Ken DeFoor. The father broke down in tears, DeFoor said.
About 45 minutes later, searchers reviewing high-resolution images from a drone aircraft spotted a red dot in the southeast side of an algae-covered pond.
It was the red shirt worn by 2½-year-old Devon Davis, whose body was floating in the pond about 300 yards from his family's house.
The pond had been searched before, but plants covering the surface kept the boy's body from view, officials said.
The discovery brought the desperate search for little Devon to a somber close. The boy disappeared from his home at the Sam Houston Lakes Estate near Cleveland on Tuesday. His mother, April Davis, said she put him down for a nap, bolted the front door, then went to sleep herself for 20 minutes. She awoke about 3:30 p.m. to find Devon gone and the door open. He was last seen wearing a red and gray jersey T-shirt and jeans.
'We're all human'
Liberty County Sheriff's spokesman Rex Evans said Devon's death "appears accidental."
"We're all human," Evans said. "I don't think (the mother) did anything intentional at all."
The family had just driven to Texas from Virginia, and she was probably exhausted, he said.
The Davis family moved to Liberty County two weeks ago. They are living temporarily in the home of an Army buddy who helped Devon's father, Mike, find a job as a machinist. Mike Davis was not home when Devon vanished Tuesday.
Almost 100 people spent four days looking for the red-headed toddler his mother described as "the sweetest child." Sharpshooters accompanied search teams to protect them from alligators, wild hogs and poisonous snakes that prowl the area's woods and bayous.
"Our searchers are very exhausted," DeFoor said. "It's hot out here, these woods are thick, they've been going since Wednesday morning all day long, and it's very taxing, but we're very relieved that there's a conclusion to the search. It's a bad conclusion, but it's a conclusion at least."
Texas Equusearch volunteers launched the drone about 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, the first day that weather permitted, DeFoor said.
"Once we got the photographs from the airplane back to the outpost, we reviewed the images and you could see a red color that looked out of place," he said.
Anguished by news
A helicopter flew over to confirm, and Texas Rangers recovered the boy's body around 1:50 p.m.
When authorities gave the devastating news to Devon's mother, she "broke down hysterically," DeFoor said.
"April took it very hard," he said. "I'm a retired captain of the Houston Police Department and I don't care how tough you are, or how long you've been a policeman, if that doesn't touch your heart, I don't know what will."


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Lipscomb's Lady Bisons received their first ever vote for the USA Today/ESPN/WBCA TDivision I Top 25 Coaches Poll released Tuesday.
The Lady Bisons are 8-3 overall this season, 5-0 in the Atlantic Sun. They have a 10-game home winning streak, and a nine-game Atlantic Sun winning streak.
"It is great to be recognized in this way," said Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett. "It is a milestone for us to get our first top 25 vote. This shows that we can compete at this level. We would like to build on that."
The Lady Bisons 10-game home winning streak is tied with Kentucky for the fifth longest in NCAA Division I.
Lipscomb senior wing player Courtney Boynton, twice named Atlantic Sun Player of the Week this season, was also considered for player of the month by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Boynton is the first Lipscomb player to be considered for the honor. In order to qualify she had to be nominated by the Atlantic Sun Conference.
"Courtney's has played well," Bennett said. "To have her be mentioned for the monthly award is great."
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People name boats and vacation homes and secluded country houses. Condos and mobile homes and regular houses? Not much.The floating homes at Sea Village Marina are a unique combination of all the above, and so most are christened. Captain Sunshine, Pop's Place, Happy Days, Sea Otter, Where the Moon meets the Morning Sun.The names say it all. Pure Jersey Shore relaxation. Good times in downtime.
"It is so quiet here," said Mary Ann Nawarynski. "When you look out your window, all you see is water and wetlands."
"There's no ground light, so you see every star in the sky," Beverely Cox said. "The sky is wide open."Sea Village is New Jersey's only year-round, live-aboard community. The main thoroughfare is Risley Channel, a turnpike-wide waterway that merges into Great Egg Harbor Bay south of Longport.
The sidewalks are planked docks, which ripple like a kiddie roller coaster as tides rise and fall in Scull and Lake's and Shelter Island bays.
Along those planks, the floating homes are docked. They are boxy, and cedar-sided. Some have nautical motifs, with ropes and nets with caught plastic shellfish. Some are painted in Miami aqua and tangerine. Most are two stories, some have a third. Almost all have multiple outdoor decks, and docks for boats. All have indoor plumbing; in fact, the village is hooked up to a public sewer line. No roughing it aboard, not with flushable toilets, hot water for showers and Jacuzzis, dishwashers and washing machines. And air conditioning, and electric heaters, and on and on.
"We have every convenience of home," said Mickey Glantz, in the living room of his floating home. Behind him was a flat-screen TV, and a desk with his computer.
"We get cable and internet. We can manage our business from here."
In the kitchen are marble counter tops and tile floors; the woodwork throughout is master carpentry, and hardwood planks line the cathedral ceilings.
Not all are so elaborate. Of the 62 live-aboard vessels at Sea Village, eight are regular houseboats, which can have engines and motor out of their slips. The floating homes stay put like barges, riding the tide, and rocking in the wind.
"When the wind hits 35 mph, we take that down," said James Brodsky, pointing to a hanging stained-glass lamp in his living room.Read more at http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2010/08/sea_village_marina_is_njs_only.html
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Meet The Kitchn Team: Megan Gordon
Blogger: Megan Gordon
Started at The Kitchn: Fall 2010
Megan is an avid professional baker based in San Rafael, California. She's so avid and professional, in fact, that she just started up her own company: Marge Bakery, bringing classic American sweets (think pop tarts and pies!) to the Bay Area. Read on for a little more about Megan, and to see some of her posts from this past year.
- What's your favorite kitchen tool?
Very boring and utilitarian, but I love my immersion blender. That puppy transforms a bunch of ho-hum carrots and some broth into a fragrant soup in no time. And I'm a big soup gal. In the winter: tomato, butternut squash and root vegetables; in the summer: gazpacho and creamy cucumber. The little blender is also a handy way to whip up a quick afternoon milkshake — never a bad thing.
- What's your secret indulgence in the kitchen?
Ice cream. For those who know me well, I have an absolute and unwavering adoration for ice cream. And I'm ashamed to admit that I'm one of those people who scoops out all the bits of cookie dough, leaving behind boring vanilla for another day. I also love champagne, and no longer force myself to save it for special occasions. It makes me happy.
- What's your favorite quote on food, cooking, or eating?
"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be." - Molly Wizenberg
• Pantry Find: Do-Good Peas!
• A Stuffing Smackdown: The Quest for the Perfect Recipe
• Coffee Roastery Tour: Equator Coffees and Teas
• Zippy Desserts Using Chinese Five-Spice
• Is There Cookie Swap Etiquette?
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Welcome to The Kitchn's end-of-year roundup! We are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the last year, including lots of recipes. We are also shaking out our reader mailbag, and giving you a few more great guest posts from our friends.
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The winter holidays are upon us and with them the added stress of tight financial times. This year, enjoy the season without letting holiday spending get the better of you. We've put together expert advice and practical tools to help you minimize spending concerns and make this holiday season a joyous time. For additional tips on helping your budget stay on track, read this Holiday Spending Survival Guide.
Start your holiday budgeting by looking at what you spent last year. Were you on target, or did last year's spending land you in debt? Make a list of what you plan to spend money on this year. Knowing your spending goals beforehand will keep you on track. Some financial planners recommend spending no more than 1.5% of your annual income ($750 per $50,000 of annual income). Look at your major spending categories - gifts, entertaining, meals, and travel- and estimate how much you can afford in each category. Use this easy Holiday Budget Calculator to help determine your holiday budget.
Save money this year by getting creative. Store-bought gifts are great, but when you make a gift for someone they truly appreciate your time and effort. Ideas for creative gift projects are plentiful online. A fun place to start is Instructables.com, a do-it-yourself web site full of step-by-step tutorials for everyone. Perhaps you don't have time to make something yourself but still like the affordability and personal touch of giving homemade gifts. At Craftzine.com you'll not only find ideas that you can make yourself, but budget gifts available from other crafters. The ultimate marketplace for homemade gifts however is Etsy, where you can find crafty items from over 200,000 sellers.
Instead of excessively spending on each other this year, join together with family members to help those who may be less fortunate. Online opportunities are easy to find, and there are several in this article, "Helping others when money is tight." Other opportunities for online giving can be found at the websites for Oxfam International and ACCION.
If you plan on traveling, take some time to determine how much it will cost you with our Holiday Travel Planner and don't forget these holiday travel planning tips.
Holidays are a wonderful time to entertain. And a little planning and budgeting will help you avoid financial headaches. Give our Holiday Entertainment Planner a try and let it help you plan your entertainment so that you don't have to pay for it the rest of the year. And Check out these holiday entertainment tips to help you keep your holiday budget in shape.


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It looks like 3D won't be going away in 2012. However, Stream TV Networks is hoping that its new brand of 3D may entice those jaded audiences.
The company just announced plans to show off its new Ultra-D technology at next month's Consumer Electronics Show. Ultra-D appears to be the company's new term for glasses-free 3D. However, Stream TV says that their method is proprietary and "surpasses all 3D viewing experiences offered to date." In other words, they can really call it whatever they want.
Stream TV says that their tech includes "unprecedented autostereoscopic 3D imagery" in the secret sauce. The end result will deliver 2D content in 3D autostereoscopic without glasses, and can also tweak 3D stereoscopic content (with glasses) to 3D autostereoscopic (without glasses).
"We are extremely proud of what we have been able to accomplish with our Ultra-D technology. It is capable of creating a significant shift in the way people view media, comparable to the transition from black and white to color TV," said Mathu Rajan, Stream TV's CEO. "Our ultimate goal was to create a solution that addresses existing concerns impeding the adoption of 3D — consumer aversion to expensive glasses, viewer discomfort, variance in individual vision and preference and the slow creation of 3D content. It seemed we were aiming for the impossible but we've made it possible and will be sharing these hard-won achievements with consumers in 2012. Ultra-D is the next generation 3D technology designed to replace 3D with glasses and win preference over 2D devices."
Stream TV says that users will also be able to control 3D effects on Ultra-D products, which will include everything from TVs and converter boxes to tablets and computers to games and digital picture frames. How they plan to do this and what products will actually be released remains to be seen.
Expect to hear more once Stream TV shows off the Ultra-D product line at the Ultra-D Launch Press Conference on January 9, 2012 at CES 2012.


text: This less than perfect winter couldn't stop the South Shore Soldiers Camp from going off yet again. Jimmy Halapoff and the South Shore Soldiers camp throw the best Spring break camp, year after year. Its easy to enjoy every moment with a private park overlooking the deep blue waters of Lake Tahoe, a nightlife that only South Shore could produce, and enough free product to send even the biggest freeloaders home feeling a bit guilty—South Shore Soldiers has it all.


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Mushkin Enhanced Joule 800W Power Supply Review
Mushkin Enhanced, founded in 1994, are located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado and are probably best known for their range of high performance memory modules. In addition to their headquarters in the USA they have offices in Kandel, Germany and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to cover Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific Rim.
Whilst memory modules remain their core business they also offer a range of flash drives, solid state drives and high end power supplies for the PC do-it-yourself builder and enthusiast. OCC have already reviewed two of their power supplies, the Volta 600W and Joule 1000W, which performed very well and earned themselves an OCC Gold and Silver award respectively. This time around it's the turn of the Mushkin Enhanced Joule 800W power supply, a fully wired unit with 80 Plus Silver accreditation for its efficiency, a thermally controlled cooling fan and active power factor correction. Let's have a closer look and see how well it performs.
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Green and black are once again used as the main theme on the Mushkin Enhanced Joule 800W power supply packaging. The top face of the box shows a photograph of the unit with an electrical storm raging in the background along with the power supply type and wattage with a Mushkin Enhanced, 80 Plus Silver and ROHS logo completing the picture. The bottom face of the box carries a comprehensive feature list along with conformance marks.
The front and rear side panels show connector types and quantities along with photographs and a rather large specification table that's hard to miss.
The side panels are blank and are in fact the side panels of a plain gloss black box that resides inside a removable cardboard sleeve.
The plain gloss black cardboard box.
Lift the lid and the owner's manual sits on top of the bubble wrapped power supply with the wired cables and accessories tucked neatly down the sides.
The bubble wrapped power supply along with the accessories that include the owner's manual, power cord, two black cable ties, five Velcro straps and a set of power supply mounting screws.
The Mushkin Enhanced Joule 800W power supply is adequately packaged with a good set of accessories. Let's move on and have a closer look at the power supply.


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - March 20, 2013 --The state House is scheduled to begin debate on the campaign to privatize Pennsylvania's system of state-owned liquor stores, an initiative backed by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.
The House plans to take up the liquor privatization bill Wednesday, but it's not known if there will be a vote.
Stephen Miskin, a spokesman for House Republicans, says about 120 amendments are being proposed to the bill. He says those amendments are coming from both Republicans and Democrats.
The bill would give beer distributors first shot at 1,200 wine and spirit licenses and opens wine sales to supermarkets. In addition, the state's wine and spirit stores would be phased out as the number of private operates grows.
On Monday, the House Liquor Committee backed the bill in a 14-10 vote.


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A few lines from a poem, "Ode to Entropy", by John Updike:
Death exists nowhere in nature, notAs far as we know, no other creature, animal or plant, has an awareness of self-mortality. Only in human consciousness is death anticipated, as a dark foreboding, or promise of release. So much is carried along in the baggage of anticipation. Courage. Fear. Virtue. Sin.
in the minds of birds or the consciousness of flowers,
not even in the numb brain of the wildebeest calf
gone under to the grinning crocodile, nowhere
in the mesh of woods or the tons of the sea, only
in our forebodings...
In the R.C. theology of my youth only humans had immortal souls. In the Heaven of our imaginations there were no animals or plants. Or, for that matter, no Sun, Moon, stars or weather. No dawns or dusks. No seasons. As a kid, I pictured Heaven as a hospital sort of place, all stainless steel and pale green gowns and white paint and angels with push-carts and mops going around swabbing up all the invisible microbes that managed to slip in on our resurrected feet, and some little device going ping-ping-ping over the intercom counting off the seconds of eternity.
Not a terribly attractive prospect.
The funny thing is, nothing more attractive has come along to take its place; that is to say, as hard as I try I cannot conjure up any notion of immortality that meets the loosest criterion of plausibility.
But a morning last week came close. It had rained all night, stopping just before I set out for the college at sunrise. The leaves that carpeted the floor of the woods glistened wet. A summery golden light filtered through the mist -- this in late November -- transmuting every surface with a Midas touch. Soft. And silent, except for the tap-tap-tap of a downy woodpecker. And for about a microsecond I might have imagined...
No, never mind. Ray Kurzweil, age 61, wants to live long enough to live forever; that is, to hang in until science solves the riddle of aging and gives us immortality on Earth, assuming, of course, that we don't get knocked down in the street by a bus or blow ourselves up in some intrahuman squabble. Not me. I'll settle a few more of those microseconds when the here and now seems more desirable than the aseptic, creatureless hospital-in-the-sky or the long, drawn-out forebodings of a Kurzweilian future.
(This post originally appeared in November 2009.)


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While trying to distract myself from the fact that a Gus Frerotte vs. Norv Turner Super Bowl is still a possibility, I took a look at Sammy Baugh's statistics. I was surprised to see his rookie season quarterback rating: 50.5, an incredibly low number by today's standards. Even Heath Shuler (sorry, Congressman Heath Shuler) never posted a mark that low when he wore the burgundy and gold. Yet Baugh's 1937 campaign was not only good enough to guide the Redskins to their first NFL Championship, but it was also good enough to lead the league in quarterback rating. 71 years ago, the league average quarterback rating was just 34.4.


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ATLANTA - Matt Bryant kicked a 40-yard field goal with 5 seconds remaining and the Atlanta Falcons remained unbeaten, rallying past the Carolina Panthers 30-28 on Sunday.
The Falcons (4-0) are off to their best start since 2004, when they reached the NFC championship game. Despite taking a career-high seven sacks, Matt Ryan threw three touchdown passes for Atlanta. Bryant added three field goals.
The Panthers (1-3) nearly clinched it on Cam Newton's run with just over a minute remaining, but he fumbled the ball while trying to dive for the necessary yardage. Carolina recovered and wound up punting, downing the ball at the Atlanta 1. But Ryan immediately got the Falcons out of the hole, throwing a 59-yard pass to Roddy White.
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Outside the police station in South Los Angeles, a group of girls assembled, colorful boxes in tow.
"Do you want to buy some cookies?" "Delicious cookies!" They called out, crowding passers-by and, in their excitement, forgetting the pitches their leaders helped them refine. Just inside the lobby, a kindergartner stood beaming near another stack of treats. That sweet face had no trouble making a sale.
Rather than catch grocery-laden shoppers on their way to their cars, the Girl Scouts of Troop 19785 in Watts had taken a tour of the police station, then sold their Thin Mints and Samoas to the officers and people passing through.
In a community that has one of the highest rates of violent crime in L.A. County, it was a chance to see law enforcement for a reason other than reporting a crime or visiting a family member — and they sold a ton of cookies, Officer Jesse Ruiz said.
The girls from Grape Street Elementary School sell the same cookies and wear the same uniforms as other girls and young women across the nation, but this troop is special.
Troop 19785 was formed two years ago through a collaboration of the school, the
With many moms unsure of how to volunteer or juggling work and parenting, the school's teachers have taken on the role as troop leaders. They stay for hours after class to lead meetings and wake up early Saturdays to take the girls to decorate Rose Parade floats or attend to scouting events.
Officers play an active role too, stopping by to say hello during and after school, and helping plan activities and outings for the nearly 80 kindergarten to fifth-grade girls enrolled in the troop.
Grape Street Principal Jera Turner, who grew up in the community, remembers how her mother drove her 10 miles to the nearest Girl Scout meeting, then waited for her in the car until it ended. She wants her students to have the same opportunity to find their voice that she did.
"They grow up in poverty, but we don't want them to live in poverty," Turner said. "They've been taught to be seen but not heard. And I've been taught if you're not heard, then you're not seen."
Watts is about two square miles of some of the most densely populated streets in Los Angeles. The average income is about $28,300, low for the county, and about 36% of families are headed by a single parent, according to the American Community Survey. The neighborhood is home to four public housing developments, one of them the largest west of the Mississippi.
The community lacks resources for youth, but particularly for girls. Many of the programs that do exist unintentionally target young men — soccer and football, for instance — so Girl Scouts was the perfect fit, said LAPD Sgt. Emada Tingirides, coordinator for the Community Safety Partnership. The partnership, started in 2011 in conjunction with the housing authority, focuses on improving relationships with the residents of four housing projects.
"We are going to make leaders out of these young girls," she said.
Ruiz, a driving force behind the troop, said the experiences they have with Girl Scouts show them another path in life and give them a set of values that might otherwise get lost in their daily lives.
"There's always something else on their mind. My safety or what's going to happen after school, is there going to be an issue or a shooting, a fight," said Ruiz, who gets emotional when he talks about the girls and what the troop means to them. "It just allows them to be kids, just an everyday kid."
On a recent Wednesday, about two dozen girls shouted adjectives describing the cookies they were preparing to sell outside the LAPD's Southeast Station.
"Coconut, chocolatey," leaders suggested as they walked around the room, helping the chattering girls refine their sales pitches and complete a cookie flower craft — and joining a few who paused to stand up and sing Pharrell Williams' hit "Happy."
Ruiz and Officer Tiffany Norwood stopped by the library for a quick hello, bending over the low tables to help the girls with their projects. After a few minutes of chit-chat, they waved goodbye and moved on to their next meeting.
Upstairs, the older girls dreamed up ways to spend the proceeds from their cookie sales, then outlined the difference between their wants and needs in small groups: Money. Electricity. Clothes. A new life.
Many Grape Street students live in the Imperial Courts housing development, just across the road from kids who live outside the projects. That division, along with ethnic differences, can create tension, Turner, the principal, said.
"Our kids have been taught, 'If I live on this side of the street, I'm better than the kids who literally live 50 feet away from me on the other side of the street,'" she said.
Girl Scouts has helped bring together students who in the past weren't allowed to play with someone who didn't look like them or lived in a housing project.
They're all members of Troop 19785, Turner said.
"It's not just about selling cookies — it's about bringing people together," said Evelyn Romero, 9. Referring to another Scout, she said, "Like, if I didn't know Maria, I could work with her on a project and we might become friends."
One mother, Jameka Johnson, said she was shy when she was young but realized her voice mattered when she joined Camp Fire Girls. She wanted her daughter, Brooke, 7, to have that same experience and has watched her go from standing on the sidelines to speaking up to defend herself and others.
"It's a beautiful thing to see my child just blossom and just grow," said Johnson, whose daughter joined the troop when it began. "I just want to thank God that the program has come to Watts and was able to adapt to the young girls that's here."
It was Girl Scout Wednesday at Grape Street, and police activity and a lockdown in the neighborhood that day had effectively canceled recess for Monique Banks' fifth-grade class. By 2 p.m., students were itching to leave.
Tatorrie Cleveland, 10, and N'dya Wilson, 11, giggled together at a table with two classmates, quibbling over answers to a weather systems assignment and erasing errors on each other's papers.
Their teacher, already clad in her green trefoil shirt, would meet them again after school with the rest of Troop 19785.
An hour later, dozens of girls in green and brown vests stood in four lines on the blacktop spinning in slow circles, listening for Vice Principal Judith Jackson's next instruction for a game of "Simon Says."
"Stop," shouted Jackson, a troop co-leader.
A handful of girls froze, tricked, and were shepherded away, chatting and skipping over to the next activity. Tatorrie guided kindergartner Chrystal Singleton by the hand over to the cluster of girls, leaning over to chat and give her a hug.
Girl Scouts gives her something fun to do, Tatorrie said, and she enjoys spending time with the younger girls, who are the same age as her little brother.
For N'dya, the draw was the friends, the activities — and the chance to be in charge without boys around.
"Boys, they always wanna have it their way, and when it's just girls, we get to have more fun," she said.
Being a Girl Scout gives these young women a purpose, said Angela Kimble, a troop co-leader and an attendance counselor at the school.
And that purpose translates back into the classroom. "You're a Girl Scout: How are you supposed to act?" leaders ask in class and outside it.
Kids get angry because of what they have going on at home, Jackson said, and Girl Scouts reminds them to be kind and courteous.
When girls put that vest on, they're equal to any other girl in any other neighborhood, regardless of affluence, said Joel Lopez, residences services manager for the housing authority.
"When you grow up in that kind of poverty, you don't exist. Nobody even knows you're there," he said. "These girls, all of a sudden, they're somebody. They exist."
The troop has been such a hit with the community that the LAPD is working to bring several more to schools in Watts, Ruiz said, and officers support an additional troop in Boyle Heights.
"There's no disappointment in being a Girl Scout," Ruiz said. "Your success is my success."
Times data analyst Sandra Poindexter contributed to this report.