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Alrighty so its time i made an update here, i have new stuf on the go, some xmas covers and 4 new song, a free remix EP will be released in the next few months. If anyone is interested in getting this free Ep PM and ill send the link. Hope you like the new noise ;)
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The 80's called; they want their shirts back
Back in February, we showed you some decidedly retro designs from a new tennis shirt maker called Vollaix. ("Vuh-Lay.") The first batch was fiercely reminiscent of a Las Vegas baseliner who was rather partial to neon.
Then Vollaix returned in early summer with a checkerboard design that was fiercely reminiscent of a volatile New Yorker who was prone to, er, "emotional outbursts" that complimented (or derailed) his brilliant play. The company also teased an upcoming design called "SW19;" if you don't know what that refers to, turn in your tennis card.
Now, SW19 has arrived- in two distinct colors. Now all you need are some Nike Air Trainers and a Max200G. First up, the blue version. It's 100% Performance Pique polyester fabric, cuffs, and collars. Buttons are custom made from genuine corozo.
Notice the inset photo; Vollaix sponsored a junior player at the nationals in Kalamazoo last month, Paul Barretto. Vollaix owner Brian Purdie says,
"[Paul] was a well ranked #7 in California back in June when he asked if he could represent us. He was headed out to Kalamazoo for the National 18s and wanted something original. He lost to the #6 seed in the 2nd round but he got to play on the set of grandstand courts in front of everyone. He's #26 in the country on the USTA 18s rankings this week- he just won another tournament in Sacramento."
And also the purple version. Both made in the USA. These are both "Gen2 shirts" and fits a little tighter than the 1st Generation shirts.

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Here's a sampling of one of the workouts Houston quarterback Case Keenum had with renowned quarterback guru Jerry Rhome earlier this week in preparations for the NFL draft. You can check out the story in today's Chronicle.
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Also, Keenum competed in the All-Star Football Challenge this week in Indianapolis. It will air at 3 p.m. on Sunday on ESPN2.


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Judge Marc T. Treadwell, of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia has issued a permanent injunction against dietary supplement manufacturing company BioAnue Laboratories of Rochelle, GA and its owner/operators, Gloria and Kelly Raber, ordering them to stop illegally marketing its products as treatments for disease, and to terminate the sale of its products until the company complies with FDA manufacturing regulations and other requirements. The action signed July 23, 2014, came more than 2-years after the defendants "failed to take appropriate corrective action in response to a FDA warning letter issued on Feb. 9, 2012, involving the marketing of the firm's dietary supplements as unapproved new drugs," he stated.
A follow-up inspection conducted in August 2012 uncovered that BioAnue was also manufacturing products that were not in compliance with FDA's current good manufacturing practice requirements for dietary supplements."
"The FDA is committed to ensuring that consumers do not become victims of false products claiming to cure diseases," added FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs associate commissioner Melinda Plaisier. "This firm has ignored previous FDA warnings, continued to produce and promote products with unproven claims and ignored good manufacturing practices."
BioAnue Laboratories's products include: TumoRx Cardio Clean, TumoRx Apoptosis Full Strength, TumoRx Formula CX, BioAnue Diabetic Mender, BioAnue Heart Mender, Stroke Mender, Cardiovascular Mender and Bovine Cartilage. Although marketed as "supplements," representatives from the Food and Drug Administration contend they are actually " unapproved new drugs because they were marketed as treatments for conditions including cancer, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes."


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22 august, 1994
Israel was born in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1994 and has lived in the rural Mississippi community of Saucier all his life.
Israel took up acting on an unplanned audition for a Biloxi Little Theater production of Miracle Worker in 2006, playing the role of Percy. He was "discovered" by Hollywood scouts at a ProScout event in January, 2008, and signed with Abrams Artists Agency.
Israel has three sisters, three brothers, and a miniature schnauzer named Dell.
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If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned in 1931 with a Duesenberg-built, diesel-powered race car that finished 13th, but managed to not only run the entire race without pitting (averaging 16 MPG), but also be driven to the track and back.
The fuel economy that the Cummins engine exhibited at Indy managed to attract the interest of truckers; the next year, Kenworth became the first truck builder to offer diesels as an optional engine. Yet automakers still believed the diesel engine was too heavy for passenger car use. Clessie Cummins set out to change that perception.
In June 1935, he debuted the result of that effort: a 1934 Auburn powered by an experimental Cummins Model A six-cylinder diesel. Where all of Cummins's previous diesels used cast-iron engine assemblies, the Model A had an aluminum block and head, "making it more comparable in weight to a gasoline engine," according to Cummins company literature. A Time article announcing the Cummins-powered Auburn noted that the Model A, which developed 85 horsepower from 377 cubic inches, weighed 80 pounds more than the Lycoming straight-eight that originally powered the Auburn (870 pounds total). Combined with a three-speed manual transmission and a two-speed rear axle, the 4,000-pound car was able to pull down 40.1 MPG on the first leg of a NY-to-LA transcontinental trip that Clessie planned to display the economy of the Model A engine. The trip, which lasted from June 17 to July 4, covered 3,774 miles and consumed just $7.63 worth of fuel; assuming the same fuel cost quoted in the Time article (and assuming my math is correct), that translates to an average of 44.5 MPG over the entire trip.
Cummins very nearly succeeded in entering automobile production with the Model A. According to Jim Donnelly's profile on Clessie Cummins from HCC #62, November 2009, E.L. Cord asked Cummins to build three diesel-powered 1935 Auburn airport limousines. Cummins did, and one even appeared on a stand at the 1936 New York Auto Show, generating rumors that Auburn would soon offer diesels across its product line (and that Ford and Chrysler were right on Auburn's heels). Yet Cummins couldn't help but see that Cord and his empire couldn't sustain production of gasoline-powered automobiles, let alone diesel-powered cars, for much longer, prompting Clessie Cummins to sever his relationship with Cord and Auburn.
The Auburns weren't his first attempt at a diesel-powered automobile – he famously kept his company from going under in the early days of the Depression by fitting one of his Model U engines to a mid-Twenties Packard and exhibiting it at the 1930 New York Auto Show. Nor were they his last – he apparently also dropped one of his diesels into a 1938 Cadillac. Yet, had the Auburn venture panned out, Cummins and Cord could have laid claim to offering the first production diesel-powered passenger cars before Mercedes did so in 1936 with the 260D.
As for the four Auburns, one – Clessie Cummins's personal car – still exists in the collection of Cummins. The company undertook a restoration of the car in 1974 and today displays it in its headquarters in Columbus, Indiana.
(Thanks to Michael Owen of Cummins for the pictures of the diesel-powered Auburn on display in the company's headquarters.)
UPDATE (20.July 2011): David over at The Old Motor found another pic of Clessie in his diesel Auburn.
Great article. I believe turbo diesel's are our automotive future in the U.S. It's a real world solution and here now, for many of our issues. No major pie in the sky tech advancements are needed to provide 40 plus mpg in most applications. Low sulfur, urea, and filters or catalytics provide clean exhaust. The hydrogen infrastructure is decades away and batteries will never cover more than city driving. We are a country with very long distances to cover. Diesel can do that today.
Chris, I agree. I have contacted Ford & Gm many times via phone and email but they claim no interest in diesel in the near future for anything under a 3/4 ton pickup. I wonder why Toyota or Honda don't offer a 1/2 ton diesel and just take the whole market from Ford and GM. It would probably get 30mpg easily and maybe 30-40. Jack
Toyota, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, and Nissan had small diesel trucks and cars in the US in '81 when fuel was less than the cost of regular gas. By '84 diesel fuel was the cost of premium or more and the little diesels as well as some US models died away. The cost of fuel increase was because with people buying the diesels the petro companies weren't making enough profit and this is why we don't have them here today, plus the additonal emmisions that are not required in other countries keeps them away as the world has what we don't.
In 1933 on 27th October, Captain George Eyston drove a diesel-powered car at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey, England, to a new speed record of 104.86 miles per hour for the mile, and 106.65 miles per hour for the kilometre. In 1936 George Eyston set a new 159mph diesel world record at Bonneville Salt Flats, in his car "Flying Spray".
I have had turbo diesels as my daily driver since 1992, my current Audi A4 Avant is averaging 47 miles per gallon even on short journeys. Add to that the low down torque characteristics of the engine, and the fact that there are no high voltage electrics to get wet and fail, and we Europeans can't understand why the entire world doesn't look at turbo diesels. Toyota Prius? Joke.
Funny things happen in the U.S.A. when it comes to the production of cars and trucks that use less fuel.
We had small diesel pickups like Datsun/Nissan in Australia back in the 1980's, and a diesel small car (Holden Gemini) in the early 70's in answer to the fuel crisis. I'm surprised if you don't have a wide choice of diesel alternatives in the US for cars and light trucks but that seems to be the gist of the comments here, or am I reading it wrong?
We have only German mfrs offering cars with diesels. I personally have 2004 VW Jetta TDI Wagon that gets 42mpg overall average for 130,000+ miles plus a 2005 Dodge pickup with a Cummins TDI and a Mercedes R Class TDI. Ford, GM, Chrysler and the Japanese offer "0" diesel cars for the USA.
Diesel has proven itself in Europe but the USA ignors it and it wouldn't surprise me to see a sail on top of a new Cadillac one day.
I wish they would put a small diesel in a full size truck to get better milage. I would think a small truck would get upwards of 30+ mpg Isn't there a market for light duty trucks like this?
Yes if they offer it.
Volkswagen made a small pickup with close to 50 mpg,Nissan also made a pickup with a diesel,but i guess they think all Americans want to drive big hulking trucks and pay over 4 dollars a gallon for diesel.Ford currently produces a small diesel version of the fiesta that gets 65 mpg in Europe,they say there wouldn't be enough interest in America,that's very odd with the price of fuel for such a statement.They have the technology and facilities but as a previous poster stated odd things happen when you try to introduce high mileage cars or carbueration in America.If a Duesenburg could get over 40 mpg in 1931 with that technology with that large a car imagine what they could be doing today,but with the banks and big oil in control,we'll never see them here.
Ford has been teasing a F-150 Diesel for years. A lot of folks put 4 cyl B series cummins in older dodge pickups and ramchargers, 40 mpg is typical. and thats without any computer aids or overdrive.
my 85 Ford Escort Diesel could pull 60 MPG good luck finding one today, nobody who has one will sell it…
Do I detect a leaking head gaskit on the engine shown???
I would say, most certainly yes!
The Time magazine article was woefully written and not what I would expect from such an erstwhile publication. I don't think the word "and" appeared even once! What's wrong with using proper grammar, particularly in a Time magazine article of all places?
OPEC just like the Medical Field ,there is no PROFIT IN THE CURE.
Sure the technology is there to make autos more Fuel/Alternative fuel sources friendly but there are too many fingers in the pie to allow such a reduction in such feats of improvement$.
Call it conspiracy if you like but the truth is out there.
The truth is; the technology for fuel / Mileage improvement has not changes in many decades.
I had my commercial driver's license at age 16, working for my Father's insulation company during the summers.
Several times, in South East Houston, I would encounter a green Ford Pick-up Truck with an unusual engine noise.
Stewart & Stephenson had slipped a four cylinder diesel–Perkins?- into the truck.
Early 1960's.
About at the same time,1934 or 1935 we used to have a truck company in Switzerland,called " SAURER ".They were famous for their heavy turbocharged truck engines and they sold them all over the world,especially to South America and Russa . They put a small Diesel engine into a Plymouth and it worked out fine.The milage was great,but probably Europe was not ready for Diesel-powered passenger cars at that time. The company was bought out by Mercedes truck division
and with that deal all patents and inventions were passed on to the new owner.That was the end of the Swiss automobile industrie……
Anyone have any ideas where the Packard or the Cadillac that are mentioned as having had a diesel engine inserted might be?
Very good question.
The diesel engine was invented to run on peanut oil. We could easily start an American infrastructure to produce a cheap biodiesel fuel. 'peanut oil diesel fuel' (peanuts are cheap and will grow nearly any where) We could then satisfy all of the ecological, economic as well as the practical needs of the country. With unemployment running around 9%, we could find a readily available work force to staff this new industry. If we build the infrastructure the manufacturers will come. Give people what they want and all other problems will resolve them selves. IE.. Clean cheap power with higher than average MPG. Who in this great country looses?
At a weekly car show i used to attend, a fellow showed up every week in a beautifully restored 1950 Ford p/u. He had repowered it with a 4 cylinder diesel Isuzu forklift motor. It was mated to a Toyota Celica 5 spd transmission. He said he got about 40 mpg, and the truck would haul a boat considerably bigger than the truck with ease.
to answer a comment above ,General Motors has been building diesel powered cars for years. In the early 80's in Australia they sold a Isuzu Gemini badged as a holden with a Diesel engine and Opels have had a diesel option for years. Today Holden sell a full size commodore diesel car .
The first American Diesel car I ever saw was a 1938 Nash with a Cummins diesel. Perhaps this was one of Cummins experiments,I'll never know but the engine certainly resembled the one in the photos.
All this diesel worship, with nary a single comment about the hard reality of the diesel engine, is just too much to swallow. Sorry to burst your sooty bubble, guys, but diesel exhaust has been proven to be carcinogenic for decades. Because diesel is a different kind of motor fuel that burns differently than gasoline, it produces a different set of more harmful pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer, some 40-plus toxic air contaminants including benzene, arsenic, and formaldehyde. Even the latest so-called "clean diesel" is merely less– not an elimination– of the same pollutants coming out the tailpipe.
The latest health outfit to weigh in on this is the World Health Organization, which concluded on June 12, 2012 that diesel engine exhaust is carcinogenic to humans, causing lung cancer and may also cause bladder cancer. But there is no longer any argument here from a scientific standpoint– all the research that is out there points only to one conclusion– that diesel exhaust is carcinogenic to humans.
The next time you are cruising in your classic car and you're stuck behind an old Mercedes diesel automobile trailing a cloud of black smoke, be sure not to take a deep breath.
[…] can also read about Cummins's 40 mpg Aurburns in another post which Dan Stohl has done which includes many more photos along with a very interesting […]
Had a rent car in the UK. First year Pasat diesel. I am noted to have a lead foot. Still that car would turn 40+ on M ways and any other road I took. Top end was less than stellar but….. Topped out at about 88 MPH. Current rides include a 2002 F250 7.3 diesel. Mileage is not nearly as good as my nephew's 6 cylinder Cummins Dodge Ram. Both have an amazing amount of torque so hauling is a breeze. Yes fuel cost is ridiculous but deductible on taxes for me and the US Navy pays his cross country travels when reassigned. As for carcinogenic, it seems as though everyday living is carcinogenic from Alar on apples to Zocor.
Ram has a 1/2 ton diesel for 2014 with good on road ride.
Rain or snow; diesel's the only way to go…! Americans are so ignorant generally, regarding the benefits of such propulsion. Europeans can't figure U.S. out!


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I read somewhere today that if we were to keep a record of all the things we worried about during a given period of time, we would discover, in reviewing them, that the great majority of our anticipated problems or troubles never come to pass. This means that most of the time we devote to worrying, even the constructive kind that prompts us to try to come up with a solution to what is troubling us, is wasted. Imagine that! I for one can totally subscribe to this, as I am often the person that over analyses things and causes myself to worry for nothing. Its incredibly easy to do, very often I am not even aware that I am doing it until a complete nervous wreck I decide to sleep on it, wake up in the morning and forget all about it. So in truth, we not only caused ourselves unnecessary mental anguish, but also took up valuable minutes and hours that could have been spent elsewhere.
We all know the expression life is short, make the most out of it while you've got it. How many of us can honestly say that is how we live? I often wonder if it is totally possible to life without fear of failure. I mean we all have to work to survive, unless you're one of the lucky ones that is graced with a large trust fund. How do you really make the most of life when you have a mortgage to pay, bills to settle, a family to raise? When we are single, independent and totally free of commitments I guess that motto is realistic which is partly why I tell anyone that I know under the age of 16, to have as much fun while you can, because once your an adult and responsible for yourself and others, that footloose and fancy free ability to live to the full is primarily gone. Yes we can take advantage of holidays and time spent doing things we enjoy, but as each new responsibility comes along, it brings with it a new level of concerns and things to worry about.
To avoid spending too much time caught up in worry, it is often necessary to subject potential sources of worry to the coldly objective and analytical light of reason. Tough love I've once heard it called. Allow me to take you through a scenario. A friend of mine once found himself in a rather difficult situation. He had to choose between two women. Now in all honesty, any man being totally honest with himself, and anyone else for that matter would probably try to keep both of them on the go. Not only would this broaden his options, but it would mean that he gets the best of both worlds. However, circumstances lead him to this situation whereby he had to make a choice. Now there is no easy way to break someone's heart is there? No one likes to be told sorry but it's over. No one wants to ever hear that there is someone else on the scene. But in the cold light of day that is exactly what you are going to be doing to someone in making this decision my friend. The truth was he worried himself sick, couldn't get his words out quite right once he'd made his decision, got so wound up by the whole situation, and landed up losing everything over his inability to choose.
Serves the man right I hear you thinking. In a way I'd agree with you, but let's examine it a little closer. Yes agreeably someone's feelings would have been hurt had he chosen one over the other. Yet that decision would have set that person straight, allowed him to find happiness with the other and a whole lot of worry and unhappiness could have been avoided. It is that cold analytical ability that allows us to cut through the emotion of worry and cut to the chase. Not so easy, but it would seem an essential skill that we could make use of in our daily lives. I know I could use a dose of it from time to time.
I know I was invited to go sea fishing once with some friends from work. Now having been sea sick once on a ferry I was pretty adamant that I was going to get sea sick on a tiny fishing boat. I spent many days declining the offer, and making excuses. However being what they were, my friends refused to accept no as an answer and before long I found myself standing on a somewhat worrying looking fishing boat, heading out to sea. I'd spent a sleepless night worrying about shaming myself by throwing up over the side of the boat for the rest of the day, but to my surprise I found that I was not affected in the slightest, and spent a rather pleasant day fishing with the guys from work. I did avoid food, and admittedly felt a bit green when the wind picked up on our way back to port, but my fear was unfounded, and the hours I'd spent worrying about it would have been better spent getting some shut eye in order to have been bright eyed and fresh for a day out on the sea.
The moral of the story is the next time we find ourselves in the middle of worrying about some matter, we might be wise to stop and ask ourselves what the odds are of the problem really coming to pass. We may be able to go on to something more constructive and spend our time more usefully. Keep on smiling.


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There's one thing Lake Forest boys basketball coach Phil LaScala can predict with near certainty.
"Evan Boudreaux will have more (scholarship) offers by the end of the season," LaScala said.
Boudreaux, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound sophomore forward, has offers from Boston College and Northwestern. He started the majority of games last season as a freshman and is a major reason the Scouts got off to a 4-0 start this year after winning the Niles West tournament.


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Do you read PvP? I do. I have for years. I'm a huge fan. I own a few books, a few single issues. I listen to the Webcomics Weekly podcast Scott Kurtz puts on with Dave Kellet, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar. I have the book, "How to Make Webcomics". So full disclosure up front. I'm a fan of the work, and a fan of the creators themselves.
If you follow PvP, then you know what is currently going on in the story. If you don't, then here's a link to Kurtz's post, though I will summarize it myself. He's incorporated appropriate product placement into the strip's next story arc.
There will be naysayers who use this as an opportunity to throw out the phrase "sell out" and make themselves feel slightly artistically superior while they wallow in obscurity. I am not one of them. I applaud the decision, and the care that went into it.
You're used to product placement already, in all mediums of story telling. Film, television, radio, novels, comics and videogames. Its just a part of the existence of modern entertainment, you have to pay those bills to keep creating the stories.
So what is wrong with placing products in your story? Nothing. The characters in PvP already play games like Magic. Kurtz is making money off of this story, but the implicit belief that there is something wrong with that is, from my view, childish. There is something wrong with compromising characters or vision for product placement and/or advertising, but when it fits into those aforementioned elements we should all embrace any creators who find legitimate ways to fund their work with no compromise.
Have you given any thought to placing products or driving ad revenue to fund your projects?


text: Hi there. >> It is usually a good idea to run >> sh /usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux >> and include the output when reporting kernel problems.There's one obvious problem with the ver_linux script, which canbe found by doing the following under bash or the equivalentunder csh or the like: alias ls='ls -F' . ver_linuxWatch the said script give completely crazy results!!! I've hadthat alias in my ~/.bashrc for several years now.Here's the patch that I first submitted for when kernel 2.0.36was current, which deals with this once and for all withoutdestroying the user's environment. This patch is against 2.3.51for reference.===8<=== CUT ===>8===--- ver_linux~ Wed Dec 15 07:05:03 1999+++ ver_linux Mon Mar 13 00:52:58 2000@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@ #!/bin/sh+ # Before running this script please ensure that your PATH is-# typical as you use for compilation/istallation. I use+# typical as you use for compilation/installation. I use # /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin, but it may # differ on your system.-#+ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH++# The following if deals with the possibility of aliases being+# set that would otherwise foul this script up - email@example.com+#++if [ $# -eq 0 -o "$1" != "Verified OK" ]; then+ /bin/sh $0 'Verified OK'+else+unalias -a echo '-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look' echo '-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)' uname -a@@ -30,3 +40,6 @@ expr --v 2>&1 | awk 'NR==1{print "Sh-utils ", $NF}' X=`cat /proc/modules | sed -e "s/ .*$//"` echo "Modules Loaded "$X+fi++# EOF.===8<=== CUT ===>8===ALAN: Any chance this will get included this time?Best wishes from Riley. * Copyright (C) 2000, Memory Alpha Systems. * All rights and wrongs reserved.+----------------------------------------------------------------------+| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux || development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, || in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone || else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ * http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/Kernel/-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


text: We're getting down to the final steps . . . In these photos, we see how the seatstays from the previous installment are fitted to the rear dropouts. Both sets of stays are then tacked to the front triangle, ready for brazing. We also see the first steps in assembling the forks, with Richard's signature flat, engraved fork crown.


text: Hillman Curtis is one of those people who can at times be a little hard to pin down: he's been at different stages of his career a designer, musician, author and film-maker. I find his independent, online, D.I.Y approach to film-making a refreshing contrast to the stock standard methods found in the film industry. His series of short documentaries on artists, named the Artist Series, can have a tendency to romanticise successful veteran artists and designers by presenting them as wise and all-knowing — but that's because the films focus on thoughtful individuals who discuss matters that steer well clear of banality. I particularly like this one about conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, which was made in collaboration with Debbie Millman.


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Police nab 2 suspected burglars
Published 6:37 pm, Monday, October 22, 2012
BETHLEHEM – Police arrested two suspected burglars after a house break-in in Selkirk on Sunday. A resident called police at 12:15 p.m. Sunday to report she had just confronted two people who entered her home. The pair had fled in a car. Police officers saw a car matching the description and arrested two people in the car: Aaron Shoemaker, 29, of State Street, Troy, and Lindsey J. Rich, 28, of Route 150, West Sand Lake.
Shoemaker was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, conspiracy, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a hypodermic needle, possession of burglar's tools and false personation. Rich was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, conspiracy and criminal possession of a controlled substance. They were arraigned in Bethlehem Town Court and are being held at the Albany County Jail.
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Lease contracts registered with Ejari, the official online registration system in Dubai, will be mandatory for renewing, amending and receiving commercial licenses issued by Dubai Economic Development Department (DED).
The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera) and Dubai Economic Development Department (DED), on Wednesday, said the condition would apply to commercial licenses subject to renewal or amendment as of July.
Marwan bin Ghalita, CEO, Rera, said linking the approval of commercial licenses with the registration and documentation of lease contracts in Rera is for the "benefit of the country's business sector and an advantage that helps it rank higher in the global competitiveness index issued by the World Bank."
Mohammed Shael, CEO, Business Registration & Licensing Division at DED, said that the department will generalise the procedure to become a prerequisite for all licenses issued by the department.
The pilot six-month phase focused only in new commercial licenses as a trial period to ensure that the commercial registration system at the department and Rera's electronic system, are compatible with the process.
In March, DED said it was planning to issue instant trade licences to investors under a new "120 days hassle-free licence" initiative.
The department said the scheme is aimed to give businesses in Dubai a head start and promote the emirate's competitiveness.
The UAE, earlier this year, improved its rank in "Ease of Doing Business" to 33 this year from 35 in 2011, according to the World Bank's annual Doing Business report.
According to Rera, attesting lease contracts for businessmen and companies through Ejari is a very easy process that can be accomplished by accessing the website in accordance with the access authorizations granted by the agency.
They can alternatively assign real estate management companies or owners or their representatives and some typing service offices authorized by Rera to finalise the process to save their time and effort.
Registration on Ejari protects rental rights for all parties in order to avoid potential lease disputes. It also has a positive impact on updating the rental index and fair lease value in the market.


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HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – Hamburg Police need your help identifying two people they say used a stolen credit card to buy gas.
Police say someone took a wallet from a backpack Sunday that was in an attached garage of a home. The suspects were driving a two-door Chevy Blazer.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/24/2002 1:04 AM, "Paul Prescod" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > Walden Mathews wrote: >> >> .... >>> but any node that can't >>> download data from >>> the Web using HTTP isn't really on the Web and should not expect to >>> share in the benefits OF the Web. >> >> This just seems like defining "Web" in terms of HTTP, or is it saying >> something deeper? I'll read the abstract before posing any more >> foolish questions. > > No, nothing foolish about the question. I would say that one of the > defining characteristics of the Web is that it is a *web of links*. That > means that any document may refer to any other document with a URI and > there is some clear way to turn that URI into some information. So no, > I'm not defining the web in terms of HTTP. FTP also has that property. > news: also has that property. My point is that its all very well and > good for me to shoot a short XML document over some future HTTP on UDP > and not expect a response. But the recipient will often need to use the > old-fashioned HTTP request-response message exchange pattern in order to > retrieve information referenced by the XML I sent. Consider the simplest > case: > > <foo> > <xi:xinclude href="...."/> > </foo> > > Of course some applications may choose to forgo the use of URIs (as it > seems, for instance, that ICE does) but those applications are giving up > the best part of the Web. Why use HTTP if you're not going to benefit > from the fact that the Web is a *web of links*? Just to clarify one point: ICE does use URI's for external references. For example, if I send a package that includes two files by reference, I send (pseudo-XML): <ice-package ...> <ice-item-ref subscription-element="2001" url="http://server/path"/> <ice-item-ref subscription-element="2002" url="ftp://username@serve/path"/> </ice-package> Part of the semantics of receiving the package is receiving the files referenced within the update, using the request/response semantics you've described. So when you confirm delivery of the content, that means that you've retrieved all external files that are logically included in the package by reference. ICE also uses URI's as the addresses of endpoints. So if I am syndicator "8712731271389" (GUID), I also tell people that my address is (for example) "http://ice.foocorp.com". The two are distinct because I could retain my identity while changing my address. :-) Where ICE doesn't use URI's is for internal identifiers. For example, every item within a subscription can have a permanent ID that is used for deletion and overwriting. For example, if I wanted to delete item 2001 from the subscription, I would send: <ice-package ...> <ice-item-remove subscription-element="2001"/> </ice-package> While identifiers such as subscription-element could be URI's, they aren't required to be, because they don't need to be (and because very often the obvious implementation would be a database-generated sequence number). So what this all comes down to is that ICE does, in fact, assume that all participants can resolve URI's for all things that are externally referenceable. I'm sorry that my earlier explanation caused some confusion on that point. - - Laird Popkin > Paul Prescod > - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FsjI4+IiU0KDOA4RAmkQAJ9aXO8uoKS8FAcvIgdRz/Pz78/DywCfQhO+ 0c1397DDcHG/fUArdEinraw= =Fgl3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Monday, 24 June 2002 03:23:15 UTC
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Swizzels Matlow drives ahead with Honda
Japanese car company Honda has joined forces with confectionery specialist Swizzels Matlow for its latest ad sales push.
The firm is using the iconic Love Hearts imagery for the nationwide sales promotion for the Jazz, CR-V and Insight models.
Love Hearts feature on all advertising material for the campaign. The slogan 'Your Honda, Your Way' refers to customers choosing from three incentives when buying a new model.
Swizzels Matlow has also provided mini rolls of Love Hearts for Honda's network of dealerships.
"When Honda approached us with a view to using Love Hearts in their campaign we were more than happy to agree," said Jeremy Dee, director at Swizzels Matlow. "We're proud to be associated with such a prestigious company.
"Our iconic brand imagery will feature across all of their marketing activity and will help raise our profile in the run up to Valentine's Day."
Previous Swizzels Matlow collaborations have included Virgin Atlantic and Unilever.


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People Take Pictures of Each Other
People take pictures of the summer
Just in case someone thought they had missed it
Just to prove that it really existed
People take pictures of each other
And the moment to last them forever
Of the time when they mattered to someone
The Kinks, "People Take Pictures of Each Other" (1968)
The rapid proliferation of digital cameras, cell phones and social media has caused considerable confusion amongst professional photographers and critics alike: what does this say about or mean for photography? At least on the surface, it would seem that we're all photographers now. Countless articles have been written about this, most of them trying to expand the thinking that Susan Sontag laid out in her seminal On Photography. Without going into too many details, there are two main approaches to this topic.
On one hand, it is presented as a problem: with so many photographs produced, the value of a single photograph has become zero – why then bother taking even one more photograph? It is alternatively presented as the culmination of the medium's history: photography has finally become the true democratic medium, an idea that always reminded me of Francis Fukuyama's post-Soviet "end of history." To be honest, I do not find either approach particularly enlightening, since neither offers anything beyond mere description.
As Susie Linfield has pointed out in the introduction of The Cruel Radiance, it is most curious that so many photography critics are dismissive not just of the medium but also, by extension, of its users. In the following, I argue that instead of trying to infer properties of the medium we are better off turning the lens inward: what do these innumerable photographs say about us? Given that sharing has become such an integral part of photography, we might as well start there. Facebook hosts billions of photographs, with around 300 million added every day (that's a mid-2012 number, it might be higher by now), and has acquired Instagram, combining photography with social media.
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Many professional photographers use Instagram, and it's interesting to observe how similar their images are to everybody else's on the service. This seemingly makes no sense. Wouldn't professional photographers, people who know much more about photography than everybody else, produce images that look different? They would if – and that's the key here – Instagram were centered on photography. But it isn't.
What Instagram is really about is sharing photographs. The photographs on Instagram are made explicitly to be shared. Taking a photograph with the Instagram app is a social activity. And as a social activity, it follows the conventions of other social activities.
This makes the decision by photojournalists and news organizations to disseminate photography on Instagram so problematic: the vast majority of people treat photographs on Instagram as social snippets, much like the "how are you?" when meeting someone. Photojournalists using Instagram for serious work are essentially behaving like Germans who, when asked "how are you?" in a casual setting, reply with a serious, in-depth answer -- because, in Germany, the convention of asking "how are you?" is different. Instagram features what I call "social photographs," images whose purpose lies explicitly in their use in a social context and news photographs do not operate that way at all. Instagram is a website to share a very specific kind of photography, and photojournalists who use it find their news photographs encountered on a level perhaps different from what they intended.
But there is more. Given that we carry cell phones everywhere, and given that they all have cameras, these cameras have morphed into something new. We can now routinely observe people photographing events with their cell phones, instead of merely watching them. The aspect of sharing cannot possibly be the sole reason why we use a cell phone at, say, a concert. Often, the quality of our recordings is just not good enough. Why do we then do this?
I believe there can only be one answer: The act of photographing itself is what matters, not the photographs. The act of photographing has become part of being there, of experiencing, of participating. It doesn't matter whether or not I get a good photograph of some event. But it does matter that I photograph. I photograph because I am there, to affirm my presence.
Affirming one's presence is a social act. If you visit Paris and see the Eiffel Tower, having your photograph taken in front of it is an essential part of the experience. Of course, none of your friends would doubt it if you told them you were there. Thus the main focus of the resulting photograph is not to serve as evidence. Instead, the photograph is made as part of being there – being there without having that picture taken would make the experience incomplete. And it needs to be shared for it to become complete.
The photograph thus becomes almost irrelevant. It doesn't have to be a good photograph at all, as long as it shows you in front of the Eiffel Tower, and as long as it is shared with friends and/or family. The 300 million photographs added to Facebook daily signify 300 million different experiences, of people communicating about something they participated in.
News photographs find themselves at almost the very opposite of the spectrum: their main point is that they speak of something very important. The content of a news photograph matters greatly. Of course, they also need to be disseminated. Embedding them onto Facebook or Instagram opens up new possibilities for sharing. But, at the same time, these photographs now exist in a context where the image itself for the most part doesn't matter.
A photograph from a war zone might thus find itself next to images of people's breakfasts, some funny sign found in the street, or whatever else. Given the predominant expectations for photographs encountered on Facebook or Instagram, people will apply those to that war-zone photograph. At best, there is a mixed message being sent – an environment where photographs are social gestures, with specific content mattering little, is employed to share photographs whose content matters very much. At worst, people will just treat it like any other photograph, clicking "like" to make sure the photographer's feelings are acknowledged. This corrodes the idea of news photography.
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Anyone interested in or using photography in a professional context needs to understand how the vast majority of photographs are made and used today. These are social photographs, in which the focus is not on the photograph itself but the fact that it was made and shared. In a nutshell, one could say: I photograph, therefore I am. Photography has thus not been diminished by the flood of images over the past few years. Instead, it has become an integral part of our lives.
What this means, however, is that when we talk about the billions of photographs that already exist, one must be careful about applying older ideas of photography. Photographs made out of a desire to affirm one's presence, shared with friends and strangers, are not the same kinds of beasts as photographs made for newspapers, or photographs made for advertising, or photographs made to hang on the walls of art galleries. Pretending they are all the same ignores their differences, and it ultimately turns photography into a simpler, if not dumber version of itself.
Almost 200 years after it was invented, photography has now become a medium that is richer and more interesting than ever before. Sheer numbers, however, do not help to approach it. Instead, we have to understand how photography is being used, in all its different contexts, with all the different expectations we have of it.


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A Heritage at Risk - APPENDIX II: EVANGELICAL ARCHIVES CONFERENCE BY GROUP
Group A. Guidelines Minimum Standards for Preserving Evangelical Archival Records
. This group would prepare a brief statement on what an organization should expect to allocate to an archives as far as space, equipment, personnel, and funds are concerned; the level at which record groups or collections or series should be processed; the degree of access that should be permitted to staff and outside users; the degree of reporting of collections which should be done; the qualities to look for in a potential (untrained) archivist, the qualities to look for in a professional archivist. These would be statements that could be used by institutions which were starting their own archives as well as benchmarks for existing archives. Accompanying each of these standards would be a rationale.
Mr. Keith Buck
Mr. Timothy L. Ericson GROUP LEADER
Mr. Dave Harmeyer
Mr. Matthew Parker
Mr. Steve Sheldon
Dr. August R. Suelflow, Director
Group B. Communication Networks and Cooperation Between Archives and Users.
This group would consider how people who could use archival material currently find out about it and what steps can be taken to improve communication between users and archives and between archives and archives. "Users" here is not restricted to scholars but to anyone who could benefit from the archives.
Mr. H. J. Brinks
Ms. Lannae Graham
Dr. William Martin
Mr. James O'Toole GROUP LEADER
Mr. Walter Osborn
Dr. Russell Spittler
Mr. Peter Wosh
Group C. Documentation of the Evangelical Movement
. This group would attempt to identify types of information relating to nondenominational evangelical agencies which are not being collected now (i.e., records of relief and development organizations) and would consider how archives could limit their collecting to particular areas to ensure that the collection is efficient and complete. They could also discuss the desirability of a standard vocabulary for describing evangelical archival collections.
Ms Sylvia Brown GROUP LEADER
Mrs. Sherry S. DuPree
Mr. Ken Gill
Mr. Paul Heidebrecht
Mr. Jack L. Ralston
Ms Helen W. Samuels
Group D. Developing Greater Archival Awareness and Understanding Within the Evangelical Community.
This group would try to determine what could be done to create a general awareness among evangelicals about what archives are, how they can be used, the benefits that would be derived from using them, and the services archives could offer the entire community. The group would also consider model outreach projects individual archives could undertake.
Mr. Donald R. Brown GROUP LEADER
Dr. Wade Coggins
Mrs. Mary Dorsett
Mr. Paul Ericksen, Archivist
Dr. Jerry Hopkins
Mr. Wayne Warner
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Northern Arkansas has had its first Cemetery Restoration Workshop sponsored by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (AHPP) - April 20th, 2013. First, I would like to thank Holly Hope in taking the chance in believe in the necessity of a workshop to be held at Mountain Home, Arkansas, in the historic Mountain Home Cemetery.
|Click to go to their webpage.
Secondly, a would like to extend a load of appreciation to James "Rusty" Brenner and his crew from Dallas, Texas, who were on hand to show the proper way in restoring & preserving many of our historic & cherished monuments for future generations. These gentlemen were professional & knowable in every aspect. Rusty's company is called the Texas Cemetery Restoration and these men truly live by their motto, "Excellence in monument and gravestone conservation, preservation, and restoration."
While there, they taught the basics of:
- Cemetery Assessment
- GPS & GIS Mapping
- GPR – Ground Penetrating Radar
- Leveling
- Cleaning
- Repair
If anyone would like more information in contacting Rusty to speak at a conference or would like to have him and his crew train or restore your monuments & Cemetery & monuments, here is his contact information.
Texas Cemetery Restoration LLC
10122 Cherry Tree Dr.
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Website: www.texascemeteryrestoration.com
You may also like them on Facebook.
Texas Cemetery Restoration does:
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I know it has been a custom for many caring people to clean monuments with Bleach, Vinegar, Ajax, Comet, Muriatic Acid, Lime Away, Bon Ami or Bar Keeper's Friend. But, these detergents have salts & chemicals that will breakdown and degenerate the stone prematurely.
For those interested in purchasing a cleaner for monuments that will not break down & destroy stone, please contact Rusty for the biological solution D/2. I have posted a link here to see how well this solution works. Rusty even has a small instructional video to give the basics on D/2.
Purchase D/2 at:
Now, I will be placing photos for Saturday's workshop to show some of our workshop.
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|Morning Arrival
|Preparing for Workshop
|Cemetery GPS Mapping Instruction
|Cemetery GPS Mapping Instruction
|Knocking Debris Off with Water
|Applying D/2 and Killing The Biologicals That Are Growing In the Monument
Part 2 Coming Soon...Showing a Major Restoration of a Gravesite in the Mountain Home Cemetery.


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When I heard that the BBC was going to be airing a Victorian Supernatural drama I was thrilled. The Victorian era is one in which the ghost story has a firm footing. As you know Victorian era supernatural is a interest of mine. It was an era of great change and that is something that the living and the dead explores in the stories it tells.
Set in Somerset in 1894 it follows the lives of psychologist Nathan Appleby (Colin Morgan) and his photographer Charlotte (Charlotte Spencer). When the death of Nathan's mother brings them back to his family home, Shepzoy farm, they're soon faced with running a struggling farm while contending with an ever increasing supernatural presence which seems to be connected with Nathan's own past.
I admit when it came to the twist at the end of the first episode , which I wont reveal for those who haven't caught the show yet, I was slightly (only slightly) disappointed that this wasn't going to be a straight up ghost story. However, as the series went on the twist that was introduced in the first episode was bubbling under the surface nicely and created an intriguing element. It also contributed to Nathan's gradual slide to the brink of madness. The last episode did a nice job of bringing the strands of the narrative together.
Although I was uncertain at first about the twist element I found it opened up a lot of other intriguing questions. Part of the fun of the supernatural genre is, perhaps, the way it can pose more questions than it answers.This is an era when science and the traditional beliefs were caught in conflict. The Living and The Dead makes you wonder where the line between them falls. How much of what is happening is supernatural and how much is down to psychological factors, and then makes you wonder how much of the supernatural events actually have scientific explanations that we just can't understand yet?
In fact the whole of The Living and The Dead is perched between two worlds and the conflicts of this changing world are exemplified in the characters. Making Nathan a physiologist was a clever idea. Who better to be conflicted by the overpowering evidence of the supernatural than someone who has spent their life telling people that such things are the figments of their own imaginations.
Charlotte Appleby is in some ways a woman ahead of her time. While they were living in London she had her own career as a photographer and she's not prepared to be a meek, little woman when she arrives in Shepzoy. This is a woman who rides into rural, Victorian England and gets involved with all aspects of running the farm and making changes in the name of progress. Understandably this isn't something that goes down too well with some.
Although not all the questions posed by the show were answered it doesn't feel like an issue; an element of ambiguity is often a plus in this genre. Enough questions were answered for it not to feel unresolved. I'd say the balance was right here.
Of course, those who have seen the last episode will know there is another twist right at the end. If it is given a second series this will be an intriguing cliff hanger; if not, it will be a frustrating question mark left hanging in space. I have seen mixed reviews of this show but personally I enjoyed it and would recommend it. There are some great performances and there is a great atmospheric quality to the scenes.
In a new move for the BBC they made the entire show available for binge watching before it even hit TV screens. The show could also be watched in weekly instalments on TV for those who prefer to gather round the TV as a family in a weekly ritual (the method we opted for). Unusually too the show aired on a Tuesday, which was nice to see. It seems common these days for this type of drama to automatically head for the weekend slots so it was treat to have a quality weekday offering.


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WHAT: Vladimir Lobanov: Landscapes of the Russian North
WHERE: Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth
WHEN: November 2, 2010 to February 6, 2011
Related Events:
November 2, 6:00 p.m, Gallery Talk & Opening Reception
October 25, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Reception and preview of art
Zeitgest Arts Café, 222 E Superior Street, Duluth, MN
Tweed Museum of Art, UMD, will present an exhibition of recent watercolor works by Vladimir Labonov. A Russian artist from Petrozavodsk, one of Duluth's four Sister Cities. Mr. Lobanov will be visiting Duluth between October 21 and November 4, hosted by Duluth resident Jon Niemi. While here he will interact with students, artists and art patrons. His visit coincides with a visit to Marshall School of a group of students and teachers from Petrozavodsk, organized in conjunction with Duluth Sister Cities International.
Vladimir Lobanov's works are based on the artist's travels around Karelia, including Western Siberia, Murmansk and of course, the countryside surrounding Petrozavodsk. The paintings are sensitively executed in transparent watercolor on paper, a medium used by many painters of the region around Duluth. Lobanov's paintings demonstrate the expressive strengths of the watercolor medium. He is also a skillfull illustrator, and his works capture the rugged beauty and scale of the Russian countryside. Vladimir Lobanov has worked in graphic design and publishing, and has taught art and design, as well as being a painter.
A welcome reception for Vladimir Lobanov will be held at Zeitgeist Arts Cafe, 222 E. Superior St., Duluth, at 5-7 pm on October 25th. Several of Vladimir Lobanov's paintings will be on view, and the artist will be in attendance.
The exhibition Landscapes of the Russian North will open at the Tweed Museum of Art on November 2, 2010 and continue through February 6, 2011. A free public reception will be held on November 2nd, beginning at 6:00pm. The artist will discuss his work in the gallery beginning at 6:30pm.


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Suspension problem
1999 Other GMC Models V8 Four Wheel Drive Automatic 116, 00 miles
I recently purchased a 1999 GMC Suburban. It seems to be in real good shape. Although I did start noticing an occaional klung noise from underneath the truck. It seems to be on the passenger side. It does not do it all the time. I would say it would do it once or twice in a 25-40 minute drive around. The truck shifts real well. It is 4 wheel drive as that is working good too. It does not shift hard when driving or changing to 4 wheel drive. It only makes this noise after I have stopped the truck at light or etc. It is about a 30 second delay. It never does it while driving or turning. Any idea what this could be? Can I trust it to make a 580 mile drive to see my family? I am a 30 year old woman, w/a ten year old son. It seems like I cannot trust many mechanics around this city, because when a woman walks into a mechanic without a man, all they see is an easy sale. Thanks ?
have the same problem?
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The Text-To-Speech (TTS) library is allows developers to add speech to their applications. Developers give the TTS object a text string, and the TTS will take care of converting that string to text and speaking it to the user.
The TTS library is designed such that different underlying speech engines can be used without affecting the higher level application logic. Currently, a port of the eSpeak engine is available.
Using the eSpeak engine requires the user to have an SD card with free space available that the phone can access. The voice data for eSpeak will be downloaded and unzipped onto the SD card when the TTS is first run.
Note that if the SD card is mounted on the computer, it will not be accessible to the phone. You must unmount the SD card from the computer before the TTS will work properly.
This tutorial will take you step-by-step through writing a simple Hello World application. It assumes that you have Eclipse setup to work with the Android SDK already.
import com.google.tts.TTS;
private TTS myTts;
myTts = new TTS(this, ttsInitListener, true);
private TTS.InitListener ttsInitListener = new TTS.InitListener() { public void onInit(int version) { myTts.speak("Hello world", 0, null); } };
For some tips and tricks on using the TTS in your app, please see the usage notes here.


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A nice commentary by Tim Ball here.
Additionally, I'd like to add that most of the predictions of AGW disaster scenarios take place in a computer model, in which solar fluxes and feedbacks are inputs. The nature of the inputs has a strong effect on the long term predictions of the model. Furthermore, it is demonstrated by Idso and others that the feedbacks used by the modelers is 6-10 times larger than reality.
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So, through much of the fourth quarter and two extra sessions Monday night, the Toronto Raptors head coach never thought of returning his starters to the floor against the New York Knicks.
This is the pre-season, a time to learn about your team. And for your players to learn about themselves.
The Raptors reserves got to play a starring role in a 123-120 double overtime win before 15,701 at the Air Canada Centre, improving their pre-season record to an impressive 5-1.
"It was a great experience for those young kids to really play in those situations," Casey said. "In the regular season, most likely, unless something catastrophic happens, they're not going to be out there."
Second-year guard Terrence Ross led the way, hitting six of the 13 three-point shots he attempted on the night. None was bigger than a rainbow from beyond the arc as the buzzer sounded to end the first overtime period, tying the game at 113-113 and setting the stage for another five-minute session.
"It prepares you for future games if you ever get in that situation, what to do, what not to do," said Ross, who finished the night as the game's high scorer with 27 points. "It's always kind of nerve-wracking (in a game) no matter how many times you go over it in practice.
"So, getting in that live experience it helps."
The games don't count. But that doesn't mean they don't matter.
Casey said because "nobody's guaranteed minutes," it was great to see the bench players battle down the stretch and eventually pick up the win. Especially after they struggled earlier in the game.
"I owe it to the players to try and execute down the stretch," Casey said.
Toronto power forward Tyler Hansbrough, who since signing from Indianapolis in the off-season has already become a fan favourite for his aggressive style of play, forced overtime with a dunk in the dying seconds of the fourth quarter. He took a pass at the top of the key, spun on his defender and waltzed to the basket.
"They're very important minutes," Hansbrough said of the fourth quarter and overtimes. "You never know if a starter is going to go down or something and you're going to be in that situation, especially late in the game.
"It was important to get some guys some experience."
Among the starters, DeMar DeRozan had 21 points and seven rebounds in 29 minutes while Rudy Gay added 19 points and seven rebounds in 26 minutes. Kyle Lowry chipped in 11 points in 24 minutes.
"It was entertaining to watch, especially to see the other guys get out there and get a chance to compete," said DeRozan. "It definitely helps because you have to understand every play and every situation is critical."
The Raptors were an impressive 6-1 in the pre-season last year but ended up posting a 34-48 record in the games that count for something in the standings. They missed the playoffs for a fifth straight season.
The Knicks took a 79-77 lead into the final quarter after Toure Murry's one-handed prayer from centre court found the mark at the buzzer. The shot restored a New York lead, which climbed as high as 13 points earlier in the quarter before Toronto went on a nice run to bring the crowd back into it.
The Raptors, who host Memphis on Wednesday and finish the pre-season at Milwaukee on Friday, open the regular season on Oct. 30 when the Boston Celtics visit Air Canada Centre.
The Knicks took a 60-51 lead into the locker room at halftime as Metta World Peace had eight points in eight second-quarter minutes off the bench. The former Ron Artest, who signed a two-year deal with New York after four seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, hit a pair of three-pointers in the quarter.
The Knicks bench was the difference in the first half, outscoring their Raptors' counterparts 30-14.
The Raptors had led 30-29 after one quarter on the strength of Gay's 11 points and 10 from DeRozan.


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Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, on Friday sent messages to the presidents of Sudan and Mauritania regarding bilateral consultations on several Islamic issues, reported the official Qatari News Agency (QNA).
The emir is currently the president of the ninth Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a globe-spanning body of Muslims.
The agency said that Qatar's ambassador to Sudan, Ali bin Mohamed Al Assiri, delivered the letter to Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry Shaul Daynaq during a meeting.
It added that the emir's message to Mauritanian President Moauya Sidi Ahemed Al Taya was handed over to Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Minister Aldah Ould Abdi by Qatar's ambassador Mohamed Mubarak Al Mohanadi during a meeting in Nouakchott – Albawaba.com
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