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For anyone considering this, look also at the similar-priced & -sized Topeak Race Rocket. I find it awkward using pumps that connect directly to the valve, so always prefer "hosed" ones.
Lezyne is a US company producing a wide range of tools, lights and other bike accessories, including this very nice Tech Drive HP pump. The HP stands for 'High Pressure' and the Tech Drive does exactly that: it gets your tyres up to high pressure, in an impressively short time for a mini-pump.
This pump is aimed at the road market (as opposed to the HV or high volume version for off-roaders) and, in looks, it's pretty much a conventional pump, with a shaft about 23mm in diameter and a handle about 30mm. Rather than a press-on fit, it has a separate hose to screw onto your valve and then onto the pump. When not in use, this hose is stored inside the shaft of the pump, where it's also screwed in for a 100% secure fit - a very neat touch. There are rubber caps at each end of the pump to protect the internal threads from road dirt and water.
The hose is double ended, and fits schrader or presta valves. It has a little button to press to let the pressure out of the pump when you've got your tyres up to the required psi. The Lezyne website calls this 'ABS' (Air Bleed System) and reckon using it means less chance of damage to your internal valve core when removing the hoses. To be honest, valve damage from retained pressure is not a problem I've encountered, but this feature can't harm and it adds nothing in terms of weight.
The pump's barrel, shaft and handle are made from aluminium, as are the ends of the hose, while the other bits are rubber or plastic (or 'composite matrix' as Leyzene likes to call it). Overall, the whole package feels sturdy and well-made.
To test the Tech Drive's efficiency, I counted 100 thrusts to get a 700x23 tyre up to 70psi. To get it to 100psi took a total of 150 thrusts, and I have to admit it was hard going at the end - although that's an issue with any mini-pump of this sort.
The Tech Drive HP comes in two varieties: small (with a given length of 170mm) and medium (216mm). We're testing the medium here, and it's actually 240mm long when you take into account the rubber caps at each end.
As with most mini pumps, the Tech Drive comes with a clip - also made from good old 'composite matrix' - that bolts on to your bike under a bottle cage. This grips the pump pretty firmly, and is designed to hold the handle of the pump in place, as well as the barrel. There's also an optional little strap, so you know this pump won't fall off when you cross a cattle-grid or just ride on bad roads.
The advertised weight of 103g is spot on, although you need to take account of the clip and strap which brings it up to 115g on the road.cc scales. Not the lightest pump out there, but still pretty good.
The recommended retail price is a penny shy of £25. Not cheap, when there are mini-pumps out there for about a fiver. But not expensive either when you see carbon models for 70 quid or more. So overall, it's a very fair price for the quality.
A beautifully-engineered and highly-efficient mini-pump, with some clever features and a fair price tag.
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Make and model: Lezyne Tech Drive HP pump
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
This pump is aimed at road cyclists with high pressure tyres. The Lezyne website says the Tech Drive is a: "CNC-machined aluminum HP hand pump. The handle, barrel, and shaft are made of aluminum while the end caps are made from Composite Matrix. The HP design allows this pump to reach riding pressure with 30% fewer strokes compared to conventional pumps. The overlapping handle and barrel are integrated into a compact design. Equipped with ABS Flex Hose and a Composite Matrix frame pump mount."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
The Lezyne website goes on to highlight key features of the pump, including:
"ABS EQUIPPED - Air Bleed System (ABS). When using Presta valves, pressing the ABS button releases air back pressure in the pump hose making it easy to remove the Flex Hose or Flip-Thread Chuck from the valve. ABS eliminates the challenge of unthreading removable Presta valve cores after inflation. When using Schrader valves, press the ABS button to adjust tire pressure.
COMPOSITE MATRIX - Composite Matrix is a high-strength fiber reinforced material used in place of aluminum to make cost effective pump components."
Using the rather basic 'hand-grip' test, the aluminium shaft feels sturdy, while the other parts, such as hose threads, are all well-made and smooth to fit.
For a minipump, the performance is impressive: the action is smooth and it's quick to get tyres up to pressure.
This is not a workshop tool that you can use every day; it's a pump to carry with you to use in case of road-side emergency. On that basis, if you look after this pump, it'll last for years.
Not a featherweight, but 103g is fair for a pump that's this well-built and gets your tyres up to pressure in a quick time.
At just under £25 this pump is not cheap, but it's a very fair price for the quality.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Well-made. Quick to inflate tyres (for a mini-pump). Little touches like the rubber caps and screw-in hose when not in use.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
A very nice piece of kit. Not quite getting a score of 9 (the weight and price are fair but not astounding) but it was close. If we were allowed to score 8.5 this pump would get it.
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The Trattorian physics department's best and brightest eagerly awaited a revolutionary presentation by an ambitious and upstart physicist. Rumors had been spreading that she had solved the ultimate problem in physics and that after many months of mathematical verification she would present her work.
Dr. Liang strode towards the podium, smiling enthusiastically at her peers.
"Welcome, fellow Trattorian physicists. Today is an illustrious moment in the history of our careers, and our community. I have formulated a theory that unites both our beloved concepts gravity and quantum, into a single, elegant model that has the power to predict any experiment conducted in our universe. And how close are we to saying my theory is a law?" she asked, pinching her fingers together tightly. "That is how close we are- an infinitesimal distance. All that stands between Trattoria, and another Nobel Prize in Physics, is the discovery of a single particle, my creatively-named Liang's boson. Find this elusive particle, and we will have the knowledge of the gods themselves." Looks of approval and nodding started spreading amongst the scientists.
A scientist stood up and inquired "Your research papers indicate the mass of the Liang's boson is many orders of magnitude greater than any other particle we have had to look for. After conducting my own calculations, I have determined that there is a significant possibility that in the process of looking for it we may create an explosion that would obliterate our local cluster of galaxies. Is this true?"
Dr. Liang shined a sweet and innocent smile, replying simply "The experiment would have to critically fail first."
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Dr. Liang paused for a moment beside her two Secret Service guards. All that stood between her and the controls that would start her experiment were a few yards. It would be only a few minutes until her glory.
The control room itself was not much special- it was simply one of hundreds lining the circumference of the particle accelerator. Its only distinguishing feature was that she chose it to activate the accelerator from.
Suddenly, a Secret Service man's earset buzzed.
"Yes, this is Agent Aegeus, how may I be of assistance?"
"This is Lieutenant Ashton warning of potential enemy intruders. A few have appeared to have infiltrated the FTL Hadron Accelerator despite our security measures."
Agent Aegeus was incredulous. "How is this possible? The planet Soledad is completely cloaked amongst the stars and defended by a grand naval blockade..."
"Agent, this is not the time to be asking questions. They appear to have
"Our primary group of enemies is a group of protestors believing the experiment will cause the destruction of the universe. These scientifically ignorant nutjobs are well armed and should be treated with caution.
On the other hand, we have insane fundamentalist-Triangulist knights fighting for their pope. They claim the discovery of the Liang's boson would be heresy and disprove the existence of a divine. Additionally, they lack modern weapons but be aware they have newfangled bullet-proof armor from GR 2010. Due to the immediate experiment we are unfortunately forbidden from supplying extra troopers until the experiment is completed or aborted. I wish you luck."
Agent Aegeus complained "Damn protocol! Send us back up right awa..."
Dr. Liang: "Well, what are we waiting for? It looks like they have a few guards posted here already, so we should be fine."
She and her guards then begin running in the general direction of the control room.
A few of the aforementioned soldiers disperse and move into position to engage the fundamentalist knights, firing as they charge.
While the others' bullets merely bounce off the knights' armor, a well-placed shot by the hardsuit downs their hero.
The other soldiers move towards the protestors.
One of the teenager protestors is put down, but the protestor hero stands firm.
"You're not the only ones with guns, bitches!" the protesting hero angrily shouts through his megaphone. He swings his machine gun and attempts to fire it in an arc single-handedly at the Trattorian soldiers.
Alas, it was not meant to be, and the machine gun bursts into flame from overheating. The hero falls over, ashamed and demotivating his men.
The metal player is undeterred, and with the knowledge of Trattorians' hatred of metal music begins riffing some tunes in front of the burning hero.
His metal feat works! The Trattorians are forced to drop their equipment and plug their ears in an attempt to drown out the awesomeness of the metal. One falls down and begins writhing on the floor in pain.
Everybody else is inspired by the metal and moves up without fear of death.
The fundamentalist knights, meanwhile, are undeterred by the loss of their leader. A knight mounts the horse and begins planning the defeat of the Trattorian's superior technology.
Genius strikes him as he rears the horse in preparation of a charge...
The hardsuit's computer senses the motion of the horse but a moment too late. The horse and the hardsuit are on an obvious collision course and the pilot braces for the end...
...When he hears the sword whooshing past him and the horse landing with a thud. Though he had been knocked down, the hardsuit was still completely intact and had survived the narrow encounter.
The other knights move up at their slow and steady pace while the archer takes aim and fires.
The arrow does an unbelievable amount of damage, burrowing through the Trattorian soldier and still having enough overkill left over to take out the hardsuit. "What a lucky and enchanted bow!" the archer exclaims.
Dr. Liang runs towards the control center, dragging her redshirts along with her.
She bends over and enters the code for the center's force field door. "I can't seem to remember it..." as she guesses various permutations of the password. The guards wait around nervously as bullets and arrows fly past their shoulders.
"Now I recall!" Dr. Liang announced as the force field deactivated. Unfortunately, she and her redshirts had exhausted their move.
Almost immediately a cowardly soldier rushes in to safety, emptying his cartridge as he moved backwards.
Conveniently, the soldier scored a critical success and eliminated yet another armored knight!
Another soldier, jealous of his comrade's achievement, attempts to take his anger out on a protestor.
He only succeeds in igniting his own hand (by crit-failing), however.
One of the protestors, a rough, country type of guy, charges towards a Secret Service agent in rage and bloodlust with a chainsaw.
While the chainsaw misses, his friend's rifle doesn't and eliminate's one of Dr. Liang's redshirts.
The rest of the protestors then move up. The guy with the Assyrian rifle fires but misses wildly.
The protestor hero, disgraced by his failure, rises once more only to discover his hair and shoulder on fire.
The remaining fundamentalist knights trudge slowly towards the battle. The archer decides to do something and fires another arrow.
The bow once again proves its superiority, ripping through a soldier and a protestor. Dr. Liang begins to feel somewhat concerned now that all of her redshirts are no longer.
She doesn't worry for long, however, as she scrambles inside the control center and begins punching in the codes to start the experiment (one full action).
Another scientist, Dr. Yiang, interrupts her for a moment.
Dr. Yiang: "Hi Dr. Liang! I haven't seen you since I got the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the cure for the peach virus. How have things been going since then?"
Dr. Liang: "Dr. Yiang, I don't think it's the best time to have a conversation right now. I'll talk to you after I start the experiment, OK?"
She then continues typing in the codes, smiling all throughout.
Outside, the protestors are not content with giving up, and one is driven by bloodlust to attempt to blow up the control room wall. "That force-field door is impenetrable, but these concrete and steel walls are not!" he shouted.
It turns out they are, though, at least to dynamite.
Undeterred, the protestor grabs the bottle of maniac beer, shoves the burning Trattorian soldier into it, and combines fire with the Assyrian-rifle man.
Needless to say, the casualties are devastating. The old protestor dies, my newest sigfig dies, the two armed protestors are disrupted and so is Dr. Liang.
"Must...start...experiment." mutters Dr. Liang as she gets back up and continues typing into her mac. A fellow scientist grabs a gun and returns fire at the protestors to no avail.
The two disrupted protestors get back up and shoot at the lone armed Trattorian.
The scientist's head is rather unfortunately pink-misted, spraying blood over Dr. Liang's mac, but ultimately she survives and presses enter on the last code.
"SUCCESS!" she cries towards the heavens. The particle accelerator begins whirring as the hadrons collide with each other and yield a menagerie of exotic particles. Dr. Liang's mac notifies her of a single message, as a fellow scientist in another control module simply texts to her "Think we found it."
By the end of the day, the results are confirmed, and Dr. Liang's Theory of Everything becomes scientific fact. Siri visits her and personally congratulates her on her success. "Those stupid Scythians aren't getting that Nobel Prize now!" Siri remarked. "I congratulate you on achieving the ultimate Trattorian dream, and I hereby promote you to chief scientist and director of all Trattorian science projects and operations."
"Why thank you," Dr. Liang replied in her melodious voice. She shined a sweet and innocent smile, as thoughts ran past her of the next stage of her plan...
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Idoit40fans wrote:I can't imagine he would have any interest in playing on a team that has an overflow of defensemen on their AHL team.
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Libyan court says PM's election invalid
Published: 10 Jun 2014 12:12 PM BdST Updated: 10 Jun 2014 12:12 PM BdST
Libya's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that parliament's election of Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq a month ago was unconstitutional, a ruling that could reduce volatile political tensions in the major OPEC member state.
It also raised hope that some oil ports occupied for 10 months by rebels in Libya's east will reopen. In April, rebels signed an accord with the government of Maiteeq's predecessor to unblock the vital Mediterranean ports but its implementation stalled when they refused to deal with Maiteeq, a businessman.
Port rebel leader Ibrahim Jathran welcomed the Supreme Court ruling, according to a statement.
Maiteeq said he would accept the court decision, which reinstates Abdullah al-Thinni as caretaker premier, according to parliament's deputy speaker.
Libya has had two premiers - Thinni and Maiteeq - with two cabinets since the latter got elected in a chaotic vote by parliament a month ago, compounding a sense of anarchy and drift three years after the uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi's one-man rule over 42 years left Libya without credible governing institutions and security services to impose state authority on ex-rebels and Islamist militants, who now use armed muscle to carve out fiefdoms and make demands on Tripoli.
Thinni had originally resigned in April after what he said was a shooting attack on his family home by militiamen, but then refused to hand over power to Maiteeq pending a court decision.
"The ruling stated... the appointment of Mr Ahmed Maiteeq as premier of the interim government was unconstitutional," state television quoted the court as saying, without citing the legal basis of its decision.
Parliament's second deputy speaker Salah Makhzoum told reporters that lawmakers would respect the ruling. "Abdullah Al-Thinni is the caretaker prime minister until congress (parliament) learns the court's reasons for deciding Maiteeq's election was unconstitutional." Parliament will discuss the matter further on Tuesday, he said.
The General National Congress (GNC) is at the heart of a growing confrontation among rival political parties and brigades of former rebels who refuse to disarm and have allied themselves loosely on competing sides of the polarised legislature.
Those rivalries approached open conflict last month after a renegade former general, Khalifa Haftar, began a self-declared campaign with irregular forces to purge Islamist militants he says the central government in Tripoli has failed to challenge.
Fighters allied to Haftar stormed parliament briefly last month, accusing lawmakers of having no legitimacy and serving the interests of radical Islamists.
Maiteeq comes from Misrata, a western coastal city where the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood is strong but faces strong opposition in the east and in the western mountains.
In a brief statement Maiteeq said: "I do respect the rule of the Supreme Court and I am the first one who complies with the rule. What happened is devoted to the peaceful transfer of power and the first winner is the Libyan people."
Libya badly needs a functioning government and the reactivation of oil exports - the only notable source of state revenue - to prevent a wholesale collapse of state authorities.
Tripoli has no budget because the protests at oil ports and fields by militias and tribesmen making political and financial demands have reduced crude output to less than 200,000 bpd from 1.4 million bpd in July before the strikes started.
Libya has lost $30 billion from the oil strikes, a central bank official said last week.
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(A) The construction permit shall be issued by the chief after approval of the final design submittal and supporting documents called for in rule 1501:21-5-03 of the Administrative Code and receipt and acceptance of the surety bond and filing fee. The construction permit shall be valid for a period of two years from the date of issue unless otherwise specified by the chief under this rule. No construction shall be performed until the permit is issued by the chief.
(B) If the magnitude of the project warrants that construction will exceed a period of two years, the chief may on request of the applicant issue a permit which is valid for a longer period.
(C) If after construction has begun, a revised construction schedule shows that the permit will expire before construction is completed, the chief may on request of the applicant extend the life of the permit. No extension shall be granted unless the applicant has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the chief that substantial effort has been made to complete the construction.
(D) If the permit expires before construction has begun, a new final design submittal accompanied by supporting documents (rule 1501:21-5-03 of the Administrative Code), surety bond, and filing fee shall be submitted to the chief.
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BlackBerry Weighs Spinning Off Its Messenger Service
BlackBerry's Messenger service could be spun off into a subsidiary that would operate with more independence, amid a review that may result in a company sale. Spencer Ante and Brian Fitzgerald discuss on digits. Photo: BlackBerry.
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I'd really it is one of Orkut part comedy and this is something that's been discussed in recent years has bought various live in this or that the stocks are also ... suing it just seems like if this rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic ... we'll hope ... this happen ... well ... there's there's hope that they could ... be on ... its spinoff from but they relisting off until you know what you call red ocean territory write a good number of competitors ... Third get you that not only ... conduit that big so the Giants in there like Facebook Messenger and ... single goal with their too high now and WhatsApp and was the pride we ... consider this right so will this this this this the numbers that ... BlackBerry messages considered popular and sixty million ... users about a little north of that which is nothing to shake a stick out ... 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New body armor designs combine protection and comfort
One of the lasting lessons from a decade of war in the Middle East is that insurgent forces can impose huge costs on a larger, higher-technology adversary by targeting the force at all times, with actions ranging from sniper fire to counter-logistics attacks and rocket and mortar strikes aimed at vehicles and forward bases. The reaction of coalition forces has been a renewed emphasis on force protection, from body and vehicle armor to systems designed to defend against low-tech weapons. This two-part report examines recent advances in two areas, body armor and missile-killing defensive weapons, that play an outsized role in protecting troops and vehicles.
New materials promise improvements in the weight of body armor, but are unproven—and an alternative approach to the problem involves looking at whether some current systems are stronger and heavier than necessary. Technological progress tends to be incremental, but the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) hopes to make significant advances with its "Lighten the Load" initiative to reduce the burden on U.S. Marines. Body armor is a critical target, as it is the single largest element of the load.
"We are taking multiple approaches to reduce the weight of PPE (personal protective equipment)," says James Mackiewicz, program manager in ONR's department of expeditionary warfare and combating terrorism.
One approach is to find improved materials for all applications. For example, the ONR is looking into "better ballistic fabrics, fabric system configurations, improved armor synergy and improved ceramics for small-arms defeat," Mackiewicz says.
Another approach is determining whether the armor is suitable to the mission, or whether lighter-weight armor could do as well. "We are reevaluating the threats to Marines to ensure we provide the appropriate armor for the threat scenario," says Mackiewicz.
Body armor usually consists of "soft-armor" garments with "hard-armor" insert plates. The soft armor, which defeats low-velocity rounds and shrapnel, is typically woven DuPont Kevlar aramid fiber, ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene or other synthetics. The inserts have a front face made of ceramic, usually boron or silicon carbide—among the hardest materials known—with a tough synthetic backing. Incoming rounds, even armor-piercing bullets, are deformed or shattered by the hard armor, and remnants are stopped by the backing material or soft armor.
Armor research tends to follow developments in materials science, and much of the current effort focuses on carbon nanotubes (CNT), a single sheet of carbon atoms rolled into a tube. In theory, CNTs could be made hundreds of times stronger than steel, but this would rely on manufacturing flawless tubes in bulk, which is not yet possible. However, smaller tubes can be produced in bulk, and these are used to reinforce soft and hard armor.
Amendment II of Salt Lake City was reportedly the first to market this technology. Its material, RynoHide, is a soft armor that is lighter than Kevlar fiber but reportedly provides superior protection. RynoHide was created in partnership with the Nano Institute of the University of Utah to develop carbon nanotubes for body armor. Amendment II will not discuss details at this stage, but the company's "secret sauce" appears to involve CNTs interwoven with conventional fibers.
Others in the same field include Nanocomp Technologies of Concord, N.H., which is working with the U.S. Army's Natick (Mass.) Soldier Center. Nanocomp developed a proprietary process to make a nonwoven textile made of millimeter lengths of CNTs bonded together. A version that is 0.25 in. thick reportedly stops a 9-mm. bullet, which suggests it outperforms Kevlar. The next stage will be incorporating the material into body armor sets.
CNTs are also the key ingredient of a program to improve hard armor at Natural Resources Canada's Materials Technology Laboratory in Hamilton, Ontario. This involves mixing alumina powder, silicon carbide and boron carbide powder with CNTs and forming them into ceramic plates via hot-pressing. Previous results suggest that the nanotubes make the ceramic tougher and less brittle without affecting its strength. Plates may crack after the first hit, but a nanotube-reinforced ceramic should stop multiple rounds. It would also be more robust and less likely to be damaged during handling, which is a serious problem, as plates can break if they impact hard surfaces.
Materials science may provide simpler solutions. Auxetix Ltd. of Devon, England, has tested prototype body armor made of auxetic material. This has the seemingly paradoxical property of expanding when stretched—or as one source puts it, becoming thicker perpendicular to an applied force.
Auxetics improve materials by adding springiness to them. CEO Patrick Hook says an auxetic fabric incorporating Kevlar aramid is more ballistic-resistant than the aramid fiber by itself, and it is cheaper, since it uses as little as one-tenth of the expensive, high-tech material, with the rest being nylon. He has developed auxetic body armor, as well as blast curtains and spall liners.
Hook says auxetic material is relatively straightforward to manufacture on standard looms. An existing technique called weft insertion adds the spiral element, and the material can be engineered to adjust tension, degree of stretch and other properties.
Hook's U.S. licensee is working with Xtegra, a material he developed, to produce auxetic armor for the U.S. Navy.
While better materials may cut weight by 10%, the second approach mentioned by Mackiewicz, using appropriate armor levels, could save 30% or more. A 2012 Rand Corp. study found that troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were burdened with armor heavy enough to stop much more powerful rounds than they encountered. The threat has been shrapnel and 7.62-mm rounds. "Current body armor provides excessive overmatch against those threats," Rand says.
The study recommends modular armor with different protection levels. Current U.S. armor varies from a 6-lb. vest, which provides basic protection that can be scaled up with front, back and side ceramic inserts totaling 32 lb. to cover more of the body (including the neck and groin).
Rand recommends using software that would indicate optimal protection in a given situation, rather than automatically issuing the heaviest armor available. It tested a system that analyzes various parameters and says it is possible to create a smartphone app for the task. This app would allow a field commander to select a military occupation specialty, threat level and the percentage of injuries that should not exceed three on the maximum abbreviated injury scale. The app would then provide an appropriate body-armor protection level.
The report acknowledges that full modular armor would be a logistical challenge, especially if multiple plates are provided for each soldier.
Lighter armor will contribute to more mobile and capable troops and will help them stay cooler. Moreover, recent Navy research suggests that reducing loads can improve troops' cognitive ability.
"With continued weight reductions and better armor placement, we are expecting operational capability to increase by 20-30% over the next three years," says Mackiewicz.


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Metropolitan Museum NYC, a set on Flickr.
In July, I was in New York City for a conference at Columbia (the 2013 Pac Rim Roman Literature Seminar, which was enormously enjoyable); of course the collection at "the Met" was high on my list of things to do while in NYC – this is a selection on Flickr of some of the photos that I took of some of the objects there. (Some of the header images that appear at the top of this site are cropped from these images – all of the photos are taken my me)


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(SportsNetwork.com) - A pair of teams fighting for playoff spots in opposing conferences meet in Ohio on Tuesday when the Columbus Blue Jackets welcome the Phoenix Coyotes to Nationwide Arena.
Of the two teams, only Columbus is currently in postseason position as it holds the second of the Eastern Conference's two wild card spots with 87 points through 78 games. That leaves the Blue Jackets three ahead of New Jersey and Toronto with a game in hand over both teams. The Maple Leafs visit Tampa Bay on Tuesday, while the Devils are idle.
Columbus also is only two points behind Philadelphia for the third of the Metropolitan Division's three automatic bids to the playoffs. The Flyers, who also have four games left, are visiting the Florida Panthers on Tuesday.
Phoenix, meanwhile, is one point in back of Dallas for the West's second wild card spot with four games left for both teams. The Stars also play Tuesday against the visiting Nashville Predators, who are six points behind Dallas and still technically in playoff contention.
The Blue Jackets picked up a valuable two points in their last trip to the ice, while Phoenix is currently mired in a costly four-game losing streak.
Columbus, which is hosting its final game of the regular season tonight, used a potent power play on Sunday to bounce back from a deflating loss in its previous outing.
The Blue Jackets converted on 3-of-6 opportunities with the man advantage in a 4-0 home win over the New York Islanders, two days after losing Friday's 4-3 regulation decision against visiting Chicago. Columbus failed to gain a point on Friday after the Blackhawks scored the winning goal in the waning seconds of regulation.
Boone Jenner, Jack Johnson and Ryan Murray each record power-play goals on Sunday, while Mark Letestu added an even strength tally. Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves in his career-high 29th win of the season.
"This is a huge win," Columbus forward Matt Calvert said. "We needed these two points badly. Our power play came up big and (Bobrovsky) was great."
The Blue Jackets are 21-15-4 as the home team this season and had lost three straight (0-2-1) at Nationwide Arena before Sunday's victory. Columbus will visit Dallas, Tampa Bay and Florida to complete its regular-season slate.
The Coyotes fell to 0-2-2 over their last four outings with Friday's 3-2 shootout loss against visiting Edmonton. Phoenix carried a 2-1 lead into the closing minutes of regulation before allowing Sam Gagner to tie it up with 40.4 seconds left in the third.
Gagner later scored the only goal of the shootout to lift the Oilers to the win.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson picked up a goal and one assist and Kyle Chipchura also tallied for the Coyotes, while Thomas Greiss made 24 saves in the loss.
"We let a point slip away," said Chipchura. "I thought we came out a little flat."
Phoenix begins a two-game road trip tonight and also will visit Nashville on Thursday before capping the regular season this weekend on a two-game homestand. The Coyotes welcome San Jose on Saturday before hosting Dallas the following night in a potentially crucial game for the West's second wild card spot.
The Coyotes are 21-13-5 at home this season and 15-15-9 as the guest.
Columbus notched a 2-0 win at Phoenix on Jan. 2, giving the Blue Jackets two straight wins in this series following a three-game slide versus the Coyotes. Phoenix has lost four in a row in Columbus, where it hasn't won since a 4-3 regulation victory on Jan. 11, 2011.


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Bad Cop Drop
Go visit Jim in the same place you visited him last time, on the western edge of Alderney along Plumbers Skyway and Aspdin Drive. When you arrive, Jim will be worried because of your earlier rendezvous with the cops after the stolen bikes seemed to have been fully secured. While Jim admits that they could simply pay the cops off and be done with the problem completely, he doesn't want the situation to escalate to the point where the cops think they'll constantly roll over for them. Johnny concurs. The two decide to head out to a place near where the choppers were stolen, where they think the cops are hiding out.
Travel southward along Aspdin Drive to the presumed cop hideaway. When you need to turn onto Berners Road in order to continue following the GPS, do so. This is a pretty short route, so there's little else to say here. After you arrive, your character and Jim will lay the beatdown on those cops, which will necessitate getting out of the area posthaste. You're going to be bringing them to a lot at the far southern end of Alderney, but you'll need to survive the trip there. And then... well, then, you're in for a hell of a gunfight.
There are two ways to solve your problem with the cops. That is to say, there are two effective ways to set yourself up and go after your foes. The first is to stay on the ground behind the staircase leading up to the surrounding catwalks. While your friends shoot down at the cops and their myriad reinforcements from above, you can use the various cover on the ground to protect yourself from flying bullets as you return fire with that automatic pistol Jim handed to you earlier. This is one difficult, arduous firefight, however, so if you're having trouble with that more straight-forward technique, then read below for an alternate way to go about things.
When you arrive at the area from the outset, park in front of the stairs leading up into the catwalks overlooking the area, and quickly scamper up. Duck down to cut off the angles at which you can be shot at from up here, and then begin aiming at foes from above. As long as you tuck yourself properly on one end of the catwalk or the other (widthwise), collisions with enemy bullets should be kept at a bare minimum. This requires patience and time, the latter of which you won't have much of (since if Jim dies, the mission ends automatically in failure). Nonetheless, it makes for a good alternative if you're having trouble dealing with the endless amount of cops here with brute force.
When the final cop falls (the cops, as you've likely realized by now, are represented by red dots on your HUD), your told via on-screen prompt to get out of the area quickly. Simply hop back on your bike and ride out of the search radius of the cops. Since you should only have a rather mild two star wanted level, this should take all of ten or fifteen seconds. When you've lost the cops, the mission then ends in success.
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The San Diego Chargers have hired Ron Wolf as a consultant to help lead their search for a new general manager.
GM A.J. Smith and coach Norv Turner were fired Monday.
The Chargers' search will be run by a four-man committee: President/chairman Dean Spanos, director of college scouting John Spanos, assistant GM Ed McGuire and Wolf. The GM then will join in the process of searching for the next coach.
Dean Spanos told NFL.com that he first talked to Wolf "eight or nine days ago" after being put in touch by a mutual friend, and that after speaking a few times, they agreed to move forward. Wolf's first day with the Chargers will be Tuesday, and Spanos said he sees the former Green Bay Packers GM as "a very, very credible person who's well-respected in the league."
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File carving is the practice of searching an input for files based on their headers and/or footers. Most often the input is a disk image, but it's possible (and sometimes practical) to carve individual files or physical memory.
Many carving programs have an option to only look at or near sector boundaries where headers are found. Searching the entire input can find files that have been embedded into other formats, such as JPEGs being embedded into Microsoft Word documents or files stored in a ZIP archive.


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Matt Slauson could be hearing from the NFL this week.
If so, it will likely mean a big dent in the wallet for the New York Jets guard.
Merton Hanks, the league's vice president for football operations, is reviewing Slauson's apparent clip of Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing from Monday night's game, the NFL confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
Cushing suffered a season-ending torn left ACL from the hit.
Slauson faces a possible fine and has drawn a wave of criticism, accused of injuring an opponent with a cheap shot.
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Texans coach Gary Kubiak refused to label the block as "dirty," when questioned by reporters Tuesday. But he didn't call it "clean," either.
"Obviously, cutting is a part of football, but the rule says you can't come back (toward) your own goal line and cut," Kubiak said. "So the question is, is the guy coming back to his own goal line? That's in the league's hands. We turn in plays. We turn in situations, and they've got to do their job."
Slauson wasn't flagged on the play during the game. But generally, Hanks doesn't review plays for disciplinary action unless an infraction is cited by the league's officiating department.
Typically, NFL fines are announced on Friday.
Replays show that Slauson initially glanced with Cushing on a high block, moved past the linebacker, then turned back and cut him with a low block from behind that might be interpreted as an illegal clip (Rule 12, Section 2, Article 1).
Jets coach Rex Ryan defended Slauson on ESPN Radio on Tuesday, maintaining that he didn't remember the specific play and that he would never question that his players would intentionally try to injure an opponent or break the rules.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2013— To prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will begin its 2013 distribution of oral rabies vaccine baits (Raboral V-RG®) in select areas along the East Coast. This effort seeks to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies.
With their cooperators, APHIS' Wildlife Services (WS) program will begin distributing the oral rabies vaccination baits by aircraft and by hand beginning on or about Aug. 12. The baits will be distributed in the following select areas and time periods.
In Northeast to Mid-Atlantic States, between August 12 and mid-September:
In southern states, between October 22 and November 1:
In Massachusetts October 28 - November 26:
The National Rabies Management Program was established in recognition of the changing scope of rabies in which the primary human risk is now due to exposure from wildlife rather than domestic pets. The goal of the program is to prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies and eventually eliminate rabies in land-dwelling wildlife in the United States through an integrated program that includes vaccinating wildlife against the disease.
Oral rabies vaccination baits are coated with a fishmeal attractant and may be packaged in one-inch square cubes or two-inch plastic sachets. For photos of the vaccination baits, please visit www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/oral_rabies/photo_gallery.shtml.
The Raboral V-RG® vaccine has been shown to be safe in more than 60 different species of animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Humans and pets cannot get rabies from contact with the baits, but are asked to leave them undisturbed should they encounter them. Dogs that consume large numbers of baits may experience an upset stomach, but there are no long-term health risks. If contact with baits occurs, immediately rinse the contact area with warm water and soap.
Rabies is caused by a virus that infects the central nervous system in mammals. Signs suggestive of rabies include unusual, aggressive or alternatively calm and "friendly" behavior, an inability to eat or drink, balance problems, circling, seizures, coma and finally death. While rabies is almost always fatal, human exposures can be successfully treated, if treatment is sought immediately following exposure.
Since 1997, WS National Rabies Management Program has been working cooperatively with local, state and federal governments, universities and other partners to address this public health problem by distributing oral rabies vaccination baits in targeted areas. This cooperative program targets the raccoon variant in the eastern United States, and unique variants of rabies in coyotes and foxes in Texas. During 2013, WS will also conduct field trials to test the safety and effectiveness of an alternate oral rabies vaccine, ONRAB. WS is testing ONRAB to assess whether rabies management goals can be more effectively addressed by integrating this vaccine into control efforts. For additional information concerning the raccoon oral rabies vaccine program, please visit www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/oral_rabies/index.shtml or contact WS toll free at 1-866-4-USDA-WS (1-866-487-3297).
Note to Reporters: USDA news releases, program announcements and media advisories are available on the Internet and through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).


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What is a Prayer Mountain?
Our prayer mountain does not necessarily mean a physical mountain; it represents an atmosphere which connects you with the Presence, Power and Glory of God.
Did Jesus Pray on the Mountain, while on earth?
Yes, Jesus while on earth commune continuously with God without being distracted on the mountains. We find several instances in the scriptures where the Lord Jesus went to a mountain to pray. Matthew 14:23 tells us, "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone." We read in Luke 6:12, "And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God."
Is there a significance to the Lord going to a mountain to pray? Does the Lord hear us better from the mountain top?
In relation to a Physical mountain, to both of these questions, I would say "No". However, a Spiritual mountain takes our attention from ourselves and positions us to enjoy true time of uninterrupted communion with Our Heavenly Father. We are able to pour out our hearts to the Lord, allowing His Spirit to bring things to our minds to pray about. Romans 8:26, "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." Luke 9:28,29 &36 says, "And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray." Immediately after this, the Lord was transfigured in the presence of these three disciples.
What do I experience on the Prayer Mountain?
Expect the visible demonstration of God's presence and power like never before, expect transformation, expect personal revolution, expect re-alignment, expect deliverance, expect healing, expect creative miracles etc.
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No ID required just come in.
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HIV/AIDS News
FDA Approves New Drug to Treat HIV, AIDS
The Food and Drug Administration has approved efavirenz, a new drug, to treat HIV and AIDS in children and adults. Efavirenz, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, was approved to treat HIV-1 infection after 24-week studies showed it to be effective in suppressing HIV. The effect of efavirenz on viral suppression beyond 24 weeks has not been demonstrated.
This action significantly boosts the arsenal available in the fight against HIV and AIDS," said HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala. "It is important that people with HIV and AIDS have as many treatment options as possible."
Drug development for serious and life-threatening diseases, including AIDS, is one of our highest agency priorities," said Dr. Michael A. Friedman, FDA Acting Commissioner. "Each approval of antiretroviral agents offers people with HIV and AIDS more opportunities to maintain meaningful quality of life. This treatment is taken once a day, which can be beneficial to people who generally take several drugs concurrently."
Efavirenz is the third non-nucleoside, reverse transcriptase inhibitor FDA has approved. The results of three adequate and well-controlled trials conducted in 928 adults and an uncontrolled open-label study conducted in 57 pediatric patients (some as young as age 3) support the safety and efficacy of efavirenz. Additional supportive information on safety and activity is provided by the results of phase I and phase II trials and the sponsor's expanded access program.
Drug labeling recommends that patients take 600 mg of efavirenz once daily in combination with a protease inhibitor and/or nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Although the drug may be taken with or without food, as desired, the label suggests that patients avoid high-fat meals. Health care providers should consult the drug labeling for a discussion of drug interactions with efavirenz.
Nervous system symptoms, such as dizziness, insomnia, impaired concentration, abnormal dreams, and drowsiness have been reported in more than half of patients treated with efavirenz. These symptoms generally occur in the first or second day of treatment and usually resolve as treatment continues. Additionally, bedtime dosing may make these symptoms more tolerable. Patients should avoid potentially hazardous tasks such as driving or operating machinery, if they experience these symptoms. Reports of delusions and severe acute depression have also occurred, predominantly in patients with a history of mental illness or substance abuse. Efavirenz should be discontinued in patients with these more severe symptoms.
During clinical trials, approximately 27 percent of patients treated with efavirenz experienced a skin rash, compared to 17 percent of patients in control groups. Severe rash, requiring stopping efavirenz, was infrequently seen in clinical trials.
The labeling also recommends that health care providers monitor patients' liver enzymes, especially in those infected with hepatitis B or C viruses. Cholesterol levels should also be monitored because clinical studies could not distinguish whether this drug contributed to elevated levels or not. Several AIDS drugs have been associated with increased cholesterol and liver enzyme levels.
Adverse reactions in pediatric patients have been similar to those seen in adults, with a higher incidence of, and more severe rash than in adults.
Information from some preclinical studies showed that efavirenz appears to cause birth defects, so women should be screened for pregnancy before starting treatment and should be encouraged to use effective contraception. The sponsor has established a pregnancy registry to track fetal exposures to the drug.
FDA's approval of the efavirenz marketing application was granted as an accelerated approval, a regulatory mechanism that speeds approvals of drugs for people with serious or life-threatening illnesses. The agency bases early approval for a product on laboratory markers such as CD4 cell counts and viral load, rather than on clinical endpoints such as delay in death or reduction in opportunistic infections. FDA may withdraw the approval of products granted accelerated approval if post-marketing studies fail to verify clinical benefits.
DuPont Pharmaceuticals of Wilmington, Delaware, manufacturers efavirenz under the trade name Sustiva.


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Burger King Drops Lower-Calorie Fry 'Satisfries'
New French Fry Was Attempt to Reach Diners Who Cut Back Amid Health Concerns
It turns out consumers weren't too satisfied with Burger King Worldwide Inc.'s Satisfries.
The fast-food chain on Wednesday said it is dropping from its U.S. menus the lower-calorie French fries that it introduced with much fanfare less than a year ago.
The Miami company had been trying to reach consumers who had cut back on French fry orders...


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Key has contains a large amount of symbolism that can be seen below. By gaining an idea about Key and the associations it has we gain a more intuitive insight into its meaning.Man and his symbols shows us great ways to use lifes symbols to understand our inherit nature and purpose.
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The Jamaica Planters Guide -Chapter 2 The Treatment Of Slaves Page 123
Author: Roughley, Thomas
Medium: Letterpress
Date: 1823
Extract from Thomas Roughley's 'The Jamaica Planter's Guide,' a manual for those wishing to establish sugar plantations in Jamaica in the early 19th century. This chapter suggests ways of treating the slaves working on the plantations so that they might be at their most productive. There are detailed descriptions of the jobs of every worker on the plantation from the Head Driver and the Head Boiler through to members of the field gangs and midwives.


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|Safe Haskell
Privileges are instances of the class called
Priv. They represent
the ability to bypass the protection of certain labels. Specifically,
privilege allows you to behave as if
L_1 ` even when
that is not the case. The process of making data labeled
canFlowTo` L_2
L_1 affect
data labeled
L_2 when
not (L_1 ` is called
canFlowTo` L_2)
The basic method of the
Priv class is
canFlowToP, which performs a
more permissive can-flow-to check by exercising particular privileges
(in literature this relation is a pre-order, commonly written as
⊑ₚ). Almost all
LIO operations have variants ending
...P that take a privilege argument to act in a more permissive way.
Priv types are
Monoids, and so privileges can be combined with
mappend. The creation of
Priv values is specific to the
particular label type in use; the method used is
mintTCB, but the
arguments depend on the particular label type.
Privilege descriptions
class (PrivTCB p, Show d) => PrivDesc p d | p -> d, d -> p whereSource
Class used to convert a privilege to a privilege description. This is particularly useful when one piece of code wishes to prove ownership of certain privileges without granting the privilege. NOTE: it (almost) always a security violation if the privilege is also the privilege description.
Although this class is not part of the TCB there are some security
implications that should be considered when making a type an
instance of this class. Specifically, if the value constructor for
the privilege description type
d is exported then some
trusted code must be used when "proving" ownership of a certain
privilege. This is generally a good idea even if the constructor is
not made available, since code can (usually) cache such privilege
descriptions. An alternative is to use phantom types to enforce a
linear-type-like behavior.
class (Label l, PrivTCB p, Monoid p) => Priv l p whereSource
This class defines privileges and the more-permissive relation
canFlowToP) on labels using privileges. Additionally, it defines
partDowngradeP which is used to downgrage a label up to a limit,
given a set of privilege.
canFlowToP :: p -> l -> l -> BoolSource
The "can-flow-to given privileges" pre-order used to compare
two labels in the presence of privileges. If
holds, then privileges
canFlowToP p L_1
p are sufficient to downgrade data
L_1 to
L_2. Note that
canFlowTo L_1 L_2
for all
canFlowToP p L_1 L_2
p, but for some labels and
canFlowToP will hold even where
canFlowTo does
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Label from which data must flow
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Goal label
|-> l
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L_r = partDowngradeP p L L_g computes how
close one can come to downgrading data labeled
L to the goal label
L_g, given privileges
p. When
p == , the resulting
L_r == L `. If
upperBound` L_g
p contains all
possible privileges, then
L_r == L_g.
More specifically,
L_r is the greatest lower bound of the
set of all labels
L_l satisfying:
L_g ⊑ L_l, and
L ⊑ₚ L_l.
partDowngradeP captures the minimum change required
to the current label when viewing data labeled
L_l. A common
pattern is to use the result of
getLabel as
L_g (i.e., the
goal is to use privileges
p to avoid changing the label at all),
and then compute
L_r based on the label of data the code is
about to observe.
|Label l => Priv l NoPrivs
With lack of privileges,
|Priv DCLabel DCPriv
Generic privilege type used to denote the lack of privileges.


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Favorites struggle in Davis Cup quarterfinals
LONDON (AP) Two of the favorites struggled on the first day of the Davis Cup quarterfinals Friday, with Germany closing in on a big upset against France and Switzerland only managing to split the opening singles matches against Kazakhstan.
In the match of the day, 119th-ranked Peter Gojowczyk beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a five-set marathon to give injury-hit Germany a 2-0 lead over host France. Gojowczyk won 5-7, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (8), 8-6 after Tobias Kamke had defeated Julien Benneteau 7-6 (8), 6-3, 6-2.
"It is incredible, that was unexpected. To feel the spirit and atmosphere of the place is great," Germany captain Carsten Arriens said. "He was playing against Tsonga so you can't expect him to win, but he stayed in the match."
Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka also surprisingly lost his opening singles match for host Switzerland against 64th-ranked Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5). That left it up to Roger Federer to even the best-of-five series at 1-1 by easily dispatching Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
"I was very satisfied with my performance," Federer said. "It doesn't change in terms of being 1-0 up or down – I have to make sure I played my match."
The Czech Republic lived up to its status as favorite, although both Radek Stepanek and Lukas Rosol had to work hard before winning their singles matches to give the defending champion a 2-0 lead over Japan. Stepanek beat Tatsuma Ito 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-1, 7-5 at Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo and Rosol overcame Taro Daniel 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2.
In the other quarterfinal, Italy was up 1-0 over Britain after Fabio Fognini beat James Ward in Naples and the second match between Andreas Seppi and Andy Murray was suspended because of darkness. Fognini was made to struggle against a player ranked 148 places below him before winning 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 in more than three hours. Murray was leading 6-4, 5-5 when play was stopped on a rain-interrupted day. The match will resume Saturday morning ahead of the doubles.
The Swiss duo of Wawrinka and Federer remains heavily favored to overcome Kazakhstan, but France suddenly finds itself in trouble in a series it was expected to breeze through. Germany is without all of its best players – Tommy Haas, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Florian Mayer – and has lost its last six Davis Cup meetings against France.
That counted for little, though, on a day when both Tsonga and Benneteau faltered at key moments. Tsonga missed two match points in the fourth set, while Benneteau wasted five set points in the first set, having led 4-0.
"It's hard to take but of course but there is still hope. Of course we were heavy favorites and suddenly we find ourselves 2-0 down," France coach Arnaud Clement said. "Everything is possible. We will start by trying to win the doubles."
The doubles matches are Saturday followed by reverse singles on Sunday.


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Is it the work of aliens or practical jokers? An unusual creation has popped up on a farm just south of the Bay Area.
A giant crop circle has appeared on Chualar farm in Salinas, Calif.
Aerial photographer Julie Belanger spotted the crop circle as she was flying over the valley Monday morning.
Belanger took the photo you see here as well as this raw video.
"It was beautiful. Quite beautiful," Belanger told NBC affiliate KSBW. "I believe it's possible that aliens exist, but I don't know if they would bother making a crop circle to give us a message."
It's more likely that it's all part of publicity stunt. According to MontereyHerald.com, guards from a South Bay security company were on hand Monday morning on behalf of their client, whose identity they could not reveal.
Adding to the mystery is this YouTube video posted today by user "Cannot Say" of a couple of friends stumbling upon the crop circle before sunrise.


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UGA had finally taken the lead 24-20. It was 4th down and 11 and Missouri had the ball on their own 35. It was a fake, and we weren't set up for it, but somehow two blockers were unable to keep him from making the tackle. Jimmy Burge, a fifth year senior defensive tackle, and Jared Mcgriff-Culver, a fifth year senior tailback, should have been an impenetrable wall moving through defenders with ease and UGA's own fifth year senior fullback made a move that many NFL players would have trouble replicating.
He grabbed Burge, the 295 pound blocker, and forced him to the left using his own weight as a brace to launch himself past the incoming McGriff-Culver and straight into the chest of Missouri's punter who did all he could to hold on to the football. Richard Samuel had just single handedly blown up Gary Pinkiel's well timed fake punt. Before Samuel could fully stand up and before the ref could even call the turnover, Head Coach Mark Richt had jumped onto the field and grabbed Samuel around the neck and started congratulating him on saving the day.
In my opinion Samuel may have saved the season, his long journey had a defining moment, a moment he could be remembered for, for a very long time. I will never forget the tackle Richard Samuel made in Missouri on that amazing night for Georgia Bulldogs football. Will you?


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I'm looking for someone to hit with at the 4.0 to 4.5 level for the weekends and weekdays. I have a tournament coming up so I'm looking to get out there soon! I live in Pomona but can drive to surrounding areas. If your interested contact me!
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Hey Justin,
I play out in Rancho Cucamonga. I won't be playing until summer and it will be in the evenings on tuesdays and thursdays around 7 pm to 10pm and on the weekend I can play once in awhile around same time 7pm. Soory I can't play any sooner but I have a strong consistent game and a strong serve so I should be good practice for your tourney's Plus on the weekday evenings we play allot of doubles and should be good practice for return of serves.
Let me know,
Hey Tony, that sounds great! Get in touch with me when you can play!
Are you still looking to hit? You're fairly close - I'm in Mira Loma.
Let me know. Thanks.
Go Justin!
Hey Kelvin! How's the tennis going? I've been in Sac for the last three weeks or so, but I'll look you up when I get back to SoCal!
Hey Justine,
I'm a 4.0 player. I live in Corona. I can hit during the week and on week ends. We can find a mutual court. What do you say? Let's hit.
hey man,
saw your post. What level are you ? I'm looking for consistent guys for rallying sets, practice .
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply. I'm in Northern Cali right now but I'll be coming back down to SoCal pretty shortly. I'm a 4.0 to 4.5...level in Pomona area. I'll try to contact you if I have time when I'm back in SoCal. Take care.
Hi Justin,
Are you still looking for someone to hit with? I live in the Brea area, but sometimes hit near Cal Poly Pomona or up in San Dimas with a friend from the college team. Haven't played in awhile though, so may be little rusty. Let me know if your interested in ever joining. We could try rallying up a few and plan a competitive round robin or something? I've also been looking for some men who would be interested in some mixed doubles? Let me know.
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Fender EVH signature guitars launch
EVH signature guitars launch… again
After a sneak preview of a prototype at NAMM 2008, Eddie Van Halen's EVH line of Wolfgang guitars and accessories is in shops this month and is sure to be a talking point of NAMM 2009, where they officially debut.
Eddie Van Halen is without doubt one of the world's most-lauded guitar players, but he's also one of the most commercial. No, not in the musical sense, but when it comes to business deals.
The EVH Wolfgang guitars – built by Fender, named after Eddie's son – are the third line of EVH signature guitars, after those Van Halen co-designed guitars for MusicMan and Peavey. Plus, his endorsements for Charvel and Kramer guitars earlier in his career.
Indeed, aren't the Fender-built EVH Wolfgangs of 2009 remarkably similar to the Peavey Wolfgangs of the '90s?
So what, you might say. Gibson's Les Paul – the pioneering model of signature guitars – has remained largely the same for long periods of its 50-plus year history. And when it comes to guitars – bits of wood and wire and simple electrical circuits, at their core – if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Well, there is money to be made. There's long-been a rumour in the guitar industry about the money it costs for Eddie Van Halen to endorse a product. The rumoured sum is huge.
Still, it has to be said, Eddie has taken his time to get things "right". After all, his most lauded-sound was on the first two Van Halen albums of the late-'70s when his guitars were mostly handbuilt and painted (by himself) from parts. His most famous, the 'Frankenstein', cost him $125 to make.
And the first part of his deal with Fender for the EVH line was a replica of said road-battered Frankenstein. Its cost in 2008? A mighty £16,000 in the UK. Still, it was a limited run of 300, so fans were at least buying a collectable.
"In the past, guitars with my name on them weren't as good as my own," Van Halen says of the 'new' new Wolfgangs. He says a Wolfgang bought off the rack in 2009 is identical to the one he uses on stage and adds somewhat cryptically, "This is my last attempt to get things done right, and I took it seriously."
But does the guitar world need yet another EVH guitar?
Guitarist magazine's Simon Bradley, an expert on all things EVH says: "These new EVH signatures certainly resemble the old Wolfgang. But as they were decent guitars in their own right, that's not too much of an issue however closely the spec might resemble that of the now-deleted Peavey.
"These new EVH signatures certainly resemble the old Peavey Wolfgang" Guitarist magazine's Simon Bradley
"They won't be anywhere as costly as the lauded Frankenstein replica either. And, recent tribulations aside, Ed is still up there as one of the best and most influential guitarists of all time.