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Two days ago, we were able to show you the features and images of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB video card. We were asked by NVIDIA not to release our performance numbers until today. Since we have already covered the key features of the GeForce GTX Titan video card, we invite you to go back and take a get a quick refresh on what the card is.
NVIDIA sent over one GeForce GTX Titan video card for Legit Reviews to try out this week. We've only had the card five days, but we will be comparing it to the ASUS ARES II (Radeon HD 7990), AMD Radeon HD 7970, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 680. If you are looking to spend $500 and above these are the cards you'll be looking at, so they were included in testing. We will be using our Dell 30-inch monitor for some 1920×1080 and 2560×1600 resolution gaming. Down the road we'll be doing some 5760×1080 testing, but for today we'll be focusing at 2560×1600 gaming!
The GeForce GTX Titan has a base clock of 837MHz and a boost clock of 876MHz. When it comes to the 6GB of GDDR5 memory, it is clocked at 6008MHz. The GK110 features 14 SMX units with 192 CUDA cores per unit, which adds up to 2688 CUDA cores. It has six memory controllers, 1.5MB of L2 cache and is linked to 6GB of GDDR4 memory running on the 384-bit memory bus. With the default clock speeds it puts the theoretical performance, with FP32 performance at 4.5 TFLOPS, FP64 performance at 1.3 TFLOPS, and 288.4GB/sec of memory bandwidth. To put that in perspective, a Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU has six cores, 2.3 billion transistors and 316 Gigaflops.
All these numbers sound great, but how does it perform in game titles? Let's take a look!
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Mike and Michelle's Evolving Modern Mix
What do you get when an uber minimalist German art director and a jewelry designer from Miami meet, marry, and move in together? Oh, and add three kids — all boys — to the mix. It might look something like this.
This is the home of Mike Meiré, erstwhile 'poster boy for minimalism,' and his wife Michelle Elie, a jewelry designer and former model. Before they met, Meiré's Cologne apartment was a sort of minimalist masterpiece: shiny white floors, brown walls, angular modern furniture. And he never cooked, ever. That all changed when he met Michelle.
Shortly before his marriage, Mike bought the floor below and turned it into an entry and a kitchen for Elie, who is a Cordon Bleu-trained cook. In 2009 they took over the building's top floor, adding a roof terrace and a studio, and the floor that formed Mike's original bachelor pad is now overrun with youngsters. Says Mike: "I realized that life is at its best when you are not following a certain path. The moment where you step over a line and you are innovative, whatever that means, and you enter an area where others haven't been before — that's exciting for me."
Innovative is a good word for the home the couple shares. In the dining room, a heart-shaped painting that the couple bought as a wedding gift to themselves hangs above a Saarinen tulip table and a melange of modern chairs. It's not maximalism, exactly: rather it's lively and colorful in an understated way, the perfect marriage of German asceticism and Miami verve.
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Monday November 3, 2008
Last week the Steelers faced the number 1 rushing offense in the league and held them in check with only 83 total yards of rushing. This week the Steelers face the number 2 ranked rushing offense in the Washington Redskins, so it will be another tough matchup for the Steelers D. This time around though the QB's for the opposing teams are much different. Jason Campbell of the Redskins is definitely no Eli Manning and the Steelers D will should expose the huge difference in the two. Campbell though has yet to throw an INT this year in 230 attempts. Granted the Redskins rely on the running game so he is a Big Ben of 2004 and just manages the game and doesn't cost his team opportunities. As a matter of fact though, when the Redskins haven't been able to get their running game going and have had to rely on Campbell they have lost! The first loss came against the Giants where they only put up 84 yards and the second came against the Rams and they held the Skins to 76 yards rushing.
The Steelers offensive line has really been picking what weeks they feel like showing up and that's just not cutting it! At one point last week Ben had dropped back 28 times and had been knocked down 14 times, how can any QB sustain a high number of hits week in and week out and expect to make it the length of the season? Is Ben still holding onto the ball to long or is the line really that bad? I guess we won't know the answer until Ben gets hurt and misses a game and Byron has to start <<knock on wood that that doesn't happen>>.
Will Parker be back this week? Who knows and frankly I don't think it matters. Moore has been doing a phenomenal job and is actually leading the team in rushing by 60 yards. I know, you're saying "But Parker has missed the last three games!" and my response is "Moore has one less rushing attempt than Parker!". That's right! Moore is averaging 5 yards per carry where Parker is only at 4 per carry. Yes it would be nice to have Parker back but it should be as a backup to Moore so the Steelers can have the Crash and Flash duo. Also, this week Holmes will be returning to the starting lineup so maybe if he has a good game and scores a couple of touchdowns he can shut all of us up, including myself, for giving him crap by saying because he wasn't around is why the Steelers lost. Please... prove us wrong Holmes!
This week the Steelers not only need to keep it they also need to stop the run, so with that here are the things the Steelers need to do to get back into the win column:
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But Rawicki, now a retired optician living in Seminole, persevered with the rest of his quest. He wanted to properly honor Janusz Rybakiewicz, the Polish Catholic teenager who befriended him and gave him a chance at life denied millions of other European Jews.
The two teenagers met in 1943, a chance encounter unfolding against the backdrop of World War II, its Nazi-fostered anti-Semitism, persecution and slaughter.
At 16, Rawicki had fought in and survived the Warsaw ghetto uprising that ended in the capture and death of thousands of Jewish residents. He escaped the demolished ghetto and decided that with his blond hair and false papers he'd attempt to pass as a non-Jew by day and spend his nights hiding wherever he could: this at a time when those who assisted Jews faced execution.
One day, Rawicki felt so despondent, he went to a riverside beach to try to escape his troubles for a few hours. There, he ran into three other teenage boys, non-Jews playing hooky from school. When the small group started to break up a few hours later, one of his new friends, Janusz Rybakiewicz, remained behind but soon suggested they go home. Rawicki told him the truth.
"I said, 'I'm a Jew,' '' he said.
Janusz' response stunned him.
"He took me home and introduced me to his mother, who was in shock. They decided to put me in the cellar overnight. They kept it from the father, because they didn't know how he would react to it. They brought me food and blankets, then, during the day, I would go out and roam the streets.''
Rawicki remained with the family for more than a week, then escaped from Warsaw into the countryside.
"I never got to talk to Janusz again,'' he said.
Rawicki tried to find his friend at the end of the war, but the family's home had been destroyed.
"Nobody knew where he was, and then I gave up,'' said Rawicki, who moved to the United States in 1949.
"Then one night, I had a dream, and I resumed the search again.''
Three years ago the American Red Cross gave him the news that Janusz was dead. According to a book by a Polish author, he was arrested in May or June of 1943 — weeks after he and Rawicki met — and executed at dawn on Feb. 11, 1944. He was 18 years old.
"I finally knew what happened,'' said Rawicki, who lost his parents and a sister in the Holocaust.
"This word closure is overused, but I knew this chapter was closed.''
He thinks often of Janusz' fate. It's "a morbid coincidence,'' he says, that his rescuer was hanged from a balcony on the same street where Rawicki once lived.
Rawicki wanted Janusz honored by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, in Israel. The program has recognized more than 22,000 non-Jews — 6,066 from Poland — for risking their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, said Estee Yaari, a Yad Vashem spokesperson.
Last summer, Janusz Rybakiewicz was added to the roll of Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations.''
"To me, I think he was deserving of it,'' said Rawicki, 81.
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ATLANTA — A Georgia man charged with murder after his 22-month-old son died in a hot SUV searched online for information about kids dying in cars and told police he feared it could happen, according to documents released Saturday as the boy's family planned a funeral in Alabama.
The search warrants, including the family's condo, car and electronics, released by the Cobb County Police Department provide more insight into the investigation of Cooper Harris' death on June 18.
Justin Ross Harris, 33, has told police he was supposed to drive his son to day care that morning but drove to work without realizing that his son was strapped into a car seat in the back.
In an interview after his son's death, Harris told investigators he had done a search on what temperature could cause a child's death in a vehicle.
"During an interview with Justin, He stated that he recently researched, through the internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. Justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen," one of the four warrants released to The Associated Press stated.
Harris also told police he was on his way to meet friends after work when he realized his son was in the back seat and pulled into a shopping center to get help, according to the warrants.
Harris is charged with murder and second-degree child cruelty in his son's death, and remained in jail on Saturday as family members prepared to hold a funeral in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Police have said facts in the case "do not point toward simple negligence." A previously released arrest warrant stated that Harris stopped with his son for breakfast and returned to put something inside his car during the day while the child was still inside. The Cobb County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday that it believes the cause of Cooper Harris' death was hyperthermia and manner of death was homicide.
The temperature that day was 88 degrees at 5:16 p.m., according to a warrant filed the day after the child died.
Police searched the Marietta, Georgia condo where the family lives, looking for a laptop, electronic devices documents, photographs and any "evidence of child neglect, child abuse." They also searched Harris' cellphone and the light blue 2011 Hyundai Tucson that Harris was driving when his son died.
Police said in the warrants that they were searching for trace evidence including hair, fingerprints, blood or DNA inside the car and any computers, electronic devices or paperwork "related to the crime of Homicide and Cruelty to Children."
In an obituary published this week, the child's family said Justin Ross Harris and his wife, Leanna, were "the most proud parents there could ever have been."
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Most minifigs and Vehicles abide by the agreement (an unspoken agreement, since few Vehicles can speak) that minifig Weapons are for minifigs, and Vehicle Weapons are for Vehicles. There are occasional contrary-minded minifigs who refuse to play along, however, and insist on hauling around Weapons that are too big for them. For normal minifigs, this means hauling a portable Turret into position in the field, and trying to keep that position secure long enough to set up the Turret and Weapon and lay down fire.
A standard Turret costs 1CP, measures 1" in Size and can mount a Size 2" Weapon. (Larger Turrets are occasionally seen, and are purchased as regular Creations of the appropriate Size.) For minifigs hauling Turrets and Weapons into position, remember that a single minifig can haul a 1" object at regular speed (although they can't Sprint), or a 2" object at Half Speed (7.3: Field Construction).
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Bully? Jermaine's 9 Year Old Son Gets Punched In The Face Or Hand By His Brother
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The Grahams' life seems like something out of a fairy tale. Alyssa and Doug Graham forged a friendship as children and eventually fell in love with music and each other. They have gone from being two singer-songwriters bound together by a passion for bluegrass and Americana to a jazz-pop duo and back.
The Grahams released "Riverman's Daughter" (12 South Records/Red Distribution) in 2013 and have been on the road since. They will perform at The Mint in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
"Riverman's Daughter" came about from a songwriting session at home in the summer of 2012.
"It felt like we were kids again, we were having fun singing harmonies and playing guitars together sitting on our apartment floor," Alyssa Graham said.
The experience made the couple nostalgic for the days when their music and love were new. It also sparked a trip on the Great River Road, following the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana, to hear other musicians playing traditional American music. Along the way, the Grahams gathered inspiration for their own songwriting and holed up in a houseboat in Louisiana to write. Learning that Doug Graham's mother's battle with cancer was ending, the duo left their idyllic home to be by her side until the end. The influences of their journey and the emotions of losing a loved one, plus their re-blossoming passion for roots music and each other, all combined into the material for "Riverman's Daughter."
"Malcolm (Burn) our producer did a phenomenal job harnessing the soul out of these songs and maintaining their integrity in the studio by things that he did like recording the two of us sitting next to each other with no headphones or no isolation, recording analog, capturing the essence of old-time folk music that was so important to us," Alyssa Graham said. "I like fans to know that because it was more than making a record to us, it was really this soulful moment in our lives together that came out in this grouping of stories."
Today the Grahams laugh as they admit they call their 1971 Chevy Suburban home, as they have been on the road for more than a year supporting their album. But they're happy.
"We're soul mates and music is this huge bond that we have, and we know each other's ups and downs and each other's quirks, and we feel really really lucky that we can spend time together living our dream and we don't take that for granted," Alyssa Graham said.
"The hardest part of what we do is we fight when we're writing music, but that's fun and passionate. We're really extremely bored when we have to drive nine hours. Those are the tough times," Doug Graham said.
Both of the Grahams come up with ideas for new material and they work as a team to hone and complete their songs. For some of the tunes on "Riverman's Daughter" they also enlisted the aid of childhood friend Bryan McCann.
"Our folk music is in the story," Alyssa Graham said. "I hear so much different kinds of music out on the road and we love lots of different genres of music. But we consider ourselves storytellers, maybe more than we consider ourselves musicians."
The folk genre traces itself through Europe and Africa before coming to America, Alyssa Graham said, with telling a story at its core, whether it's about politics, social issues or bare emotions.
"It grabs you and it resurges all the time because it's meaningful. And telling stories that people can relate to is, for us, what music is about," Alyssa Graham said.
The Grahams are already writing material for their next effort and have added three of their new tunes to their live shows. After they complete the current tour, the duo plans to go into the studio and hopes to have a new album out early next year.
"Right now we're touring like dogs and we'll be touring for the next two months or so. I'm looking forward to a little break," Doug Graham said.
He quickly counters that Los Angeles and, more honestly, anywhere in California, is his favorite place to perform. Alyssa Graham seems just pleased to be on the road playing their music for appreciative audiences.
"We love bringing our stories around the country. When we play small, intimate clubs, that's our favorite thing to do. To sit down in a cozy environment and play these songs or tell these stories to people who want to listen and share them with other people," Alyssa Graham said.


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Teacher wellbeing can be overlooked as a 'nice to have' rather than as essential. But, from an organisational perspective, employee wellbeing is an important factor in quality, performance and productivity.
Work-life balance is something that is often spoken about in the education sector, but is often difficult to achieve. Read our guide to help you find that ever-elusive sweet spot of a work-life balance.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 19, 2005) - East Tennessee State received solid pitching from their starters and bullpen while coming up with some clutch hits as the Buccaneers won both games of a doubleheader against Niagara, 5-4 and 3-2, Saturday afternoon from Cardinal Park in Johnson City, Tenn.
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Both teams were scoreless for the next three innings until the Purple Eagles took a 4-1 lead with three runs in the top of the seventh. Andrew MacNevin and Jeff Vincent led off the frame with back-to-back solo home runs. Chris Leendertse then followed with a double down the right field line, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a single to left by Brian Clifford.
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ManageSocial brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 35 Designs von 10 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Melon Media started in 2000 and has evolved into a specialist digital agency. At our core is a love of online applications and how they can solve real life business problems.
Our latest application is called TourCow. TourCow is navigation guide that makes it easy for people to create tours for their website. We use a unique "focus" system that highlights only parts of the page we are interested in touring the user through. This system is designed to revolutionise the way people learn how a website works. We guide people through the specific elements they need to click in order to perform a task. It reduces user confusion and helps them engage with the website they are visiting.
We are looking for a logo design to both use in branding the system and to use as the default "tour guide" to sit beside the tour panels. It will help personify the guide.
Businesses will use the application to incorporate on their websites to help new users and clients navigate and use their website effectively. We need to appeal to a wide range of users - as the application can be included on any website, we need a logo that appeals to any audience.
Design a logo. We need a logo that is easily personified - it should convey a friendly personality and with anime-like characteristics. We like big eyes. It should be cute without being too immature. The navigation tool will move around the page, so this logo could have flying incorporated into the image (ie wings), although this is not necessary.
Please see the attached images for existing branding using an "owl". This is the logo for one of our existing products. We would like the TourCow logo to look similar, but with a cow in the place of the owl.
We do want;
* A logo of a cow with a personality.
* The logo should have the type "TourCow" sitting next to it, but it should be seperable. The logo needs to be able to sit alone.
* Blue, black and white are the preferred color scheme (but flexible if you think something else works better).
* Fun, charming and engaging without being too childish.
* Web file format - layered .psd (RGB)
We do not want;
* Realistic cow images. The logo should be an illustration.
* Logos without a cow :)
* The text "TourCow" sitting on top of the cow. It should sit next to or below the cow.
* Overly detailed illustrations. The cow should be recognisable when scaled down.
Thank you for your submissions!
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A resource for the obscure little world of collecting booksellers' marks and related ephemera...
Welcome to BooksellerLabels.com. This site is a resource for collectors and those interested in booksellers' marks and related ephemera. Bookseller labels have a long history and are richly entwined with the history of bookselling worldwide, and BooksellerLabels.com offers a glimpse of their history, books on the subject, a gallery of images, news, and links to fellow collectors.
What is a Bookseller Label?
Defining a bookseller label is a relatively easy task: it's a small sticker placed in a new or used book to advertise the bookseller who sold it. It's a tradition that has declined in the last few decades, but still persists due to dedicated booksellers across the globe. Once heavily used in Great Britain and Europe, now bookseller labels can be found on all continents. They are also commonly called book trade labels.
The label acts as a miniature advertisement that, in its most basic form, gives the name and city of the bookseller. More elaborate labels may include multiple store locations, other products or services they offer (stationery, blank books, binding), mottos, and, in the 21st century, web addresses. They are often attractive and curious to come across, but these little labels serve a real purpose. In my shop, when we stick labels in books we're not only carrying on a grand bookselling tradition, we're trying to prompt the reader into a return trip. If the book is borrowed, given away, or even ends up in a library sale, the advertising pool grows.
These labels are usually found on the lower, gutter-edge of the rear pastedown, front pastedown or front-free endpaper, though I have seen them on the upper left corner of front pastedowns (hiding under the jacket flap), title pages, copyright pages, and even the back covers of paperbacks.
The sizes of bookseller labels vary greatly, but most are small and unobtrusive with a maximum size of 20 – 30 mm in any dimension. Some are quite large, even reaching the dimensions of a business card. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera reports that bookseller labels find their roots in 18th century labels that were indistinguishable from trade cards and measured as large as 180 by 115 mm and, "unlike its unobtrusive successor, the large label often occupied a dominate position on the front or back pastedown, filling virtually the whole of the space available." 1 These large labels are now usually referred to as "stationers' labels," and booksellers took a hint from the more tasteful and subdued tickets of the bookbinding trade.
A selection of labels from the Netherlands, all with interesting shapes.
The shapes and designs are as diverse as the sizes: rectangles and squares, circles and ovals, triangles, octagons, scrolls, banners, and the beautiful die-cut book shapes. Open books, closed books, shelves of books, stacks of books—they are, in my opinion, one of the most stunning and fitting designs. The methods of printing, types of paper, and colors are all over the map as well.
Bookseller labels are difficult to date as they could have been placed at any time after the publication and distribution of a book. In the case of second-hand booksellers, like yours truly, the label could have been placed decades after publication. While publication dates can help to very generally narrow down the age of a new bookseller's label, it is best to determine the date by the type of paper, printing technique and the history of the bookseller. And the history of the bookseller and the provenance of the book are where the label finds its importance. In the case of rare books, bookseller labels form an intricate web—along with bookplates, library stamps, inscriptions, auctioneer stamps, etc.—to track the ownership history of a fine book. The study of provenance allows us, as David Pearson says, "to build up wider pictures of the patterns of book ownership through the centuries, and to see how those patterns change in terms of size, composition, language, subject, or origin. These observations lead on to yield information about the history of the book trade, and about the importance of books in society." 2 When a book travels from printer to binder to bookseller to private collector or library—or any combination thereof—the booksellers' label is an important link in that chain.
Not one, but three ink stamps in an old paperback western. Michigan, Texas and Utah. A fun way to track a book, but pretty unappealing. These stamps are booksellers' marks.
An embossed stamp, another type of booksellers' mark.
Now that I've given a brief description of what a bookseller label is we should discuss what a bookseller label is not, and this opens the label vs. mark debate. A bookseller label is a label that is affixed to a book. It can be self-adhesive, gummed, or attached using glue. A bookseller mark includes labels, as well as ink stamps and embossed stamps. Pretty cut and dry? Not so fast…
Are these (above) bookseller labels? No. To my mind a proper mark must include the intent to create a bookseller label, and these are nothing but price tags. But if you like it, collect it. Department store labels are another grey area. There are many labels that simply state the name of a department store (like Herpolsheimers or Macy's), but say nothing about books or a book department. If one was removed from a book, does that count as a bookseller label. Maybe, maybe not. Go with your heart.
One thing that is definitely not a bookseller label is a bookbinders' ticket. They generally share the same diminutive size and often the design is similar, but, as The Encyclopedia of Ephemera puts it, "the bookseller's label differs from the binder's ticket only in that it is an item added to a product by a retailer rather than being inserted by a craftsman as an individual 'signature.'"3 One collector put it this way, "tickets are proof of work, that's why binders have tickets. Bookseller labels are glorified address labels. You wouldn't put a return address ticket on an envelope and booksellers don't put tickets in books."
They are definitely not the same. Well, sometimes they are…
Above are samples of labels (or tickets) of bookbinders who are also booksellers—or booksellers who are also bookbinders. What do you call these? It doesn't matter, call them what you want. To put it simply, a bookseller affixes labels and a binder affixes tickets. Sometimes a binder has a label, and sometimes a bookseller has a ticket. Wheh!
Moving on, where do you find labels? Aside from trading with other collectors, I've found most of my labels in books at library sales and the discount book racks most used booksellers have on their sidewalks. Most labels have little monetary value individually, so it doesn't pay to buy a book that is much more than a dollar or two just for the label–and if the label is in a very expensive book you shouldn't remove it anyway. Labels are similar to bookplates, they are part of the book's history and should only be removed when the book has little historical, monetary or association value. I've never met a label collector that wasn't a book collector first, and when one of us holds a book there is a feeling—we just know that the label, like a bookplate, should remain intact.
Two vintage micro spatulas and an old, and very odd, dental tool that I use for lifting off labels.
To remove a label, I've found the easiest way is to cut a couple of layers of paper towel to the exact shape of the label and then add a drop or two of water. Wait 10 minutes, give or take, and then peel off the label using a fine-edged tool like a pair of stamp tongs or a bookbinder's spatula (also called a micro spatula). I use an old, odd dental tool (see the photo). This technique works very well for most vintage labels. Newer, self-adhesive labels may require the use of adhesive removers like Goo Gone or un-du. Some labels, like modern self-adhesive foil labels, are difficult to remove and may require some experimentation. Above all, if the book is salvageable, care must be taken to leave as little evidence of your tampering as possible. In addition, ninety-nine percent of the time a binder's ticket should never be removed by anyone but an experienced bookbinder when working on the volume.
Most of the images on this page are from the collection of Vernon Wiering.
1. Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian. Routledge (New York), 2000. Pg. 63.
2. Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook. Oak Knoll, with the British Library (New Castle, Delaware), 1998, 2nd ed. Pg. 2.
3. Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian. Routledge (New York), 2000. Pg. 62.


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Fast and Furious Cleaning Takes Over Households
Packaged products giants are increasingly catering to people whose cleaning style is to clean with a million touchups in as little time as possible. And they are willing to pay for products that help them do this. Ellen Byron has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Clorox.
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Area residents will have the opportunity to celebrate "a true community legend" this Saturday at New London Airport.
The Friends of New London Virginia will be holding Rucker Tibbs Day on Saturday, July 6 at the New London Airport.
Rucker Tibbs is a living legend and, if you show up at the airport, you'll get to meet him. Tibbs owns Rucker Tibbs Aviation, the fixed base operator at the airport and he's there every day.
Bedford County Farm Bureau's Young Farmers will hold a Farm Safety Day at the Bedford Southern States on Independence Boulevard on July 6 from 11a.m. until 2 p.m. The safety day will go ahead, rain or shine, as most of it is under tents.
Domino's Pizza opened at 109 North Bridge Street in Bedford this month.
That's the building next door to Arthur's Jewelry. The interior has been completely remodeled, and it's more than a cosmetic facelift. According to Kenneth Cobbs, the franchise owner, they stripped the interior "joist to joist." The also completely redid the electrical wiring and plumbing. The process took seven weeks.
"The [electrical] service here was almost original," Cobbs said.
This is the third year that Cintas has turned its Cintas Safety and Wellness Day into a large event with employees' family members invited. This year's event, held Friday, drew nearly 200 people.
According to Heath Wright, the health and safety coordinator, the event is intended to emphasize safety both at work and in the community.
A number of health care providers and organizations were on hand with informational booths ranging from the Red Cross to Bedford Memorial Hospital.
Landmark Media Enterprises, owner of The Bedford Bulletin, announced that it sold The Roanoke Times to Warren Buffett's BH Media Group on Friday.
The sale has no effect on operations of the Bulletin. The newspaper will continue to be printed at The Roanoke Times' plant, as it has been since 2005.
The Bulletin will continue to be operated by Landmark Community Newspapers.
Teva Pharmaceuticals' Forest facility was looking for a community project, according to Paul Opdyke, the facility's human resources director.
The company settled on helping the National D-Day Memorial get ready for the D-Day anniversary observance on June 6. Opdyke said that he and the plant manager both have been involved in similar projects in other areas. He asked plant employees if they were interested.
"The response was overwhelming," he said.
Bedford Memorial Hospital has been here for 60 years and its newest offering is digital mammography.
"It's state-of-the-art," said Patti Jurkus, the hospital's CEO.
"It's the newest technology," added Lisa Jordan, the hospital's imaging services manager.
The new equipment provides a number of advantages, including a reduced examination time. Jordan said it also allows for a more comfortable exam.
Late last year, Julio Ortíz and Esperanza Forero finally threw in the towel at their old location in the Shop Rite plaza and moved across Va. 122 to reopen in a space next to the Moneta Food Lion. They reopened on April 13 after nearly four months of work to turn what was essentially a large, empty room into a restaurant.
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Change is coming to Jackson Street in Centertown Bedford.
Developer David McCormack has announced plans to develop the historic Clark and Company Plug Tobacco Warehouse into 32 apartments and a recent grant secured by Bedford Main Street, Inc., will help finance public improvements to that road.
"It will certainly have an impact on downtown," stated Sue Montgomery, executive director of Bedford Main Street, Inc., on the development plans. "This could give us a shot in the arm."
There was a time in the past when post offices in rural communities were often in general stores. Now, in an effort to expand its services, the Postal Service is going back to that concept with community post offices. Roadside Market (the BP station in Montvale) recently became the third such post office in Southwestern Virginia.
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Squeezing in one more vacation before the summer's out? Make sure it's one to remember…and not because your hotel was infested with bed bugs. In a recent survey, the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) found that 75% of pest control professionals have encountered infestations of bed bugs in hotels and motels.
"Just because the room looks nice doesn't mean there's not a creepy crawler waiting for you in bed", said Mechele Agbayani Mills, President and CEO of BBB Serving Central East Texas. ". Take the time to ensure that your hotel room is bug free before you unpack and get settled in."
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If you do need to change rooms, be sure that you do not move to a room adjacent and/or directly above/below the suspected infestation. Bed bugs can easily hitchhike via housekeeping carts, luggage and even through wall sockets. If an infestation is spreading, it typically does so in the rooms closest to the origin.
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Sept. 30, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT women's volleyball team recorded a thrilling 25-15, 25-20, 23-25, 22-25, 15-11 victory over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match on Tuesday night. With the win, the Engineers improved to 11-8 on the year and 3-1 in conference play while the Bears dropped to 5-8 overall and 2-2 in the NEWMAC.
MIT jumped out to a 9-2 lead in the opening game and then extended its advantage to 20-9. Coast Guard trimmed its deficit to eight (23-15), but kills by Barden Cleeland and Cecily Joujon-Roche closed out the set for the Engineers.
In the second stanza, the Bears established a 7-3 edge before MIT knotted the contest at eight. Coast Guard capitalized on several miscues by the Engineers to increase its margin to three (12-9). MIT countered with a 10-0 run keyed by strong serving from Jenny Li. The Bears narrowed the gap to four (20-16) but that was as close as it would get as each side traded points with Katrina Ellison registering the set-winning kill.
The Cardinal and Gray recorded a quick 8-3 lead but Coast Guard responded with seven straight points powered by tough serving from Nicole Johnson. MIT evened the score at 10 before the Bears inched out to an 18-13 advantage. Following their own timeout, the Engineers tallied four straight points including back-to-back strikes from Cleeland. The spurt prompted a timeout by Coast Guard, which picked up the next two points (20-17) to gain some breathing room. MIT battled back and tied the set at 21 however a pair of miscues gave the Bears the lead for good.
The early stages of the fourth frame were closely played as a kill by Ellison tied the score at nine. Sparked by Nicole Gurr's serving, Coast Guard mounted an 11-2 run that resulted in a 20-11 advantage. Key blocks by Cleeland and timely hits from Li helped bring MIT within one (23-22). After a timeout by the Bears, a hitting error ended the Engineers' late rally as Coast Guard held on to force the decisive fifth set.
Strong blocking helped propel MIT to a 6-1 lead in the final frame but the Bears responded with five consecutive points. The Engineers went on to record eight of the next 10 points, setting up match point at 14-8. Coast Guard extended the contest with three straight points and forced a timeout by MIT. Following the break, Joujon-Roche's kill grazed the Bears' blocking attempt and sealed the win for the Engineers.
Ellison posted a team-high 17 digs to go along with four blocks while Li totaled seven kills, three blocks, and three aces. Cleeland racked up 16 kills and seven blocks as Alex May tallied 19 kills and 13 digs. Lindsay Hunting collected 15 digs and two aces while Cathy Melnikow notched 39 assists and three blocks. Evelyn Cordner contributed six assists to MIT's effort.
Gurr compiled 17 digs, 11 kills, four aces, and two blocks for Coast Guard. Johnson chipped in 10 kills and two aces as Mary Bitzer bolstered the Bears' attack with eight kills. Jessica Anderson registered 30 digs and an ace while Heather Watka and Ashley Bullard shared setting duties, distributing 15 and 14 assists, respectively.
Both teams will return to non-conference play this weekend. MIT will participate in the Tufts University Invitational, hosting Polytechnic University and Colby-Sawyer College on Friday, Oct. 3 before making the trip to Tufts the next day. Coast Guard will host Salve Regina University and Mitchell College in a tri-match on Saturday, Oct. 4.


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Thanks, but I'm not sure what this means, despite looking at the other translations in Mike's thread.daverupa wrote:The various translations of the word-play over the aggregates in SN 22.79 is worth studying in this regard (though perhaps the difference between sanna and vinnana is not well-stated there).
Here is Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation:
SN 22.79 wrote:And why, bhikkhus, do you call them volitional formations? 'They construct the conditioned,' bhikkhus, therefore they are called volitional formations. And what is the conditioned that they construct? They construct conditioned form as form; they construct conditioned feeling as feeling; they construct conditioned perception as perception; they construct conditioned volitional formations as volitional formations; they construct conditioned consciousness as consciousness. 'They construct the conditioned,' bhikkhus, therefore they are called volitional formations.
How do volitional formations construct conditioned form? And how do volitional formations construct volitional formations?


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The Woods Hole Research Center has been working on the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) and have just released datasets from the first nine project mapping zones. All NBCD2000 data products can be downloaded on a zone-by-zone basis from the NBCD2000 project website. The datasets are free, but you do have to register at the site. The NBCD project is a really impressive undertaking, utilizing data from Landsat and SRTM, and derived data products like the National Land Cover Dataset 2001, LANDFIRE (vegetation), and the National Elevation Dataset to model biomass zones.
The team's hope is to continue releasing datasets approximately one every week or so, until the project is completed sometime in 2009. There is an online mapping tool for viewing and querying the progress of the NBCD zone mapping (although it did not seem to be working correctly when I visited the site). A static map image of the current progress can be found here.


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Connect the dots on climate change
Climate is weather averaged over time, influenced by local geography, distance from the equator and ocean, local topography and elevation. Within the constraints of climate trends, daily weather is somewhat unpredictable. Unfortunately, we are experiencing rapid global-scale climatic changes producing increasing high temperatures, rising sea levels, ocean heat content, water vapor and sea surface temperatures with dwindling glaciers, ice sheets, snow cover and sea ice and weather chaos.
Although forewarned, we are unprepared! Temperature is not increasing equally everywhere, but average global temperature is increasing. Climate change is the big picture.
On a planet that experienced the hottest May and June since records began in 1880, we learn that July was the hottest Medford July on record, an event totally consistent with the century-long trend of increasing local temperature.
We are gambling with our future! Is it wise to continue adding pollutants to the atmosphere on which we depend? We all have to breathe, so we breathe our pollutants. The health and safety of Oregonians is at stake; we face water shortages, coastal vulnerabilities, forest impacts, and agricultural threats.
Our media should help connect the dots. Southern Oregon can be proactive or reactive. Think about it!
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Even well-mannered dogs poop in the park
This is in reference to Mr. Mike McDonald's letter to the editor, published on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014.
I like "well-mannered dogs and owners," there is no question about that. However, if the city of Ashland followed Mr. McDonald's advice, to welcome "well-mannered dogs and owners" to Lithia Park, my question is: How do we distinguish between well-mannered dogs and owners and not so well-mannered dogs and owners? Whatever your answer to this question might be, I continue reasoning as follows: I like to stretch out on the lawn in Lithia Park and relax. I am sure I am not the only person to do this.
My second question is: How many gazillions of bacteria are left on the grass after he picked up after his dog. Does he really think that spot is clean? Who wants to lie on the grass where his dog left its feces? In addition, I have never observed any dog owner rinsing the grass after their dog urinated there.
My last question is this. What should take precedence: the right of tax-paying citizens to sit on the lawn in Lithia Park or "man's best friends' " right to poop wherever they need to?
Udo Gorsch-Nies, Ashland
Reference to Seda was unnecessary
The front page story on the maple that died after the Plaza remodel (Monday, Aug. 11) is a good example of a local story of interest to most Ashlanders — kudos. However, the last paragraph in the story written by John Darling left a sour taste in my mouth. It references Pete Seda, formerly a well-known arborist in Ashland, as having been instrumental in the planting of the tree, but then goes on to recount (for probably the 20th time in the Tidings over the years) that he was convicted on tax charges, after having had a more serious conviction overturned.
Mr. Seda has served his time, and has been retried in the press a dozen times. Wouldn't a more gracious story have simply concluded with the praise given him for his arborist work by Dave Chasmar, and left it at that?
Keith Chambers, Ashland
A fond look back
After 42 years of working with children and families with special needs, it's time to hang up the gloves and retire.
What have I learned from years at The Olalla Center and Plowshare, Inc.?
- That I was lucky to work with serious, good people in Grants Pass, Ashland and Lincoln County;
- That children with unusual problems can be helped by firm, consistent, gentle adults who are willing to listen to medical doctors.
As I step away from full time work, I want to thank a group of unusual people from all over Oregon: Dr. Dennis Reynolds, Dr. Jack Kaczmarek, Dr. David Oas, Dr. Sean Rash, Dr. Stephen Burns, Dr. Ron Taylor, Dr. Jerry Vergamini, Dr. Wendy Seville and Dr. Birgit Meyer. Also, a very special thank you to John Arnold, who always provided inspiration and support.
My continuing concern is that we professionals always remember that parents may need help at odd hours, evenings and weekends, and that we should keep searching for ways to help in those times. My concern for parents is that reading one article in Time magazine, Psychology Today or going on the Internet cannot be substituted for the advice of a doctor or therapist who has put in post-graduate studies for five to 10 years.
I must add a thank you to all the parents who have let me sit at their kitchen table, night after night, in Grants Pass, Medford and Lincoln County to try to solve problems. I appreciate your trust and your very hard work to make a good life for your children. Remember there are still a fine group of therapists, doctors and special education staff at the Olalla Center ready to offer you help with diagnosis and successful interventions. See you around!
Ray Burleigh, M.Ed, Retired, Wilderville


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Lipscomb University men's basketball coach Scott Sanderson has announced the signing of point guard Brandon Hartwell from Rend Lake College in Ina, Ill.
Hartwell, 6-foot-2, 185 pounds, played one season at Rend Lake averaging 10 points and six assists per game.
"I like everything about the situation at Lipscomb," Hartwell said. "The school and the area seem great, and the coaches are going to be great to play for. I think we have a great chance to win a lot of games."
He played high school basketball at Columbus North High in Columbus, Ind., where he served as team captain as both a junior and senior. He made the state high school coaches' association all-star team; and was also All-Conference. He was named All-Area Player of the Year. He averaged 19 points and four assists per game his senior year of high school.
"Brandon has been the hardest working player I've seen," said Jay Payne, coach at Columbus North. "He has spent more time on the court developing his game than any player I have had."
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Hi everyone, this is my first post. I've been trying to breastfeed my 4 week old since birth and can't seem to get the hang of it. This is going to be a little on the long side as my frustrating breastfeeding journey is lengthy. I'm just looking for more advice on what to do. I breastfed her within an hour after birth, even though I had a c-section the nurses were wonderful about meeting my request to breastfeed as soon as possible. Right away she had trouble latching on because I have flat nipples. Eventually we got her on there, but she kept slipping off. The LC at the hospital gave me a nipple shield to use, which worked well for a few days, but then it started to get in the way. I couldn't get it to stick properly and the baby was collapsing the tip of it because she wasn't on there far enough despite my many attempts to get her on there properly.
After discharge from the hospital the baby went for her first check up 3 days later and lost 10% of her birth weight and her doctor was concerned so told me to supplement with formula. Which we did and still do during the night when she's exceptionally hungry. She is a big baby, over 9 pounds at birth so it's not like she was getting too skinny, the doctor just didn't want her to lose anymore weight. Four days later when we went back she gained 2 ounces a day, which was great. Meanwhile, I continued to have issues with her latching so I called the LC at the and asked if I could come in for help. During the visit we were able to get her to latch, but she was upset that the milk wasn't flowing fast enough and would pull away crying. The LC set me up with a tube device (the name of it is escaping me), I clipped the tube filled with formula to my shirt and the other end was taped to my breast so baby got a faster milk flow. It worked wonderfully while there, but once I got home with it I couldn't get it stay in place and it became another object of frustration so I stopped using it.
The next day I said to myself that I will get the baby to latch without any contraptions and to my surprise it worked! She latched on and for the rest of the day I had no problems getting her to latch. Then by the next day I was so incredibly sore, obviously she wasn't on there correctly and I didn't know it. The pain became so bad when she would latch that I literally would scream. One time my husband came running in the room thinking I was seriously hurt. I couldn't tolerate the pain any longer and decided to pump and feed her by bottle. I was aware of the risks of doing this because of nipple confusion, but I was in so much pain... not to mention sleep deprived and incredibly frustrated because breastfeeding wasn't working out. I literally dreaded feeding time... which brought me to tears because I wanted and still want so badly to enjoy breastfeeding my baby.
I went back to the hospital and saw a different LC and she showed me how to get the baby to latch by making a "nipple sandwich" and pushing the baby on. It worked well there, but once again when I got home I couldn't get her to latch properly. The latch looked good, lips were flanged out and open wide... yet it still hurt. It pinched every time she would swallow and I would hear a clicking noise at times. I had blisters and extremely tender nipples. I went back to pumping and feeding her by bottle so I could heal again. In the meantime while pumping I developed a cluster of clogged ducts on the top of my left breast. I kept trying to relieve this by putting a warm compress on my breast before and during pumping. It wasn't working and they were only getting harder and more painful. So I went out and bought a larger flange and thankfully had immediate relief. The larger flanges are technically too large though as my whole areola is sucked into it. I continued to use it though since it was what got the milk flowing from those ducts. After a week or so of straight pumping I wanted to attempt to breastfeed again, but I told myself not to get so frustrated if it doesn't work out because at least she's getting the breast milk by bottle. These occasional breastfeeding sessions were going well, even though again she still wasn't latched properly, but since it was only a couple times a day the pain never got to the point where it was unbearable. This past week I've been attempting to breastfeed her more often... several times a day. Now she doesn't want to open her mouth wide enough, I guess because she's gotten use to the bottles. Eventually she will open wide, but it takes a lot of coaxing and me gently pulling on her chin. However, no matter what I do I can never get the nipple far enough in her mouth. Yesterday I did manage to get her on there far enough and for the first time I didn't feel anything... just a gentle tugging. No pinching, no noises and I was so excited. Two seconds later she slipped down to her usual spot and the tenderness returned. To top it all off that same cluster of clogged ducts has returned and pumping/breastfeeding isn't relieving it this time. I tried to put the baby on that breast again and after a half hour of attempting to get a correct latch I decided to give up. I'm really close to just giving up entirely on breastfeeding and giving her formula. It hurts me so much to say that, but I don't know what else to do. I've tried so hard to make this work and we can't seem to get the hang of it. I've read tons of information on how to get baby to latch correctly, I've watched videos and looked at pictures and I just can't seem to get it. Any suggestions on how to get her to latch properly would be greatly appreciated. Also, any idea on how to relieve this cluster of clogged ducts? The pump is an Ameda Purely Yours, so I'm surprised it's not draining the milk better. Thanks in advance for reading this and offering your suggestions. Even if it doesn't work out, it feels nice to vent!


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Program on gun violence is Tuesday
NEWTOWN -- The Newtown Action Alliance will have a town hall-style meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall at the high school to give area residents a chance to learn about legislative gun violence prevention initiatives and offer their thoughts. The alliance, a grass-roots organization formed after the Dec. 14 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators, is focused on creating legislative and cultural changes to address gun violence and related issues. The alliance's website says the group is "working tirelessly to take and accelerate ethical actions, legislatively or otherwise, which reduce gun violence and death, both near and long term." Local lawmakers -- including state Rep. Mitch Bolinsky, R-106th; state Sen. John McKinney, R-28th, and state Rep. Dan Carter, R-2nd, who are part of the state's bipartisan task force on gun violence, school security and mental health, are slated to attend the forum. The organization started its conversation about gun law reform earlier this month with a session at Edmond Town Hall attended by local residents, parents and politicians.


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Melissa Clark's Seared Duck Breast with Garam Masala and Grapes
It'd be a shame to pass over a described as a "masterpiece." Full stop. In Secrets of the Best Chefs, Adam Roberts is totally enamored of Melissa Clark's recipe development process. And his adoration is most evident in his headnote to Clark's recipe for Seared Duck Breast with Garam Masala and Grapes. It's a relatively simple recipe (duck breast gets an hour-long rest with garam masala and salt before being seared, finished in the oven, and topped with a pan sauce of grapes, cinnamon, and balsamic vinegar) with show-stopping results.
Why I picked this recipe: Duck breasts + warm Indian spices + sautéed grapes = major win.
What worked: Garam masala, cinnamon, and grapes is a winning combination, especially with rich, funky duck.
What didn't: Eaten without the sauce, the duck was a bit salty. Pull back a little on the seasoning if you're sensitive. I'd also tweak my searing method next time around and start in a cold pan. This way the fat would have more of a chance to render before burning the skin.
Suggested tweaks: As Roberts states in the headnote, this recipe would be equally lovely with cherries. And if you're not a fan of warm spices with duck, go ahead and play around with a spice rub of your choice.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Secrets of the Best Chefs to give away this week.
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LIVINGSTON, NJ - The Livingston Board of Education Wednesday night unanimously voted to hold a referendum to give residents the opportunity to make their voices heard on potentianl construction at the elementary school and high school.
After the board members explained each of their views on the potential construction referendum, they each voted "yes." On March 12, there will be a special school district election so town residents can provide whether they are for or against the plan.
If the town votes in favor of the referendum, the budget for the project's estimated cost is $18.1 million.
Board member Ronnie Spring said that by voting "yes" he and his fellow board members are not voting to spend $18 million, they are voting to allow residents to make the decision.
Member Leslie Winograd agreed and added that for the town's public education longevity, the referendum is necessary.
"For the long term health of this school district, this is the right thing to do," Winograd said.
New addition to the Board of Education, David Jasin told attendees that due to his years of experience "wearing several hats," he has made an informed decision that the construction is necessary.
New member Pam Chirls voiced her original concern with the referendum, but after she and other board members toured the schools with Superintendent Brad Draeger, she changed her mind.
"What I discovered really surprised me. Every classroom and multi-purpose space is being used in every elementary school," Chirls said.
Before and after members voiced their votes, the public were given a chance to comment about the topic. All but two were opposed to the referendum and the "tight" time frame in which the public will be expected to make a decision.
"I'm absolutely flabbergasted we're moving this quickly. To move this quick and not have a full understanding doesn't seem like a viable solution," said resident Steve Fleischer.
Robert Clark agreed and added his concern over the already existing debt Livingston is in.
"We're already in $105 million of debt, how much more do you want to go in and how much do you need this to add even more debt to the town?" Clark asked board members.
Board member Barry Funt assured residents that they had very valid comments and questions and suggested that a public forum be granted to those who want further information or questions answered.
"This isn't a decision that is being taken lightly at all," Funt said.
Draeger explained to attendees that all of their questions will be answered.
"I will take a personal responsibility to make sure there is a public forum," Draeger said. "We have a huge task ahead of us depending on how the town votes."
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text: A paper by James Hansen and 17 scientific colleagues includes the work of CU-Boulder Professor Emeritus of Geography, Konrad Steffen. "Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature" calls for cohesive, unified action to reduce fossil fuel emissions to pre-Industrial Era levels. The paper details the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to reducing carbon emissions. PLOS ONE, as publishers of the paper, announced a call for papers to support this goal. Read more about the paper on the PLOS ONE website. … [Read more...]


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New Delhi: Former skipper Sourav Ganguly on Sunday endorsed the idea of "split captaincy" and said Mahendra Singh Dhoni should not be leading the Indian cricket team in all formats.
"I am not saying just ship him off all the formats of the game because India are going into a transition phase and building a new team.
"Sit with Dhoni and ask him what form of cricket he wants to captain. He has done a lot of good things for Indian cricket, but at the present moment, I am just fearing that we will lose him as a player if he continues like this," Ganguly said with a note of caution.
Despite having lost six out of the last seven Tests against England, Ganguly chose not to be too harsh on Dhoni.
"Keeping is never easy and when you have a bowling attack like ours, which has not performed over a period of time. You keep for hours and then you captain the side and you come out and bat at no. 7.
"So it`s never easy for for Dhoni and I`m a firm believer that his job has to be split and he needs a reprieve in some format," Ganguly told `Headlines Today`.
Talking on Sachin Tendulkar`s form, the former India skipper said, "Sachin desperately needs to get runs. He has achieved a lot. He is getting a long rope because of what he has achieved. He should know himself that how he needs to turn it around.
"As somebody watching it from outside Tendulkar not performing, I think if I was Tendulkar I would go. But it`s upto him at the present moment. We want to see the great man going with a bat held high and not in terrible form.
Coming back to Dhoni, he said, "You do not expect selectors to come out and say we have put Dhoni on notice. You can`t say this in public, it`s not fair. I don`t think that will ever happen with the BCCI.
"I don`t know what the real story is. Whether Dhoni has been put on notice or whether the selectors have spoken to him or not, is immaterial. Half the players don`t get to know it. If you are trying to build a new team, the message has to be consistent. I agree that Dhoni needs to be looked after and needs to be spoken to.
As discussion turned to Zaheer Khan`s omission, he said, "The Indian team is going through a rebuilding phase, you have to have plan. My point is that the plan has to be uniform for everyone."
Another former captain, Kapil Dev felt there was no suitable replacement for Dhoni.
"Do we have another player to captain at this stage? I don`t see anybody. If Virat Kohli starts getting runs I can understand, but he is also not getting runs.
"I don`t think anybody is ready. I don`t think sacking anybody in the middle of the series is right. He is under pressure, the selectors have to sit and talk to him. He has to speak to himself that `look I have to perform well`."
Kapil said the board should disclose its plan for the team`s future.
"They shouldn`t do what they used to do in 80s. You lost a series, a new captain comes out. Again a series is lost and a new captain comes in. I think that is sad.
"What we would want is that selectors and the board tells us what is their plan... Don`t hide. People are very concerned, lets not have rumours. They should come out straight. Rumours are not good for the country and for the team."


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Formula Drift kicked things off for members of the media today at Streets of Long Beach, and many drivers came out to take advantage of the seat time and feel out the newly paved Long Beach track. The standout star was none other than Formula Drift Asia and D1 Champion Daigo Saito in his 2JZ-powered SC430 who managed to create some of the most smoke we've seen in a good while.
It was a rough day for the Scion Drift team, as Tony Angelo took the rear end of his Scion TC into wall at the 2nd turn causing minor damage, while Fredric Aasbo smashed into the tires in the same turn, shedding many of his body panels in the process.
Tyler McQuarrie made a return in the Gardella Racing Camaro, while Ryan Tuerck took the wheel of the Retaks S13.5. Multiple V8 S13.4's were present in the form of Walker Wilkerson in his Fatlace S13, and Dennis Mertzanis who will be piloting our very own Wrecked Magazine project V8 S13 seen below.
Check out the full gallery here: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=274
Holy Smoke!!! Hell Yea!! Diago looks like he was on fire! Can't wait!
Black wheels keeping it sick.
Daigo gonna clown on errbody like they a cheap trick.
Kim Jong Ill say "Oh noes Hans Brick"
hau you rike me now mr hans brix,
mike u funny!
I sooooo want to see Diago MURDER everyone!!!!!!!
Pretty wild to hear that Ryan Tuerck is running a fairly privateer-ish car this year. McQuarrie performed great last year to be sure, but I always thought Tuerck was a contender.
Glad to see Tuerck back on Maxxis.
mike called it and cody im just glad to see maxxis back in the series!! the tire is frekin sick!!!
Sounds link the T-Rex from Jurassic Park
Will drift stream be up to broadcast the event live?
after Daigo wins he is going to say "This is Chess…no checkers….mother F'ers"
Agreed Hollywood. Maxxis makes a damn good tire.
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OXM UK: Harmonix has announced that it wasn't being entirely honest with its Rock Band 2 previews, and that there's a new accessory in the works for its new game.
Since there's going to be a keyboard/synthesizer I want huge packs of NIN's, Blondie, Flock of Seagulls, Talk Talk, Foreigner, Kate Bush, Tears for Fears, and many more Wave bands. I would also like Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
I highly doubt that there will be a keyboard in RB!
At best you will see a double kick pedal or a high hat pedal.


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Outskirts is correct. The term comes from a time when many women wore many outskirts and not just one. So, we see the outskirts as one thing, one entity. That is the reason why the factory (singular) can be on the outskirts (perceived as singular). Then again, why should it be any different from: "The fly is on the bananas"?
One fly, somewhere on the bananas.


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A woman in this situation is doubly the victim, and the perpetrator is not only the husband forcing her to do something she does not want, but the system that has so narrowed her sexual horizons in this manner. The type of upbringing that Adventists receive and the sex education (or abject lack thereof) they receive completely fails to convey the beauty and adventure of the act, instead filling anything that does not fit into their narrow view of what is acceptable (heterosexual intercourse in the missionary position, preferably for the purposes of procreation, the sick, sick bastards) being filled with shame. There's a lot of blabber about sex between two married people being a beautiful thing without showing any real appreciation of that beauty, or of the fact that sex, in any paradigm in which you prefer to exclusively or non-exclusively define it, can be just plain fun.
To top it off, they close off some of the most amazing sexual experience. "Congress of the mouth" as it is known in the Kama sutra is a wonderful thing for both giver and recipient, and who the hell isn't up for a little buttsecks every once in a while? And besides, despite what the old fogeys would most fervently like to believe, some of the best hea- no, I think I'll hold that thought to myself (hint: it involves the very same mouths from which such marvellous melodies are produced during song service every Sabbath. I do not disapprove – quite the opposite. You're all champions in my eyes, girls ;)
On top of this, I believe the young gent is also a victim in all of this (please bear with me; I'm not making an apologism for rape). Sex is at its best when it is a union between equals (or play-acting dominant and submissive roles). It is a congress of mutual, communal pleasure. It becomes an ugly thing when one party is doing something against their will, is under coercion or duress, is not enjoying themselves to the greatest capacity or is in physical pain (unwanted pain: that distinction is important ;). When such is the case, that one enters the relations with an obvious superiority complex, they prevent themselves from experiencing the full beauty and glory of the act. So the ultimate perpetrator, the one which deserves most of the blame, is the edifice, the structure within which all this brainwashing and the terrible lessons and psychologies it perpetuates. The victims are the precious young minds that have been mentally crucified upon the cross of the previous generation's ignorance.
(That being said, the folks at this new church know how to put on one hell of a potluck. Numerous side dishes, meat (including god-damned AMANGQINA!!(cow shins & hooves, a local delicacy) and one hell of a dessert to top it off – that has to have been the best potluck of my life thus far!)
[P.S. God damn! It's been more than a year since I last posted here! Well, in that time I've gone through some downs, and more recently a few ups. I was in the doldrums for quite a while, since before I started this blog, in fact. It really intensified last year, and I frankly couldn't find the old creative spark that burned for so short a while. I may not fully be out yet, let's just wait and see. I'm going to be using this blog from now on as a bit of self-therapy. I've put aside the dreams of becoming some black atheist Moses who will bring the Children of Africa out of the darkness of religion. I'll be happy enough just to put my thoughts down in print and out to the world, and maybe discover who I am again. Oh, and also share some of the awesome metal I've got myself acquainted with ;P]
[P.P.S. Update on my personal life: I'm still in the closet. I'm also back home in Zimbabwe, since last year in fact, though I moved to another city this year. University keeps being pushed further back; hopefully I'll be going next year. In the meantime, I'm doing a computer engineering diploma course in the equivalent of an American community college.]


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OK, we know from prior features that telecommuting can be a touchy topic. Employees want it. Even the highest levels of company leadership say they support it. Yet, many hands-on managers have difficulty transitioning from a traditional view about where employees are supposed to work. (That would be in an office, of course.) A recent survey from TeamViewer, however, sheds new light upon the wealth of interest among Americans in working from home. For starters, many strongly believe this arrangement would boost productivity. And survey participants reveal the extent of sacrifices they'd be willing to make to do so. (Fair warning: Nothing -- not even the sanctity of a marriage -- is off the table.) "While the results of this survey may seem amusing, these findings show that telecommuting will be a force to be reckoned with in the future," says Holger Felgner, general manager at TeamViewer. TeamViewer develops and distributes solutions for online communication and collaboration -- such as online meeting software -- in more than 30 languages. More than 2,500 American adults took part in the research, which was conducted by Harris Interactive. Here are 10 highlights:
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disclosure: we were given free tickets AND giveaway tickets in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are entirely our own and Miss Sarah now has a large crush on the Black and White Knight.
We had no idea about what to expect when we visited Medieval Times as we had never been there before. We checked in and were handed a crown for the section we were to sit. The arena is divided into 6 different colored sections that each represented a different knight.
We were placed in front row seats in the section that belonged to the Black and White Knight.
Entering the arena was amazing as the different colored sections were lit accordingly and a cloud of fog was starting to bathe the sand covered stage. The arena is filled with about 4,455 cubic feet of sand – about the load of 10 dump trucks. Mind Boggling.
The "serving wench" was almost instantly there to offer "dragon spit", "dragon pee" or water. We asked what the water was called and were told "Water – from the creek out back! What do you think we are, savages?" Our crowd picked the Pepsi and Lemonade – you can decode that yourself. A "bar wench" followed shortly for a choice of alcohol beverages or slushes for the kiddos (which came in an adorable red knight souvenir cup).
The place settings were only missing one thing: silverware. We had no real need for it as we progressed through our menu. We started with garlic toast and tomato soup. Soon came the half a roasted chicken, corn on the cob and potato. The chicken was beyond amazing as it was pull off the bone tender and had you licking your fingers before you realized what you were doing! We made fun of the "castle pastry" that turned out to be a slice of lemon pound cake…but it was perfect after such a large meal.
As great as the food was, the show was beyond amazing.
Amazingly trained Spanish Horses paired seamlessly with the the Knights and Squires during the entertainment. There was an incredible amount of pageantry as well as a simple plot that ran through the entire production. The Knights proceeded through a series of challenges and then received flowers from the Princess. They then turned to their section and passed the flowers to the ladies in the crowd. Miss Sarah was skipped several times and he winked at her and said — I have something special for you, just wait. Sure enough, he soon came over and dipped his lance to her — where she received the "Queen of the Tournament" banner.
She. Was. Hooked.
Let's talk about those horses…because I often wonder how the animals are treated in situations like this and I was beyond happy to hear that these majestic animals are incredibly well cared for. Medieval Times is the #1 breeder of pure Spanish horses in North America and each year, 25 foals are born at Chapel Creek Ranch, where they spend two years training. The beset part is their horses enjoy retirement at the ranch after 15 to 20 years of performing. THAT is great treatment of their four-legged performers.
The Knights are beyond friendly and let you take pictures with them afterwards. Ours was SO nice and even let Miss Sarah take a selfie with him!
We DO have a special offer for any of y'all who want to visit yourselves:
Adults $36.95 and children (12 and under) $29.95 with the code MT3629 through 2/28/17. The webpage for the offer is http://www.medievaltimes.com/plan-your-trip/special-offers/us-family-guide-blogger-coupon-mt3629.html.
Better yet? We get to give away a set of 4 tickets!
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Bocce Ball Set
Style No. 25894213
A knock out game to play with the kiddos – or friends, with a gin fizz in hand – this collectible wooden kit comes in a cloth bag with the instructions to play printed on it, in addition to the hand-cut, screenprinted instruction manual.
- Wood
- Set includes carrying bag, 8 balls, 1 pallino, instructions
- Handmade in the USA
Balls: 3"diameter
Pallino: 2" diameter


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