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1. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?Bill Gehrke Apr 7, 2012 6:55 PM (in response to fishsbc)
Do not know if the power supply will support it but the new GTX 680 is a moderately low power card (195 watts) high performance GPU. I am not sure of the requirements for AutoCad but for CS5 Premiere it is the best choice much better than any Quadro card. You really need to get a power supply requirements calculator and figure that out. It can support 3-4 monitors. Forget the SSD scratch disk, bad choice, plan on getting several good 7200 rpm hard drives. I would just throw out the 1 GB modules and you might want more memory as 8 GB per CPU (2 GB per core) is not 1st class
2. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?fishsbc Apr 7, 2012 8:57 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)
Hi Bill
Many thanks for your prompt reply. It appears that a GTX 680 will be on my shopping list. I will perform a power requirement assessment to determine if I will need to upgrade the psu as well. I read that I could possibly add a 2nd psu just for the gpu provided that it will not require a mb to turn on.
Thank you as well for the identification of the flawed logic in my proposed build. Following your suggestion to use platter drives instead of the ssd, I read all that I could and now understand that despite the current popularity, there are shortcomings as well. Not a bad thing when the price of conventional drives is 20 times cheaper per gb. Given that I rarely turn off this computer and a few extra minutes to boot the os is not even a measurable concern in my situation, is it even worth using an ssd for the os when their longterm durability is also being questioned? I only suggested including them becaue of the (wrongly) published universal performance gains. I have a couple of 15k sas drives, despite the noise, would you suggest that I include them instead. They are 146gb. There is no doubt that they are approximately 20% faster (i/o) and they are noisier (lol) but for my intended purpose will I realize much difference when also considering the huge space limitations?
Again thank you for your help!!!
3. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?Harm Millaard Apr 7, 2012 11:25 PM (in response to fishsbc)
You have a much bigger problem. A single Xeon E5355 on a 771 socket mobo with 4 x 1 GB memory is dead slow and so outdated, it dates back to 2007, 5 years old, that it makes no sense at all to buy a 5 year old CPU to add to the one already in the system. Even with dual CPU's and 16 GB it would still be very slow, think around 20 - 40 times slower than a modern fast system. Both investments have to be depreciated fully in 6 months time when you realise you need a new system.
IMO it is an utter waste of money to upgrade such an old system. Much better to start thinking about a new system now. If you decide to go that route, I suggest you get a GTX 680 video card, that supports three monitors. For ideas about building a new system, look at Adobe Forums: What PC to build? An update...
4. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?RjL190365 Apr 8, 2012 7:09 AM (in response to fishsbc)
I also agree with Harm in that any upgrades to that old Dell workstation is a waste of money at this point. A second Xeon E5355 CPU, even used, costs much more money than is justified by the performance improvement it offers: A single E5355 goes for more money than a new i5-2500K CPU. What's more, it requires fully-buffered DDR2 RAM, which is now no longer cost-effective (and likely astronomically expensive): 16GB of DDR2-667 FB-DIMMs needed for that system now costs $400. That's a total of at least $650 for such an upgrade. And even upgraded to the max with two CPUs, 16GB of RAM and a fast GTX 560 Ti GPU, that system will only be about as fast as a PC with a single i3-2120 CPU with 8GB or more RAM and the same GTX 560 Ti GPU. This is because the Xeon E5355 dates way back to the very first of the Core 2 Quads, the Q6600 and Q6700, with their 65nm process technology. The end result is that you would have had to spent at least an additional $900 in upgrades just to bring its performance on a par with an entirely new $600 system. (And that's not to mention that the Quadro NVS 285 is now almost worthless, especially since it is essentially a GeForce 6200 that's been repurposed for business use.)
As such, I'd recommend repurposing that Precision 690 as a home server, and getting a new PC with a much more up to date fast CPU (i7-2600K or higher) as your editing system.
5. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?fishsbc Apr 8, 2012 7:08 AM (in response to fishsbc)
Thanks so much guys.
As others have said before me, I really appreciate the time and more importantly the knowledge which so many of you share. I suspected that the proverbial "silk purse from a sow's ear" might have been my pursuit. It is so difficult to wrap my head around the frighteningly fast obsolescence of this technology. I guessed I should have looked at the dates on some of the posts I found on the web where what I was proposing to do seemed like a good idea!!!
Again gentlemen, thank you again for your advice. Clearly you have helped save money and avoid performance disappointment.
BTW, I just recently purchased an Inspiron laptop with the following specs;
i7 2670 QM
8gb ram
Nvidia geforce gt 525m
win 7 64x
I guess this system is already magnitudes faster than my "project" lol!
6. Re: Dell Precision 690 rebuild - best video card?RjL190365 Apr 8, 2012 7:14 AM (in response to fishsbc)
In this case (in regards to your new laptop), the GT 525m is the weak link: It has only 96 CUDA cores, slow DDR3 VRAM and only a 128-bit VRAM bus. As such, it is roughly comparable to a desktop GeForce GT 430.


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Gift of Gab show cancelled
In the Alibi's current issue we interviewed Blackalicious rapper Gift of Gab. He was scheduled to headline a show this Wednesday for the ninth anniversary of Viny & Verses at Burt's Tiki Lounge. Sadly, Phillip Torres, the founder of the free weekly hip-hop series says that Gab has cancelled this show and an entire planned tour of the Southwest due to health issues. As for this week's V & V, a show will still go on, and DJ's Intox, Shakedown and Dozer are scheduled to spin.

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It would be refreshing if he finally stepped up and admitted, as even the marginally educated fan already knows, that he made a colossal mistake.
Manti Te'o? Nope. Jim Buss.
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You can fool some Lakers fans some of the time and some Lakers fans all of the time, but you can't fool all of the Lakers fans all of the time. Every Lakers fan I've spoken with believes that the hiring of Mike D'Antoni was as big a mistake as the hiring of Mike Brown. We can't all be wrong.
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I watched the movie version of John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Solidier, Spy a week or two ago, and I must say that despite some excellent performances, the script was a muddled mess. I haven't re-read the novel in quite some time, but I re-watched the 1979 BBC version with Alec Guinness in the role of Smiley. A seven-part mini-series gave Guinness the opportunity to develop a subtle and complex personification of a subtle and complex character. Gary Oldman does a fine job in the role, but there just wasn't enough time to recount this intricate story in a two-hour film. As one example, Smiley's pivotal meeting with Jim Prideaux occupies nearly an entire episode of the mini-series, while getting just a few minutes of screen time in the movie version.
I'd put Guinness's work in Tinker, Tailor on a par with his performances in Bridge over the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. For younger audiences who know him only as Obi-wan Kenobi, please avail yourselves of the opportunity to see this master of the English stage and cinema in some of his other fine roles Here's is his IMDB entry for reference.
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^Never go from Star Wars to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That is just awful advice. . You'll end up driving more people away than toward Guinness.
Better to start with some intermediate affair. The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Man in the White Suit are great places to start to experience the wonder and joy that is Sir Alec Guinness' long and fruitful career.
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Personally I'd start with Bridge on the River Kwai. The "Ealing" comedies are funny, but I prefer watching Guinness in dramatic roles. Everyone is upstaged by O'Toole in Lawrence, but Guinness's sly Arab monarch is another great and subtle performance.
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Mega Shark VS Crocosaurus
The main attraction wasn't as awesome as the title and let's say nothing about the characters or story. I think when you realize the titular monsters are inconsistent in size as the plot demands that there's no point in creating any sense of scale. The Saltwater Crocodile VS Great White Shark episode on Animal Face-Off was better than this. A low-budget film to be sure but there's been better money-constrained works.
At least I laughed.
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Monsters (2010 film)
This monster flick is different from most of its ilk in that the human characters are the stars of the show and are worth caring for; I think when you realize that you want Andrew and Samantha to make it back home instead of seeing a land octopus destroy things that director Gareth Edwards created a film where the monsters actually feel like monsters and not glorified action stars. The movie does have some plot-induced stupidity regarding the way our protagonists travel and the writing seems to convey mixed messages about the aliens being a natural force of nature, an invasive species, and homesick but the film isn't about them; it's about our characters. I'm not going to call this movie anything more than good but overall it knows what it's doing.
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Watched Olympus Has Fallen yesterday.
For someone like me who watched several action movies in my lifetime, I'd give it a 7.9. The scenario is not the most original, but the quality of the action scenes, the intensity of several scenes, the effort put by director Antoine Fuqua (who also directed Training Day, Shooter, King Arthur and the excellent Tears of the Sun) in making this thing look real, and the solid play by the actors helped a lot gathering my interest in this. In the end, I had my big share of fun.
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Evil Dead (2013) - What a strange film. In terms of remakes, Evil Dead is a complete success. It manages to step nicely into the shoes left by the original film, while also branching (pun intended?) off in it's own unique directions. The core story is the same (five 20-somethings go off to the woods, encounter an evil magical book, then demons start showing up), but the subtle nuances added to the film help to suspend the audiences disbelief as increasingly crazy shit happens yet no one decides to leave.
The remake focuses on Mia (Jane Levy), a troubled young women with a strong addiction to cocaine whom, with the help of friends and family, retreats to an old cabin in the woods in order to go cold turkey. The suspension of disbelief is established when Mia, for various reasons, is possessed, but no one believes anything weird is actually going on because many of her symptoms are similar to patients going through withdrawal (or at least that is what one of the friend, a nurse, tells us early on). This is a nice set-up since it allows crazy behaviour and tension to mount without insulting the audience's intelligence too much. (There's also some nice character set-up along the way, but this information (concerning Mia and her brother's relationship, or their mother's abnormal death/life) is never delved in deeply enough to actually matter.) And when things really do turn pear-shape, that's when escape becomes physically impossible.
What follows is a nice bit of gore and some fun sequences, but the horror is minimal and the suspense is almost non-existent (strangely enough, the television premier of Hannibal, which I saw the night before, was far more horrifying and even gory than Evil Dead - just goes to show that gore only is horrifying in relation to it's realism). Their are some nice moments (seeing Jane Levy in full Deadite makeup is quite scary, and there are at least 2 scenes of brutal bodily harm that are a little cringe inducing), but overall the film seems very rote with almost habitual movement between one gory scene to the next. The finale is still a hoot, though.
I think the biggest failing of the film is it's unerring respect for the original. While it is nice to see lots of little details that only fans of the original movies would understand, ultimately the remake never truly escapes the shadow of the original, instead it seems to enjoy simply being a remake.
There is some nice direction and good gore, and while the characters are a little too generic the acting is still above average. The film is definitely worth seeing, and I would be interested to see how the uninitiated react to the film (the audience I saw it with were clearly all knowledgeable of the original as well as the many rip-offs). 80/100.
The Croods -
Spoiler for slight film spoilers...:
The Croods is an absolutely beautiful new film from the rapidly dominating animation studios of Dreamworks (as Pixar slowly destroys it's good will by producing boring and trite stories that can only interest 5-year-olds, Dreamworks, Sony and a few other animation studios are quickly rising in to fill the very noticeable performance gap). Colours explode and wash the screen with luscious hues and images that are as otherworldly as they are beautiful. And while the story itself is somewhat juvenile, the acting is quite good and the direction and editing fairly tight. Their are some hiccups and a totally unnecesary ending, but otherwise this is a damn fun film. 78/100.
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I just watched Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (the one with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in it). It's a braindead movie. Silly to its core. It doesn't help that most of the dialogues and the jokes are really awful and forced, especially the lines delivered by Michael Caine's adventurer-gramps character. Ugh. Still, this movie was never meant to be taken seriously and I had fun watching our rag-tag group being chased by a variety of giant animals. Some scenes manage to generate a chuckle or two from me. Plus, the run-time is short and the visual FX is pretty to look at. At least the Journey movie series aren't as bad as Spy Kids series.
Btw, Captain Nemo's Nautilus submarine looks pretty lame in this movie. Is Nautilus supposed to look that lame in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island novel? (I only read 20,000 League & Center of the Earth)
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Watched "To Catch A Thief" (1955). While I enjoy the cat and mouse game, I don't quite like the pairing of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I couldn't feel the chemistry between them, it feels rather forced, perhaps partly due to the their age gap. Anyway, this does not hinder me from enjoying another of Alfred Hitchcock's classics.
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Grant is better in North by Northwest, though perhaps that is as much because it is a better film overall. (I still think his performance opposite the young Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story is one of his finest, and she is, of course, "yar.") Kelly is less regal, but no less lovely, opposite James Stewart in Rear Window, one of my favorite Hitchcock films. Stewart was considerably older than her as well, but somehow they made for a more believeable couple than Grant and Kelly. For many people, though, I suspect that scissors scene in Dial M for Murder may forever be the one that persists in our memories of Princess Grace.
By the way, in honor of the passing of Annette Funicello, I'll just mention that I discovered today that Hulu carries her film, Beach Party, with Frankie Avalon. She wears a two-piece bathing suit that exposes only a bit of midriff, while most of the other girls sport fairly skimpy bikinis. There are a variety of stories about Annette's choice of bathing suit. The Times obituary today said that she agreed when Walt Disney asked that she not expose her navel, but I've heard other versions that indicated Walt didn't want her to wear a two-piece suit at all and capitulated only when Annette promised to wear the relatively modest number she sports in the film. Most boys were probably less interested in Annette's navel than in another part of her anatomy prominently displayed on the cover of the VHS videotape box for the film.
The Times obituary writer slyly made reference to Annette's busty figure when he wrote, "Young males enjoyed watching her blossom into womanhood, while females liked her because she was sweet, forthright and plain nice." Yes, she did "blossom" during her years on the Mickey Mouse Club.
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Really too bad. I first saw her in Engine with KimuTaku, and since then I have watched a few of her other dramas. As a female myself, can't say I don't envy her look and body, lol.
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as much i hate saying nice things to people, or making others feel good about themselves, i gotta say that i do miss the *&^% of <some> of you. i prolly don't even know most of you but i'm sure that if you don't generally suck ass as an individual, i'd prolly miss you too. i had to take a sabbatical cuz *&^% was crazy and i didn't even have time to wipe my ass. BUT, just as every successful black rapper must "keep it real" and "give a shout out to all their homies", and "axe somebody", i too must must revisit the hood from which i was spawned, and make sure you all know i didn't just use you. you weren't like that dude from last nite that i scooted out the door this morning, reassuring him we'd see each other again but knowing that if i ever run into him i'll pretend i dont know him. You guys are more than just a nite of mediocre sex. so, i just wanted to drop by and shout at ya and let you know i'll be around, that i'm still jew-lo from the block. inthesun-i got special love for you. I wish i had more friends like you. I'm always suspicious at first about a girl who isn't catty, and has enough confidence in herself to compliment other women. You're one of a kind-don't think i ever told you that. Anyway, you see, assholes? i do have a soul. and M2-your metamormphasis from pre-LSAT to post was really exciting. i would have liked to play more. AND DOES CHO ACTUALLY HAVE OVER 10,000 POSTS!!?? that's f-ing insane that peice of *&^%. . Anyway, i'll be around and i hope some of you vets gimme a shout-and that invitation is extended to you hot fresh meat that i haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet. And to you women out there-no shenanigans-DOWNY's taken.


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Something's gotta give, right? A young family with kids can't possibly do all the things that tug at them: jobs, school, kids' school, kids' sports, kids' lessons, friends, housework, yardwork, cars breaking down, the roof leaking. …
Does a state of triage sound accurate? Some things get done, some go on hold, and some get thrown overboard.
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stevedid you have luck with this? I have a hop rocket, but have yet to actually use it how are you sanitizing the rice hulls?any tips/thoughts?
I have heard of people packing stainless scrubbies in there. Can't find anything using google?
Good idea! I don't think recirculating will hurt the final product. You could just steep the rice in boiled water then pour into the hop rocket.
Why the need to sanitize? Hot wort should do the trick...
Quote from: kylekohlmorgen on January 17, 2014, 07:34:25 PMWhy the need to sanitize? Hot wort should do the trick...This was my first thought as well, but just thought to better be safe than sorry. Now on second thought, the hot wort should kill anything in the hulls prior to entering the chiller. Depends on the specific setup...chilled wort or hot wort to chiller.


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I am into buying a new board (Cabrinha Custom) and i am pretty confused on the size..
I weight about 78 kilos and i am 1.83 cm. I ride in Greece in choppy waters..
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Do i need to buy the 133x39 or the 138x41,5
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The officials say two militants were killed today in airstrikes in southern Abyan province. The attacks came days after militants overran a military post in the area.
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- Ongoing infrastructure modernisation
- Country's emergence as a regional trading, logistics and military hub
- Substantial inflows of foreign direct investments
- Geostrategic position at the entrance to the Red Sea and supported by the international community
- High risk of over-indebtedness
- Increasingly dependent on Ethiopia and China
- Endemic poverty and unemployment
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Growth, thanks to port activity, is enjoying the fruits of investment
In 2018, Djibouti's growth will likely continue to be driven by substantial investment, particularly in transport and public services, and the economic fruits of recently completed projects. With its strategic geographic location and deep-water port, the country intends to become a hub for intermodal transport in East Africa. Located on the second most heavily used shipping route in the world (20% of world exports; 10% of oil transit), the multipurpose Port of Doraleh – officially inaugurated in June 2017 after modernisation works amounting to USD 590 million – is set to help strengthen Djibouti's trading position in 2018. The Ports of Tadjourah and Goubet, inaugurated a few weeks after that of Doraleh, give the country the infrastructure it needs to accelerate exports of potash and salt.
This port infrastructure is connected to a transport network that notably includes the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway line. With an expected completion date at the end of 2018, the construction of the Djibouti Silk Road Station, a free-trade zone financed by Chinese investment, is expected to stimulate private sector activity and FDI flows. Apart from transport, other tertiary sector industries stand out, including construction, which was boosted by infrastructure projects springing up in the field of renewable energy, such as the construction of a solar farm, and planned exploratory drilling starting in 2018 aimed at exploiting the geothermal potential.
Despite robust economic growth in recent years, poverty and unemployment remain endemic. Job creation has mainly benefited expatriate workers, as the local workforce lacks the necessary skills. In addition, with an economy primarily focused on transport and associated services, Djibouti is exposed to a slowdown in trade flows in the region – especially in Ethiopia, which uses Djibouti for 95% of its imports. The unstable security and political environment in Somalia, Eritrea, and Yemen further exposes Djibouti to this slowdown risk. Economic slowdown in China, which finances most of the country's investment projects, would also impact Djibouti's growth.
Inflation is expected to remain moderate in 2018, thanks notably to the pegging of the Djibouti franc to the US dollar.
Twin deficits and a legacy of over-indebtedness
Investments agreed for 2014-2016 have placed great strain on the national budget. However, the budget deficit ratios improved in 2017, partly thanks to controlled current spending, but above all due to a cut in capital investment spending. The latter, having reached a peak of almost 36% of GDP in 2015, is expected to be maintained at less than 8% in 2018, which will allow continued deficit reduction. Nevertheless, revenue collection, which is still unsatisfactory, will likely only increase modestly. Furthermore, higher debt-servicing costs will absorb a proportion of the increased income.
The current account deficit is expected to fall, thanks to exports rising faster than imports. This is because exports will benefit notably from the completion of the port projects, while imports of capital goods are expected to slow as capital investment spending slows.
Investment projects – financed by non-concessional debt taken out mostly with China or the object of a PPP guaranteed by the State – have pushed all borrowing ratios into the red. The construction of the multipurpose port, the Djibouti-Addis-Ababa railway line, and the Ethiopia-Djibouti water pipeline mainly account for the increased debt burden, giving rise to a high risk of over-indebtedness.
Djibouti - outpost of the international fight against terrorism and piracy
President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG), who has maintained a tight grip on power since 1999, was re-elected in April 2016 in a landslide victory. Faced by a fragmented opposition subject to regular intimidation, his party – the People's Rally for Progress – is unlikely to be threatened by the parliamentary elections in February 2018. Accusations of patronage and corruption regularly levelled against IOG and his administration account only in part for the business climate, characterised namely by shortcomings regarding the fulfilment of contracts, access to credit, and investor protection.
Despite this, thanks to its strategic location, Djibouti enjoys the support of numerous international governments. China, in particular, set up its first foreign military base in Djibouti in 2017. China's military establishment present alongside military bases established by France, the United States, and Japan, among others. The strategic challenges posed by the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, and its proximity to the regions in crisis of Africa and the Middle East, make Djibouti a key military outpost in the fight against piracy and terrorism.
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Here are a list of my favorite "Zombie Kills of The Week!"
Week 1: Takashi taking a bat to his best friends skull...
Week 2: Saya for he handy use of power tools..."Drill Baby Drill!"
Week 3: Goes to nurse Shizuka for that random hit and run kill in-front of the store.
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Act 3. Democracy under the dead
So, the group managed to breakthrough and escape from the zombie Highschool.
There were some things pointed out at the zombies that I began to make thoughts about it.
Since watching the very first Romero film, it never crossed my mind how did the zombies were able to track their prey.
In HOTD, Saya's theory about the zombie's possessing a considerable sense of hearing to track the living turned out real and feasible. But I do wonder, if the zombie's sense of hearing is sensitively keen to the point of being able to tell apart "them" from living people?
The other thing is that teacher Shido may prove to bring some hazardous trouble for our group.
|2010-07-25, 19:58
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Seems HOTD has only regular zombies that can run, a bit stronger due to their dead weight and that can overwhelm anyone when mobbed. Hope there will be a new character like Frank West that can take on ALOT of zombies and has time to eat in a middle of a mob.
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|2010-07-26, 00:06
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
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The one thing I hate about zombie movies that "PEOPLE STICK TOGETHER" thing and later on one of them will hesitate to kill another when bitten. Hope that NEVER happens here on HOTD, since we always get those scenes the hero or the 2ndary character breaking down when someone they're close too is gone in the middle or in the end of movie/series.
Though looking at the intro seems they'll have more people with them. The loli and the girl in the MISSING picture.
|2010-07-26, 00:48
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Wow, the thread finally slowed down, and I caught up with it. Episodes 2 and 3 were both awesome. Hirano seems a pretty cool guy, the choice of nail gun was pretty cool, liked the mcguyver esque modifying too, I also liked Saya's drill attack. Saeko (wonder if she gets asked the time a lot) Proved she would be my favorite as I thought she would. I found the Nurse's (boing boing) sound effect kind of annoying. Someone waaaaaay back mentioned the nurses design was changed to giving her bigger breasts, I wonder if that was to make her look less like Takano from Higurashi, the two look quite similar.
For Episode 3. Wow I'm surprised it spread that fast in less then 6 -8 hours (not sure how long the Japanese school day is) It's already gotten so bad the president is evacuating. I love the kill and dash to the bus scene that was great, the slight slow down, kind of reminded me of the House of the Dead movie. Also Rei really doesn't like that teacher and I have an idea why, but we'll find out. Though I don't quite like him either based on his actions so far. Also the guy in the store, I thought it looked like Simon Pegg, also liked them hitting the zombie with the bus.
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Just in time for the holidays, Mt. Airy's popular Geechee Girl Rice Café, a BYOB at 6825 Germantown Ave., celebrates the publication of the "Geechee Girl 2013 Recipe Calendar," featuring 12 eye-OK photos by Mt. Airy photographer Debbie Lerman and easy-to-follow recipes by Valerie Erwin, 58, chef and owner of Geechee Girl.
"I've been wanting to do a calendar for several years," said Ms. Erwin, "to share our culinary vision with folks beyond just the meals they eat at our restaurant." Some of the recipes are traditional dishes, and some are examples of the innovative Low Country cuisine for which Geechee Girl is so well known. All are simple to prepare.
Not the least bit worried that giving out recipes will tempt patrons to stay home, Ms. Erwin explained, "People come to the restaurant for the food, the atmosphere, the company — the whole experience. We'll be very happy to know that they're cooking our food for their families, and then coming here when they want us to cook it for them!"
In his glowing 2011 review, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Craig LaBan called it "one of Philly's most personal and unique BYOBs." Several of the dishes featured in the 2013 recipe calendar were among LaBan's favorites, including the crispy Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas and rice), which he called "addictive" and the Low Country shrimp and grits, "a study in the satisfaction of simplicity."
Calendars are available for purchase at the restaurant for $20 each. Named one of Philadelphia's top five soul/southern restaurants by Zagat's in 2012, Geechee Girl Rice Café opened in Philadelphia in 2003. The restaurant pays tribute to the Geechees, descendants of the enslaved Africans who live in the Low Country — the coast and islands off South Carolina and Georgia. Geechee Girl chef owner and Valerie Erwin, whose grandparents were from the Low Country, shares 12 of her favorite recipes in the illustrated 2013 calendar.
Valerie's biggest admirer is probably Paul Roller, owner of Roller's Flying Fish restaurant in Chestnut Hill, who is known as a virtual Attila the Hun in the kitchen but is a softie when it comes to Valerie, who worked for him from 1983 to 1988. In fact, Roller once offered to give Valerie a car if she would learn how to drive, but she turned down the offer. "She has the best cooking instincts of anyone who ever worked for me," Roller said. "In addition to being a really nice person and incredibly hard worker, she has a special talent as a chef, and that was obvious from the very beginning."
Valerie's journey from a North Philly rowhouse to chef/restaurateur has been about as unorthodox as a heavy metal rock band at a funeral service. After graduating from Germantown High School in 1971, she went to Princeton University, where she was one of the Ivy League school's miniscule number of African American students. She graduated in 1975 with a degree in political science. "Many of the students at Princeton came from very wealthy families," said Valerie, "but I was able to make it through with a combination of loans and aid."
From 1975 to 1979 Erwin had state and federal government jobs, but for a free spirit like her, the work was about as exciting as watching clothes wash in the spin cycle. So she left the world of 9-to-5 desk jobs to become a prep cook at The Commissary, a restaurant in the vanguard of the city's Restaurant Renaissance in the 1970s. "I really thought the job would just be temporary while I got myself together and decided what I wanted to do as a career."
But as the old saying goes, life is what happens while you're busy making other plans, so Valerie wound up working for a succession of restaurants after The Commissary, among them La Terrasse near the Penn campus, Jamey's in Manayunk and Striped Bass. Finally, after 23 years of toiling in other people's kitchens, Valerie pulled the trigger and opened Geechee Girl in 2002 in a Germantown storefront that previously housed a Jamaican restaurant.
When a restaurant called Limpopo closed its doors in 2006 at 6825 Germantown Ave., however, Valerie jumped at the chance to move into a much larger location, but she still had mixed emotions about the move. "I liked walking to work at my place in Germantown because I lived so close," she explained at the time. "I guess I was spoiled, so even though I'm just a mile away from my old location now, it's a little too far to walk, especially when there's really bad weather." (Valerie has never learned to drive a car.)
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Shopping for new cooks is a real pleasure. There's so much excitement and optimism to work with! You could probably rattle off a list of must-haves in the kitchen (our Essentials posts do just that) but gifts for new cooks require a little more finesse. They should be practical, yet inspirational, something to not only outfit them for successful cooking, but also get them excited about doing it! In this gift guide we offer suggestions for essential and long-lasting tools that'll make cooking that much easier (a good chef's knife, a cast-iron skillet), as well as a few amped up basics (a jaw-dropping butcher block, a hand-carved wooden spoon) and specialty ingredients to entice them (high-quality olive oil and finishing salts).
• 1 Starter Salt Set, $38 from The Meadow: the best way to explore finishing salts, and something a new cook could get exited about!
• 2 End Grain Butcher Block, $175 from End Grain Butcher Blocks: Ok, this is the butcher block to end all butcher blocks, and a bit of a splurge. The end grain is better for knives and more sanitary than edge grain or plastic. And, with proper care, it'll last forever.
• 3 Victorinox 40520 Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife, $24.95 from Amazon: A good-quality chef's knife is essential. The Victorinox knives are budget-friendly, sharp, and super durable.
• 4 Lodge Pre-Seasoned 8-Inch Cast Iron Skillet, $11 from Amazon: If you have one pan in your kitchen, make it a cast-iron skillet. You can do almost anything with it, and it easily goes from the stovetop to the oven.
• 5 How To Cook Everything: The Basics, by Mark Bittman, $20 from Amazon: Bittman's How To Cook Everything is a classic. But for absolute cooking novices, it'd be better to start with Bittman's Basics book, which has pictures accompanying every technique and recipe – unlike the original, which has no photos.
• 6 Kitchen Conversion Poster, $28 from Sweet Fine Day: an easily accessible conversion chart is immensely helpful for new cooks. We love this version because it doubles as kitchen artwork!
• 7 Occhipinti "Gheta" Olive Oil, $28 from BKLYN Larder: teach your new cook to elevate olive oil beyond its everyday cooking qualities. A smaller, more expensive bottle with robust, peppery, or grassy elements feels like a special treat, and it's perfect for finishing dishes and salads.
• 8 Hand-Carved Cherry or Maple Wooden Spoon, $50 from Live Wire Farm: Dana wrote about the beauty and value of a hand-carved wooden spoon, which she called a "once in a lifetime" purchase. Hand-carved spoons are usually expensive because of the time and labor involved, but this makes them a treasure, and a unique gift for a new cook. Need something a little more budget? Go for a basic wooden spoon set ($9.99 from Target).
• 9 Unicorn Magnum Pepper Mill, $31 from Unicorn: A high-quality pepper mill is so useful, and a definite cooking essential. Our readers love this Unicorn Magnum mill. If you're willing to spend a little more, the Perfex Pepper Mill ($80 from Amazon) is almost perfect.
• 10 Labeled Kitchen Mixing Bowl Set, $59 from West Elm: these labeled multi-purpose ceramic mixing bowls have small spouts for less messy food prep. A heavy-duty stainless steel mixing bowl set is another keeper ($34 from Amazon).
Other Great Gift Buying Resources for New Cooks
• Where to Buy Artisanal and Specialty Foods Online: 9 Great Marketplaces: Get them excited about food and cooking with a few special ingredients!
• The Kitchn's Guide to Essential Prep Tools and Utensils
• The Kitchn's Guide to Essential Cooking Tools and Utensils
• The Kitchn's Guide to Essential Cookware
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Always love your posts and this one is no different. A small correction, I believe you means quarters rather than semi's - or 23 rather than 30. Either way, well written.ReplyDelete
Lappen -- noted. Thanks. I chose 30 quarterfinals because it's still going, and, in the end, it could end up to be even more amazing than the 23 semis.ReplyDelete
Ah yes, but didn't you write 30 semis initially? That what was I reacted to. So either you have corrected it since or I've seen something that wasn't there. Either way, it's fine now.ReplyDelete
Lappen -- Yes I fixed it. It was my bad. I would fire my proofreader but that's me. Thanks for pointing it out. Only Davis Cup left now...ReplyDelete
Haha, happens to me too. Any chance for Argentina in the final? I heard Delpo got a small injury some days ago?ReplyDelete
Small chance. Okay, miniscule. Think they are definitely wanting to find a way though, and hungry to sort of reverse the bad fortune of the '08 final. Plus, Monaco is in good form and might make a difference. Obviously they need a big win on the first day, and they need the dubs I think. Looking forward to tuning in.ReplyDelete
What did you hear about delpo?
Can't quite remember what I heard. I browsed through it somewhere. Nothing serious, serious, but it came during the weekend or something.ReplyDelete
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U.S. companies are often perceived as the world's digital leaders. But new research from Accenture reveals a different picture: U.S. companies, while strong on the financial front, are falling behind their global peers when it comes to digital performance.
Their current financial strength, however, holds the key to their future success as digitally driven organizations. Strong profitability is the very engine that will allow U.S. companies to "rotate to the new," if they have the courage to act—now.
New research from Accenture reveals that American companies achieve only average scores for digital performance when compared with their peers globally.
We learned this by analyzing the interplay between digital and financial performance for 180 U.S. companies across 12 industries. To help companies better understand the former, we created a Digital Performance Index. The index tracks 42 business activities and more than 100 detailed metrics across all areas of the business. We then combined and compared the results with Accenture's High Performance Business framework—our method of evaluating business performance against industry peers.
What we found is that most U.S. companies in our sample have much room for improvement on both digital and financial performance.
Digital High Performers are the companies that combine high business performance with a high digital index score. But, this group made up only 6 percent of U.S. businesses in our study.
A significant gulf exists between most U.S. companies and the true high performers of the digital world across four key dimensions.
Our study found Digital High Performers, the companies that combine high business performance with a high digital index score, not only exhibit a "digital first" mind-set across how they plan, make, sell and manage—but they also take the action to follow through. They invest in balanced digital strategies and especially outperform in improving digital processes and skills that will prepare them for future growth. This sets them apart from most U.S. companies.
To help ensure their future financial health, U.S. companies must increase their investments in four key areas of their operations and embrace a new set of no-regret capabilities:
Planning and executing digital strategies
Digital High Performers dedicate considerable time, resources and leadership to creating and executing a digital strategy. As part of this strategy, they immerse themselves in emerging digital ecosystems. U.S. Business Leaders, in contrast, fall short in building meaningful relationships with the wider ecosystem—be that establishing a social media presence, collaboration with industry partners or partnering with start-ups.
Designing and making digital products and services
While many U.S. businesses are creating digital products and services, relatively few are fundamentally changing how they design and make them. The approaches to innovation, R&D and managing production and supply chains remain much the same as they are in the analog world. More companies could look to crowdsourcing and partnerships for new ideas, and make use of the Internet of Things to streamline the supply chain.
Digital marketing, sales and customer service
Digital capabilities create new possibilities for interacting one-to-one with consumers. Yet relatively few Business Leaders are exploring the potential of personalizing the entire cycle of customer experience management, such as using location-based technologies to customize offers to consumers. Digital customer service is another area of opportunity. In contrast, Digital High Performers are using digital channels to create unique interactive experiences that are designed to grab—and retain—their customers' attention.
Building digital culture and operations
Digital High Performers are also digital on the inside. They continuously optimize their technology infrastructure and architecture, nurture and renew their culture, and support their people with skills development needed to better compete in the digital age. Business Leaders significantly underperform in this area, lagging in training their people with digital skills and on digital platforms as well as using digital channels to outsource work and projects.
Read the report to learn more about the capabilities needed for U.S. companies to win in the digital age.
Silicon Valley's digital culture and the rapid growth of digital native companies contribute to perception of the United States as the global locus for digital innovation.
But these companies are only one piece of the diverse U.S. business landscape. It is not about emulating Silicon Valley, but about encouraging and inspiring established Business Leaders of today to leverage their legacy businesses and grow into organizations that are future-ready.
Business Leaders have the tools and ability to change their fate. Their current financial strength holds the key to their future success as digitally driven organizations. Profitability today provides them with the engine that will allow them to "rotate to the new": a conscious and deliberate act of renewing and transforming the core business, while growing into new businesses and industries.
But that's if, and only if, they make a clear and deliberate commitment to targeted digital investments that support their longer-term strategic ambitions. Business Leaders are uniquely positioned to pivot wisely by balancing investments between near term and long term, between the core and the new businesses. This requires a higher degree of decisiveness and courage to act.
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4. "Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)," JAY Z
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6. "Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)," Daft Punk
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9. "Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert)," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
10. "Baby I," Ariana Grande
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Evelyn Bauza, 42, of Stroudsburg, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2013, at her residence.
Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 11, 1970, she was a daughter to late Roman Stuart, who passed away in 2008, and Francisca (Morales) Stuart of Stroudsburg. Evelyn graduated from Walton High School in Bronx, N.Y., and was employed as a delivery manager for Manhattan Beer Distributors before relocating to Stroudsburg. Evelyn volunteered at a food bank in Pen Argyl on Tuesdays, where she assisted in delivering food to the needy.
She loved to cook, enjoyed traveling to Disney World and anything that had to do with Walt Disney, including collecting Disney figurines and collecting crystals. She had an interest in reef saltwater perversion and enjoyed her home aquariums. Evelyn liked the art of photography and enjoyed taking pictures. Her greatest joys were her children and granddaughter.
Surviving in addition to her mother is her husband, Daniel Bauza of Stroudsburg; her son, Michael Bauza of New York City; her daughters, Jennifer Wilson and her husband, Jonathon, Jessica Bauza, Anastasia Jones, Cassandra Bauza and Danielle Bauza, all of Stroudsburg; her mother-in-law, Lucille Bauza of Stroudsburg; her brothers, Noel, Juan and Moises; her sisters, Blanca and Maritza; her grandchildren, Madison Wilson and Kiara Bauza; and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
A public visitation will held from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. until the time of the service Saturday, Feb. 9, at Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home, 27 Washington St., East Stroudsburg.
Funeral service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Dr. Sherrie L. Sneed officiating. Interment will be private and at the convenience of the family.
Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home
27 Washington St., East Stroudsburg
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Evelyn Bauza, 42, of Stroudsburg, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2013, at her residence.


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On this date in 1962, Rod Kanehl became the first Met to hit a grand slam homer in a 10-3 rout of the Cardinals in the Polo Grounds. Kanehl connected off Bobby Shantz.
Kanehl played eight seasons in the minors with the Yankees and Reds organizations before getting his shot at age 28 with the Mets in 1962.
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Kanehl played in 340 games over three years and batted .241 with six homers and 47 RBI.
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Lance Armstrong said in his interview broadcast Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey that he did not do anything to try to influence the U.S. Atty.'s office in Los Angeles to drop its grand-jury probe of him last February.
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Lurching oaks used to cast shade on the Crosby Cemetery just off La. 1 between Golden Meadow and Leeville.
Lurching oaks used to cast shade on the Crosby Cemetery just off La. 1 between Golden Meadow and Leeville. The small family cemetery was once surrounded by orchards, fertile fields and busy neighbors.
Today, a layer of slippery black mud encroaches on broken headstones strewn across the ground.
The cemetery is surrounded by a chain-link fence which has debris from some previous storm pancaked against the southern edge. Past that, nothing but water and marsh grass remain.
The creeping coastal erosion will inevitably claim the cemetery and its dead, plunging both into the fast approaching Bayou Lafourche.
Crosby is one of a handful of local cemeteries either threatened or already claimed by coastal erosion and the sinking local land.
"This is the last vestiges of the community that was once here," said South Lafourche Levee District General Manager Windell Curole, whose great-grandmother is buried in Crosby Cemetery. "The houses have been taken by hurricanes and such, but now even the graves are being lost."
All that remain of some graves are the broken brick tombs that peek from the marsh. In others, locals have taken to covering the graveyards with concrete to prevent castaway caskets from floating away.
"That is the way life is I guess. In the old days, they used to make all their livings off the water. Today everything is sinking, and they will be part of the Gulf one day," said Ivy Bouzigard, a resident of Golden Meadow whose great-grandfather is buried in Crosby Cemetery.
"You think about it a lot, but there is not really anything you can do about it," he said.
Lafourche has about seven cemeteries below the levee in Golden Meadow. Most graves date back to the late 1800s or early 1900s, according to Paul Chiquet, South Lafourche Library's administrator.
The library holds a wealth of information about the cemeteries, mostly family plots that contain a dozen or fewer dead.
The largest is the Cheniere Caminada Cemetery near Grand Isle.
The hurricane of 1893 eradicated the community of Cheniere Caminada. The cemetery there contains a mass grave, the final resting place of the 700 or so people killed by the storm.
The cemetery is in relatively good shape, with patches of wet creeping in from the surrounding marshes.
"Some of them are in the marsh, but it's still there. The water will encroach it soon," Chiquet said.
Some cemeteries in Terrebonne Parish face similar threats, according to Lucretia McBride, the parish's former cemetery administrator and current advocate for grave preservation.
"You have some that are already in the marsh, but you also have some that are just impacted by floods," McBride said.
The Isle De Jean Charles Cemetery has seen more than its fair-share of flooding during tidal surges, according to Albert Naquin, chief of the Isle De Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi-Chitmacha Confederation of Muskogees.
Naquin estimates the remains of about 150 people are buried in the cemetery, but only three markers remain. The others were washed away by floodwaters.
"The bayou nearby used to be 15 feet at its widest, now it is about 30 feet," Naquin said. "We have a feeling that some of the bodies and remains might be along the edge of the bayou."
Most agree there is little that can be done to stem the unrelenting encroachment of open water into marsh, but some aim to preserve the memory of the dead by recording these disappearing cemeteries.
Jessica Schexnayder, administrative coordinator at Louisiana Sea Grant, is documenting cemeteries threatened by coastal erosion.
So far she's mapped 43 sites in 13 of the 16 coastal parishes. The goal is to map the perimeters of these cemeteries and collect information about those buried there.
"I'm trying to collect them for historical documentation," Schexnayder said. "When the Gulf takes them, they are gone. There is no real way to save these sites. It's my wholehearted mission to collect the information for historical documentation."
Schexnayder said all coastal parishes face similar problems as sea levels rise and the land continues to sink.
"Eventually we plan to build a database for coastal cemeteries," Schexnayder said.
Chiquet said the South Lafourche Library hosts a wealth of information about those buried in Leeville. The late genealogist Bob Looper created a database of those buried in Leeville as part of his genealogy work.
"We have databases that have all the families from Thibodaux and south Lafourche going back to the German and French roots," Chiquet said.
Those databases are searchable at libraries in South Lafourche, Lockport and Thibodaux.
Terrebonne Parish has also mapped local cemeteries, according to Tom Bourg, utilities director.
Chiquet said the younger generation should have worked harder to save the cemeteries.
"The younger generation is not putting the effort in to try to save what is left," Chiquet said suggesting a bulkhead could protect many of the Leeville cemeteries from the widening bayou.
McBride said maintaining old cemeteries is difficult, especially given the frequent flooding in Terrebonne.
"There are often conflicts about who is legally responsible to maintain a burial," McBride said. "Many times the owners don't want to spend the money to do the required maintenance."
There is hope, however, for the Isle De Jean Charles Cemetery. Naquin said flood-protection improvements helped slow the current in the nearby bayou and future improvements to the levee could further protect the cemetery.
Leeville is outside Lafourche's levee system and most agree there is little that can be done to stop the cemetery from washing away.
"Leeville was full of orchards and fields," Curole said. "There were huge trees and more than 200 houses here once."
Saltwater intrusion killed any substantial plant life, leaving behind marsh, fishing sheds, gas stations and a handful of homes.
"There is a sadness about how you live and you die, but there is an even greater sadness about losing a whole community," Curole said.


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MILWAUKEE – Derek Holland allowed one run over seven shaky innings and the Texas Rangers benefited from two Milwaukee baserunning blunders to beat the Brewers 4-1 Wednesday night.
Holland (3-2), who struck out six and walked none, yielded 10 hits — including two in the second, three in the third and three in the sixth. He escaped with the help of some sloppy baserunning by the Brewers, who had a runner thrown out at the plate to end the third and another thrown out at third base in the sixth.
Tanner Scheppers pitched the eighth and Joe Nathan finished for his ninth save. The Rangers remain the only team in either league without a blown save, 10 for 10.
Ian Kinsler homered for Texas.