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Sunseeker Manhattan 662019Request Price
This innovative new model is designed to maximise entertainment options with exceptional panoramic hull and saloon windows. Throughout the main deck there is a strong focus on creating generous, useable sociable spaces. Her exterior lines flow effortlessly from the Portuguese-bridge bow seating and sunbathing areas to the expansive cockpit adjoining the well-equipped aft galley and saloon on the main deck. The newly configured flybridge also creates the feeling that you are on board a much larger craft, large sunbathing areas forward and a well-equipped wet-bar. The sociable layout continues through to the wide bathing platform (capable of launching a Williams 385 Jet RIB) and transom 'beach club' where an optional barbecue, fold-away bench seat and overhead 'rain- shower' truly set the Manhattan 66 apart from its peers. Thanks to the galley being situated on the main deck, there is room enough for four very spacious cabins below including two large twin cabins, a forward VIP suite and standout full-beam master cabin with its own private stairway access from the saloon; a first for Sunseeker in this size range.More…22
Sunseeker 76 Yacht2019Request Price
The stunning all-new 76 Yacht gives you everything you'd want from a Sunseeker, and so much more. Performance, style and space – the all-new 76 Yacht is unmistakeably Sunseeker from the exceptional sea-keeping of the very latest deep-V hull design to the class leading space throughout her beautifully appointed decks – this incredible new yacht is without doubt the new benchmark for her class. Not only does this model cut an impressive silhouette on the horizon, an expanse of glass and sunlight welcomes you on board the 76 Yacht, and the main deck allows you to entertain with an almost 360 degree view of your surroundings. For life 'al fresco' her exterior decks provide unprecedented levels of space and flexibility that can be adapted to suit any needs. On the flybridge choose a spa tub, an allocated spot for your jet-ski or additional sunbeds to maximise the space as you wish. Complement the superyacht feel with any number of layouts including the installation of a cocktail bar. For even further customisation, your cockpit can be adapted for additional lounge seating or cocktail bar, with the stern equipped for an additional mini beach club, complete with a barbecue grill, fold-out seating and a rain shower, perfect for entertaining family and friends, making the most of the extended bathing platform, which can accommodate a Williams 445 tender. The 76 Yacht's impressive layout continues out on the foredeck, where again space is maximised and large twin sunbeds, fore/aft seating and optional refrigeration ensure this a highly sociable area too. The new 76 Yacht – Freedom uninterrupted.More…20
Sunseeker 131 Yacht2019Request Price
The tri-deck Sunseeker 131 Yacht epitomizes everything that is Sunseeker. Accommodating up to twelve guests in sublime surroundings, the sheer scale and layout of this immense yacht is awe-inspiring. Expertly finished using ultra-modern materials and techniques, the 131 Yacht is one of the finest examples of modern day superyacht building. The main deck features a lounge, separate dining area and full galley, while on the upper deck you'll find the sky lounge, cocktail bar and access to the skydeck; where comfort and lavishness reach new levels. As impressive out in open water as it is in the harbour, this icon of design is unlike any other.More…22
Sunseeker 86 Yacht2019Request Price
A seductive combination of style and exclusivity, the 86 Yacht delivers on all fronts. From bow to stern, every detail has been crafted to perfection. Inside, the main saloon is a large welcoming space; full of natural light, hand-finished furnishings and state-of-the-art technology. The outstanding level of design and craftsmanship continues below deck, where both the owner's stateroom and guest cabins offer privacy and extravagance in equal measure. Yet, there's more to this yacht than sublime style. An incredible 1500nm range at 10kts defies any industry norm. With a top speed of approximately 30 knots, guests can experience an exhilarating open-air ride from the flybridge or relax and enjoy the stunning scenery from seating areas both fore and aft. A future great. An instant classic.More…201
Sunseeker Manhattan 522019Request Price
Space, light and sociability define the new Manhattan 52. Its innovative design is all about spacious living that sets new benchmarks for the smaller flybridge motoryacht. Throughout the new Manhattan 52, we've maximised its living and entertainment space, incorporating expanses of beautiful curved glass to emphasise its sleek lines and bring in even more light. Throughout its main deck you'll discover exciting, sociable spaces that flow from the astonishingly roomy bow seating and sunbathing area to its open cockpit space and upper aft galley, giving you plenty of ways to relax, entertain and enjoy the good life. The Manhattan 52 has been announced as the winner of 2017 Motor Boat Awards 'Flybridges up to 55ft' category.More…14
Sunseeker 95 Yacht2019Request Price
A magnificent performance craft, the 95 Yacht exemplifies the latest in our cutting-edge design and innovative build processes, showcasing the exciting new design direction that our next generation of larger yacht models will take. Showing off a streamlined yet spacious elegance, the 95 Yacht combines a superyacht feel with many practical advantages, demonstrating a clever use of space that gives even greater flexibility and freedom onboard. Fully equipped for luxury entertaining, this is yet another stunning illustration of striking lines and open plan layout, combining a superyacht feel with all the practical advantages of a yacht in this size category.More…17
Sunseeker 116 Yacht2019Request Price
Welcome to the future of superyachts. The cutting-edge 116 is built upon the proven platform of its hugely popular predecessor, the 115 Sport Yacht, but takes sophistication to the next level with a spectacularly reimagined deck and superstructure, open-plan layout and stylish modern interior. The 116 combines superb performance with Sunseeker's Bespoke service – meaning every element of the 116's design and layout, from guest cabin configuration to hot tub option, can now be individually tailored to the needs of the customer – we've succeeded in creating the ultimate luxury yacht for entertaining in style.More…15
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An awesome metal band everyone should listen to. A few of their many great songs to hear are "Smothered", "Violent Mood Swings", "New Disease", and "Synthetic". I could go on and on...Jonny, Mike, Rob, and Tommy, you rock!
by metalmistress December 09, 2003
by kyle December 04, 2003
The BEST rock-metal band on this fucking planet. No one will EVER compare to Spineshank. Jonny Santos, Tommy Decker, Rob Garcia & Mike Sarkisyan; are my fucking heroes!! FUCK Integrity!!!
I blast Spineshank in my car while driving by churches on Sunday morning.
by Vegeta_Insane September 25, 2003
a good band...(need i say more)
by person who knows his shit November 17, 2003
by you drink pp March 27, 2003
To quickly and repeatedly stab someone in the spine, most likely killing them.
by Foobadoobadoo January 14, 2007
Brett:spineshank be harder lover
John:ok i will spineshank you harder
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I've been an avid snowboarder, but living in the Bay makes that a very short 3 mo deal and maybe there's pow to do some treeglades.
So, I got into kiteboarding. Took 5hr lessons, got my own gear, two kites lol (yes i'm determined). I came at 3rd Ave twice, and got in the water too, NICE crowd and definitely a pleasure to watch the aerials!
I'm looking for a mentor, I have sooo many questions . I promise not to be a time hog.
What i'm after? Wanna learn to freestyle on water, as I do on snowboard.
Where I'm at: i can go upwind, though not consistent. I've scheduled an extra 2 hr private lesson with the guys at Kite-415 (Ovi) this upcoming Sat, but I really wanna push in more.
PS: Beer & Steaks will be provided
PS2: yes i will pump your kite, fine.
PS3: what? carry it to the launch area @ 3rd?... ok, fine, that too.
Thanks much!


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Stanley Cup Playoff Preview - Vancouver vs. San Jose
The Vancouver Canucks have been consistent winners of the Northwest Division over the past five seasons, but hope a new look in goal will be enough to earn them their first ever Stanley Cup Championship.
Cory Schneider, not Roberto Luongo, figures to be the guy tasked with trying to lead the Canucks to another deep playoff run. The 27-year-old came into the season as the starting goaltender, taking over for the veteran Luongo, who the club tried to trade during the offseason without success.
Schneider had his struggles early on and Luongo proved to be an outstanding safety net, but when all was said and done, the former made 30 starts to Luongo's 18 and turned in a solid campaign by going 17-9-4 with a 2.11 goals against average, .927 save percentage and five shutouts, tied for the league lead. Schneider showed solid form during a 9-2 span from March 19-April 8, allowing more than two goals only once during that run.
The former first-round pick did miss the final two games of the season with an undisclosed lower-body injury and said on Monday that he is day-to-day after taking part in a full practice.
"I'd love to play. It's the playoffs and I've felt good about how I've been playing lately," said Schneider. "This is where the fun part of the year starts is playoffs. I'd love to be able to and if we feel I'm healthy enough to play, I will."
The one area of concern for the Canucks will, of course, be experience. While Luongo has appeared in 61 career playoff games, including five against the San Jose Sharks, Schneider has appeared in just eight but has logged a 1.91 postseason GAA.
And riding Luongo never helped in the past as the Canucks have made just one Stanley Cup Finals appearance during their string of five straight division titles. That was a seven-game loss to the Boston Bruins in 2011 and Vancouver did not make it out of the first round a season ago despite a second straight Presidents' Trophy, losing in five games to the eventual champion Los Angeles Kings and beginning the transition from Luongo to Schneider.
The Canucks don't come into these playoffs red-hot either, having lost five of their last eight. That includes a season-ending 7-2 setback in Edmonton.
But it is tough to count out a team that is led by a pair of Sedins in twin bothers Henrik and Daniel. The duo now rank 1-2 as the club's all-time leading scorers, with Henrik leading the way with 792. Daniel is right behind with 758 career points.
That is also the order that the brothers finished this regular season in scoring for the club. Henrik Sedin's 34 assists and 45 points led the Canucks, while Daniel was second in goals (12), assists (28) and points (40). The brothers have also combined for 45 goals and 135 points in the playoffs.
Linemate Alexandre Burrows led the Canucks with 13 goals as the club finished tied for 19th in the NHL with just 2.54 goals per game.
However, the Canucks added depth at the trade deadline by getting Derek Roy from the Buffalo Sabres and their is hope that Ryan Kesler can stay healthy after getting limited to 17 games this year, first due to offseason shoulder surgery and then a broken right foot during the season upon his return.
Kesler and Roy could also help a power play that ranked just 22nd in the NHL this season at 15.8 percent.
Meanwhile, forward Jannik Hansen followed up a career-high 16-goal season a year ago with 10 tallies and 27 points through 47 games this season.
While Vancouver looks to find some firepower from year's past, the club was a solid defensive team and was tied for 10th in goals allowed per game at 2.40 while killing off 84 percent of its power plays to finish eighth in the league.
The Canucks added some scoring to their blue line this past offseason by signing Jason Garrison away from the Florida Panthers and he was on pace to match last season's numbers with eight goals and 16 points in 47 games this year.
Dan Hamhuis, meanwhile, added 24 points and his 23 minutes, 23 seconds of ice time per game were behind only Alexander Edler (23:50) for the team lead.
Defenseman Kevin Bieksa should also be ready to contribute after returning to play the regular season finale following a five-game absence caused by a lower body issue.
SAN JOSE SHARKS (6th seed, West)
2011 PLAYOFFS: Lost to St. Louis 4-1 in conference quarterfinals
(Sports Network) - The San Jose Sharks will begin the playoffs on the road for a second straight season. They hope things go better this time around.
The Sharks got off to a blazing start to this lockout-shortened season, winning seven straight to begin the campaign for the first time in franchise history. The final five wins of that streak came at home, however, and a road- heavy schedule in February put San Jose's fast start in the rearview mirror.
San Jose seemed to find its game towards the end of the season, winning 12 of its final 18, but an 8-14-2 road record is a big reason that the Sharks will start this series in Vancouver and not at HP Pavilion.
That could prove a tough hill to climb for the Sharks, who were 17-2-5 at home and didn't drop their second game in regulation as the host until April 21.
San Jose had similar success last season by going 26-12-3 at home, but it opened the 2012 postseason in St. Louis and dropped four straight to the Blues after stealing Game 1 in double overtime.
Quite a few faces remain for the Sharks, who make their ninth straight postseason appearance. The offense still runs through Joe Thornton, Logan Couture, Patrick Marleau and Martin Havlat, while Dan Boyle is still manning the blue line and Antti Niemi returns in net.
The Sharks did shake up their roster before the trade deadline, dealing away defenseman Douglas Murray, reliable center Michael Handzus and big winger Ryane Clowe, adding the physical Raffi Torres, defenseman Scott Hannan and number of draft picks for Murray, Handzus and Clowe.
The loss of Clowe didn't hurt the offense in terms of goal scoring, seeing as the forward had zero goals and 11 assists in 28 games before the deal.
Instead, it was the usual faces pacing San Jose's offense, which ranked just 24th with 2.42 goals per game. Thornton led the way with 33 assists and 40 points, while Couture was on pace for a third straight 30-goal season with 21 tallies through 48 games.
Marleau (17 goals) and Joe Pavelski (16 goals) were also solid contributors, but Havlat had another disappointing season with only eight goals in 40 games.
Brent Burns, though, added some surprising scoring after he shifted from defense to forward following a return from injury and he matched Boyle's 20 points despite playing in only 30 games to the former's 46.
The move of Burns to the top line with Thornton and TJ Galiardi also had a trickle down impact as it strengthened the second line of Marleau, Couture and Havlat while putting the talented Pavelski on another combination.
And of course, a team that can throw Thornton, Couture, Pavelski and Boyle at you on the power play is always dangerous and the Sharks ranked seventh in the NHL on the man advantage at 20.1 percent.
And unlike most teams that usually lean heavy on the top-two defensive pairings come playoff time, head coach Todd McLellan gets a six-man effort from his group. Boyle averaged 22 minutes and 47 seconds per game to lead the team, while Marc-Edouard Vlasic and veteran Brad Stuart averaged just over 20 minutes per game.
San Jose also ranked sixth on the penalty kill this season at 85.0 percent.
Then there is Niemi, who tied for the league lead with 24 wins and helped earn the Chicago Blackhawks a Stanley Cup title in 2010.
His two postseasons with the Sharks have not been as fruitful. Though he helped lead San Jose to the conference finals in 2011, his numbers were less- than-stellar: a 3.22 GAA and .896 save percentage.
Niemi was a bit better last season, but San Jose's offense was outscored 14-8 by St. Louis in the opening round.
The Sharks possess four players with over 100 games of playoff experience in Thornton, Marleau, Stuart and role player Scott Gomez, while Boyle and Hannan are no stranger to the second season either.
Despite a number of recent finishes near the top of the Western Conference, the Canucks and Sharks have met only once before in the postseason. That encounter did have a lot on the line as Vancouver knocked off San Jose in five games to advance to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
Niemi struggled the whole series, giving up at least three goals in all five games and 20 in total, while Luongo started all five games for the Canucks and posted a 2.38 GAA.
Henrik Sedin had 11 assists and 12 points in that meeting, while Daniel added a pair of goals and four assists.
Marleau was the star for the Sharks, finishing the series with four goals and seven points.
The Sharks come into this rematch with the momentum, having swept the three- game season series. They won twice at home and claimed a shootout victory in Vancouver.
Niemi won all three games for the Sharks with a 1.62 GAA, while Schneider was charged with all three setbacks.
"Obviously, meeting in the past and being top teams in the Western Conference there's always been that rivalry," said McLellan. "But every team takes on its own personality each year. There's a new group that comes in and it's been two years since we last saw them (in the playoffs), so I don't know if there's going to be a huge carryover but the rivalry exists."
While the two clubs combined for 33 goals in their conference finals meeting, it could be defense and goaltending that defines this series. The special teams edge seems to favor the Sharks, so the Canucks will need to play smart and responsible hockey.
That shouldn't be an issue for the Sedin brothers, who thrive on making plays and not hits. Schneider also seems to be playing with confidence and home-ice should be the difference maker in this series.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Canucks in 7


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Reliever Bo Burton (
Freshman Matt McCall earned the victory for the Bears (22-19, 7-8 A-Sun) in the first game throwing 8.1 innings giving up six runs on 11 hits with six strikeouts, while reliever J.T. Odom picked up the win in game two with 4.0 scoreless innings of relief.
On the day, catcher Derek Trent (
Game One Recap:
Mercer got on the board first as Thomas Carroll drove in Billy Burns on a sacrifice fly to center to take a 1-0 lead.
In the second, catcher Nick Dimauro homered to left to increase the Bears lead to 2-0.
ETSU answered in the bottom half of the inning, as the Bucs strung together three two-out hits to tie the game at 2-all. After a Kerry Doane (
The Bucs extended their lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the third. Matthew Scruggs (
Mercer tied the game in the fourth on ball hit to short by Evan Boyd to make the score 3-3.
The Bears jumped out in front 7-3 in the fifth scoring four runs on four hits including a two-run double by Dimauro and a two-run home run by Joe Winker.
ETSU got a run back in the bottom of the fifth on RBI single by
Carroll put the game out of reach in the sixth as he drove a three-run homer over the fence in right to increase the Mercer lead to 10-4.
In the ninth, the Bears added a run as Winker came in to score on a sac fly to center by Burns to make the score 11-4.
The Bucs made a little noise in the ninth after loading the bases as they scratched across two runs on a Hoilman sac fly and a Reeder walk to cut the Mercer lead to 11-6. MU reliever David Teasley got Doane to fly out to center with the bases loaded to end the contest.
Game Two Recap:
The Bears grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a RBI single by Tyler McCarty.
ETSU evened the contest at 1-1 in the second as Scruggs singled in Michael Gonzalez (Jupiter,
Mercer continued the see-saw theme of the weekend going back in front 2-1 on a solo home run to right by Winker in the fourth.
The Buccaneers tied the game for the second time in the fifth as
In the sixth, ETSU went ahead 5-2 after two run home run by Reeder and a sac fly by Scruggs.
Burns cut the Buccaneer lead to 5-3 in the seventh as he sent a solo home run over the right field fence.
The Bears exploded for eight runs on seven hits in the eighth including home runs by Travis Benn, John Moreland and Jacob Tanis to take a commanding 11-5 lead.
The Bucs are back in action Tuesday at 3 p.m. as they head to McCormick Field in
Game 1: Mercer 11, ETSU 6 (April 17, 2010 at
MU................. 110 143 001 - 11 20 0 (21-19, 6-8 A-Sun)
ETSU............ 021 010 002 - 6 13 2 (20-14, 9-5 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Bo Reeder; Derek Bushey (6); Pete Whittingslow (6); Drew Story (8); Garret May (9)
MU - Matt McCall; David Randall (9); David Teasley (9)
Win - Matt McCall (3-2) Loss - Bo Reeder (2-3)
HR - MU - Nick Dimauro (2); Joe Winker (4); Thomas Carroll (6)
Game 2: Mercer 11, ETSU 5 (April 17, 2010 at
MU................. 100 100 180 - 11 14 0 (22-19, 7-8 A-Sun)
ETSU............ 010 013 000 - 5 9 0 (20-15, 9-6 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Ben Booker, Bo Burton (8); Scott McNally (8)
MU - Justin French; J.T. Odom (6)
Win - J.T. Odom (1-2) Loss - Bo Burton (3-2)
HR - ETSU - Bo Reeder (9)
MU - Joe Winker (5); Billy Burns (2); Travis Benn (5) John Moreland (13); Jacob Tanis (18)


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Huge demand for omega-3 liquid products driving delivery innovations: Virun CEO
California-based Virun has multiple patents and pending patents in the field of omega-3 delivery in liquids, and Philip Bromley, the company's CEO and recent recipient of the Personality of the Year 2013 award from our sister publication BeverageDaily.com, told NutraIngredients-USA that there is huge demand for liquids with omega-3s.
"Virun with its partners have completed a DHA omega-3 beverage for brain health, the infamous and well-anticipated Change Cola, a sports drink with EPA and DHA omega-3 and we have joint-ventures with formulation and beverage businesses world-wide that are releasing and working on their versions of omega-3 EPA and DHA functional water products," he said.
"Not to mention, the other liquid applications such as smoothie omega-3 EPA and DHA products where Virun has worked on at least 5 in the past few months of which are now on shelves."
Bromley added that other applications utilizing omega-3 EPA and DHA include Virun's high load omega-3 DHA water soluble powders (150mg per gram) which are shelf-stable for at least one year utilizing the similar bicarbonate processes and compositions. These have been incorporated into stick-packs and bulk powder blends.
"These powder applications are becoming more in demand than the beverages themselves, primarily in the supplement and MLM industries," he said.
A lot of potential
Adam Ismail, executive director of the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED) told us that, while encapsulations for liquids is still a small portion of the market, it is one with a lot of potential.
"The big advantage of this type of technology is that it can deliver meaningful dosages of EPA and DHA into liquid formats, so it could lead to a lot of innovation in multiple formats (shots, nutrition drinks in formats like energy drinks, etc.)," he said.
"However, the challenge will be convincing consumers who are attuned to taking pills or eating seafood to look for a substantial dosage in a non-traditional format. It may take some time, but in my unscientific polling, when consumers I have spoken with understand it they seem to like the format."
Several companies are offering omega-3 encapsulation technologies, said Bromley. For example, Ingredion produces a modified food starch that is GRAS for beverages, he said, while TIC Gums has a modified gum acacia. Virun has several pertinent patents and patents pending that allow the delivery and stability of omega-3 EPA DHA or DHA into foods or beverages.
There are two main challenges in this area, he said. First is emulsion stability, which is an issue for beverages, and the second is flavor stability, which is an issue for all applications.
For emulsion stability, Bromley said that the technology or IP used depends on the particular application.
"In one embodiment, Virun utilizes its GRAS sucrose fatty acid (SFA) which is a sucrose molecule esterified to a fatty acid such as palmitic acid, similar to producing vitamin A palmitate," he explained. "The SFA is added to water and then the omega-3 oil is emulsified into the water/SFA complex. This produces a micelle of the omega-3 EPA and DHA allowing the omega-3 EPA and DHA to easily dissolve into water or food-based application, for example a smoothie.
"Alternatively and more specific toward clear-type beverage applications, Virun utilizes its vitamin E derivative technologies (Esolv) producing analogues of Vitamin E TPGS. Esolv is a natural or synthetic tocopherol or tocopheryl ("ol" or "yl" depending if natural sourced Vitamin E is requested) that is bound to a Succinate modified surfactant. Virun has several patents and patents-pending compositions that produce a novel and unique mono and diester (Bis) moiety of this form of vitamin E where the Tocopherol/yl is more balanced on each side chain of the intermediary vitamin E TPGS molecule. This balanced side chain produces smaller particle size once conjugated with omega-3 EPA and DHA and polar solvent.
"In either case, SFA or these vitamin E derivatives, in both instances, the emulsion stability is obtained by utilizing these two compositions that allow ease of dispersion into almost any application through micellization."
The company's technology also addressed the flavor issue to ensure EPA and DHA maintain a good flavor profile for at least one year, said Bromley.
"Once the omega-3 is made in a solubilized form, Virun utilizes a patent pending process that injects the aqueous phase with bicarbonate and/or carbonate to chelate residual iron and also displace oxygen from water prior to adding the omega-3," he explained.
"Once the EPA and/or DHA is added to the beverage, carbonation or nitrogen is added to the beverage to create an oxygen free environment. The combination of no residual metals or iron in the product in addition to the lack of oxygen to catalyze omega-3's volatility, the end application is stable, free of fish-flavor and maintains EPA and DHA concentrations over time."
He stressed that the end product is only as good as the ingredients used initially, and that if the fish oil is fishy to begin with, the end product will likely be fishy too, so it is important to start with a very clean source of oil to assure long term stability.
"There have been so many instances where companies have sent us their oil and thought Virun can remove the fish taste in their oil – typically we refer them to POS Biosciences in Canada for that. However, Virun's patented and patents pending technologies can assure that if the oil is good on day one, it will be good at least 365 days later."
What's next?
The current technology is performing very well in the marketplace, but Bromley said that new challenges are always being brought to Virun by its partners, clients and customers.
"We never thought that we could achieve an omega-3 DHA powder that was water soluble and contained 150mg per gram powder all-the-while shelf stable for at least one year," he said. "Anything is possible, it's all about being persistent and open-minded.
"We constantly get requests to do what seems to be impossible," he said. "For example, let's say we want to produce a 250mg DHA EPA per 1,000mg water, meaning delivering 250mg EPA and DHA in a 1 gram serving size. This is tough because the current omega-3 DHA and EPA oils that have great flavor are typically 250-350mg DHA or EPA and DHA per gram oil. So, the starting oil itself already is at this concentration.
"I think a lot of applications and ways to push-the-envelope are dependent on the omega-3 oil raw materials themselves and the technologies used to produce these oils," he added. "If we could get an 80% EPA and/or DHA oil that tasted like the typical food grade 250mg/gram EPA and DHA oils, this would be a huge game-changer.
"Another challenge that Virun's R&D currently are researching are delivering excellent source omega-3 EPA and DHA in a flavored liquid concentrate, similar to a "MIO Liquid Water Enhancer." Serving size of such a liquid enhancer is about 2ml, so this would require using a high concentrate omega-3 EPA and/or DHA oil in addition to a strong antioxidant system within the remainder composition. If this can be done, next would be trying to get 1,000mg EPA and DHA in a 500ml serving, now that is a challenge for the future!"


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It has been nearly a quarter-century since vehicles traveling up Rollins Pass Road were able to pass through Needle's Eye Tunnel, allowing visitors to traverse the high tundra back and forth between Boulder County on one side and Gilpin and Grand counties on the other.
Considering the ongoing controversy about what reopening the road could mean to the area, and the estimated costs associated with it, it remains unclear if or when it will ever be reopened.
The Boulder County commissioners, in response to a request by Gilpin and Grand county officials to reconnect the road and open it to vehicular traffic, held a hearing Thursday to gather public input on the idea.
About 200 people attended the hearing, according to Boulder County spokeswoman Gabi Boerkircher. And more than 45 of them spoke at the hearing, offering input that Boerkircher described as pretty evenly split between support and opposition.
The Rollins Pass Road last connected Rollinsville on the east side with Winter Park on the west in 1990, when an interior rock fall in Needle's Eye Tunnel cut off the route.
Among those who spoke in favor of reopening the Rollins Pass Road was longtime Boulder County resident Edward Wiegand, who argued the pass should never have been closed in the first place.
He said the "slight mishap" in the tunnel 24 years ago could have been repaired, but following litigation against Boulder County, officials chose not to reopen it and have stood in the way of it being opened since.
Wiegand, who said he considers himself a "dirt bike rider, a jeeper, a mountain biker, a hiker and a hunter," said there are ways to open the pass without repairing the tunnel, including using an old wagon road outlined in the county staff's presentation.
"We're not asking for a new road; we're asking for an existing road that should never have been closed to be reopened," Wiegand said, noting his argument was supported by many who enjoy off-highway vehicle recreation. "This area is owned by the citizenry, and to keep it closed because one county wants to make some kind of environmentalist statement is just not fair to the entire public, not just motorized recreationalists."
Much of the opposition to reopening was based on how it could negatively impact the nearby Indian Peaks and James Peak wilderness areas.
In an email to the board of commissioners, Longmont resident Jim Eastman wrote, "I think it would be bad policy to have a public road running between these two wilderness 'gems' that we are trying so hard to preserve. By allowing unlimited vehicle traffic along this road the erosion impact and the human impact from vehicle passengers in this sensitive area would be huge."
Wiegand called this argument "scare tactics," saying people who run into the dead-end at the tunnel are more likely to go off road and disturb the surrounding habitat than those allowed to continue on through. But the commissioners expressed concern about the possible impacts.
"I have to say I am worried about the potential impact to the wilderness landscape," Commissioner Elise Jones said.
From her standpoint, though, the biggest hurdle to reopening Rollins Pass Road is financing.
In the county staff presentation, it was estimated that repairs to the tunnel, the road — including the deteriorating trestles that support it in places — and a required environmental review could add up to nearly $10.5 million. Jones said there are questions about just who would be required to pay for it, adding that the U.S. Forest Service has not expressed interest in raising such funds.
"I am very aware of the fact that if Boulder County is going to spend millions of dollars on something, this is not at the top of the list," she said. "There are a lot of roads that are first in line to be repaired, including our many flood-damaged roads."
Commissioner Deb Gardner echoed the concerns about costs and the environment, but said many people Thursday made compelling arguments about why the road should be reopened for historical reasons. She said it could take time to arrive at a decision on what to do next.
"I think we're still in information gathering mode," she said. "Nothing is going to happen tomorrow."
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I was 31 years old when I finally got my driver's license. In high school I was unable to take Drivers' Ed. because all elective-type classes were held only during 2nd and 5th periods, and I already had those periods filled with band, foreign language, and advanced math classes, and even had to take trigonometry and 2nd- year Spanish during the same period.
During college and graduate school I avoided the problem of learning how to drive by attending colleges in big cities and living in places that were within walking distance or an easy bus route.
During my first years as a working stiff, I took the bus and then my husband drove me to work for a short while.
When it finally appeared that we could afford a second car, he announced: "You have to learn to drive." He was right. I couldn't avoid it any more. And our friend Linda – kind, patient, generous Linda – came to the rescue.
Linda is a natural teacher, so despite my fears, the experience wasn't too traumatic. We started out at Oakwood Cemetery, which is located in Falls Church near where we live. Driving the small, winding roads was even enjoyable. Venturing from there to the outside world took a bit more courage, but we managed.
My older daughter learned to drive on local neighborhood streets and our younger daughter started out at the local multiplex parking area (the multiplex was recently closed down for some "urban improvement" and may reappear in metamorphosed form in whatever yuppie-tastic residential/commercial conglomeration springs up to take the place of the comfortable, low-rent previous incarnation) and has now graduated to neighborhood streets as well.


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The Imitation Game is a beautiful glimpse into the head of the prodigy Alan Turing. Who plays that? None other than the handsome and captivating Benedict Cumberbatch himself.
"Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know."
The flick takes birth with the aforementioned enthralling screenplay that smells of confidence dripping off Benedict Cumberbatch's brainiac-avatar. We like to listen to him that way. His bold voice that reeks of the Smaug fury. That voice of Khan that reminds us of his sharp demeanor that he so beautifully donned and carried throughout the movie Star Trek Into Darkness. He literally thrives on screenplay. Don't you just wish sometimes screenwriters had more badass words to feed him?
Plot of The Imitation Game (Spoilers)
Enigma is impossible to crack. So the world told him. Alan Turing, the prodigy who defied a relentless encrypting machine, was the person responsible for reducing the devastating span of war that engulfed Europe by two years. The Father of Artificial Intelligence played God to minimize casualties and nobody had a clue. The biopic is a tribute to Turing which eases through 114 minutes of brilliance manifesting his love life, his genius, his eureka and his sorry demise.
Cumberbatch as the polymath works extremely hard to project a guy who is different from the rest. He imparts him an apt stammer with a clumsier gravity. Alexandre Desplat weaves magic in the background with his brilliant notes.
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I loved how Keira Knightley's character Joan Clarke tries to reason with Turing when he tries to break up with her.
"We will have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most.
Downsides to The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum's direction is good but there are times when you feel it could have gone better. Since, directors believe viewers to be laymen, most of them don't venture into the technical aspect of a prodigy. A little bit fathomable technical is a welcome inclusion and if a director makes you understand the what and the how of the work entailed, big things like cracking a code should give you an equal and exact amount of thrill as its protagonist projects. Precisely what the flick missed.
Turing is a war hero often unsung and overlooked. What he gave the world is truly precious. Somehow something tells me, this guy's life deserves a series to portray minute crucial details. Now that is something that couldn't be possibly condensed into a movie. The grandeur of what he was doing and what he did is beyond time. A flick like this doesn't do justice to his remarkable life.
The Final Verdict
The Imitation Game rivets you with Alan's ingenious almost instantly. Desplat's notes make sure that you don't get a jaded moment at all. Whilst Cumberbatch ensures you witness a prodigy. Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance and Mark Strong fill the screen aptly with their effective and memorable presence. Overall the movie turns out brilliant.
A great biopic to watch! Highly recommended.
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Kurt Angle has never tasted what it's like to be the NWA Heavyweight Champion. At Against All Odds, Kurt Angle got his first shot at gold as he took on Christian Cage in a solid main event match. Although the results weren't favorable to the Olympic Gold Medalist, Angle showed that he is a valid contender and the perfect leader for TNA as they move forward to bigger and better things.
Angle made his way into the Impact Zone, confident that he was about to deliver Christian Cage a beating he wouldn't soon forget. Cage and Tomko made their way out, concerned but cocky. Before things got underway, referee Andrew Thomas told Tomko to hit the bricks as he didn't want there to be any chance of Tomko interfering in this ever important match-up.
With Cage livid, the match began. Cage and Angle wrestled around a little bit until "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe made his grand entrance. Joe stood on the outside to ensure that the match between Angle and Cage would go down without any outside issues. For the early part of the match Cage and Angle reversed one another and thwarted each other's finisher attempts. Angle used his technical prowess to execute an impressive seven set of German suplexes that nearly got him the victory, however Cage showed some fighting spirit and was able to kick out before the three. "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles attempted to intervene, but was immediately chased away by Joe.
While the referee was paying attention to Joe and Styles, Cage used a chair on Angle and hit a second Unprettier, but again, it wouldn't be enough to keep Angle down. While the referee was on the ring apron trying to maintain some order on the outside, Cage was sent into the ropes, knocking him off and into the guardrail. Angle followed up by delivering a low blow and the Olympic Slam, but there was no ref to make the pinfall. Joe threw Thomas back into the ring, but by then Angle could only get a two count.
As soon as Thomas made it back to his feet, he was once again sent down, allowing Tomko and Scott Steiner to hit the ring and wreak havoc. Joe did what he could to get them out of the picture, whacking them with a steel chair, tossing them left and right and clearing them out with an incredible dive through the ropes. Joe then told Angle that he was doing his job and told him to worry about defeating Cage. Cage fired back a bit, but took too long to capitalize, landing himself on the receiving end of an Ankle Lock. After fighting a bit, he tapped, but again there was no ref to recognize the submission. With nobody to call for a DQ, Cage grabbed the lead pipe that Steiner had brought to the ring and whacked Angle in the head. He followed up with his third Unprettier which was enough to put Angle away for the three count. A decent main event to top a decent PPV.
Match One - Serotonin (Johnny Devine and Kazarian) w/ Matt Bentley vs. Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal
Lethal and Dutt used their quickness to gain the upperhand in this one. The new flock known as Serotonin is finally starting to come into its own. The end came when Dutt missed a splash on Kazarian, Bentley snuck in and hit a superkick allowing Kazarian to make the cover and pick up the very first win for Serotonin. Finally. Afterwards, Raven came in and the caning process began, very unique.
Winners Via Pinfall - Serotonin (Johnny Devine and Kazarian)
Match Rating - 5/10
The show began with a cool video package that featured Christian Cage comparing himself to many other "Instant Classics." TNA's production has made so many steps forward, if their writing could do the same they'd be alright.
Match One - Little Italy Street Fight - Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) vs. LAX ("The Notorious 187" Homicide and Hernandez) w/ Konnan and The Latino Nation
This was just an all out brawl. Homicide took an insane backbody drop on the outside that saw him hit the ringpost before hitting the ground, amazing. On the flip side, Hernandez did a suicide dive into a vicious chair shot from Brother Devon. If all this hard hitting action wasn't enough, strippers were in cages at ringside and even took time out to give Brother Ray a lap dance during the match. The Latino Nation, a group of unidentified Latinos, tried to get involved, but were quickly wiped out by Team 3D. Brother Devon was opened up with a pizza cutter by Homicide, who was in turn opened up by a cheese grater courtesy of Brother Ray. LAX fought back, putting Brother Ray through a table and using their mercenaries to hold down Brother Devon until he was too beaten to get up. A Border Toss and elbow drop was enough to put Devon away, giving LAX the victory in the Little Italy Street Fight.
Winners Via Pinfall - LAX ("The Notorious 187" Homicide and Hernandez)
Match Rating - 6/10
Jeremy Borash caught up with The Austin Starr in the back. Starr said that he was going to defeat Senshi and continue on in his path to stardom. He said he was tired of Kevin Nash's goofy ways and was happy to no longer be associated with him. During the course of the interview, Bob Backlund came in and interrupted. Starr berated him and walked away as Backlund stood there furious. Backlund is crazy.
Match Two - The Austin Starr vs. Senshi
Both of these stars are so well versed in their technical game, however on this occasion neither one seemed to be completely on his game. Lots of quick back and forth action. Senshi attempted to hit the Warrior's Way, but Starr avoided it. Starr locked in the Crossface Chicken Wing on a few occasions, but Senshi fought out. A roll through attempt gone astray was Starr's downfall as he found himself pinned to the mat and on the losing end of the sheet. After the match, Starr complained and threw chairs into the ring, demanding that the match be restarted. Bob Backlund came out only to get slapped by Starr once again. Backlund locked in the Crossface Chicken Wing and carried Starr all the way to the back. Hysterical. Decent match, but sloppy at a few points with a terrible finish.
Winner Via Pinfall - Senshi
In the dressing room area, Jeremy Borash was with Christian Cage and Tomko, who was furious at Scott Steiner and how he was being treated. Tomko told Cage that he didn't want anything to do with Steiner and refused to work with him. Steiner barged in and told Cage that he was going to quit because he couldn't deal with Tomko. Cage calmed both guys down and told them to cool off because he needed them to make sure that he was going to walk out with the NWA Heavyweight Championship still intact. Steiner stormed off as Cage screamed at Tomko to go fix their relationship.
A video package was shown recapping the Christy Hemme/Kip James situation. This led to...
Match Three - Tuxedo Match - Christy Hemme vs. The Big Fat Oily Guy
A clip was shown of Jim Cornette telling Christy Hemme earlier on that she would be competing in a Tuxedo match. This was horrible. Way to kill the PPV. Hemme eventually won. Kip James came down and ripped her shirt off claiming that that was what the TNA fans really wanted to see. Terrible segment.
Winner Via Stripping Her Opponent - Christy Hemme
Match Rating - 1/10
In a special area, there was a private viewing of Alex Shelley's latest masterpiece. A love story between Ms. Brooks and "Showtime" Eric Young. Leticia, Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Kevin Nash sat down and watched the first part that saw Ms. Brooks answer her cell phone and talk to Young who was on his way up in the elevator. Ms. Brooks told Shelley to hide as "To Be Continued..." popped up on the screen.
A video package was shown highlighting the feud between David Eckstein and AJ Pierzynski. Yes you read that right David Eckstein is feuding with AJ Pierzynski.
Match Four - Dale Torborg w/ AJ Pierzynski vs. Lance Hoyt w/ David Eckstein
Torborg was a little rusty, but overall not too bad. Pierzynski got involved a bit, throwing Hoyt into the guardrails. Eckstein complained about Pierzynski's repeated interference, leading to Pierzynski coming in and hitting Hoyt with a steel chair, allowing Torborg to get the win. Eckstein jumped in the ring and showed the ref the chair, thus calling for a restart. Rick Eckstein got invovled, giving David a chair that he used on Torborg who fell into a forward slam by Hoyt for the win.
Winner Via Pinfall - Lance Hoyt
Match Rating - 4/10
Back to the viewing party, the showing continued with Eric Young coming in and meeting with Ms. Brooks. Brooks told him that before they could do anything, he had to do her a favor and sign the contract with Robert Roode Inc. Young hesistated, but went to sign as "To Be Continued..." once again popped up on the screen. Lethal, Dutt, Leticia and Nash commenting inbetween segments was actually pretty entertaining.
This was a solid match for the most part. Back and forth action that saw Styles play cowardly for a good portion of the match, forcing Rhino to shorten the chain on him and drive in with his attack. Styles was able to hit some springboard offense and eventually retrieve the key. Styles then proceeded to cuff Rhino to the ropes, not allowing him to get more than halfway across the ring. He teased Rhino with the keys until he got too close and was Gored. The keys flew out, but Rhino still couldn't reach them. Referee Earl Hebner walked by the keys and gave them a casual kick in Rhino's direction. Very cool. Rhino uncuffed himself and set up a table, he went to Gore Styles through it, but wound up putting himself through it and allowing Styles to pick up the pinfall victory.
Winner Via Pinfall - "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles
Match Rating - 7/10
The final installment of the viewing party was up next. In it we saw Eric Young sign the contract. Ms. Brooks told Young she'd be right back, as she took off with the contract in hand, down the hallway and proceeded to deliver it to Robert Roode. Nash and company critqued the film as Bob Backlund came in and chased them away, saying that the film was corrupting the TNA fan base.
Match Six - TNA X Division Championship Match - Chris Sabin (C) vs. Jerry Lynn
Another fast paced, back and forth contest. Jerry Lynn still has every bit of the quickness and vigor he had during his first tile run as X Division champion back in 2002. Sabin was caught off guard here, as Lynn unleashed a flurry of offensive moves. Sabin fought back and used some cheap tricks to regain control of the match. Sabin was able to retain the title after Lynn couldn't execute the Cradle Piledriver and Sabin rolled him up and hooked the ropes.
Winner Via Pinfall and STILL TNA X Division Champion - Chris Sabin
TNA announced that Destination X was coming up and that they would be making a special announcement tomorrow night on Spike TV (remember no Raw in the U.S., so TNA is on Monday with a special) for a new match that will be debuting at the PPV. In the back, Samoa Joe was shown coming out of Kurt Angle's lockeroom.
In the back, Jeremy Borash spoke with Christian Cage, asking him if everything was all set within his army. Cage told Borash that everything was going to work out. Jim Cornette came in and informed Cage that if anyone interfered on his behalf, he would be disqualified and the title would change hands. Been there, done that.
A video package was shown highlighting the feud between Jackie Moore and Gail Kim. This led to...
Match Seven - Petey Williams and Gail Kim vs. James Storm and Jackie Moore
This was a pretty entertaining match that saw Moore and Kim really go at it. Storm and Williams exchagned blows, with Williams attempting to hit the Destroyer, only to get hit from behing by Moore. Things broke down and Gail Kim found herself on the receiving end of a knee to the face from Storm that sent her crashing to the mat. Moore made the cover and picked up the win for her team. Afterwards, things broke down, with all four combatants going at it. Williams was laid out with a superkick by Storm. Moore and Storm went to hit the Death Sentence on him too, but Chris Harris made his return, chasing them to the back as Kim checked on Williams.
Winners Via Pinfall - James Storm and Jackie Moore
Match Rating 5/10
A video package was shown highlighting the feud between Sting and Abyss. In the back, Jeremy Borash found Sting and interviewed him. Sting said that he was going to make sure that this was the end of James Mitchell's reign of terror.
Match Eight - Prison Yard Match - Sting vs. "The Monster" Abyss w/ Father James Mitchell
This was a great match. Lots of high impact offense here. Between the barbed wire and all sorts of other plunder, this match really took the PPV to another level. Abyss' arm was cut up and down courtesy of the barbed wire bat, while James Mitchell also tasted his own blood thanks to Sting. Abyss fought back, cracking one of the red siren lights over Sting's head. Sting mounted a comeback and wound up powerbombing Abyss off the cell and through a barbed wire table, knocking him out and allowing Sting to drag him into the cell and lock him up. After the match, Sting choked Mitchell until security swarmed the ring and forced him to release his hold. Excellent match and a great way to end this feud.
Winner Via Locking His Opponent In The Cell - Sting
Match Rating - 8/10
Backstage, Jeremy Borash spoke with Kurt Angle who said that he was going to seize the opportunity being presented to him. He promised that he was going to walk out of Against All Odds the new NWA Heavyweight Champion.
Match Nine - NWA Heavyweight Championship Match - "The Instant Classic" Christian Cage w/ Tomko (C) vs. Kurt Angle
Winner Via Pinfall and STILL NWA Heavyweight Champion - "The Instant Classic" Christian Cage
Overall Event Rating - 6/10


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It's bella!!! yay! this is just a sketch, i may add color. I drew this to show how Bella is looking back on all the times with edward. More symbolic than anything else.
this pic was inspired by an actress, whoever can guess the actress gets yummy chocolate or whatever kind of cake they want! *hint- she's in my fav movie which i mentioned in my story 'the girl', so go read it (and don't forget to review!) We Have a Winner! TwilightFanatic guessed right!
This was modeled after Emmy Rossum from Phantom of the Opera! (The best movie EVER!) whoopsie, it's sideways. sorry, i'll try to fix that. in the meantime, you'll just have to turn you head. :)
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GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) -- The Kecskes family knew something was wrong Tuesday morning when they were awoken by the family cat.
It turned out to be carbon monoxide. Investigators said the trouble started with a gas boiler in the basement. The family can't use it again until it is professionally serviced.
Ariana Kecskes says the family cat, the normally quiet Mr. Boo, is the hero of the day. Mr. Boo is a rescue the family has had for about seven years.
"I woke up to my cat meowing. He never meows. He usually just squeaks or doesn't meow at all. It's actually kind of a joke in our family," Kecskes said.
But Mr. Boo wasn't being quiet Tuesday morning. He did whatever it took to get the family alerted something wasn't right.
"He was sort of stumbling down the hallway and he just kept meowing. He seemed to kind of want us to get us out of the house," Kecskes said. "He passed out so many times trying to wake us all up and that's just amazing because he's never really meowed before. It's like he's been waiting his whole life to do this one heroic thing."
Ariana passed out in the hallway.
"My dad and my brother actually carried me out and that's when I woke up again and then he got my brother out and then he grabbed a few things and got my mom on the front porch. She got my cat, Mr. Boo out," Kecskes said.
Even the family's other cat was helping out.
"Our other cat actually walked in and kind of revived him because he was knocked out and our other cat kind of sniffed him like, 'Hey, get up.' So, we were all just working together," Kecskes said.
Everyone, including Mr. Boo is safe but the family knows they're extremely lucky.
Asst. Chief Kevin Hummeldorf with the Green Township Fire Dept. says carbon monoxide is a silent killer.
"Odorless, colorless, tasteless, all those things to be true and oftentimes people don't know they're being affected by that until it's too late," Hummeldorf said.
There were no carbon monoxide detectors in the house but the family says they will go out and get some for the house.
Green Township Fire crews say you should have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors on every floor of your home. You should check the batteries in each unit at least twice a year.


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Both the city council and public received a streamlined presentation of the work the Cal Unmanned Aircraft Systems Portal team was out at Inyokern during Wednesday's council meeting.
Both the city council and public received a streamlined presentation of the work the Cal Unmanned Aircraft Systems Portal team was out at Inyokern during Wednesday's council meeting.
Eileen Shibley, director of China Lake Alliance and the Cal UAS project leader, brought up some of the background and benefits the project could pose for the Indian Wells Valley and Ridgecrest.
Among the background events was the Federal Aviation Administration's mandate to establish six test and research sites for its UAS initiative in its goal to integrate unmanned vehicles into the national airspace system by 2015.
Shibley said when the UAS determines those test sites – which Cal UAS is vying to be part of – the federal agency would consider geographic and climatic diversity, consult with the Defense Department and NASA and consider the location of ground infrastructure and research needs.
Shibley said there was initially little information available from the FAA to move forward 18 months ago, and despite the delay in the FAA releasing the requirements, Inyokern had already begun to get the ball rolling.
"Knowing the push for this came from the private sector, we started down the path of how to see our valley would play in this, with a hub in Inyokern but with a larger area of interest or opportunity to become a viable competitor for one of these six sites," Shibley said.
Shibley displayed a map with commercial airline traffic sectors lit up in yellow, with a large square marking the Cal UAS proposed boundaries squared off.
"There's what some people refer to as a black hole and basically what you see is a dearth of commercial airline traffic," she said.
That activity was the single largest selling point to the FAA, she said.
"Our airspace is probably our single biggest asset," she said. "We are remote and are basically in a military operating area."
Other assets include a wide diversity of terrain the FAA is looking for, including mountains, desert, and maritime environment through its team members in San Diego.
"One of the things that is pushing unmanned systems efforts and is behind the legislation is the fact that the commercial sector is coming up with all kinds of applications for unmanned systems but have no place to test them," she said.
By providing a test and research site, commercial aspects could be easier to pursue than the normal FAA route for applying for a test permit, a process that takes three to six months.
The other area that would benefit would be the spur of growth in research applications. Shibley touted the area's brainpower as pioneers in unmanned systems., including China Lake NAWS and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
Shibley also highlighted some of the aspects for unmanned systems in the private industry, including hazardous surveys and first-responder type aspects.
"Disaster relief is huge and search-and-rescue is something that could really benefit from the use of this technology," Shibley said.
Shibley pointed out how beneficial UAS might have been after the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
The community also seemed to rally around the Cal UAS Portal initiative, she said.
"Most people believe that we are on the cusp of what is going to be a game-changer," Shibley said. "So what we did was scrambled and pulled together a team of people that had been together 14 months ago."
However, an aggressive schedule awaits the Cal UAS team.
Shibley said they had already submitted five of the initial seven volumes required for the FAA selection process.
Those include team members and test areas on March 13, in addition to certification as a public entity and volumes on safety, team experience and teaming agreements on March 28.
The team is currently working on Volume III, to be submitted April 11, which details airspace, the team research plan and ground infrastructure. Shibley described it as "the technical heart of the proposal." Other aspects the team was working on was the economic impact due May 6 analysis and privacy concerns due June 11.
Shibley said however, that privacy was something the FAA was asking input from various project teams. After a June 11 deadline, the FAA would visit viable test site candidates and would name six sites by Dec. 31.
The benefits, Shibley said, would be an infusion of jobs and boon for restaurants and hotels.
However, she said that the team needed support, especially when other project teams were receiving the full backing of their respective states.
She said already a team was in place to fundraiser for the project and had already received a letter of support from the city of Ridgecrest.
Following the presentation, the council thanked Shibley for her efforts.
"Everybody has told me that you have been a real champion on this effort and I really appreciate it," said Councilman Jim Sanders. "I think it will be something that will benefit our whole valley."
Vice Mayor Chip Holloway echoed Sanders and added the state should jump in to support the Cal UAS.
"If there is a bogie in this whole thing, my whole frustration lies with the state of California," Holloway said. "For the life of me I cannot see why they are not engaged in this."
Following the meeting, Shibley commented on the value of the council's letter of support.
"It's another sign of support from a community that is entirely behind what we are trying to do," Shibley said. "It's heartening and it makes this tough, tough job easier knowing we enjoy this support."


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Many thought it at the time, that when John Maine left that game in Washington after only five pitches that he was also leaving the Mets.
It sure appears that way as they aren't likely to tender a contract to Maine by today's midnight deadline. They'll tender Mike Pelfrey, RA Dickey, Angel Pagan, and possibly Sean Green, but Maine is a longshot.
Maine came to the Mets in the Kris Benson deal as a throw-in, but emerged into a viable, productive pitcher. He won 15 games in 2007, but injuries, a weak shoulder and sometimes his attitude sabotaged him. Maine never regained the form that brought optimism he might develop into something special.
I don't think the Mets did him any favors last spring and he was poorly handled by Jerry Manuel and Dan Warthen, but Maine also didn't bring much to the table the past two years.
A team weak in pitching, the Mets might bring him back at a reduced rate, but with the pitching market so thin, he's liable to test the waters to see what's out there. There's also no compelling reason why he'd want to return especially since he's still steamed at Warthen.
At one time, Maine represented potential and good things to the Mets – remember that game against the Marlins? – but now he personifies part of what went wrong. He's about unrealized dreams.
Of course, so does Oliver Perez, but the Mets are on the hook to him for $12 million and they have no other choice but to give it one more chance. Maine would come at a lower rate so it's much easier to cut the ties.
As far as Dickey is concerned, the Mets will tender him and then work on an extension. They'll probably want to see is last year was a fluke before giving him a multi-year contract.


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Whew! It's been a long and dramatic day, at least here in the U.S. of A. Let's kick back with an off-topic that has nothing to do with politics.
It's great fun looking back at movies that everyone hated at the time, but which critics have come to embrace. And that's just what Calum Marsh did in this article over at Indiewire, where he goes through a list of misunderstood films that have since found redemption.
I haven't seen all of these, but it is pretty funny that critics thought The Exorcist was such trash. Because man, that is one excellently scary movie.
It happens to all of us, though—we see a movie we hate and come around to liking it. It certainly happens to me with music and games, as well. Any films out there you think you may have been to hard on the first time around?
Feel free to discuss movies, politics, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, see you tomorrow.


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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
What do these two triangles have in common? How are they related?
What is the smallest number of tiles needed to tile this patio? Can you investigate patios of different sizes?
What is the largest cuboid you can wrap in an A3 sheet of paper?
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
Explore the different tunes you can make with these five gourds. What are the similarities and differences between the two tunes you are given?
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?
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How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
48 is called an abundant number because it is less than the sum of its factors (without itself). Can you find some more abundant numbers?
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Can you continue this pattern of triangles and begin to predict how many sticks are used for each new "layer"?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Can you make these equilateral triangles fit together to cover the paper without any gaps between them? Can you tessellate isosceles triangles?
We went to the cinema and decided to buy some bags of popcorn so we asked about the prices. Investigate how much popcorn each bag holds so find out which we might have bought.
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
Arrange your fences to make the largest rectangular space you can. Try with four fences, then five, then six etc.
Take 5 cubes of one colour and 2 of another colour. How many different ways can you join them if the 5 must touch the table and the 2 must not touch the table?
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
In my local town there are three supermarkets which each has a special deal on some products. If you bought all your shopping in one shop, where would be the cheapest?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
I like to walk along the cracks of the paving stones, but not the outside edge of the path itself. How many different routes can you find for me to take?
Follow the directions for circling numbers in the matrix. Add all the circled numbers together. Note your answer. Try again with a different starting number. What do you notice?
In this challenge, you will work in a group to investigate circular fences enclosing trees that are planted in square or triangular arrangements.
Why does the tower look a different size in each of these pictures?
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
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Polygonal numbers are those that are arranged in shapes as they enlarge. Explore the polygonal numbers drawn here.
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Explore one of these five pictures.
This tricky challenge asks you to find ways of going across rectangles, going through exactly ten squares.
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This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
This challenge encourages you to explore dividing a three-digit number by a single-digit number.
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In this investigation we are going to count the number of 1s, 2s, 3s etc in numbers. Can you predict what will happen?
What is the largest number of circles we can fit into the frame without them overlapping? How do you know? What will happen if you try the other shapes?
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Amid protests against higher fuel prices, Jordan needs to combine its commitment to subsidy reform with real progress on new energy projects and social welfare, writes Robin Mills for The National.
"To play with prices is to play with fire," read the placards of demonstrators around the Al Husseini Mosque in downtown Amman last week.
More than 10,000 people marched that day to protest against the removal of fuel subsidies. Demonstrations and riots spread to several cities throughout Jordan, and slogans became increasingly political.
The government is increasing the price of bottled gas, used for cooking and heating, and diesel and low-grade petrol. This is to save some of the $2.3 billion it spends annually on subsidies, almost a quarter of its budget, and the main reason for a deficit that has ballooned to $3.5 billion.
Muslim Brotherhood deputy Zaki Bani Arshid, a member of the opposition to the government, presented no policy other than demanding the withdrawal of the price increases. Meanwhile, Suleiman Hafez, the finance minister, announced on Friday that cash disbursements would begin to low- and middle-income Jordanians to cushion the blow of the subsidy removal. But the details of this compensation policy have been under discussion for two years.
Energy crises have a familiar pattern. There are warnings over years of inadequate provision for future demand, or vulnerability to cutoffs. But politicians resist charging higher prices to consumers, and important new projects are caught up in bureaucracy.
When the crisis does come, the country or state utility runs out of money, or the lights go out, and the realization dawns that there is no quick solution. Then the political will and focus may finally be sustained over several years to implement deep reforms and build new power plants and pipelines.
In Jordan's case, the arrival of the crisis has been accelerated by the cutoff of gas supplies from Egypt due to repeated sabotage and Egypt's own shortages. Jordan has had to turn to expensive oil for electricity generation. The Syrian crisis next door has been a further blow to the economy.
Jordan is not quite as resource-short as it often appears to be. But none of the solutions to its energy crisis are quick and cheap.
Hoping to start a liquefied natural gas terminal to receive imports by mid-2014, it is unlikely to get a hoped-for cut-price deal from Qatar. Iraqi gas by pipeline is an obvious option—but Baghdad has shown no urgency to seize this opportunity. Instead, Israel's new offshore gas, more than enough for its own needs, may capture this market and reinforce Amman's strategic dependency.
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Jordan can continue to muddle through for some time. King Abdullah can make selective concessions, as he did in September when rescinding a 10% increase in petrol prices. He can sack unpopular ministers and negotiate side deals with interest groups.
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One of the more tragic religion news stories of recent weeks has been the murder of three Jewish children and a rabbi at a school in Toulouse, France. The shooting earlier this week was quickly linked to the killing of French paratroopers a week prior. Some of the journalism surrounding these events has been great. I particularly liked this Associated Press piece on how people are grieving the deaths. It does a great job of weaving religious practice into a brief update. I also loved this CNN Belief blog piece on why the dead were flown to Israel for burials. It covers everything fro the scriptural basis to the practice to the costs of same. A great piece. Unfortunately, not all of the stories have handled the religion element as well. Mostly that has to do with the religion of the accused shooter.
First, there was trouble with how French leaders and the media characterized the shooting. There's pretty much no other way to say this than that the media and the political establishment suspected that the shooter came from a particular community. Which community? Well: "The massive police manhunt is focusing on far right extremists; including three former soldiers," according to one report.
If you haven't heard, these suspicions didn't hold up as French police staked out the home of a Muslim terrorist they now suspect was the shooter. (He has since died.) Now, whether the French political and police establishment were unwise in their speculation is not an issue for us to address. Our interest is only in how the media handled this speculation. I don't know how much to blame the media for running with what the police said.
On the one hand, you don't want a media that just blindly accepts what a police force is saying (and for a great example of why you might look at the case in Florida involving the shooting of Trayvon Martin). On the other hand, you can't blame the media for simply reporting what the French political leaders are saying.
But some media went way beyond just reporting what others were saying into rampant speculation and navel-gazing about what the murders meant. For a taste of how this looked across the pond, you can check out this Telegraph piece that wonders whether the "far-right" created a "climate" that "triggered the acts."
The New York Times yesterday morning ran a piece headlined Killings Could Stall Election's Nationalist Turn. The subhead was "In the middle of a heated presidential race, shootings at a Jewish school have raised new questions about the tone of a debate about what it is to be French."
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But the political debate around the shootings, and whether the deaths of an instructor and three young children were somehow inspired by anti-immigrant political talk, is likely to continue — both as a weapon in the presidential campaign and as a more general soul-searching about the nature of France.
No one is suggesting that the French presidential campaign inspired a serial killer to put a bullet in the head of an 8-year-old Jewish girl. The candidates largely suspended their campaigning and uniformly condemned the killings, as well as the murders of three French soldiers — two Muslims and a black man — apparently by the same man...
In some ways, the debate here is similar to that in Norway after Anders Behring Breivik killed dozens of young campers in cold blood in July. Were his actions encouraged in some way by too harsh a debate in Norway about immigrants and foreigners, or were they the acts of a madman who lived in a fantasy world and could have been from anywhere?
"No one" is suggesting that the political campaign inspired the killer except for the reporter himself a few paragraphs later, I guess.
What's really weird about this piece is that it was in yesterday's New York Times on page A4. Now, my two-year-old daughter kept me up all night on Tuesday night. And I do mean all night. So I was up when the news broke about the actual identity of the alleged shooter. While I can't remember exactly when the news broke that the suspect was actually a Muslim terrorist, it was hours before people first read the paper with their morning coffee -- but hours after it went to press. This happens sometimes. But it's an excellent reminder of why it's generally wiser to wait for the facts before telling readers what to think about them.
In fact, the email announcing headlines from the day's paper had this story right next to one about the raid. Just too late to change the paper. So right next to the headline mentioned above was this one: " French Police Raid Toulouse House for School Shooting Suspect: Elite police raided a house in Toulouse early Wednesday in pursuit of a man claiming ties to Al Qaeda and suspected in the killings this week at a Jewish school."
If the early suspicions of the politicians and media were correct, this introspective look at the cold-blooded murderer of children would be within bounds. But what's weird is that the media were so wrong, and then doubled down on things in the wrong direction.
It showed a bit of historical ignorance to rule out a Muslim shooter simply because some of the victims were Muslim. How many Muslims must be killed by other Muslims before the media learn that this is not an infrequent occurrence? In fact, Muslim terrorists may target Muslims more than Christians or Jews.
You'd hope the media would know enough about world events or historical events to know that the targeting of Muslims wouldn't exactly be beyond the modus operandi of various terrorist groups.
It's also important that reporters show restraint before the facts are known. It's one thing to report that the police are focusing their manhunt in one direction, but entirely another to indict the wrong segment of society for the act. Missing the possibility of an Islamist connection isn't great but neither was the rush to judge nationalists for the murders. In this case, they displayed multiple biases.
Finally, once the alleged shooter is identified not only as someone who is not a nationalist but, rather, someone with ties to Muslim terrorist organizations, it's OK to mention the religious views that may be in play. This Bloomberg story alludes to those views without spelling it out. This CNN story says we're dealing with a jihadist but doesn't explain anything about the suspect's religious views, even when discussing the specific terrorist organization he was part of in France. A reader wrote in:
I have just listened to the main evening bulletin (18.00) here in the UK on BBC Radio 4, which had an item about the identification of a suspect for the recent atrocities in France - what was interesting was that his religion was not mentioned at all - despite him having probably been involved with the Taliban. I thought this was interesting, particularly in comparison with the Jewishness of some of his victims, whose religion was mentioned at every turn.
Now, it can't be repeated enough that when news is breaking, you see many false reports. You really need to double check everything. (For instance, Reuters and others ran with an incorrect report that the alleged shooter was in an Afghanistan prison for a time before being broken out by the Taliban.) But as quickly as some rushed to indict whole sectors of society for the shootings, others are now rushing to do the opposite or otherwise minimize the killings. Which means we're in the "lone wolf" stage of reporting, which almost seems mandatory for stories about Islamic terrorists. Here's Spiegel:
A man like Mohammed Merah is Western law enforcement's worst nightmare. The suspected perpetrator of the Toulouse attacks fits into the "lone wolf" category of terrorist. Such individuals claim to be part of organizations like al-Qaida but act on their own initiative -- making them hard to detect before they act.
The wolf language is so odd to use when dealing with a decentralized and internet-fueled terrorist operation. There's no doubt that some people act alone. But there's also no doubt that one doesn't need to go to Afghanistan -- as this "lone wolf" did a few times -- to be part of a larger operation. So it reminds me of crying wolf. When the media keep reporting that "lone wolf" language about so many Muslim terrorists -- only to later see those reports debunked, it causes a breakdown in trust with the reader. Maybe we don't have much information now -- other than that the man claims links to larger national and international terrorist organizations and made trips to Afghanistan. But that information alone means we should be humble about what we're reporting.
We're also seeing reports along the lines of "backlash fears," such as this piece from AFP.
Not all reports are so predictable or obfuscatory. This Toronto Star piece manages to get the details of the situation out there while showing restraint.
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