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To give you an idea of what Mick McManus meant to British pro wrestling, consider that he and Jackie Pallo once had a bout before a FA Cup soccer final -- and outdrew the game. With McManus' passing today, at the age of 93, one of the links to the golden age of the World of Sport is gone.
According to reports, McManus had been in a coma for a few days in a nursing home for retired actors, and died at one in the morning today in Britain. He had been in poor health and poor spirits since the passing of his wife Barbara.
The put it simply, Mick McManus was the greatest villain in the history of professional wrestling in the United Kingdom. By his own count, he was on television at least once a month for 26 years.
"Mick McManus was a household name in the UK for the better part of three decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s," explained Brian Elliott, editor of the British magazine Fighting Spirit. "That term, much like 'legend,' has been overused greatly, but McManus is a true example of both, in the days where millions of people gathered around their televisions every Saturday afternoon to watch what was colloquially known as 'The Wrestling.' To wrestling fans, McManus was an icon. To the average TV viewer, he was a star. To his friends and colleagues, this is a dreadfully sad day."
McManus was born William George Matthews on January 11, 1920, on Old Kent Road in London, England. As a teenager, growing up in the southeastern part of London known as New Cross, he was into amateur wrestling, and joined the John Ruskin Club to improve his skills. He served his country in the Royal Air Force.
Starting in 1947, he wrestled for 30 years, protecting his cauliflowered ears, his slicked-back black hair never changing as he delivered his famed forearm smashes, retiring in 1981 and moving into the promotional end of things with Dale Martin Promotions.
"I owe wrestling a great deal -- it has given me so much," McManus said in the 1983 book Sportsviewers Guide Wrestling by Peter Bills. "I've met interesting people, travelled the world and enjoy a good lifestyle through the sport. I started in 1948-49 as a professional but had been wrestling before that. But I'm not sure where the connection came from because my father wasn't a wrestler or anything like that. I had two friends who were professional wrestlers and I used to train with them. I suppose it developed from that."
McManus' villainy came from not always obeying the more strictly-enforced rules in the British wrestling world, which included breaks each round. But give his smaller size, 5-foot-6, 175 pounds, he was more of a conniving heel than a monster.
In This Grappling Game, famed British announcer Kent Walton described McManus: "He climbs into the ring, disrobes in a leisurely manner. For all the notice he takes of the crowd's frenzy he might be stone-deaf. The bell clangs. The rough-stuff commences. The other guy wants to wrestle. Mick acts as if he'd never even heard of the game. He is a rule-bender beyond the wildest dreams of an American TV-lawyer. He gets away with murder and throws arson in for an encore. How? Sheer craft. Watch him turn his opponent away to the ref's blind side whenever he wants to 'pull a stroke'. Which is only for the duration of the bout, generally. Finally the luckless opponent is out-roughed, out-slugged and out-pointed. Not to mention, usually, just plain 'out'. Mick McManus wins again."
He told Bills that he never set out to be bad. "[It] just happened like that," he said. "Perhaps it was taking advantage and doing things like trying to climb over people, that sort of thing. But although it angered some folk, it was a successful formula and I never thought of changing it."
In Simon Garfield's book, The Wrestling -- essential reading -- McManus talked about working the fans. "I used to love the crowds, especially the way I'd wrestle. I used to get a kick out of manipulating the hordes. I'm not being big headed, but I could really bring them up and down and drive them made and then tone them right down, keep them quiet and sort of wrestle sometimes, not doing anything particularly bad, just wrestle nicely and it was like waiting for the other boot to drop, they never knew when I was going to start doing something which I shouldn't do, something which they didn't like, something which they could scream and shout at."
In a 2002 interview with The Lilsboys in The Sun, McManus was asked what the high point of his career was. "There were a lot of high points. The ones which stood out were when I wrestled in the presence of the Royal Family," he responded. "They stand out as a bit special. I understand that the Royals were fans of ours, Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, and even the Queen used to have a bit of a sneaky look on Saturday afternoons."
Every great villain needs a noble hero to work against, and for McManus, it was "Mr. TV" Jackie Pallo (though Pallo had been a heel earlier). They battled off an on for years. One memorable angle had McManus planting a kiss on the cheek of an unsuspecting Mrs. Pallo at ringside.
The great British wrestling website, Wrestlingheritage.co.uk, has a column on McManus, The Man We Loved To Hate?
"The pair's fortunes were sealed, and over 5 years they exploited their mutual hatred to the full inside and outside the ring, the two Cup Final day match-ups forming the absolute pinnacle of British wrestling's fortunes. Ever. McManus remained undefeated in his sixties matches with Pallo. The arrival of Jackie Pallo Junior on the scene allowed new angles."
In his autobiography, You Grunt, I'll Groan, Pallo said that the boys in the back had nicknamed McManus "Paramount" because "they reckoned all his bills were like a mountain with a star on top, just like the film company's trade mark.
"Our Mick, of course, was the star, and the mountain was the supporting cast. Nevertheless, whether it was single combat or tag (pairs) wrestling, Mick generally stuck to the well-tried formula of good versus evil, like in western films and pantomime, the only difference being that good frequently did not triumph."
While Mick McManus never brought his act to America, he did travel and wrestling, including Spain, Nigeria, France, Zambia, Kuwait and Jordan. He held numerous titles, including the British Middleweight and Welterweight belts, and the European Middleweight championship. In 2012, he was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
Away from the ring, McManus was an expert on antique china and loved to golf. During the 1990s and until his retirement, he was involved in public relations for Anixter, meeting customers and suppliers, organizing dinners, golf outings, and other functions.
"I still get recognised in the street, very much so," McManus said in 2002.
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The right, ability, or authority to perform an act. An ability to generate a change in a particular legal relationship by doing or not doing a certain act.
In a restricted sense, a liberty or authority that is reserved by, or limited to, a person to dispose of real or Personal Property, for his or her own benefit or for the benefit of others, or that enables one person to dispose of an interest that is vested in another.
n. the right, authority and ability to take some action or accomplish something, including demanding action, executing documents, contracting, taking title, transferring, exercising legal rights, and many other acts.
powernoun auspices, authority, command, control, controlment, dominance, domination, eminence, facility, force, hold, importance, jurisdiction, mastership, mastery, potency, potestas, predominance, prepollence, prepollency, pressure, primacy, puissance, reign, rule, supremacy, sway, vis, warrant, weight
Associated concepts: apparent power, appointing power, arritrary power, capacity, concurrent power, contingent power, continuing power, delegated power, discretionary power, equitable power, exercise of power, extinguishment of power, extraordinary power, general power, implicit power, implied power, inchoate power, incidental power, inherent power, legislative power, limited power, mandaaory power, necessary power, nonexclusive power of appointment, power coupled with an interest, power of alienntion, power of appointment, power of attorney, power of disposition, power of sale, power of termination, release of power, retention of power, revocation of power, special power, taxing power, testamentary power
Foreign phrases: Nemo potest facere per obliquum quod non potest facere per directum.No man can do indirectly that which he cannot do directly. Sequi debet potentia justitiam, non praecedere. Power ought to follow justice, not precede it. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum. Power is not conferred but for the good. Fortior et potentior est dissositio legis quam hominis. The disposition of the law has greater force and stronger effect than that of man. Frustra est potentia quae nunquam venit in actum. A power is a vain one if it is never exercised. Potestas stricte interpretatur . Power should be strictly interpreted. Delegatus non potest delegare. A representative cannot delegate his authority.
See also: ability, administration, advantage, aptitude, authority, capacity, catalyst, clout, control, credit, dint, dominance, dominion, droit, faculty, force, government, hegemony, importance, influence, jurisdiction, license, main force, management, occupation, option, patronage, possession, potential, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primacy, puissance, quality, range, realm, recognition, regime, right, sinew, strength, supervision, supremacy, title, validity, warrant, weight
POWER. This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right,
ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right,
ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a
form of government, or to change one already established. A father has the
legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
2. Derivative power, which is usually known, by the technical name of power, is an authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him. Powers of this kind were well known to the common law, and were divided into two sorts: naked powers or bare authorities, and powers coupled with an interest. There is a material difference between them. In the case of the former, if it be exceeded in the act done, it is entirely void; in the latter it is good for so much as is within the power, and void for the rest only.
3. Powers derived from, the doctrine of uses may be defined to be an authority, enabling a person, through the medium of the statute of uses, to dispose of an interest, vested either in himself or another person.
4. The New York Revised Statute's define a power to be an authority to do some act in relation to lands, or the creation of estates therein, or of charges thereon, which the owner granting or reserving such power might himself lawfully perform.
5. They are powers of revocation and appointment which are frequently inserted in conveyances which owe their effect to the statute of uses; when executed, the uses originally declared cease, and new uses immediately arise to the persons named in the appointment, to which uses the statute transfers the legal estate and possession.
6. Powers being found to be much more convenient than conditions, were generally introduced into family settlements. Although several of these powers are not usually called powers of revocation, such as powers of jointuring, leasing, and charging settled estates with the payment of money, yet all these are powers of revocation, for they operate as revocations, pro tanto, of the preceding estates. Powers of revocation and appointment may be reserved either to the original owners of the land or to strangers: hence the general division of powers into those which relate to the land, and those which are collateral to it.
7. Powers relating to the land are those given to some person having an interest in the land over which they are to be exercised. These again are subdivided into powers appendant and in gross.
8. A power appendant is where a person has an estate in land, with a power of revocation and appointment, the execution of which falls within the compass of his estate; as, where a tenant for life has a power of making leases in possession.
9. A power in gross is where a person has an estate in the land, with a power of appointment, the execution of which falls out of the compass of his estate, but, notwithstanding, is annexed in privity to it, and takes effect in the appointee, out of an interest vested in the appointer; for instance, where a tenant for life has a power of creating an estate, to commence after the determination of his own, such as to settle a jointure on his wife, or to create a term of years to commence after his death, these are called powers in gross, because the estate of the person to whom they are given, will not be affected by the execution of them.
10. Powers collateral, are those which are given to mere strangers, who have no interest in the laud: powers of sale and exchange given to trustees in a marriage settlement are of this kind. Vide, generally, Powell on Powers, assim; Sugden on Powers, passim; Cruise, Dig. tit. 32, ch. 13; Vin. Ab. h.t.; C om. Dig. Poiar; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 40, 92, 201, 307; 2 Id. 166, 200; 1 Vern. by Raithby, 406; 3 Stark. Ev. 1199; 4 Kent, Com. 309; 2 Lilly's Ab. 339; Whart. Dig. h.t. See 1 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 169, as to the execution of a power, and when equity will supply the defect of execution.
11. This classification of powers is admitted to be important only with reference to the ability of the donee to suspend, extinguish or merge the power. The general rule is that a power shall not be exercised in derogation of a prior grant by the appointer. But this whole division of powers has been condemned' as too artificial and arbitrary.
12. Powell divides powers into general and particular. powers. General powers are those to be exercised in favor of any person whom the appointer chooses. Particular powers are those which are to be exercised in favor of specific objects. 4 Kent, Com. 311, Vide, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; Mediate powers; Primary powers.

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Information Services and Computing is the service, consultation and coordination centre for the Information Infrastructure of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. It supports all the institutes, departments as well as external users on the campus.
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The members and guests of HZDR can rely upon the IT Infrastructure considered as highly available and innovative. This is based on a campus-wide data network.
The core of the IT infrastructure consists in a high-performance data centre (picture 3) accommodating the servers, data storages, the network equipment as well as the back-up and archiving facilities for logged data from the institutes. Supercomputers (e.g. linux cluster) are provided for scientific calculation and simulation tasks. Any other data derived from research works of the HZDR are filed, saved and archived over periods of time. The communication network on the campus is connected at high band-width to the Gigabit-Wissenschaftsnetz of the DFN (German Research Network Association) and is protected by respective firewalls, anti-virus software and spam filters.
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I have a small square inscribed by an outer square, where the degree of tilt is given by theta. The length of the outer square is also given by L.
If I were to rotate the inner square by the red center point to set it up right (what was in gray becomes purple in the image), I have 2 "parallel" squares, leaving a margin between the two. What I need to know is the width of the margin, or the width of the inner square (given any one, the other would be easy to find anyways.)
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Error 3CD6 occurs when you download an update to your Xbox 360 console
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Note In these error codes, the x characters are placeholders. The actual error code varies by region.
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Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. When they balk, she just eats more.
Some dining traditions exist simply because they must, and your feelings about the food in question are really beside the point.
I've heard all about Cornish hens and spaghetti served at Thanksgiving dinners, and I can promise you at least one person at those tables shuddered with despair when a turkey could not be mustered, even one that was overcooked.
Early in my marriage, I once quietly substituted my mother-in-law's canned green bean and onion casserole with one made from fresh ingredients for Christmas dinner, and the scorn for the dish was open and unabashed. My sister in law actually picked up the dish for washing as if contaminated. But she's that way. We can talk about that later.
Ditto for my homemade cranberry sauce, though in that case I continued to provide both store-brought -- rings and all -- and my own for years after, perhaps as a measure of culinary passive aggressiveness.
Christians have no monopoly on these traditions of course, and Jews cling to their gefilte fish (which has websites devoted to its mocking) just as tightly as my husband's family cleaves to its French's onions.
The most dispiriting of these traditions tends to center around dessert. I've made dozens of honey cakes -- which are served during the high holidays this month to usher in a sweet new year -- and while some are less offensive than others, never are they a crowd pleaser. Yet I will make them again and again, and that's just how it is.
But there is some leeway with apple cake, another traditional dish, which can be quite delicious. On this site alone I have made Rosh Hashana Apple Cake (nice and sweet) Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze (sexy) and the sort-of difficult but worth it An Old-Fashioned Apple Spice Cake (cheeky).
This year, I decided to give The Perfect Apple Cake a try. This is a very lo-mo cake that packs a lot more of a complex apple punch than it would appear. In fact my dinner guests confessed to me that they had low expectations in the cake until the first bite.
A few things about this recipe: I don't have an 8 inch springform plan, so I just used one with a removable bottom and no calamity befell me. Becky forgets to tell you when to add the spices to the batter so I will: add them to the dry ingredients as you prepare them. Don't fret too much about what apples you have on hand -- I really think any will be just great. The almond milk gives this cake a special texture and zing, so do not substitute, please.
Yes add the ingredients slowly as the author says to do, but she borrows a little trouble here by suggesting this will be hard and you will be tempted to frantically toss everything in the bowl at once. You won't! You are calm and will bake as instructed!
Don't over bake, but you knew that. Tastes great on day two, and even three.
The Perfect Apple Cake by Becky
Makes one 8-inch deep dish cake
2 sourish apples (granny smith, jonathon, ect)2 cups unbleached all purpose flour2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder2 teaspoons ground cinnamon1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg1/4 teaspoon salt1/2 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature)1/2 cup sugar1/3 cup Honey1/2 cup almond milk (or soy or regular milk, i just prefer the almond)2 large eggs1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
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"Ghosts" Official Video
Watch the official music video for "Ghosts" from the new record "Graveyard Mates" released 10/30/12.
8th Annual HALLOWEEN PARTY at Chameleon
Join us and Noise Bleedz for an awesome night Friday, October 30th (yes, Friday) (yes, the 30th).
Our 8th Annual Halloween Party in the Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club. Only $5! 21+! 8p!
Christmas Party at Chameleon Club 12/26!
It wouldn't be Christmas without The Slackwater News in the Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club in Lancaster. Right? Come on out for some friends, drinks and tunes and celebrate the Holidays with us!
The Slackwater News w/ TBA
Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club
Friday, December 26, 2014
$5 | 7p | 21+
Baltimore Show Postponed
Tonight's show at Mum's Baltimore is being Postponed so the Charm City can enjoy the Orioles ALCS game in peace and quiet. Go O's!!
The Slackwater News
With the release of their first 7-inch single, "Note by Note" (b/w "Roman Holiday"), the Slackwater News presents a pair of catchy new tunes that walk that thin line between indie-rock and freak-folk — memorable for their melodies, sweet in their harmonies, and cleverly arresting in their lyrics.
Mixed by Cochrane McMillan at Coyote Hearing Studios in Oakland, California (Dr. Dog, Marco Benevento, Bill Laswell, Tea Leaf Green), and mastered by Chris Colbert in Cottage Grove, Oregon (The Walkmen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Richard Swift, David Bazan), the two new tunes showcase the group's pop sensibility with a more concise and polished approach to their signature brand of Kitchen-Sink American Pop.
Note By Note is a prelude to the band's full length LP "Dutch Gold", which is expected to drop later in 2014. The Slackwater News is independently releasing the songs as a limited first edition of 500 hand-numbered pressings on colored vinyl, to be available on the band's online store, through CDBaby, and at select record stores in the U.S.A. The songs will also be available for download at iTunes, Amazon, and all major online distributors and streaming sites. You can pre-order "Note by Note" at www.slackwaternews.com.
Their past EPs, "All You Creatures" and "Graveyard Mates" earned significant regional notice as well as airplay on WXPN and other radio outlets. They drew comparisons to the likes of Dr. Dog, The Band, The Black Keys, Spoon, The Beatles and Grateful Dead. The group—Dan Zdilla (vocals, guitar), Matt Blank (drums), JJ Gammache (bass, vocals), Matt Johnson (guitar), and Daniel Ramirez (piano/organ/synth/FX)—proudly hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where they've been a prominent fixture of the thriving music scene for half a decade.
"Note by Note" Limited Edition 7″ Record
"Note by Note" b/w "Roman Holiday" Limited Edition of 500 pressings on colored vinyl, sleeves individually numbered by the band.
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Though relatively new to the music scene, Slackwater News has already played shows most area musicians can only dream of. On June 7, the Lancaster-based band opened for the CCL's and Ruby Street at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster in front of more than 200 people.
"Luckily Dan Zdilla (who sings vocals and plays guitar for the group) has a large family," drummer Matt Blank jokes. "Not bad for our first official gig."
Blank and Zdilla came together with Dan Ramirez, who plays electric piano and organ, and Hans Olo, who plays bass, in March of 2008.
"There was a Craigslist posting by Zdilla that led to me and Olo responding," Blank says. "Ramirez has been a Lancaster music scene hanger-on for quite some time and asked to join when he heard about the group."
Since then, the group has strived to blend a mix of original songs with "a few tasty covers" that fall into their self-described "melodramatic popular song" genre, Blank says. Their songs "The Blister" and "Jersey Burn" exemplify the group's easy going style and catchy rhythms — you just can't help but to play them on repeat. Although the band has yet to be signed, they still keep a pretty busy schedule, playing at house parties and Lancaster venues including Clipper Stadium and, where it all began, The Chameleon Club.
"It's by far the greatest place for up and coming music in Central Pennsylvania," Blank says.
Fine Living Lancaster Magazine
Robyn Meadows 4 Stars
"All You Creatures" is peculiar, chaotic and somehow infectious. The Beatles are a clear and present influence. Fuzzed-out, dissonant guitars noodle and sleepy vocals sometimes float through what sounds like an old rotating organ speaker. However, the melodies are memorable in the way that Lennon and McCartney perfected, clever and sweet enough to rise above the out-and-out weirdness surrounding them. By themselves, the Pavement-like circus of random timing shifts, quirky voicings and vintage organ sounds create something interesting, but not necessarily listenable. In the end, though, they make a warm analog blanket for Slackwater News' addictive melodies.
We were nominated for the Jambands 250 on jambands.com – where readers vote for their favorite up & coming original bands to be featured as the 'New Groove of the Month'.
JamBands.com (May 1, 2009)
HomeGrown Radio NJ and The River 97.3 FM
The song 'Taxidermy' from our EP "All You Creatures" receives airplay on HomeGrown Radio NJ and The River 97.3 FM.
Check us out on FLLBuzzRadio.com alongside some of Central PA's best bands!
– FLLBuzzRadio.com (Sep 9, 2009)
MyRuralRadio.com is now featuring The Slackwater News!
My Rural Radio (Aug 4, 2009)
XPN 88.5 Philly
XPN 88.5 Philly is featuring The Slackwater News!
XPN Philly now feat. The Slackwater News (Dec 9, 2009)
Music For Everyone
Our song 'Overseas' was 1 of 15 selections (of over 70 entries) for the Music For Everyone Volume 2 Benefit CD! Their mission is to cultivate the power of music for education and community building, through fundraising and by bringing awareness to this growing problem. All profits from this CD will benefit Lancaster Music Programs.
Music For Everyone (Jun 5, 2009)
Swimming through the Strange and Wonderous Fishbowl of The Slackwater News.
John Duffy – Fly Magazine (Aug 1, 2011)
Some bands spend untold hours in search of a distinctive sound, something that will set them apart and give their music a reason to be heard. Then there are those that don't bother and somehow end up selling a decent amount of records while sounding like a thousand other bands.
And then there are the truly lucky, like the five guys in The Slackwater News, a group barely three years old who have founded their sound through nothing more than the band members own collective curiosity and individual weirdness.
Blur the odder moments of The Band's Music from Big Pink with the "let's just splice everything in there" approach of Abbey Road, then add a little of The Move and Dr. Dog, and you have the basic aesthetic of The Slackwater News.
Their sound may be a deliberate mashup of indie folk and psychedelic garage rock, but to this mix, they add snippets of parlor songs, ragtime, electro-funk and Americana. It's the sound of purely democratic songwriting. Everybody brings something to the table, and whether each addition seems appropriate or not, it somehow all makes sense in the end.
In the musty world of Slackwater's North Queen Street rehearsal space, often a song doesn't become clear until they "huddle together in a windowless room and chip away at it with wooden axes and dissolve its tough outer shell with contemporary elixirs," as the band's website notes. As a result, they have wrestled themselves around a sound that, while based on well-established traditions, is still refreshing.
"I think all of us have an A.D.D. effect on the songs," explains guitarist and chief songwriter, Dan Zdilla. "Sometimes I think it would be great to have a chorus that goes with the way the verse sounds. But I think we would just end up getting bored with that."
Sipping cold adult beverages at Lancaster's Belvedere Inn, four of the group's five members – Zdilla, guitarist Matt Johnson, drummer Matt Blank and keyboardist Dan Ramirez (bassist Hans Wheelersburg was unavailable) – ruminate on all things Slackwater.
As the drinks continue to flow, conversation turns to how baseball relates to genetic evolution, the moral vagaries of Twitter and other such important issues of the day. But mostly, they try to give a good account of their unique sound, mirthful and serious all at once.
The group's All You Creatures EP from 2009 includes five songs – most of which feature unpredictable changes in rhythm, key or timbre – and gave the first glimpse of the band's process.
Zdilla and Johnson chug away on plunking acoustic guitars and fuzzy electrics. Wheelersburg and Blank supply sharp, reflexive grooves behind the numerous changes. Ramirez's wheezing Hammond organ and Wurlitzer bubble underneath everything, adding carnival colors and a horror film pastiche.
"If The World Goes Mad" bounces between verse and chorus sketches before adding a third, unrelated riff just for good measure at the end. "Taxidermy" contemplates the simultaneously cool and creepy basement displays at Lancaster's North Museum by alternating between funky soul and loping dirge feels.
On "Fish in a Bowl" the band cribs from Steve Miller and the Beach Boys to make a dance-worthy song about how awesome it is to be a goldfish. It's a hit your 7-year-old will love. Then there's the low-fi "Dr. McGillicuddy's," a digital-only single recorded as an ode to the boutique schnapps masked as an old-time patent medicine advert. It's a nifty little number, extolling the virtues of a substance that can cure everything from scoliosis, to nipple sclerosis and premature ejaculation.
While Zdilla comes up with the spine for most songs, Johnson, like the others, is used to throwing ideas into the pot, never quite sure how they'll end up. "We all kind of know what Dan's looking for when we sit down to come up with what to play," Johnson says. "
But in the end, it becomes something very different than what he might have thought of."
"There's sometimes a completely predictable trajectory to a song and we don't want that," Zdilla says. "I may have something in mind but it's always other people's ideas that make it better."
Sometimes it can be a long and circuitous route, they admit. But as long as someone really believes in an idea, it usually gets through in the end, with the band molding it and remolding it until it works.
"I was really proud of the fact that I wrote a song recently that has only four chords," Zdilla says with a laugh.
And if listeners have finally become accustomed to the sounds of All You Creatures and all its odd angles, a sneak peak of the group's forthcoming full-length, Graveyard Mates, reveals that while Slackwater may be stepping into less of a patchwork approach to their tunes, their fascination with the strange "what ifs" of songcraft has not wavered.
"The Blister," a soulful number, stays in the same key and tempo for its entire length – downright revolutionary for these guys – but it doesn't sacrifice a bit of the wit. Zdilla says it comes from something his mother used to say about him. "She said, 'You only show up when the work is done.'"
Equally conventional-sounding is "Decay," an ode to entropy – the reality that all things grow old and fall away, but that is sometimes when they're at their best. "Fruit is often its sweetest just as it's starting to go bad," reasons Johnson. "That might sound kind of morbid, but when you listen to it, you'll hear a really sweet song."
Similarly, the album's title track is about dying, specifically about spending eternity in the ground. "I wrote that song because my grandmother used to take me to see the burial plot where she and my grandfather were going to be buried," recalls Zdilla. "And now that they're gone and buried in that spot, it makes it much more clear how special a thing that is for two people to share that."
Currently, the band is mixing the 10 tracks of Graveyard Mates for a fall release. And while the band members may seek to find slightly more traditional musical ground, Slackwater insist they'll never lose their Ritalin-averse ways of crafting tunes.
"It's about being true to yourself," says Zdilla. "What may seem weird to other people doesn't seem weird to us. We feel like we're playing classic rock. It's only when you take a step back and hear someone else's perspective that you sense this whole other weird thing going on."
8th Annual HALLOWEEN PARTY at Chameleon
Join us and Noise Bleedz for an awesome night Friday, October 30th (yes, Friday) (yes, the 30th).
Our 8th Annual Halloween Party in the Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club. Only $5! 21+! 8p!
Christmas Party at Chameleon Club 12/26!
It wouldn't be Christmas without The Slackwater News in the Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club in Lancaster. Right? Come on out for some friends, drinks and tunes and celebrate the Holidays with us!
The Slackwater News w/ TBA
Lizard Lounge at Chameleon Club
Friday, December 26, 2014
$5 | 7p | 21+
Baltimore Show Postponed
Tonight's show at Mum's Baltimore is being Postponed so the Charm City can enjoy the Orioles ALCS game in peace and quiet. Go O's!!
News shows announced!
We will be playing Friday, October 10th at Mum's in Federal Hill Baltimore, MD and HALLOWEEN with Captured by Robots! at Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA. Woah.
Live set airing now on LCTV66 in LancPA
Our set from the Long's Park Summer Music Series is now airing around Lancaster County, PA on LCTV66 (Comcast subscribers channel 66). Check your listings for airtimes!!
"Note By Note"/"Roman Holiday" out RIGHT NOW!!
You can now purchase and/or stream our 2 new singles "Note By Note" and "Roman Holiday" ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
iTunes, Spotify, CD Baby, etc etc.
THANK YOU for supporting independent artists.
PREMIERE: "Note By Note"/"Roman Holiday" singles on WXPN's The Key!!
THANK YOU to WXPN in Philadelphia for the WORLD PREMIERE of our 2 newest singles!!!
Listen HERE now!
Mean Reds added to Record Release Party at Tellus360 – Lanc PA
Mean Reds will be opening the "Note By Note" 7inch RECORD RELEASE PARTY at Tellus360!!
"Note By Note" 7″ and tourdates!
"Note by Note" b/w "Roman Holiday" Limited Edition of 500 pressings on colored vinyl, sleeves individually numbered by the band.
A: Note By Note
B: Roman Holiday
Release Tour:
Thurs, June 19 – Philadelphia, PA: Milkboy Philly – opening for Leroy Justice. $10/12 – 8p – 21+
Fri, June 20 – Baltimore, MD: Mum's Federal Hill – with The Swedish Fist. $3 – 10p – 21+
Sun, June 22 – Lancaster, PA: Long's Park Music Series with Shrimpboat and Slimfit.
Sat, June 28 – Lancaster, PA:
*Short in-store Performance at Mr. Suit Records. Free – All ages -1p
*RECORD RELEASE PARTY at Tellus360. Advance: $10 with record, DOS: $5, $7 for record- 8p – 21+
"Note By Note" 45 out in June!!
We will be releasing a vinyl 45 in June, featuring 2 BRAND NEW songs. More details in the coming month.
Slackwater News – Note By Note
A: Note By Note (3:49)
B: Roman Holiday (3:24)
"Saturday In The Park" May 3rd
Members of The Slackwater News will be performing at the 1st Annual "Saturday In The Park" held at Freedom Memorial Park in Millersville, PA on May 3rd, 11a – 6p.
We will be playing along side our friends Steven Courtney & The Suitcase Musicians!
Kalob Griffin Band joining us March 8th!
CANNOT WAIT to be joined by The Kalob Griffin Band from Philly for our show at Tellus360 (aka MATT JOHNSON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!!) on Saturday, March 8th!!
The Slackwater News & The Kalob Griffin Band
Saturday, March 8, 2014 | 21+ | $5
At: Tellus360
24 E. King St
Lancaster, PA 17603
Christmas in… December
Saturday, December 21st at Lancaster Dispensing Company. $5, 9p, 21+.
Ho, Ho, Holy awesome fun times!
DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE (And upcoming tour dates)
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Our next shows are:
Wed. Nov 27 – Thanksgiving Eve – Chameleon Club, Lancaster PA. 8pm – with Agave Trio and Ton-Taun. FREE
Sat. Dec 21 – Lancaster Dispensing Company, Lancaster, PA. 9:30pm – $5
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Opening for JC Brooks
We will be opening for JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound (from Chicago) on Thursday, July 19th at Chameleon Club in Lancaster.
CD Release Party
Help us celebrate the release of our new album "Graveyard Mates" on November 3rd at Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA in grand HALLOWEEN FASHION. More details to come.
Graveyard Mates
With their second EP "Graveyard Mates" the Slackwater News lets fly another batch of restless songs that walk that thin line between indie-rock and freak-folk; memorable for their melodies, sweet in their harmonies, and cleverly arresting in their lyrics.


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Order Up: Umana offers international street foods
With its global menu and funky hangout feeling, Albany's Umana is the kind of place you'll want to tell your friends about
Dale Davidson's said her friends pleaded with her not to open a restaurant "around the corner."
They meant around the corner of Lark Street on Washington Avenue, across from Albany's Townsend Park. Eateries and bars have survived on that block, but with a fraction of Lark Street's foot traffic and popularity, it's never been a place where most locals look to hang or restaurateurs long to invest.
But to Davidson, the long-shuttered old building at 236 Washington Ave. felt perfect.
"For some reason, I just knew this was the place," she said.
It took three years to get Umana Restaurant and Wine Bar up and running. A few months after Umana's opening, it's hard to argue Davidson's intuition.
Everything – from the small plates of worldwide street fare and funky decor, down to the vibrant music and the staff's casual T-shirt dress – works harmoniously here. No element stuns on its own, but together they blend to create one of the more fun, inviting and satisfying new spots to eat in this city. It's the type of place you fall for shortly after you step inside and can't wait to recommend to a friend after you leave.
Umana is named after a large, palm-thatched hut, the "Umana Yana," built in 1972 in Davidson's homeland of Guyana as a gathering place for the locals. The theme is distinctly international but hard to peg to one region.
"African? South American? Some Asian or Carribbean influence, perhaps?" my dining companion and I speculated.
Umana is all of the above. Plates range from a Thai-style calamari with chili-garlic sauce to samosas to fried chicken with Moroccan coleslaw to jerk lamb. Wines are heavily Chilean and Argentinean, aside from an excellent South African flight option. Beers are mostly American.
The chairs, dark wood with hand-woven seats and backs, were handmade in Haiti. So were the gorgeous, low-hanging light fixtures, each cut from recycled oil drums.
A wall-sized round mural next to the bar was the work of a Troy artist. The long hardwood bar is the last designed by Fred Shapiro, the beloved local oncologist, artist and designer who died in October.
A festive African drumbeat was the soundtrack to dinner earlier this month. Our server wore a red T-shirt patterned with a lion. He quickly earned our trust by recommending we try the wine flight sampler. For $10, this is one of the best bargains in Albany. A trio of South African wines, each maybe an ounce taller than a half glass, arrives on a laminated mat that gives an extensive description.
I have never seen any of the three in stores here. I'm now longing for a retailer to stock some 2012 Cederberg bukettraube. A German grape that, in recent years, has seen some of its best vintages coming out of South Africa, bukettraube can have a muscat-like nose, thick with floral and sweet fruit. My dining companion isn't a fan of whites, but this, she said, was easily her favorite wine of the night, full-bodied but not overwhelming, crisp and redolent of pineapple, apricot and a bit of rose petal.
Umana Restaurant and Wine Bar
236 Washington Ave.
Phone: 915-1699
Food (***): Small, fun selection of international street foods.
Service (***): Attentive, quick, laidback, knowledgeable.
Beverage (***): Limited, but smart selection of heavily South American wines; six beers; excellent wine flight option from South Africa.
Ambience (***1/2): Multi-cultural vibe, decked out with funky pieces and murals from local artists and handmade pieces from around the world.
Personality (****): Festive, hip and contemporary, inviting to all, enhances the experience.
Overall ***
The 2012 Fairvalley pinotage is heavy on oak and smoke, great with the grilled jerk-lamb "lollipops" (the appetizer portion costs $9.50, entree $18). The meat medallions, served with a side of pineapple salsa, are crossed together atop of pile of brown rice. I like the sight of brown rice on a menu and love when it doesn't just dully lie there on the plate. I'm not sure what made Umana's so tasty, though I suspect it could have been from the juices on the lamb soaking through.
When it comes to food or wine, too many choices are never a good thing, often leading to indecisiveness on the part of the patron (and taxing on a small staff and or tight space). More places ought to follow Umana's lead; it has just eight appetizers, eight entrees, one dessert, 16 wines and six beers. For beer, there is no lowest-common-denominator fallback like Coors Light. Try the Bitburger pilsner ($5). Sweet, hoppy and light, it holds an almost champagne-like bubble, still percolating 10 minutes after being poured.
The samosa sampler ($11) or peri-peri shrimp ($12) are recommended introductions to Davidson's menu, tweaked and executed by head chef Mike Troidle. A quartet of shrimp dusted with the chili-based African spice mix are straightened on thin skewers, creating a small frame over a bed of greens and thin-sliced papaya. A salt-cod samosa, for which the kitchen soaks the fish for days and spices it with thyme and dill, was the favorite.
Corn fritters on a sampler entree ($17) were dry but saved by a sticky side of cardamom honey. (Confession: cardamom may be my favorite spice. I find it vastly underused, to the point where I get giddy at the sight of it on a menu.)
Dinner for two — two appetizers, two entrees, dessert, a flight of wine and a beer — came to $90 after tax and tip, though you could order a flight and Cajun pork sandwich and keep your check under $30.
Davidson says they're packed for Sunday brunches, which feature biscuits with chorizo gravy, a vegan tofu scramble and make-you-own mimosa: a bottle of champagne and a tumbler of juices for $20.
Dinner appears to be slower. On a chilly Friday night, there was only one other table when we arrived around 7:30 p.m. By 8, I had fallen for Umana but was saddened that no one else had come through the door. When it started filling up about 20 minutes later, my spirits were lifted, buoying hope that Davidson can survive in a place where everyone told her she could not.
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text: NYSE:MRK - Merck & Co., Inc. Stock Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Merck & Co., Inc. Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $76.56 -1.52 (-1.95 %) (As of 02/28/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$74.18Now: $76.56▼$77.4950-Day Range$79.94MA: $86.12▼$91.5452-Week Range$72.23Now: $76.56▼$92.64Volume27.91 million shsAverage Volume11.48 million shsMarket Capitalization$194.92 billionP/E Ratio20.09Dividend Yield3.13%Beta0.57 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Merck & Co, Inc provides healthcare solutions worldwide. 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According to Zacks Investment Research, "Merck's new products like Keytruda, Lynparza, and Bridion are contributing meaningfully to the top line. Keytruda sales are gaining momentum with approval for additional indications, especially in the first-line lung cancer setting. Keytruda has strong growth prospects based on increased utilization, recent approvals for new indications and potential additional approvals worldwide. Animal health and vaccine products are also performing strongly and remain core growth drivers for Merck. The company will continue to focus on cost-cutting initiatives to drive the bottom line. However, generic competition for several drugs and pricing pressure will continue to be overhangs on the top line. Rising competitive pressure on the diabetes franchise and products like Isentress (HIV), Zepatier (HCV) and Zostavax (vaccine) remains a concern. Merck's shares have outperformed the industry this year. " (4/1/2019) 3. Cantor Fitzgerald analysts commented, "We rate MRK 12-month PT of $95. We think there is upside to Keytruda sales estimates. Sales growth across oncology, vaccines, animal health, and select hospital/specialty care products, as well as margin-expansion opportunities, are underappreciated, in our view. Therefore, we expect upward earnings revisions and multiple expansion in 2019+ to drive MRK's shares higher. Valuation Summary We arrive at our 12-month price target of $95 for Merck shares by using a blend of Base case analyses." (3/29/2019) Has Merck & Co., Inc. been receiving favorable news coverage? Media coverage about MRK stock has been trending extremely negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Merck & Co., Inc. earned a news impact score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Merck & Co., Inc.. Who are some of Merck & Co., Inc.'s key competitors? Some companies that are related to Merck & Co., Inc. include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Eli Lilly And Co (LLY), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Allergan (AGN), Zoetis (ZTS), Mylan (MYL), Perrigo (PRGO), The Medicines (MDCO), Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Horizon Therapeutics (HZNP), Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), Pacira Biosciences (PCRX) and Corcept Therapeutics (CORT). What other stocks do shareholders of Merck & Co., Inc. own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Merck & Co., Inc. investors own include AT&T (T), Pfizer (PFE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Verizon Communications (VZ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and AbbVie (ABBV). Who are Merck & Co., Inc.'s key executives? Merck & Co., Inc.'s management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman, Pres & CEO (Age 64)Mr. Robert M. Davis, Exec. VP of Global Services & CFO (Age 52)Ms. Jennifer L. Zachary, Exec. VP & Gen. Counsel (Age 41)Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter, Exec. VP & Pres of Merck Research Laboratories (Age 67)Mr. Adam H. Schechter, Special Advisor (Age 54) Who are Merck & Co., Inc.'s major shareholders? Merck & Co., Inc.'s stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.58%), Capital World Investors (2.43%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.57%), Capital International Investors (1.56%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.37%) and Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.14%). Company insiders that own Merck & Co., Inc. stock include Adam H Schechter, Ashley Watson, Frank Clyburn, Julie L Gerberding, Kenneth C Frazier, Leslie A Brun, Merck & Co, Inc, Richard R Deluca, Rita A Karachun, Robert M Davis, Roger M Perlmutter, Sanat Chattopadhyay, Thomas H Glocer, Weir Mirian M Graddick and Wendell P Weeks. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Merck & Co., Inc.. Which institutional investors are selling Merck & Co., Inc. stock? MRK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Franklin Resources Inc., GQG Partners LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, PGGM Investments and Pzena Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Merck & Co., Inc. company stock in the last year include Frank Clyburn, Julie L Gerberding, Kenneth C Frazier, Richard R Deluca and Robert M Davis. View Insider Buying and Selling for Merck & Co., Inc.. Which institutional investors are buying Merck & Co., Inc. stock? MRK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Janus Henderson Group PLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Macquarie Group Ltd., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Alliancebernstein L.P., State Street Corp, Capital International Investors and Stifel Financial Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Merck & Co., Inc.. How do I buy shares of Merck & Co., Inc.? Shares of MRK can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Merck & Co., Inc.'s stock price today? One share of MRK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $76.56. How big of a company is Merck & Co., Inc.? Merck & Co., Inc. has a market capitalization of $194.92 billion and generates $46.84 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $9.84 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.19 on an earnings per share basis. Merck & Co., Inc. employs 69,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Merck & Co., Inc.. What is Merck & Co., Inc.'s official website? The official website for Merck & Co., Inc. is http://www.merck.com/. How can I contact Merck & Co., Inc.? Merck & Co., Inc.'s mailing address is 2000 GALLOPING HILL ROAD, KENILWORTH NJ, 07033. The company can be reached via phone at 908-740-4000 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE MRK)Community Ranking: 2.5 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 831 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 817 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 1,648MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Merck & Co., Inc. and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe MRK will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe MRK will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 2/28/2020 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: What is meant by buying and selling pressure?


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Seeking Solutions for Plastic Medical Waste
(NewsUSA) - Recycling efforts tend to center around plastic water bottles and milk jugs, but few people think about the plastics used in hospitals. IV bags, tubing and other types of medical products all contain plastic. And every time a patient enters a medical facility anywhere in the world, they generate waste.
The medical waste produced by hospitals, laboratories, research centers, animal testing laboratories, mortuaries and nursing homes can pile up quickly. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), high-income countries, such as the U.S., produce about 13 pounds of medical waste per person per year.
Medical facilities use several methods to dispose of plastic medical waste. Some use incineration, which releases toxins into the atmosphere. Others use autoclaving, or a pressurized steam-cleaning, to disinfect plastics before shredding them. But most medical waste ends up in landfills.
One company, JBI, Inc., has found a better solution -- recycling plastic medical waste into fuel. Its CEO, John Bordynuik, was going through old research archives when he found information about a unique catalyst that can efficiently break down plastic molecules into an oil similar to biofuel.
This technology, now called Plastic 2 Oil (P2O), can extract about one liter of fuel from every kilogram of raw plastics.
JBI Inc., which trades on the OTC under the stock symbol JBII, is buying a U.S. air filtration and custom air ventilation company that has worked with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, as well as numerous federal agencies and organizations within the health care industry. This new acquisition will allow JBI, Inc. to recycle medical waste plastic through its P2O process.
The company is looking for facilities that can be converted into P2O factories. Those who allow P2O factories to run on their property will receive extra fuel from the P2O process.
For more information please, visit www.plastic2oil.com and www.jbiglobal.com.


text: ACADEMY UPDATE: Red Bulls U-13 trounces D.C. United U-13 on the road Tweet Red Bulls U-13 © The New York Red Bulls U-13s were the lone academy team in U.S. Soccer Development Academy action last weekend, while the U-16s kicked off Generation adidas Cup in Texas. The U-18s and U-14s had the weekend off. The Red Bulls U-12s are nearing the beginning of their season, which starts on Saturday, April 2, versus NJCSA. New York Red Bulls U-13 (8) at D.C. United U-13 (0) Washington, D.C. (March 19, 2016) - The New York Red Bulls U-13s opened the second half of their season with a win on the road against D.C. United on a rainy afternoon, 8-0. New York opened the scoring early and often. Hamza Shehata opened the scoring in the fifth minute, followed by a goal three minutes later from Kyle Linhares. In the 30th minute, Jayson Argueta tallied the Red Bulls' third goal, thanks to an assist from Justin Weiss. Weiss went on to total one goal and two assists in the match. Bryce Lebel, Andrew Maia, Dylan Estevez and Jason Pereira piled on the goals in a game that featured eight different goal scorers for the Red Bulls. Goalkeeper Elliot Leinweber earned the clean sheet as the Red Bulls U-13s claimed their first win of 2016. Scoring Summary (Assist in parenthesis): NY: Hamza Shehata 5' NY: Kyle Linhares (Esteban Molina) 8' NY: Jayson Argueta (Justin Weiss) 30' NY: Bryce Lebel 51' NY: Justin Weiss (Dylan Estevez) 55' NY: Andrew Maia (Justin Weiss) 61' NY: Dylan Estevez (PK) 65' NY: Jason Pereira (Jayson Argueta) 75' Lineup: Elliot Leinweber, John Tolkin, Bryce Lebel, Hamza Shehata, Amir Daley, Gabriel Llanos, Aidan Borra, Murat Calkap, Jayson Argueta, Esteban Molina, Kyle Linhares Subs used: Justin Weiss, Dylan Estevez, Andrew Maia, Matty Acosta, Jason Pereira Back to news


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Basic Netbooks are a fairly simple formula to pull off. Combine an Intel Atom 450 processor, 1GB of RAM, Windows 7 Starter, and a 250GB hard drive, and you've got any of an army of products from Asus, Acer, HP, and others. MSI was another early combatant in the Netbook wars, and its Wind models have typically followed the usual trends in components and pricing, making them perfectly acceptable alternatives.
The current version of the MSI Wind, called the U160, happens to stand out from the crowd in a couple of ways. It boasts some of the longest battery life we've seen, at 7-plus hours, and it ran some of our benchmark tests just a few seconds faster than other Netbooks. It's not enough of a performance difference to notice in real-world use, but if you're looking for the maximum possible battery life, the Wind is certainly up there.
This extralong life, however, comes at a price. First, the system's massive battery sticks out significantly from the bottom of the chassis, like some kind of awkward kickstand, and second, the Wind U160 costs $380 (although the official list price is even worse: $429), which is $80 more than largely comparable machines from other PC makers.
Our MSI Wind U160 had a glossy dark brown finish that the company calls "Fancy Gold." It's at least a nice break from the usual glossy or matte black finishes we see (although a black version of the Wind is also available). The interior is a lighter, almost faded gold color, and there's an MSI logo cut into the back of the lid and backlit in white.
The keyboard is a standard flat island-style design, and works for most of our usual typing needs. There's a bit too much flex under the fingers around the middle, and there's a shrunken right Shift key–our biggest problem with Netbook keyboards–but we've also seem more egregious offenders. The touch pad is underwhelming, composed of tiny raised dots in the wrist rest (similar to most Asus Eee PC touch pads). We don't find that style to be particularly comfortable to use, although your mileage may vary.
One odd note, instead of the touch pad having a scroll bar section along the right side of the pad for vertical scrolling, it instead has scroll points in the top and bottom right corners of the pad. Just hold your finger on the corner and the page automatically scrolls up or down.
The 10.1-inch wide-screen display has a 1,024×600-pixel native resolution, which is standard for nonpremium Netbooks. The look and feel is beginning to seem a bit cramped, especially with more and more HD Netbooks available all the time, some for only $20 more than this system.
With three USB ports, an SD card slot, and audio in/out jacks, the connections and ports on the Wind U160 are about as typical as it gets. On the plus side, you also get Bluetooth, which is sometimes left out of entry-level Netbooks.
The performance difference between Netbooks with Intel's 1.66GHz Atom N450 processors is going to minimal between brands and models. In this particular case, however, the Wind U160 came out a few seconds ahead of the pack (which includes recent Netbooks from Sony, HP, and Asus) in our Apple iTunes encoding test, and essentially tied for the top spot with the HP Mini 210 in our Jalbum photo conversion test. On the other hand, the system was slower, by an even larger margin, in our basic multitasking test.
Despite these differences, the real-world performance difference between N450 Netbooks is minimal, and you're unlikely to notice much differentiation between brands when sticking to Netbook-friendly tasks such as Web surfing, e-mail, or working with office documents.
The Wind's biggest win is in battery life, where it ran for 7 hours and 18 minutes on our video playback battery drain test, using the included six-cell battery. That's close to the top of the list, bested only by the Asus 1005PE and the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012. Unfortunately, the MSI Wind achieves this through a hugely bulky battery that sticks out from the rear of the system significantly, whereas the Dell and Asus models manage to incorporate their batteries into the design of the laptop body.
MSI includes an industry-standard one-year parts and labor warranty with the system. Support is accessible through a phone line (but not a toll-free one), which is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. EST. Online support requires you to register with the company first, and the FAQ page lists only a single question about the system's Function keys.


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Agencies Sign Sacred Sites Memorandum (Dec 06, 2012)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Protection of sites held sacred by American Indian and Alaska Natives will be bolstered under a memorandum of understanding signed by four federal agencies and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
The memo signed Thursday by the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Interior also calls for improving tribal access to sites that are on federal land.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the agreement recognizes the shared responsibility the agencies have to respect and foster Native American cultural and religious heritage.
The agencies plan to work during the next five years to raise awareness about sacred sites. That includes developing a website, a training program for federal employees and guidance for managing sacred sites.
The agreement comes just weeks after thieves made off with rock carvings that had graced a sacred site in California's Sierra Nevada.
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When Mark Grieb left the field in late July after the SaberCats lost in the Arena Football League playoffs, he knew he had played his last game. Thursday, Grieb made it official as the longtime quarterback announced his retirement.
"It's hard because I know that I'll never want to stop playing," said Grieb, 38, an Oak Grove High and UC Davis product. "I love everything about the game and playing in San Jose. But there comes a time when logic wins out and your body tells you that it's time to stop. It was fun while it lasted."
Grieb is more than just the best player in team history. In a transient league where players come and go, he has been the face of the franchise and a steadying influence on one of the league's best-run organizations.
A 13-season veteran, he was a member of three AFL championship teams. His name is all over the league and team record books, as he excelled in throwing quick passes with the pinpoint accuracy required in the arena game's smaller field.
For his career, Grieb threw for 47,901 yards on 3,885 completions — both ranking second in league history. He also threw 922 touchdown passes.
"Mark is one of the best players to ever play this game, hands down," SaberCats coach Darren Arbet said. "He is a three-time champion and will always be a SaberCat. We as an organization are so thankful for all that he has done for this franchise."
The SaberCats already have a worthy successor to Grieb, having announced later Thursday the acquisition of Aaron Garcia, the all-time AFL leader in the majority of statistical categories for quarterbacks. Garcia, 42, started every game last season for the San Antonio Talons, who won the Central Division title with a 14-4 record. A native of Sacramento, he played collegiately at Sacramento State and was voted the Third Greatest Player of all-time by the AFL's Silver Anniversary Committee in 2012.
Although the SaberCats made an early exit from the playoffs last season, losing in the first round to Arizona, Grieb personally is leaving on a high note. He had the best statistical season of his career, completing 67.6 percent of his throws for 5,744 yards with 112 touchdowns and 20 interceptions.
"Most people don't get to go out on top with that fairy-tale ending," Grieb said. "But I know that I did everything I could trying to win another title."
Grieb, who has a master's degree from Stanford, is teaching chemistry at Leland High. But he wants to coach.
The SaberCats' de facto offensive coordinator this season, Grieb also has been an assistant at Menlo College and at an Orange County high school while his wife was attending medical school. Grieb said he's open to coaching with the SaberCats, if they are interested.
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Relegation rivals Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday could not be separated at St Andrew's as both sides were forced to settle for a point in their battles against the drop from the npower Championship.
Ultimately, a game which could have gone either way hinged on two moments in either half.
Blues goalkeeper Jack Butland pulled off a contender for save of the season in the 11th minute as he incredibly clawed out a header from Owls centre-back Miguel Llera which appeared to have been beyond him.
Just as amazingly, Blues somehow failed to take lead midway through the second half.
An unmarked Nikola Zigic - included in boss Lee Clark's XI having been dropped for Saturday's 4-0 defeat to Watford following his lacklustre efforts in training - failed to anticipate Chris Burke's cross and diverted the ball wide from merely four yards.
The stalemate, Birmingham's first clean in 20 games in all competitions, keeps both sides just above the relegation zone, with a resurgent Wednesday now having tasted defeat just once in 11 league matches.
Zigic's name was greeted with a cheer by the majority of the 15,738 present when read out pre-match by the stadium announcer.
Those in attendance watched both sides send efforts off target inside the opening exchanges - Leroy Lita, who was on loan at Blues earlier this season, for the visitors and both Burke and Marlon King for the home side.
Fit-again King, one of five changes made by Clark, enjoyed a great chance to open the scoring with just seven minutes gone but his attempted lob was collected by Chris Kirkland, who saved from Wade Elliott's long-range effort shortly after.
But it was opposite number Butland who soon produced the stunning stop of the game to somehow keep out Llera's header from Danny Pugh's corner.
Zigic failed to connect with a great headed chance from Elliott's free-kick just before the half-hour mark, before the big man returned the favour in setting up Elliott but he saw his half-volley blocked.
Both Clark and Owls counterpart Dave Jones would have seen the opportunity for three crucial points within their grasp at the break and the second half started with plenty of gusto, although neither side enjoyed a real chance of note until the 68th minute.
Burke sent in an inswinging cross-come-shot from the right and an unmarked Zigic somehow directed it off target from a matter of yards.
The chance further roused Blues, who had started to dominate, and King saw a shot saved by Kirkland.
Zigic again failed to hit the target as he headed wide the lively Jonathan Spector's right-wing cross.
At the other end, Butland collected a speculative effort from substitute Jermaine Johnson before Blues left-back Mitch Hancox nipped in to deny Michail Antonio a certain tap-in.
Owls substitute Gary Madine then sent Antonio's free-kick wide from just yards out when he really should have done better, with both sides eventually taking a point.


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16. The production process has become more roundabout over the years. Fewer workers are engaged in hands-on production of output. Instead, they are engaged in building what Garett Jones calls organizational capital, as indicated by functions such as marketing communications, management reporting systems, or corporate training. This means that the relationship between output and employment has become looser. It means that patterns of specialization and trade reflect not just what goods and services are produced but how they are produced.
This is not all that far off from Marxist theories of the general intellect and its appropriation by capital, and the significance of immaterial labor and affect, etc., to production. Capital is valorized through increasingly indirect processes rather than the manufacture and circulation of commodities. The nature of the commodity has lost its discrete boundaries (becoming an affect or an experience rather than a good), as has the nature of labor power, which is no longer x amount of work on the assembly line but an integration of variables, the more or less smooth collaboration of workers and their resulting fitness for innovating on the level of information.
And circulation too is no longer a direct thing, a shifting of units from point A to point B. What's increasingly being disseminated is productive knowledge, the general intellect, a habitus of consumerism, etc., that is only indirectly profitable and at less predictable intervals and durations. The commodity-circulation cycle is less predictable, less manageable.
The means of production are no longer bound up with effective operating capital. Lots of noncapitalists have digital means of production; often they are carrying them around in their pockets. But effective capital is increasingly that which can subsume that labor being done with those noncapital goods, that is, it is capital being used productively in a way that requires no wage payments because it has harnessed networks directly instead of the workers that make them up.