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USA Cycling Announces Automatics for 'Cross Worlds
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USA Cycling announced today automatic nominations to the 2007 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship Team. Following the completion of the 2006 USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships this past weekend in Providence, R.I., five athletes have earned automatic nominations from the national governing body in the elite women's, U23 men's and junior men's categories.
Three-time national champion, Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike) earned an automatic nomination by virtue of her win Sunday in the elite women's race in Providence. Runner-up Georgia Gould (Ketchum, Idaho/Luna) also earned a bid as the 2006 Crank Brothers U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclo-cross overall series champion.
In the U23 men's division, national champion Jesse Anthony (Beverly Mass./Clif Bar) secured an automatic nomination, as did USGP of Cyclo-cross overall champion Jamey Driscoll (Jericho, Vt./FiordiFrutta).
Danny Summerhill (Centennial, Colo./TIAA CREF-Clif Bar) - both the national champion in the junior men's 17-18 division and the USGP overall winner - receives the only automatic nomination in the junior men's category.
Per USA Cycling's selection procedures, automatic nominees for the elite men's category will be announced on January 9, 2007.
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The next generation of Microsoft Surface, made by Samsung, is now available for pre-order on the manufacturer's website.
Surface is the touch technology most regularly seen as a table-top, allowing tablet-like multi-touch functionality.
The key to the latest Surface technology is PixelSense which gives LCD panels the "power to see without the use of cameras".
The Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft was shown off earlier in the year, and can now be pre-ordered, although it's clearly meant for big-spending businesses rather than us consumers.
The US price is a not-insignificant $8,400, and TechRadar has tracked down the official Samsung SUR 40 UK price - which is £7,499 plus VAT.
"Customers across a wide range of industries currently integrate Microsoft Surface and make it relevant to their business needs, creating immersive, collaborative and meaningful experiences," said Somanna Palacanda, director, Microsoft Surface.
"With the Samsung SUR40 available for pre-order in 23 countries worldwide, Surface computing will now be more readily available for education, financial and professional services, healthcare, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and resources, and other commercial business environments to help deliver interactive digital content, drive sales, showcase brands, and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty."
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so here it is, 3 ships with warp module, and sometimes i just loose my whole fleet in a jump.
i target a location as usual, they start to warp so far normal, except that they just never exit warp, and they just vanished in warp.
when it happens with 1 ship .. ok you can recover in pvp, when it happens with 6 ships ... you basically lost. there just no way to recover from a 3 battleship + 2 dread + 1 frigate especially when you just inflicted 0 loss to your enemy.
Been facing the same player twice, he also uses triple fleet warp and warp probably 3-4 times more than i do he never lost a single ship in warp on both plays.
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YALE MEN'S BASKETBALL: Bulldogs can't take the bite out of 13th-ranked Gators
NEW HAVEN -- With no disrespect intended, Florida's Kenny Boynton said Sunday's game at Yale reminded him of playing a high school game.
Boynton apparently dominated the game in his prep school days. On Sunday he scored 28 points including a blistering 8-for-10 effort from 3-point range as 13th-ranked Florida defeated Yale 79-58 before a sellout crowd at the Lee Amphitheater.
Boynton, an NBA prospect who entered the game making just 7-of-39 attempts from beyond the arc in his last six games, broke the school mark with eight 3-pointers as Florida (10-2) won for the third straight time.
Yale (5-11) was led by freshman Justin Sears with 15 points and Javier Duren had 14. Armani Cotton added 12. And importantly, the Bulldogs were gritty throughout the entire affair.
Unlike last year when Yale seemed to succumb to the moment in its biggest game of the season where they were blown out by Harvard in front of their lone sellout crowd of the season, this time the Bulldogs embraced the challenge.
"Yale's got a good team, and I thought we were tested and challenged for most of the game," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "I think the game will make us better and hopefully it will help them, too."
Said Duren: "Not too many schools like us get to bring a top-ranked team like Florida into their house. It was a great experience. There are a lot of things we can learn from this game.
"We didn't back down. There are a lot of positives. We were in the game. We have a lot of things to fix, but we have a while until the Ivy League starts. It was a great atmosphere and I had a lot of fun."
Yale lost any chance of pulling off a major upset when Florida went on an extended 26-3 run spanning both halves. Yale trailed 21-20 after a field goal by Michael Grace with 5:28 left in the first half, but the Gators finished with a 14-3 spurt, getting the final three points on free throws by Casey Prather to take a 35-23 lead into the break.
Florida then ramped up the pressure defense to start the second half, and its sheer speed and size put the game away. Yale turned the ball over four straight times and was forced to call three timeouts trying to break the press in the first four minutes of the second half.
When the deluge was over, Florida led 50-27.
But the Bulldogs' effort wasn't over. Sears had four steals and Cotton grabbed a team-high five rebounds and Yale forced 13 turnovers.
"You take out four minutes of the game, not that you can, but we're right there," Yale coach James Jones said. "I thought we were able to score in the second half, but (Boynton's) 3-pointers helped them keep the lead.
"There were a few opportunities in the first half where we could have gotten them to second guess about pressing us. But then we started turning it over."
Florida played without Erik Murphy, a Rhode Island native whose father Jay played at Maloney-Meriden before heading to Boston College and eventually the NBA. Erik Murphy leads the Gators in scoring at 14.7 points but missed the game with bruised ribs.
Will Yeguete had 14 points and Mike Rosario added 13. Scottie Wilbekin had 10 assists for the Gators who shot 60 percent from the field.
Donovan, who has won two national titles, was impressed with environment.
"There's something in the Northeast," he said. "Whether it's The Palestra, Madison Square Garden or whether it's coming to a place like this. There's so much history. It's unique. This is a special school. It's got unbelievable tradition academically and athletically. James Jones has been here for a long time and he's built a heck of a program.
"I think it was a great experience for our guys. Walking out here in the shoot-around, we came in here last night to get a taste of the building and I think those chair backs are right out of the 1930s. There's a lot of nostalgia and mystique. There's something about some of those older places. It's a special place to play basketball, and I'm happy our kids had a chance to experience it."
Yale played without starting forward Brandon Sherrod (abdomen) and key reserve Jesse Pritchard (concussion). There is no timetable for their return.
It was the highest-ranked team to play at the Payne Whitney Gym since No. 10 North Carolina beat Yale 70-53 in 1974.


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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford reads a statement to the media at City Hall on Friday, May 24, 2013 in Toronto. Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the drug. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)
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TORONTO (AP) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.
The controversy has drawn comparisons to the 1990 arrest of then-Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting operation. Barry served six months in federal prison on a misdemeanor drug possession conviction and later won a fourth term as mayor in 1994.
The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack. He did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall, held after close allies released a letter urging him to address the reports of the video.
"I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine," Ford said. "As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen, or does not exist."
Ford had been ducking the media and his only comments before Friday on the scandal came a week ago, a day after the story broke, when he called the crack smoking allegations "ridiculous" and said the Toronto Star newspaper was out to get him.
Ford said he had kept quiet because his lawyer advised him "not to say a word."
The video has not been released publicly and its authenticity has not been verified. Reports on gossip website Gawker and in the Toronto Star claimed it was taken by men who said they had sold the drug to Ford. The Associated Press hasn't seen the video.


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Southeast Wisconsin sees increase in heroin deaths
Wisconsin law enforcement officials said they are seizing more heroin than they have seen in a decade.
Lt. Rod Galbraith, head of the Ozaukee County Drug Task Force, has been watching the statistics in his county grow.
"There's no question in my mind that there's more heroin out there every day," he said. "It has been increasing probably since the mid-2000s."
Debbie Kobiske knows the problem all too well. Her son, Matt, died of an overdose in 2005.
"It's a big problem and something has to be done," she said.
From 2000 through 2008, the county seized around 88 grams of heroin. From 2009-2011, the department seized 89 grams.
This week, Grafton police recommended charges against Joshua Gray, 24, of Milwaukee. Police believe Gray sold heroin to 24-year-old Riley Knapp, who died Jan. 3 of an overdose.
The problem also extends beyond Ozaukee County. The Waukesha County Medical Examiner's Office reported 5 deaths in 2010, 6 in 2011 and a possible 18 deaths in 2012.
Some of the 2012 cases are still pending.
Officials said overdose cases can be a problem for drug task forces, as they use their resources to track the drug back to the dealer in each case.
"Drug investigation is about getting intelligence and about making a case against people who are distributing," Galbraith said.
Kobiske said would like to also see attention paid to addicts as well, saying that easy accessibility to programs is essential.
"I just feel for those families," she said.
The Ozaukee County Drug Task Force works with Starting Point Ozaukee, a group that provides prevention and intervention programs for alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues. To learn more, visit their website at www.startingpointoz.org.


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- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup pitted dates
- 1/2 cup dried apricots
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 head garlic peeled and chopped
- 2 tsp minced ginger
- 2 tbs dried oregano
- 2 tbs dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 chickens cut into 1/8ths
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl. Put chciken in a large baking dish. Pour fruit mixture over chicken. Cover and marinate in fridge overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350. bake 1 hour the remove dried fruit from the pan reserving fruit. return chicken to oven for another 1/2 hour. discard bay leaves. season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Wine: A Look at Corks and Screw Caps
All photographs by Nick Kindelsperger
"Oh no, I don't want that." She pushes back the bottle, wincing, and attempts to pull back the credit card receipt she'd just signed. I could see it in her eyes. She has realized the horrible fault on the glistening new bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc she just purchased: It has a screw cap. Horror flashes in her eyes as she begs me to reconsider the transaction, "Can I just exchange it for something else, please?"
If the customer is always right, then this would be very simple. Substitute one thing for another, let her have her lovely day. Lots of people have fears about screw caps, box wine, and other ways of packaging wine, and most of these fears are based not on hearsay and indoctrination but on experience. These methods are, for the most part, a cheaper way to deliver wine, and, for many years, that meant if you had a really cheap wine (i.e., bad wine) then you would just flop a screw top on or saddle it in a box and sell it for less.
But that's not the case any more.
"I've had it before, and I really don't like it," she continues, referring not to the particular wine, producer, country of origin, or even grape, but the screw cap. "They are so bad."
Screw caps are fine. In fact, it would be harder for her to find a New Zealand wine with a cork than with a screw cap. It's estimated, according to the Oxford Companion to Wine, that more than 70 percent of New Zealand's wines have these new closures. And there's a reason: Screw caps are cheaper, easier to open, and end up protecting the wine in ways in which cork fails again and again.
How does cork fail? The results swing wildly depending on the polls and who conducts them, but it is believed that anywhere from 1 percent (cork industry) to 8 percent (French journal La Vigne) of wine sold is "corked," which is the term used to describe the funky mold aroma that can appear in a bottle. Once you've isolated its distinct characteristics, corked wine haunts you. You begin to suspect that every bottle opened could be infected with this menace that turns perfectly balanced wines into overearthed messes. Well, it haunts me, anyway.
That's where the screw cap comes in. Because there is no cork, there is no corked wine. Since there are no corked wines, you can be almost certain that your wine is safe and enjoyable.
But my customer is still not pleased. Now she's just staring at me, prodding me to remove the bottle from the bag and give her another chance at an enjoyable evening. It's then I began thinking, why has the cork been so ingrained in wine culture?
Cork is a remarkable product of nature that does two paradoxical things. It is light and flexible but also impervious to water and, for the most part, gas. That made it, for nearly 400 years, the perfect way to cheaply close bottles of wine. Because of its development wines were able to age for longer, and that led to better wine.
Is the "pop" a part of the pleasure of wine or is it something else? Children can open a screw capnot that they shouldand so can someone who'd never really bought wine before. But a corknow that requires knowledge, understanding, and some vague understanding of machinery. Think about the corkscrew. Do you prefer the waiter style to the bunny ears? What kind of tool you possess says a lot about who you are as a wine buyer and what you value. But do we really want wine to be pretentious?
It's a bunch of interesting questions, a few of which I've asked myself. I think most of these fears run through the back of our head sometimes, but whether it is covered by tree bark or aluminum foil, most people's fears came from tasting, and until recently screw caps were just not found on serious wine. But now they are. New Zealand is just one example. Australia also is producing more and more, and the phenomenon is slowly gaining a foothold in the United States.
For the time being, white wine is being capped far more often, mainly because most whites are supposed to be drunk right away. All that is needed is an air-tight seal to get the wine from producer to consumer. And screw caps do that very, very well.
For reds, it's a little different story. Some winemakers believe that cork lets an infinitesimal amount of air in that aids in the aging of the wine (although some scientists disagree with this statement). More expensive wines also tend to use more expensive corks that have been held to a higher standard, so they have fewer instances of corked bottles. It's hard to argue with people who make the best wine on the planet.
I'm not here to bring down the cork machine or fight one pretension with another. But you shouldn't be scared. If you trust your wine shop, and there is a screw cap on a bottle, then go for it. A great place to start is that New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, which we highly recommend, and look, isn't the price great? It's going to be delightful. Screw cap and all.
Any Serious Eaters have views on corks?
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> For the first time this offseason, Shaun Marcum has said that he would be open to re-signing with the Brewers. Perhaps this is because the other teams that have expressed interest in him include the Twins, Royals, Padres, and Cubs.
Unlike some other fans who have unfairly hated on Marcum just because of his bad postseason run in 2011, I wouldn't mind seeing him back on something like a two-year deal. But I've just gotten the impression that, ever since around January of 2012, Marcum and the Brewers' front office have a bad relationship. The reason I say that is because Marcum appeared to be complaining that the Brewers hadn't offered him a contract extension yet (which they still haven't, nor have they given him a known offer this offseason).
There's always the injury factor with Marcum, something that was exposed this year when he missed two months because of an elbow issue (he was originally only supposed to miss one start). But, looking at the numbers, he's been nothing but a solid pitcher since coming to Milwaukee- he's 20-11 with a 3.60 ERA in his two seasons with the Brewers. I wouldn't mind taking him back as a solid #3 starter.
> The Reds, Indians, and D-backs pulled a blockbuster three-team trade yesterday. Arizona is receiving Didi Gregorious, Tony Sipp, and Lars Anderson, while the Indians are getting Trevor Bauer (wow), Matt Albers, Bryan Shaw, and Drew Stubbs. But the biggest part of this trade was the Reds' acquisition of Shin-Soo Choo, who will play center field for them. If it wasn't already clear before, the Reds, who also received Jason Donald in the deal, are going to once again contend in 2013.
> The Pirates re-signed Jason Grilli to a two-year deal, meaning he's officially off the market.
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Tigers: Signed Brayan Pena to a one-year deal; designated Matt Hoffman for assignment.
Twins: Signed Kevin Correia to a two-year deal.
Royals: Signed Willy Taveras, George Sherrill, and Dan Wheeler to minor league deals.
Blue Jays: Signed Luis Jimenez, Rich Thompson, Eugenio Velez, and ex-Brewers Claudio Vargas and Juan Perez to minor league deals.
Yankees: Signed Kevin Youkilis and Ichiro Suzuki to one-year deals.
Red Sox: Signed Jack Hannahan to a two-year deal.
Cubs: Claimed Sandy Rosario off waivers from the Red Sox; signed Chang-Yong Lim to a split contract.
Rangers: Claimed Eli Whiteside off waivers from the Yankees.
Dodgers: Acquired Skip Schumaker from the Cardinals; designated Scott Van Slyke for assignment.
Cardinals: Acquired Jake Lemmerman from the Dodgers.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Andrew Smith scored 15 points, Kellen Dunham added 11 and No. 13 Butler used a stifling defense to pull away from Richmond for a 62-47 victory in its first Atlantic 10 Conference home game Wednesday night.
Butler (15-2, 3-0) heads into Saturday's home showdown with No. 8 Gonzaga on a 12-game winning streak. The Bulldogs won without top scorer Rotnei Clarke, who missed the game with a severely sprained neck and has already been ruled out of Saturday's game.
Richmond (11-7, 1-2) was led by Darien Brothers' 12 points but has lost two straight and five of seven. The Spiders were playing without their second-leading scorer, Derrick Williams, who missed his fourth straight game with a sprained ankle.
MARYLAND 51, No. 14 NORTH CAROLINA STATE 50
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Alex Len dropped in a missed shot by teammate Pe'Shon Howard with 00.9 seconds left for Maryland.
Howard drove the left side and came up short on a 5-footer, but the 7-foot-1 Len grabbed the ball in front of the rim and eased it through the hoop. It was Maryland's first win over a ranked team since March 3, 2010, against No. 4 Duke.
Len had 10 points for the Terrapins, who ended N.C. State's 10-game winning streak.
Maryland (14-3, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) has won 10 of 11 against the Wolfpack (14-3, 3-1), including five straight at home.
Lorenzo Brown scored 17 points for NC State and C.J. Leslie had 13. The Wolfpack came in leading the NCAA with a 52.8 shooting percentage, but in this one they shot a miserable 31.1 percent.
UNLV 82, No. 15 SAN DIEGO STATE 75
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Anthony Marshall scored a season-high 20 points, and Justin Hawkins and Khem Birch scored off rebounds on consecutive possessions in the final 1:18 for UNLV.
Bryce Dejean-Jones scored 14 points and Birch had 12 for the Runnin' Rebels (15-3, 2-1 Mountain West Conference), who fell out of the AP Top 25 on Monday after losing at New Mexico and going to overtime against Air Force before winning.
The Runnin' Rebels outrebounded the Aztecs 43-31.
The Aztecs' loss left No. 19 New Mexico as the only team with a perfect league record at 3-0.
Jamaal Franklin had a game-high 27 points while freshman Winston Shepard had 18 and Chase Tapley 16 for the Aztecs (14-3, 2-1).
San Diego State hadn't lost at home since a 77-67 defeat to New Mexico on Feb. 15.
No. 16 KANSAS STATE 67, TCU 54
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Rodney McGruder scored 21 points and Kansas State stretched its winning streak to seven games.
The Wildcats (14-2, 3-0 Big 12) got off to a slow start before taking control with a 19-4 run midway through the first half.
McGruder's layup with 11 minutes left in the first half tied the game at 10, after Kansas State had fallen behind 10-5. The Wildcats led for good when McGruder had a defensive rebound and turned that into a fastbreak 3-pointer by Will Spradling. A floater by McGruder stretched the lead to 24-14.
Adrick McKinney had 18 points and nine rebounds for TCU (9-8, 0-4).
No. 17 MISSOURI 79, GEORGIA 62
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Earnest Ross scored 15 points to help Missouri rebound from its biggest loss of the season.
Alex Oriakhi had 13 points on 5-for-5 shooting, eight rebounds and four blocks for the Tigers (13-3, 2-1 SEC), who were held to a season-low 49 points in a 15-point loss at Mississippi on Saturday. Their second game without leading scorer Laurence Bowers, who has a sprained right knee, was a major improvement for a team that's 10-0 at home this season and 26-1 at the Mizzou Arena in two seasons under coach Frank Haith.
Vincent Williams had a career-best 23 points on 7-for-10 shooting for Georgia (6-10, 0-3), nine more than his previous best after entering with a 4.1-point average. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, the Bulldogs' lone player averaging in double figures, added 15 points.
No. 18 MICHIGAN STATE 81, PENN STATE 72
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Adreian Payne scored 20 points after spending the first half on the bench following a morning scuffle with Michigan State teammate Brandon Dawson.
Payne made up for lost time by dominating the post in the second half. He had 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting in a stretch of 6-plus minutes after entering the game with about 16:30 left.
Payne added a 3-pointer - only his second of the season - in the middle of a 20-8 run to help the Spartans (15-3, 4-1 Big Ten) pull ahead midway through the second half.
Penn State (8-9, 0-5) stayed closed much of the game in large part to Jermaine Marshall, who scored 22 of his career-high 29 points after halftime.
An argument between roommates Dawson and Payne escalated into an exchange of punches in a second-floor lobby of a Penn State campus hotel, before the Spartans boarded a bus for the Jordan Center.
Police were called after a wall was dented at the hotel. The players were expected to pay for the damage.
No. 19 NEW MEXICO 79, BOISE STATE 74, OT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Tony Snell scored 22 points and Hugh Greenwood added 15 to lead New Mexico to the overtime win.
Snell and Greenwood dominated the overtime, teaming for nine of the Lobos' 16 points. The win was the third straight for the Lobos (16-2, 3-0 Mountain West Conference).
Derrick Marks scored 27 points on 10-of-20 shooting for Boise State (13-3, 1-1), which saw its seven-game winning streak snapped and have yet to beat New Mexico since joining the Mountain West last season.
Greenwood put the game into overtime when he took advantage of a Boise State miscue on defense and drove a wide-open lane for a layup, tying the score at 63 with 54 seconds left.
No. 25 MARQUETTE 69, SETON HALL 62
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Reserve forward Davante Gardner scored 17 points to lead Marquette over injury-depleted Seton Hall, which had just eight available players.
The Golden Eagles (13-3, 4-0 Big East), who moved into the AP Top 25 on Monday for the first time this season, got 12 points from Todd Mayo to win their season-high sixth straight game.
Vander Blue had 11 points and four assists as the three Golden Eagles combined to go 17 of 18 from the free throw line to claim their 19th consecutive home victory.
Aaron Cosby had 15 points for Seton Hall (12-6, 1-4), which never led in the game.
Haralds Karlis added 14 points and six rebounds for the Pirates, who dropped their season-high fourth straight game.


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2 men sought in connection with Annapolis robbery
Anne Arundel County police said they are looking for two men in connection with a robbery in Annapolis.
Officers were called to the CVS Pharmacy in the 2600 block of Riva Road around 1:50 a.m. Thursday.
Employees told police that two men came into the store, demanded money and took an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes before fleeing the store.
The robbers did not display or imply a weapon during the incident, police said.
Several officers and a K-9 unit searched the area, but were unable to locate the pair. Police said one robber was described as a black man, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, wearing a black jacket with a hood, blue jeans, black shoes and black gloves.
Police said the other robber was described as a black/Hispanic man, about 6 feet tall, wearing a black jacket with a gray sweatshirt with a hood underneath along with blue jeans, white shoes and black gloves.


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Ensuring an Ethical Business
This story appears in the December 2006 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
For Tina Byles Williams, hiring ethical employees is doing the smart thing as much as doing the right thing. The pension funds and other institutions that pay her 10-year-old firm, FIS Group Inc., for investment advice and management naturally expect that none of her 16 employees will make off with their funds. They also expect no conflicts of interest or other improprieties--a matter brought into high relief three years ago when a former employee's activities made Williams consider measures to prevent unethical employee behavior.
Since the incident, the $6 million company has re-examined its process for hiring, evaluating and retaining ethical employees. Williams, 45, now regards hiring ethical employees to be a core mission: "If part of what we're selling is trust, it's critical to hire people of integrity and high ethics."
Those people may be hard to find, according to the 2005 "National Business Ethics Survey." The report by the Ethics Resource Center found that 52 percent of employees had observed at least one type of misconduct in the workplace during the past year--but only 55 percent of them reported it. Also, according to the nonprofit Washington, DC, research and education organization, the number of employees reporting misconduct fell by 10 percent from the prior survey in 2003.
Those findings should be of interest to entrepreneurs, according to Tom Hooyman, a Denver consultant on organizational ethics. When employees appropriate company property for personal use, for example, it comes straight out of profits, Hooyman notes. So replacing theft-minded employees with ethical ones saves you money. "Other benefits include improved productivity and increased retention," says Hooyman.
Start by deciding what ethical conduct means to you. Craft an ethics code and have new hires read it so they understand what you're about. During interviews, ask applicants ethics-minded questions. "Ask them to describe an ethical dilemma they have experienced or witnessed in the past 24 hours," Hooyman suggests. "Some people don't have any idea, and that's potentially a bad sign. It's saying their radar isn't tuned to what can be an ethical issue." Also, consider presenting applicants with real-world ethical dilemmas and asking them what they would do.
Be sure to communicate your ethical standards to everyone in the organization. Have employees read and sign the ethics code before being hired, and annually thereafter. And consider ethics in annual evaluations and compensation reviews. "The assessment has to be tied to performance-based compensation," Hooyman says. Train ethics-impaired but otherwise valuable employees to make decisions that follow company standards.
Although hiring and training ethical employees adds little cost, it's not perfect. "There's no 100 percent successful method," Williams notes. She pays for background checks on job applicants , and notices how cheerfully employees complete reports on personal investments, which detect conflicts of interest. Says Williams, "I think people are fundamentally good. But you need to establish a framework of expectations and monitoring."
Mark Henricks writes on business and technology for leading publications and is author of Not Just a Living.


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There seems to be enough interest to make up a second order, so it's about time I got things moving.
A couple of changes from last time.
I used ordinary 2nd class post last time. Thinking about it, everything I buy mail order has to be signed for. Maybe we were just lucky last time that nothing got lost in the post, but I think next time I will use some sort of recorded delivery, to avoid the risk. A quick look on Royal Mail's website and it looks like recorded/signed for delivery adds about 70p within the UK or about £4 to Australia.
UK VAT has gone up from 15% to 17.5%.
All you need to do is pick something from the Endura catalogue, http://www.endura.co.uk/Dept.aspx?dept_id=207 then post here with the item number and size.
There's a minimum order of 15 items and a 10% discount if we spend over £750, same as last time.
I'll try to workout some exact total prices in advance this time.


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Season 5 of Californication ended in a bit of a dark place: Hank (David Duchovny) was (possibly fatally) drugged by a bitter ex-girlfriend.
Showtime sets premiere dates for Shameless, House of Lies and CalifornicationBased on the exclusive first look at Season 6 below, things will remain dark when the show resumes — at least for a little while. "We pick up days after that in the hospital, where Hank has survived but she hasn't," Duchovny says. "This season kind of begins with Hank spiraling down."Next stop: rehab! And with that comes the return of comedy. "We go to rehab, but it's really just for comedic purposes," Duchovny says.
Photos: Everybody's posing nude! Check out Rihanna and other stars who've bared allThe video also offers your first look at this season's guest stars. Tim Minchin plays a rock star wanting Hank's help in develop his book God Hates Us All into a Broadway musical. Marilyn Manson and Maggie Grace play some of the characters Hank encounters in the rock 'n' roll world.Other treats in the clip below: Charlie (Evan Handler) pretends to be gay to land a big client who wants a new agent (excuse us, "gaygent") and Karen (Natascha McElhone) and Marcy (Pamela Adlon) are roommates. For more, click play below!
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LOS ANGELES, March 5 (UPI) -- Selena Gomez sure likes her bindis.
The 21-year-old star took to Instagram Tuesday to share a photo of herself sporting the traditional forehead decoration used in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Gomez first began using bindis in public during her MTV Video Movie Awards performance in April 2013. At the time, several Hindu leaders criticized the singer's "Come and Get It" performance calling it "insensitive," and asked Gomez to refrain from repeating the act.
The singer, however, disregarded the comments and used the Hindu symbol again for her Dancing with the Stars performance the next day.
Earlier this year, Gomez was also spotted wearing a Bindi as she casually stepped out to buy cigarettes following her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber's arrest.


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We believe farmers' markets are among the projects that provide access to good food and encourage healthier habits. These markets connect consumers with fresh, and more often than not organic, food that is free of the over-processing that plagues most products found in the average supermarket. Even the ability to purchase free-range eggs is a significant opportunity. Recent studies show that the nutritional value of free-range eggs versus caged eggs was greater. It's the small things that help make a difference.
Aside from the obvious benefit of access to good food, farmers' markets can encourage the surrounding residents to get outside and engage in a communal activity. These markets, with successful placement, even have the ability to contribute to local culture by providing an arena for local musicians and artisans. They also affect the surrounding economy by keeping consumer's dollars local.
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Join Katie, the founder of London Calligraphy for an enjoyable afternoon learning Modern Calligraphy. Whether you simply want to try something new and have never used a pen holder and ink before or have always had a love for calligraphy and beautiful handwriting, this is the workshop for you!
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DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Syrian government stepped up attacks on rebels in Damascus Sunday with warplanes and intensified artillery, anti-government activists in Beirut said.
Thousand of Syrians have fled to Lebanon and 30,000 have sought refuge in Jordan during the past month's fierce fighting, while the United Nations tries to find increased international aid for an underfinanced relief effort, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Activists said rebels attacked a railway station in Qadam, an area of Damascus that had not previously seen fighting, but the Times said the claims could not be verified due to the Syrian government's restrictions on journalists inside the country.
The Syrian network for human rights said it documented 86 deaths across Syria Sunday -- including 26 in an around Damascus, 16 in Aleppo, 15 in Homs, 10 in Idlib, nine in Daraa, seven in Hama and one in Lattakia.
Meetings on the crisis are scheduled for Monday in Paris, between the primary exile opposition group and civilian opposition leaders, the Times reported.
International efforts to end the crisis, in which 60,000 have been killed, seem to have halted, as Russia, which backs Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, is in conflict with the Western and Arab supporters of the Syrian rebels, the Times said.
"(The conflict) must be decided by the Syrian people -- not Russia, not the United States, not any other country," said Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.
Some Syrian rebel leaders said they are angry that Western countries contemplate aiding France in its attacks on al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Mali, while continuing to be reluctant to help Syria despite nearly two years of bloodshed, the Times reported.
"In a situation like Syria, I have to ask, can we make a difference in that situation? Would a military intervention have an impact? How would it affect our ability to support troops who are still in Afghanistan? What would be the aftermath of our involvement on the ground? Could it trigger even worse violence or the use of chemical weapons? What offers the best prospect of a stable post-Assad regime?" U.S. President Barack Obama told The New Republic in an interview published Sunday.
"And how do I weigh tens of thousands who've been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo? Those are not simple questions."


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Washington, June 10, 2013 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced that it has begun its final visual surveys to determine whether Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) has been effectively eradicated from Boston, Mass.
APHIS and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) are conducting final visual surveys of ALB host trees within the regulated area of Norfolk and Suffolk Counties. Currently, survey inspectors are working in the Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, and they will be in the town of Brookline in the coming weeks. Surveys are expected to conclude in early 2014. Final inspection surveys will confirm the eradication of the beetle from the area. Once confirmed, APHIS and its cooperators will lift federal and state regulations.
The beetle was discovered in Boston in July 2010. Within Norfolk and Suffolk Counties, 10-square miles are regulated to control the pest, which includes the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Roxbury, West Roxbury, and a portion of the town of Brookline.
To date, USDA and its partners have removed six infested trees from one property and have conducted multiple inspection surveys of more than 90,000 host trees. By the end of this month, the eradication program will complete its third and final cycle of chemical treatment applications on 2,000 host trees. The program began using chemical treatment applications in June 2011 and conducted them again in June 2012.
APHIS and its cooperators undertake eradication by imposing quarantines, conducting regulatory inspections, surveying host trees by using both ground and aerial visual survey methods, removing infested and high-risk host trees, and chemically treating host trees – all are part of an area-wide integrated eradication strategy.
The eradication program will host a public meeting for community members to learn more and speak with managers of the eradication effort. The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 18 from 6:00‐8:00 p.m. at the Franklin Park Clubhouse, located at 1 Circuit Drive, Dorchester, MA 02121. To get specific information about eradication program activities, community members may also call the eradication program office directly at (508) 852-8090.
Members of the public are encouraged to inspect their trees for signs of damage caused by the insect and report any suspicious findings. The sooner an infestation is reported, the sooner efforts can be made to quickly contain and isolate an area from future destruction. People are encouraged to be mindful of moving firewood, as moving ALB-infested firewood can unintentionally spread the pest. For more information, please visit http://www.aphis.usda.gov or www.asianlonghornedbeetle.com.
APHIS' eradication partners in Massachusetts include USDA's U.S. Forest Service, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the city of Worcester, the towns of Holden, West Boylston, Boylston, Shrewsbury and Auburn, the city of Boston, and the town of Brookline.
USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as USDA implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act. USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.
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Hi there!
I've come across your thread on the ID3 Card Reader and I'm in the process of setting up a home multi-cade system.
Now, i was following through the thread, and i kinda started getting confused along the way.
Given i have some ID cards i'd like to read in and want to print out, I'm looking to get hold of a reader unit on Friday.
Am i right in beleiving your emulation is based on Raspberry Pi, the unit connects to the Pi, and that's how you get your data across? Or is it connected to a PC and you run a web interface to do the interface?
Thanks for clarifying =)


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If there's a modern Mecca for the followers of letterpress, it's got to be the Chapel of the Blessed Eutectic in Prescott, Arizona.
From downtown Phoenix, it's less than a two-hour drive. Take I-17 to State Route 89 and you'll find yourself in big-sky Prescott. And just a few miles from the city's center — down Pioneer Parkway, around a few sharp turns, and up a very steep driveway — you'll find Sky Shipley and his working tribute to an industry more than 500 years old.
It's here, in his own backyard, where Shipley's built a home for nine printing presses and 18 750-pound typecasting machines. Affixed to a wall near the entrance of the detached studio in his backyard is a plaque that reads: "Chapel of the Blessed Eutectic" — eutectic coming from the Greek metallurgical term for metal in a molten state. Through the door, you'll see Shipley's immaculate studio full of shiny machines, neatly labeled type drawers, and buckets of tiny bits of scrap metal waiting to be melted down and poured into molds to create metal type.
Letterpress Is All the Rage and Part of Its History Is Being Preserved in Arizona
The work performed inside Shipley's studio is definitely old school. He's a perfectionist. The 59-year-old works with dangerous chemicals, boiling-hot metal, and old (and often unpredictable) machines. One misstep or distraction and liquid metal could be everywhere. It's a risky business, Shipley says, but for him — and a growing number of letterpress aficionados — it's a tradition worth saving.
Letterpress — imprinting paper with freshly inked letters, words, and symbols — was abandoned decades ago by publishers and newspapers in favor of modern technology, but a small community of typecasters and printers are fighting for its survival.
In June, hundreds of members of this community will drive and fly to Phoenix from around the country. The old guard of printers who operated huge printing presses in newsrooms is now far outnumbered by a younger generation whose connection to letterpress is less about newsprint and novels and more about greeting cards and whimsical calendars.
For three days, the group will gather for an annual wayzgoose — a fancy printing term for a chance to swap printing secrets, ogle each other's work and equipment, and share stories of an industry that continues to reinvent itself. They'll talk about the long history of letterpress in Phoenix, about a quirky guy named Charles Broad who kept the industry chugging, and at the end of the weekend, they'll make the trek north to visit the chapel and see Shipley in action.
Sky Shipley is considered a hero in the letterpress scene — not so much because he can print, but because he can actually create the metal type used for letterpress printing. When he promised to continue the (quickly disappearing) art, word spread and orders poured in from around the world. And though Shipley knows the world of fine art printing is expanding, he's also keenly aware that the supplies are becoming harder to find.
For Shipley, his colleagues, and anyone who's visited a craft fair in a hip town, there's no denying the current revival of letterpress. From invitations and art books to posters and coasters (and anything else that can be wedged into a printing press), the industry is making a serious creative comeback. Call it a response to increasingly pervasive technology or a return to the basics — letterpress has become the new vinyl record or analog film. And though printing shops are popping up across the country, the big companies that once produced the machines went out of business long ago, and the race to snatch up the remaining equipment is on. Letterpress currently is riding a trendy wave, but the hope for its sustained future rests in the hands of artisans and engineers like Shipley.
And he knows that if he doesn't pass along his skill set, traditional letterpress could be in trouble.
On a cool October afternoon, Shipley is in his studio busy filling orders of antique and ornamental type. The detail of these letters goes far beyond typefaces available for Word document or this article, and each takes precision and patience to re-create. Shipley's wearing a pressed business shirt with his full name embroidered on the breast pocket, thick glasses, and a heavy-duty leather apron that'll protect him from rogue ink and hot metal. His colleagues joke that he's the only printer and typecaster with the guts to have a carpeted printing studio, but because Shipley treats letterpress as a science, there's not an ink spot to be found on the floor.
He gives tours to the public by appointment — through the front door of his house, past his wife's craft room, and into his printing room, where he's kept mementos of his past, including framed certificates earned for casting and printing, photographs of old planes, and books on typography.
If you're into this sort of thing, it's hard not to drool over his collection of typefaces — he has more than 3,000 type molds and 2,000 different borders and ornaments — and historic, pedal-powered presses as he talks about his own history.
Shipley's parents owned a printing shop in Boulder called Shipley Press, where he spent years playing with printing presses, learning from his father, and earning a couple of bucks printing tickets for a local community theater.
The boy grew up and left Colorado to go to Gordon College in Massachusetts, where he studied New Testament Greek (hence the Chapel's name) and, after graduation, trained for his dream job: commercial airline pilot.
He flew for TWA (and American Airlines after they merged) for more than 30 years and moved around a lot — Santa Barbara, Chicago, St. Louis. In St. Louis, he joined a musical church group and met his wife, Johanna. They participated in community theater, and he played the five-string banjo, upright bass, fiddle, and guitar, all of which he says (with a straight face) was good exercise for his future in working with tiny letters and hot metal.
During his time as a pilot, Shipley kept an eye on the printing scene and saw the industry change with the introduction of the linotype press and, later, the computer (but more on that later). In 2004, Shipley heard of a letterpress foundry that was shutting down. He scooped up the equipment, fixed it up, and incorporated his own printing business as a side project.
Two years ago, Shipley retired from his flying gig (though he still flies his own 1942 military plane) and took a trip to Prescott with Johanna. They fell in love with the landscape, found a spot a few miles from downtown, and built their home, which includes Shipley's studio and the chapel.
Shipley says he thought letterpress and casting type would be a nice retirement hobby, but one look at his collection of type, detailed order sheets, and boxing and labeling systems makes it clear that typecasting has turned into a full-time mission.
"It's the most important thing I spend time doing," he says, inspecting a small piece of type under a magnifying glass. "And as it turns out, I'm so busy I have to turn business away."
Long before Sky Shipley began pouring hot metal into tiny molds, German publisher Johannes Gutenberg was trying to figure out a way to streamline the publishing business. In the 15th century, it could take years for scribes to hand-copy novels, and printing blocks were time-consuming to make and could be used only a few times before they became trashed.
Gutenberg began experimenting with single letters and eventually created a mechanism that could hold a mold of a letter at the end of a shaft. He poured a hot soft metal into the device and was able to pop out the final product — what we now know as a single piece of metal type. When inked and pressed against a piece of paper, this piece of metal made an impression of a single letter.
Gutenberg then developed a system for creating, setting, inking, and pressing the type onto paper. He combined current technology with a few of his own inventions and (though earlier printing mechanisms have been recorded throughout history) was credited with the invention of the printing press in 1450. He introduced the machine to the European publishing industry, and, as a result, anyone with access to a printing press and a couple sets of letters could communicate with the masses.
The publishing world exploded with the mass production of books, posters, and pamphlets, and mainstream literature was introduced to an audience that previously had access only to religious materials or no materials at all.
For the first time, Shipley says, the power of the press belonged to those who owned one.
Gutenberg's technology was used for centuries — newsrooms and commercial printing shops used the printing press to communicate with their audiences. Literacy and the number of publications available to the public skyrocketed side by side. But in the late 1800s, German publisher Ottmar Mergenthaler revamped the printing press and created an organ-size machine that could cast whole lines and paragraphs while the operator typed. The chunks of metal words were spit out of the end of the machine, arranged to fit the length and width of a page, inked, and printed before they were chucked back into the machine to be melted down and reused. Before the linotype, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.
As it goes with technologies, the linotype soon was re-imagined and replaced. About a century after linotype machines took the publishing world by storm — in the 1960s and 1970s — they were pushed out of buildings (literally) and into landfills to make room for the digital equipment we use today.
Luckily, quite a few traditional printing presses and linotype machines were donated to museums and universities or salvaged by hobbyists who slowly began to revive the dying process immediately after it had been disowned by commercial companies and printers.
"Printing is a very important part of our civilization," says Shipley. "Independent printing led to the transfer of information worldwide. Plus it's fun, it's not expensive, and if you can find the equipment, you can communicate with whoever you want."
This mentality is widespread throughout the letterpress community — and it was the cornerstone of the letterpress revival in Phoenix, long before our trendy, old school reaction to technology, which Shipley says was fueled by a man named Charles Broad.
"Oh, I hope he told you the story of Charles Broad," says Cindy Iverson, a Phoenix-based printer and founder of Letterpress Central in Chandler (where the letterpress gathering will take place this summer).
Iverson has a large type collection of her own that's housed in a warehouse that used to be a preschool that she, her husband, Gary, and printer Mike O'Connor transformed into a giant haven for modern letterpress. There, the Iversons hold classes, print on commission, and create artwork.
Cindy Iverson and Sky Shipley have corresponded with each other for years. And in 2010, Iverson was in awe — along with the rest of the letterpress community — when Shipley announced that he had rescued more than 50 revivals of 19th-century typefaces cast by Broad.
Broad made a name for himself in Phoenix. He was a businessman, who tuned in to the decline of the letterpress and linotype businesses in the 1950s and started re-creating antique type that he knew would be collectible someday.
In Broad's time, letterpress was state of the art in Phoenix. The Phoenix Club of Printing House Craftsmen was founded in the 1920s and was alive and well through the '30s and '40s. During its heyday, the club had hundreds of members who gathered for an annual graphic arts exhibit and celebration of printing. But long after the printing houses went under and the craftsmen dispersed, Broad was one of the last holding onto their metal type and creating more for those who kept the art form alive.
"When my father had his tabletop press at home, he kept correspondence with Broad," says Shipley, sifting through pages of documents and photographs kept neatly in binders in his studio. "He was selling antique typefaces, which were far less popular than they are now. But I remember seeing Broad's specimen sheets and looking at the typefaces. I thought of how wonderful it would be to own . . . They made a big impression on me."
Shipley's father never bought any of Broad's type, but when Shipley was young, he and a few friends began collecting antique typefaces (including a few of Broad's) and making extra money selling them to printers around the country.
Beyond the type he produced, Broad's life isn't well-documented. Shipley still has a few letters that his father and Broad exchanged, and John Risseeuw, a professor of bookmaking and printmaking at Arizona State University, says he tracked down Broad's daughter years ago to talk about his business, but she provided little information. Risseeuw says he wanted to create a book about Broad, printed on a printing press in one of Broad's typefaces. But the project was delayed, and boxes of research and documents are still in boxes in his garage.
In a short Arizona Republic article published in 1964, Broad calls himself "Mr. Antique" and describes his journeys to Japan, where he first had the matrices, or type molds, created. He later purchased a typecaster from Japan and worked out of his garage, producing type for a few local printers. Risseeuw says Broad's friends would send him collections of antique type that they found, and when a letter was missing, Broad commissioned his next-door neighbor, who was a type designer, to help him re-create the letter to complete the set.
Before moving to Phoenix, Broad had been a monotype operator in Chicago who, like Shipley, retired and moved west and, like Shipley, soon found that his hobby was a full-time job. Broad's business was booming, but like all devotees to a dying art, he worried about the future of letterpress and who would care for his collection after he died.
From the Republic story: "A fleeting sadness touches Broad, now 65, when he thinks now and then about who'll carry on the business. He's found no one willing to stick with the job."
Every first and third Friday of the month, Nancy Hill opens the French doors of her letterpress studio in downtown Phoenix and puts on a show. She recently retired from a corporate office job and took on letterpress printing full time.
Hill's shop is flooded with light from huge paned windows. She works on wedding invitations, greeting cards, and special orders. Last summer, she printed hundreds of square coasters to celebrate her A/C unit, which wasn't quite cutting it on a Friday afternoon — each read "Hot as HELL."
She has a wicked sense of humor (often needed to survive both Phoenix summers and employment in an antique industry), and she loves to talk about letterpress. Hill knows the local scene is growing. She's one of a handful of local printers, including Risseeuw, Lindsay Tingstrom (who currently operates solo after the split of letterpress trio SeeSawDesigns), Brent Bond and Mark McDowell at Cattle Track, Karla Elling of Mummy Mountain Press, and Linda Smith of Picnic Press.
Like many printers, Hill hosts printing classes on weekends and visits Cindy Iverson at Letterpress Central. And she really wants to check out Shipley's studio.
"I keep meaning to get up there and visit," she says. "He's incredible."
Sky Shipley's Thompson typecaster hums as lead, antimony, and tin combine to make the ideal metal alloy for type. The mixture is piped into chambers, where it's pressed against a mold, cooled, released from the chamber, and pushed out in the shape of a rectangular prism with a single letter popping out of one end.
It's a complicated process to watch, let alone master. When Shipley has time, he runs seminars for a few students at a time on how to operate the machine and cast their own sets of type.
"It's an intense operation that requires a lot of maintenance," he says. "There are always challenges because parts on these machines get worn out. I've collected up an assortment of spare parts, but usually the spare parts are already used, so I have to figure out a way to make them functional again."
He's made friends with local machine shop operators who find joy in creating replacements for missing and worn-out pieces for his typecasting machines. But Shipley admits that, like Broad, he has fears about who will continue the tradition once he's gone.
"I've only had two apprentices, and both were very serious about continuing the tradition," he says. "It's a commitment."
Shipley notes that in the late 1960s (a year after the Republic article was published and at the height of his business), Broad died suddenly, and his collection was transferred to a type foundry in Los Angeles. When that foundry folded, the collection was purchased by Barco, a foundry in Chicago that didn't sell them, didn't reproduce them, and virtually let them vanish from the letterpress world.
Many, including Shipley, thought Broad's matrices disappeared or were melted down to create modern typefaces. But after months of research and phone calls, Shipley tracked down the owners of Barco and begged them to sell him Broad's work. They refused, for years, until one day, "out of the blue," they called Shipley and asked for an offer.
"I wanted everything they had," says Shipley, pulling out drawers of Broad's type in his studio. "And I got it all for a screaming deal."
Shipley whispers that he low-balled the people at Barco, and when they agreed, he flew to Chicago and took the entire collection — including type that was more than 150 years old — back home to Arizona.
Since Charles Broad's time, the world of letterpress has changed dramatically. What once was a commercial industry was abandoned and then revived as an art form. Traditional letterpress printing is now taught in university classrooms and sold in indie gift shops. Metal and wood-based letters are now as collectible for printers as they are for young moms setting up letter walls in their nurseries and can be found at flea markets and through Internet storefronts like eBay and Etsy. The industry's become a movement that's motivated artists like Kyle Durrie, formerly of Portland and based in Silver City, New Mexico, to drive a "movable type" truck around the country to teach communities about the tradition and sell her own work. She most recently was in Phoenix last March on a countrywide tour to spread awareness of letterpress.
"I continue to see young people fascinated by the process, and there are so many reasons to learn it," says Risseeuw, who's been teaching at ASU for more than 30 years. "I've seen letterpress make better typographers, more thoughtful writers, and more creative visual artists . . . because learning about the design and setting the type slows down their process so much, they're always learning something new about their own medium."
Printers like Cindy Iverson use a combination of metal and wood type, and when clients have specific designs, she says she can now send the digital file to a manufacturer that creates a polymer-based plate with the entire image that can be pressed without the need to arrange individual type.
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And though many view polymer plates as a controversial end to wood and metal type, Risseeuw says they're a necessity in modern printing and an essential part of letterpress' survival.
"Technology is going to evolve, and polymer provides a bridge between old technology and what we have today," he says. "Of course, there's a danger of people not understanding the tradition, the mechanics, and the design knowledge that physical type brings to a final product, but I think we'll always be playing with physical type in some way."
In his backyard in Prescott, Sky Shipley's fashioned a winding metal staircase that leads to a platform he uses to watch planes shoot across the skyline. He points out a few mountain ranges and talks about where he'll be flying in the upcoming week. (Letterpress occupies only the lion's share of his time, not all of it.) When asked about the future of letterpress, he pauses and admits to resisting most of the modern letterpress technology. He'll stick to metal, which is still used and collected by printers around the world. And like Charles Broad, he'll continue his search for a successor.
"I often ruminate," he says. "I wish I could have a visit from the ghost of Charlie Broad. I think he'd be happy to see what I'm doing."
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Finally! We have football again! I know, it's just preseason, but for those of us who aren't much into other sports, we'd settle for just about any football.
That the Texans won is bonus. For me at least, winning in preseason, while preferred, isn't as important as the quality of play by our second and third team players. Oftentimes, a win in preseason simply means our back-ups played better than their back-ups. Which is precisely what happened last Saturday.
I want to see our starters play well, don't get me wrong, but for them it's more about knocking off the rust than anything else. We know what most of them can do. While some may need more snaps than others, most of the starters just need to get some snaps in and get back in game shape. I don't like to see the starters pushed too far for the sake of a "W" in preseason.
As for the back-ups, well, it's their season. This is the time they step up and prove they belong on the final roster. Getting the reps is important because come September they won't see many. But they still have to be ready to be the "next man up" should someone suffer an injury.
As I predicted, the Texans offense moved the ball very well between the 20's. And as I predicted, they bumbled and stumbled inside the red zone, having to settle for 4 field goals. As you may have heard the announcers say Saturday, the standard for red zone efficiency, as set by the late Bill Walsh, is 80%. That means that 80% of the time teams should score touchdowns once inside the red zone. Last season the Texans finished at 47% efficiency inside the red zone. Too often the Texans are forced to settle for field goals instead of touchdowns. Now this may be because we were without Arian Foster for a few games, we played 9 games without Andre Johnson, and we had a rookie 3rd string QB to close out the season. Or maybe not.
The Texans' red zone woes continued right into their first preseason game. I know, I know. It's just the first preseason game. But one TD in 5 trips inside the red zone does not instill much confidence. Nevermind that TD came from the back-ups to the back-ups. It also must be noted that our only two turnovers came from our starters. Matt Schaub tossed an ill-advised interception (to a linebacker of all people!) and Arian Foster coughed up the ball on his first carry of 2012. Again, they have to knock the rust off, but when you consider that Foster fumbled in 3 of the last 4 games last year, and Schaub has always had a penchant for throwing some boneheaded INT's at just the right time, it's a cause for concern. So we have to hope they get this out of their system early. So far so good.
The defense played outstanding. From the starters to the 5th stringers, the defense was lights out from whistle to whistle. In the second half, Carolina only managed 13 yards of offense and failed to convert a single first down. Rookie Whitney Mercilus was outstanding, recording 1.5 sacks and 2 stops behind the line of scrimmage. Tim Dobbins also played very well, as did backup safety Shiloh Keo. Troy Nolan again showed that he has a knack for ball-hawking after almost picking off one tipped pass and stealing another right out of the hands of Seyi Ajirotutu.
A few other bright spots: RB Jonathan Grimes was impressive, scoring the only Texans rushing TD. I liked his play over the play of Davin Meggett. He looks like he could step right in and fill the role of Derrick Ward. I was impressed with rookie WR Keshawn Martin, who had two catches for 24 yards and an impressive end around play that went for 12 yards. Man is this kid quick! Tim Dobbins played very well. I was very impressed with the play of Kareem Jackson. He is starting to play like a starter. I was not, however, impressed at all with the play of Alan Ball, the free agent corner we signed from Dallas. Thanks to two costly interference penalties late in the first half, Carolina was able to score their one and only touchdown of the night. The second was sketchy in my opinion, but Ball just didn't look like he was comfortable in there.
I was also impressed with the play of the starting offensive line. The Texans gave up a few sacks, but I thought pass protection as a whole, and the run blocking in particular, was excellent, even from the right side.
While it was exciting to see little Trindon run back a 90 yard punt for a score, and carry several out of the end zone for 20+ yards, I had some issues with the special teams tackling, or should I say lack thereof, on coverage. I think there is definitely room for improvement there, and I'm confident Marciano will get those kinks worked out.
I was impressed with Randy Bullock's 52-yard field goal. He had plenty of distance on the ball and split the uprights perfectly. Both kickers had two FG's each. What does worry me a bit is their inability to bury their kick-offs into the end zone and prevent the possibility of a big return. After the first kick-off, most of the others landed just inside or outside of the end zone. I know Carolina has an open stadium, so I thought maybe the wind played a factor, until I saw them do the same thing from both directions. It was also very humid, so maybe that was a factor, but practicing in Houston, they should both be used to humidity by now. Either way, I'd like to avoid any opportunity for the other team to run the ball back down our throats.
Overall I thought it was a well played game all around. Clean up some tackling and penalties, avoid costly turnovers by our starters, and it appears the Texans picked up right where they left off last season. The other good news is we didn't suffer a rash of injureis. DT Shuan Cody suffered the most significant injury, a back injury the team is calling a "disc issue". Earl Mitchell will replace Cody in the line-up.
I'm excited to see the starters get more reps this weekend and see if they can punch the ball in from the red zone. Hopefully we'll also get to see Andre Johnson and Brian Cushing this weekend.
Let me know what you thought of the Texans performance in their first outing of 2012!
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Farmland prices in Iowa hit a new record high on Thursday when an 80.47-acre parcel sold for $21,900/acre, the auction firm that handled the sale said Friday. The parcel is located in Sioux County near Boyden, Iowa, about 42 miles southeast of Sioux Falls, S.D. The sale soared past last year's record price of $20,000/acre which was set in an auction for a 74-acre parcel held in the same county in northwest Iowa.
Thursday's buyers were neighboring farmers, a spokesman for Vander Werff and Associates Inc., which ran the auction, told Reuters News Service.
The sky-high prices underscore how demand for Iowa farmland has remained strong, given that commodity crop yields fared far better in the Hawkeye State than in many other parts of the Corn Belt this summer.
Given that crop prices hit historical highs this summer, these somewhat larger yields gave some Iowa farmers an economic boost and added to the record income levels they enjoyed in 2011, Michael D. Duffy, professor of economics at Iowa State University told Reuters.
Whether Iowa's land values will continue to rise, though, will depend on the weather, he said. "If you look at what the prognosticators are saying that I look at, the predictions for corn prices range from $4 to $9," Duffy said. "If we get moisture this winter and spring, the prices will fall back for land. If we don't, they'll stay up."
Iowa farmland prices have risen steadily in recent years. The value of tillable land jumped an average of 7.7% in the state over the past six months, according to a recent farmland survey released by the Iowa Farm & Land Chapter No. 2 Realtors Land Institute.
The value of Iowa cropland for potential corn production increased nearly 21.9% over the 12 months ended in September, according to the survey.
Thursday's sale was far from an anomaly. Earlier this week, a different piece of farm property in Sioux County sold for $19,100/acre.
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As we, as a culture or as a counter culture, attempt to reclaim our past, our worlds, our realities, we are turning quite rightly to myth.
This is an obvious and admirable decision; the searchers look and the searchers define but it seems as if they are often looking in the wrong places and defining the wrong things.
There has been recent discussion of science fiction and fantastic literature as the repository of our living mythology. This is a mistake; world-building fantasists are not engaging in real myth, but an empty rather truncated form. Myth is the Reality in which the culture lives. It is Reality. Period.
Do you think that the Kwakwaka'wakw of Canada's Pacific Coast (http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/nwca/nwcam25e.shtml and http://www.umista.org/) thought they were involved in some so banal as world building? No. Obviously they were (and are once more) participating in the mythical world, a world more real, a foundational world, a world that built their world.
The dance is a supernatural dance, mythical beings representing abstractions of realities (supernatural birds, 'The Listener' from the Dance of the Forest Spirits – making physical abstract concepts) and solidities (bear, other forest animals – abstracting and mythologizing the physical), and all the people were seeing it as it was. Real.
This is not cosplay; there is no suspension of disbelief here, no LARP emptiness, but pure Reality. Because this is the world in which they lived. The Listener was in the Forest Dance because the Listener really is in the Forest.
This is the world where Raven stole the Sun for us all. The people saw Raven every day as a constant reminder of the mythological foundation of their world, the First Time was a different time, celebrated in myth. It was a time when animals and humans were indistinguishable from each other. It is this world:
"I will talk about the middle between our world and the upper side of what is seen by us, the blue sky where the sun and moon and stars stay, that is what I mean, the names of the various birds of the Rivers Inlet tribe, the Crooked-Beak of Heaven and the Huxwhukw of Heaven and the Screecher of Heaven and the Ugwa'xta'yi, and many others whose names I do not know, the various birds above the clouds". (http://www.umista.org/)
And it is this world at exactly the same time. There really is no difference.
So where are our myths? I don't think we can find them in the world building of science fiction. Our myths are so much a part of our reality that we are unable to disentangle them enough to study them. But sometimes, if you look hard enough, you can see.
In this case the impulse that leads us to play at world creators is mythic, not the world that has been created. Just because Tolkien references the Jungian Shadow with Sauron does not make The Lord of the Rings mythic on a level like the Kwakwaka'wakw dances. Not even close.
That which leads us to create worlds, that drives us to be Apes of God, is the Myth. It is playing at Demiurge, every writer an Ialdabaoth. That is the Myth not the content.


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