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But in the hurly-burly world of children's television, network executives are desperate to find that next big hit. When animator Gary Di Raffaele, who goes by the name Gary Doodles, got an inquiry from a Nickelodeon executive about his duck cartoon, which he had posted on YouTube: "I thought it was spam," Di Raffaele said. "I couldn't believe someone from Nickelodeon would contact me."
Within a couple of months, Nickelodeon hired Di Raffaele and co-creator Steve Borst to expand "Breadwinners" into a full-fledged television series, which premieres Feb. 17 and then moves to hallowed cartoon ground: Saturday mornings. Nickelodeon hopes that SwaySway and Buhdeuce, two oddball ducks who deliver loaves of bread in a rocket-powered van, will bring home the bacon to help the network further recover from a frightening ratings collapse.
In 2012, Nickelodeon's ratings plunged 30%, allowing archenemy
Disney Channel has been the go-to channel among older children, particularly tween girls, with its wholesome scripted shows such as "Jessie." Time Warner's
Nickelodeon needed to claw back. It ramped up program spending to discover new hits and boost the number of original episodes coming through the pipeline. It launched several winners, including a remake of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," which spawned a lucrative toy line. Last year, the network scored with a sitcom about two girl buddies, "Sam & Cat"; the cartoon "Sanjay and Craig" about a 12-year-old boy and his talking snake; and a show for preschoolers about a pack of CG-animated pups called "Paw Patrol."
The network has been under enormous pressure to find a successor to the sponge. In its 15th year,
Moreover, it's tougher these days for TV networks to grab the attention of children, who increasingly are glued to electronic tablets and their parents' cellphones for amusement. Nickelodeon research found that children spend a quarter of their daily media consumption on computers and video game consoles. A study by consulting firm NPD Group estimated that more than three-quarters of all homes with children have at least one smart device.
"Now, 2- and 3-year-olds are tap-tap-tapping on a tablet or their mom's smartphone," said Wynne Tyree, president of Smarty Pants, a firm in Jonesborough, Tenn., that specializes in youth trends. "Consumer behavior is changing, and the younger the children, the more that behavior is changing."
To hold on to kids, who can switch their viewing choices with a swipe of a finger, some TV producers have accelerated the pace of episodes to pack in more action. They have borrowed elements from video game culture, added an assortment of butt jokes and pop-culture references geared toward the parents who might be watching too. Characters are more rambunctious.
"The humor is getting more sophisticated,"
A new duck dynasty?
In a darkened recording studio at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank last month, the two "Breadwinners" creator/executive producers sat before an electronic console as the actors, a few feet away in a glass-walled recording booth, experimented to find the appropriate level of duckness. They changed their voice inflection to sound more exaggerated and absurd.
"Do you want me to do more of the munches?" actor Robbie Daymond, who plays SwaySway, asked Di Raffaele and Borst.
"No, we've got plenty of munches," Borst replied.
"Breadwinners" is a buddy comedy about two mismatched ducks — the ringleader SwaySway and his stubby buddy and copilot, Buhdeuce, played by voice actor Eric Bauza.
The show unfolds a bit faster than most because the episodes are constructed around an underlying musical track, recorded before the animation process begins. The boom-boom metronomic beat seems to drive the action on screen. Children who watched the show in Nickelodeon test audiences bounced up and down to the beat.
"It was like nothing we had ever seen before," said
Nickelodeon ordered 20 episodes. Each episode contains two 11-minute story arcs.
To appeal to today's crop of boys ages 6 to 11, the ducks are fluent in mixed martial arts, throwing "booty kicks" with their bottom ends and "party punches" with their four-finger hands. And the ducks have little-kid problems: Buhdeuce throws a tantrum on his way to a haircut and he has trouble tying his shoes. SwaySway is there to help.
These are not cynical cartoon characters that might be found on
The inspiration, said Di Raffaele, was growing up in an Italian American family in the suburbs of New York, where bread was a staple of meals. "And we think gluten has been getting a bad rap lately," Di Raffaele said.
The pair met in Burbank more than two years ago, when both worked on the "Mad" TV show for Cartoon Network. Di Raffaele was an animator, and Borst was a writer. Di Raffaele shyly approached Borst one day in the coffee room and asked whether he did any writing outside of work.
"He looked approachable," the earnest Di Raffaele said. Di Raffaele had been doodling characters for years but felt he needed help in the storytelling department.
Borst, who had worked in Nickelodeon's promo department in New York before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a TV writer, had found writing work, but it was tough breaking into TV in a big way. By early 2012, he had quit his job to move to San Francisco, where his girlfriend lived. He was writing a zombie novel and was "waiting for the phone to ring."
It was Di Raffaele who called, telling him to "forget the book" and instead collaborate on a cartoon to enter into the Midsummer Night Toons festival that summer in New York.
Because Borst, a 36-year-old New Jersey native, liked Di Raffaele's style of animation and the birds' big-brother, little-brother relationship, he agreed.
"At its core, the show is about two best friends," Borst said. His pal, Di Raffaele, 31, added: "They are in it together."
To voice the characters, Di Raffaele found Daymond on an open casting website. To audition for the parts, both actors went to Di Raffaele's small Studio City apartment, the Doodle Chamber. Di Raffaele then worked around the clock to draw the characters.
"I almost killed myself," he said. "Some nights I didn't sleep at all."
Borst and Di Raffaele (neither is married, and neither has kids) said they wanted to differentiate the show with a musical score (Di Raffaele drafted a friend, Tommy Sica, who used to play with him in a band, to develop the beat). And they wanted the show to be funny — and upbeat.
"The world is filled with a lot of craziness, and we wanted to breathe a more optimistic light into it," Di Raffaele said.
For two producers who toiled for years in near obscurity, the ducks' rallying cry might as well be theirs: "No matter the challenge, no matter what, we always deliver and we never give up."
After the rebound
Nickelodeon's 2011-12 ratings slump rattled the entire company. Nickelodeon channels, including Nicktoons, make up the largest and most profitable business for the parent company,
Nickelodeon channels should deliver nearly $1.7 billion in cash flow (a measure of profitability) this year, according to SNL Kagan, up about $200 million from the slumping years. That does not include another nearly $2 billion annually in sales of toys and merchandise based on Nickelodeon shows, including "SpongeBob," "Dora the Explorer," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Nickelodeon's challenges are greater than simply producing a handful of hits. "This is the first generation of kids who are growing up without being tied to a traditional television set as their primary source of entertainment," said Melanie Shreffler, a trend analyst with Smarty Pants. "For children, tablets are new and slick and personal. It's a screen just for them."
Shreffler said research found that parents feel better about handing their children a tablet rather than parking them in front of a TV set, even if their kids are watching "SpongeBob" and other shows that originated on TV. "Parents feel that it is a safer and better environment for their kids, a place where they won't be barraged with advertising for a bunch of products," Shreffler said.
The entire industry, not just Nickelodeon, has been facing a quandary of how to sell shows to streaming services without destroying TV ratings. Wall Street analysts hounded Viacom, questioning its decision to sell so much content to streaming services such as
"Nickelodeon is in a tough spot. In a world where audiences are fragmenting and people are watching programs on new devices, that is bad for the networks that depend on ratings," said Todd Juenger, a media analyst with Bernstein & Co. "But the shift is making the content these companies own even more valuable."
For Nickelodeon, discovering new talent took on greater urgency. The network expanded its outreach to art schools, colleges and independent animators and began combing the Internet, which is how they found Di Raffaele and "Breadwinners." Last year, Nickelodeon spent an estimated $468 million on programming costs — a 20% increase over 2011, said SNL Kagan.
Nickelodeon's ratings wereupin 2013. January marked the 12th consecutive month of audience gains. In October, Nickelodeon surpassed Disney Channel to regain the title of No. 1 network among children ages 2-11. (Disney Channel maintains an edge in children 6-11.)
But the network knows it must keep up with changing tastes. Let's face it, "SpongeBob" can be a bit of a square in today's animation landscape, which has been influenced by the raunchy alcoholic dog Brian in Fox's animated "
"We needed to find new voices, people like Gary and Steve, who have grown up closer to this post-millennial world; people who share the positive outlook of this younger generation," Nickelodeon's Hicks said. "By being more open, we have allowed more people into our studio process."
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Average daily audience of children between ages 2 to 11.
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With peanut production in Georgia and other Southeastern states continuing to climb upwards, growers are being cautioned to manage their acreage prudently, and not to lose sight of the value of rotation and the danger of over-production.
"There have been only two years, not including the World War II timeframe, when our peanut acreage was higher, and that was 1989 and 1990," says John Beasley, University of Georgia Extension peanut specialist. "That knocked our rotation out of sequence. We at Extension want to stress to everyone the need to manage acreage, taking into account rotational crops and the economics involved."
To illustrate the rapid increase in peanut acreage in some areas, Beasley says Appling County, Ga., went from having 70 acres of peanuts in 2002, to 700 acres in 2003, to 7,000 acres in 2004, and up to 15,000 acres this year.
"Overall, according to FSA, we planted 750,000 acres of peanuts in Georgia this year. That's up about 25 percent compared to two years ago," says the agronomist.
Peanut production in Georgia is forecast at 2.33 billion pounds this year compared to last year's 1.83 billion pounds. If this production forecast is realized, it will be the highest on record.
Looking at yields and acreage for the past 55 years, Beasley says Georgia grew 1-million-plus acres during World War II when farmers were asked to grow peanuts because oil was needed for the war effort.
"For more than 25 years, we were under the old acreage allotment system, when growers could grow only a certain amount of peanuts and a certain number of acres. That changed with the 1980 farm bill when the program switched to a quota-poundage system, and growers had the flexibility to plant extra acres. Then, our acres increased steadily up until 1991.
"We at Extension put in an education program strongly encouraging our producers to get their acreage down. Our rotation was basically out of sequence. At the time, our yields had gone down, and we had to get our acreage down," says Beasley.
In the late 1990s and up until a few years ago, Georgia's acreage pretty much mirrored the old 525,000-acre range seen under the acreage allotment system, he says. "Statewide average yields were barely 1,000 pounds per acre during the 1950s and early 1960s. At about 1970, with the release of the Florunner variety and the release of new chemistry, particularly the fungicide Bravo for leafspot control, our yield potential increased. Also, there was a dramatic change from 1970 to 1980, and when we went from being about 7-percent irrigated to about 50-plus percent irrigated. Our yield potential now is much better," he says.
In the past two years, Georgia growers have seen outstanding yields, and they're looking forward to another good crop this year, he says. "In 2003, we had 3,450 pounds per acre, and that's the best yield on record in Georgia. Last year, despite terrible harvest conditions, we made 3,000 pounds per acre. This year, the initial estimate is 3,100 pounds per acre," says Beasley.
U.S. peanut production is forecast at a record-high 2,504,900 tons, up 18 percent from last year's crop, according to USDA. Planted acres, at 1.65 million, are down fractionally from the June estimate but up 15 percent from last year. Area for harvest is expected to total 1.61 million acres, down 5,000 from the June estimate but up 15 percent from last year. Yields are expected to average 3,117 pounds per acre, down 73 pounds from August but up 60 pounds from 2004.
Production in the Southeastern states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, is expected to total 1,782,300 tons, down 4 percent from August but up 24 percent from last year's level. Planted acres, at 1.21 million, are down 3 percent from the June estimate but up 21 percent from 2004.
Expected acreage for harvest, at 1.18 million, is down 3 percent from August but up 21 percent from last year. Yields in the four-state area are expected to average 3,029 pounds per acre or 83 pounds above 2004. As of Aug. 28, peanuts in Alabama were rated 81 percent good to excellent. Peanuts in Florida were rated 82 percent good to excellent, and in Georgia, peanuts were rated 72 percent good to excellent.
Virginia-North Carolina production is forecast at 184,400 tons, down 20 percent from 2004. Planted acres, at 120,000, are up 6 percent from the June estimate but down 13 percent from 2004. Expected acreage for harvest, at 118,000, is down 14 percent from last year. Yield is forecast at 3,125 pounds per acre, down 240 pounds from the previous year. As of Aug. 28, peanuts were rated 77 percent good to excellent in Virginia and 68 percent good to excellent in North Carolina.
Southwest peanut production, including New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expected to total 538,200 tons, up 15 percent from 2004. Planted acres, at 319,000, are up 9 percent over last year. The expected acreage for harvest in the region totals 312,000, up 9 percent from 2004. Yields are expected to average 3,450 pounds per acre, 161 pounds above last year's level. Record-high yields are expected in Oklahoma and Texas. On Aug. 28, peanuts rated good to excellent in Oklahoma and Texas were 75 percent and 78 percent, respectively.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday.
The children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, remained in critical condition Tuesday. The shooting took place at a Texas Department of Health and Human Services building in Laredo, where police said about 25 people were inside at the time.
Authorities identified the mother as Rachelle Grimmer, 38, and children Ramie and Timothy. Laredo police investigator Joe Baeza said Grimmer had recently moved to the border city from Zanesville, Ohio, about 30 miles east of Columbus.
Grimmer first applied for food stamps in July but was denied because she didn't turn in enough information, Texas Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said.
Goodman didn't know what Grimmer specifically failed to provide. In addition to completing an 18-page application, families seeking state benefits also must provide documents proving their information, such as proof of employment and residency.
"We were still waiting, and if we had that, I don't know if she would still qualify or not," Goodman said.
Goodman said Grimmer's last contact with the agency appeared to be a phone call in mid-November. When the family entered the Laredo office on Monday shortly before 5 p.m., Goodman said Grimmer asked to speak to a new caseworker, and not the one whom she worked with previously.
Shortly thereafter, Goodman said, Grimmer was taken to a private room to discuss her case. She said it was there the mother revealed a gun and the standoff began.
Police negotiators stayed on the phone with Grimmer throughout the evening, but she kept hanging up, Baeza said. She allegedly told negotiators about a litany of complaints against state and federal government agencies.
Despite those complaints, Baeza said it wasn't clear what specifically triggered the standoff.
"This wasn't like a knee-jerk reaction," said Baeza, adding that Grimmer felt she was owed restitution of some sort.
Grimmer let a supervisor go unharmed around 7:45, but stayed inside the office with her children. After hanging up the phone around 11:45, police heard three shots, and a SWAT team entered the building. Inside, they found Grimmer's body and her two wounded children.
The children were "very critical" and unconscious when taken from the scene, Baeza said.
Multiple family members in Ohio and Missouri did not immediately return phone messages Tuesday. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said the agency had no information on Grimmer.
A YouTube channel the family appeared to have created in 2009 includes a profile that reads, "We are Shell, Ramie and Tim. Mom, daughter 10 and son 8. We like turtles, horses, and being outside. The kids have two turtles, an alligator snapper and a red eared slider. We work on naturalizing them and try to give them the most natural setting possible."
There are no videos uploaded. Tagged as favorites are an eclectic mix of nearly two dozen videos, ranging from a solar panel installation to a live clip of the band of AC/DC. The "Hometown" category reads: "We don't have one."
Goodman credited an office supervisor, a 24-year veteran of the agency, for ensuring the release of the other employees.
"He had told her he would try to help her, and that if she would let everyone else leave, he would talk to her," Goodman said.
Goodman didn't know whether Grimmer had a job, or whether her children were covered under Medicaid or the state children's health insurance program. The family had no history with the Texas Department of Child Protective Services.
The family's move from Ohio may have complicated Grimmer's application if the family had no Texas records the agency could check electronically, Goodman said. Grimmer also would have been denied benefits if she was receiving welfare assistance.
Grimmer also appeared to fall out of touch during her pursuit of food stamps. The mother originally applied July 7, but Goodman said Grimmer missed her first interview and didn't call back and reschedule for a few weeks. Her case was closed Aug. 8 for lack of a full application, Goodman said.
How much food stamp money a family receives depends on their income level. The average family on food stamps in Texas receives $294 a month.
Three months later, Grimmer called the agency's ombudsman Nov. 16 and requested a review of how her rejected case was handled. Goodman said the agency found that caseworkers acted appropriately after looking over Grimmer's file, and a supervisor called Grimmer's cell phone last Thursday to tell her the outcome. No one answered and the phone's voicemail box was full, Goodman said.
"The indications she had she was dealing with a lot of issues," Goodman said.
State welfare offices have come under scrutiny in the past for being overburdened, but Goodman said the agency has made significant strides in the past three years. She said wait times are shorter, and that Grimmer was scheduled for her initial interview just one day after applying. Grimmer didn't make the appointment, she said.
Goodman said it's not unusual for caseworkers to confront angry or confused benefit-seekers, but that it's very rare for a situation to escalate to violence.
Associated Press Writer Christopher Sherman in McAllen, Texas, contributed to this report.
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If there are two inventions that have most significantly changed my life in the last five years, they would be: satellite radio and PVR. PVR is really just a catch all term for Personal Video Recorder. There are several brand names that offer distinct vibes, but their essence is the same.
What PVR does is act as a hard drive buffer for your TV. It takes the signal from the cable, and spits it to a hard drive. From there, you can do all sorts of things, including, but not limited to:
- Pausing live TV. If something happens while you are watching TV, you can hit the pause button and take care of business. When you come back, press play, and it will take off where you left off.
- Expanded programming guide. You end up with an on screen programming guide that is much more detailed than you can get anywhere else. You can search for shows and movies; see what is on further out into the future than the normal guides.
- Record TV. This is probably the most important aspect. What you can do is pick TV shows from any timeframe you want, or just surf the online guide looking for interesting shows. You tag your shows, and it records them without fail. You can later (via an onscreen menu) pick and choose what you are going to watch.
As a whole this really sounds like a fancy VCR. In reality, that is all it really is, but one that has a 40 hour tape, random access, and one button programming.
The hassle with VCRs was that you had to find the shows you wanted to watch, set the VCR to tape them, hope that no one in the house would mess with it, and then, you would have to keep track of millions of tapes.
PVR makes it simple. Press a button to record a show. At some later time, watch the show at your convenience. Skip the commercials. When you are done, press one button to delete it.
This is more of a lifestyle device than a techno gizmo. It takes the control of your TV watching away from the networks and puts it in your hands. It takes every hour of your TV time and compresses it into 40 minutes, tops. I have found that I NEVER watch live TV anymore. If, for whatever reason, I have the TV on and see something interesting, I press record and walk away. I then watch the show when I am able to skip commercials.
The biggest thing that has happened to me is that I have ended up just surfing around the program guide and randomly selecting things that may look interesting. After five minutes of viewing, I can tell if suckiness is about to ensue. I click delete, and forget about it. This also means that I always have a backlog of twenty hours of good viewing on tap.
Like I said, it has liberated me from network TV schedules, and given me the opportunity to watch things I never knew existed. It has also saved me HOURS of commercial watching. I love this machine.
The Players:
There are three top players in this game:
TIVO - This is the best known player, and the defacto PVR. When someone says TIVO, they are most likely talking about any old generic PVR. This is the one I would have bought if I could have found some good customer service. I had my credit card in hand, and was at the checkout, and I asked one question: will this work with my digital cable? I have Armstrong Cable in Ashland. They had no idea, nor did they have any idea how to find out. I left it at the checkout and called their customer service. I went in circles with TIVO's customer service and just said "forget it." I gave my money to the cable company for the service.
TIVO also has a reputation of turning the other way while hackers tinker with the system. That has led to a huge cult following of Linux geeks who trick their TIVO's out.
For more info on tricking them out:
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Replay TV - This is TechTV's darling. It is upgradeable, networkable, and accessible via the internet. This one was not out when I was buying mine, but if it would have worked with my cable, I would have tried this one out.
Here are some links on this nice box:
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Your Local Cable Company - I use Armstrong Cable. It costs me five bucks a month, and it ROCKS. I have never had any trouble with the system, and I could not live without it. Their customer service is perfect, and the system does everything as promised. I have heard that TIVO has a more robust operating system, but at this point, there is no way for me to know.
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CHICAGO -- Bally Total Fitness' stock plunged 17 percent to $3.03 a share following news that it had received notices of default under two bond issues. The notices relate to its senior subordinated notes due in 2007 and its senior notes due in 2011. The company received the notices following the expiration of the waiver of the financial reporting covenant default on July 31. The delivery of the notices imposed a 30-day deadline for Bally to either secure an extension of the waiver or remedy the default.
The company is also facing a 10-day countdown after which time the company will be considered in default under its $275 million secured credit agreement's cross-default provision. According to a press release by the company and a story by Chicago Business, $700 million in debt could become due on Aug. 14.
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E-Man wrote:TMC wrote:first off wrote:Beast Mode wrote:Do you guys seriously want Pietrus back? Lol ...
I say again... who can you find that's any better and available?
Richard Jefferson
Ronnie Brewer
Josh Howard
Wesley Matthews
Rasual Butler
Just from the top of my head... Some of them wouldn't be good fits, some of them would ask for too much... but all of them are better players than Pietrus, and are available.
I'd Like Ronnie Brewer. Or a sign and trade for Josh Childress. I'd also try to get Matt Barnes back before I tried to get Pietrus back.
Ronnie Brewer -he's a SG more than a SF and he can't shoot a three to save his life
You want to sign 31 year old 6'7" 205lb SG Rasul Butler to a new contract over Pietrus for two years @ ~5M? that's just silly
Wesley Matthews - really fellas? really?
I don't think Josh Howard and Richard Jeff are available to the dubs
oh and
Pietrus gets way to much hate here, and Barnes gets WAAAYYYYY to much love.


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The system has many flaws that I know about already, the primary one of interest is the lack of localisation. So, all searches are going through the US as US searches. The other deficiency worth noting is that there is much missing from the actual experience of using these search engines eg, image thumbnails, suggestions, refine queries etc.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A Michigan teenager carrying his 7-year-old brother on his back has battled heat, rain, fatigue and more to finish a 40-mile walk to raise awareness about cerebral palsy.
Fourteen-year-old Hunter Gandee walked from his high school not far from the Ohio boundary to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He packed his brother, Braden, throughout the two-day journey.
On Sunday, they strolled up a winding road toward the university's wrestling center. Asked how he felt, Braden said simply: "Tired."
Hunter acknowledges there was talk of stopping the walk around the 30-mile mark due to chafing on his brother's legs.
Called the Cerebral Palsy Swagger, the trek's goal was to raise awareness about cerebral palsy and to put a face on the muscle disorder.


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Mountain Biking Arapuke Forest Park in Manawatu
Come and ride a 20km+ network of purpose built mountain bike trails, New Zealand's hidden gem of mountain biking.
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With over 20km of purpose built mountain biking trails, Arapuke Forest Park offers riding for all abilities, from grade 2 to 6.
Enjoy riding up the back track through a stunning green forest dotted with small stream crossings – a great opportunity to splash some crisp clean water on your face to cool down. You will find more excuses for a rest with some truly breathtaking views out and across the valley. Once you've made it to the top, pick your trail and have fun! Experience a mix of trails, from the flowing and bermed 'Jack Frost' and 'About Time' trails, to the more advanced 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' trails with challenging rollovers, jumps and drop-offs.
Grab a trail map from the Palmerston North City i-SITE, or plan your route from the trail map located in the car park on Kahuterawa Rd.
The Kahuterawa Rd end of Arapuke Forest Park is scenic 25-minute drive from Palmerston North City, this is the most popular access point to the mountain bike park. For those not so interested in mountain biking, this is also the start of the popular Sledge Track, one of Manawatu's best day walks.
For more information visit ManawatuNZ.co.nz or contact the Palmerston North City i-SITE on 0800 MANAWATU (626 292).
Getting there
Access from the bottom (most popular):
Head to the end of Kahuterawa Rd, where you will find a car park on your left approximately 100 meters before the road finishes. From here, jump on your bike and carry on down the road and cross Blacks Bridge. This will take you up a 4km one-way back track to the top of the park.
Access from the top:
Head out of Palmerston North on SH57, and turn left onto Scotts Rd (between Linton & Tokomaru). Follow Scotts Rd to the end, where you can park and start riding! If you end up riding to the bottom, there is a 4km one-way backtrack at the bridge to get back to the top.


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17.3" high performance gaming NB - Limited MSI GT70 Dragon Edition
In recent 2 years, MSI did not focus on the Ultrabook series as many other brands, they mainly focused on high performance of Gaming series Notebooks,
that makes MSI to become a well known gaming products company in the market, also shows how important of the Gaming related market.
MSI Gaming, Dell Alienware and ASUS ROG are the top 3 of the gaming laptop products in the gaming laptop market,
that's the well known brands in the gaming laptop market. The higher product position comes with much higher price range.
MSI extend their Gaming series become more price range segments, GT series on the top, GX series based on AMD platform,
and GE series focus on the performance level market with better Cost/Value, so that more consumer could consider their GE series with better price range.
This time we would like to share the latest version of MSI GT70 - The GT70 Dragon Edition.
The GT70 Dragon Edition totally changed with their box design, make it slimmer and with better looks of their dragon logo to impressed gamers and power users.
The ID design of GT70 Dragon Edition.
Compare with their regular GT70, the GT70 Dragon Edition use red metallic cover design with the Dragon Tattoo on it,
that makes GT70 more gaming style and high performance looks.
The metallic cover with normal light will be deep red, but the metal will reflect light of the color with different angle,
so the color of the red will be lighter when outdoor with sunshine.
Besides the box size become slimmer, the interior design is also become better,
every accessory was put with lint bag, makes it looks higher quality with better protection.
On the bottom of the laptop, 4 corners comes with 5 soft pad for stand.
The subwoofer of 2.1 channel speaker was placed on the up left side, it presents really good quality on low frequency sound stage.
Battery on the down left side, up right side comes with CPU, GPU(MXM module) and DDR3 DIMMs.
DDR3 designed with 4 DIMMs, use dual channel design and built in with 4GBx2, supports up to 32GB (8GBx4).
And it comes with 3 SATA interface, supports mSATA with RAID 0 function.
Driver DVD, quick guide and 2 years warranty book.
The battery designed with 9 Cell, 7800mAh.
The 180W adaptor was made by Delta with good quality.
Gaming style mouse, it's 3200dpi optical but good positioning and good handling, but if it's larger and with laser optical will be better.
The limited accessory is the necklace with the shield of MSI Gaming Series Dragon Edition, it's very special and only comes with GT70 Dragon Edition.
The placement of C side. The red part is also metallic material with dragon tattoo,
it's good of touch feeling when using, but you will feel cold in winter. ..... XD
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Conclusion of MSI GT70 Dragon Edition:
1. Dragon Edition makes the chasses with special coating with Dragon Tattoo, also improve the packing a lot. Upgraded hardware on GTX675MX and Killer Double Shot.
2. Dual mSATA3 SSD and 2.5 inch 750GB HDD makes great balance of performance and capacity. 4xDDR3 DIMM with good extend of the RAM size.
3. Rich on IO interface, 3 USB3.0 and 2 USB2.0, with HDMI, D-Sub and eSATA as well.
4. Full size keyboard by Steelseries with back light, add on Turbo, Cooler Boost to boost up GPU and fan performance.
5. Special 2 channel with 1 subwoofer design with Sound by Dynaudio system, the sound quality even better than previous version of GT70.
6. Built in 1920x1080 Full HD matted display, that will makes your eyes more comfortable when gaming or watching movies.
7. Latest Killer Double Shot function, the LAN is faster and WiFi comes with 2x2 and 2.4GHz/5GHz dual band design.
1. SSD will be better if use the Micron or Marvell control chip.
2. Maybe IPS panel is more expensive, but still expect the GT70 could option with IPS panel in the future.
3. The NVIDIA graphics driver still need to improve on Windows 8 system, some 3D benchmark or games still can't get good performance on GTX675MX with full speed.
4. Recommend to use Creative Sound Core3D quad core sound chipset.
Performance Rated: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 92/100
Material Rated: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 90/100
Specification Rated: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 86/100
ID Design Rated: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 88/100
Cost/Value Rated: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 70/100
Recent years some friends start to use notebooks to replaced PC desktop, their performance demand is not so high.
But right now a notebook with better performance is more popular, because more people wants to use their laptop to play more games with Full HD resolution,
and they also need high performance to take out for business trip or better mobility, these demand makes the high performance notebook market raising up every year.
MSI got into the Gaming laptop market very early years ago, and keep enhance their products with better material and features for gamers every year.
windwithme did share the GT70 with GTX680M version few months ago, this time add on some different software and more temperature benchmarks,
also the first time to make benchmarks with Windows 8. You could refer last article to make some detail comparison.
The GT70 Dragon Edition is limited version, the price range is close as previous GT70,
the Dragon Edition did have some upgrade on GPU and some hardware, the Cost/Value is even better than regular version, but they are still at higher price segment.
If you got limited budget but still want good performance laptop, you could consider GE60/GE70 at lower price range, GT70 if more suitable for top performance demand users.
Hope MSI could come out better design with better price Gaming laptop in 2013.
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GT70 Dragon Edition built in with 2 mSATA interface with 2 128GBx2 SSD on RAID0 mode as C: drive for Windows 8 system used.
The drive D: is a SATA2 interface with 750GB 7200rpm HDD for data storage.
Below is the benchmarks of drive C: from Super RAID with 2 SSD RAID0.
HD Tune Pro 5.00
Read - Average 986 MB/s Access Time 0.100ms
ATTO DISK Benchmark over 128k could reach the highest reading speed with 1064.1 Mb/s, and writing speed up to 1025.0 MB/s
Seq Read - 914.6 MB/s Write - 365.0 MB/s
<All 0xFF, 0Fill> Read - 994.7 MB/s Write - 845.9 MB/s
<All 0x00, 1Fill> Read - 995.8 MB/s Write - 854.6 MB/s
AS SSD Benchmark - 955
Seq Read - 958.29 MB/s Write - 345.25 MB/s
4K - 64Thrd Read - 276.39 MB/s Write - 316.77 MB/s
The random access tests will be lower when in CrystalDiskMark on the right image and AS SSD Benchmark
Compression Benchmark writing start from 300MB/s more, and over 900MB/s at last.
Depends on the benchmark result, these 2 SSD should be used with SandForce SF-2281 chip,
Random Writing is the weakness, and it's really good performance on 4k access and other writing or reading benchmarks.
Most 120GB SSD with SF-2281 chip used 120GB, and use the extra 8GB as the cache buffer.
Recently the new version of 128GB SSD could use complete 128GB capacity, GT70 use the new version with 128GBx2 capacity.
Time to Logon 6~8 seconds
Time to Desktop 26~28 seconds
It's about 33~35 seconds from boot up to get in to OS desktop.
Because MSI original OS comes with some add on programs, this will make the boot up time slower.
Come pare to the Windows 7, Windows 8 will be 6~14 seconds longer time depends on different conditions.
Maybe it's because the Windows 8 will get to the "Start" page and then get on the Desktop, that will takes more time.
Dual SSD with RAID0 really make the notebook boot up much faster, also faster when installing, loading or saving programs.
If we use HDD for boot up with Windows 8, will takes more than 1 minute to get to the OS desktop.
If user install their pure clean Windows only with drivers, that could make the boot up time faster around 20 seconds.
Temperature presents (Room environment 21℃)
38~40℃ when idle mode. (Cooler Boost off)
34~38℃ when idle mode. (Cooler Boost on)
Run the InteBurn Test to make CPU with full loading - 73~86℃(Cooler Boost off)
Run the InteBurn Test to make CPU with full loading - 72~77℃(Cooler Boost on)
We use idle mode and full loading test to compare the Cooler Boost fan function to check difference.
The temperature difference of Cooler Boost on and off, it's about 2 degree when idle,
and biggest gap is 11 degree when CPU is full loading burning test, so the Cooler Boost really helps when users need it.
Besides the fan performance, about the noise of the cooler, it's not easy to hear the fan noise if Cooler Boost is off, and Cooler Boost will make the noise louder for sure.
But the noise is not high frequency that makes people uncomfortable, if you listen to the music or play games with Dynauido sound system, you will not hear the noise even you turn on the Cooler Boost.
Many notebooks with Dual Core will be 40℃ more when idle mode, and full loading will be 80~90 degree.
So the temperature of GT70 with Core i7 and GTX675MX is really well controlled, MSI did have good design skill on the thermal solution with small space inside the notebook.
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The GT70 Dragon Edition used Windows 8 OS.
It's the hardware information in the device manager of Windows 8.
System benchmark tests
Nuclearus Multi Core => 23251
Fritz Chess Benchmark => 24.95/11973
CrystalMark 2004R3 => 300008
OpenGL => 26.57 fps
CPU => 6.31 pts
CPU (Single Core) => 1.38 pts
PCMark7 => 5435
Windows 8 Benchmarks
CPU performance increase a little because of the i7-3610QM 2.3GHz upgraded to i7-3630QM 2.4GHz.
PC Mark 7 over 5400 scores, this is really high as a notebook platform.
Windows 8 built in benchmarks is more accurate than Windows 7, CPU/RAM got really high scores,
especially the Super RAID dual SSD RAID0 makes the storage up to 8.3 points.
GT70 built in with 2 GPU, one is Intel HD4000 from Core i7-3630QM, the other is NVIDIA GeForce GTX675MX with 4 GB DDR5 vRAM.
3DMark 11 - P4186
BIOHAZARD 5 Benchmark
1920 X 1080 => 119.2 fps
Heaven Benchmark 3.0
Previous GT70 comes with GTX675M, this time it upgraded to GTX675MX, the 3D performance is around 15%~20% higher than GT675M.
The 3D benchmark programs above got really high scores in notebook field,
GT70 Dragon Edition presents very smooth gaming experience with Full HD resolution and highest effects on most of the heavy loading games.
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The Dragon Tail image on the left side of touch pad.
The touch pad is really good, very sensitive and good on positioning, make it easier to control.
The signal lights from left side, Bluetooth mode, WiFi mode, Battery status, Suspend mode, HDD access.
The Dragon Head tattoo on the right side of the palm rest.
The placement of keyboard is same as desktop keyboard, the numeric key on the right side is good to input numbers easier.
The Keyboard By SteelSeries design comes with good typing sound, the force feedback and durability is better than most of normal laptop keyboards.
The key in the middle is power button, shine with white light when turn on.
The feature control panel designed with touch sensor, with 6 feature to control.
Left 1 is GPU Turbo boost key, left 2 is Cooler boost key.
Sound By Dynaudio speaker system aside the control panel with metallic cover.
The back light keyboard could switch with multi colors, it's orange, green and blue right now.
You could also change it become single red color to fit the same color tone of GT70 Dragon Edition.
17.3" LED back light matted monitor, with 1920x1080 Full HD resolution.
HD WebCam supports 1280x720 30fps recording and 1280x1024 photo snapshot.
The back side of the laptop.
From right: heat sink hole \ HDMI \ eSATA \ D-Sub \ RJ-45 LAN \ AC \ Lock
Previous version of GT70 only used Killer Gaming LAN, but this time GT70 Dragon Edition used both Killer LAN and Killer WiFi with Wireless-N1202 chipset,
it supports 2x2 and 2.4GHz /5GHz bandwidth, these 2 was called "Killer Double Shot", for really faster internet access and lower gaming pin rate.
Left side.
From right: Line out \Line in \Mic-in \ Headphone \ SDXC card reader \ 3x USB3.0
Right side.
From right: Blu-Ray burner drive \ 2x USB2.0
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5. (A) Minotaur, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Mythic forebears? As long-time readers know, I have a bit of an obsession with the number of minotaurs in modern popular culture, which mystifies me. This is because in ancient myth, there was no plural of minotaur and it wasn't a race of beings - the Minotaur was a single creature, the result of one woman's deep and abiding passion for a bull, who lived in the Labyrinth on the island of Crete and ate virgins (to be fair he probably would have eaten whoever he could lay his hands on, but he was fed virgins).
Should I be hiding behind the sofa? In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, yes. The interesting thing about the modern Narnian minotaur is that he acts as a symbol of the changing relationships between the various magical creatures of Narnia. In the first film, there's a whole group of minotaurs, and they're scary, and part of the Witch's army, proper monsters. In Prince Caspian, there's a rather nice, jumpy moment when Peter assumes a minotaur is an enemy, only to find that, as a magical creature, he's working with Caspian against Miraz. By the time we get to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, poor Eustace is scared out of his wits by suddenly being brought face to face with a minotaur and everyone just laughs at him.
Does he do the Monster Mash? The minotaurs are pretty active in battle and make fairly impressive enemies during The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's climactic gurry-wurry; after that, they don't do so much.
4. The Basilisk, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Mythic forebears? Not so much mythic as cryptozoological; Pliny the Elder described a North African snake called the basilisk that moved with the upper part of its body in the air, could kill by sight, could kill plants with its breath and had especially deadly venom. Goodness knows what particular snake was the source of these ideas - something pretty scary I should think.
Should I be hiding behind the sofa? The special effects are perhaps just OK, but before Fawkes blinds it, the idea of the Basilisk is pretty scary - one look and you're dead. Poor Myrtle.
Does it do the Monster Mash? The Basilisk is almost too huge, so that its movements are restricted by the tunnels it lives in, which in turn restricts the fear factor. I've always liked the Chamber of Secrets scenes though, which are properly scary and dramatic (Daniel Radcliffe doing the Dying Hero thing rather well) and the way Fawkes' attack on the Basilisk's eyes is filmed, following their shadows dancing on the wall, is very effectively done.
3. Medusa, Clash of the Titans (1981)
Mythic forebears? Medusa was one of three sisters, the Gorgons, all terrifying and horrible, according to Hesiod. Ovid makes Medusa a once beautiful maiden whose hair was turned to snakes by Athena. Either way, like the basilisk, her look turns people to stone, and she ends up beheaded by Perseus so that her head can be used as a weapon. This is the part of both Clash of the Titans films that strays closest to actual Greco-Roman myth.
Should I be hiding behind the sofa? The more recent Clash of the Titans has a CGI Medusa, whose movements are more fluid and who is probably more convincing. But it's the Harryhausen Medusa that's always stuck in my memory. Sure, her movement is a little awkward and she doesn't really look very real, but just look at that face! Those eyes! Well, or don't, since that might turn you into stone.
Does she do the Monster Mash? Her movements may be a little stop-start (hehe) but she gets about decently enough in her big fight with Perseus, even if it does go on a little longer than it really needs to.
2. The hydra, Hercules
Mythic forebears? Killing the hydra is one of Hercules' Labours, and depicted on many a pot by excited vase painters.
Should I be hiding behind the sofa? Now, it's not that Disney couldn't do scary monsters. When Ursula the sea witch suddenly grows humungous in The Little Mermaid, it's pretty scary, and the whole Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia is terrifying. But the hydra is perhaps not their scariest of Disney's monsters. Still, it's threatening enough for a first level monster that appears fairly early on in the movie. (The centaur who attacks Megara shortly beforehand is really scary, but not in an enjoyable way - he's spectacularly creepy and introduces the subject of attempted rape into a Disney cartoon. It's just all kinds of wrong).
Does it do the Monster Mash? The great advantage of a cartoon is, of course, that your monster can move and really throw its weight about in a way that isn't possible with stop-motion animation, or even, really with CGI (which has to interact with a live actor). The hydra sequence is an exciting set piece and Hercules' eventual solution to the problem of the regrowing heads is risky but brilliant (and gives him a chance to use brain as well as brawn, not a characteristic often played up in representations of Hercules).
1. Talos, Jason and the Argonauts
Mythic forebears? Talos was a giant bronze automaton - living statue - made by Hephaestus, or in some versions, the last of the race of bronze men. A great big guy made of bronze, is the point. He was killed, usually by Medea, in a variety of ways including releasing a pin that caused him to 'bleed' or leak to death, or getting shot in the ankle, both of which are half-represented in the film, albeit without Medea's involvement.
Should I be hiding behind the sofa? Only if he's actually behind you, in which case you'll never be able to run fast enough to escape. Otherwise, Talos isn't an especially scary monster, and he's outdone in terms of fame, technical expertise and creepiness by the animated skeletons from the end of the film. For me though, Talos outdoes the skeletons in two important ways. One, he's actually from Greek myth, whereas the skeletons, although inspired by the men who sprang from the dragon's teeth in the story of Jason and the Argonauts, are not precisely Greco-Roman (the mythic men were full-bodied soldiers, not skeletons). More importantly I feel sorry for Talos. There's something tragically beautiful about the huge bronze man even as he's attacking our heroes, and his death (which also brings about that of Hylas) and the way he breaks apart is rather poignant. Like the troll in The Fellowship of the Ring, I can't help but feel sorry for him.
Does he do the Monster Mash? He has that slight stilted-ness to his movements that many Harryhausen creatures have, but that just adds to the character. Since he is, essentially, an ancient Greek robot, it makes sense that he has rather robotic movements. Classic stuff, in every sense of the word.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – With a combined 14 hits over the course of two games, softball (2-0) managed to pull out their first sweep of the 2012 season as they defeated Grace College (Ind.) by the final of 4-3 and Ripon College (Wis.) by the final of 8-6 on a very long Monday afternoon for the Beacons.
The Beacons, who were scheduled to open up their new season yesterday afternoon but were postponed due to rain, took full advantage of the extra day or rest and preparation. In the opener they managed to score a run in four of the first five innings and held off a late rally by Grace to secure their first win of the new season.
Freshman catcher Amanda Perry (Worcester, Mass.) led UMass Boston at the plate as she went 3-for-6 with three RBI and two runs scored. Maria Nasta (Andover, Mass.) was the only other Beacon to finish with multiple hits in one of the two games played on Monday. In the opener the senior went 2-for-3 at the plate.
In the circle Kara Willis (Burrillville, R.I.) went all seven innings to earn her first decision in the win over Grace. Willis retired a combined six batters in the one-run victory. The game-two victory belonged to Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.), the first of her college career.
After that the Beacons returned to the diamond for a very late nightcap which featured first-time opponent Ripon. Looking to build off of the game-one victory UMass came out swinging scoring all eight runs in the first three innings.
Perry crushed her first collegiate home run over the left field fence to give the Beacons a 3-1 lead after the second. They would then score five runs in the third to make it a seven-run ball game. However, Ripon did not go down without a fight as they scored five runs of their own in the fourth to make it just a two-run game. Luckily UMass put a stop that late run with a strong defensive showing allowing them to pullout the victory.
Softball returns to action tomorrow when they face Hood College at 12:30 p.m. The game was scheduled following Sunday's cancellations.


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The next item in Gear Live's 2012 Holiday Gift Guide is the Kindle Paperwhite. Why? well, as great as e-ink readers have been (and they've been pretty stellar,) since the original Amazon Kindle was released, their one tragic flaw has been that they become pretty useless in the dark. You either simply can't read them, or have to use a small light attachment accessory. Enter the Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon has designed what we consider to be the best e-ink reader to hit the market. It's flagship feature is the front-lit display, which works great when you're in the dark and want to read your latest ebook purchase without using a backlit tablet that's hard on the eyes, or an awkward clip-on light accessory. It also supports new features like telling you how much reading time you have before you finish your current chapter, and an all-touch display with virtually no lag. Check out our Kindle Paperwhite review, unboxing gallery, and video after the break for more, and head on over to Amazon to pick up the Kindle Paperwhite for $119 for that bookworm in your life.
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Halo 4 launched today, and is downright amazing. If there's a gamer in your life who didn't already pick this one up, do them a favor and grab them a copy of this Limited Edition version, because this one is good enough to make it into our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide. What sets the Halo 4 Limited Edition apart from the standard version? Well, a lot. Read on, but just remember that these are going to go fast. We don't expect to see the Limited Edition version in stock for more than a few more days:
- Spartan-IV "Recruit" In-Game Armor
- Spartan-IV "Prime" In-Game Armor Skin
- Assault Rifle "Prime" In-Game Weapon Skin
- "Prime" In-Game Emblem
- Xbox LIVE Avatar "Recruit" Armor
- Cryo-Tube Xbox LIVE Avatar Prop
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Microsoft Touch Mouse
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Features, PC / Laptop, Peripherals, Women, Men, Techies, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
This 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry is targeted at making computing a little more fun and futuristic - and we're even giving this one away! The Microsoft Touch Mouse is made exclusively for use with Windows 7. It's got a multitouch surface, allowing you to use natural touch gestures to perform common tasks. Basically, think of it as the Apple Magic Mouse, but for your Windows PC. It's got support for one-, two-, and three-findered gestures, and runs on 2 AA batteries. They sell for $79, but you can get one on Amazon now for $41, which is a whopping 48% discount.
Or, you can win one here! We are giving one of these Microsoft Touch Mouse prizes away as we continue our holiday giveaway series. Simply use the widget below to enter to win. We've got a lot of ways for you to enter, but don't check off any that you don't actually perform. If you do, you'll be eliminated:
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Desk Pets TankBot
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Toys, Men, Techies, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
Here's a 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry aimed at the office workers in your life. We know that robotic helicopters and dinosaurs win all the points for flash, but we're here to tell you that the Desk Pets TankBot helps you conquer by force. You charge up the TankBot using its USB connection, and then you use your smartphone to control it. How cool is that? You can also set it to random, letting it wreak havoc on all your co-workers with its light-up eyes and sound effects. They're available in multiple colors, and you can get one for $50 on Amazon.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: 11-inch MacBook Air
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Features, Hot Deals, PC / Laptop, Women, Men, Techies,
Apple's smallest notebook is the MacBook Air, and all signs are pointing to this being the best-selling Mac this holiday season, so we had to include it in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. The 11-inch MacBook Air packs in speedy flash memory that is soldered directly onto the motherboard, resulting is lightning-fast performance. It also means no moving parts, so you get five hours of battery life from the tiny little wonder, and it even sports a full-sized keyboard, which we feel is a must (and is one of our main complaints with other netbooks.) The price starts at $999 from Apple, but hey, if you go with Amazon then its $994 with free shipping, and MacMall has them starting at $799--a full $200 off! Not bad for the most portable Mac out there.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Free 4G Android smartphones at Radio Shack
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Hot Deals, Family, Women, Men, Teens, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide tries to hit you with gift recommendations at all different price points, and this one may be the least expensive. Radio Shack is selling a bunch of 4G Android smartphones for free, with two-year contract, this holiday season. You can get devices like the Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon, Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T, and the HTC EVO Design 4G for Sprint. All of these devices support faster data speeds, and at a price of free, they're a tremendous deal.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Shenzhen 6-inch White Ceramic Chef's Knife
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Smart Home, Women, Men, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
We're giving away this next item featured in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, and it's a product that we weren't even sure we'd like at first, Take a look at the Shenzhen Knives White Ceramic 6-inch Chef's Knife. When we first looked at it, we thought it was gonna be a cheap, dull knife unworthy of any further attention. We were very, very wrong. In fact, it's become my daily go-to kitchen knife. The sharpness of the blade is more than capable of handling meats, hard fruits and vegetables, as well as softer items as well. Since it's ceramic, it stays sharper than a steel knife, and holds its edge longer. It also won't rust, and is resistant to acids, germs, and oils. The best part, though, is that they aren't even that expensive. You can get this knife on Amazon for $25.
Seriously, I've been using this knife almost exclusively for all my cooking over the past couple of weeks, and it has yet to let me down.
Okay, now on to the details of the giveaway. We've got a Shenzhen 6-inch White Ceramic Chef's Knife to give away,
To enter, use our contest widget:
The contest will run through November 29th, and is open to US residents. A winner will be chosen randomly from all eligible entrants.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: TiVo Premiere Elite
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Family, Men, Techies, Under $500,
Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide for the day is the TiVo Premiere Elite. What makes this TiVo so much more special than its predecessors? Well, for starters, this thing has four tuners, so it can record up to four different programs at once. You can watch any of the four, or view a fifth already-recorded program, so that's pretty nice. It's also got a 2 TB hard drive in it, which can hold up to 300 hours of HD programming. If you've got someone in your life who loves film and television, but hates those horrible UIs on the cable company DVR, this is the thing to get.
You can pick up a TiVo Elite for $494 on Amazon.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Dismember-Me Plush Zombie
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Toys, Men, Kids, Teens, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
We've got another inexpensive, yet awesome, entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, this one focusing on the undead. Do you know what happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from "Halloween"? Unfortunately nothing...which is why the skillful design monkeys over at ThinkGeek were forced to come-up with their own scary (but cute) zombie plush.
The Dismember-Me Plush Zombie begs to be torn limb from limb. After all he is a decaying re-animated corpse turned into irresistible cuddly plush. Rip off an arm... he doesn't mind. Tear him in half.. he'll barely notice. Pull off his legs... ok now he's getting a bit annoyed. Steal his brain... now you've really done it. Keep your teddy bears under close guard tonight because undead plush have come back from hell to walk the earth.
Grab yours now for $9.99, a 23% discount!
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Amazon Kindle Fire
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, Women, Men, Techies, Teens, Under $250, Under $500,
We continue our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide with the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. This is the Amazon tablet we've been waiting on for months, and it's has finally shipping. Amazon's looking to disrupt the tablet landscape with the Fire, and is pricing it aggressively at $199. The Kindle Fire weighs 14.6 ounces and packs a 7-inch IPS display, dual-core processor, 512 MB RAM, and 8 GB of on-board storage. It runs a forked version of Android that Amazon has prettied up in a major way. You also get Wi-Fi built-in as well.
Purchasers of the Kindle Fire also get a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, which'll let you get a nice sampling of what the company's Video on Demand service offers. Other services you can access from the Fire include Amazon's Android Appstore, Kindle books, a host of magazines, Cloud Drive, Cloud Player, and the Amazon MP3 service.
You can pick up a Kindle Fire now for $199 on Amazon.
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Registration Renewal in Georgia
Renew Georgia Vehicle Registration
To renew your vehicle registration with the Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) every year :
- Go online to the GA DOR website, enter your renewal PIN, and pay the registration fee.
- Mail your completed notice, insurance requirements, emissions papers, and fee to the DOR MVD.
- Visit your local tag office with your vehicle registration notice and documents.
Please see below for more details.
If you need to check the status of your registration renewal, please contact the GA DMV.
Registration Renewal Cycles
There are three types of registration renewal periods in the state, which vary depending on the county in which you register your vehicle.
Year-Round Registration
- Car or truck―In most counties, but not all (see below), if you own a passenger car, truck, or motorcycle, you will have 30 days to renew your registration by your birthday.
- For business-owned or -leased vehicles, the registration period depends on the first alphabet letter of the business name that appears on the registration:
4 Month Non-Staggered Registration
The following counties have a 4 month, non-staggered registration period, allowing registration for individuals and businesses between January 1st to April 30th only: Calhoun, Clay, Randolph, Stewart and Turner.
4 Month Staggered Registration (Talbot County Only)
If you live in Talbot County and need to renew your tags, the county offers four registration periods, with your registration period dependent on your birth month:
- Birth month of January, February, or March―renew January 1st to 31st
- Birth month of April, May, or June―renew February 1st to 28th
- Birth month of July, August, or September―renew March 1st to 31st
- Birth month of October, November, or December―renew April 1st to 30th
Company-Owned Vehicles in Talbot County
For Talbot County businesses, the county provides four registration periods, which are dependent on the first letter of the name listed on the registration:
Receiving Your Renewal Notice
Depending on your county, you may receive a renewal notice several weeks prior to your birthday, indicating:
- Your registration's expiration date
- Renewal fee
- Emissions inspection information, if applicable
- Your online Renewal Identification Number (RIN), if you live in a county that allows online renewals
Didn't Get a Renewal Notice?
Even if you don't receive a renewal notice, you still must register by the deadline or risk being penalized. If you did not receive one, contact your local DOR office.
If you move, be sure to update your new address with the DOR. Otherwise, you risk not receiving future registration renewal notices.
How to Renew Your Georgia Car Registration
Renew Registration in Person
Visit your local DOR tag office with:
- Either your registration renewal notice or a completed Title/Tag Application(Form MV-1)
- Your driver's license or GA ID card
- Proof of passing a smog check, if applicable
- Proof of auto insurance
- Cash, check, or money order to cover registration fees (some offices do accept credit cards; call before visiting)
Renew Registration by Mail
To renew your registration by mail, send in the following:
- Your registration renewal notice or a completed Title/Tag Application (Form MV-1)
- Proof of car insurance, if noted on your renewal notice
- Proof of passing an emissions inspection, if applicable
- Check or money order made payable to the Department of Revenue (see fees below)
Mail documents and payment to:
- Motor Vehicle Division
- 4125 Welcome All Road
- Atlanta, GA 30374
How to Renew Registration Online (if allowed by your county)
Some counties offer online registration renewals. Those that participate will send you a Renewal Identification Number ( RIN) with your renewal notice. Before you renew, however, you must meet the following registration requirements:
- You have proof of passing an emissions test (if applicable)
- The address listed on your renewal notice is correct
- You have a credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX) or checking account to pay all renewal fees. An additional online convenience fee will be charged.
To renew online, visit the state's online renewal system and:
- Choose your county
- Enter the RIN found on your renewal notice
- Pay all related renewal fees
Your new registration will arrive in the mail within 5 business days.
Registration Renewal Fees
Expect to pay two types of fees when renewing:
- A Tag Fee is based on the type of vehicle you own (e.g. passenger car or truck, heavy truck, commercial vehicle, etc.).
- Ad valorem tax is based on your vehicle's value, which is a combination of the vehicle's wholesale and market values.
Expect to pay more if you own specialized license plates.
Late Fees and Penalties
If you're late in renewing your registration, you will be saddled with the following late fees in addition to the standard renewal fees:
- A 10% ad valorem tax due based on your vehicle's value
- 25% of the tag fees
Georgia Tax Deduction
According to Chapter 22 of Publication 17, the IRS allows you to deduct the ad valorem tax (vehicle value) off your income taxes. This is the portion that's based on your car's value.
Georgia Emissions Inspection
Depending on your county, your vehicle may need to pass a smog check before it can be registered. If in doubt, check your registration renewal notice or contact your county Tag Office.
Visit our Emissions Inspection Section for more information on testing requirements and procedures.
Liability insurance Coverage
In order to renew your registration tags, your vehicle must be covered under the state's minimum requirements for liability insurance. In fact, if you allow your insurance coverage to lapse at any time, the state will suspend your registration until proof of coverage is provided.
Don't risk having your registration revoked. Check out our Georgia insurance section for more information on state minimums and providers.
Replacement Registration Certificates, Stickers, and License Plates
If your registration certificate or tag stickers get damaged or stolen, you need to get replacements immediately. The same holds true for license plates.
- Motor Vehicle Title/Tag Application
- Application to title AND register your car with the Georgia MVD.


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Oscar Surprises and Snubs: Sniper Hits the Mark, Everything Is Not Awesome for Lego, Selma and Aniston
Jan 15, 2015 12:36 PM EST
Birdman soared and The Grand Budapest Hotel housed a bunch of Oscar nominations, but there were a bunch of huge curveballs that shook up the race. Check out the biggest surprises and snubs from Thursday's announcement. Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel l… Read more


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Proposed yucata.de games
- Kay Wilke(Sparhawk)Germany
This list has been closed. You'll find a new list for 2018 here: Proposed games for yucata.de 2018
This list is intended to discuss possible new games for the gaming website http://www.yucata.de.
If you think YES - I WANT THIS GAME AT YUCATA.DE then give thumbs up to that entry.
Entries with many thumbs up may have better chances to be implemented
If you think you can help yucata.de, just tell me (send me an E-Mail). If you are a .NET-Developer or want to learn the technology you might realize a game of your own. We also have need for someone helping with the images/graphics.
Criteria for games at yucata.de
* No player interaction. Trading and actions are usually bad. Veto cards are usually bad, since after each action of each player, each other player needs to be asked if he wants to say 'veto'.
* Not too many microactions/phases. This is no fun to play as PBW. At least not for most people.
* No memory effect: Remember who has taken what, and so on. This does not really work in PBW. This is why Stratego would not be a good option.
* Two-player games. The vast majority of games played at yucata.de are two-player-games. I will think a long time before adding a game which does not have a good 2-player version.
I prefer themed Eurogames. This does not mean that I will never add new abstract board games but they are not at the top of my list.
2010-04: I just removed most of the abstracts. There are better platforms for abstract games than yucata.de.
2010-05: I sorted again by number of thumbs. That's a manual and painful process. I also deleted games nobody wanted, games which could not be played with two players, games by Knizia.
2010-09: I sorted again and deleted a few games nobody wanted.
2011-10: I removed a heap of games which don't have any real chance to make it to Yucata. I should delete at least 50 more, but many of the proposed games I still don't know...
The list is becoming pretty long and BGG is missing a sort feature. User Grimwold created a small script to help us out.
Sorted by thumbs: http://www.grimwold.org.uk/bgg/yucatalist.php?sort=thumbs
Sorted by name : http://www.grimwold.org.uk/bgg/yucatalist.php?sort=alpha
Games which won't make it to yucata.de
Games which didn't convince me enough to bring them online or are too much work or just fell out of consideration for some reason
1969, Alcazar, Aquädukt, Auf Achse, Augustus, Babel, Bottle Imp, Byzanz, Castle Panic, Charon Inc., Clans, Crows, Drako, Dungeon Lords, Expedition Sumatra, Fjords, Forbidden Island, Friday, Grand Cru, i9n, Ice Flow, King of Tokyo, Knights, Kontor, Maharaja, McMulti, Odin's Ravens, Pantheon, Pax, Portobello Market, Nightfall, Savannah Tails, Sumeria, The Golden City, Titania, Toledo, Troyes, Venedig, Vinhos, Wanzen Tanzen, Wasabi
Games which are not suitable enough for PBW play
Antike, Asteroyds, Citadels, Glory to Rome, Innovation, Love Letter, Quarriors, Scepter of Zavandor
Games where we couldn't get permissions
7Wonders, Agricola (including variants), Alien Frontiers, Ascension, Atlantis, Camel Up, Caylus, Core Worlds, Cuba, Eclipse, Goa, Hansa Teutonica, Havanna, Hive, Instanbul, King & Assasssins, Las Vegas, Le Havre, Mr. Jack, Ninja vs. Ninja, Ora et Labora, Panamax, Piraten Kapern, Qwirkle, Race for the Galaxy, Space Station, Splendor, Terra Mystica, Terra Nova, The City, Trains, Tzolk'in, Village, Walnut Grove, Wilderness
Publishers not working with yucata.de
Avalon Hill - See Hasbro
Cwali - They don't give free licenses
Days of Wonder - They are putting their games online themselves and are taking money for it. Little chances for a free implementation.
Fantasy Flight Games - Nearly impossible to get permissions
Filosofia - No permissions
Hasbro - Nearly impossible to get permissions.
Queen Games - No free permissions
Knizia Games are also completely excluced, regardless of the publisher.
Z-Man - Now part of Filosofia: See above
- Edited Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:45 pm
- Posted Sat Jul 7, 2007 4:38 pm
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) Jarvis Jones scored a career-high 36 points, including a 3-pointer with 15 seconds left in overtime, to give East Tennessee State a 90-88 win over Lipscomb on Saturday.
Jones, whose 12 of 22 shooting included 5 of 10 3-pointers, gave the Buccaneers (7-17, 5-6 Atlantic Sun) a 79-77 lead on a trey with 0:17 left in regulation. Deonte Alexander, who scored 16 points for Lipscomb (8-14, 3-8), made two foul shots with 8 seconds left to tie it at 79-79.
In overtime, Jones made back-to-back treys for an 87-85 ETSU lead. He answered J.J. Butler's late 3-pointer with one of his own, hitting the game-winner with 15 seconds left.
The Buccaneers avenged a 60-56 loss at Lipscomb on Jan. 5.
Martin Smith led Lipscomb with 21 points. Malcolm Smith added 18 and Alexander 16.
ETSU got 11 points each from Lester Wilson, Rashawn Rembert, John Walton and Mario Stramaglia.


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[THIS WEEK] Protect your quiet time to stay creative in 2012, writes James Pallister
Before Christmas, I joined Steve Parnell's Diploma students at the University of Sheffield to talk to them about architectural publishing, and to lead a workshop in making magazines for the Architectural Criticism and Journalism module.
90 minutes in: Wireless-networked Sheffield students half way through making their zine
The groups of four had three hours in which to produce a mini-zine, the contents of which they'd brought to the session. The results were impressive as they battled printer jams, errant staplers and the task of arranging content in a compelling way to hit their deadlines.
Presenting the finished products
The afternoon proved a dry run for the editors of StArch, the 'official' zine of the unit.
Three hours: six zines. 'Forty Winks' was themed on architecture students' (distant) relationship with sleep
They had a slightly more generous turnaround to play with – two days – and have produced a clever fold out collectable piece of archi-phemera, a great example of quick and not-so-dirty publishing.
The editors of St.Arch had the benefit of a luxurious three days - and watching the experience of their peers - to produce the zine for the unit
Another little magazine that's worth a look is the latest issue of Eight:48, now in its seventh and penultimate issue.
It's a side project of the e-commerce site Counter-Print.co.uk, a treasure trove of vintage and contemporary architecture, photography and design books and prints – not a site to be introduced to if you've a book habit and are trying to slim expenditure this January.
This issue looks at the impact of cities, including Copenhagen, Liverpool, Montreal and Paris, upon 13 designers.
In his editorial, Nitzan Hermon acknowledges how constant connectivity can conspire with our surroundings to provide a series of endless distractions more conducive to tapping trends than culture; not good, in his mind. Hermon's counsel is 'keep a clear mind [to] make the difference'. His observation seems timely: Susan Cain argued the case for more solitary working in a piece in this weekend's New York Times and Tony Schwartz wrote this week in the Harvard Business Review on the power of saying 'No' . As Hermon says in Eight:48, making time for 'an even point, a frequency of silence, will enable new ideas and creative directions. [Put] Culture before trends.' A good maxim for 2012.
Eight:48 No. 07 'You are Here' www.eight48.com; StARCH, Sheffield University School of Architecture
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This video begins with a zoom into the small area of sky that the Hubble Space Telescope observed to construct the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF. The region is located in the southern sky, far away from the glare of the Milky Way, the bright plane of our galaxy. In terms of angular size, the field is a fraction the angular diameter of the full Moon, yet it contains thousands of galaxies stretching back across time.
The video then depicts a flight through the galaxies in the XDF. Using measured and estimated redshifts for approximately three thousand galaxies, astronomers and visualizers constructed a three-dimensional model of the XDF galaxy distribution. The camera starts from Hubble's viewpoint, traverses more than thirteen billion light-years of space, and exits the data set past a "red dot" galaxy (or proto-galaxy) with a redshift of 7.82. For cinematic reasons, the exceedingly vast distances in the 3D model have been greatly compressed.
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon, F. Summers, and Z. Levay (STScI)
Publication: September 25, 2012


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Support Occupy Wall Street - Medias don't report it? Then we talk about it!
04 Oct 2011 22:01:00
You may think it's unrelated with Notepad++. Well I confirm you that Notepad++ is part of the 99%.
Occupy Wall Street operation deserves more attention of people.
If the media of world wild refuses to report this operation (I wonder why), then we talk about it!
Follow their action on:
Please relay this message on your web/blog, of course if you are not part of the 1%.
Update on the 18th Oct. 2011:
The interview with Kalle Lasn, the brains behind "Occupy Wall Street" operation.


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Hey P.A.,
Was wondering if anyone has ever installed a JDM Type S cluster (Yellow Needles/Hands) into a AUDM 5th gen? I heard that they're just plug and play after undoing and redoing some screws.
Also are there any differences with warning lights and other components? If anyone knows anymore information about them, feel free to leave it here


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This online bird guide consists of over 2700 bird species. Physical characteristics, habitat, migration, distribution and more is described. Almost every page contains a video, sound fragment, picture and distribution map. For most species scientific literature is available, the articles are in pdf format for you to download.
All European species have been added, as well over 550 North American species. The latter is by no means complete, but a work in progress.
To extend our scope we added for some bird orders all species. We included all raptors (accipitriformes), all owls (strigiformes) and falcons (falconiformes) as well as all herons, storks and allies (ciconiiformes), all ducks and allies (anseriformes) and all petrels, albatrosses and allies (procellariiformes). Finally we added two smaller and more obscure orders, the trogons (trogoniformes) and the tinamous (tinamiformes). This section covers just over 1000 species including every true bird of prey in the World! Read an introduction [here]