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How to clean out a clogged chute
WARNING! Never use your hands to clear a clogged snowblower chute assembly. Shut off the engine and remain behind handles until all moving parts have stopped before unclogging.
In most cases, the snowblower's chute snow clearing tool is conveniently fastened to the rear of the auger housing with a mounting clip. Should ice and snow become lodged in the chute assembly during operation, follow these snowblower maintenance tips to safely clean the chute assembly and chute opening.
Purchase a chute clean-out tool
Step 1: Stop the snowblower's motion
Release both the Auger Control and the Drive Control.
Step 2: Turn off the engine
Stop the engine by removing the ignition key.
Step 3: Locate the snow clearing tool
Remove the snow clearing tool from the clip which secures it to the rear of the auger housing (location may vary by model).
Step 4: Start to Clean the Snowblower Chute
Use the shovel-shaped end of the clean-out tool to dislodge and scoop any snow and ice which has formed in and near the chute assembly.
Step 5: Replace the snow clearing tool
Refasten the tool to the mounting clip. Reinsert the ignition key and start the snow thrower's engine.
Step 6: Finish cleaning the snowblower chute
While standing in the operator's position (behind the snow thrower), engage the auger control for a few seconds to clear any remaining snow and ice from the chute assembly. If, during your work cleaning out the chute, you notice damage to parts such as the auger, drive or chassis, it may be time for replacement snow thrower parts.
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The poetry readings are back on at our house! Hooray!!! I won't say the girls woke up begging for a poem, but when I suggested I had a very good and very spooky poem to share with them this morning, they were excited to hear it.
Here is Lewis Caroll's wonderful poem:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
As you can imagine, this cracked-up my 2- and 4-year-olds to no end. They both love Alice in Wonderland, so I may let them in on the origins of this poem and read an excerpt from Alice tonight for their bedtime book.

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A fender-bender in ultra-rich Monaco involved five of the most expensive cars in the world and resulted in $160,000 damage.
The collision included a $400,000 Bentely Azure, a $230,000 Ferrari F430, and Aston Martin Rapide worth $230,000 and a Porsche 911 valued at $130,000, according to Sky News.
The incident in the wealthy southern France city state began when the Bentley scraped the side of the Mercedes, then plowed into the Ferrari. The Bentley then careened into the Aston Martin and the Porsche, Sky reported.
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"You probably couldn't find a worse place in the world to crash your car than outside Monaco's Place du Casino in the middle of the summer," Ruud Poot, editor of European motoring website Autogespot, told the Daily Mail.
Monaco is a soveriegn state on the French Riviera and has the highest gross domestic product per capita of any place on Earth. A tax haen and playground for the mega-rich, its most famous quarter is Monte Carlo.


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Here's a new Robert Pattinson interview with Germany's Glamour Magazine. Scans and translation below.
Translation at the rest of the scans after the jump!
Robert Pattinson, 24, likes to spend his day in bed rather than attending an interview. However he made an exception for us.
It was a non-recurring chance! Over 250 readers sent us questions online they'd like us to ask our Onscreen-Vampire Robert Pattinson. Then again we are sorry to say: marriage proposal couldn't be transferred during that 18 minutes and 4 seconds.
No personal questions!" Robert Pattinson's agent announced in a kind of harsh american english way and was about to connect us with Robert Pattinson by phone. 80% oft the questions on the list were more or less of a personal nature, sent in advance by the (female) readers. I tried to calm down the lady on the phone, anyway. The vivid disputed relationship with Pattinson's "Twilight" –partner Kirsten Stewart really did not met the interest of our readers that much. Yet his work did including the third part oft he crazy succesful Vampire Saga 'Eclipse'. It'll premiere July 15th in Germany. Two months in advance like it should be with all that Twilight Hype the start of ticket sales and our interview were on the on the same day, on Robert Pattinsons birthday.
The rather hesitant "Hello…?" on the other end of he line was a slight hint somebody probably did some partying the night before or might be actually shy.
Hi Robert! Happy Birthday! We hope not to bother you too much today..
"Oh, thanks very much", laughs a bit nervously. "No you don't, I'm sitting in the car right now on my way for to the elephant training."
Elephant Training?
"I have to learn how to teach them tricks – for the next movie 'Water For Elephants'. Die-hard Pattinson-Fans know the actor is preparing for the character as a student of veterinary medicine who joins a travelling circus. That's why he has little time for Q&A: Before that he completed the period drama 'Bel Ami' and there's also coming up a Western with Hugh Jackman and the last Part of Twilight.
How do you make decisions for a new project?
"That's a matter of luck. Reading most of the scripts I know after 15 pages where a plot is going to. It simply has to feel differently. How the dialogues are written – these are indications of quality to me."
Our readers would like to know what the biggest challenge was for during a movie so far.
In 'Eclipse' there was a scene I as the telepathic vampire had to keep track with a battle reading the thoughts of 40 persons at the same time making really strange expressions with my face, so you see…" And there was one of those moments you really hate intervieweing by phone, the following words were sad to say incomprehensible because oft he noise.
Hello? Hello? Are you still on?
The agent joined into the conversation: " Sorry there was a disconnection. Ah, Robert is calling back now"
Hello again? Can you hear my now?
Good. I'd like to continue with the questions of our readers. You are interested in music. Will you make an album sometime.
Eerrhm yes I think I do. I wrote a lot songs but have to find the time for all that. Movie and music I cannot do both.
What was the first CD you ever bought?
Billy Oceans Greates Hits but that was a tape at that time.
Do you have a favorite song?
Beside You' by Van Morrison
What kind of people influence you?
Van Morrison by any means. And…mmh.. Who else? Jean-Luc Goddard the director. A caucasion Blues muscian and the most influential filmmaker of the 60s? Actually not something one would expect by an Blockbuster Hero.
Are you a little relieved by the fact that the finale of Twilight is within sight?
I got mixed feelings about that. Lately I had to do some re-shoots for Eclipse, I noticed how much I got used to Edward. It'll be weird. All of my colleagues are really close to me. As a matter of fact this a crucial part of my life. Until the whole Hype is over that'll take certainly at least two years.
Is there something irritating about the role?
What's coming aling with it. The Make-up bugs me. You feel trapped under all that cover up.
By the way one of our readers wants to know how much time you spend in the bath in the morning
That depends what I did the night before.
Okay when you were partying that is?
Sometimes I have to spend the wohl day there.
How does a good day look like in your life?
It doesn't start befor 10am in any case. Usually I like every day which gives you the feeling to achieved something. Days to remember are good days.
Do you recall a particular crazy moment with the fans?
I think the most freaky experience was in Germany during the promotion tour for New Moon last November. Extremly funny: At the Olympia Hall in Munich. 30 000 people deafening screaming Chris Weitz our director, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stwert and I had nothing to do but standing there waving.
Are you replying you fan mail by yourself?
I'll try, yes. When I'm at home in L.A. or staying with my parents in London. Taking some time get on of thoses boxes, which stand over a year at the agency. So if somebody gets an answer by me it'll be rather late. I do keep all of these letters but I cannot answer more than 40 in a row.
One reader asks for you favorite dish.
I don't eat Desserts. Never like them very much.
You do like Ray-Ban-Wayfare Shades as one can see on the Paparazzis pictures. How many do you own?
There was a time I wore my mom's Wayfarer shades. When the people from Ray-Ban noticed they sent my a whole box two and half years ago. They have all gone by now, disappeared during travelling, a lot of them stolen and the others I lost. There a just two pairs left.
What is most annoying question you have been asked?
Uuh- I don't know yet. I have not heart one today I would recall otherwise.
I am really glad
Still I have one: Do you believe Vampires exist?
What about true love at any rate?
Yes, I believe that is definitely possible.
Are you happy with you current life? Do you wish it to continue like that for the next decade?
Mmh, yeah, pauses for a moment I am, yes I am definitely happy. Things change with every situation in life. Some of them are much clearer to me now than a few years ago which I am very glad about.
The best and worst aspect about beeing famous?
The best there is I have lot of work I can do. I have controll about what to do and I don't have to accept everything I am offered. The worst aspect is you get paranoid meeting new people. You never know their true intentions.
Have you made bad experiences with that?
No actually I have not. I've always been really careful. I was never the accessible type. One has to be on one's guard.
Right on cue the distinctive voice of the agent intervenes: "Last question!" Last question right now, indeed.
Okay. What three things you like wo do in your life?
Defintely make an album, direct a movie and start a religion.
How would that (religion) be like?
How it would look like…that I don't have to pay taxes ever again.
We wish you all the best for that and have a happy birthday!
Thanks I will have that.
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Evensky & Katz Wealth Management has won an award — yet again. The firm has been on something of a tear of late, first winning the Heart of Financial Planning Award delivered at FPA Experience 2013 in Orlando in October, and now winning a coveted IMPACT award at Schwab's annual advisor conference in Washington on Tuesday.
In addition to Evensky & Katz, which won the Trailblazer IMPACT Award, Schwab Advisor Services announced two other recipients of IMPACT Awards:
- Homrich Berg, for the Best-in-Business IMPACT Award
- Paracle Advisors LLC, for the Pacesetter IMPACT Award
"Today we recognize and celebrate three RIA firms that have made a positive impact on our industry by implementing exceptional standards and practices to provide outstanding service to their clients," Bernie Clark, executive vice president and head of Schwab Advisor Services, said in a statement. "The industry benefits from their achievement and we thank this year's winners for pushing us all to higher standards of excellence."
Judges for the 2013 IMPACT Awards were Kevin Keller, CEO, CFP Board; Julie Littlechild, CEO, Advisor Impact; Dr. Thomas R. Robinson, Managing Director, Americas, CFA Institute; and Sean R. Walters, Executive Director and CEO, Investment Management Consultants Association.
Schwab makes a donation of $15,000 to a charity of choice on behalf of the Best-in-Business, Pacesetter, and Trailblazer Award recipients and a donation of $1,000 on behalf of the judges for their participation in this program.
Best-in-Business Impact Award: Homrich Berg
Homrich Berg is Atlanta's largest fee-only wealth management firm. Founded in 1989, and now with more than $3 billion in assets under management, the firm is known for its personalized brand of small-firm service coupled with big-firm resources and expertise. Combining comprehensive financial planning and investment management, Homrich Berg delivers individualized advice to more than 800 high-net-worth families and institutions across the country.
Schwab will make a donation to the American Diabetes Association on behalf of Homrich Berg.
Pacestter Impact Award: Paracle Advisors LLC
In 2004, Paracle Advisors principals Anne Marie Kessler, Elliott J. Brink and Joshua E. Harris launched their Seattle-based firm with a clear vision: to create a service-driven firm that integrates financial planning and investment advice to help people simplify complex financial information so that they feel secure in their financial lives. Nearly ten years later, with approximately $480 million in assets under management, Paracle's success remains rooted in their dedication to individuals and families who want straight talk about investing and financial planning.
Schwab will make a donation to Seattle-based Treehouse, a charity that benefits foster children, on behalf of Paracle Advisors LLC.
Trailblazer Impact Award: Evensky & Katz Wealth Management
Founded in 1985, Evensky & Katz Wealth Management is led by the dynamic husband-and-wife duo Harold Evensky and Deena Katz. The couple and their Coral Gables, Fla.-based firm are internationally recognized champions of financial advice and education. Evensky & Katz was among the first firms in the country to become fee-only. Their drive to break new ground continues today and the firm anticipates doubling in size over the next five years. Evensky & Katz is making strategic moves now to minimize disruptions along the path to growth, including expansion of its physical space, upgrades to technology and additions to staff.
Schwab will make a donation to Coral Gables Community Foundation's Evensky & Katz Fund on behalf of Evensky & Katz.
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Last laugh: Collectors gobble scandal-corp swag
Shareholders who bemoan the failures of Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia have one last option for their seemingly worthless shares: collectors.
All those folks who got laid off from Value America thinking, "I worked for a high flyer, and all I got was this lousy polo shirt," may find out that polo shirt is worth something.
In the vacuum of a Fortune 500 freefall, a collectors' market for corporate memorabilia has sprung up. Eighty different Enron items are currently for sale on Ebay, including the Enron pencil sharpener, Enron Titleist golf balls, and the especially collectible Enron paper shredder and Enron Code of Ethics.
Likewise, scripophily the collection of stock and bond certificates is not new, but interest has sparked in recent days, says local resident Pat McKeithan, a collector since the 1970s.
"I work at the Association for Investment Management Research in the financial services industry," he says. "I have a real interest in financial chicanery."
McKeithan's collection includes stock certificates from WorldCom and Enron, and he plans to frame them to make "a wall of shame" for his office at AIMR, where he's general counsel.
"It's a historic time- a watershed– for the country and the financial world because of these frauds," says McKeithan.
Another local scripophilist is Bob Bruner, head of the Batten Institute at Darden. He collects the certificates of major collapses, whether corporate or government.
For example, one of his favorites is a cotton bond issued by the Confederate States of America late in the Civil War. "It was a junk bond to start with," says Bruner. What makes it rare is that it was payable in either Confederate dollars or in cotton. "Commodity bonds are issued in times of extreme conditions, and are not a sustainable strategy," he adds.
Bruner became "captivated" when he first saw framed scrip hanging on a friend's wall, and he spent the better part of an afternoon looking through a dealer's offerings. To keep from getting too carried away, though, he makes it a policy to not collect more than he can hang on a wall.
"I love history," Bruner says, and there's another benefit for him as a finance professor. "There's a teachable point behind these collapses. They serve as cautionary tales."
He also admires the engraver's art found on stocks, bonds, and currency, which often depict a scene or even a vignette. For instance, a stock certificate of a 19thcentury railroad might have a locomotive steaming over a bridge.
It was a Chinese railroad bond that caught Pat McKeithan's eye. "I happened to see this pretty bond with lots of nice engraving that was a work of art," he says.
Even better, he paid $10 for it in the '70s. Now, thanks to a diplomatic flap over the bond– it was issued by the Chinese Nationalist government (investors sued and tried to impound a communist plane)– he estimates it's worth around $10,000.
Bruner's collection includes the obligatory Enron certificate. The next addition on his list is Tyco International. "I've written about the dangers of following the strategy that company followed," he says.
On McKeithan's wish list: an Adelphia certificate. "That would be a catch," he says.
And indeed, Bob Kerstein at Scripophily.com confirms that Adelphia certificates with a John Rigas signature are the hardest to come by these days because they're no longer traded.
Scripophily.com, based in Falls Church, has put together a "Modern Scandal Package" that's one of its top sellers. The $249.95 package of eight certificates includes Enron and WorldCom, of course, and also Qwest, Kmart, and Dynegy.
One of Kerstein's personal favorites is eToys. "It's unique and an elaborate certificate, a reminder that you don't spend $2 to $4 on printing a stock certificate," he says. "It tells me they were putting their money in the wrong place."
Kerstein mentions another very expensive, ornate certificate: Martha Stewart.
So why do people collect the stock certificates of failed companies?
"It says it all," offers Kerstein. "It's how a company raises money, and it's the last piece of paper when it fails."
For McKeithan, the certificates are sort of a morality play, "a reminder of human greed."
Sometimes there's a nostalgia factor at work for people who collect marketing novelties with, say, a Piedmont Airlines or Digital Equipment Corporation logo, companies that disappeared in the merger frenzy of the '80s and '90s.
Local collector Pat Powell doesn't specialize in scrip, but he does have a few choice certificates from Charlottesville businesses no longer with us.
The Charlottesville Aero and Motor Company from 1920 had a capital stock of $20,000. The Charlottesville City and Suburban Railway Company from 1902 provides a rare glimpse of earlier transportation alternatives. It pictures a trolley, and its $80,000 capital stock was "considerable," says Powell.
And the Charlottesville and University of Virginia Electric Light and Gas Company certificate was never issued, says Powell, who guesses it's from the 1920s.
Nostalgia wasn't exactly a factor in Bill Ramsey's collection of giveaways. It was more like an obsession with the short-lived Working Weekly and its founder, Gail Bentley, that fueled his corporate swag (or schwag, as one local media company calls it) collection.
An employment newspaper, Working Weekly ran from 1999-2000. At the time, Ramsey was art director for C-Ville Weekly, and he quickly became enthralled with Bentley's breathy columns detailing her exploits as a CEO, which in turn inspired Ramsey's own column, "Gail Force."
His writing inspired gifts from adoring fans. He soon became the smiling recipient of Working Weekly t-shirts, a letter opener, balloons, Silly Putty and inspirational building blocks. An embroidered yellow Working Weekly jacket became his most prized possession.
"I've never seen someone with such naïve confidence," says Ramsey about The Gail, as Bentley was known about town at the time. "And then there was her total incredulousness when things fell apart." The company declared bankruptcy within months of television appearances and a $10,000 website launch party.
"I admired her attitude in spending other people's money," says Ramsey.
Collecting Working Weekly memorabilia is definitely a niche interest that's not necessarily shared even by those who worked there. "The [former employee] who gave me the jacket said she didn't want anything to do with it," says Ramsey.
And that may be the case for others who've been victimized by corporate malfeasance or ineptitude, like former employees of Value America and Comdial. Kerstein compares it to a car wreck.
"Do you want a picture of your crashed car on the wall right now?" he asks.
The quintessential car wreck, Value America declared bankruptcy two years ago. Former employee Rusty Speidel says his two Value America polo shirts stay in the closet. "I have trouble wearing that stuff," he says.
At the Antiquer's Mall on 29 North, an employee says no one there is selling swag from local failures such as still-in-business Comdial, but they do have some phone message pads from long-gone Value America. "We found a couple in the parking lot, and we're using them," she says.
Since The Gail's heyday, Ramsey says, his obsession has dissipated, and he's gotten rid of most of his swag collection, except for his treasured yellow jacket.
He's not interested in pursuing the detritus of other failed corporations, with maybe one exception: the big, "crooked E" in front of Enron. "I'd probably stick it on my front lawn," he says. And indeed, one of the crooked E's from an auxiliary Enron building in Houston sold at an auction last week for $44,000.
Why are collectors swarming over the Enron E or, for that matter, Working Weekly?
"I think there's a certain attachment people have to items like that," Ramsey says. "The common man gets a kick out of owning a piece of a failed company. He gets the last laugh."


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iPhone 5 is already passé. We know it will have a bigger screen, yet a smaller adaptor port. It will come in black -- possibly white.
Yawn. As the Washington Post points out the new iPhone is just Apple playing catch-up to competitors in screen size and access to LTE.
(So why buy an iPhone instead of a Galaxy? Because the true innovation of the iPhone is in its third party apps. Apple's library of more than a half million apps is the true source of its appeal.)
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News from around the country and around the globe
Apple needs a leap-frog event. Considering it's been 343 days between previous releases, let's assume there's another iPhone to be announced Oct. 10, 2013.
iPhone 5S seems too much like a typo, so let' s call it iPhone 6. What should be in iPhone6?
What Apple needs is something to set its hardware apart once again -- something that pops it ahead of the bigger selling Samsung.
1) Respect Laws of Thermodynamics
Just shy of perpetual motion, it should generate its own power. The most likely technology would be generation through motion. Curiously, the US Navy has a patent on that technology. Solar cells are another route and Apple already has that patent as well as one for fuel cells.
2) Nearly There
It should contain an NFC chip (that can be turned off if you're a tin-foil hat sort of person). Near-field communication would allow you to "tap" your phone on a reader at a store's checkout to pay for items. Many expected it in the iPhone5.
3) Flock of iPhones
It should enable "flocking" phones: iPhones able to communicate with each other anonymously to take advantage of the fact there are so damn many of them. If you don't have signal at the bottom of the hill, your phone should be able to use mine at the top of the hill as a repeater.
Don't worry about the drain on the battery because the iPhone is constantly charging, remember? Perhaps I get a micro-payment everytime someone jumps on my signal.
4) Absolute, Rock-Solid Traceability
In the event the phone is stolen, you want to be able to locate it. Quick-like.
Yes, "find my iPhone" works well and occasionally nabs a bad guy. But considering that the theft of Apple products (awesome video here) is so common, a better system really should be in place.
5) Bio-recognition
Whe I pick up my iPhone 6, it works. Someone else picks up my iPhone, it doesn't work. The phone should recognize its owner, bypassing security measures and springing to life, instantly.
6) Something in a Pastel?
How about some colors? A nice lime green perhaps?
7) Waterproof
Nine percent of phone replacements are due to the phone falling in the toilet, according to a study by Gazelle,


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CSI SAP2000 v18.2.0 (x86/x64)
CSI SAP2000 v18.2.0 (x86/x64) | 963.3 MB
Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI), a structural and earthquake engineering software company, has released 18.2.0 version of SAP2000, is general-purpose civil-engineering software ideal for the analysis and design of any type of structural system.
SAP2000 is general-purpose civil-engineering software ideal for the analysis and design of any type of structural system. Basic and advanced systems, ranging from 2D to 3D, of simple geometry to complex, may be modeled, analyzed, designed, and optimized using a practical and intuitive object-based modeling environment that simplifies and streamlines the engineering process. The SAPFire ® Analysis Engine integral to SAP2000 drives a sophisticated finite-element analysis procedure. An additional suite of advanced analysis features are available to users engaging state-of-the-art practice with nonlinear and dynamic consideration. Created by engineers for effective engineering, SAP2000 is the ideal software tool for users of any experience level, designing any structural system.
Integrated modeling templates, code-based loading assignments, advanced analysis options, design-optimization procedures, and customizable output reports all coordinate across a powerful platform to make SAP2000 especially useful for practicing professionals.
SAP2000 is also an excellent medium for education. Open SAP2000 and follow the Watch & Learn video series to receive not only instruction on software use, but also insight into structural engineering philosophy and practice.
SAP2000 18.2.0 Enhancements:
– Graphical User Interface
New display allows displaying all loads, within a single load pattern, on all object types, in a single display.
– Modeling
Modeling settings can be saved and later used when starting a new model.
New Property Modifier assignment for link objects.
Solid rectangular and circluar steel shapes available as new frame section properties.
Russian material property library enhanced.
– Loading
Russian response spectrum function added.
– Analysis
Event-to-event solution strategy implemented as an option for nonlinear direct-integration time-history load cases.
Increase in the speed of nonlinear static and direct-integration time-history analyses.
Enhancements to the force equilibrium and deformation compatibility between frame hinges and their parent frame elements
– International Frame Design Codes
Overwrite section classification to a higher class for Eurocode 3-2005 and Italian NTC steel frame design.
– Data Files
New property library "Nordic.pro" has been added.
About Computers and Structures, Inc
Founded in 1975, Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI) is recognized globally as the pioneering leader in software tools for structural and earthquake engineering. Software from CSI is used by thousands of engineering firms in over 160 countries for the design of major projects, including the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan, One World Trade Center in New York, the 2008 Olympics Birds Nest Stadium in Beijing and the cable-stayed Centenario Bridge over the Panama Canal. CSI's software is backed by more than three decades of research and development, making it the trusted choice of sophisticated design professionals everywhere.
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New Canaan beats Wilton again for second straight Division M girls lacrosse championship
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STRATFORD --The members of the New Canaan girls lacrosse team spent the last week trying to find the perfect baby gift for their coach.
On Saturday afternoon, they came up with a 50-minute masterpiece that Kristin Woods and her six-day-old daughter will savor for years.
In a display of both the skill level and savvy that have been their trademark -- especially of nine seniors -- the Rams overcame a quick deficit, built a comfortable halftime lead and then used intelligent play to come away with a 10-6 win over Wilton in the Division M championship game at Bunnell High School.
The top-seeded Rams won a rematch of last year's final and their third title in four seasons despite scoring just one goal after halftime.
"We wanted this to be one of the baby's first memories so we got a lot of pictures," said Olivia Hompe, who concluded one of the most storied athletic careers in state history with 4 goals and 2 assists. "I think a lot of what we did in the second half was really defensive oriented. I think we got in a really nice groove on offense in the first half and we wanted to play smart in the second half. We knew we had a lead to protect and I think we made some big stops."
Liz O'Sullivan, who had missed the previous six games with a broken thumb, returned for her final one and was spectacular, stopping nine shots. She then got to watch, with appreciation, what seemed like a sequence of coronation, as the Rams ran out the clock in what amounted to the lacrosse version of keep-away.
"This is something that our team has done very well this season," O'Sullivan said. "At the end it is clutch. We held the ball for like five full minutes at the end. They were sending doubles and triples at us. We had confidence going into this game and it showed at the end."
Elizabeth Miller also scored 4 goals for New Canaan, which finished the season 19-2 -- the last four wins by outscoring opponents 57-20 in the state tournament.
"It's been a great week," Woods said. "Wilton's defense really stepped up. We played hard the whole time and that's what the goal was. The girls executed everything we went over."
The sixth-seeded Warriors (15-6), who had rebounded with 48 goals in three games since being upset by Danbury in the opening round of the FCIAC Tournament, jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Sara Dickinson and Annie Cornbrooks.
The Rams erupted with three unanswered goals in a two-minute span, with Hompe scoring the first and setting up Isabel Taben for the go-ahead score after Miller had tied the game 17 seconds earlier.
Wilton's Tegan Helms made it 3-3 with the first of her two goals. Miller then started a four-goal New Canaan run that staked it to a 9-5 halftime lead.
But the Warriors could not make much of a dent in the second half, drawing within 9-6 on Katherine Vincent's goal with 13:44 left. Miller converted a feed from Taben, and the Rams controlled the ball for most of the final nine minutes.
"New Canaan is a great team," Wilton coach Meredith Meyran said. "We couldn't score. We did our best. We weren't able to possess the ball and our shots didn't fall. I'm really proud of Wilton and what we did."
The win marked the sixth career state title for Hompe, who set numerous lacrosse and hockey scoring marks.
"This one is definitely special," Hompe said. "It's the last one. With Woods and the baby, it's a great way to go out for my last high school game."
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Records: Wilton 15-6; New Canaan 19-2. Scoring: W--Tegan Helms 2g; Katherine Vincent 1g; Annie Cornbrooks 1g; Shannon Quinlan 1g; Sara Dickinson 1g. NC--Elizabeth Miller 4g; Olivia Hompe 4g, 2a; Isabel Taben 1g, 1a; Kathleen DeMarino 1g. Goalies: W--Hannah Wiltshire (7 saves); NC--Liz O'Sullivan (9 saves). Shots: W--16; NC--22.


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Here's one for the tech geeks: Earlier this month we drove the 2013 Audi S8 sedan, where we came to the conclusion that the 520-hp, 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 was just right for the executive-class cruiser. The S8 is a heavyweight, but it moves like a cruiserweight or better. The 0-to-60-mph sprint takes just 3.9 seconds, or about the same amount of time it takes to sneeze, wipe your nose and get blessed.To show how the S8 makes its magic, Audi posted a few new videos on its media site. The first graphically explains how the cylinder-on-demand function works, leading to the S8's 26 mpg rating on the highway.The second video is called "V8 engine concept transformation." It starts with graphics of a bare block, after which parts slowly trickle in and attach themselves. The process actually looks less complicated than it sounds. Unfortunately, there's no audio of the big engine revving up.The last video shows how air gets into the engine through the two airboxes and makes its way to the turbochargers. After that it gets cooled and rerouted to the intake manifold before fuel is added for oh-so-glorious ignition.It's pretty cool to watch how all the technology works in slow motion and easy-to-understand graphics—even if you already know how everything works.
2013 Audi S8 engine tech laid bare in new videos: Series shows off 520-hp super sedan powertrain mods
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Oh hi there! I just want to share some products that I saw in Watsons yesterday. Hehe. It has been a while since I visited that store.
I am surprised to see these products in Watson's Philippines counter. So, more and more japanese brands are coming in our shores, eh? hehe XD
Here are some products I saw:
Product: Palty Hair Dye
Price: Php 499 (roughly Php 500)
I am a huge fan of japanese hair dyes! and I've been using Palty back when I am still on my verge of changing hair colors. Where do I purchase them? Online. How much does it cost? Php 600 with free shipping. How long does it take before I get it? a day or 2. But now! Whenever I feel like coloring my hair again, I can go to any Watson's and grab this gorgeous hair dye. It's cheaper and I don't have to wait and go through all the hassle of depositing payments to the seller's bank account! Which is~ great ^^ The only downside is they have limited colors. Well, who knows, they might have more colors in stock in the future, right? :) ehehe.
next is:
Product: Bifesta Cleansing Water
Price: Php 419
Product: Quick FX
Price: Php 50-100
Okay. I can't remember which online store sells Bifest here in the Phil and I can't remember how much it is. But this is the first time I saw it in counters. LOL. Aym sorry~ if ever this product is already available long time ago. But it is the first time I saw it so It's kinda cool XD at least for me.
Then the Quick FX products. I saw this last month and I find it cool and affordable. I grabbed the Pimple Eraser and I might make a quick review on it. I hope it works but if not, it's fine since it's cheap so I am really not expecting that much from it. But still, like what the product name say, it is a quick fix. Who knows, it may really be a good.
So yeah, that's just about it. hehe Okay, it's been a month or two since I really had a visit/tour in Watson's. So this things are new to me :)


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Markus13 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Singularity Capital
Singularity Capital is going to be a small early stage capital fund primarily focusing on two areas:
1. Investing small amounts of capital into promising tech startups teams mainly through angel investor networks
2. Building teams around ideas and great but not yet complete startup teams
The companies will mainly be in industries with accelerating characteristics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno…ngularity).
Startup founders and angel investors.
We are looking for a logo that is modern looking and professional, which will be used on the company website, documents, marketing material and business cards. If you also have a great idea about a certain font type for "Singularity Capital" - please show it to us.
Please keep it clean and simple, it doesn't need fancy 3D effects or a flashy graphic. If you have some ideas about colors use them and if not, we think black and white should be fine. Please don't make it too "science fiction". It will be used on the website and other documents so it doesn't need any effects (shiny, reflection …).
We have attached two samples of graphics that go into a good direction. It might make sense to also read the Wikipedia article about "technological singularity" to get a better idea about the concept.
A vector based logo that is scalable will work best. Please provide me with an EPS and AI format logo. Additionally, we require all ownership and copyrights with the option to alter colors. Logo will be trademarked.
Please keep in mind that all designs must be original and not clipart or photos.
Submissions will be closely followed and feedback will be given as soon as possible.
Thank You and Happy Designing!
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Special Forum on Asian American Studies
Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)
Special Forum on Asian American Studies
Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism, Diaspora and Representation
Guest edited by Tanfer Emin Tunc (Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey); Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome, Italy); Daniel Y. Kim (Brown University, USA); Te-hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Deadline for complete submissions: September 1, 2010
In her seminal work Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance (1993), Sau-ling Wong established the intertextuality of Asian American literature by focusing on four motifs—food and eating; the Doppelganger figure; mobility; and play—illustrating that these motifs transcend ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries. In doing so, Wong conveyed the primacy of Asian patterns in Asian American literature, as well as the rich interactions that occur within Asian subcultures, and with American culture at large. As Elaine Kim, author of Asian American Literature (1982) has noted, Wong's analysis of Asian American literature in this
work is not only "informed by her intimate knowledge of Asian American culture, minority discourses, feminist thought, and contemporary literary theory…[but is also full of] insightful interpretations and careful [sociopolitical] contextualizations."
Wong's crucial vantage point as a woman of both Asian and American heritage has, over the years, rendered her an important figure in critiques of bilingualism and biculturalism (in both print and media sources), and in discourses involving transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, mobility and diasporic identities. She has called for a "denationalization" of Asian and Asian American subjects in order to expose deeper layers of analysis, and has challenged the benefits of
limiting Asian American Studies to the borders of the United States. She has also proposed a transnational investigation of the Asian diaspora that takes ethnicity as a common factor, while simultaneously prioritizing class (a category of analysis that, as Wong notes, is often elided in discussions of transnationality). Wong's works have illustrated the irrelevancy of borders in constructing identities and cultures, thus reinforcing the "transnational turn" in Asian American
Studies. She has warned, however, against overusing concepts such as "global" or "diaspora," since they too can result in the
marginalization (or sometimes the complete exclusion) of local,
regional and national ethnic organization. A more appropriate balance, she maintains, includes a cultural nationalism which considers nation-based identities (such as Asian American), as well as coalition building within/among Asian groups.
The co-editors of this special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS), which is dedicated to Professor Sau-ling Wong as she gains Emeritus status from the University of California, Berkeley, seek submissions (full-length manuscripts of between 6,000 and 8,000 words, following the Chicago Manual of Style, as well as shorter book reviews, essays, and commentaries) that take Wong's writings, and/or the "transnational turn" in Asian American Studies, as their point of departure (submissions can also include those which
consider Professor Wong's contributions to other fields, such as the study of mestizaje and Chicano culture). We also seek submissions on topics related to Asian American Studies, including, but not limited to:
• Asian American Studies beyond the United States
• New trends and developments in transnational Asian American history
• The politics of Asian American Studies
• Asian American literature/the "canon"
• The pedagogy of Asian American Studies
• Asian American digital culture and the Internet
• Bilingualism and biculturalism in the Asian American context
• The Asian American immigrant experience
• (Re)defining the Asian American family
• Women, sexuality and reproduction in the transnational Asian American context
• Hybridity, diaspora and borders
• Intertextuality/Signification/Bricolage
• Fusion/Fragmentation
• Asian American Arts (visual, theatrical, cultural, oral traditions, etc)
• Asian American self-writing (incl. travel writing, journals,
diaries, and memoirs)
• Translation/interpretation/adaptation and the Asian American experience
• Asian American resistance/subversion
• Americanization, assimilation, acculturation
• Identity, representation, race, class and gender
• Globalization, citizenship, mobility
• Asian Americans and popular/consumer culture
Complete submissions (no abstracts please) and one-paragraph bios
should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to Drs. Tanfer Emin Tunc, Elisabetta Marino, Daniel Y. Kim, and Te-hsing Shan
(email@example.com) by September 1, 2010. Please convey your interest by e-mailing us your topic by July 1, 2010, with full text to follow on September 1, 2010.


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Glitch effectively shuts down DMV transactions
New York's system at a crawl Monday
State officials say a glitch has substantially disabled New York's Department of Motor Vehicles computer system, slowing transactions to a crawl in local offices statewide and online.
A DMV spokesman says the problem hasn't been pinpointed as of Monday afternoon and it isn't clear when the system will be back in full operation.
Spokesman Pete Bucci says a mainframe server was upgraded Sunday and tested properly, but couldn't handle the load of actual business Monday morning.
The problem with license and registration transactions involves all 35 offices run by the DMV in major cities and the offices operated by county clerks upstate.
Bucci says "very few transactions are getting through." The agency will make allowances for anyone who misses a deadline.
He says engineers are working to identify the cause.


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doume avait besoin d'un nouveau design de page web et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 6 designs proposés par 4 designers freelance.
The web site should replace the current web site http://www.linkwork.co.uk which is already 2 years old and is not accurate any more.
Desired Style:
The design should be clean, minimal, web 2.0-ish.
It should apply to our consultancy business field.
Accepted File Formats:
Photoshop psd
Our current web site does not match either our expectation from an ergonomic, image, customer interaction and look and feel point view.
Our business is not any more exclusively within the web solutions area but also provide interim management, business development, sales training, etc.
We aim to make the web site interactive enough to encourage our customer to come back and visit us. It also aims to be a nice show room of our web solutions department (although the department is very tiny)
The web site will encompasses 3 columns .Here is an example of the css framework to give you some idea (however the width of the columns is free) http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/r…p-3col.css .
The web site will be designed for 800px display, the height of the page may vary, on the background of the 800px page you can work on any kind of border shadow or image background
Corporate ID
The logo is rather basic, feel free to improve the logo currently on http://www.linkwork.co.uk . There are some other samples on http://www.linkwork.co.uk/jdd/publi…rk2007.zip . You can also suggest something completely different; however Id rather like to keep it fairly simple and rather smaller than the logo currently online.
Desired Colour Scheme:
Feel free to suggest anything different than the current http://www.linkwork.co.uk colour scheme,
In all situations the colour scheme must be consistent with the logo colour scheme you are going to use. The new logo colour scheme (blue and orange) is brighter than the previous one, we would rather recommend such a colour scheme.
Page Content
The content will be:
-logo: top left, I have attached 2 logos with different shape
-page header (may include base-line or random slogan, possibly image or flash).
-search box
-horizontal menu with (home, about us, contact us, site map)
-left column: Menu = list of our solutions such as consultancy, interim management, training, business development, marketing. At the bottom of the list frame including some text about web solutions (this frame will divert to our web solutions section).
-right column is rather the customer interaction section: first paragraph will be random testimonial + hyperlink to the testimonial page, below a frame or little paragraph that link to our Blog, then at the bottom the latest paragraph to register to our newsletter .
-Footer will include ©, extranet link, site map, etc
-breadcrumb on every page (not home)
-Body will include a random quote, a short text (sort of mission statement) and our news (RSS).
The template should be easily customisable as some of the pages will not display the 3rd column (body needs more width).
Its my first time I host a template contest, so Im not really sure Im doing it right, and I am open to suggestions.


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SRD:Rope of Climbing
From D&D Wiki
|This material is published under the OGL
Rope of Climbing: A 60-foot-long rope of climbing is no thicker than a wand, but it is strong enough to support 3,000 pounds. Upon command, the rope snakes forward, upward, downward, or in any other direction at 10 feet per round, attaching itself securely wherever its owner desires. It can unfasten itself and return in the same manner.
A rope of climbing can be commanded to knot or unknot itself. This causes large knots to appear at 1-foot intervals along the rope. Knotting shortens the rope to a 50-foot length until the knots are untied but lowers the DC of Climb checks while using it by 10. A creature must hold one end of the rope when its magic is invoked.
Faint transmutation; CL 3rd; Craft Wondrous Item, animate rope; Price 3,000 gp;Weight 3 lb.
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Dear Greg, I wanted to take a minute to thank you and BNG for your efforts on our KKIL project in Troy. From the very beginning you were very important to the design and construction process. Your attention to detail in the schedule and installation was instrumental in the successful completion of the project. Please feel free to include Bayland Buildings as a reference to anyone. Again, Thank you for a job well done and we will definitely be contacting you for the second phase of this project. Thank youJim RogersBayland Buildings, Inc.
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PHH Mortgage, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ocwen Financial Corporation, is one of the largest subservicers of residential mortgages in the United States. PHH Mortgage provides servicing solutions to companies who own mortgage servicing rights and offers portfolio retention services to extend and enhance customer relationships.
Headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, PHH has been providing mortgage lending and servicing solutions since 1984 and is dedicated to responsible and ethical practices while delivering an exceptional customer experience. We strictly focus on subservicing and portfolio retention allowing our diverse professional clients – representing some of the largest and most recognizable financial and wealth management institutions, investors of MSRs, regional and community banks, and credit unions – to concentrate on their core businesses, while providing borrowers with exceptional customer service throughout the life of their loans.
Adhering to the highest levels of risk and compliance, built to bank-like standards, we build relationships with our clients and their customers to promote a philosophy of retaining "customers for life." We strive to be a natural extension of each client's team, helping them to keep their expenses down, borrowers satisfied and service levels up while meeting today's regulatory demands and changing market conditions.
Our Culture
When you join PHH, you join a culture which is Vibrant, Inclusive and Cares for you and your community.
PHH employees are passionate about customer service, committed to teamwork and dedicated to success.
The atmosphere is fast-paced and challenging – and there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career, whether you're pursuing management, learning multiple disciplines and/or becoming a subject matter expert in your field.
We value open communication, offering numerous opportunities to offer your ideas and opinions, as well as get updated on the business and have input on our challenges. We believe in empowering our employees to explore new ideas, take initiatives for change, and continuously improve our performance. And, as part of the PHH family, you'll build long-term relationships in your career here.
PHH provides many opportunities to blend fun into our daily work life. We encourage participation in events organized year-round by our engagement committees.
Come join the bandwagon!!
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Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion ensures that we are an organization that creates, promotes and sustains an inclusive work environment in which diversity, inclusiveness and respect are integral parts of our culture and work environment. Affinity group like OGWN when coupled with a culture of appreciation provides a comprehensive ecosystem for diversity to flourish.
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PHH employees actively participate in corporate philanthropy through a wide range of charitable initiatives. We proudly support charitable organizations in our community with both donations and volunteer efforts. You can have a positive impact in your community by getting involved in PHH-sponsored efforts, including blood drives, teams for charity walks/runs/bike rides, food drives, and donations of school supplies to local children in need.
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Our wellness programs provide a wide variety of opportunities to improve your health and fitness. We offer health coaches, weight management classes and discounts, monthly seminars/webinars on aspects of physical and mental health, and more. We also feature 24/7 fitness facilities in our Mount Laurel location, and our in-house cafeteria offers numerous nutritious choices.
Service Excellence is one of the central components of PHH's corporate growth strategy for the coming years; this shall help us achieve a sustainable culture of service excellence throughout every facet of the organization.
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Because the knowledge and skills of our employees are so crucial to our success, PHH strongly supports learning and career development for every employee. If you want to enhance current skills, gain new knowledge, and prepare for the next step in your career, PHH makes it easier to do.
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Happy Leap Day! Watch Sweet Videos of Women Proposing to Men
According to an old Irish legend, St. Patrick and St. Bridget struck a deal in which women would be permitted to propose to men every four years on Leap Day. That tradition continues on YouTube.
This Leap Day role reversal became a tradition in many European countries. In fact, historically, if a man refused a woman's hand on Leap Day, he had to pay some sort of fine. One custom had the man buying the rejected woman 12 pairs of gloves, so she could then hide her ring-less shame of still being single.
These days, such reparations are probably out of the question. But Leap Day still provides women a unique opportunity to take on all the responsibility — and risk of rejection — that is a properly executed marriage proposal.
Due to the risky nature of the reverse marriage proposal, there aren't a whole lot of videos of women proposing to men out there. But we were able to find some, which you can check out below. With this being the first Leap Day in the age of HD camera phones, there should be a lot more videos of this phenomenon by the time Leap Day 2016 comes around.


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
My name is Ferdinand Vroom and I am a OWASP Chapter Leader of the Netherlands Chapter.
I joined the OWASP Netherlands Chapter from it's inaugural meeting on the 17th of November 2005.
Some months later, I was asked to join the Chapter Board.
Within the Neherlands Chapter I fulfill communication, planning & logistics and budget tasks.
I enjoy OWASP because of the many projects and the diverse people working to reach common goals.
Geeky security stuff mixed with process and people on a mission to spread the web application security word.
Ferdinand started as a FoxPro developer in 1995, but soon wanted to assume other roles in the development lifecycle.
Working for KPMG Management Consultants as Knowledge & IT Expert gave him the opportunity to solve all kinds of IT, Knowledge Management and other Business and IT related issues.
The international part of his career started at Arthur D. Little, were he worked on many international projects in several countries like the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Belgium.
Internet technologies, specifically web, were always dominantly part of his daily work.
IBM products like Lotus Notes, WebSphere and AIX were his playground.
After starting work at Nationale- Nederlanden in 2000 as coordinator of the Internet Development team he focussed on the devlopment lifecycle within this large Insurance company.
Since 2005 Ferdinand acts as Security Officer and Security Architect. Responsible for Security related subjects in the Development Lifecycle and advising on Security related matters in projects.
Currently, Ferdinand works on Security aspects of the new Financial Services Architecture integrating security measures in Cloud based infrastructures.
Ferdinand regularly presents at industy events and seminars, like NLLUG, BLUG, BlackHat Sessions and Websphere Usergroups.
Previous Employers: IBM, TreeStar Automation, KPMG MC, Arthur D. Little
Ferdinand enjoys sailing, skiing and car mechanics.
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Triathlete and triathlon coach Brett Blankner says that pacing a triathlon successfully has three critical components: you should know how long the race will take you, understand the difference between aerobic and anaerobic capacity and be smart on the bike.
"People forget that a triathlon isn't three individual sports with a big break in between. Instead, you should look at it as one long aerobic event," Blankner says.
"If this race will take you at least three hours, are you fit enough to keep moving forward for three whole hours? Have you trained three hours non-stop before? Should you be going this fast at the start when you have three hours left to go? Probably not."
Going too hard has a very limited time-span and will end your race quickly
For pacing your triathlon right it is also crucial to learn the difference between aerobic and anaerobic energy systems and fuel accordingly.
"Once your heart rate goes above a certain level – the aerobic threshold – you are no longer aerobic and have to start borrowing energy against your anaerobic system. This is where heart rate can help you tremendously."
"Going too hard has a very limited time-span and will end your race quickly. Your stomach shuts down so you can't digest fuel and your breathing becomes forced as your lungs try to ram air into your bloodstream."
Blankner suggests using a method by Dr Phil Maffetone, the coach behind legendary triathlete Mark Allen.
"The heart rate limit for this is about 180 minus your age. If you stay under this number, you can breathe and digest fuel just fine and go all day. You can play with getting closer to and even well over this threshold number based on how short the race is and how close you are to the finish line. With some practice, it becomes the best tool available for great pacing."
When you see somebody running well in a triathlon, you're not seeing a great runner. You're seeing a great cyclist.
The third critical component Blankner talks about is being smart on a bike. The bike portion of the race is so damaging to your running legs, that you need to make sure you train to limit that damage as much as possible.
"You can take a world-class marathoner and turn him into a slow walker in a triathlon if he can't bike well. If you end up walking on the run, your speed just dropped to near-zero."
"When you see somebody running well in a triathlon, you're not seeing a great runner. You're seeing a great cyclist who can now run because the bike ride didn't hurt."
Brett Blankner is an American ultra-endurance athlete and a coach, who also produces Zen & the Art of Triathlon podcast.


text: Since 1950, tequila has become a drink of distinction, bringing world-renown to a small Mexican town, the town of Tequila. True tequila is made from the Weber blue agave, a relative of the yucca and amaryllis. Agave is harvested when it is 12 years old and the juice after fermentation is known as pulque, it is then distilled in pot stills and creates a fiery drink called mezcal. Distilling for the second time refines the tequila which is aged in wax lined vats to produce white tequila or in oak casks to produce the mellow, gold colored tequila.


text: Monday, July 11, 2011 Proposal on Health Insurance Exchanges Released by Health and Human Services The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its proposed rule on the implementation of the Health Insurance Exchanges ("Exchanges") as directed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and amendments, known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Exchanges are expected to create competitive marketplaces for health insurance plans. Individuals and small employers will be able to compare private health insurance options based on various categories such as quality and price. The expectation is that the Exchanges will encourage competition among insurance plan providers, thereby creating improvements in the quality of health plans and their benefits and affordability of health plan choices. Additionally, small employers theoretically will have the same purchasing "clout" as large employers. The exchanges must become operational by January 1, 2014. The proposed rule temporarily is posted at http://ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-17610_PI.pdf. APTA is preparing a summary of the proposal to share with members, and the association will submit comments, which are due on or around September 10. Comments As a pediatric physical therapist of 32 years now, and in private practice (center-based) for the last 23 years, I am intensely interested in this topic. So many of our families are truly stuck in the world of being employed only in large enough companies to provide them and their children with disabilities a decent insurance policy. Entrepeneurship is being stifled, and benefits are ever shrinking. I would like to become an advocacy writer for families having kids with disabilities, from the PT point of view. Please let me know if the APTA could use some help on this. Renee G. Rowley, PT, PCS, C/NDT Posted by Renee G Rowley, PT, PCS, C/NDT on 7/15/2011 11:32 PM the affordable care act should be actively endorsed by the APTA. more people will be able to afford comprehensive insurance which will help therapists and their patients. a myriad of features such as an emphasis on cost control via evidence based practices and better access to health care will eventually drive costs down for everyone. therapists will need to to pracice effectively but we all feel we can deliver. Posted by Carlos Montero on 7/16/2011 12:39 PM The ideas sounds great. However, as we have seen with Blue Cross in Ca, NY, and other states, the primary allegiance of the health insurance companies is the stock holders and executives, there business in to make money. And, oh by the way, provide for subscribers. The rehab community, PTs, OTs, Speech are the "low-hanging fruit" and they will cut our reimbursement to maintain profit margins. They are greedy and in control. Posted by Bud Ferrante PT, OCS on 7/18/2011 6:24 PM To be an in-network provider with employer based healthcare, these days, means you have accepted very little compensation for your services. Rising costs of energy, fees associated with basic expenses like leased space, HR, liabilities, materials, shipping costs, etc. If the exchange gets passed and works to set relative values to a descent standard, than providers may be saved by government intervention to provide competition to private insurance market control. Wow....government intervention to save the day? Posted by David Bullock on 7/18/2011 9:23 PM


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What better way to learn biology than from Twilight Sparkle? She could teach me anything.
And some of that weird Pinkie/Octavia relationship thing below. You guys are crazy! Octavia is a totally different color!
Monday, January 16, 2012 op 1:00 PM
Labels: Comic, Not-Fanfiction
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I have a couple questions on the same topic:
1) Does ordinary linear least squares have a generally defined confidence interval. I know that you can determine the confidence interval of each term, $\hat{a}+\hat{b}x$ as follows:
$\hat{a}\pm t_{\alpha/2,n-2}\sqrt{(1/n+\hat{x}^2/S_{xx})MSE}$
$\hat{b}\pm t_{\alpha/2,n-2}\sqrt{MSE/S_{xx}}$
Is there a combination of these two terms that yields an overall confidence interval of the least squares regression?
2) Secondly, if a general confidence interval is defined for the linear regression, can it be generalized into higher degree regressions; $\hat{z_0}+\hat{z_1}x + \hat{z_2}x^2+...+\hat{z_n}x^n$?
I'm programming some regression classes and I'm trying to design a regression interface. I've managed to find confidence interval equations for more complicated regression techniques, but the simplest technique is giving me the most problems.


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The pillar procedure is minor surgery intended to relieve habitual snoring and treat mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially serious disorder in which breathing is interrupted repeatedly during sleep. Both snoring and obstructive sleep apnea may result from a relaxation of muscles at the back of your throat.
The pillar procedure involves surgically placing small polyester rods in the soft palate. Each implant measures 18 millimeters (mm) in length — slightly less than an inch — and 1.5 mm in diameter. The subsequent healing of tissue around the implants stiffens the soft palate, thereby reducing relaxation and vibration of the tissue.
The pillar procedure is usually done in your doctor's office with local anesthesia.
If you have mild to moderate sleep apnea, you may be advised to try a less invasive, nonsurgical treatment first, such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). A CPAP machine uses a face mask to deliver just enough air pressure into your airway to prevent the blockage of airflow. Some people may need to use CPAP even after undergoing a pillar procedure.
As you sleep, muscles relax in the fleshy area at the back of your mouth (soft palate), as well as in your tongue and throat. These tissues can relax enough that they vibrate, causing snoring. Snoring can be a nuisance and interfere with your sleep or your bed partner's sleep. Snoring can also be an indication of obstructive sleep apnea, which is a more serious disorder.
When you have obstructive sleep apnea, the muscles in your mouth, tongue and throat may relax so much that they block your airway, causing you to stop breathing or to breathe shallowly, many times a night. This process can cause sudden drops in the amount of oxygen in your blood, and has been linked to serious health problems, such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
Other signs and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea include restless sleep, frequent awakening, morning headache, choking or gasping after a pause in nighttime breathing, and daytime sleepiness.
If you snore or have other signs or symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, see your doctor. You'll likely be referred to a sleep specialist or a specialist in ear, nose and throat disorders (ENT or otolaryngologist).
Studies have reported few complications associated with the pillar procedure. The most commonly reported complication is a tip of an implant protruding through the soft palate tissue (partial extrusion). In that case, the implant can be either removed or replaced.
Other potential complications are usually temporary and resolve on their own, often within a week or so after surgery. They include:
As with any surgical procedure, infection is a possible risk. If you develop a fever after the procedure, contact your doctor.
You don't need to prepare for your pillar procedure unless your doctor requests that you start taking antibiotics before your appointment.
The pillar procedure is performed in the surgeon's office, where you'll likely be seated leaning backward, similarly to how you're seated when your teeth are cleaned. During the procedure, which takes less than 30 minutes, the surgeon:
Your doctor may ask you to sit for a few minutes to be sure you're not experiencing significant bleeding or swelling. You should be able to resume normal activities and eat normally that same day.
Your doctor may prescribe an anti-inflammatory pain medication to keep down swelling and help with any pain you feel after the anesthetic wears off. He or she may also ask you to use an antiseptic rinse for several days and take an antibiotic to prevent infection.
Research has shown that, in some people, the pillar procedure can effectively treat snoring and mild sleep apnea. However, it doesn't work for everyone, and further study is needed to determine who the best candidates are.
You or your bed partner may notice a decrease in snoring or episodes of breathing cessation from sleep apnea immediately after the procedure. However, because your soft palate may become more rigid over time as the tissue hardens around the implants, it may take a few months to get the full effect of the implants.
The pillar procedure may be beneficial, but because the operation is relatively new, it's uncertain if the effects of the implants will last beyond short-term relief.
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Even before I went vegan, I was trying to find non-dairy based yoghurt to satisfy my cravings. Back in Finland oat yoghurt is quite widely available, but I have not yet come across it here in Australia. As far as I know, the only non-dairy yoghurt available here are soy yoghurt and coconut yoghurt, both of which have a disturbingly long list of (unnatural) ingredients, along with quite a lot of added sugar.
It was this frustration that led me to experiment with making oat yoghurt at home. I found some guidelines online and the process seemed very easy and doable. Unfortunately, my first batches were not successful: too sour, not sour enough, too thick, too thin, and so on. I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was when I finally got it right, and I really couldn't be happier with the outcome!
This oat yoghurt has the sourness and creaminess of dairy-based yoghurt. Mixed with berries, sweetened with a little stevia and pure vanilla, it is so delicious and I know it will be my regular treat from now on. Although it is quite difficult to give you exact measurements and instructions (because of factors like room temperature, etc.), I urge you to give this a go - it really is worth the (little) effort!
(2-4 servings)
* I have found that a combination of whole oat grain and rolled oats makes the yoghurt creamier and also gives it a nicer texture than using just all groats or all rolled oats.
1. Place the oat groats and rolled oats in separate glass bowls. Add enough water in each bowl to just cover the oats (the water should reach about 1 cm above the oats). Leave to soak for 8 hours. Add a little water during the soaking if the oats have soaked up all water.
2. After soaking, puree the oats (along with the soaking water) in a blender until very smooth. Pour the mixture in to a clean ceramic or glass bowl. The mixture should be creamy and soft. Cover the bowl with a plate and leave to ferment in a warm place for 1-2 days. I left mine on the kitchen bench for just one and a half days and it was just perfect, but in cooler weather you might need to find a warmer place for the bowl or wrap it in tea towels to keep it warm. Keep checking and tasting the mixture and stir it a couple of times whilst fermenting. You might need to leave it for longer (3-4 days), if you want it more sour, so just keep tasting to find the perfect balance.
3. Once the yoghurt is sour enough, take a small batch of the yoghurt to keep as a starter for your next batch. Keep the starter in a sealed container in your fridge. Store the remaining yoghurt in the fridge for up to 3 days.
4. To make the berry version, simply blend the oat yoghurt with some fresh or frozen berries, stevia and vanilla. I made this with frozen berries and had it cold, a bit like frozen yoghurt, and it was so delicious!


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Friday, March 18, 2011
Like her, I tend to get a little bummed when people don't leave comments after arriving at one of my blogs after a little googleing. I have to say that the search terms that land on my blogs aren't near as interesting as the ones Amy gets.
Anyway I am just here saying that if you are one of my cousins and you land on one of my blogs, sure would be nice if you would leave a comment, or send me an email and say, "hey cuz!" I promise, I wont bite!
Maybe we have the same 9th great-grandpa, or we are 15th cousins thrice removed. We can't know if we don't communicate. I promise, I wont bite!
Even if you're not related and you Google my grandma, let's talk about her. I promise, I wont bite!
Maybe we can help each other out. I haven't posted everything yet. I may have something you are looking for. I promise, I wont bite!
And to whoever Googled my aunt from Meridian, Idaho - she is going crazy wondering who is searching for her! You know I had to tell her.
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Leslie Ann, I know exactly what you mean about the search terms, especially ones that interest you as well. Your new design is lovely, really like the green.ReplyDelete
Thanks Barbara!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the mention. It is very frustrating, especially when the search phrase is exactly one of your ancestors. The "fun with search terms" series is my way of adding humor when I'm a little bummed that someone visited and left without making the connection.ReplyDelete
Hi Leslie, We are not cousins, bummer! ~laughs~ But I did want to leave a message that I had visited and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your blogs and your page is very pretty, I like it.ReplyDelete
I am new to blogging and did not realize how frustrating it can get when someone visits and you don't know who or why. I am still tweeking my blog page so I wanted to look at a few more this morning. I found this link from Thomas MacEntee's GeneaBlogger that I follow. He has some great links and I am learning alot.
I really like the way you have shared your documents. I remember a time when people would not share the documents that they had paid for. Good to see that is changing, I have noticed it alot on the new Blogs.
Oops well, there I go rambling again ~smiles~ Good luck with your Research
Hi Kristine! Thanks so much for stopping by and I'm glad you enjoyed my blog!ReplyDelete
Yes, I believe whole heartedly in share and share alike! After all, if you share the same ancestors you should share the information!
Welcome to the blogging world. I know you will enjoy it!


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Reality star and former Paris Hilton sidekick Nicole Richie was taken to the hospital in Los Angeles Monday afternoon after her car was rear-ended by paparazzi tailing her vehicle, police said after the accident.
Richie was driving with another passenger around 2 p.m. PDT when two photogs who were following the star struck the back end of her car, the Beverly Hills Police Department told People magazine.
She was taken to the hospital after the accident.
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"She complained of pain, and her passenger is transporting her to a local hospital," Lt. Tony Lee of the Beverly Hills PD told People.
"Her car sustained moderate damage. No paramedics were called to the scene," Lee said.
The paparazzi who rear-ended Richie was arrested and taken to a Calif. police station because "officers could not verify his identification," Lee said.
The driver was expected to be charged with a misdemeanor traffic violation, Lee said.
Richie has two children with Good Charlotte musician Joel Madden. Neither of the children or Madden were in the vehicle.


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The Flying Dutchmen approach the season faced with a schedule identical to the 2010 campaign. The 102nd year of Hope football will find coach Dean Kreps' Flying Dutchmen trying to shake off the affects of three consecutive 3-7 campaigns.
The Flying Dutchmen approach the season faced with a schedule identical to the 2010 campaign. The 102nd year of Hope football will find coach Dean Kreps' Flying Dutchmen trying to shake off the affects of three consecutive 3-7 campaigns.
The pre-season roster includes 39 players returning from the 2010 squad. The strength of the team would appear to be its defense which could return as many as nine starters from a unit that allowed only nine rushing touchdowns over 10 games, among the best in NCAA Division III. The offense faces a major rebuilding job with the return of just two starters.
The co-captains of the team will be senior Josh Droppers of Portage (Portage Northern HS), junior Brian Lynn of Holland (Holland HS), Ben Van Ausdall of Hudsonville (Unity Christian HS), and Kyle Warren of Grandville (Unity Christian HS). Droppers and Warren are two-time All-MIAA first team honorees, Droppers at offensive tackle and Warren at defensive back.
Droppers and senior guard Alex Doman of Royal Oak (Brother Rice) are the only returning offensive starters. Among the returning players who saw considerable action last season is sophomore tailback Shawn Jackson of Granger, Ind. (Camden Frontier HS) who in five games as a freshman rushed for 397 yards on 81 carries, a team-best 4.9 yards per carry average. His accomplishments included a 93-yard touchdown run, second longest in school history.
Bringing experience to the defense are three players who have lettered for three seasons - back Dan Karam of Grosse Pointe Woods (Warren DeLaSalle HS), end Jared Kimber of Bedford, Ohio (Bedford HS), and back Kyle Warren. Warren has been in the starting lineup since his freshman year while Karam, and senior back Marcus Bradstreet of Grandville (Grandville HS) have been starters the past two seasons.
The Flying Dutchmen return experienced special teams players. Sophomore punter Aaron Thompson of Imlay City (Imlay City HS) was named to the All-MIAA second team as a freshman. Twice during the 2010 season he was named the MIAA's special teams player of the week. He averaged 37.2 yards per punt, had none blocked in 63 attempts and had four punts go over 50 yards, including one covering 70 yards. Placekicker Evan Finch of Ann Arbor (Pioneer HS) was a perfect 16-for-16 on PATs and made 2-of-3 field goals. Senior Chris Schmelz of Chelsea (Chelsea HS), who will move from the defensive backfield to the offense at wide receiver, was among the NCAA Division III punt return leaders in 2010, ranking 20th nationally with an average of 12.7 yards on 17 returns.
The Flying Dutchmen, who will be seeking their first non-league victory since the 2004 season-opener, open on the road at Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday, Sept. 3. The home opener will be the traditional Community Day game against Wisconsin Lutheran on Saturday, Sept. 10. A season highlight will be a night home game against longtime MIAA rival Kalamazoo on Saturday, Oct. 8. Homecoming will be a week later with the Albion Britons coming to town.


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We have a couple of quick casting stories to report this morning. First up, Antonio Banderas will play Pablo Picasso in Carlos Saura's drama 33 dias (33 Days). Per Variety, the movie is "about the painter's emotional turmoil as he worked on masterpiece 'Guernica.' 33 dias refers to the time Picasso spent on the mural, which captured his reaction to the destruction of Basque town of Guernica in 1937 by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War." I would much rather see a biopic done in this fashion; taking a pivotal point of an artist's life and putting all of the focus on that event rather than lumping it into a "greatest hits" narrative. The story will also show his relationship with his lover, French artist Dora Maar, and how the painting was Picaso's "salvation." Even though Banderas has done drama in the past, his recent turn in Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In was powerful and deeply unnerving, and I can't wait to see how he plays Picasso. Filming is set to begin next summer in Paris and Guernica.
Hit the jump for more casting news on the action flick The Tomb.
Jim Caviezel is set to square off against Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in the action movie The Tomb. Stallone is playing a man "framed and incarcerated in a prison of his own master design, and must now figure out how to break out," while Schwarzenegger is an inmate "who fights to keep the prisoners from losing their humanity in their darkest hour as they struggle together to stay alive." Producer Mark Canton (Immortals) told The Mathew Aaron show [via JoBlo] that "Caviezel will be playing the role of the Warden of the prison in which Schwarzenegger & Stallone attempt to escape from." I'm not sure how Caviezel is the right antagonist for these characters since it looks like he could be defeated by a stern gaze from Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Maybe it's a brains-vs-brawn battle?
Schwarzenegger and Stallone will next be seen in The Expendables, which opens August 17th. Caviezel currently stars on the CBS series Person of Interest.


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Conan O'Brien Is a Difficult Customer in Awkward '80s Training Videoby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Conan O'Brien recently revealed on his nightly talk show that he made an appearance in an '80s training video for musical instrument salesmen. The talk show host played a clip from the video, which shows him at an awkward, younger stage pretending to be a difficult customer.
"28 years ago, when I was just starting out in this business, and I had just come to LA and was working as a TV writer, someone came up to me and said, 'Hey, we're shooting this thing,'" he says to the audience and co-host Andy Richter. "'We'll pay you next to nothing. Do you want to do it?' It was for the National Association of Music Merchants."
In the clip, O'Brien pretends to be a pushy customer, making it difficult for the salesman trying to sell him a guitar. The clip that shown has all the characteristics one might think of when imagining a bad '80s instructional video: cheesy sound effects, cheap video effects and bad hair.
After playing it, O'Brien himself mocked the clip, remarking about how high pitched his younger self sounded.
Check out Conan in his younger years by playing the video above.


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Insolvency rates in the UK channel were back to pre-recession levels in Q2, according to official stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK.
The picture is remarkably different to a year ago when reseller failures reached a nine-year high with 99 firms hitting the wall, a pattern that continued until the end of Q1 2012 when 89 firms collapsed.
However, The Channel can reveal that just 64 dealers went under in the most recently completed quarter, bucking forecasts of doom, down 35 per cent year-on-year and 28 per cent down on the last quarter.
"The figures were a bit of a surprise," said Alan Norton, head of intelligence at Graydon UK, who revealed 38 firms went into voluntary liquidation, four faced compulsory liquidation and 22 called in the receivers.
He said a couple additional quarters of data is required before Graydon can say with a high degree of certainty that the worst is over, lest we forget that "market conditions are set to be challenging for some time".
"But part of the Darwinian principle here - survival of the fittest - is that many companies have been through tough times, the weaker ones fell by the wayside and the most resilient remain," he said.
Only one fifth of resellers surveyed across Europe by Canalys indicated business declined in 2011 but around 60 per cent claimed sales were up by five per cent more more.
Alastair Edwards, Canalys principal analyst, claimed: "The channel is in rude heath".
He said resellers are benefiting from the decline in large outsourcing deals as private and public sector customers carve up contracts and send out managed service contracts to smaller suppliers.
Then of course there is the Apple impact, with many investing in skills to help customers deploy iPads and iMacs. And while some SMEs are assessing the way they consume tech, the on-premise model is very substantial.
"Resellers are facing tough times and the economy is challenging in different segments and countries - but our view is that there is still growth for the channel," said Edwards. ®
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On another trip to see my little sis in Springfield, we had to explore a new dining spot! Sis and I actually drive around looking for new little diners to go to...and we found another!
Elton's on Main is your typical diner - nice little family-owned place. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner - things like chopped steak, chicken fingers, country-fried steak and even my blessed pork tenderloin!
While on the way to Elton's we drove by a used car lot and saw this Mustang. The BF loves loves loves Mustangs and this was somethin else so I had to take a picture.
I got a side salad and have to say - it may not look like much - but it was really great! There were carrots, radishes, cheese, fried onions and best of all homemade ranch.
Here's a shot of the diner...the tree in the corner stays up all year I'm guessing and gets decorated for the seasons...it's a fall tree now. It's not fancy - but it's homey.
Sis got the California Melt (veggie burger, swiss, mustard, pickle, rye) and liked it - she said it was darn good for a veggie burger. And for $2.50 extra you get two sides!
There are so many sides to choose from: salad, red beans & rice, black beans & rice, baked potato, french fries, home fries, mac & cheese, broccoli, green beans, cottage cheese, cole slaw, applesauce, pickled beets/eggs (um ew), corn nuggets (wtf), onion rings, california blend, corn, sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes! WHEW - that's a list!
I got the pork tenderloin because I get them whenever I can. They aren't the same as the ones back home but it was good. Crispy breading, juicy thin tenderloin, mm mm good!
As you can see - I got the mac & cheese. it was good - very velveeta shells & cheese but I think homemade because the shells were huge. Very good.
Overall Elton's isn't anything too special or stand out - but if you're hungry and in Springfield - it's worth a stop.


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Even the most adamant of "Madden" fans don't expect each new installment to be mind-blowingly original or reinvent the game of virtual football each time out, but with the series celebrating a landmark quarter century anniversary, you'd be forgiven if just this once you let those expectations be lifted in the hopes that "Madden 25" presents that significant leap forward that has eluded the franchise like cover boy Barry Sanders used to elude defenders.
If you are one of those that hoped the series would present an installment worthy of its biggest anniversary yet, then I'm sorry to tell you the short answer is, it doesn't.
"Madden 25" continues where "Madden 13" left off, in that its main aim is to make the on-the-field part of the game more dynamic. Whereas "Madden 13" did that with a new physics engine, "Madden 25" adds precision modifiers, which allow you to pull off some enhanced moves in the run/after the catch play. Accomplished by using the left trigger or shoulder button at the optimal time, it's a system that actually does benefit the running game tremendously and, for those willing to explore it, can create some pretty incredible highlight reel maneuvers, such as the ability to juke right after a spin and blow past multiple defenders. It's reminiscent of the incredible "charge" ability in "NFL 2K5," but with a flair all its own.
Off the field, the biggest addition (though it's somewhat of a returning feature) is the Owner mode, which sees you take the role of owner and manage everything from soda costs to staff decisions. Like the precision modifiers, it's a feature that benefits from some commitment and yields most of its entertainment from playing like a maniacal control freak a la Al Davis, making dangerously bold media comments that throw your staff under the bus or just saying screw it and moving the team to Portland, Oregon (FYI, my Oregon Hipsters are 2013 NFC champions). Considering you can still play your season in between the shenanigans, it's actually my preferred franchise mode for the added options.
Those additions are nice, but it's now officially inexcusable that the series' biggest problems still remain. There still isn't a quick season mode; you still can't skip the pre-season with the press of a button; switching from week to week still has long loading times; offenses are still too pass heavy; dull menus are piled upon dull menus to navigate towards anything; the game's pick up and play ability gets pushed aside more and more; crowds look terrible (seriously, what the hell?); announcers repeat lines stockpiled over years; the game will randomly just decide you're going to lose and pile on misfortune on top of misfortune; presentation is inconsistent; and so on, and so on.
It's really a shame that so many of those problems exist too, as certain elements (especially the running game) are as good as they've been in franchise history. When looking at "Madden 25" as a whole, though, you're left with a sloppy experience that doesn't put enough focus on making much-needed improvements to go along with the headline additions, and as a result, doesn't justify the $60 asking price unless you are among the "Madden" hardcore or really crave a particular new feature and roster updates. If that isn't you, then there's no shame in sticking with "Madden 13" for another year, as it's at least as good as "Madden 25" in several respects.
You're forgiven if you expected more of "Madden 25" than the same old stuff, because the biggest "Madden" release to date could have built upon some of the exciting new additions introduced in "Madden 13" and easily been the best one yet. What's unforgivable is that EA Tiburon blew that golden opportunity and chose to use the game's big anniversary as a chance to celebrate its traditional one step forward, two step back progression system, instead of crafting a game that leads the prominent franchise into a new era of greatness.
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13th District Probation
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- Carrie Rae Frank, 35, was arrested on a probation violation.
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February 7
- A deputy was dispatched to the Atwood Sinclair in reference to a suspicious vehicle.
February 6
- Jeffrey Alan Lytle, 28, was arrested on a Larimer County warrant for failure to comply. Bond was set at $500.
- Ralph Henry Goeglein Jr., 32, was served with a Logan County warrant for failure to comply. Bond was set at $5,000.
- Deputies responded to a cold burglary report in the 7500 block of County Road 3.