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SANFORD, Fla. – Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, who drew criticism for his department's actions in the Trayvon Martin case, was fired Wednesday.
"After much thoughtful discussion and deep consideration for the issues facing the city of Sanford, I have determined the police chief needs to have the trust and respect of the elected officials and the confidence of the entire community," City Manager Norton Bonaparte said in a news release.
"We need to move forward with a police chief that all the citizens of Sanford can support. I have come to this decision in light of the escalating divisiveness that has taken hold of the city."
Local 6 contacted a spokesperson for Lee on Thursday, but was told Lee won't be commenting on his termination. Local 6 obtained Lee's termination letter, which you can read here.
The city said Lee just didn't have the support he needed and that tension in Sanford was growing by the day. The decision to officially fire Lee came after countless protests. Trayvon Martin's family blames Lee for the handling on the investigation, and last week came to Sanford for the first time since their son's death to again push for Lee's termination.
The Martin family's attorney Ben Crump said they agree with the city's decision and "will cooperate with any pending internal investigations into the police department."
Bonaparte said nothing sparked this decision now and called the decision "regrettable" and "unfortunate."
Lee himself sensed the need to remove himself from the growing public furor and suggested he quit, but was told no. The city manager said all along he would not decide Lee's fate until after the internal police review of the case was complete.
"I had said that, but in April it became clear to me once the attorney charged Mr. Zimmerman with second degree murder that it was going to be quite some time before we'd be able to get an independent assessment because it's an ongoing criminal matter," Bonaparte said. "It seems like only after the Zimmerman case has been taken care of would there be an opportunity for the independent review and that's why I said in April we needed to look to move forward and that's why we're continuing to do that today."
Lee will receive a three-month severance and a week's salary in addition to any earned time off.
As a search for Lee's replacement is carried out, interim Chief Richard W. Myers will remain on the job.
Lee had submitted a resignation letter in April that said he was stepping down, but city commissioners voted not to accept it.
In March, he had said he was stepping down temporarily in the wake of the public furor over the failure of the police to arrest George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who has said his shooting of Martin on February 26 was an act of self-defense.
Also Wednesday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office released 911 tapes of calls placed the morning after the shooting, when police had still not identified the 17-year--old victim. He was unarmed and carrying no identification when he was shot while walking to his father's girlfriend's house after picking up some snacks at a nearby store.
In the first call, Trayvon Martin's father, Tracy Martin, calls police at 8:39 a.m. asking to file a missing persons report, which typically would not be accepted until 24 hours after a person has been discovered missing. "It hasn't really been 24 hours," he tells the police dispatcher. "But I'm from Miami and my son's up here with me ... he don't know anybody up here."
In the return call, placed nine minutes later, the dispatcher tells the victim's father that an officer is en route to where he was staying.
Lee had said Zimmerman was not charged in the shooting because there were no grounds to disprove his account of the events -- that Martin had attacked him. Since then, Zimmerman has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
The incident sparked a national debate as to whether the shooting was an act of racial profiling by Zimmerman and about the state's "stand-your-ground" law.


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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) – CBS announced this week that Jennifer Love Hewitt is joining the cast of "Criminal Minds" this fall.
She will play Kate Callahan, a seasoned undercover agent whose superior work at the FBI has earned her a place in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
"We're thrilled to introduce a new special agent by adding the very talented Jennifer Love Hewitt to our amazing cast," said Executive Producer and Showrunner Erica Messer. "Many of us on the show have enjoyed working with her over the years and look forward to again. We have exciting storylines planned for her character and the entire BAU team as we head into our 10th season."
Hewitt is returning to series TV after five seasons starring on CBS' "Ghost Whisperer," which aired from 2005 to 2010. Before that, she was in the ensemble of the Fox drama "Party of Five." Her films include "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and its sequel.
CBS says her "Criminal Minds" character will be introduced in the series' 10th season premiere, set to air October 1st.
The "Criminal Minds" cast also includes Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore and A.J. Cook.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- With Opening Day four weeks away, Astros owner Jim Crane said Tuesday his goal was to still have a larger portion of the Houston television market to have access to watching the games this season.
The Astros and Comcast have been battling in the court system for the last few months over television rights fees concerning Comcast SportsNet Houston, the fledgling sports network owned by the Astros, Houston Rockets and Comcast that launched in October 2012.
Only about 40 percent of the Houston TV market has access to Comcast, whose parent company filed for bankruptcy last year. The Astros have sought to dismiss the case so they can retain their broadcast rights or find another carrier.
Crane said Comcast was supposed to make an offer later this week to lend the network more money or put another offer to both the Rockets and Astros.
"We have one position," he said. "Basically, the position has been that we cannot cut a long-term 20-year bad deal. The way this thing is shaping up, the equity we had in the network would be wiped out, and that's a big hit to the team long term."
The Astros contend they've been paid only about half of their rights fees to date.
Meanwhile, Crane said he's still working with Major League Baseball to find a way to stream games online, either through Major League Baseball Advanced Media or Comcast.
"Listen, it's been tough," he said. "When you've got both teams in the city not getting paid for their rights fees and these things continue longer, it needs to be resolved. I think they thought it would go smoother putting it into bankruptcy, but it hasn't. It's gotten worse."


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George Hammond wrote: > GH: You've totally missed the point. I DON'T WANT TO CONTROL ANYTHING. > What I want to know is, what is the Standard Deviation of plant > growth in the "real environment" when we are talking strictly about > a crop of geneetically identical plants? > Now, somebody in agriculture must KNOW the answer to this, say > for potatoes, or onions or some other asexual crop plant. It depends on the variety and on the trait, and it depends if you are talking about the SD within a field or between fields. For something like flower color, the SD would be close to zero. For something like height or yield, it would fairly uniform within a field (barring spots which are overly wet/dry, or otherwise inappropropriate), but could be quite large between fields, depending on how distant they are. Breeders generally call this genotype x environment interactions. Genotypes are known which are more stable across environments than others. In the end, the SD is difficult to predict without measuring it. Keep in mind that plants need not reproduce vegetatively to be genetically identical. Hybrids from inbred parents (as in a field of corn) are genetically identical. So are inbred plants (as in a field of soybean) and apomictic plants (as in dandelions). Because of the variability that a given variety of genetically identical plants exists, seed companies generally avoid having a central breeding station. Instead, they depend on having multiple breeding stations, each one breeding for the immediate vecinity. > > > snip > > -- > BE SURE TO VISIT MY WEBSITE, BELOW: > ----------------------------------------------------------- > George Hammond, M.S. Physics > Email: ghammond at mediaone.net > Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html > -----------------------------------------------------------


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This set has a high profile, shows values and personality. Where the threads come together, that's the place for management. Be equipped for success.
Communication, coordination, representation – all in one
Assume leadership responsibility, take business decisions, promote expertise – the management office is a central space where a variety of changing tasks are in motion. The focus is on communication – with colleagues on the board, in employee meetings, with business partners and customers. Privacy, discretion and confidentiality at the highest levels require an ambience of style and clarity.
The desk is sometimes a meeting table. The accessory furniture highlights the manager's status. The chosen design language is less a backdrop than an unequivocal statement of corporate values and leadership philosophy. This is the source.
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Before long we'll never be in that room again. We'll never fill its space with our sighs. We'll never fog up its windows with our heat. We'll never lie on its floor, limbs and fingers and mouths and even our eyelashes folded into one another, gripping softly but for dear life.
Before long we'll never splash that room's walls with our laughter. You'll never prop yourself up on the arm of that couch against that wall and say, "Come sit on me." You'll never play for me from exactly that spot. Our silly songs and sillier jokes won't exist in that place.
Before long that room won't hear my wails as you hold me tight enough to press into my bones your promises. We'll never cup each others chins there, eyes little trembling pools, heads shaking no, no, I couldn't without you. We'll never cross off ideas for future children's names up those two flights of stairs and down the hall.
Pretty soon I won't place my hand on that closet door for support. Pretty soon any moans within that room will belong to someone else. Before long we won't slow dance to the sunrise breaking into its panes.
In no time our mornings will come much earlier.
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My new (used) Cannondale R300 has proved to be a little challenging to transform into a reasonable commuter bike.
Specifically, I've found it a little challenging to be able to carry the amount of stuff I want, with the flexibility I want, on this frame. I'm really attempting to take a low-end "racing" geometry bike, and turn it in to a touring bike. No small feat.
Fitting the Tubus Cosmo rear rack was pretty straight forward, thanks to the advice (and assortment of adapters and conversion parts) of Wayne from TheTouringStore.com. However, the short chain stays on this bike still gave me issue with heal clearance from time to time. Also, this rack (as seen in the picture) has a lower set of bars in addition to the upper set – and this is where I wanted my panniers to hang. Why on the lower rack? First off, I carry a fair amount of weight at times, and keeping that weight lower has advantages for bike handling and stability. Secondly, I like to put stuff on the top at times – like other cargo, or a rear "trunk" bag I have that straps to the top rails. Either of those two things make it so you can't take panniers on and off without a great deal of trouble. There was also a bit of an annoying issue where the bolts that hold the hangers on the panniers were hitting various spots in the rack preventing them from hanging securely in some positions.
Unfortunately, moving the panniers to the lower rack moved me from a situation where I might hit my heel on the bags under certain circumstances, to a situation where the heel was definitely going to hit the bags each and every pedal stroke.
However, the solution to this was actually another idea that was given to me by Wayne from TheTouringStore.com. Basically, it is a small modification to the bags to make them hang at an angle instead of straight up and down. Picture the side view of a bike with a pannier hanging on it. Then, picture moving the rear, upper corner of the bag up slightly. You'll realize that the front bottom corner – the place you foot would hit, will actually swing back slightly giving you more clearance for your heel. This was the modification I was going to make.
My particular bags kind of, well, suck. Generally speaking, panniers are made to carry most of their load in a vertical orientation – that is to say, they are taller than they are wide. This is due in a large part to the heel clearance issue I was facing. My bags, however, are oriented horizontally. Kind of a pain in the butt. These are another one of those items that I bought early on in my cycling experience, when I didn't really have all of the information I needed to make the best product selection. However, I have them now and I'm not in a super big hurry to replace them, especially if there is a simple modification that can make them more functional for me.
There is, however, one thing about these bags that made this modification a whole lot easier. As you can see from the photo, the bags can actually be detached from backing that attaches to the bike. This backing is a hard plastic sheet covered in canvas, sporting both straps and zippers on both ends. The zippers are how the bags are attached, but you can also use the straps (sans bag) to attach stuff that might not fit into the bags – think sleeping bag here.
This makes things easier for me, because what I need to do is rotate the attached aluminum bar in a way that will cause the front, bottom corner to rotate back and up. The aluminum bar is simply bolted through the plastic sheet on both ends. All I need to do is unbolt the back end of this bar and drill a new hole in the plastic lower down.
Drilling through the canvas actually turned out to be surprisingly difficult. I was using a standard drill bit, so I'm thinking it just never "grabbed" – and thus getting through the canvas was more of a friction / wearing down operation than a drilling operation. However, I was able to get cleanly through the plastic sheet on the inside once the canvas was pierced.
I chose to rotate the bar down as far as I could – which put me right up against the riveted pin that anchored the bungee cord. It would actually have been possible to rotate further by also relocating the bungee cord anchor, but I decided to try it without that extra step first to see if it worked out.
After I drilled the first pannier, I stuffed the bag with towels and a ubolt to simulate a fully loaded bag and mounted it on the bike. It was a good, stable fit on the lower rails, with the vertical bar going up to the upper rails in the rear actually providing additional stability. I had the bike already mounted on my training rollers so that I could actually test the fit out in as close to real-world as possible without actually going outside. The result? I had about an inch of clearance with my heal artificially stretched out as far as possible while clipped in to the pedals. Success!
This simple modification took me maybe 30 minutes at most – including my silly mistake of drilling the wrong end of the second pannier!However, it saved me perhaps a couple of hundred dollars or so in the short term. At some point I'm going to have to upgrade to something a little more weatherproof anyhow, but as we head into spring this is probably something that I can put off for now. And even after I do get different panniers, these bags will be a lot more useful and usable for trips to the store, camping, or whatever else may come up.
Again, a big thanks to Wayne for the whole idea of modifying these in this way, and for the great service getting the rack itself fit to my bike properly. One of these days I'll pick up a set of forks that are the same geometry, but with eyelets in 'em and get a rack on the front too.


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Eating fast food and baked goods has been linked to an increased chance of damaging a person's mental health, according to a study.
The study by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada in Spain found people who consume fast foods on a regular basis are are 51% more likely to develop depression, according to PsychCentral.
The results also showed that those participants who ate the most fast food and commercial baked goods were more likely to be single, less active and have poor dietary habits (eating less fruit, nuts, fish, vegetables and olive oil). It was also common for individuals in this group to smoke and work over 45 hours per week.
The study, which was published in Public Health Nutrition, is not the first to connect burgers, fries and donuts to poor mental health. The Mayo Clinic has previously cited a British study that tied junk food to symptoms of depression in middle-age people.


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Hugin Images tab
The Images tab is used to manage the images in a hugin project. Additionally the positions of the images in the final panorama can be edited here.
Adding images
Images can either be added with the Add individual images... and Add time series of images... button or via drag and drop. Add time series of images... adds all images with a similar file modification time as the selected image.
Control points
Individual control points can be created and edited in the Hugin Control Points tab, here in the images tab they can be manipulated together.
Automatic creation of control points can be done by pressing the Create Ctrl Points button (if you select just some images, then control points will only be found for those selected). hugin will then launch autopano or autopano-sift and add the detected control points to the project. The Hugin Preferences determine which of these autopano programs should be used and set further autopano options. Remove Points does exactly what its name suggests, it removes control points between the selected images, or all control points if no image is selected.
Image orientation
In the Image Orientation section, the position of the selected images in the final panorama can be specified by yaw, pitch and roll angle (in degrees). The Reset button will reset all angles to zero. This is useful if the optimizer could not determine the image orientation well and got stuck with a suboptimal result. It is possible to select multiple images at the same time. Changes in orientation will be applied to all selected images
Select Anchor this image for position to indicate that a particular image shouldn't move when optimising with the hugin Optimizer tab. Only one image can be the anchor, and by default this is the first image in the project.
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Master your ability to speak, understand, and read Spanish by taking the final installment in our unique three-part Speed Spanish learning series. In this advanced-level course, you'll learn the final six recipes that will serve as templates to help you create any Spanish sentence you want. Guided practice will include lots of new vocabulary, pronunciation, and speed drills, as well as in-depth study of Spanish parts of speech to help you speak and understand Spanish in a snap. The goal of this course is not just learning the recipes—it's also to help you use them spontaneously so that you'll never be at a loss for words!
There are many sounds in Spanish that we don't have in English, so we'll start off our first lesson by practicing pronunciation. What's more, we'll practice Recipes 1 and 2, extending Recipe 2 so that you can express yourself better in the past tense. Once you finish this lesson, your pronunciation will have improved, and you'll know how to use Recipes 1 and 2 even better than before.
Today's lesson is a first introduction into what's usually referred to as the preterite tense. During this lesson and the ones that follow, you'll learn when and how to use the preterite and the imperfect when describing events that happened in the past, and you'll learn an assortment of time phrases that will help you reinforce your use of the past tense. When you're finished, you'll appreciate how the Spanish language carves up events and situations that have occurred in the past.
Throughout the course, we'll be reviewing what you've learned in previous lessons, so today you'll practice a number of recipes that'll look familiar to you. Working with these recipes, you'll learn what it takes to transition smoothly from one recipe to another. When you've completed this lesson, your speaking and writing skills will be more polished than ever before because you'll know how to use transitional phrases.
The verb ser has peculiar verb forms, and today you'll learn those different forms framed up against its partner verb, estar. After practicing this lesson's helpful drills, you'll know when to use ser and when to use estar. Once you've done this, your next step is to learn the Fun Phrases associated with ser and estar. We'll also practice Recipes 1 through 4 and learn some extended verb forms. After today's lesson, you'll know all there is to know about Recipes 1 through 4!
During the previous lessons, you've been learning and reviewing vocabulary while improving your pronunciation skills at the same time. This lesson is no different, but the focus today will be on distinguishing the preterite from the imperfect tenses. When you're finished with today's lesson, you'll know the full range of Recipes 1 through 6, preterite and all.
In today's lesson, I'll show you a few new verbs while reviewing Recipes 1 through 6. After that, we'll move on to an in-depth review of Recipe 7, which will give you options on how to package past events. Accompanying this lesson are practice drills designed to improve your ability to respond spontaneously in Spanish. You're now midway through the course, so you'll want to practice what you're learning here with native speakers of Spanish.
Today we'll go over the complete range of Recipe 7 and go through a few related exercises. You'll learn a number of commonly used short and crisp phrases that are associated with Recipe 7. You'll also learn how to apply Recipe 7 to hacer/dar/decir, verbs, which you need to know only because you'll be using them all the time. Besides learning more about Recipe 7, we'll also review Recipes 1 through 6. When you've completed this lesson, you'll feel comfortable using so-called irregular Spanish verbs, because you'll know the underlying pattern of these verbs.
Spanish has flexible word order with some constraints, so today you'll learn how and when you can change the word order around. We'll review Recipe 8, which you learned in Speed Spanish II, and I'll introduce you to Recipe 9, which I like to call the Se Habla Español recipe. Later, we'll review reflexives, and then you'll learn some new ones and run them through a number of recipes. Because this lesson is chock-full of material, you'll be busy with fun!
Remember in the first Speed Spanish course when you learned all about the particles, lo/la/me. Later in Speed Spanish II, we expanded on them. Now you've made it all the way to Speed Spanish III, and it's time that you learn the full range of particle usages. You'll learn how to incorporate these new particles into your conversations and, as always, we'll practice our recipes. Then you'll learn a host of new verbs that you can use in your everyday Spanish conversations.
In this lesson, we'll review the recipe that produces would verb phrases, and you'll learn its capacity to express probability. Besides learning more about Recipe 10, you'll learn a new recipe that will help you to express the future. This is Recipe 11. Because this lesson is building toward the subjunctive recipes, you'll also learn a number of phrases that can trigger the subjunctive. As we'll do in every lesson, we'll go over some new vocabulary words. We'll pay special attention to ser and ir in this lesson, too. When you're finished, you'll have completed Recipes 10 and 11.
The focus of this lesson, like all the others, is the recipes. Today, you'll build on what you've learned in previous lessons by practicing Recipes 12 through 14. Laying the foundation for the subjunctive in the previous lesson, this lesson does the same and more so that you'll be prepared for the subjunctives recipes in Lesson 12. After you finish this lesson, you'll have learned Recipes 1 through 14.
If you've ever heard the phrase, Viva Las Vegas, you've made the first step toward learning the subjunctive. In this lesson, framed up against the memories of Señor Macías, Platero, and David Smith, you'll learn the present and past subjunctives. After you finish this, our final lesson, you'll have learned a total of 17 recipes that should help you speak fluent Spanish! You now have the tools you need to read, write, and say whatever you want. It's up to you now to seek out Spanish speakers. May your recipes be with you!


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Guest: 長与千種 (Chigusa Nagayo), a professional female wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the tag team The Crush Gals with long-time partner Lioness Asuka.
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This episode marks Itao leaving the show abruptly, he used to sit next to Matsumoto so he jokes about this by turning to the person next to him and calling them Itao. According to Japanese Wikipedia, Itao Itsuji got involved with a girl later found to be underage. This scandal led to him having to step down from TV work until his appeal went through.
Matsumoto mocks Housei's clothing as being like a "Baka Baker". Later he also tries to up the momentum and quiet atmosphere by getting everyone to pick up the pace with random answers and cheers of "Yeah" and "Go! Go!".
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LAMAR – This tax season, Lamar Community College is partnering with the Denver-based Piton Foundation to help hard-working families become more financially secure by providing free tax preparation assistance through the Tax Help Colorado program.
Beginning Feb. 1, 2014 IRS-certified Lamar Community College students will prepare and e-file tax returns free of charge for individuals with household incomes of less than about $50,000 a year.
Tax Help Colorado has a presence on 18 college campuses and operates 27 free tax sites statewide. More than 30 percent of Colorado families are eligible to participate in the program, which was created to help alleviate the financial burden of tax preparation on families that are striving to achieve financial stability.
Many of these families are also eligible for valuable tax benefits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit, and the tax-preparers at Lamar Community College's site specialize in ensuring that taxpayers receive the refunds they deserve.
One of the nation's most successful anti-poverty tools, the EITC helps struggling families make ends meet. In 2013, Tax Help Colorado helped nearly 10,000 taxpayers receive more than $18.5 million in tax refunds, including nearly 6.8 million from the Earned Income Tax Credit.
In addition, the program saved lower-income taxpayers nearly $2 million in commercial tax preparation fees.
This free service, which is quick and confidential, will be offered at Lamar Community College from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Feb. 1st, 8th, and 15th in the Betz Technology Center.
People who are getting their taxes prepared at Lamar Community College should bring the following documents:
All W-2, 1099s and other income-related documents.
Proof of mortgage interest, property taxes, daycare payments, college education expenses, charitable contributions, and all other tax-deductible expenses.
For college expenses: In addition to Form 1098T from your college, you must bring your own records of expenses paid for tuition, books, fees and supplies.
Social Security cards (or ITINs) for all family members. Photo I.D. required.
A copy of last year's tax returns, if available.
Bank account number and routing number to direct deposit the refund. With direct deposit, refunds are received in 10 to 14 days.
A list of all the Tax Help Colorado sites, as well as locations of other free tax assistance sites in Colorado, is available by dialing 2-1-1 (it's a free call), visiting piton.org/eitc, or finding Tax Help Colorado on Facebook (facebook.com/taxhelpcolorado) and Twitter (@TaxHelpCo).
The Piton Foundation sponsors Tax Help Colorado as part of its efforts to help move families from poverty and dependence to self-sufficiency. Piton is a private foundation located in Denver, Colorado. It was established in 1976 by Denver oilman Sam Gary.


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ADATA S511 240GB Solid State Drive Review (Page 11)
AS SSD Benchmark
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.2.3577.40358
Developer Homepage: Alex Intelligent Software
Product Homepage: Alex Intelligent Software
Download here: http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?cat_id=4&download_id=9
AS determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. The synthetic tests are to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without the use of the operating system caches.
In all synthetic tests the test file size is 1GB. AS can also determine the access time of the SSD, the access of which the drive is determined to read through the entire capacity of the SSD (Full Stroke). The write access test is only to be met with a 1 GB big test file. At the end of the tests three values for the read and write as well as the overall performance will be issued. In addition to the calculated values which are shown in MB/s, they are also represented in IO per seconds (IOPS).
Note: AS SSD is a great benchmark for many tests, but since Crystal Disk Mark covers a broader range of 4K tests and HD Tune Pro covering sequential speeds, we will only use the Copy Benchmark from AS SSD.
- Copy Benchmark
In AS SSD's Copy Benchmark we noticed that the ADATA S511 is a little slower than some of the older SF-2281 controlled drives, but ADATA was able to outperform the older SF-1200 controlled drives.
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KC man gets 14 years for funding al-Qaida
A Kansas City businessman who pleaded guilty more than three years ago to providing financial support to al-Qaida has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Khalid Ouazzani was sentenced in a Kansas City federal court Monday.
The 35-year-old had faced up to 65 years in prison for bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to support a terrorist group.
In his plea bargain, Ouazzani admitted making false claims to borrow money for a used auto parts business and wiring the proceeds to a bank in Dubai.
That money was used to purchase an apartment that later sold for a $17,000 profit, which was given to al-Qaida. Ouazzani also admitted sending the terror group $6,500 from the sale of his business.
Prosecutors say Ouazzani swore an oath of allegiance to al-Qaida.


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Human space travel! Already difficult because of the gnarly technology and expensive £$€ it costs but even more difficult because humans just can't stay alive long enough for interstellar trips. We need to, like, have sex to procreate and raise kids and stuff.
Why is sex so important? Aside from the obvious, space trips to other stars need hundreds of years to complete and the average life span of a human just doesn't cut it. We need generations of humans, a whole civilization of people to make that trip. And that means babies. And gravity.
Yep, gravity! Of which there is none in space. That lack of gravity translates to weightlessness which is terrible for humans over a long period of time: it decreases our blood volume, atrophies our muscles, diminishes our bone mineral content and screws with our vision. But most terrible is that it makes it increasingly difficult to have sex. Biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School says:
"Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, apparently, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls. Think about it: you have no friction, you have no resistance."
Not only that, scientist have no idea what the repercussions of raising a child in gravity-less space would be. Would it disrupt embryonic development? Will the baby have weaker bones? Can you even have a baby? Seriously, giving birth is aided by gravity (mothers need the weight of the baby to push 'em out), without that gravity and weight, how would that happen? It's messy.
Our only answer now: we need to create a way to simulate gravity on a spacecraft. For the sex. [Life Science, Image Credit: Shutterstock/1971yes]


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Without curbside pickup and just 30 recycling bins scattered throughout more than 1,200-square miles, Walton County recycled more than 1.5 million pounds of trash in 2013.
"We have crews at the landfill who work four days a week pulling anything that can be recycled and through different vendors we sell metals, plastics, cardboards, etc. for the going rate," said Louis Svehla, public information manager for Walton County. "We've tried a combination of different programs, but this one works well and is cost effective."
Down in the dumps
From household trash to the recycling that is dropped off at the blue bins, Walton County's trash goes through a precise process before it's buried in the landfill.
As the landfill is situated just down the road from the jail in DeFuniak Springs, inmates provide most of the manpower to separate every last item that can be recycled or sold. Last year, the county made $141,112 by selling recyclables.
"It all goes in the general funds," Svehla explained. "The program saves money and landfill space."
The landfill is pretty organized for what is, essentially, a trash pile. A typical crew of four sorts household trash, takes apart electronics for metals � rainy day projects Svhela said � and sorts through the recycling that comes in.
Mark Simmons, equipment operator, oversees the inmate crews. He works from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and strives to find even more ways to keep the landfill clear.
"My goal is to pull as much stuff as I can so I can keep it from being buried," he said.
It was Simmons' idea to find a proper use for clothing when he started to see a lot of it come in. Now, the landfill keeps a semi-truck trailer on site to be filled with clothes that then get cleaned and sent to disaster areas. He's currently looking for ways to get untreated and treated lumber to chipboard companies as well as composting yard waste.
Working in the landfill, Simmons sees not just waste, but wastefulness. Items such as jewelry, coins and even paper money are common sights, which he keeps locked up in a tackle box.
"I see people's lives thrown away everyday," he said.
Salvageable items are kept to be used in the county � sports equipment is commonly thrown away or dropped off at the landfill. The county even hosted yard sales to sell like new goods that come through the facility. Antiques, furniture and like-new items are kept in a trailer to be saved for sales.
"We've sold an amazing oak or cherry armoire from the 1800s. Sold for $100 like that," Svehla said snapping his fingers.
'Do we need pickup?'
Walton County is different from its neighboring counties in that sanitation is paid for through a half-cent sales tax.
While Svehla admits that curbside recycling pickup would encourage more folks to do their part, it's difficult to create regulations for such a diverse area.
"We have a pretty good population of tourists and transients, and several condos and HOAs already pay a third party for recycling pickup," he explained. "Do we need pickup if we're already recycling?"
Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort�s Homeowners Association piloted a recycling pickup program in late 2011. With more than 4,000 homeowners, only about 500 of the recycling bins were used.
"Five hundred sounds like a lot, but out of 4,000, it really isn't," explained Victoria Klamerus, assistant executive director for Sandestin HOA. "A lot of our residents are not permanent and didn't feel it would be worth it and Waste Management would need a certain percentage of participation to keep the costs low."
Daily, Sandestin employees pick up resident�s trash and bring it to a single location where Waste Management can pick it up in a single swoop.
Residents bring their recyclables to the one and only bin in the resort, which is filled frequently. Some utilize the blue bags, which are recognized by sanitation and brought to the recycling bin.
The blue bags stemmed from a program the county tried before the current system.
"It was intended for sanitation workers to separate the trash and recycling," Svehla said. "But then some people started using them as free trash bags, which defeated the purpose."
The recycling bins placed throughout North and South Walton totaled more than 585 tons of recyclable items in 2013. The county also offers residents the opportunity to drop off at the landfill. For larger items, the county hosts amnesty and community clean up days, to pick up items such as household chemicals, tires, computers, furniture, appliances and more.
Looking ahead
When asked on Facebook, many Walton County residents were in favor of curbside recycling pickup, complaining that dragging their bags of recyclables was a burden. But do they know that Walton County does most of the heavy lifting for them?
"I know we have had numerous news stories about what we are doing at the landfill, but if people do not read them or see them, it is hard to get that message out," Svehla said. "Many, I believe, may also be skeptical that we are actually doing what we say we are doing."
As the number of Walton County inhabitants continues to grow, county officials are constantly looking for ways to improve recycling efforts.
"We are doing a lot more than we were three years ago," Svehla said. "The programs continue to evolve. Curbside pickup is not a dead issue, but there is still a long way to go to trying to make it work."
GO GREEN: Walton County recycles many materials including: Plastics No. 1 & No. 2, aluminum cans, metal (all types), newspaper, magazines, telephone books, corrugated cardboard, tires, used oil, and electronics. For a list of recycling bins around the county and to stay updated on Community Clean Up and Amnesty days, visit www.co.walton.fl.us. The next Clean-up Day will be at Legion Park will be April 26th from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.


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Located on MariSol's oceanfront bluffs, this unbelievable modern home graces Malibu with amazing whitewater & island views.
Designed with the finest architectural integrity and winner two years in a row for best custom home, this 9bd, 11ba home will truly appeal to the most discerning buyers. The dramatic entrance is flanked by tropical landscaping and art that reveals wide walls of glass opening out to an infinity pool and Pacific Ocean beyond. This jaw-dropping home also includes your own private sandy beach, roof-top putting green, outdoor cabanas, movie theater & gym. Most contemporary homes rely on bold forms and stark spatial relationships. This home dares to peel back its silky skin to reveal muscular board-formed concrete walls to remind the visitor that at its heart, this home is a structure for living & not just a sculpture to inhabit. As soon as you pass through the gates you'll discover this world of privacy & tranquility – your own personal paradise.
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Ginisang Upo
Ginisang Pansit Bihon with Upo
Sardinas, Upo at Sotanghon
Sugpo at Upo Buridibud
Boiled Vegetables Salad
Dinengdeng with Inihaw na Tilapia
Batso, Batcho, Sautéed Upo with Dried Shrimp
Batso nga Tabungao
Ginisang Upo with Sotanghon
Sautéed Hairy Melon, Pinoy Upo Style
Dinengdeng, Green Leafy Version
Steamed Vegetables, Pinasingaw na Gulay
Tabungaw (Upo) nga Buridibud
For today I tried to use upo as the main vegetable ingredient of pansit miki. The outcome was good it really compliments the already chewy and delicious miki noodles. Upo when cook is crisp and chunky. I would love to cook this dish again if I have to.
Here is the recipe of my Pansit Miki with Upo, try it.
1 bunch, bok choy or pechay, cut to pieces
1 small carrot, skinned, cut into thin strips
1 cup pork belly, boiled, cut into strips
1 cup shrimp, trimmed shelled
3-4 pieces chicken liver fried, cut into small wedges
1 400g pack thick fresh Hokien noodles
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup dark soy sauce
1/2 cup oyster sauce
1/2 bulb, garlic, peeled, crushed, chopped
1 medium size onion, peeled, chopped
1-2 tsp. ground peppercorn
2-3 tbsp. parsley flakes
cooking oil
Cooking procedure:
In a wok or large frying pan, heat generous amount of cooking oil. Stir cook the garlic and onion until fragrant. Add in the pork and continue to stir cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Then add in the chicken liver, fish sauce and soy sauce, continue to stir cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add in the ground peppercorns, parsley flakes, the shrimp and oyster sauce, continue to stir cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add in 1 1/2 to 2 cups of water, bring to a boil and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Add in the carrot, upo and miki noodles, stir cook for 4 to 6 minutes or until the upo and miki noodles are just cook, the sauce should be thickened by now then add in the pechay and continue to stir cook for another 2 to 3 minutes, correct saltiness if required.


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Part I of an Interview with Andrew Blauner, Editor of Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a DifferenceAndrew Blauner, founder of Blauner Books Literary Agency, is the editor of the anthology Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference. He assembled an all-star team of writers—including Ira Berkow, Buzz Bissinger, Frank Deford, Robert Lipsyte, David Maraniss, John McPhee, George Plimpton and George Vecsey—to not necessarily write stories about great coaches but rather to craft great stories about coaches. The result is 25 disparate and fascinating perspectives on the dynamics of the coach-player relationship. You can find ordering information for Coach here. I recently spoke at length with Blauner about this book and the subject of coaching in general.
Friedman: "What do you think readers would be most surprised to learn from your book Coach?"
Blauner: "Many things. There is an axiom that some of the best sports writing is done by people who are not sportswriters by trade. While Coach has (pieces by) some of the best sportswriters—Frank Deford, Ira Berkow and Robert Lipsyte, among others—maybe one of the surprises is how many contributors who are not sportswriters have written these terrific pieces about athletic coaches: people like Ben Cheever, David Maraniss, who is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Washington Post, Francine Prose, who is a literary writer and a novelist, Darin Strauss, who I think nobody associates with being a sportswriter, Andrew Soloman—who is probably the most dramatic example; Andrew wrote a book called The Noonday Demon that was a National Book Award winner. I think that this speaks to one of the larger points about the ways in which sports transcend the rest of life and how these coaches, these people in the writers' lives, transcended the basketball court or baseball field and taught them things and gave them experiences that went way beyond learning the crossover dribble or how to hit a curveball."
Friedman: "Of the coaches who are featured in the book, which one would you have most liked to play for and why?"
Blauner: "That's a great question. (long pause) That's a tough call. The first piece in the book is by George Vecsey of the New York Times and he writes about Casey Stengel. It's hard to imagine not wanting to have played for Casey--for his wisdom, for his wit, for his experience. That piece in particular is, in a way, an anomaly for the book, because most of the pieces in the book are about coaches who nobody knows about or has heard of because they are not coaches on the professional or college level. (I like) the idea of playing for Casey Stengel or, for that matter, Al McGuire--who is the subject of a Frank Deford piece in the book. One of the little coincidences or ironies about the book is that there is a terrific coach who is written about by Buzz Bissinger; Buzz, of course, is the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. He writes about his high school coach at Dalton School in Manhattan, a guy named Al Boyers. When I asked Buzz to contribute to the book I had no idea that he had gone to Dalton, which was the rival to the school that I played for, Collegiate. So I played against the coach that he wrote about. Coach Boyers was always the guy on the other side and Buzz really put a face on him and paid a tribute to him that made the idea of playing for him beyond appealing. Unfortunately, Coach Boyers has since died, but it is a very loving tribute that Buzz pays to him. One of the touching things in Buzz' piece is that he hadn't had any contact with Coach Boyers in many years and he literally says in the piece that he doesn't even know if he is still alive. In fact, he isn't. One of the postscripts, one of the nice things that comes out of the book is that I think Buzz got in contact with Coach Boyers' widow and I think that there was a reconnection there of some kind. I'd be remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to mention that it was my coach—well, I had a series of coaches but it was primarily one coach at Collegiate School, Larry Byrnes--who played an enormous role in my upbringing and in my life and is in my life to this day. He was in many ways one of the inspirations for the book. He coached both basketball and baseball but was also a mentor and to this day I am at his house for Super Bowl Sunday and I would have him at any important event in my life."
Friedman: "That was going to be my next question. Since you didn't write a chapter in the book, I was going to ask which coach had the most influence on your life."
Blauner: "I gave it (writing a chapter) some thought and, obviously, my so-called day job is being a literary agent—this was just a pet project, a labor of love. So, I deal with books all the time and the idea of having an introduction or a foreword or something that I would write doing what you just described was something I thought about but in the end I just thought that I had 25 pieces in this book by wonderful writers, each with a very different voice, and I've got Bill Bradley writing the introduction; Bradley's piece introduces the book and the writers' pieces speak for themselves and it's not a book about me, so I am happy to sort of stay in the shadows and have the writing speak for itself—but it's not because I don't have a lot to say and a lot of stories to tell or at least feel an enormous debt of gratitude to the coaches that I've had."
Friedman: "That leaves you room to do a sequel or to do another book to address those issues."
Blauner: "Exactly. I had the idea for the book for many, many years, probably going back to the time when I was sports editor at the school newspaper at Brown University, which was 20 years ago, but it just took a long time for it to sort of come together. When it did, I made an 'A' list of all the people who I would most like to have in the book and I figured that, like an Ivy League admissions office, you calculate a yield, but I was shocked in the best sense that almost everybody I asked agreed to do it. So that left a lot of people who could absolutely fill a second or third volume or more. I think this speaks to the coach-player relationship and the profundity of this whole arena, because a lot of these writers have a lot of demands on their time, a lot of pieces, articles or books that they could write, but for all they've written a lot of them hadn't taken the time, given the thought or had the opportunity to really pay homage to these people. I am just grateful to all of them. I didn't want this to be sort of a saccharine—all sugar and spice and everything nice—valentine to coaches because that is not the reality that is out there. I just wanted it to be something of a tapestry that represents the great variety of coaches and coach-player relationships. The subtitle is '25 writers reflect on people who made a difference.' One of the other ironies—I suppose you could call it that—is that even though I grew up in Manhattan I was always a devout Celtics fan and I still am. Yet, when it came time to think about who should write the introduction the first name that came to mind is Bill Bradley. I used to always root against the Knicks but I could never root against Bill Bradley, so I rooted for him and voted for him and I just want to thank him again for his contribution."
Friedman: "You mentioned that you were the sports editor at Brown. Didn't Chris Berman of ESPN go to Brown?"
Blauner: "Absolutely. He's a few years older but yes he absolutely did and if you watch SportsCenter or ESPN a lot—"
Friedman: "I thought that he mentions that. The reason I asked is that I wondered, since you were involved with the sports department, did he ever come back to Brown and interact with people who were doing sportswriting?"
Blauner: "I don't think that at the time I was there—which was roughly '82 to '86—that he came back at all but he was definitely a subject of conversation and everybody knew that he had gone there. We all knew that Bill Almon, the baseball player, had gone to Brown; he was one of the few pro athletes who had gone to Brown and when he was an active player Chris would always call him Bill 'Toasted' Almon. To this day Chris Berman, when he doesn't invoke that he went to Brown, he will bring up the Ivy League more than most people."
Friedman: "Right. That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure. I know he brings up the Ivy League a lot and I thought that he had mentioned Brown."
Blauner: "There is more of a Princeton influence in the book than I had ever intended or imagined that there would be: Jonathan Ames writes about his fencing coach from Princeton; Bradley's piece; I think that Frank Deford is a Princeton grad. So, I'm ever true to Brown but I think that John Edgar Wideman, who has a piece in the book and is now a professor at Brown, is the only Brown element in the book."
Friedman: "What common thread would you say is shared by successful coaches? Is there a common thread or theme that runs throughout the book?"
Blauner: "I think that it's something that Senator Bradley touches on in his foreword: people who can take you to places and get you to do things that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do on your own. As simple as that sounds, that is the task and that is the accomplishment and that is the talent (that great coaches have). Then it breaks down to how do you get from here to there, from point 'A' to point 'B,' how do you get someone to reach his full potential? I guess the thread, if you can even call it that, is, in a way, not having just one way to do that—to look at the team and the players that you have and gauge what's best. It's often invoked that coaches are like surrogate parents; somehow, most of us can hear things better from an authority figure who is a coach as opposed to one of our parents. Whether it is manifested in unconditional love and coddling or tough love, these coaches sort of take stock of who the kid is and what will help him to go somewhere that he might not otherwise be able to go on his own. I was talking about our coach to an old high school friend of mine the other day and asked him, 'What was it about him for you?' and he said, 'I just didn't want to disappoint him.' A lot of people talk about coaching by intimidation and that probably plays a role at every level in sports, but when this friend of mine said that it reminded me of something that someone said about Tony Dungy of the Colts, calling it coaching by disappointment or not wanting to disappoint your coach. Our coach used to appeal to our pride a lot. We went to a small, private school and when we would go up against a bigger, public school there was always an appeal to prove these guys wrong, that you are not a bunch of spoiled, rich, private school kids. I think that if he were in a different setting then he would have obviously used a different set of tools or techniques to coach. That is sort of a roundabout answer."
Friedman: "The answer about not disappointing the coach is really striking because I just interviewed Gus Alfieri (the author of Lapchick)."
Blauner: "Sure!"
Friedman: "You know about his book?"
Blauner: "Absolutely. I have it right here."
Friedman: "My interview with him is posted at 20SecondTimeout. When I interviewed him, that was one of the things that he said about Coach Lapchick. He felt that way and other players he spoke with who played for Coach Lapchick in different eras all said the same thing, that they didn't want to disappoint him and that that was such a motivating factor. It is striking to me that you mentioned that in your answer because he talked about the exact same thing."
Blauner: "That's interesting, because I actually am in touch with Gus. I know the Lapchick story but I didn't know that there was that element (of not disappointing the coach) there."
Friedman: "Yeah, a very strong element that he expressed to me. The interview is actually like a mini-book itself, because I talked to him for almost 2 hours and when I transcribed the whole thing it was over 15,000 words. I published it in five parts."
Blauner: "That's amazing. Some part of that speaks something. The subject just kind of lends itself to that (lengthy discussion), because it can just go in so many ways. You start talking about one coach or one team or one experience and, because you are not just talking about Xs and Os, it can just very quickly get into all of these tentacles and all of these elements, whether it is about parenting or overcoming adversity. Again, I didn't know about that element of disappointment with Gus and Lapchick but I certainly had other coaches where there was no element of that but it was based on intimidation or just doing it for yourself or your teammates but not for your coach."
Friedman: "Another connection between the two books is that Coach Lapchick coached both McGuire brothers, Al and Dick, who both played for the Knicks. Dick McGuire was the better player but I think that Al McGuire is more famous to most modern readers because he became Marquette's coach and then did some work on TV. Gus mentioned to me that he thought that Lapchick really had an influence on McGuire's coaching style. Gus said that some coaches are more Xs and Os guys and other coaches work more from the standpoint of inspiring their teams, like we were just talking about: either motivating the players in some way—and you mentioned the ways that your high school coach motivated you—or just making the players feel like they don't want to disappoint him. You touched on this a little already but from the various chapters in your book and the coaches who are written about there, talk about how much of coaching has to do with imparting technical information of how something has to be done process-wise to be successful versus how much of coaching involves inspiration and motivation."
Blauner: "That's interesting. To backtrack briefly for just a second, McGuire was friends with or somehow knew my high school basketball coach, so Al McGuire actually spoke at my high school athletic banquet and just gave one of the best speeches that I've ever heard in my life. By that point he was already out of coaching and was a TV commentator, so I just knew him for his bombastic style. You and your readers probably know that Al McGuire had his own way of talking—his own language--that has kind of been co-opted a little bit today. From everything I've heard, he was also a great Xs and Os coach. The Frank Deford piece about McGuire in the book isn't so much about the technical, Xs and Os aspect of the game. My impression is that he had his own way of motivating and that he was sort of emblematic of a lot of coaches just in terms of his work ethic but he was sort of a character unto himself. To go back to the context of the book, with the exception of the McGuire piece and a couple others, most of the pieces are about coaches at junior high and prep school and levels below college and the pros. John Irving has a piece about his wrestling coach but it doesn't speak exactly about what you are talking about. The lesson or the appeal of that coach and that story is that Irving learned from his wrestling coach, as he put it, 'the power of the underdog.' Again, that is more about motivation and challenges. It's interesting; I hadn't looked at it through this prism, but there isn't a lot of emphasis on, for lack of a better word, the Xs and Os element."
Friedman: "That actually answers my question, in a sense, because in a roundabout way that is what I was getting at—is the emphasis more on motivation or more on Xs and Os? What you are saying is that, from the perspective of the 25 writers involved your book, their memories of their coaches deal more with how the coach motivated them and the relationship aspect of it; it doesn't stick out in their minds that the coach showed them how to correctly pivot or—"
Blauner: "Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. If you take it out of sports for a minute, when we all remember our favorite teachers from school, we don't remember dates from history class or how to do a calculus problem: it's more about the relationship and the personality, something that goes beyond (the class work). If I thought about it, I'm sure my old coaches showed me how to reverse pivot and—I played point—how to make a guy go to his left, just an infinite number of things. I'm sure that a lot of the coaches who are written about in the book were terrific tacticians and technicians and knew the game inside out. It's not to diminish that element of it but when you've got a piece by Christine Brennan—the great USA Today writer--about her girls basketball coach in the days before Title IX it is almost absent any element of the technique and the technical parts of the game. It was more about love of the game and about motivation. I'm just looking at the other pieces and, you're right, that (the motivational/relationship aspect) is what comes out. In Bud Collins' piece, he talks about his old coach teaching him how to tie a bow tie. Obviously, one of his signatures is his sartorial splendor. Tom Beller has a piece about his basketball coach at Vassar, but, again, you are making me realize that it underscores the point that, in a publicist's term, the 'takeaway' is something that goes way beyond Xs and Os. The second piece in the book is by E.M. Swift—Ed Swift—who is just a fantastic writer for Sports Illustrated and who has written a couple books as well. He writes a piece that is really almost an 'It's A Wonderful Life' kind of piece in which his old coach—to make a long, great story short—falls on hard times, goes out of the picture, word goes out to his former players that the old coach is in need and the players band together. I think that are so many people out there who identify with the stories in the book not because of things that they learned specifically about basketball or Xs and Os. I don't like the expression 'life lessons' but something that goes beyond the game, put it that way."
Friedman: "There is a saying that long after you forget what someone said to you, you'll remember how they said it. So that would be another way of expressing it as well; you might not remember every single word that a particular coach said but you'll remember how he spoke to you and what that relationship was like. I also recall that Red Auerbach, the great Celtics coach, was asked at one point—I believe in reference to Bill Russell—how would he handle his players and he immediately answered that you handle animals but you deal with people."
Blauner: "Right. Perfect. He also said about the great legacy and tradition of the sixth man coming off the bench that it doesn't matter who starts (the game) but who finishes it."
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the chorus to this nights song is a predicted disgust. a bootstrap appeal to the light of the t.v. rock n roll sh-t, predicted hits, repeat and justify. token tantrums fight the good fight and reflect, this is what's spoken regardless of what's real. it's the sound of a generation strumming to rebellion, at the drumbeat of the bandwagon. sing to the crisis. sing to the hope. tomorrow's 8-track art in advert integrity. pedestal flag waving, industry tricks for a soundtrack of suffering. my place in the sun, common legacy to learn, common hate to fear and cash in. another anthem to the airwaves so raise your fist and sing. is this the peoples music, or a pop songs lesson in freedom. sing to the crisis. sing to the hope. the next move the next direction the next prolific profit. new vibration to an era's inst-tution. rock n roll bullsh-t, play it up again. sway side to side and repeat dance the night away. sing to the crisis. sing to the hope.


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I'm also running out of ways to complain about the fact that Cartoon Network continues to release the show in random episode collections rather than put it out in season sets (preferably on DVD and Blu-Ray; so far, we only have The Complete First Season, and only on DVD), so I'll keep it to a minimum (although, I admit that the announcement that CN shows, including "Adventure Time," start streaming on Netflix at the end of March goes a long way toward addressing that complaint. This collection contains 16 episodes, beginning with the title episode, "Fionna and Cake."
Part of the genius of "Adventure Time" is its boundless creativity, and "Fionna and Cake" fits right in with that. "Adventure Time" crew member Natasha Allegri doodled gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake for fun, but Ward and company deemed it worthy of its own episode. Fionna (Madeleine Martin), like Finn, is an adventurer in the Land of Ooo, accompanied by her magical, shape-shifting cat, Cake (Roz Ryan). In the episode, she faces off against the evil Ice Queen (Gray DeLisle) for the affections of Prince Bubblegum (Neil Patrick Harris), who Fionna has a crush on. Like all of the best "Adventure Time" episodes, it's funny, it's got a wonderful little song (which Bubblegum sings to Fionna while flying on the back of Lady Monichromicorn), and it even has a nice little message in there for young girls, both about crushes and being a hero.
Other highlights include "What Was Missing," which finds the gang chasing after a Door Lord and forming a band to unlock his barricade. Marceline's song "I'm Just Your Problem" is a fan favorite, and personally significant as the moment I decided I was a fan (this was the first episode I saw). "Card Wars" has Finn agreeing to play Jake's favorite card game, only to discover Jake is a more passionate opponent than he realized. As the show often feels like a big riff on Dungeons and Dragons, this spoof of tabletop gaming is full of absurd yet deeply familiar moments: the endless rule-reading, the surprise triumphs, and the seething rage. "Ghost Princess" involves the two pals trying to solve the mystery of a ghost princess' demise in order to free her from the mortal plane, building perfectly to two flashbacks (one sweet, and one unreasonably funny). "Death in Bloom" sends Finn and Jake to the Land of Death looking for a flower's soul, and features a hilarious performance by Miguel Ferrer as Death, who challenges the heroes to a duel. Last, but not least, "You Made Me" brings back the obnoxiously entertaining Earl of Lemongrab (Justin Holland), a loud-mouthed, bitter Princess Bubblegum creation who demands some citizens to lord over.
The episodes on this disc are as follows: "Fionna and Cake," "Storytelling," "The Other Tarts," "The Silent King," "Death in Bloom," "Still," "Wizard Battle," "What Went Wrong," "From Bad to Worse," "Marceline's Closet," "Ghost Princess," "Incendium," "Card Wars," "Princess Cookie," "Lady and Peebles," and "You Made Me." (The last two episodes are listed on the packaging out of order, but both are included.)
The DVD
"Adventure Time": Fionna and Cake arrives with artwork that seems like a play on the art for The Complete First Season, with Fionna instead of Finn, although it lacks the slipcover revealing additional layers. The disc (featuring a picture of Cake) comes in an eco-friendly Amaray case (the kind that uses less plastic, not the kind with holes punched in it), and there is no insert.
The Video and Audio
Just like all the previous "Adventure Time" releases, the show is presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio. Also in keeping with the other releases, the animation doesn't lend itself to SD, with some aliasing and the appearance of edge enhancement rearing its ugly head all over the colorful images. This time, I also spotted a disturbing amount of interlacing -- I don't know if it was simply more prominent or somehow I missed it on previous releases, but it's persistent here. The sound is fine, covering the voices with big, bold clarity, although, as always, it would be really nice to hear some of the show's creative and catchy songs in 5.1 surround sound. English captions for the deaf and hard of hearing are also provided.
The Extras
I don't know what the inverse of the phrase "little did you know" is, but any "Adventure Time" fan should be well aware that the only extra here is "Little Did You Know" gallery of five character bios (for Fionna, Cake, Prince Bubblegum, The Tart-Toter, and Princess Cookie).
This is a good collection of episodes, but the presentation is underwhelming and the extras are non-existent. Rent it.


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Issac Bourne.
He has been sending me a number of stupid emails. The latest read as follows:
"I see that you sent trolls to my FB page. When I pointed this out to 2 of them neither denied it. So I made my challenge to you public and I will be linking to every page about you where you have been challenged before and turned it down because you are all mouth. I know you will post a bunch of nasty stuff about me, in fact I want you to. All that free advertisement. People like you are the reason my webpage and FB page are so popular. Thanks. Keep up the good work of helping me get the word out there. Your side is so gullible lol."
I replied as follows at 0.16 am BST on 3 April:
"You are insane. I have done NO such thing.
I don't even know what facebook page you are talking about.
Further emails from you will be deleted and ignored, LIAR.
You are not a Christian I strongly suspect. Just a lying braggart and bigot.
YEC-ism attracts evil people. It let's them remain evil ie it legitimises lying and hatred.
I have nothing further to say to you, Bourne. I repeat - any more crap sent to my inbox will be deleted and ignored."
After I replied I managed to track down the facebook page in question. He is either LYING about what happened there, or has DELETED the posts by the 'trolls' he was referring to. Either way he is a coward as well as a false accuser suffering from apparent paranoia - because he has blocked me from making ANY response to his fact-free accusation:
https://www.facebook.com/EvolutionIsALie (post made 4 hours ago)
"***It would seem a atheist troll named Ashley Hayworth Roberts sent his troll minions to this page. I challenged him to a formal debate in which he would not accept or reject. So I called him a coward.
You see Roberts is a type of troll that can dish it, but can never take it. He's all happy spewing hatred at everyone else but when it gets spewed back at him he cries and whines. Example: Someone said something bad about him on a website so he got the police involved but guess what? it was not as bad as what I have seen him say about others.
I archived all the e-mails he send his troll buddies through e-mails so I hope he does try to bring the police in on this. Because reading those e-mails where he rants will show he's got a mental condition.
Roberts I may have e-mailed you but I did not send trolls to your pages or sites like you have done here. So this post is your fault. I told you that what was said between me and you would not be made public but being the drama queen that you are you just had to defy that and make my emails public anyway.
But you left out the part where I challenged you to a debate and you cowardly turned it down. Now if you want to keep this up and send more trolls I will make public on my website what you said and how much a coward you are.
Both trolls here that I mentioned your name to did not even deny they were not here or did not know you. Which by the way speaks volumes about what you did. I hope you turn this into another news letter I just love free advertisement. How do you think my site and this page got so popular? People like you did this.
My debate challenge still stand and now it's public. I will publicly apologize and convert to atheism if you can back up all that you claim. Here's your chance to convert one of the most influential people on the internet which would be a huge feather in your cap. All you have to do is accept the debate challenge.
Do you need to pot sweetened? I'll let you get 9 of your friends to help you to make it 10 to 1 odds. I want to be fair, is that fair enough 10 to one odds? Maybe you need that number to be bigger?
I think it's time to shut you up and I'm the person to do it. If you win I convert, If I win you have to step away from all the hatred you spew at everyone. So what will it be? As I have told you this page and my website reach 60,000 to 120,000 people a week. I can bring all of that over to watch this debate.
Because I doubt FB would want all that hoopla here I'll set the debate up in a special forum just made for it. I'll name it Evolution is a Lie page debates. Name one whole section after our debate. So what's it going to be?
Remember you started this by making my e-mails public, then sending your trolls to this page. Now i'm going to finish it with a debate challenge. So what's it going to be? Can;t hide behind that computer all the time and take pot shots at people and not expect to call you out. ~ Issac"
It would seem there is a loose screw which could do with tightening. He's the drama queen if there is one here. His final para is 100% FALSE. I did not copy his earlier emails to me to ANYONE. (I did copy the latest exchange and then the link to his facebook page - once I located it - page to five people within the LAST HOUR just in case any of them went to Bourne's page OF THEIR OWN ACCORD.)
He's angry because I send emails copied to a number of people, including him, refuting the likes of Ken Ham (people who ask to be removed from the list are removed - other than Bob Sorensen - but Bourne has not made any such request). (His recent emails to me only have been just angry trolling - he accused me of being mentally ill etc and also pretended that I had NEVER, briefly, debated him on THIS forum.)
I wasn't going to highlight his ridiculous behaviour but if someone has trolled his page I would like them to tell him that I have NOTHING to do with it. He is consumed with hate and out of touch with reality, and I want nothing further to do with him.


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Rank the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
List Rules Only bands or singers who are in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
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A complete list of bands and artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ranked in order of preference by music fans. For a list of artists who deserve to be inducted but haven't been yet, check out this guide to Artists Who Belong in the Rock Hall of Fame. And be sure to vote down all the artists you don't think belong in the Hall of Fame!
The Rock Hall of Fame - located in Cleveland, Ohio - was established in 1986 and is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage and memorabilia associated with rock music. Each year, a list of bands and artists is nominated to join the pantheon of all-time greatest musical acts in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Out of these nominees, only a handful are then chosen as actual Hall of Fame inductees. To be eligible, a musician or band must have released their debut album at least 25 years previously. (This eliminates flash-in-the-pan or "fad" artists from getting through, leaving the honor of joining the Hall of Fame open only to those artists who have made a lasting impact on rock music.)
2012's inductees are Guns N' Roses, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Laura Nyro, Donovan and The Small Faces. Nominated acts that were not selected this year include Eric B. & Rakim, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Spinners, Donna Summer and War. The Rock Hall of Fame decision-making process has been criticized frequently, for collecting all the power in the hands of a few individuals, and for ignoring genres that are not considered "purely" rock (such as hip-hop.) As well, some critics cite the numerous classic, iconic artists who are eligible but have not been inducted. These include Hall & Oates, Yes, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Rush, KISS, Sonic Youth, and other members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


text: The first Test in the three-match series starts in Brisbane on Friday, and is the first time the sides have met since former South Africa coach Mickey Arthur took charge of Australia [Reuters]Australian attempts at mind games ahead of the Test series against South Africa were at worst irrelevant and at best a motivation to the tourists, captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday. Individual plans for targeting South African players, including psychological profiling, supposedly derived from an Australian team dossier were published in the Courier-Mail newspaper on Thursday, the eve of the first Test at the Gabba. Smith, however, backed his team, unbeaten on the road in Test series for six years and coming to Australia fresh from having earned the number one ranking by beating England in England, to brush off any attempts to get under their skin. No worries "It doesn't really make a difference to be honest with you," Smith told reporters at the Gabba. "We know in our minds what we're expecting over the next few days. The most important thing for us was our preparation. I think we've done that really well and we're looking forward to starting tomorrow. "In terms of that stuff, it's neither here nor there, it's all going to start tomorrow." Four years ago, South Africa won a tight three-match series 2-1 for their first triumph on Australian soil. That was under the guidance of Mickey Arthur, who now coaches the hosts. Arthur has obviously shared his knowledge of the South Africans with his new charges and made a few public comments about perceived weaknesses, most notably that top ranked pace bowler Dale Steyn did less well against lefthanders. "Certainly the stuff in the papers and maybe Mickey has said has only added motivation for us," Smith said, adding for emphasis: "They've certainly touched the motivation button." That said, though, Smith said he expected a businesslike approach from his team during the Brisbane Test, which is followed by further matches in Adelaide and Perth. "When you play in other people's back yards, there's a different kind of pressure. You need to be able to handle different things. In recent memory in England, we were able to show that," he said. "We were able to perform under pressure, we were able to stand up at key times. When good teams play each other, there's small margins. You need to be able to handle those small margins better than the other team if you are going to be victorious. "Our goal is to match up again like we did in 2008 and 2009. I don't expect us to be too emotional about things, I think if we can be really focused and clinical in the next five days, I'll be happy." Spin likely Like Australia, South Africa are still weighing up whether to play four quicks in Steyn, Vernon Philander, Morne Morkel and Rory Kleinveldt on what is expected to be a bouncy Gabba track. Smith suggested, however, they would be unlikely to rest spinner Imran Tahir to make way for uncapped paceman Kleinveldt. "We've backed our spinner a lot in the last few years and it's given us a lot of success and balance in our team," he said. "We'll have to have a look at it but we're pretty sure which way we'll go." Even if they could lose the top ranking with defeat in the series, South Africa look the most likely team to dominate Test cricket in the way the Australians once did - a fact that has not been lost on Smith and his team mates. "We would love the opportunity to create a legacy but you've got to take steps at a time," he said. "There's been a number of teams that have touched the number one ranking. This is the next stepping stone for us and it's a tough challenge. "We believe we have the capability, but you've got to go and earn it." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Cricket Australia South Africa United Kingdom


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Empty classroom: 2013 Hall of Fame Class without a player
In 2009 MLB did away with the annual Hall of Fame game, played every year at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y. – a place that many believe was the birthplace of baseball. "Scheduling conflicts" prevented a game played every year since the year the Hall of Fame's inception in 1936. A meaningful game to the people of Cooperstown – and in respect to the Hall – eliminated.
Not much of an uproar was heard over this decision; in fact, no one really talked about it.
Today, for only the eighth time in the 77 year history of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and for the first time since 1996, not one player was elected to have a plaque with their face on it plastered on the fabled walls in Cooperstown; no class of 2013. No class of players, anyway.
That being said, upstate New York on the last weekend in July will be rather quiet this year. And unlike the choice to drop the Hall of Fame game, this time, there was uproar.
Current players, team beat writers, journalists, analysts, fans, and basically everyone on Twitter (this writer included) criticized the voters, namely the Baseball Writers Association, for the absence of a player in the 2013 Hall of Fame class. The criticism was well-earned, considering there were a number of players who many deemed worthy of enshrinement.
The voters are only allowed to vote for 10 players, and players need 75% of votes to make it in. On the ballot for his first year eligible, Houston Astros superstar Craig Biggio was the closest to getting in, receiving 68.2% of votes.
Jack Morris (67.7%) was right behind Biggio, followed by his old teammate Jeff Bagwell (59.6%) and New York Met icon Mike Piazza (57.8%).
Longtime Montreal Expo and Yankee fan-favorite Tim "Rock" Raines fell short, 52.2% in his sixth year on the ballot. A former Yankee killer, Seattle Mariners DH Edgar Martinez, was given 35.9% of votes in his fourth year on the ballot.
In his 13th year on the ballot, Don Mattingly finished with 13.2% of votes.
Two huge names on the ballot for the first time this year were Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds: guys who have accomplished a lot during their respective careers; broken records, World Series titles, Cy Young awards, MVP awards, which are all achievements that put players in great positions to be elected and sit alongside baseball's very best forever.
However, the thought of either one of them making the Hall of Fame on their first year of eligibility is farfetched – only because of their linkage to steroid usage and PEDs. Clemens publicly said he wasn't surprised; "The Rocket" only receiving 37.6% of votes. Bonds finished right behind Clemens with 36.2%.
In this writer's opinion, most of these players could have made it – and at least one of them should've.
Biggio, albeit this year being just his first year of eligibility, was no doubt worthy of getting the call. Same can be said of Piazza. 3,000 hits (Biggio) and 400 home runs off the bat of a catcher (Piazza) should be enough to get in – and I believe both of them will get in down the line. Bagwell, to me, will always be a borderline guy: great numbers for a 15-year career, but will always be straddling the line of good and great.
Raines was close to 3,000 hits (2,605) and nearly ended his career with a BA above .300 (.294), but it being his sixth year of eligibility – and Rock being a seven-time All-Star, a batting champ (1986), All-Star Game MVP ('87), three-time World Series Champ (twice as a player, '96, '98, once as a coach, '05) – should at least get him closer to that elusive 75% than his mark of 52.2%.
It surprised me that Martinez hasn't received a higher percentage of votes. His career numbers weren't at all bad – 309 homers, a lifetime .312 BA, 1,261 RBIs, and over 2,000 hits. All numbers that may not jump off the page, yet go nicely with his two batting titles ('92, '95), his five Silver Sluggers and seven All-Star Game appearances.
To me, Martinez is highly underrated. There are those who are always going to turn their heads away from him because he mostly played as a designated hitter; to some fans he might even be considered a "part-timer." But remember, he played the field (specifically third base) in his career, too.
Time to face facts: Mattingly will never make it. Thirteen years and a small percentage of votes to show for it is not exactly a ticket to Cooperstown.
But we all have to understand that it's called the Hall of Fame. Not the Hall of Very Good.
Which brings me to Clemens and Bonds – who were famous, not just "very good." Each then fell from grace and became infamous. And for the record, in the future I believe both could make it in – but considering the direction both players' careers have gone in, I had a reasonable feeling neither one wasn't a first ballot player.
During his 2008 interview with 60 Minutes, which explored the controversy surrounding his alleged use of steroids and PEDs, Clemens was asked about his HOF chances, given the accusations brought against him. He responded curtly, saying,
"What makes you think I give a damn about the Hall of Fame?"
I thought right then and there, Clemens was doomed to never be considered for the Hall, let alone make it in; his statement being a slap in the face to every baseball player enshrined in Cooperstown. He later respectfully recanted his asinine remark, and last June was acquitted for lying to congress about steroid and PED usage.
Legally Clemens's name was cleared. But he will always have that smudge next his name – a smudge that hurt him today, his quest for Cooperstown undoubtedly an uphill battle.
Bonds will have that same hill to climb, his name also associated with steroids and PEDs. A liar, a cheater, and an overall arrogant player with a superiority complex– but because of his numbers, and the fact that he broke the home run record in 2007, Bonds still has a chance to make the Hall.
The bottom line here is that sure, maybe all of these players aren't overly worthy. Perhaps Tim Raines was just a regular player. Maybe Edgar Martinez shouldn't be in because he was mostly a DH. Mattingly sure as heck won't make it, even with his impressive merits.
And I get it: not everyone gets in.
However, at least one of the players on this year's ballot should have gone in. It's disgraceful how the Baseball Writers Association is unable to vote a player into Cooperstown, considering voting for a HOF'er is probably the most important aspect of their job.
It's only going to get tougher as the years go on for the players currently on the ballot; keep in mind, players can stay on the ballot for 15 years. The likes of Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, and Greg Maddux will be eligible next year, and in the not-so-distant future names like Ken Griffey, Jr. and Randy Johnson will be on the list – names not linked to anything illegal or incriminating.
I will be curious to see how it plays out for these gentlemen. But as for today…
It's tough to feel good about baseball. Jon Heyman, a respected baseball writer, even described it as "a sad day for baseball." They nixed the Hall of Fame game, which was bad enough. Now they can't elect a player to the Hall of Fame?
If you ask me, today showed me that respect for the game's history is being devalued. Time-honored tradition is becoming extinct, shamelessly. History is being discarded.
What's next? They take two dozen bulldozers to Cooperstown and plow the whole town away?


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Memorial Day – Monday, May 28 – marks the first of two free fishing days in the Commonwealth. Fish For Free Days allow anyone – residents and non-residents – to legally fish in Pennsylvania. From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on both days, no fishing license is needed to fish in Pennsylvania's waterways. All other fishing regulations apply. The second Fish for Free Day is Labor Day – Monday, Sept. 3.
"Fish-for-Free days are a convenient way to introduce friends and family to the sport of fishing," said PFBC Executive Director John Arway. "Many families spend the day at lakes and parks throughout the state. Now they can try fishing at no cost. We know that once people try it, particularly kids, they will see that fishing is a great recreational activity and they will want to do it more."
More information about Fish-for-Free Days is available on the PFBC web site.
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