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Hey Aegis I got 2 questions, number 1) when is Xenosaga coming out in American? 2) Are the charachters all females?
|0- I'm not Aegis. 1- After it's out in Japan. Solid release dates require a certain degree of completion first. 2- I can't think of ANY RPG with no male characters. Out of the 3 characters there's info on in Xenosaga, 1 is female, 1 is male, and 1's a robot that I suppose you could label female.
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Am I the only one on the planet who absolutely hated FFT? It was a boring waste of time to me. The next best game coming out is GTA3. I cant wait to through molotov cocktails at all those damn cops trying to bust my arse.
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The Last Laugh:There. NICE BIG COLUMN. Hope that makes up for yesterday's irksome lack. Now then, tomorrow I will be joined by Renidragon, who sent Traks Lunar. He's looking for a copy of Skies of Arcadia, and knows quite a bit about old NES RPGs, so send in some questions along those lines.
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I am not allowed to buy anymore clothes for the month of June. I should also probably not allow myself to go into any type of establishment that sells clothes. This skirt is just another one of the many that I have bought this month. It was only $6 at H&M, but you know, it really starts to add up! I enjoy blogging so much and wouldn't give it up, but I have to focus on working with what I have or I will go broke! I know I've read a couple blogs about going on shopping bans, but have never tried it myself. Anyone have any tips other than the obvious "Don't go to the mall"?
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1. Races in different places: American League
2. Races in different places: National League
3. Can relievers be called Cy?
4. A look back at 9/28/11
5. Extra innings
1. Races in different places: American League
Absolutely nothing is settled in the American League with 10 days to go in the regular season – one which, at least for me, seemed to just fly by. Texas have been cruising for months, and were maintaining a four-game lead heading into their clash with second-placed Oakland in the American League West.
The A's had a lost weekend in the Bronx, stunned on Saturday by a four-run Yankees rally in the bottom of the 13th before succumbing in the 14th. It was a brutal loss, and when paired with the walk-off homer by Russell Martin on Friday night, it meant that the A's were stumbling somewhat into what is a monster four-game series with the Rangers at Arlington, where they have gone 8-16 since 2010. Oakland, which has the second best ERA in the AL, actually play the Rangers, who have the most potent offense in all of baseball, in seven of their final 10 games, so the opportunity is there to upend the mighty Texans.
They got off to a bad start on Monday however, suffering a third awful loss in four days after losing to their AL West rivals 5-4 in walk-off fashion,
adding a game to the Rangers' lead. That means the slight chance that the A's can bring their fantasy season to a new level just got slighter. Don't expect BoMel, or as he is known to most of us the A's manager, Bob Melvin, to get too caught up in any of these scenarios, though.
"Knowing we are right behind Texas, [the series] probably does take on a little more significance," he said. "But a win is a win. It doesn't count for any more than one, and a loss is the same way."
True, but if the A's don't get wins, the Los Angeles Angels are just two games behind them in the wild-card race, streaking towards the finish line, putting up the kind of victories the baseball world has been waiting for since the end of June. After going 27-27 in July and August, the Angels have gone 14-7 in September to enter the "better late than never" category. Owner Arte Moreno made it clear this weekend that no matter what happens in the team's final games, both general manager Jerry Dipoto and skipper Mike Scioscia will be back in 2013, just to make sure anyone thought otherwise.
If the Angels do miss out on the postseason it will be the third straight year without playoff baseball in Anaheim, a prospect few thought possible after all the goodies brought into the team during the offseason, not to mention the big prize that came up in late April – Mike Trout. LA have six games remaining with last place Seattle, with a trip to Texas in between.
Meanwhile, in the Central Division, the Detroit Tigers are within a single game of the Chicago White Sox, which is a joke considering the Tigers got swept by the lowly Minnesota Twins on Sunday. They are getting big-time help from the White Sox, who followed their five-game winning streak with a five-game slide that they managed to snap on Monday, with three of those losses coming at the hands of those pesky Angels.
That's the bad news. The good news is that they are heading home for seven games against Cleveland, who they defeated on Monday in the series opener, and Tampa before they finish with three on the road against the Indians. The Tigers have seven against the Royals, who they defeated on Monday, and three against the Twins.
The Rays, like the Angels, are pushing the limits of contention (we've seen this show before, haven't we?) – losing seven of eight, including a pair of dramatic losses in Baltimore and a trio of two-run defeats in the Bronx, before rebounding with five straight wins against Boston and Toronto. On Tuesday they are back in Fenway Park, and if the Red Sox had a pulse, you would think they may be after a bit of payback for 2011. The Red Sox have no pulse, and so there's every reason to think the Rays, down three games in the loss column to the Oakland A's, can find a way to sneak into the postseason once again. Plus, and this is big, they finish with three games against Baltimore in the Trop, and you just know those games are going to mean something to somebody. By the way, if you think the Rays are stressed heading into these mammoth games, just check this out.
It's worth pointing out that Boston also have three more games with the O's, another series in which they will fail to pay back a team that destroyed them down the stretch in 2011. No one it seems has been able to stop the Orioles, who by the way have closed the gap in their run differential. The O's have now been outscored by six measly runs, much better than the -49 when this was last discussed in The Guardian.
That means their expected win-loss record should be 75-77. Instead, they heading into the last 10 days of the season with a realistic chance of besting the Yankees for the American League East crown, down just 1.5 games to New York after the Yanks beat the Twins on Monday and the O's split a doubleheader with the Jays. Wouldn't that be something? Indeed it would be, but with the Yanks cupcake schedule – two more with Minnesota, three at Toronto and three at home to Boston – don't count on it.
Ten days, eight teams, five available playoff spots. Something has to give of course, but it won't happen until we have additional games to settle the score. Expect multiple ties at the end of the season and the ensuing schedule chaos, that's the prediction here – post yours below.
2. Races in different places: National League
The NL scenario isn't nearly as much fun as what's going down in the AL. All three Senior Circuit divisions are done and dusted, with the San Francisco Giants, the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Nationals – who have brought playoff baseball to DCr the first time since 1933 – taking the titles and earning what amounts to a first-round bye. One of the two wild-card spots is soon to be clinched by the Atlanta Braves, whose decision not to clean house after their famed 2011 collapse has been rewarded with a spot in the postseason, while the team that did clean house fared no better a season later. I know, two different situations, but I'm just sayin...
Anyway, that leaves one spot with five teams in the running – at least, technically. Unlike the Rays, who have history on their side, it's hard to imagine any of the teams that are down at least four games making a run, and they are Arizona, Philadelphia – whose valiant efforts at getting back into the race seem to have fallen a bit short – and the Pittsburgh Pirates, who will not make the playoffs after an 8-22 run but who are still seeking the consolation prize, a .500 or above record for the first time in 19 seasons. That leaves the St Louis Cardinals, who hold 3.5-game leads on the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Cards are in control and have an added edge in that they are heading into Houston for three games – they won their first on Monday) – before heading home to face the Reds and the Nats, who will have no other incentive than to knock out the Cards. If you ask me, I would do anything I could to try and knock the defending World Series champions out of the playoffs. More realistically, expect Dusty Baker and Davey Johnson to be resting their players over the final six games of the season.
Of the two teams in pursuit, the Milwaukee Brewers are by far the most threatening challengers, having stormed back into the running out of nowhere. On 19 August they were 12.5 games behind Pittsburgh for the second wild-card spot. Today they are three out, and they were as close as one game down in the loss column on Friday, before suffering a couple of key losses. Still, they were 23-7 coming into Monday riding an offense that has remarkably become the NL's most lethal, a season after losing Prince Fielder to free-agency. Jonathan Lucroy, Corey Hart, Aramis Ramirez and of course Ryan Braun have put on quite a show over the past month. But will it be enough to unseat the Cards? The Brewers head to Cincinnati before coming home to play Houston and the scorching-hot Padres.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers, who have the same record as Milwaukee, seem far less threatening based on form. The Dodgers have the 10th-worst record in the NL over the past month at 12-18 – not what you're looking for when you're trying to sneak into the playoffs. Their pitching has been badly hit by injuries, but it got a boost on Sunday thanks to Clayton Kershaw's return to the rotation – he was able to stymie the Reds on a bad hip. In that 5-3 victory, we also saw some life from Adrian Gonzalez, who hit two home runs but has wildly underperformed following his big move over from Boston.
The Dodgers now head to San Diego before heading home for games with the Rockies and the hated Giants. If they are still in it for those games, well, needless to say there will be quite a scene at Chavez Ravine. I can't see St Louis blowing a 3.5 game lead – nothing ever seems to go wrong for the Cards.
Here are the latest regular standings.
Here are the wildcard standings.
Here is a photo of Chewbacca throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park.
3. Can relievers be called Cy?
Last week we looked at the National League Cy Young Award candidates, via my foolhardy hunch that 2012 shared some characteristics with the Year of the Pitcher, 1968, when 49 pitchers boasted ERA's of under 3.00. Now that RA Dickey has probably put the plaque in his back pocket with a 19th victory on Saturday, allowing two runs in eight innings in a rare home Mets victory against Miami, let's take a look at what's happening in the American League. Who will win the Cy Young? Well, let's start out with a thought from "below the line" in this space last week, when FranzFerdinand2 commented:
"I actually don't think that relief pitchers should get the Cy Young. Maybe in a year with no good candidates and an absolutely phenomenal best-of-all-time reliever, but they just don't pitch enough innings to be as valuable as a starting pitcher."
Well Franz, you may be right, but the Cy Young Award goes to the "best" pitcher, not the most vaulable, as is the case with the MVP award. However, yes, writers have shown in the past that they overwhelmingly prefer to vote for starters over relievers.
Having said that, can anyone ignore the season Francisco Rodney has put together in Tampa? Not even the Yankees great Mariano Rivera has put up an ERA resembling Rodney's 0.65, during which he accumulated 43 saves. Let me just be clear here – this is not about lessening Rivera's body of work, which is the best in the history of the modern-day closer. However, the lowest ERA of Rivera's career was 1.38 in 2005 – Rodney has more than cut that in half. In that season, either Rivera or Minnesota starter Johan Santana (first in strikeouts, second in IP, second in ERA) should have won the Cy Young Award. Instead, as was pointed out last week, Bartolo Colón with his 21 wins and hefty 3.48 ERA took home the award with an 84% share – Rivera garnered 49%. A pathetic result.
The last reliever to win the Cy Young Award was Eric Gagne* of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003, with his 55 saves and 137 strikeouts in 82.1 innings and a 1.20 ERA. Second in the NL vote that season was Jason Schmidt of the Giants, 17-5 with a 2.34 ERA and 208 K's in 207.2 innings pitched. So there is a situation where a closer won the award and there was a starter who could have won.
*Note: Gagne admitted to using HGH during a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
One more example – in 1992, when Oakland's Dennis Eckersley won the AL MVP and the AL Cy Young Award, just as Detroit's Justin Verlander did last season, Roger Clemens, then of the Red Sox, and the Orioles' Mike Mussina could also have won it, considering their statistics. But the writers were right to give it to Eckersley, a more than deserving winner.
What Gagne, Eckersley and Rivera in 2005 show is that the closer must put together some astronomical numbers to even get a sniff at the award, and that even then it might not be enough. Will Rodney's 0.65 ERA be enough to join the very small club of relievers with a Cy Young Award?
Perhaps not with Justin Verlander around. His encore to 2011 has been superb – first in innings pitched, second by just one strikeout at 223, and the second-best ERA amongst starters at 2.74. Chuck in six complete games for good measure and you couldn't fault anyone for giving him yet another accolade.
Tampa's second Cy Young Award candidate, David Price, tops Verlander in wins and ERA but not much else. Then there is Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who threw a no-hitter in May and has the best WHIP in the league, while the White Sox's Chris Sale also has enough to be considered. So does Felix Hernández in Seattle.
I'm pushing for Rodney. When Eckersley won the award he allowed 17 earned runs; Gagne allowed 12. Rodney has allowed just five earned runs in close to 70 innings pitched, and that is a big enough cartwheel for me.
4. Book review – a look back at 9/28/11
Thursday will mark the one-year anniversary of what many have called the greatest single night of regular-season baseball in the history of the grand ol' game. That's quite a statement, I know, but there is simply no equivalent to the compelling evening of high-stakes hardball that took place on 28 September 2011. From there, depending on who you root for, it gets even better or a whole lot worse. For neutrals, it was a night that fans will never forget and if you watched it happen, it's hard to imagine the – and please forgive the cliche – perfect storm coming around again to provide us all with such all out drama.
That may be one reason why Paul Kocak wrote Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe – a book that takes the reader through the evening from the perspective of all four teams playing for their playoff lives: the Cardinals, Braves, Rays and Red Sox. Stories from fans and real-time tweets recall the tale, along with Kocak's vivid recollection of the events, most of which he timestamps, which is a fun way of recapping the evening.
Describing how the book came about, Kocak said: "My recollection is that I woke up the next day, floored by events the night before (not for the first time in my life floored by events the night before) and mused, 'Someone ought to write a book about this, and it isn't going to be me.'
Thanks to a pep talk and some guidance from a friend, Kocak, who lives in Syracuse, New York and is a fan of the San Francisco Giants, put together a comprehensive guide to 28 September that also provides some history of prior dramatic baseball finishes, and a little bit of a forecast of what is to come.
Once upon a time, when there were just 16 teams in baseball and the winner of each league advanced to the World Series, the National League had a three-game playoff to break regular-season ties, as in 1951 when Bobby Thomson's New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers after he hit the "Shot heard around the World" off of Ralph Branca.
Interestingly, as Kocak points out, the AL had a different format to decide who would move on when two teams were tied after 154 games – a one-game playoff – which he also points out was part of the regular season, not the postseason. Kocak tells the story of the Indians and Red Sox squaring off in 1948 for the right to reach the World Series: Cleveland won, preventing what would have been the only all-Boston Fall Classic. Some 64 years later, we once again have a one-game-for-all-the-marbles situation in baseball, this time for the right to reach the Divisional Series, which will play out for the first time in just a few weeks.
If you're looking for a good read while getting set for the latest chapter of October heroics, Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe, makes for fun, nostalgic reading about a historic evening of baseball.
5. Extra Innings
• The World Baseball Classic has its first two qualifiers after double elimination tournaments were held in Regensberg, Germany and Jupiter, Florida. Spain defeated Israel in dramatic fashion on Sunday to make their first classic, while Canada beat up on the German team on Monday to qualify after being forced to compete in the play-in tournament due to going winless at the WBC in 2009. Two more teams will enter the Spring 2013 tournament after tournaments that will take place in Panama City and New Taipei City in November.
• Boston's Bobby Valentine isn't the only manager in the hotseat. Miami's Ozzie Guillen and Marlins GM Larry Beinfest are being evaluated by ownership. This won't help: on the The Dan Sileo Show show, Fish reliever Heath Bell said:
"It's hard to respect a guy that doesn't tell you the truth or doesn't tell you face to face. There's probably reasons why."
MLB.com reported that Marlins catcher Brett Hayes retorted on Twitter to his teammate:
"If you don't feel like @OzzieGuillen has your back as one of his players... clearly you don't pay attention."
It should be an interesting offseason in south Florida.
• By now you've heard that Melky Cabrera, who is serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, took the heat off of Major League Baseball by withdrawing himself from the running for the batting title, with MLB making a one-time rule change to prevent his winning. It's a smart move by Cabrera, who has an eye on trying to get a job next season while attempting to resuscitate his sullied reputation. Melky is actually eligible to return to the Giants six games into the playoffs, but there is little chance the the Giants would bring him back into the fold should they play in the NLCS.
• Reds manager Dusty Baker is back in the Cincinnati dugout after missing five games with an irregular heartbeat. Baker wasn't on hand when the Reds clinched the NL Central Division on Saturday, while his ballclub went 3-2 in his absence.


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Ecuadorian science paralysed by lack of funds
[QUITO] Half of the research projects underway at the Central University of Ecuador (UCE) – the country's largest public university, with 40,000 students and 2,500 teachers – are on hold due to a lack of financial resources.
One of the 28 stalled research projects is a US$160,000 study to develop a vaccine for leishmaniasis. This mosquito-borne disease, found in tropical and subtropical areas, is endemic across 60 per cent of the country.
"We have received only 25 per cent [of the funds needed]," says William Cevallos, director of the project."We now have vaccines ready to give to patients, but we do not have the funds to take them out to communities."
Another project that has been delayed involves studying the prevalence and incidence of infections at three hospitals. The director of the research, César Ruano, says he has covered part of the cost of the studies from his own pocket.
The crisis in scientific research has been particularly severe this year because funds from a US$30 million loan from the Interamerican Development Bank, granted to develop the country's National Science and Technology Programme 1996-2002, have run out.
The country is negotiating a new US$20-million loan from the Bank, in order to implement the second phase of its science and technology programme. But the recent change of government has meant that the negotiations, which began in 2001, will have to start all over again.
The Ecuadorian Higher Education Law, in force since 1981, stipulates that 1 per cent of the government's budget should be earmarked for university research and development. This sum represented around US$40 million in 2002.
"We have not received a penny of this," says Patricio Vargas, director of technological innovation and competitiveness at the National Council of Universities and Polytechnics (CONESUP), which groups 56 universities, 32 of which are public. "Now, as a result of so much pressure, they have budgeted US$1.2 million, although by law we should receive US$50 million."
CONESUP has 44 pending research projects, which would need US$47 million to complete. "Researchers are anxious to get going but there are no funds," Vargas says.
Ecuador's science budget for 2003 is US$2 million, a third of the amount proposed by the National Secretariat for Science and Technology (SENACYT), the country's agency for scientific development.
This amount represents 0.03 per cent of the overall budget, while the amount allocated to science between 1995 and 2002 was 0.08 per cent.
The crisis in science is a reflection of a more general crisis affecting the country. The government's overall budget for this year is US$6.7 billion (19 per cent more than the previous year). But US$2.2 billion of that is destined to pay off the country's debt of US$14 billion.


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Mark Kemper, an active civic leader and a pioneer of the Kemper Group, an insurance and financial services organization based in Long Grove, died Saturday in the Presbyterian Home in Evanston at age 84.
Mr. Kemper, of Evanston, joined the Kemper Group in 1919, seven years after his late brother, James Scott Kemper founded the organization. In 1931, he assumed management of Kemper`s investments, which totaled $26 million. When he retired as financial vice president in 1968, assets exceeded $750 million. They now total more than $9.6 billion.


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April 17, 2007
Fourteen years old
Thoroughbred Horse
Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
his is Frosty a.k.a. No Ice Please. He's a Thoroughbred gelding who's fourteen years old. Frosty came to us six to seven years ago when a friend of ours needed to get rid of him due to a hip injury he has. Frosty was a race horse for two years. He raced only two times once when he was 1 and again when he was two years old. Frosty never won any money so he was no use to his owners. Frosty was then shipped from Maryland to Canada and then they gave him to an auction. Keiri K. found him at the auction in Nebraska and knew he had a lot of potential for a hunter jumper. Frosty then went to Colorado with Keiri were Frosty met his owner Chris G. to be with her for four years until he hurt his back left hip. Frosty was champion in many classes and was always a year end champion for something! After Frosty was hurt my mother saw Frosty right before my 8th birthday. I was informed after riding in 1 show with Frosty on my birthday that Frosty was not going back to Chris G.'s house! He is mine!
Frosty and I have now traveled all over the state of Colorado and Michigan showing and winning numerous year end awards in the Colorado Hunter Jumper Association and Lake Effects Horse Show circuits. Frosty is the sweetest horse ever! He has not only taught me but my then 4 year old brother who took him to three year end champions and my 3 year old cousin who has also won many awards with Frosty. Frosty may have been hurt but he still shows like a champ! If you were to bring him into a show ring just plan on letting him do the work and you can just sit back and relax! Frosty has truly shown me how to be responsible for my own animal and he always says "Hello!" to me when ever I walk into the barn. Frosty has truly been a blessing in my life and all the many kids he has taught and loves.
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Rainbow Six Vegas Xbox 360 Cheats
- Game: Rainbow Six Vegas
- Game Description: The most renowned first person shooter game in Xbox 360 delivers another winner with Rainbow Six Vegas. Using next generation hardware, the graphics and the realism are seen to be believed. In Rainbow Six Vegas, Rainbow operatives have to deal with a terrorist siege in Sin City which could potentially escalate world terrorism to new unknown heights. Your job is to protect Vegas and you get to see the most popular Vegas locations like Fremont Street, the Strip and world famous casinos. Will you succeed in keeping one of the world's most famous cities from being destroyed?
Get on the Skylight cheat for Rainbow Six Vegas on Xbox 360
Go up the steps to the helipad and stop after the first set of steps.
Go to the back of the two boxes on your right.
Crouch down, hold the left trigger (LT) and look at the fence with the giant vent boxes in it.
Then let go of everything. You should now be able to get on top of the two boxes.
Now once you're on the boxes turn left and lean against the fence while walking on the side of it.
Keep walking untill you come to another fence that allows you to go right. Make sure you stay on it.
After you turn at that fence walk staright until you come to the second ventilation shaft that extends to the skylight.
Make sure that you have 2 people with you. Walk down the shaft and be horizontal with the skylight.
The 2 people should be ducking between you and the skylight. Walk across them like a bridge, and then you should be floating on the skylight.
Warning: You can fall, and get killed from that position so make sure you stay in the middle of the skylight so you do not fall through.
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Touch Of The Cure
Give me a sign
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loose ends are building beams
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Parts of a child's body were found yesterday morning at a former children's home in Jersey. Police have said their search of the area will continue, admitting they cannot rule out the possibility that more bodies will be uncovered.
The remains were discovered at the Haut de la Garenne site in St Martin, one of two areas targeted in a Jersey police investigation into alleged child abuse at two former care homes on the island.
It is not yet known whether the partial remains, thought to have been buried sometime during the 1980s, are those of a boy or a girl. The remains were found inside the house but the exact location has not yet been given.
The Jersey Sea Cadets and Haut de la Garenne care homes were targeted by police last November following a number of allegations of sexual and physical abuse of children aged 11 to 15, dating back over several decades.
Jersey's deputy chief police officer, Lenny Harper, said the search of Haut de la Garenne was prompted by specific information received from some of the 140-plus victims and witnesses who had been spoken to as part of a child abuse inquiry.
The investigation is focusing on allegations spanning a period from the 1960s up to the early years of the present decade, although the majority of the statements relate to the 1970s and 1980s.
Harper said the status of the investigation has changed to a potential major crime inquiry concerning a possible homicide, and police were now in touch with more specialist assistance from the United Kingdom.
Jersey's Chief Minister, Senator Frank Walker, said it was 'with deep horror and sadness' that he had learnt of the discovery. 'It is imperative that our children are safe in Jersey and I believe that today they are,' he said. 'It is, however, clear that this may not always have been the case and although we can't right the wrongs of the past, we will do everything in our power to assist the police in seeking out the person or persons responsible.'
Built in Victorian times, Haut de la Garenne is a former school and orphanage that today serves as a youth hostel.


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Brad Listi, Attention. Deficit. Disorder.
Seems like I can't go on any Myspace page without seeing Brad Listi listed as a 'friend'. For the longest time, I would see his name everywhere and his frequent bulletins announcing a new blog were showing up like clockwork, every single day. Who was this guy that was all over the place?
I decided to check him out and found that he wrote a book called, Attention.Deficit.Disorder. His blog is updated all the time hence the frequent bulletins heralding a new entry. Brad is one of the most popular Myspace members around and his book was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and has garnered rave reviews from readers of all ages.
I have to admit, I rarely have an interest in novels that guys write. I suppose I expect books written by men to be about things like sports, beer, military espionage and science fictiony topics like flying saucers and robotic women.
Attention.Deficit.Disorder. was a great book with no sports themes or weird sci-fi stuff. It's about a guy named Wayne whose ex-girlfriend commits suicide. He learns that while they were dating, she was pregnant with his baby and had an abortion. When she dies, he begins to question everything about himself, the girlfriend, life in general. He embarks on a journey that takes him to Cuba among other places, and culminates at the Burning Man Festival.
Peppered throughout the book are random factoids so really you get a novel and a study guide for Jeopardy rolled into one handy book. Attention.Deficit.Disorder. is a quick, often humorous, entertaining read. Now I find myself seeking out those bulletins for Brad's blog so I can read along with everyone else.
What did you do today?
I got up early and went out and got my fiancee some coffee from Starbucks. A venti iced non-fat latte. That's her thing. She has a big day at work today and needed to be outrageously caffeinated in order to deal with the logistical hoopla that was waiting for her.
After that, I drove over to this juice place that I always go to and got a juice, freshly-squeezed. An odd concoction. Vegetable juices mixed with frozen bananas. I'm convinced it's gonna make me live to 115. And the guy who works there is a character. This morning we were talking about the pros and cons of home-schooling for some reason. He's adamantly against it. Says that it fucks up a child's social function. I'm mostly in agreement with him, but I do think that it's possible for home-schooling to be reasonably effective, but only if the parent is an incredibly bright and talented teacher, and the child is given proper social outlets elsewhere.
Then, after that, I came home and started work. I wrote a blog this morning about going to a local Barnes & Noble last night. My fiancee hand-sold a copy of my novel to Norm MacDonald of Saturday Night Live fame. He happened to be in the store at the time, and he was trying to buy a painting off of the wall. A silkscreen of the Of Mice & Men cover. Kind of odd. He appeared to be incredibly baked. And he was incredibly friendly and unpretentious. I signed a copy of the novel for him, and he bought it right then and there.
What were you like in highschool?
Nervous. And woefully under-sexed. I was a pretty good student all throughout my youth, until about the middle of my junior year. Then I got tired and said to hell with it. I flunked a couple of classes my senior year. My parents were distraught. And one of my teachers offered to throw a cupcake party for the class if I passed my test. But I failed. Miserably. And for some reason I was happy about it.
I had clear braces my freshman and sophomore year. And I had a big crush on one girl throughout most of high school. But she didn't realize that she liked me until the night before I left town to go to college.
How have you changed in the last ten years?
Well, I've gotten older, for one thing. I'm 31 now. Going on 32. And I'm engaged to a lovely woman and am generally pretty content.
But really, I imagine I'm pretty much the same person, essentially speaking. Not all that much different from who I was at 16. Most of the changes I've made are probably cosmetic or peripheral.
That said, hopefully I've gotten a little wiser through the years. Hopefully I'm a better writer. Hopefully my sense of humor is a little bit stronger, a little bit more indestructible. One of my main goals in life is to make sure that I don't lose track of my sense of humor at the hour of my death. I'm thinking it's probably harder than it sounds. I'm training for that one.
Do you get nervous doing book readings?
I get a little nervous, sure. But I don't go into a state of paralysis or anything. I teach college, so I have a lot of experience with speaking in front of crowds. It's not something that bothers me all that much. You get used to it.
How do you choose what passages to read from?
Depends on the crowd. Usually I try to read stuff that will play well live—stuff with good dialogue, good humor, and so on. And then other times, I'll read stuff that's really heavy, emotionally speaking. Funeral passages. Naked introspection.
I try to read the crowd a bit before deciding. I try to feel the temperature in the room.
If the people are drunk, I usually read a passage from the Uncle Brian section, wherein a mentally disabled Cajun man has a panic attack while spelunking.
I'm scared of rodents and going to the dentist. What scares you?
I don't like bees much, because I was swarmed by a hive of angry yellow jackets as a child.
And I'm scared of bad things happening to people I love.
And generally speaking, I tend to be scared of being devoured by a large predator. A large jungle cat, for instance. Or a shark. That would probably scare the ever-living shit outta me. At the same time, I'd probably experience such a profound level of physical shock if such a thing were to occur that the pain would be minimal, as would the fear.
So in the end, I guess there's really not much to be afraid of. It's only life and life only.
What surprised you most during the publishing process?
I think what surprised me the most is how much work one has to do after the book comes out. As a writer, you imagine that all of your work will be over on publication day, and you'll get to sit back and watch the magic unfold. But the truth, nine times out of ten, is that the work is just beginning. Publication day, like so many other days, is a false summit. It never really ends. You just keep going. Until you stop.
Do you think you could write a book from a woman's point of view?
Yeah, I do for some reason. Maybe that's hubris, but I do. I was raised in a house dominated by women. And my mom comes from a family of seven girls and two boys. And I genuinely adore women. I tend to get along with them. I've always felt comfortable around them (except when I was in high school and trying to get them to fondle me), and I've always had lots of women friends.
So I'm hopeful that I could write fiction from a female POV in a way that feels authentic.
What kind of music do you listen to?
I'll listen to anything. When I work, I usually listen to various kinds of instrumental or ambient music. Jazz. Classical. Ocean sounds. Pan flute. Xylophone. Lounge. Techno. Whatever. And then aside from that, I've got pretty wide-ranging taste. I like what sounds good at the time when I hear it. And I like what I'm in the mood for, whatever that may be at a given time.
Ever go one day without writing? You update the blog all the time.
Once in a blue moon. But really, I enjoy what I do. I like to do it. It's fun. It isn't a hassle for me. I actually prefer to work.
It's can be challenging, sure, but I feel pretty fortunate to be able to do it for a living. There are worse ways to pay the rent. I feel like I got a lucky hand.
If you weren't a writer, what would you be doing?
Groveling, probably.
Or else I'd be a monk.
Or a bongo player.
Or a farmer.
I have a farming fantasy that I've been nursing for years. I want to one day own a big plot of land, and I want to have a menagerie of barnyard animals that I will keep as pets. I will frolic with them. It will be spectacular.
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Boffins come up with biodegradable semiconductor
Salt and vinegar added to chips
Boffins at Stanford University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a flexible, biodegradable semiconductor which decomposes when it is no longer needed.
Analyst thinks things will be great for Intel
Results tomorrow will be interesting
While investors are expecting Intel to release some rather dull results tomorrow, Susquehanna Financial Group's Christopher Rolland thinks things will be pretty good.
Cut and Paste copycat chips
Boffins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method which uses graphene to help photocopy semiconductor wafers.
MediaTek in trouble
MediaTek expects a poor first quarter
MediaTek thinks that its smartphone chip shipments will fall below 100 million units in the first quarter of 2017 and rebound only slightly to 110-120 million in the second quarter.
Texas Instruments has a great bottom line
Thanks to car makers
Former digital watch maker and chipmaker Texas Instruments reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue, thanks mostly because of its analogue and embedded chip products from the automotive and industrial markets.
Samsung's chip earnings cover all manner of sins
Note 7 and bribery scandal can be safely glossed over
Samsung might have been having a trying time this year, but at least none of it appears to have kicked it too hard in the bottom line.
Mediatek might have won low-end Samsung orders
Rumoured to be headed for Tizen
Mediatek has appeared to have confirmed a long standing rumour that Samsung is sourcing processors from MediaTek for its low-end devices, particularly its Tizen-powered handsets.
Softbank's shareholders furious over ARM deal
Share price falls faster than Apple's
While many people reacted with horror to the news that ARM had been sold to the Japanese Softbank, the naysayers were mostly on ARM's side. But it seems that Softbank is having trouble selling the idea to its own shareholders.
Intel's NUC roadmap leaked
Two years worth of tiny PCs
Intel's NUC consumer roadmap has leaked online showing that Chipzilla is seriously holding a torch for tiny PCs.
Intel goes atomic over low-powered chips
Ironically a week after killing two Atom chips
Just a week after killing off two generations of Atom mobile chips, Chipzilla has teamed up with a French atomic energy lab to look at future low-power mobile technologies.


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A 12-year-old Texas girl who became morbidly obese after a rare illness triggered by brain surgery could get a potentially life-saving operation by February, thanks to a flood of donations from strangers.
More than 1,200 people have contributed more than $53,000 to a fund for Alexis Shapiro, of Cibolo, Texas, who weighs nearly 200 pounds and is gaining about 2 pounds a week because of a runaway condition called hypothalamic obesity.
That's in addition to at least four anonymous philanthropists who have stepped forward to help. The response started within hours after NBC News first reported the story on Saturday.
"My goodness! It's crazy," said Jenny Shapiro, Alexis' mother, who added that her family has been surprised and touched by the generosity. "Alexis really likes it. I think she feels like people aren't looking at her anymore and people are rooting for her."
Doctors say gastric bypass weight-loss surgery is the only thing that can help Alexis, but the U.S. military, which provides her family's health insurance, says it won't pay for the operation because Alexis is too young.
TRICARE and Humana Military, which provide family insurance for Alexis' father, Air Force veteran Ian Shapiro, denied the request citing rules that say gastric bypass surgery may be covered, but only if the patient is 18 or has achieved full bone growth. Officials said the family could appeal the decision.
But Alexis' parents — and doctors — say that an appeal could take too long and that there would be no guarantee the child would be approved for the $50,000 operation. Ian Shapiro, 34, is claims representative for USAA, a banking and insurance provider. Jenny Shapiro, 34, works part-time as a dog groomer at PetSmart.
"If nothing else, we have what's required for the hospital," Jenny Shapiro said. "If I need to make payments or whatever, then I will."
Dr. Thomas H. Inge, an expert in pediatric obesity at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said Alexis could receive the surgery at his hospital within six weeks now that the funding appears to be in place.
"The team is certainly in favor from a medical standpoint of moving forward as quickly as we can," he said.
Every extra pound gained is a risk to Alexis, who has developed Type 2 diabetes and other health problems in the past two years. She was just 9 when she developed a benign brain tumor called a craniopharyngioma, which affects at most 1 child per every million per year.
Surgery to remove the tumor went well, but it damaged her hypothalamus and pituitary gland, two organs that help regulate energy balance, appetite and weight.
Like more than half of children who get those tumors, Alexis developed hyperphagia and hypothalamic obesity, disorders that make her gain massive amounts of weight — even as her body thinks it's starving.
Her parents have had to monitor her food intake and exercise extremely closely, sometimes limiting the child to 900 calories a day. In the past, they've had to padlock the kitchen cupboards because Alexis' conditions cause cravings that make her want to eat an entire jar of peanut butter at one sitting, for instance.
Gastric bypass surgery could help Alexis lose between 20 percent and 30 percent of her body mass, and also curb the misfire between her brain and gut that makes her feel like she's starving, Inge said.
What's not clear now is, even if the initial surgery is paid for, whether TRICARE would cover any follow-up care that Alexis might need. Officials with the military insurer did not respond to NBC News requests for comment about the new developments in Alexis' case.
The Shapiros and Inge said they were planning to talk on Monday to discuss the timing for surgery — and its aftermath. Bariatric surgery is a serious procedure with lifelong consequences. New research by Inge and others suggests that teens do about as well as adults after weight-loss surgery, with the risk of major complications in about 5 percent to 7 percent of cases.
The money raised by NBC News readers and others will help pay for the surgery, Jenny Shapiro said. Any extra will go toward the costs of travel, lodging and other expenses as the family of five travels to Cincinnati for the operation. The family had started an accountlast summer at GoFundMe, one of several websites that help people raise money for medical expenses. Site organizers charge 5 percent of the donated amount, plus another 2.9 percent and 30 cents per transaction goes to WePay, a payment site.
But it wasn't until Alexis' situation received national attention that the fund jumped, within hours, from a little more than $1,000 to more than $53,000.
"I am really amazed at the power of information to bring out the best in people in cases like this," said Inge.
Alexis and her family are cheered by the outpouring of goodwill and generosity, especially during the holidays, Jenny Shapiro added.
"It's going to be a lot of hard work," she said. "We know that it's not going to be 'Have the surgery and, yay, everything's fixed.' But it's a start."
JoNel Aleccia is a senior health writer with NBC News. Reach her on Twitter at @JoNel_Aleccia orsend her an email.


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Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may rightly understand and truthfully profess the divinity of your Son, which the Bishop Saint Hilary taught with such constancy. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Saint Hilary, pray for us, for all theologians and for those who deny the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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"'Let's get to work' is the theme for our Career Services professionals here at Brown Mackie College – Northern Kentucky and that's just what we're hoping to help job seekers in the Fort Mitchell community and at our school do with our annual career fair," says school president Christine Knouff. "It's one of the ways our school gives back to the community we serve and we look forward to it each year."
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July 6, 2008
Deceased, Seven months old
Norwegien Dwarf Rabbit
elly was the best pet I ever had. She was very smart and very loving. She would jump up at the cage when you walked by, and if she was out, she was always right below your feet. Nelly was very smart, she was named after the rapper Nelly and when one of his music videos came on one day she just stoped and stared at the T.V. and watched the whole video. She loved spinach and carrots and after she ate those, she was not very fond of the boring pellets any more!
Nelly was the best. She was very social, she loved the attention and the spotlight which she got a lot of. I got her in late July of 2007 and she sadly passed in early January 2008. She was only one month and one week old when I took her home, and although her life was short I believe she was happy. She was always happy - even if you woke up at three in the morning and went by her cage, she'd be right there to greet you. Nelly is the reason I am again looking for a rabbit, but I can't seem to find one to compare her to she, will always be the best. Though she is gone she is still loved dearly by many! R.I.P. Nelly We Love You!
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Thread: M7 or dare I say...HMMM7?
Ok, so this past Easter I went a little crazy and bought a few scents at Santee Alley in LA and elsewhere, among them:
Richard James Savile Row
Hugh Parsons Blue
Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne XS
Creed REL
YSL Live Jazz
YSL Kouros
YSL Body Kouros
YSL Kouros Fraicheur
and some others that I may have forgotten.
Blind buy. The most anticipated...M7. The vaunted, basenotes hallowed, all powerful M7. I savored the moment, tenderly opened the package, and proudly displayed the bottle to all like simba in the lion king. The first spray....eh? Did I buy the wrong bottle? Agarwood blahwood, it is whisperly, sweet, like...graham crackers and spicy rum? I want to sue someone. I'll be looking to offload this bottle if things don't improve.
Paco Rabanne
Blind buy. Dark green, musky. Irish Spring meets Scent Intense. Simple, basic, fundamental, I must have more of this.
Paco Rabanne XS
Blind buy. Poor man's himalaya? Maybe a poor man IN Himalaya. Reminds me of Eternity and other 80/90's type scents; too mainstream for me.
Richard James SR
Blind buy. Pleasant, familiar yet somehow very unique. I swear, everytime I smell this on a hourly basis, it smells different, constantly evolving. Longevity is insane, easily 10+ hours. The soap makes me gooey on the inside. Some say its for cold weather and formal events, I don't get that, its all season, all versatile. Has my full recommendation.
YSL Kouros
Blind buy. Urinal cakes? What the ^%(*^#$@# is a urinal cake?? On 2nd thought, I don't want to know. Personally...does it smell like urine? Yes. Does it make me want to puke? Yes. Does it make the women go insane? Yes. If I were to take a random survey of men and asked them if they could smell like urine but get attention from all kinds of women, would they still smell like urine? Enough said.
Hugh Parsons Blue
I sampled this at Nordstroms and it intrigued me, if only because its really hard to find. The opening is common, aquatic and fresh, but the drydown...hard to describe. I'm not too good with the note descriptions. Better than Gendarme? Nopes. But I still dig it.
More news at 11.
So maybe I was a little hasty with my assessment of M7....
So maybe I was a little hasty with my M7 assessment...
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This course will really test your skill and patience. The rough is super thick and long and will cost you a stroke ever time you end up in it. The greens are in great condition and lightning quick. The rest of the course is well maintained all the time. The course layout is fantastic and the back nine is much harder than the front. Don't get over confident at the turn! I love playing here!
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this breaking news story.
The scale of the losses and the timing of the attack guaranteed that
there would be a very stern Israeli response. Late last night, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signaled that Israel was about to embark on an
unprecedented level of reprisal. He declared that Yasser Arafat was "an
enemy of Israel" and that "Israel will isolate Arafat and pursue the
Palestinian Authority on all its
We scrambled into our armored vehicle and drove through the deserted
streets toward Arafat's compound. It wasn't long before we encountered the
first group of tanks blocking one of the approach roads to the compound.
We tried another route and again encountered rows of tanks and armored
personnel carriers. We got out and started to film them. There were
occasional bursts of gunfire, sounding just a few blocks away. The
Palestinian militias were putting up some resistance.
Eventually we got to the front of the compound. It was surrounded by
tanks. We walked past them and up to the main entrance. The large metal
gates had been smashed down. A jeep lay crushed next to them; the tank
tracks visible in the flattened metal. This time the Israeli army had gone
We spotted Israeli soldiers looking out of the widows of the compound's
buildings. The fighting here was over. The compound had been taken.
Arafat, holed up in a windowless interior room inside one of the compound's
buildings, was pinned by Israeli forces.
Later in the day Arafat declared that "Israel wants me a prisoner or
they want me killed. But I will be a martyr. I hope that God will give me
Arafat is trapped in a couple of rooms in the compound with just two
close aides at his side. There is speculation as to where it will go from
here. Will Arafat be kept a prisoner here or perhaps be taken away to
Israel? Nobody knows, but everyone is sure that this will do nothing to
end the deepening cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
As if to confirm this view, news comes through of yet another suicide
attack in Jerusalem. A young woman blew herself up at the entrance to a
supermarket. Two Israelis were killed and 20 were injured. Some of her
bombs failed to go off. The casualties would have been much higher if they
We moved around to the far side of the compound. An old man lay dead in
the road, his body shattered by machine-gun fire. We stopped to take a
closer look at him. He didn't seem to be a fighter; he had no weapon and
no flak jacket. He had been killed within the hour. Israeli tanks moved
past us and into the compound through gaps bulldozed in the perimeter wall.
Gunfire started again from another part of the city.
We came across a large group of Tanzim, the armed militia of the
Palestinian Authority. They had withdrawn out of range of the tanks. But
as we spoke to them the Israeli soldiers took up positions in the streets
close by. The Tanzim responded by starting to fire on their positions. We
watched them step out into the street from behind the protection of a
building and fire off a few shots at the Israeli soldiers. Each time they
stepped out into the line of sight of well-positioned soldiers they were
taking an extreme risk. They knew it, and hardly waited to take aimed
As we watched, a Tanzim fighter was hit in the neck by a sniper and
rolled onto the ground, dead. The other fighters picked him up and rushed
him to the hospital in a car.
This fighting was only token resistance. It was more like watching men
carry out desperate acts of bravado than one group of trained soldiers
going up against another. Later, we learned that five Palestinians had
been killed in the fighting this morning -- and the battle continued.
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After Tuesday's 10" snow dump at Lambert International Airport, I was hoping for at least a bit of a break from the active winter weather pattern...
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By the time you woke up this morning (Thursday morning), a winter storm watch had already been posted for Reynolds and Iron counties in Missouri. Those are the two southern-most counties in the News4 viewing area, and home to the towns of Centerville, Ironton, Viburnum, Annapolis, and Ellington.
Why just these two counties? Based on the current forecast track of our approaching winter storm, it appears as though the majority of the snow will fall JUST to the south and east of St. Louis. This one is going to be a very close shave for the metropolitan area!
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So, as of now, it appears as though this storm will not be a major snow-maker for the St. Louis area, but a small shift in the track of this storm could mean major changes to the forecast. A slide of only 50 miles north or south could mean the difference between 5 inches of snow and no snow at all in the metropolitan area.
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Carl Bernstein has published a new book about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), in large part featuring "assertions and anecdotes" about Clinton's career that have been published previously.
In addition to these "scoops" (described as "not of the bombshell variety" by Time's Jay Carney), Bernstein's book offers a forum for numerous demeaning sexist attacks, such as claims that Hillary is not as "intrinsically bright" as her husband.
Some of the offensive lines come in the form of quotations, others are commentary from Bernstein himself. Among the most offensive is offered by long-time Clinton enemy Dick Morris, who likens giving advice to Hillary to feeding a dog:
"I would talk to Bill constantly about the advice that I'd give Hillary and he would pass it on," said Morris… And "Bill said 'She's following your advice.' And I had a line, which was perhaps too unequivocal, I'd say, 'yeah, we put out the dog food at night, and in the morning the dish is empty.'" (p. 420)
TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt has highlighted several additional quotes:
"'At first, she didn't wear stockings. … Her hair was friend into an Orphan Annie perm. … There wasn't one…feminine thing about her.'" (p. 130)
"Hillary's weight was a regular topic of conversation, spurred by her inability to shed the few pounds that would have made her more attractive." (p.130)
"Many colleagues of the Clintons had concluded that Hillary was not as intrinsically bright as her husband." (p. 274)
"Her ankles were thick." (p. 32)
"[S]he was rarely, if ever, deferential. It had never been her style nor would it ever be." (p. 130).
"'She had an opinion on everything. … Issues. People. Where Bill was going to speak. I mean everything.'" (p. 165)
"[S]he was no longer wearing her trademark headbands…she had 'zipped her lip' and now gazed lovingly and silently at her husband from a wifely vantage point." (p. 208).
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I haven't been able to describe what I do since I left the classroom. "I teach math" was easy, and nothing in the twenty years since has been that simple to summarize. But since the last post, by way of apology, here is where I've been: Saturday (4/12), San Francisco (Leadership 3.0), Sunday, Orange Co. CA (DEN event), Sat (4/19), Fontana (DEN), Sat (4/26), Charlotte, NC (Day of Discovery), Sunday, St. Michaels, MD, Fri/Sat (5/3), New York (BOCES), Baltimore (CTE), Washington (Congress on Content), and Long Beach (TechForum) (5/9). The Tech Saturday for the Gifted Association was moved to next Saturday in LA. Lots of travel and people. Of course, I love it. I got to speak to more than a thousand educators. Here's what I learned: Oovoo.com: Site for 6-way live video chat. Free download (thanks, Bob!). Schools can get Direct TV for free..(thanks Paul!). Piclens.com is a great Google image display resource (thanks, Brian). Jott lets you Twit from your cellphone, and translates word to text! (thanks, Alan). And I found Alan's twit on tweetscan.com. Yes, you can search for your own name. Some fun!
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Joe Brennan said:
And throw in a half dozen or so webinars (one from a restaurant even) and you still gotta wonder what he was doing for those twenty years…
Cathy Webb said:
Thanks, Hall, for all you continue to do — and to let you know, the nutshell description has moved from "I teach …." to "I support and facilitate student exploration in math, science, history…." what an amazing challenge we have in the classrooms of America!
Hall Davidson said:
Thank you, folks. Makes it all seem worthwhile. We who support the teachers in the classroom have a job to do, too, I know. There are never enough ways to help and it's good to know some of it offers solutions instead of just more problems.


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It's not often that Clover Park High School guard David Crisp scores 28 points in a game and gets overshadowed by two teammates, but it happened in the Warriors 76-51 home win over White River on Friday night.
Point guard Phillip Winston notched a triple-double, and big man Xavier Means nearly did the same thing as the No. 6-ranked Warriors upended No. 4 White River.
Winston scored 14 points, dished out 12 assists, and pulled in ten rebounds. Means came close to pulling off the rare big-man triple double: he had ten points, nine rebounds, and eight blocks.
Means set the tone early, swatting away four shots during the four minutes. The blocks triggered Clover Park fast breaks which helped them build an early 18-4 lead.
"I was pumped up, this game was important to me because I didn't get to play against them the first time," said Means, who was injured when White River beat Clover Park on December 11.
It was only the sixth game of the season for Means, who is coming off hand surgery.
"He's getting his legs, he just getting into the rotation," said Clover Park coach Mel Ninnis. "Xavier Means's motor is always running; he averaged a double-double in the state tournament last year."
Winston, a junior guard, dished out the assists by knifing passes through the White River zone defense. He also threw down a dunk on a fast break, giving the Warriors a 41-30 lead midway through the third quarter.
Meanwhile Clover Park's scoring leader did his usual thing. Crisp was 4-for-8 on 3-pointers, he had 16 points at halftime, and he chipped in eight more during the fourth quarter when the Warriors put the game out of reach. The junior guard is averaging just under 24 points per game.


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The Cassel situationThe Patriots' free-agent plan is connected to one of the more compelling stories in recent team history -- the future of Matt Cassel, who is scheduled to earn $14.6m after being assigned the franchise tag. Can the Patriots afford to keep him? Between Cassel's $14.6m salary cap charge, and Tom Brady's $14.6m salary cap charge, the team has approximately 20-25 percent of its salary cap tied up between two players at the same position. That could limit the Patriots' ability to be financially aggressive in free agency.
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After Incarnate Word lost its season opener on its home field to an NAIA program from Oklahoma, you wondered if the Cardinals would be in for a long season.
The Langston (Okla.) Lions came into Benson Stadium on Aug. 28 and put a 28-20 whipping on the Cardinals.
A lot has changed for Mike Santiago's second-year, NCAA Division II football squad since then.
Still taking baby steps with sophomores and freshmen filling key roles on the 2-deep roster, UIW nevertheless has held its own in its first year of competition in the Lone Star Conference.
The Cardinals (2-4, 2-3 in the LSC) have registered conference victories over Central Oklahoma and East Central, Okla.
Last week, running back Trent Rios produced 112 yards and three touchdowns in the program's first LSC road victory, a 27-13 decision over East Central in Ada, Okla.
A much tougher game looms Saturday when the fifth-ranked and undefeated Abilene Christian University Wildcats (6-0, 5-0) bring their high-scoring act to UIW.
Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
This game promises to be worth the price of admission.
Not only does Abilene bring top-flight talent to Benson Stadium, but UIW will have a shot at registering what would be the single-biggest victory in its history.
A few weeks ago, the Cardinals played on the road at nationally-ranked Midwestern State and battled the Mustangs to a tie in regulation. Alas, Midwestern eventually won 38-31 in overtime.
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In a recent episode of the Fuse series Crate Diggers (embedded below), the self-described "artist, activist, and DJ" Shepard Fairey offered a glimpse into his vast and rarity-filled record collection. The L.A.-based artist, who has designed album covers for the Black Eyed Peas, the Smashing Pumpkins, Flogging Molly, Led Zeppelin, Anthrax, and others, estimates that he has about 4,000 records in his collection.
"The very first record I ever bought, this is pretty embarrassing, was 'YMCA' by the Village People," Fairey admits. "One of the next records I remember buying was Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll,' and I remember that the 45 of that was pressed super-loud, and I loved that because I didn't have a really powerful stereo."
In addition to organizing his vast collection by alphabetically — although one section of it is organized by beats per minute — he also keeps some records classified by genre, though he warns that this often engenders "semantic warfare."
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MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts married
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Roberts, 39, and Abner, of Merck
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Yesterday, we all felt sorry for Robert Pattinson -- after allegations surfaced that girlfriend Kristen Stewart had been cheating on him with British director Rupert Sanders.
Today, if the allegations are true, we are crushed for Liberty Ross.
The 33-year-old mother of two's tweets are surfacing, and they reveal a woman grappling with mounting evidence of a husband's infidelity.
If you want to check out Liberty's Twitter account for yourself, though, good luck.
On Wednesday, the model-actress's account was no more.
But the Daily Mail, E! and several other outlets captured screenshots from when the Brit star's account was formerly very active.
Back in May, E! reports Ross had blogged about the debut of Snow White & the Huntsman -- the movie she starred in (and her "cheating" hubby directed) alongside none other than alleged mistress Ms. Stewart.
"Last night was quite a night for me and my family," she wrote, following the worldwide premiere. "We have lived and breathed this project every day now for two years, so to release it to the world last night was extremely exciting."
In fact, a pic featuring Ross, Stewart and co-star Charlize Theron accompanied the post.
On July 4, all seemed well for the mother and her 41-year-old husband: "We are getting some R&R on the north shore of O'ahu after a lengthy press tour for Snow White & The Huntsman," she wrote. "It's so beautiful here - we are staying in an artists house right out on a point with waves crashing either side of us."
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E! reports the last user she followed was Us Weekly, which ran a photo Tuesday of what appears to be the 22-year-old Stewart canoodling with her husband.
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Top news: Chernobyl 25th anniversary scares Europe; police open fire on anti-nuclear protesters in India; Greenpeace US releases seafood scorecard
#Nuclear: The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster is coming up next week, and its effect is still being felt across Europe. A Reuters story covers how poorly-investigated and hazardous for the environment the disaster was. Earlier this month Kiev this month, Greenpeace scientists tested for radioactive isotopes in food they purchased food from village markets in two administrative regions, Zhytomyr and Rivne. They found caesium 137 above permissible levels in many samples of milk, dried mushrooms and berries.
#Nuclear/Action: Indian police opened fire on hundreds of protesters, killing one, at a demonstration against the proposed construction of Jaitapur nuclear power station, police and the government. Karuna Raina, nuclear and energy campaigner at Greenpeace India, condemned the police action Monday as "shameful" and said local people were only exercising their right to legitimate protest.
#Seafood: Greenpeace U.S. has released a seafood scorecard, ranking 20 nationwide supermarket retailers for their seafood sourcing and purchasing. Safeway is positioned on the top of the ranking, ahead of specialty food markets such as Whole Foods and Wegmans. The author of the report is the Greenpeace markets campaigner Casson Trenor, he said that "15 out of 20 are within passing range. In less than three years, this is incredible progress."
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National Grid gets high marks from PSC for service and reliability
Published 6:45 pm, Monday, April 1, 2013
Despite Mother Nature doing all she could to knock out the power, National Grid last year surpassed all its customer service and reliability targets set by regulators for its upstate New York territory.
National Grid and utilities across the state face severe fines from the state Public Service Commission if they don't meet the targets, which cover everything from the number of outages to the number of customer service calls answered within 30 seconds.
The most important measurement for most electricity customers is the number and duration of outages.
Last year, a National Grid customer upstate may not have had to endure even one outage, as the average number experienced per customer was just 0.9, well below the target of 1.13 per customer, and an improvement over 2011.
The average outage last year lasted 2.04 hours, just under the target of 2.05 hours, although that number was higher than the 2011 average of 1.95 hours.
"The fact that we met or exceeded all the targets is good news for customers, and speaks to the tremendous efforts our employees," National Grid spokesman Steve Brady said. "Each year is different and presents its own challenges, so comparisons can be difficult, but clearly our recent trend of having met these targets over several years is quite positive."
PSC fines for electric reliability are steep, even if they exceed their targets by just a little. For instance, if the average outage duration had been greater than 2.05 hours, the company would have had to pay a $3 million fine. And if the durations averaged more than 2.15 hours — just 10 minutes more — the fine would have jumped to $6 million.
National Grid's reliability numbers were actually worse than their five-year average, but the company said the unusual weather had a lot to so with it. Major storms such as Superstorm Sandy are not included in the reliability measures due to their severity, which is difficult to predict or measure.
National Grid has had a decent customer service record despite the criticism that it and other utilities have endured from the public and elected officials, especially in the wake of Sandy. The company last year completed $1.5 billion in upgrades to its equipment across upstate and is planning $1.5 billion more in the next several years.
The company also faces tough penalties on basic customer service measures such as the annual complaint rate and the percentage of meters read.
For instance, if the rate of customer complaints is greater than 2.5 complaints per 100,000 customers, the company faces a $6.08 million fine. Last year, the company's complaint rate was just 0.42 per 100,000 customers, its lowest level dating at least to 2007. The most frequent complaint occurs when someone is upset to receive a final termination notice, a letter saying that their power is going to be shut off for not paying their bills.
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