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GREENVILLE, Ill. - The 2009 UMAC South champion Greenville College Panthers look to defend their crown in 2010 with new teammates, a new field, and a new head coach. In his eighth season with the Panthers, Ordell Walker has taken over the reins of the program. He has high expectations for a team on the upswing.
The 2009 Panthers had their best season in over a decade, posting a record of 7-3. They also made history by winning the first and only Upper Midwest Athletic Conference South Division championship (The UMAC will merge and no longer have divisions in 2010). They also qualified for the program's second National Christian College Athletic Association Victory Bowl.
"We understand the pressure is on," said Walker. "Last year we were picked to win only three games. We surprised some people, competed at a high level, and won seven. This year we're expected to be successful on the field. Our response to this new pressure will determine our success on the scoreboard."
The Panther offense starts the 2010 season with the core of the 2009 team in place. The Panthers will return seven starters from an offense that averaged over 25 points and 175 yards rushing per game. Tight end Zach Friedrich will be sorely missed in the passing game, but Rendell Flood and a slew of junior college transfers will help make a smooth transition.
The running game will again be the strength of the Panthers offense this year. The line has four returning starters, including the 2009 UMAC South lineman of the year Tim Burroughs and senior tackle David Butler. They should be able to open huge holes for UMAC South co-offensive player of the year Anthony Ambers and seniors Ketrone Blanks and Mark Mitchell.
The passing game returns its second leading receiver, tight end Rendell Flood, along with senior wide receivers Jordan Fred and Ray Toliver. The Panthers were also able to add 6-5 wide receiver Ryan Boezeman, a transfer from Olivet Nazarene, to provide another big target for quarterback Joel Lira. Lira took over as the starter last season in week three and gave the offense the leadership it needed to run efficiently. Lira hopes to provide those same intangibles in 2010.
The Panthers offense will be directed by Robbie Schomaker in his first season as the offensive coordinator for Greenville College. "I am thrilled to be a part of Greenville College," said Schomaker. "These kids work extremely hard and have the leadership and play making ability to do great things in 2010. I see tremendous success ahead of us as we all learn to become EMAP men."
The Greenville College defense also comes into the 2010 season with high expectations despite only returning five starters and losing the 2009 UMAC South defensive player of the year and three first team UMAC South all-conference defensive linemen.
The linebackers will be lead by 2009 UMAC first team all-conference player Jumaane Bey and three year starter Joel Deayon. David Maurer, Bryce Stevens, and Randy Mixson will round off a talented linebacker unit.
The defensive backs will be the second most experienced position behind the linebackers. Juniors John Smith and Andy Lozano will be looked on to lead a secondary that has questions that need to be answered early in camp. Sophomore Doug Wilmot and senior J.J. Willis also look to contribute at safety. Senior Reuben Gay, who showed the most consistency in the spring, and Chris Gunn look to hold down the edges as the starting cornerbacks.
The defensive line went from the most experienced a year ago to the least experienced position on the field. K.C. Gilbert will be the only defensive lineman that returns with any experience and will be looked upon to lead a young but talented defensive line. Newcomer Jordan Cernek, a transfer from Trinity International University, will contribute. The coaching staff is excited to see who steps up and takes on the challenge of filling the shoes of the departed three all-conference seniors from last year.
"There will be a lot of new faces on defense from the last year, which to me, is very excited because we get to see new guys step up and become leaders," said defensive coordinator Jake Schenk. "If we can find those leaders to step up and take charge, we can see a lot of success. I think we have a lot of potential, but potential only takes you so far. We need to be a defense that plays smart and relentless. If we can get guys to buy into the system, we can close the gap between potential and performance on the field."
"I can't tell you what the scoreboard will say at the end of each game," said Walker. "What I can tell you is that we are going to focus on closing our potential performance gap and competing against our best selves. Anything beyond that is out of our control."


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CONTACT: Tori Schatt
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This sweet little Russian Blue kitty was picked by a family on Saturday, but when the shelter tech gave her her vaccination - the tech went too deep, and too high & ended up hitting nerves. The poor kitty was paralyzed on one side. On Saturday she had no feeling in either front or back leg (I believe it is her left side).
On the bright side, today she has feeling in her back leg. On the downside, the shelter needs her out - or they will euthanize. I spoke with my Vets - and they say that she may regain full function of both limbs - or she could have some nerve damage. Both were optomistic since she has regained feeling this quickly - but, said it may take several weeks. At this point she needs help cleaning up & getting into the litter box. She is eating, and drinking normally - and is still super sweet.
If anyone can help, please let me know.
Thank you for choosing us for your Veterinary needs,
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FEMA Consolidating NJ Offices
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is consolidating its Superstorm Sandy offices in New Jersey more than two months after the storm hit.
The agency is opening regional centers in Jersey City and Manahawkin on Monday.
Its centers in in Cape May, Harvey Cedars, Jersey City, Linden, Paterson, Plainfield, Stafford and Woodbridge are slated to close Saturday.
Staff members at the centers are available to explain letters sent by the agency, help displaced people find temporary homes and check on the status of applications for assistance. Small Business Administration officials are also to be on hand to help people apply for low-interest loans.
Residents who need help do not have to go to a center in their home counties.
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Poached Eggs with Chicken Hash (Adapted from Food and Wine)
12 ounces russet potatoes, cleaned and cut into 1/2" diced pieces
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
12 ounces skinless, boneless chicken breasts or thighs, cut into 1/2" diced pieces
freshly ground black pepper pepper
2 ounces bacon, cut into 1/4" diced pieces
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
2 celery ribs, finely chopped
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
cayenne pepper sauce, if desired
Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil - add potatoes and a pinch of salt. Cook until just tender, about 5 minutes - drain well.
In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high. until. Season chicken with salt and pepper - place chicken and bacon in the skillet. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is browned all over, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add the onion and celery - cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Add the cooked diced potato and season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to medium and cook, pressing gently on the chicken hash with a spatula and turning it once, until it's browned, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and keep warm.
Meanwhile, bring a large skillet of water to a boil - stir in vinegar. Crack each egg into a small bowl - quickly, but carefully, slide each into the simmering water. Simmer over moderately low heat until the whites are set and the yolks are still runny, about 4 minutes.
Evenly divide the hash between 4 plates and transfer a poached egg to each plate, using a slotted spoon. Serve with cayenne pepper sauce.
Makes 4 servings.
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I made this hash a couple of days ago and it was great! I used sweet potato rather than the white because we try to limit our intake of the white variety. When using sweet you don't have to cook first either.ReplyDelete
CLS - I'm glad to hear it came out well with sweet potatoes... we love those too!ReplyDelete
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Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
You can make this guy into a major candidate by writing him a check. As a matter of fact, if he doesn't get a couple of hundred thousand checks from the Slashdot community pretty damn quick then you all might be the whining do-nothing slackers the more cynical among you have always claimed.
You can bet there's a lawyer printing off the boilerplate paperwork to establish a SuperPAC for his opposition as we speak. Probably already done. A messenger is frantically chasing around gathering signatures, so the RIAA/MPAA will have someplace safe to dump the literally millions they're going to give this guy's opposition.
I expect the first attack ads with the obvious stamp of whole bunches of money by the end of the week.
This is fine too. If they are willing to spend millions for every thousand our side wastes, then they'll run out of money before we do (maybe). Just call it a war of attrition and we are golden.
Not as long as "we" (the general we) also give the opposition much more money at the same time.
I'll bet that the OP spends more than 50 bucks in music and movie and TV and Internet (if he uses the Comcast/AT&T duopoly prevalent in much of the US). Hell I spend more than that on cable per month.
Can Kickstarter be used for funding purpose, I wonder?
With stretch goals such as "save the world."
The problem with the US system of paying for political support is that even if the slashdot community did get him elected theres no chance he'll see that again. Once hes elected the MPAA/RIAA can buy him cheap as he'll know their income wont stop. The public with their 'single issue' campaigns will never make a dent in the systematic stripping of peoples basic rights.
You make a good point. I wish we had good canidates like this in the UK, where I was born and am currently a citizen. Neverthless, I will write him a check for $100 in your currency, just like I did for Barack Obama.
Somehow "Just like...Obama" isn't very encouraging to me
Is it legal to make a campaign donation to a candidate who does not (potentially) represent you?
That depends on the campaign finance laws of the individual State. Some allow it, some don't.
I don't know which side of the fence New Jersey comes down on, having never lived there, but it would probably be advisable to find out before donating money to this guy if you don't live/work in Jersey....
ISPs look like common carriers and quack like common carriers. It's high time we started treating them as common carriers (i.e., imposing net neutrality on them).
s/Either that or at least/And/
"SPs look like common carriers and quack like common carriers. It's high time we started treating them as common carriers (i.e., imposing net neutrality on them)."
The FCC has wanted to classify ISPs as Title II Common Carriers since their inception. It was Congress that stopped it from doing so, by passing a law that made ISPs an exception. Backed by lobbying, no doubt. There was never any real, rational reason for doing that and I have been lambasting Congress for it ever since. (That is, "corporate profit" might be a "reason", but not a good one. This situation is definitely not in the public interest. Countries that treat internet more like a utility have significantly better service at lower rates than the U.S.)
The reality is, more than ever before, that ISPs are Common Carriers, in every meaningful way. We need to get Congress to let the FCC classify them as such.
The moment that happens, many of these problems -- and privacy problems too -- simply disappear.
"Privacy problems would disappear--"
Yes, I meant that "many privacy problems would disappear."
Think about it: Deep-packet inspection would simply be illegal. No question. Maybe it could be done with a warrant or subpoena, but pretty much no other way. 3rd-party cookies and pixel-bug tracking would, in any sane universe, then constitute "tapping" and would likely disappear (for legitimate reasons, anyway). Etc.
It would go a long way toward solving many of our internet ills.
I see they are going for a newspaper look,
but the words
are so spread out
it makes my brain bleed
to try and read it. and it looks like
the articles are all smashed. together. and junk
They wrote a story
typeset in the form of a seventh-grade paper
where only the page count matters.
But the trick never worked
as the teacher docked them anyway.
It was worth one more try.
Somene pasted in an article with hard carriage returns at the end of each "line", whatever length they define it as, and they got interpreted as paragraph breaks instead (and quite reasonably. Only inferior editors from the dark ages before most of you were born did this. Also, Notepad fucks up doing this from time to time if wrap size changes.
Finally, someone standing up against Computer Algebra Systems! Those whizzy calculators are destroying education in this country, leaving children mathematically crippled, unable to manage the simplest symbolic manipulation in their own heads.
Yeah, I didn't RTFS beyond the headline; why do you ask?
I agree, the Compare-and-Swap instruction is crucial to efficient multi-threading synchronization!
I agree with you. Why should our government care if Microsoft provides us with the ability to require privileges to load custom assemblies via Code Access Security? It's not like you have to use it if you don't want to...
You'd think the government would be all over the Central Authentication Service.
It'd be nice if they were; it might encourage someone to come up with a solid Apache plugin to handle CAS-based authentication right.
This article is clearly about the dreaded Channel Associated Signaling. Better late than never that someone stands up and raises his voice against this atrocity
This article is clearly about the dreaded Channel Associated Signaling.
In case anyone else wants to play:
(0) infidel
8 definitions found
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 May 2012) [foldoc]:
1. {Column Address Strobe}.
2. (channel associated signaling) {in-band
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
I'm glad he said it, but very few if any people are listening. Gov Christie has about a 75% approval rating and will win re-election in a landslide barring some sort of major screwup.
The electric company has no say over what you power with their service
Great. What effect is this statement more like to have
- ISPs stop telling you what you can download or not download
- Electric companies getting ideas about having a say over what you power with their service.
they can't turn the air conditioning down if it's on the same power feed as the rest.
anyways.. the trick for wanabe hippie gangsters is to grow just salad in the house for the first year.
My first thought from the headline was, "Why would they have a problem with Continuous Active Sonar [strategypage.com]?".
Yawn. The linked "article" is just a press-release from a fringe candidate. I'll be impressed if I see a mainstream candidate saying something like this and it's not just in a press-release.
If your consumption is much higher than the norm, they'll notify the police of a possible grow operation.
"it uses public infrastructure and it is time we treat it as a public utility."
What part of "the internet" is publicly owned, outside of a few last-mile segments in municipalities that have elected to provide that service?
Last I read, the "backbone" of internet was owned by private companies. The ISPs are private companies. All of the tiers in between them are owned by private companies.
Or, is this to imply that Americans should consider all of that privately-owned property to be "public", because some fore
The most expensive, difficult, LARGEST, and publicly owned part of any direct connect service is the last mile. The ISPs must use public land or public airwaves to get to your home; they get permission from the public using public institutions (government which used to be by and for the people but that is off topic.) The same system which provides water, sewer, roads, phone, power - although some of those are too new to be public and instead are privatized at our expense (but we love to pay more so somebo
Last mile is important, but quite often the long haul is also done with hidden and perhaps forgotten but still significant public subsidies. In many places the long haul fiber is carried by the power utility companies, tucked inside of their high voltage lines.
There are often terms of service for any utility, and part of those terms can easily be that you do not use the service of that utility to break the law.
So yes... electric companies *can* say that you aren't allowed to use it to power things when you are using those things to commit a crime, such as powering heat lamps to illegally grow marijuana in your own home.
The only thing that might be argued to be wrong with this is that there may not necessarily be any tangible proof that a particular ISP subsc
The biggest problem with getting copyright law reformed is "How do you get a few million more Americans to care?". Thanks CAS for solving that problem & guaranteeing this will be a political topic soon enough.
And if his website weren't thoroughly slashdotted, I'd be checking out exactly what he stands for.
(NJ's governors tend to have earned their rep as things you wouldn't want stuck to the bottom of a shoe)
(no really, you don't want a hysterical corrupt hypocrite stuck to the bottom of your shoe)
(actually, it applies to both parties for about every office in the state)
It is pretty ironic that a gubernatorial candidate, is speaking out against complex adaptive systems when his democratic party itself is one.
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Short notice here, but need to throw this question out there. I'm attending an Italian dinner tonight with Shaferguy91, Latour67, Arkansasdoc and a couple other friends. I'm considering bringing a 1949 Francesco Rinaldi e Figli Barolo that I've had stood up for a few days. I know this bottle can be a crapshoot on quality, but this bottle has been sourced with great provenance and looks as good as a bottle can with this kind of age. Alright, to you guys with experience opening older wines, preferably Barolos, what would be my best approach in making this bottle perform to the best of it's ability? Slow oxygen method, pop and pour, decant? Thanks in advance.
There's got to be plenty of sediment. I'd decant immediately before leaving for the restaurant. Give it a taste to be sure it's OK. You might need a replacement. Have fun
Just one more sip.
Thanks, and I do have a replacement on hand. I know this may not show well, but regardless we will have a good time. Thanks.
Hope it went well. We made the mistake of traveling with a 64 Giacomo Conterno Barolo. The sediment ended up breaking down in the wine with the travel. It needed days to settle back out. Unfortunately we opened it at an offline and the wine was quite cloudy.
There is an issue here I have faced. You stand the bottle up for some time so the sediment can get to the bottom. Then, you carefully carry it out to the car. Then, you start the car and travel over various bumps, thus, stirring the wine.
So, the thing to do is to stand it up for some time, then open at home, decant it into a decanter thus removing the sediment for the most part. You can bring the decanter and, if you wish, the empty bottle.
Or, bring the bottle to the restaurant a day early and have them stand it up and leave it there until dinner.
99% of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name.
Thanks guys and I'm so self conscious about this very thing. I find myself walking very slow to the car with the wine then driving extra slow to the restaurant trying to dodge holes or bumps in the road. Haha! what a geek I've become I decided against bringing this bottle after thinking it should have been stood up for a longer amount of time. I instead went with a 1985 Mascarello Barolo that drank beautifully. You can read my impressions of the wines on what are you drinking thread.
Food for thought from Maria Teresa Mascarello, daughter of the great barolista Bartolo Mascarello on old botles:
"Decanting an older or old vintage is traumatic for the wine. It's like going up to an eighty-five year old person and shaking him or her violently, It is harmful, if not to say life-threatening." as quoted by Kerin O'Keefe in her book Brunello di Montalcino.
Sounds like Mascarello either doesn't know how to decant or likes to drink sediment.
Just one more sip.
I'd probably opt for the stand it for several days, then very gently decant, rinse out the bottle (filtered or distilled water), then recork with a current synthetic cork from a cheap bottle right before leaving for the restaurant. Board O makes a good point about checking it and having a backup available. A wine this old shouldn't need oxygen. Once at the restaurant, I'd be checking how it is in the glass right away. I've also done the 'take it to the restaurant a day or two ahead' approach but with a 47, I'd be tempted to take the approach above.
True. Maria Teresa, like her father and many great barolisti such as Bruno Giacosa, loves what you call "sediment". Called in local dialect fund d'buta or fund d'la buta (fondo della bottiglia in italian or end of the bottle in english), it is the custom of the Langhe to give guests the end of a previously opened bottle of old Barolo or Barbaresco. They leave the fondo for up to 2 weeks in the bottle standing up by putting the cork back, and if the wine is great it is an amazing experience. I had the honor to be offered a drop of a magnum 1964 Barolo Bartolo Mascarello, while visiting him a few years back and that crunchy little "sediment" still sits vividly in my memory. From then on I stick to the way these great producers drink their own wine: never decant and drink/eat the crunchy stuff. They prepare their bottles in advance by standing them up for a few days and then open them a few hours before consumption after having tasted the wine, which also serves the purpose to let a bit more air in. Even in restaurants they always have been very happy to not decant and let me bring home the bottle with the fondo (less work for them) and I have also discovered that the "sediment" is great to flavor the risotto.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Giovanni V,
Just one more sip.
A little late to the party on this one. I would not decant a bottle this old unless I was in a position to begin consuming it immediately. Even a very gentle decant is going to start the process of oxygenating the wine, and at this age it might start fading quickly after decanting. That said, if the bottle has been stood up for a good while I'd probably just pour into glasses straight from the bottle. You might pick up a skosh of the sediment in the final pour, but no big deal. It ain't gonna kill you.
Totally agree....I would not decant this either.....Nebbiolo is prone to oxidation, especially at that age.....stand it up, pop the cork and let it sit for a bit.
I, for one, would not laugh at the recommendations of people like Maria Teresa Mascarello. I met her at the winery last year and she is a very intelligent and knowledgable producer....
I had a 74 barolo recently. For the record it needed about 30-45 minutes in the glass to open up. Still quite tight. But then it started to fade quickly after about 1.5 hours with the bottle being open. We didn't decant, but did stand the bottle upright for a day or so before hand.
I follow the Mascarello/Giacosa approach: never decant, stand up the bottle in advance, open and take out half a glass and put the cork back in for 2-3 hours. The little air that comes in is enough to open up the wine without killing it. Cabernet-based wines are much more resilient to air and therefore can withstand even violent practices such as double decanting, while nebbiolo and sangiovese-based wines are more delicate and need to be treated accordingly.
Sandy, did you try again the 74 barolo after a few hours or the following day? I have witnessed a few "resurrections" of old barolos.
Certainly. If you don't decant and pour a glass or two, the sediment will be stirred up into the remainder of the wine. Decanting an old wine necessitates tasting immediately and likely drinking soon. Pouring a glass at a time yields crunchy wine.
Just one more sip.
Not necessarily. If I'm planning on pouring the whole bottle right away, it's not too hard to stop mid pour without creating a "back-splash" back into the bottle. It does take a steady hand, though. I did this recently with a 1995 Manzoni Barolo Big that had thrown a ton of sediment. I just lined the 5 glasses up and kept the bottle as level as possible as I proceeded through the pours. Worked just fine. There were a few ounces left at the bottom of the bottle and I just dumped the dregs into a juice glass. By the end of the evening, I grabbed the juice glass and nibbled around the edges of the dregs, crunch and all. Yum.
And to answer the obvious question, I didn't decant because my decanters were all in use and this was a back-up that had to be put in play. If sediment is an issue in an older wine, I almost always decant. Gently.
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RR must've spent too much time pecking on that Acme birdseed.
Yeah, just like the OP who was too busy "pecking" and forgot to include the link to the actual article on the decommissioning: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417271,00.asp [pcmag.com]
The Coyote finally won
Yeah, that too, is possible !
it's be interesting to see if this thing goes for scrap value, or if someone else'll pick it up for service elsewhere...
Keep an eye on Ebay for parts.
It used a combo of cell CPUs and AMD Opterons [cnet.com] so if they want to recoup some of the cost i doubt selling those chips would be hard.
Of course this is one more reason i don't like the "game console" way the industry is being pushed, with Intel talking about soldering boards to chips and companies pushing more "black box" computing because if it were not for bog standard yet powerful COTS parts things like Roadrunner would be either impossible or insanely expensive. Yet to hear the industry pundits tell it all we need is a tablet and an iPhone...sheesh. Give me a system I can upgrade any day of the week, the laptops and tablet are fine for service calls or as PMPs but they will always be more about style and battery life than performance.
I was relatively late to the build your own PC craze, I built my first one in 1995 after about 8 years of being a Mac owner.
But since that time I have found relatively little worthwhile "upgradability" in my systems. I do remember adding a 3DFX card to my Pentium-166 system and replacing a couple of video cards (in the last 2-3 years) whose fans have quit.
When I built systems I tried to get the best bang for my buck out of my CPU, buying just high enough in the product lineup that my parts were "better" bu
Then no offense but "Ur doing it wrong" because I have been able to upgrade every system i have built and extended its useful lifespan. For examples I stayed with LGA775 when it was obvious it was gonna have a long life, then I heard about Intel rigging the market so i switched to the AM sockets which turned out to have an even longer life than LGA775. The machine I'm typing on went from an Athlon dual to a Phenom II quad to now an AMD Hexacore, triple the power of the original chip, went from 2GB to 8GB o
I'm not arguing the dangers of planned-obsolescence/DRM/black box computing at all (despite the two iPads and 3 iPhones we have here) at all.
I still build my own PCs, but for a whole bunch of reasons I kind of leave them as built anymore.
I'm fine with my existing two year old Core i5 system -- but I kind of threw some money at it when I built it and it's paid off -- SSD boot disk, 2 TB Raid1 storage, 16 GB RAM.
When I'm done, my young son gets them and by then he's thrilled. He's just about to get a slight
But that's not the fault of having the ABILITY to upgrade, its simply that software hasn't kept up with hardware, that's all. my youngest is gaming on an Athlon triple that was originally built as a spare, just a system to have in the closet if one of the family suffered a broken system because I got tired of hearing "How long is it gonna take" but when my hand me down Phenom II quad had a memory stick go tits up (and naturally the Phenom II had DDR 2 and the Athlon DDR 3 so i couldn't just snatch the stick
I think the environmental thing is going to bite the planned obsolescence business strategy in the ass ultimately.
I think environmental regulations on hazardous materials, manufacturers being forced to take back and recycle old products, and possibly even cost of materials will make it harder and harder to release intentionally obsoleted gadgets.
Some of this cost can be passed on to end users, but much of it can't be and I've read editorial content from environmental advocates that even suggests that device
I think we'll just keep on poisoning the third world sadly. Ever see a video of the place where most of our PCs end up? Its this little cesspool in Bumfuck Africa where the sky is black from the burning motherboards as the peasants try to get enough metals out of them to survive another week, its really sad and pathetic and the ones "working" there will probably be dead of cancer or heavy metal poisoning by the time they are 30.
We could go into the "why" it has happened, I would argue what we are seeing is
Sold to China would be my guess.
Sold to indonesia would be my guess.
"Sound barrier" was and remains OK because there is a physical difference between flying slower than and faster than the speed of sound. But the word "barrier" is now (over)used to make things sound more dramatic. Raising a number from below to above some arbitrary (usually number base-dependent) threshold does not imply crossing a barrier, unless by barrier is meant "barrier to entry of another over-hyped tech piece".
Whenever there is a story on supercomputers on
The truth is that the performance of supercomputers grows that fast because engineers continuously solve problems, which were deemed intractable before (e.g. power consumption, reliability, network performance). The research may not be groundbreaking in the sense of earth-shattering, but definitely in the sense of "wow, I didn't think one could do that!"
I think that thing could host a kick-ass DOOM session!
I worked on Roadrunner. It was a pain to program, but I'm sorry to see it go. The Cell processor was ahead of its time...
At today's prices, I'd have it farming Bitcoins.
you have "flop" in the name
I guess it's not new and shiny anymore, so we can just throw it away.
I did want to read the actual article, but the only link is to a 2008 article.
Fail or what?
http://news.sky.com/story/1071902/supercomputer-pioneer-roadrunner-to-shut-down [sky.com]
That is the article. And i see why they are getting rid of it, not as power efficient as new computers.
what I've found odd in respect of power/cycle efficiency is that it doesn't seem to be going anywhere except in portable gear.
Example: I'm typing on a dual core AMD laptop (E350 die) which is entirely powered by a 50 Watt power brick. That does the processor, board, optical drive, two hard drives, a bank of 7 flash drives on a bus-powered hub, and a 15.3" widescreen panel. THE SAME HARDWARE on a mini-ITX form factor, *requires* a 200W PSU just for the board.
How does that work??
It costs a _lot_ to keep these computers running (read Millions with a really big M). The power bill alone is an enormous amount of money.
It literally gets to the point where it is cheaper to tear it down and build a new one that is better in flops / Watt than to keep the current one running.
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Seriously? Milton?
let the weeping and knashing of teeth begin.
I like it.
"My mission is to be the ray of hope, the guy who stands out there on that beautiful field and owns up to his mistakes and lets people know it's never completely hopeless, no matter how bad it seems at the time. I have a platform and a message, and now I go to bed at night, sober and happy, praying I can be a good messenger." -Josh Hamilton
yes, I just here it. Good sign.
Don't smoke'em if you got'em
ah, I was hoping for someone else...
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
I can't believe it.Carl Lidner ,I take back everything i said about you.I can't wait until SPRING TRAINING.YEAHHHHHHHHHH BABY
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I'm waiting for a salary amount, but I'm expecting 3 years / $21M at least.
Milton is better than Lowe, in my opinion. So, I'm relieved its not Lowe, but I still would have paid Perez that same money.
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
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Your Mom is happy.
Sure hope they didn't give him $7M+ a year.
3 years and $15M would be about right.
Good lord. What a waste of cash.
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Ryan, is this the name?
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It had built in accelerometers and GPS that fed back to the beings legs so that they could use their brain for other things than menial tasks like travelling to where they want to be.
Oh, and it had laser blasters on the sides too.
thanks to the "virtual globe" software Google Earth, which allowed the group to map and visualise the most promising fossil grounds
These are scientists who busy themselves with "finding stuff at locations". Did they really not have access to map software that offered similar features long before Google Earth?
I think you'd be suprised, there seems to be a similar trend in other universities, I think it's because many departments run on shoe string budgets, and GIS was often an expense they couldn't afford.
Now it's available free to them, and cross platform so they can make use of it anywhere from their desktop to their laptop at home to their mobile phone/PDA in the field.
A friend who is a botanist working at a university in Brazil makes heavy use of it along with the rest of his department to map various plant species, and their spread and decline as a tool for helping map the discovery and decline of species, as well as acting as an aid to give clues as to how newly discovered, or previously poorly classified species might be classified or re-classified taxonomically. It helps give clues to where hybridisation may have led to new distinct species and so forth.
It's a tool his department simply didn't have before, but perhaps that's part of it too. Those who are experts in one field, don't necessarily know enough to know tools like this even exist, until companies like Google make them popular and put them in the public eye. When those experts do see these tools they realise how utterly useful they are- remember, not everyone knows enough about computers to know what's out there, or to realise the many ways in which they can assist their day to day work.
Advancement of the tools matters too- phones/pdas with built in GPS and access to these applications, cameras that tag photos with GPS coordinates, cheaper than ever GPS devices and so on all increase the attractiveness and ease of use of these apps where people may previously have found them too difficult or too much hassle to work with over their existing methods too I suppose.
Google has now helped build upon our understanding of we came from, as a species. They are officially off my shit list.
Because Google Earth is a quantum leap in Atlas technology.
Prior to Google Earth/Maps, the dominant atlas technology was, well, Atlases; Big hefty books with discrete resolutions, fixed orientations, no hyper-linking(obviously), nice indices but no search functionality, oh and finally, they were super expensive. Google Earth is an improvement on the Atlas in every conceivable sense of the world, especially the most important ones; usability and accessibility. And the proof of this fact is in the increased a
Google is delivering us the technologies sci-fi was promising over 60 years ago. It's delivering them because it understands that immediate and all consuming lust for payment and profit is not always the best way to improve technology or its use.
And, ironically enough, it's making money hand over fist [yahoo.com] as a result.
But yeah, all those old "cyber-space" things have pretty much been superceded. The one thing we still don't have is faster-than-light travel and nuclear fusion. Two things: FTL travel, nuclear fus
Uh, it has nothing to do with that - that's one reason google earth is great, yes, but that's not why scientists are increasingly using it for GIS-type work.
These scientists already had detailed maps of the areas they're working on. Believe me, they weren't carrying around big hefty atlases with them - that's a ridiculous thought.
Even scientists in heavily geographical fields (like mine, geology) aren't always familiar with computers. Xest already hit the nail on the head here, and I won't reiterate his pos
The researchers identified the fossils of at least 25 other species of animals, including saber-toothed cats, a wildcat, a brown hyena, a wild dog, antelopes, and a horse in the cave as well.
Also, I thought this was interesting:
"Before this discovery, you could pretty much fit the entire record of fossils that are candidates for the origin of the genus Homo from this time period onto a small table. But, with the discovery of Australopithecus sediba and the wealth of fossils we've recovered -- and are recovering* -- that has changed dramatically," Berger said.
Keep digging guys!!!
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Their bones were laid down with the remains of other dead animals, including a sabre-toothed cat, antelope, mice and rabbits. The fact that none of the bodies appear to have been scavenged indicates that all died suddenly and were entombed rapidly
I'm imagening, as they used caves for living and spoiling a decent cave giving protection and housing was used as a "burial" or dumpster is unlikely, the cave was uninhabitable by humans for one or another reason. A likely scenario seems to be that the young and unknowingly couple ran off to have some funky frisky time, ended up in a cave inhabited by preditors and got owned. A predator yet unknown, but one that can eat animals from the size of a mouse up to a sabretooth tiger without biting marks.
As there are no biting marks or "scavenging", or disallowing inhabitation it must've been a might impressive beast eating those creatures without teeth. I propose a blob of ooze or slime which liquified, slowly and horribly, those creatures alive while holding them down with their tentacles of doom while floating in the air with lighteningbols-shooting eyes.
You, sir, have a lively imagination.
If it was Pitch Black Vin Diesel killed them by swiftly connecting a blade with the sweet spot.
Or it could be more prosaic, like a release of toxic gas...
TFA suggest that the bodies were washed into an inaccessible cave by a sudden flood, and the ages of the skeletons are compatible with mother/son.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but never assume conspiracy when cockup will do.
the ages of the skeletons are compatible with mother/son.
It's just coincidence the two bodies are together. It was actually a lower level cave, and the upper cave collapsed into it due to an earthquake.
If they dig a little more they'll find a pile of extremely dirty rabbit-fur duds, a heap of bark containers with traces of mammoth fat and a bearskin that's large enough to sleep on; underneath it some charcoal & ochre drawings are reverentially arranged - some say hidden. Smears of a crusty substance
I'm imagening, as they used caves for living and spoiling a decent cave giving protection and housing was used as a "burial" or dumpster is unlikely, the cave was uninhabitable by humans for one or another reason. A likely scenario seems to be that the young and unknowingly couple ran off to have some funky frisky time, ended up in a cave inhabited by preditors and got owned. A predator yet unknown, but one that can eat animals from the size of a mouse up to a sabretooth tiger without biting marks.
As the
Millions of years ago, Africa was a continent teeming with life and different varieties of life. As the continents shifted and mountain ranges like the Himalayas rose to block crucial winds to Saharan Africa, the lucky species were able to get out and into Europe and Asia. The not so lucky ones dried up in the desert or learned to survive in the lean environment of the savanna. As European and Asian lifeforms grew more diverse, this giant continent became a sort of Lost World separated from the rest of the
Wow, Himalayas blocking wind to Africa? Just wow...
Dude, you got to get a globe.
The defining characteristic of science is that it needs to be able to make testable predictions.
And to test whether or not evolution is valid science, I suggest the following evolutionist-worldview based prediction: Half of creationists will categorize this fossil as fully human, the other half will classify it as fully ape.
I never cease to be amazed and geekily interested in the vast number of applications that people find with for Google maps & earth data.
That and the GPS are, for me, great examples of the gov/military and private enterprise really giving something back to the community.
Now if only we can have street maps & associated guidance software of the same quality as the commercial stuff.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org] is a good start, but it has a long way to go...
It never ceases to amaze me that people do not put together that free software is far superior to pay-for software. This type of data has always been available, for high cost, to those who were able to acquire it (ArcView for example) and be trained to use it. With the advent of Google Earth people can still access much of that ArcView stuff (with SHP2KML conversion) and use this information for a wide range of research.
Say what you want about Google's privacy scares but some of the shit they've put out is
I never cease to be amazed and geekily interested in the vast number of applications that people find with for Google maps & earth data
I never cease, but that's probably because I never start.
The story is basically "Some foobarologists used a computer a bit".
Coming up later, "Grahite solves the DNA conundrum!" And why not - I'm sure Watson & Crick owned at least one pencil between them.
As a long time reader of Science Fiction, I am interested that no SF writer (to my knowledge) ever predicted GPS. They predicted many other things that we now have (and, of course, tons of stuff that we don't have and probably never will have). But nobody seems ever realized how useful it is to have a device that quietly, cheaply, and easily tells you exactly where you are. Possibly they never put it together with the other necessary component for most applications: cheap, fast, low power storage of a few h
The fact that none of the bodies appear to have been scavenged indicates that all died suddenly and were entombed rapidly.
Either that or all the animals fell into a hole and became trapped over the course of a few years.
When this came out on the local news websites yesterday, a few claimed these finds where "a new species of ancient descendants of modern-day humans" (*), along with other bad logic/grammar. My first thought is that these might have been the love children of one one Julius Malema [wikipedia.org]. Then again, it might just have been that the journalists have procreated....
(* = In the mean time edited and corrected, but at the moment still viewable on this British site [inthenews.co.uk]. Or in Google's caches [google.com]).
Strange burial that buries people with miscellaneous wildlife. While it has been known for people to be buried with pets, it is usually just one or two. And known burial rituals only data back about 50,000 years, whereas these are just under 2 million.
TFA suggest they were washed into an inaccessible cave system by a sudden flood.
Scientists have been using aerial photography for such purposes practically since the dawn of aviation (when it was noticed that things could be seen from the air that couldn't from the ground).
This quote from Matthew Berger, son of Professor Lee Berger, was posted on Good Morning Silicon Valley today.
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2010/04/quoted-matt-i-told-you-to-stop-playing-around-while-were-whoa.html [siliconvalley.com]
"I turned the rock over and I saw the clavicle sticking out — that's the collar bone. I didn't know what it was at first; I thought it was just an antelope. So I called my dad over and about five meters away he started swearing, and I was like 'What did I do wron
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According to the March 17, 2005, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, House Bill 2607 died in committee. The bill, introduced by first-term legislator Mike Martin (R-District 87), would have required the state Department of Education to include "intelligent design" in its educational frameworks and also encouraged teachers in the state to include it in their lesson plans.
On February 10, 2005, the Alabama State Board of Education adopted a revised set of state science standards [Link expired] (the Alabama Course of Study: Science, or ACOSS).
"Battle on teaching evolution sharpens" -- Peter Slevin's story on the creationism/evolution controversy -- appeared on the front page of the March 14, 2005, issue of the Washington Post. "Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America's political right," Slevin begins, "a battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are taught about the origins of life.
Discontented with the scientifically accurate treatment of evolution in the draft revision of the state science standards, the antievolutionist majority on the Kansas Board of Education is continuing to try to concoct a justification for overruling the consensus of the writing committee.
House Bill 2607, introduced in the Arkansas House of Representatives as a shell bill on March 4, 2005, and amended and engrossed on March 10, is intended to allow the teaching of "intelligent design" as "a parallel to evolutionary theory" in the public schools of Arkansas. If enacted, the bill would require the state Department of Education to include "intelligent design" in its educational frameworks and encourage teachers in the state to include it in their lesson plans.
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Investors are giving up on Groupon (GRPN) and they're scrambling for the exits on Facebook (FB) too. Since Twitter is not publicly traded, they can't get out of that one as quickly.
But social media attracts consumers because of dopamine -- and like any drug -- those consumers need a bigger dose to get the same effect. Social media's inability to deliver that is at the root of what makes it hard for it to grow into its lofty valuations. Not only that, but it's failing to come up with compelling ways to earn a return on spending to turn those consumers into repeat customers.
The list of investors getting out of Groupon shares contains prominent names. They include Andreessen Horowitz, Hedge fund Maverick Capital Ltd., and Fidelity Management & Research Co, according to the Wall Street Journal. Others like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Morgan Stanley (MS) are bullish on Groupon, reports the Journal.
Groupon and the whole daily deal business are under pressure because so many participants offer a money-losing proposition to merchants. In June 2011, I wrote that the SEC should spare investors the agony of losing their money when Groupon sold its shares to the public. The SEC did not listen to me (no surprise there); Groupon went public in November 2011, and that day's Groupon stock buyers are now 82% poorer.
But Groupon's biggest victims are the small businesses that get suckered in to accepting Groupons. Restaurants lose money on them because consumers flood the restaurants, order very low priced meals, strain waiters and cooks, get lousy service, and never return.
Examples abound. As I wrote in June 2011, a restaurant in Portland, Ore. believes its decision to work with Groupon was its worst business decision ever – costing it $8,000. And according to the New York Times, Muddy's Coffeehouse --it serves coffee and granola – had to take out a loan to cover its Groupon losses.
Muddy's gave Groupon customers $24 worth of food and coffee for $12. It paid Groupon half of its revenues, drew in crowds, lost money, and would have shut down were it not for that loan. As owner, Dyer Price, told the Times, "They don't warn you that you're going to get hit really hard and that you have to be prepared. We will never, ever do it again."
Customers and daily deal providers are bolting. UnsubscribeDeals.com -- it unsubscribes people from daily deal e-mails – got 7,800 unsubscribers in its first three months and doubled in July, reported the Times. Daily Deal Media reported that in the last six months of 2011, 798 daily deal sites shut down.
I interviewed Ben Edelman, a professor at Harvard Business School, about this. He pointed out there are good daily deal sites. For example, Restaurant.com has been around for over a decade because it creates value for restaurants and consumers. "Restaurants like the fact that it does not require them to pay for the daily deal and that it lets them add restrictions to push business towards slow nights," said Edelman. By contrast, Groupon tends to disallow such restrictions.
And Edelman believes that while consumers might initially be frustrated that they can't get the discount on Saturday, the value they're getting is sufficient that they might be quite happy to try the restaurant on a Thursday. They will likely get better service and perhaps consider coming back to pay full fare in the future.


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A program initiated by the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority will take some of the sting out of the cost of borrowing for higher education, while enhancing employment opportunities before and after earning a degree.
Last month, the agency approved loan forgiveness for internships. Under the program, qualified students can receive $2,000 in loan forgiveness for participating in an internship.
Sound too easy? Must be a catch?
The answer is "No" to both questions.
To be eligible, students must be enrolled in a "for credit" internship. The internship can be paid or non-paid and students must be either enrolled in a Rhode Island college or a Rhode Islander attending college out of state. The program takes effect this May 1.
Internships have long proven themselves as a means for people, regardless of age, to explore career opportunities. Local private and parochial schools have built them into their senior curriculum that pair a high school student with an agency or company for one day a week during the spring semester. In Warwick public schools, seniors complete a proficiency project in order to graduate. Aspects of that program were similar to internships; with students gaining guidance from mentors in the workforce; or with expertise in a specialized field. Unfortunately, the district ruled mentors required background checks and volunteers must restrict their mentoring to phones or e-mail.
With its new program, the Student Loan Authority is looking to address the issue of college debt and encourage students to pursue internships.
With the escalating cost of a higher education, the average loans carried by a graduating student increased 58 percent; from $17,333 in 2005 to $27,253 last year, according to Forbes magazine. During the same period, education loans taken out by the parents increased 75 percent to an average of $34,000.
The magazine described situations where students take on increasing amounts of tuition debt in expectation that their salaries will cover loan payments when they graduate. Unfortunately, that's often not the case. In some instances, the good paying jobs aren't there or there's no job at all.
Internships provide a glimpse of the "real" workplace. Students put classroom training into practical use and also learn what a workplace – other than McDonald's or waiting on tables – can be like.
We can't think of a better way for students to better understand what they want and what the workplace can offer, and reducing their college loans by $2,000 is the icing on that particular cake.
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Was just watching Gameday and in discussing our game, Desmond said the above quote. Fowler asked him to elaborate and he played it off. Maybe it means nothing, maybe something. Hmm.
Desmond says there's "gonna be a surprise" today
But it's provacative. It gets the people goin!!
Michigan Robot is finally getting to start.
Tacopants Michigan Legend ceremony?
He has discovered some arcane bylaw that allows him another year of eligibility?
Haha, I definitely laughed at that.
This. Is. Phenominal. That guy is a staple on the History Channel for anyone who doesn't know...and he bugs the crap outta me.
reddit meme du jour
he just stuck his finger in the electrical outlet.
LOL!! Ancient Aliens guy with crazy Greek name!
very telling.
I'm guessing Desmond is referring to Michigan wearing their throwback helmets from the Notre Dame game.
They'd use Devin Gardner at QB?
PopEvil will be parachuting in to "In the Big House" to deliver Maize Jerseys and the band is taking the rest of the season off!
and sits in his control room, stroking a white Persian cat, in the new AD lair somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic?
Pop Evil is going to make an appearance after the game with a new lead singer, a blogger named Brian Cook, debuting their new smash hit:
"I'm a Big House Inmate and Brady Hoke has just made me His Girlfriend"
Des thinks Minny has a chance?
Mike Hart admits that he secretly still roots for Michigan.
Could it be a package where Gardner lines up at wideout, so we can no huddle into a Gardner at QB w/ Denard bubble screens? Imagine the chaos on D if Denard was lined up elsewhere. I dreamed that our offensive genius would be able to do something long these lines last year....so here's to hoping.
Mike... Jones?
probably not. I doubt we will see many new things in our offense or defense until the state game. I do agree that a formation like that would be crazy awesome!
I think he said the surprise would be that Michigan would win big, but it was hard to tell if that's what he was really trying to say.
it off. Because that wouldn't actually be a surprise.
Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too. It was difficult to tell because they were trying to move on to the next segement.
At LB.
Is gonna start..
I was thinking the same thing. With the a previous post mentioning the Denard had a bandage on during practice maybe Hoke is going to sit him and let him heal up. This allows Devin valuable game time in a game we should easily win, and lets Denard get healthy for the big ten schedule.
They asked him if Michigan would have any trouble today, and he said no, it will be a surprise.
I believe he was saying it will be a surprise that Michigan won't have any trouble in a Big Ten game.
Denard will score 5 TDs None by running.
Des found out he has another year of eligibility. He's suiting up today.
Could it have something to do with Hoke turning the tide?
Not at all. I think he was referencing a recent Times article related to how well Michigan jerseys were selling in Ohio.
It's the numbers on the helmets?
Just saw the guys on BTN and they are wearing the helmets with numbers on the side. Perhaps what Desmond was referencing? I think so.
Damn to slow typing on the iPad!!!!!! Must have beat me by nano-seconds.
If the game gets close, Hoke play a few sophs.
Yeah, I am too late with that, but that is what I think he meant.
Mascot oh no....
I think we are safe with the helmet numbers, but you are scaring the shit out of me.
Add me to this list. It looks like numbers on helmets but you never know with DB in the athletic department. I can almost see the Noid running around the stadium throwing pizza at people in the near future.
Pop evil plays a halftime show with a bunch of wolverine mascots while coporate advertisements rain down from overhead blimps. everyone stands up to catch the flyers but the most surprising part of all is that no one will yell "down in front!" as everyone enjoys the festivities in the new Rotel Michigan Stadium
Is my guess as well. They will also unveil the helmet stickers program
Maybe it's going to be Denard's first ride on the Transcontinental! That's got to happen sometime this year.
Denard is going to sit and Coach Hoke will start at QB. How did you guys miss that????
Maybe its the helmet numbers.
Edit: I was only an hour late.
Could it be Denard lining up in that wing thing with Devon at QB? I really like the looks of this and think it could be awesome in a change up, "WTF, how do we defend this" type thing.
But yeah, probably the helmet numbers. IDK if i like them all the time. The wings alone are just sleak and awesome....numbers sometimes is ok but IDK about all the itme. We'll see...
...quite giddy!
the surprise is probably the helmet numbers
maybe it's this brand new team we're seeing out there?
...this is the most excited i've been about this team - based on an actual performance - that i can remember in a long, long, long time.
i know minnesota sucks...they still almost beat usc, for whatever that's worth...but man. the offense is really clicking. the running game looks awesome, really coming together. the passing game looks awesome, they're really starting to play to denard's strengths. and this new formation with denard at tailback is so.....so.....so dangerous, exciting, and full of options. and the defense is really really starting to look strong all around as well.
this staff is doing one he!! of a job improving this team.
Did anyone else see the Desmond Howard patch on Junior Hemingway's jersey?
It's been there since the night game.


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WoW has dominated the MMO scene - and the PC world - for a reason: it's the best game in the genre. At least, that's how you see it. After traveling from Silithus to Northrend, you've got a lot of experiences you'd like to share with those just starting ou
What do you guys think about a Warcraft movie? Will it be a success or a failure like Max Payne and Doom?
max payne was a fairly good movie i think and doom could have been much better, I'm looking forward to wow the movie
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience
I thought Max Payne was widely under rated as well, though Doom could have been much better. As far as the WoW movie? Well, one would think that its budget would be fairly large, and I can't imagine Blizzard letting anyone other than their writers have a go at the script. If those two criteria are met, which I would assume they would be met, then it will probably turn out alright. It's going to have to be a completely neutral story though, because the last thing they want to do is alienate the Horde or Alliance fanbois.
It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
Sam Ramni. Nuff' said. He handle the Spiderman franchise very well, I can't wait to see what he'll do with this.
I belive were Hollywood messes up is that Movie like this does not need to be live action. It needs to be done in CGI like the opening of the games. This would prevent any Real world limits, and not cause cheap CG work inlaced to live action. Hollyowood is scared of the CG movie cause Final Fantasy....but in reality the plot ruined that movie.
If they keep doing Game to movie Films this way it will never get better...hollywood still treats it with a games are for kids mantilty.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I hope with all my heart that the warcraft movie will be worth the watch, i meen hollywood has made movies from games that were just horrible and i hope warcraft movie wont be
It's gonna be awesome i think. Like GI said in the article, Uwe Boll is history. However, I do feel like an uber nerd going to see it but it's gonna rock anyway.
I agree with the above...we have a huge budget with great writers and a great director. I only hope they don't cast big names in the movie, instead choose to go with some unknown names like LOTR.
@ Sin069---Wait what names in LOTR are not big?
-Orland Bloom
-John Rhys-Davies
-Sean Austin
-Cate Blanchett
-Christopher Lee
-Sir Ian McKellen
-Viggo Mortesen
All of these names had had a large role in at least two movies prior to LOTR.
But I understand what you are saying.
Wait a second. Is it possible to fill two and a half hours of film with Barrens chat?
tht would be kinda kool but i highly doubt it
lmfao if i go to see it ima feel like a NERD....but i dont even play WoW atm but ima get back to my 76 nelfie DK soon....just need more memory for mah comp
Well, they've got plenty of lore to work with (and good writers), but there are precious few good movies based off games. I'll definitely go see it opening night, but I'm not getting over-hyped about it.
Sam Raimi made Evil Dead. I think Warcraft is in good hands.
If you bred HK-47, Shale, Chai Ka and Wrex, the gaming world would explode from sheer badassery.
im not much sure just hope it be good and not a waste of crap like most movies
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State officials announced Friday that arborists confirmed the beetle in Peoria and Tazewell counties.
In Peoria County, they were found near Dunlap and Peoria. In Tazewell County, state officials found them in Minier using surveillance traps.
Agriculture officials say it was a "significant" find because the beetles were outside the boundaries of the state quarantine set up to prevent the spread. The Illinois quarantine includes 49 counties.
The emerald ash borer is a metallic-green beetle. Its larvae tunnel into ash tree bark. That causes the trees to starve and eventually die.


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Countdown to Kickoff
Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013
Utah State [University] football concluded its second scrimmage of fall camp on Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium Wednesday afternoon [Aug. 14] with positive plays on both sides of the ball as first year head coach Matt Wells ran his team through roughly 80 snaps.
In all, Utah State's offense had four scoring drives, which consisted of three touchdowns and one field goal, while the Aggie defense recorded seven sacks and 13 tackles for loss to go along with a blocked field goal.
Junior quarterback Chuckie Keeton led Utah State's offense as he completed 12-of-20 passes for 172 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, while sophomore wide receiver Bruce Natson caught four passes for 47 yards and one touchdown.
Defensively, sophomore linebacker Kyler Fackrell had four tackles for loss, which included three sacks, and redshirt freshman linebacker Nick Vigil had two tackles for loss, including one sack.
Offensively, Utah State scored a touchdown on its initial drive of the scrimmage as it went 75 yards in six plays culminating with a 6-yard touchdown pass from Keeton to senior tight end D.J. Tialavea. Three series later, USU drove 61 yards in 10 plays before settling for a 21-yard field goal from junior placekicker Nick Diaz.
USU's final two scores of the scrimmage both came in red zone scenarios as Keeton hit senior wide receiver Travis Reynolds on a 25-yard scoring strike on the first play of that series, followed by a 12-yard pass from Keeton to Natson on the second play of a drive that begin at the defense's 12-yardline.
Other defensive standouts Wednesday include a blocked field goal by senior defensive end Paul Piukala, while junior cornerbacks Marwin Evans, Jeremy Morris and Rashard Stewart each posted three tackles, as did redshirt freshman cornerback Marquan Ellison, junior linebacker Brayden Stembridge and Vigil.
Utah State, which is in its second week of fall camp, will practice Thursday [Aug. 15] from 2:40 to 4:40 p.m., on the USU practice fields before another two-a-day practice Friday. Utah State will conclude its second week of fall camp with a situational scrimmage as part of Aggie Football Family Fun Day, sponsored by Macey's, Saturday, Aug. 17, beginning at 6 p.m.
All practices during fall camp, which concludes Saturday, Aug. 24, are open to the public.
Utah State, who is entering its first season in the Mountain West after spending the past eight years in the WAC, will open the 2013 season Thursday, Aug. 29, at Utah and play its first Mountain West game the following weekend at Air Force Saturday, Sept. 7. USU's first home game of the 2013 campaign is Saturday, Sept. 14, against Weber State, while its first home Mountain West game is Saturday, Oct. 12, against Boise State.
Fans can follow the Aggie football program on Twitter. Aggie fans can also follow the Utah State athletic program on Twitter or on Facebook at Utah State University Athletics.
Utah State Football Practice Dates, Times and Location
Thur., Aug. 15
2:40 - 4:40 p.m.
Practice Field
Fri., Aug. 16
9:15 - 11:15 a.m./4:55 - 6:25 p.m.
Practice Field
*Football Family Fun Day
Sat., Aug. 17
6 p.m.
Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium, Scrimmage #3
Mon., Aug. 19
9:15 - 11:15 a.m./3:55 - 5:25 p.m.
Practice Field
Tues., Aug. 20
2:40 - 4:40 p.m.
Practice Field
Wed., Aug. 21
2:40 - 4:40 p.m.
Practice Field
Thur., Aug. 22
9:15 - 11:15 a.m. / 3:55 - 5:25 p.m.
Practice Field
Fri., Aug. 23
2:40 - 4:40 p.m.
Practice Field
Sat., Aug. 24
Noon - 2:00 p.m.
Romney Stadium
End of Camp
*Sponsored by Maceys
NOTE: All dates, times and locations subject to change.
(Read more, including the Utah State Football Scrimmage Quotes in the full summary at the Athletics website).
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Laura McGrew, Area Director of Joni & Friends International Disability Center in Fresno, talked about the Fresno office and its long reach throughout the central valley, including the city of Merced, helping the disabled and their families. She also shared information about the family retreat coming up in late March and how this helps not only the disabled but their caregivers as they share time together with other families.
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How many miles on your subaru?
Posted 24 November 2009 - 07:56 PM
Posted 24 November 2009 - 08:21 PM
There are others on this board that have more than me!
Posted 24 November 2009 - 08:24 PM
our 2000 Outback has 176k (70k or so on the used motor we just had put in)
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Edited by TheLoyale, 25 November 2009 - 03:45 PM.
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Posted 24 November 2009 - 09:42 PM
'82 Brat - 103k
'09 Forester - 16k
Posted 24 November 2009 - 10:18 PM
'84 wagon had 220k or so on it... I sold it and the new owner put in a new oil pump and I saw it a few years later going up the canyon.
'85 wagon had about 215k on it when I sold it. It was junked by the new owner (still running fine but needed a new starter) about a year later.
'89 wagon had 243k when it lost a little chip of the exhaust valve... everything else seemed good inside though when I took the head off.
the "new" '97 OBS has 240k on it now. Seems to run great still.
Posted 24 November 2009 - 11:59 PM
About to to a re-seal and new water pump & timing belts soon. Hoping to get at least 50k more out of it.
Posted 25 November 2009 - 02:12 AM
95 Legacy 194K
08 Impreza 5 dr 42K
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No major engine or transmission work.
Btw. the car has been totaled twice. God I love her... and what a babe magnet!
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second engine (156k miles on this engine)
second transmission (trans had 270k miles on it when I put it in. that was over 100k miles ago)
Only thing original on this car: top half of rear seat, head liner, rear doors and gate. Everything else is off of about 20 diff EA82 series cars.
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Dale Prieser, 85
Colonel Dale E. Prieser, U.S.A. (Retired), age 85, of San Antonio, Texas, died June 30, 2013.
He was the son of Mary M. and Robert F. Prieser of Wapakoneta, who preceded him in death. His oldest son, Robert S. Prieser, was killed in action in the Republic of Vietnam on Sept. 8, 1968.
He is survived by wife Barbara, of San Antonio, Texaas; a daughter Victoria and her husband Phillip Pair of San Antonio, Texas; and a son Timothy of Tampa, Fla. Colonel Prieser has two grandchildren, Elaine Kyro, of Jeffersonville, Ind., and Lynley Pair, of Minneapolis, Minn.; along with two great-grandchildren, Andrea and Nicholas Kyro. Also surviving is a sister, Miriam Phillips, of Wapakoneta. Two sisters, Loris Henry and Arlene Vergara de Prieser are deceased. There are numerous nieces and nephews.
Colonel Prieser began his military career by enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a Marine he served in many tactical and administrative assignments. He was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps after which he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving as an Infantry Master Sergeant. He was commissioned by direct appointment as a Second Lieutenant, Infantry U.S. Army. Colonel Prieser served in many command and staff positions. He retired from the Army as a Colonel (06), Special Forces/Special Operations Officer. He has a bachelor's degree in International Studies and is a graduate of many specialized military and civilian schools, including the Command and General Staff College where he is a Life Member of the Alumni Association and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is the recipient of many decorations and awards both American and foreign, including the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat. Colonel Prieser's military career spanned over 30 years. He was a life member of most all other veterans' organizations, i.e. American Legion, VFW, MOPH, DAV, SFA, ASWAA, etc. Both Colonel Prieser and his son Robert were inducted into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame for Valor.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Porter Loring Mortuary North, 2102 North Loop 1604 East, San Antonio, Texas.
Rosary will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the St. Joseph Chapel, The Village of Incarnate Word, 4707 Broadway St.
Mass will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the chapel.
Interment with full military honors will follow in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Alamo Chapter XV Special Forces Association., the contact being Armando Canales, 210-680-5323.
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What? What's that you say? You want to know my motivation for being disappointed in John Idzik? Thanks for asking. Here's my answer:
Because we don't need a cap guy, we need a player-personnel guy.
Nothing to do with Rex Ryan. Everything to do with the GM position.
The media is not out to get the Jets. Distasteful things you hear on the air are a byproduct of a lousy organization, not a deceitful media. Ratings for Loud Mouths and Mike's On do not go up because a sentence is uttered saying "numerous NFL sources have told me that no one wanted this guy, never even heard of him".
Not one extra listener tunes in to hear that, doesn't drive ratings, doesn't drive revenue. Just drives you crazy to hear a truth you don't want to accept.
And once we open the season 0-6 I'm going to stop going to the 3 games I intended to go to and be a no-show.
In the end, I'll make a decent profit on the season, for 5 games I'll put enemy fans in there who won't buy t-shirts, and for 3 games I'll leave the seats empty for the TV cameras.
Maybe because its Belgique? 11.2 oz beer. Seen it all now these days. Thats nearly 5 oz/6 pck they are shorting us on.
Also, be on the lookout for String Cheeses and yogurts. The days of the stock 6 oz yogurt, and 1 oz string cheesers are gone.
You're wrong in your assessment could very well be as old if not older then you, I haven't really looked nor do I care to be honest but since you brought up the 19 year old student thing, it's fairly obvious by the amount of posts you've amassed and the amount to which you bloviate by trying to reaffirm or justify your posts makes one wonder if in fact you yourself are a 19 year old or perhaps have the mindset or aptitude of one based on the inordinate amount of time you spend on this forum, it begs the question Do you have anything else going on in your life then this forum?
Right you are in refraining from commenting but that can be construed by some as not having a fruitful retort? to which I believe is the case with you.
Certainly someone having 25+ years in finance and having to hammer out deals from across the table could muster up a more tangible reply then the half-hearted one you gave.
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Journal eno2001's Journal: BASH SCRIPTING: My Crude Function 'resleep' 6
How many times have you used the 'sleep' command interactively only to realize that the amount of time you initially specified wasn't enough and you wanted to reset it? Or how many times have you had something sleeping for quite a while but you wanted to know where it was in the sleep countdown? Never? Good you can ignore this. I've found myself in these situations quite a few times when recording a TV show or ripping a live stream from the web. So I wrote the 'resleep' functions (which wrap around 'sleep') below which can then either be included in scripts where you'd normally use sleep by itself, or dotted into your environment and run as commands. It's not polished and I'm sure the logic isn't clean, but it's working for me so far. One thing I still need to add is the ability to pass a time reference to the wrapped 'sleep' command itself so that the "time units" can be something other than "1 second". For example it would be nice to be able to set it to 30 minutes and then three time units would be 90 minutes. But that will come later... For now, enjoy, pick it apart, call me an idiot or tell me how this could be accomplished with 'sleep' if I'd RTFM ( I did).
# 'resleep' is a resettable sleep countdown timer. You specify the initial
# count of time units (in this case seconds). Then if you need more time
# you echo the new time unit count to
# to whatever you specify.
function resleep()
echo $1 >
while ((dur > 0))
# cat
sleep 1
echo $countdown >
# The 'setsleep' function is used to reset your time unit count. Example:
# 'setsleep 30' will reset the count to 30 seconds.
# If the countdown is over an error message is presented.
function setsleep()
if ! [ -e
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Cisco: 11x Increase in Global Mobile Data Traffic by 2018
By 2018 global mobile data traffic will increase 11-fold and hit an annual run rate of 190 exabytes, according to a new data forecast from Cisco.
The report puts monthly mobile data usage at 2.6 exabytes for 2014 and predicts that usage will increase more than six-fold by 2018 when global mobile traffic climbs to 15.9 exabytes monthly.
The study attributes the growth to the rising numbers of mobile internet connections, including M2M, as well as personal devices. Cisco estimates the total will exceed 10 billion connections by 2018, nearly 1.5 times the amount of people on Earth (based on UN population predictions).
Cisco also sees the number of global mobile users increasing from 4.1 billion in 2013 to 4.9 billion in 2018, and average mobile data connection speeds will go up from 1.4 Mbps in 2013 to 2.5 Mbps by 2018.
Cisco put wearable devices in with the M2M growth driving data usage and predicted the amount of wearable devices in use will shoot up from 21.7 million in 2013 to 176.9 million in 2018.
By 2018, Cisco said the Middle East and Africa will have the highest annual growth rates for mobile data traffic. By 2018, the Asia-Pacific region will generate the most mobile data traffic monthly by a long shot, with its predicted rates of 6.72 exabytes more than double of the second-place U.S., predicted to generate 2.95 exabytes.
Monthly predictions for global mobile data traffic is actually down slightly from where Cisco put it in its 2013 forecast. A year ago, Cisco estimated monthly rates would hit 11.2 exabytes by 2017 and in this year's forecast, the company puts monthly rates at 10.8 exabytes by 2017.


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The world's only performing wolf pack put on a performance Thursday night at the Greeley Stampede that offered more than just entertainment.
"It was a very nice show," said Greeley resident Meghan Delarosa, who was in the audience. "I learned about the family structure of the wolves and about why she has all of them."
Wolves of the World, its farthest ever trek west from its home base in South Carolina for The Greeley Stampede. The show, which drew about 30 people to Island Grove Regional Park, featured a variety of stunts that displayed wolf behavior. The Wolves of the World will perform each day of the Stampede in the Kids Korral.
"You don't train a wolf," said Sharon Sandlofer, owner of the wolf pack. "You find something that they like to do and hope they do it when the time comes."
Sandlofer said she's worked with many different kinds of animals. She and her husband first started working with animals after he helped save a whale on the coast of Oregon, she said. Since then, they've worked with bears, mountain lions and, most recently, the wolves. Sandlofer rescued her first two wolves after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, and from then on she grew her pack of animals. She now has a pack of eight wolves that travel with her around the country.
You don't train a wolf. You find something that they like to do and hope they do it when the time comes.— Sharon Sandlofer, owner of the Wolves of the World wolf pack
Before the show began, music echoed around bleachers. Then the music swelled and the sound of wolves howling signaled show was about to begin. Before Sandlofer brought the wolves out, who were pacing anxiously in their trailer, she asked the audience, "How many of you think that these animals belong in a cage?"
A unanimous "No," echoed through the arena.
Sandlofer said the main purpose of the show is to raise awareness about the disappearing habitat the wolves.
"We share planet Earth, and we need to learn about all of the animals that live here and how to take care of them," she said.
The wolves performed a variety of acrobatics, even performing on two parallel bars similar to those in an Olympic gymnastics event.
Sandlofer said that because the wolves are intelligent animals, they need mental stimulation since they aren't in the wild anymore. In addition to the work she does to keep her wolves sharp, she said that traveling with a pack has its own challenges.
"Each venue that we go to is different," she said. "Sometimes you don't have the best environment for the animals to work in. We got lucky this time and are away from the main part of the carnival; all of the noises can spook the animals."
Greeley resident Bill Sparks said he enjoyed the show.
"I thought the show was interesting," said Bill Sparks. "I've been around these types of animals all of my life, but I learned a few things today. I didn't know wolves cooled off through their feet."
Wolves of the World
The Wolves of the World will perform again at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. today in the Kids Korral at Island Grove Regional Park, 14th Avenue and A Street, as part of The Greeley Stampede. For more information, go to www.greeleystampede.org.