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You cant blame Geneva High School varsity girls basketball coach Sarah Meadows for being a little apprehensive these days when she hears these three letters spoken A, C, and L.
Located in the front portion of the knee, the anterior cruciate ligament controls the movement of the knee joint. Connecting the femur (thigh bone) to the tibia (leg bone), it acts to limit side-to-side motion and prevents the knee from straightening beyond its normal range of motion.
According to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, approximately 150,000 ACL injuries occur in the U.S. every year, accounting for $500-plus million in U.S. health care costs each year.
For Geneva girls basketball players, ACL injuries have been occurring at an alarming rate the past few years.
Weve had five in a little more than a year, said Meadows. One parent came up to me the other night and said, its like the Geneva plague.
In Geneva, perhaps a better acronym for ACL is Almost Cruel Luck.
Less than 20 minutes into her first varsity basketball practice 2 years ago, then-freshman Sidney Santos heard a loud pop while participating in a simple layup drill.
I was on the floor crying, Santos recalled. I couldnt walk because there was so much pain.
The diagnosis a torn ACL in her right knee which required surgery and forced her to watch the rest of the season from the bench.
Amazingly, the unthinkable took place for Santos a little more than a year ago.
I was playing in a fall league game, made a jump-stop and heard the pop again, said Santos. This time though, I walked off the court on my own. I was actually surprised when the MRI revealed another ACL tear (right knee).
Last January, Sidneys older sister, Ashley, suffered a torn ACL (right knee) during the Vikings victory over previously unbeaten Lincoln-Way East at the McDonalds Shootout in Villa Park.
It has been so frustrating for our family, admitted Sidney, who is off to a knock on wood, please promising start this season for the 6-2 Vikings.
For the third consecutive year, the Vikings lost a player to injury before the season even began when senior Erin Kozlow suffered a torn ACL during a summer league game.
Two weeks ago, it happened again.
Junior starting point guard Michaela Loebel suffered what is believed to be yet another ACL tear by a Geneva player in the second quarter of the teams 57-52 loss to Crete-Monee at the Rachel Bach Memorial Tournament at Glenbard East.
Initially, I heard a pop and felt sharp pain in the center of my (right) knee, said Loebel, who has received doctors opinions of a torn ACL but awaited the official MRI readings earlier this week.
At first, I thought I had dislocated my kneecap, added Loebel, who admittedly felt discomfort in her lower left hip earlier in the game. I started putting a ton of weight on my right leg. I was getting back on defense and the girl crossed over (the dribble) on me when it (knee) just gave out.
The majority of Genevas ACL injuries have been non-contact events, something substantiated by statistics from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons that show 70 percent of ACL injuries happen through pivoting, cutting, sidestepping or awkward landings.
Five of the six ACL injuries weve had were in non-contact situations, said Meadows. There was a collision associated with Erins but were not sure if she got hurt right before the collision or not.
The fact that the ACL injuries have struck Geneva female athletes more than their male counterparts isnt a surprise.
According to the American Journal of Sports Medicine, ACL injury rates are 4 to 8 times higher in women than men, with the high school years being the peak of vulnerability.
The question then is why?
While there is no definitive answer, there appears to be several external and internal factors.
Some external factors include an athletes coordination being disrupted just prior to landing or slowing down, the shoe-surface interface, wearing a knee brace, and/or the playing surface itself.
Internal factors include anatomical and hormonal differences between females and males.
For example, females may be predisposed to ACL injuries because they have a wider pelvis, an increased hamstring flexibility and/or foot pronation (flat-footed). In addition, estrogen levels may relax or allow stretching of the ACL which can then be compromised upon landing or sharp deceleration.
Females have become so much more athletic, said Meadows. Theyre working a lot harder and training more and more.
Plus, the pace of the game (basketball) is so much faster today than it was when I played.
Whatever the case, the typical rehabilitation process for young athletes following ACL surgery takes between 6 months to a full year.
My rehabilitation period has been the same each time around seven or eight months, said Sidney Santos. But I handled it much better the second time. I was a complete wreck the first time because I didnt know what to expect.
While theres physical pain involved with the rehabilitation process, Santos feels it pales in comparison to the mental anguish.The mental part is the toughest part, she said. It can be exhausting. There will be down days no matter how positive a person you are.
Three months after the surgery, youre walking again and feeling fine. You want to start running and jumping but you keep being told by doctors and trainers that you cant do it yet. It starts getting frustrating but you have to remain patient.
Watching your teammates play can also test ones patience.Sitting and watching is very difficult, admits Santos. Youre watching games thinking, I couldve gotten that rebound or made that shot.
Nevertheless, Santos feels that maintaining a positive attitude still plays an important role in the healing process, something she has passed on to both her older sister and teammates.
Michaela is one of my best friends, said Santos. She has one of the most positive attitudes Ive ever seen. Ive already told her that shell be better because of this and that shell come back stronger. I told her that Ill always be there for you.
Santos has gained a new perspective the past few years.
I think you appreciate the sport you play a lot more, she said. I know I wont take anything for granted.
Loebel, who also plays soccer, can lean on several friends for advice, including the Santos sisters and club soccer teammate Savanah Uveges of South Elgin.
She tore her ACL back in June, Loebel said of Uveges.
Some preventative measures involve stretching before and after practices/games, and strengthening other parts of the body, including the hips and upper body.
Weve introduced weightlifting sessions during the season for the first time, said Meadows.
Even some former Geneva athletes havent been immune to the ACL injury bug.
Ohio University sophomore guard Kat Yelle, one of the Vikings all-time leading scorers, suffered a torn ACL during a game against Oklahoma last December.
Ashley Santos, now at Marquette, is now a medical redshirt after reinjuring her right knee recently.
She partially tore her ACL again, said Sidney. But now at least her knee will be at its strongest when she comes back next season.
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It's hard to explain to a pup who wants to help you feel better that laying down on me to keep me warm when I'm having major abdominal pain isn't what I need. This afternoon the committee figured it out, however, I was tucked in on the couch by a dog and a cat, pinned by them under a blanket.
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Submission + - Workers Did Not Overstep on Stealing Data, Court Says (computerworld.com)
MikeatWired writes: "In a somewhat startling decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that several employees at an executive recruitment firm did not exceed their authorized access to their company's database when they logged into the system and stole confidential data from it. The appellate court's decision affirms a previous ruling made by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The government must now decide if it wants to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The judge wrote that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, under which they were charged, applies primarily to unauthorized access involving external hackers. The definition of "exceeds authorized access" under the CFAA applies mainly to people who have no authorized access to the computer at all, the judge wrote. The term would also apply to insiders who might have legitimate access to a system but not to specific information or files on the system Applying the language in the CFAA any other way would turn it into a "sweeping Internet-policing mandate," he wrote."


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This section provides a variety of materials, from quick references to complete courses, all designed to help our members improve leadership skills and deliver a quality program.
These courses are required for all new registered leaders and must be retaken every two years to maintain registration. A login is required, but anyone may create a user account and view the courses. Registered members of the BSA may provide their member numbers (as part of the user profile) to receive credit.
Youth Protection training is designed to help you keep our youth safe from abuse. You will learn the Boy Scouts of America's Youth Protection Guidelines, signs of abuse, and how to report suspected abuse. After each section of material, you will answer questions about that section's topic. Completion is noted automatically in the BSA training records database if the module is experienced online.
This course is required for all adult Venturing leaders. This training will help leaders understand and guide youth through possible problems as it relates to abuse. You will also learn about the issues you may face as a leader to help provide a safer environment for the crew members and to protect yourself from false accusations. This training is available online or on a DVD. Estimated time to complete: 40 minutes.
Take the pledge to keep our Scouts safe by following the BSA's Youth Protection policies. Half the pledge is signed and given to the council; the other half stays with you in pocket card format as a reminder. The links below, in English and Spanish versions, will print four-up on a sheet.
Orientation courses are designed to help Scouters learn more about their Scouting role and about other leadership positions in the program.
Intended to be taken by pack, troop, team, and crew leaders, as well as unit commissioners and chartered organization representatives immediately following the acceptance of their new role.
This Is Scouting provides an overview of the Scouting organization, including history, values, programs, Youth Protection, community involvement, and training. The module consists of six video sections, each followed by a brief quiz. Estimated time to complete: 50 minutes.
These courses are intended to be used to provide an orientation for Scouts, Scouters, and parents about Scouting and the STEM program and the STEM opportunities in Scouting. The instructor-led course is designed to be used with the STEM Orientation slide deck at roundtables and other training events.
STEM Orientation Self-Study slide deck
STEM Orientation Instructor's guide
STEM Orientation slide deck
Sea Scout Adult Leader Fast Start Training is designed for anyone wanting to learn more about the basics of the Sea Scout program. It will provide an orientation of the program and show how Sea Scouts work to better serve the youth involved in the program.
Training module
These instructor-led courses are designed to help Scouters learn how to effectively carry out their Scouting roles. In most cases, completing the course will make a Scouter "trained" for the role(s) covered in the course. Syllabi for courses not found here may be obtained from your local council or at www.ScoutStuff.org . E-learning versions of some courses may be found below in the E-learning section.
Need to know what are the requirements to be trained for your unit leadership role? This sheet explains the training requirements for all unit-level leaders.
The links below are to the syllabi that are to be used by trainers in presenting the stand-alone den leader position-specific courses. These courses are intended to provide Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos den leaders with the information and tools they need to conduct successful den meetings. Den leaders who complete the Tiger Cub, Wolf, and Bear training and Youth Protection training are considered trained for all three positions. Den leaders who complete the Webelos training and Youth Protection training are considered trained as Webelos den leaders.
Tiger, Wolf, and Bear Syllabus
NEW! Webelos Syllabus
The syllabus below is used by trainers presenting the standalone Scoutmaster and assistant Scoutmaster specifics course. The course is intended to provide troop leadership with the information and tools they need to lead successful Boy Scout troops. A DVD with presentation support is available from Scoutstuff.org or your local council. Scoutmasters and assistants who complete this training, Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, and Youth Protection training are considered "trained."
Working as patrols, this hands-on course provides adult leaders the practical outdoor skills they need to lead Scouts in the out-of-doors. Upon completion, leaders should feel comfortable teaching Scouts the basic skills required to obtain the First Class rank. Along with Scoutmaster Specifics this course is required of all direct contact leaders registered in Boy Scout Troops and Varsity Scout Teams, in order to be considered "trained".
This is the syllabus for the instructor-led course for Varsity Scout leaders. The course will provide an introduction to the Boy Scouts of America and to the responsibilities, opportunities, and resources that will ensure a successful Varsity team leadership experience.
This is the syllabus for the instructor-led course for Venturing leaders. The course will provide an introduction to the responsibilities, opportunities, and resources that will ensure a successful Venturing crew leadership experience.
The training outline and resources for training chartered organization representatives can be found at the link below.
These courses are intended to provide training for STEM Nova counselors. The intructor-led course is designed to be used with the training slide deck at group courses.
Counselor Training slide deck
Counselor Training Instructor's Guide
Counselor Self-Study slide deck
Counselor Self-Study Guide
This course is a self-study training course for STEM Supernova mentors.
Mentor's Guide
These courses are designed to help Scouters with a particular skill or to enhance their Scouting role. Additional modules may be found on the "Supplemental" link in the upper-left section of this page.
Providing knowledge, program ideas, skills, and fun resources is the purpose behind the Roundtable Planning Guides for Boy Scout and Cub Scout leaders. Using this guide along with local resources, roundtable commissioners can enable and motivate unit leaders to deliver an outstanding program to their Scout troops. The guide is designed to allow program topics to be used in the order best suited for your district.
The podcasts are monthly audio presentations that provide information on topics of interest to Cub Scout and Boy Scout leaders.
Open to both registered adults and youth who are at least 13 and have completed the 8th grade, Powder Horn is a hands-on resource management course designed to give you the contacts and tools necessary to conduct an awesome high-adventure program in your troop, team, crew, or ship. Contact your area training chair for information about upcoming courses in your area. The syllabus is available by request from Volunteer Development.
Take this session and have a broader understanding and deeper appreciation of the diverse range of ages and life experiences of the volunteers and professionals in our organization. You will be able to recognize and define the four generational groups of people currently in the BSA.
These courses are designed to help Scouters with skills related to the BSA's outdoor program.
This one day course is designed as an introduction to the Cub Scout outdoor program for those leaders who are interested in adding a camping component to their Pack activities. BALOO is an instructor-led course which is conducted at the Council level. BSA's Cub Scout level camping policies will be taught along with the necessary tools to help units carry out a successful camping experience.
Completion of this course is mandatory for at least one adult on a Pack overnighter.
The course syllabus is available from your local council or through Scoutstuff.org .
This course is designed to help Webelos leaders enhance the outdoor program for the Webelos Scouts in their den by teaching some basic outdoor skills as well as skills needed to complete many of the Webelos activity badges. This course can be taught as a stand-alone experience but is often presented in conjunction with Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills (IOLS).
This presentation provides a detailed briefing for individuals selected to serve as a camp health officer at a council or district camping facility.
The Kodiak Challenge is designed to be an adventure that pushes the boundaries of every participant - one that will encourage you to try new things that may be out of your comfort zone. It is an experience—but one that has its underpinnings in the application of the leadership skills they learned in the Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops or Crews, NYLT, and/or NAYLE. It is, as is all of Scouting, an adventure with a purpose
This training outline teaches how Scouts can plan and safely carry out council and unit high-adventure treks using Leave No Trace techniques.
These courses are designed to help Scouters learn or improve their presentation skills.
This is the first part of the three-part train-the-trainer continuum (T3, or T-Cubed) in the Boy Scouts of America. The course introduces teaching techniques and skills to new Scout trainers but is also designed to help all Scouters, regardless of their experience, present effective training. Intended for both youth and adult trainers, the course will help those who might have trained for other organizations learn the BSA's training techniques, and it will help freshen up the skills of current BSA trainers.
While the Trainer's EDGE is a required train-the-trainer course for Wood Badge and NYLT staffs, it is also for other trainers wishing to enhance their training and presentation skills.
These resources are designed to assist training teams that administer training in a unit, council, area, or region.
This new guide outlines the basic responsibilities for volunteer leader training committees and the methods of BSA volunteer training. To be sure that information is up-to-date, the guide does not include the forms and other resources that are more easily available, and more current, via Scouting.org. The training pages of Scouting.org will help you find the current resources, forms, and courses available—as well as the latest in BSA training.
The first step for a council to conduct one of these advanced training courses is to submit an application. A form has been developed that will serve for applying for Wood Badge and NYLT. Simply fill out the form and send it to the Volunteer Development Team for processing.
2014 and 2015 Application
The first step for a council, area, or region to conduct the advanced national training course known as SEABADGE is to submit an application. A new form has been developed that serves as the method for making application. Simply fill out the form and send it to Keith Christopher, National Director, Sea Scouts, BSA for processing.
In conjunction with the Volunteer Development Team, the National Supply Group has released the latest version of the pocket-sized certificate of training. Simply specify SKU 615012 when ordering from your local Scout Shop or through scoutstuff.org. Click on the link below to open a pdf template that has been created for convenience in filling out these portable training records.
Since 1950 The Philmont Training Center (PTC) has provided a unique environment for training volunteer and professional leaders, and a fun family program for every member of the family.
Click here for the most up-to-date listing of Wood Badge and NYLT Course Director's Conferences in your region or area and across the nation. The accompanying links for registering for each conference will be available as listed. Many of this year's Course Director's Conferences have been combined with other functional conferences, creating an atmosphere of learning on a larger scale and allowing for the sharing of resources and ideas. You will find these Area Training Conferences listed here as well.
The training awards and keys are designed to recognize unit Scouters for tenure, training, and performance in their leadership roles. Progress record forms with the 2012 requirements for these awards can be found at the links below.
The files below contain updated requirements for the Scouter's Key for District Committee Members and new requirements for the Scouter's Training Award for District Committee Members. See the Spring 2013 Training Times for additional details.
Some courses are available in the e-Learning section .
of myscouting.org . A login is required, but anyone may create a user account and view the courses. Registered members of the BSA may provide their member numbers (as part of the user profile) to receive credit.
These include:
Physical Wellness
Safe Swim Defense
Safety Afloat
Weather Hazards
Climb On Safely
Trek Safely
Leader Position-Specific Training
Troop Committee Challenge
Leader Position-Specific: Tiger Cub
Leader Position-Specific: Wolf Cub
Leader Position-Specific: Bear Cub
Leader Position-Specific: Webelos
Leader Position-Specific: Cubmaster
Leader Position-Specific: Pack Trainer
Leader Position-Specific: Pack Committee
Leader Position-Specific Training (Spanish)
Líder Tiger
Líder Wolf
Líder Bear
Líder Webelos
Instructor del pack
Comité del pack
View the Most Recent Training Updates in The Training Times
Training Course Codes (Alpha)
Philmont Leadership Challenge
Basic Training Requirements
Top Leader Trained Date and Course Criteria
Philmont Training Center
What Makes a Trained Leader
How Long is My Training Good For?
Training Forms
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http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407057 This thread shows him questioning me about the amp being shipped.


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Pine Island FISH Inc. is the lead agency for the yearly Christmas Basket Brigade that benefits families and seniors. The organization also provides non-emergency transportation; emergency financial assistance for rent, utilities, medical and other expenses; the loan of mobility equipment and respite; and in-touch services at no cost to qualified island residents.
Thanks to Carol King, the FISH organization has a hand-crafted dollhouse available as a fund-raiser for the 2013 Christmas Basket Brigade. The house is on display at the Stonegate Bank on the corner of Stringfellow Road and Sunset Lane in St. James City.
Tickets are $5 each and are available at Stonegate Bank and Spa 33 in Matlacha. All monies collected from the drawing will go to the Basket Brigade to purchase gifts for local families and seniors.
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A back view of the fishing shack dollhouse that will be raffled to benefit FISH.
The drawing for the dollhouse will take place on Friday, Dec. 20, at the Christmas Basket Brigade present wrapping party. Purchasers need not be present to win; the brigade can assist in local deliver but do not ship.
For additional information, contact FISH at 239-283-4442. The mailing address is P.O. Box 357, Matlacha, FL 33993


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GETTING TO KNOW Kendall Hooper
Hooper is a junior, and NSCA All-American Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year on the Golden Eagle Softball team.
In 2012 (Sophomore): Kendall played in 44 games and started in 38 for the Golden Eagles... had 30 hits and 17 runs including two homeruns at 100 at bats landing her the second highest batting average for the team with a .300 and the highest slugging percentage with a .410... had 41 total bases including three stolen bases with an attempted three... had three doubles, one triple, and nine RBIs... contributed to 15 assists and 153 putouts... awarded with All-American Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (April 29).
In 2011 (Freshman): Kendall appeared in 20 games for the Golden Eagles and was utilized mainly as a pinch runner/hitter in her freshman campaign...recorded a pinch-hit RBI against Eastern Illinois (4/2) and drew a bases-loaded pinch-hit walk against Western Kentucky (4/14) to bring in another run...named to the OVC Commissioner's and TTU Athletic Director's Honor Rolls.
(High School): A versatile player under head coach Brent Dorris, Kendall played several positions during her four seasons at Donelson Christian Academy including catcher, pitcher and shortstop…earned five letters in softball to go along with four in volleyball and basketball…in 2009 she owned a .547 batting average and was named all-district.
(Personal): Kendall is the daughter of James and Brenda Hooper…full name Kendall Elizabeth Hooper…born on July 6, 1992…majoring in chemistry.
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Lyophilized Products Compounded by NuVision Pharmacy: Recall - Sterility Assurance Concerns
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ISSUE: NuVision Pharmacy is voluntarily recalling all unexpired lots of lyophilized compounds HcG 5000IU-5ml and Sermorelin/GHRH6-5ml to the user level. The recall is being initiated due to a lack of sterility assurance and concerns associated with the quality control processes identified during the FDA inspection.
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Arsenal have been dealt a blow in their pursuit of Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, reports The Daily Star.
Benzema, who had been out of form at the Bernabeu, has started to turn his career around in Spain and now it's understood Madrid aren't willing to part ways with their forward.
The striker put in a fine display as Madrid beat Real Sociedad 5-1 this past weekend and now looks set to stay at the La Liga giants.
The Gunners were keen to bring Benzema to the Emirates in January in order further fuel their bid to win the Premier League title.
Arsene Wenger is desperate for a new striker at the north London club in order to give competition to Olivier Giroud.
The Gunners' main back-up striker for Giroud is out of form Nicklas Bendtner, who continues to struggle in an Arsenal shirt.
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Microsoft probably does.
Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.
Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.
Why are you so rude to me, just because I hate zealots?
And yes, kudos to the devs from this c# monkey.
Kudos to the devs for persevering. Fuck all the zealot haters here.
Aye! Protoss, all the way!
But in all seriousness...as a C# developer, I've spent the morning despairing about Windows 8's seeming lack of
This "Proof of Life" headline being folded up right next to the Mars announcement got me briefly very excited.
I think people voted this article up just to plant the suggestion.
What does it tell you that there's more evidence of life in Mono than on Mars?
Yes, someone cares.
Other useful answers include:
Yes, someone still builds (good) products in C#.
Yes, this thing has legs.
at least that is what i thought it said
I love C#, i have coded in numerous languages over the years (Basic, Pascal, COBOL, C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript probably more i've forgotten) but for me C# is the cleanest and best thought-out. Yes, it was a rip-off of Java, but lets face it, Microsoft fixed and improved some of the shitness with Java!
The only thing I didn't like was being locked into a Windows platform, and guess what.. Mono fixes that!
So good luck to them, and long live Mono!
It seemed like there was more momentum behind Mono back when it seemed as if Sun was never seriously going to open-source Java. Now the main debate seems to be whether you prefer C# or Java (and most non-Windows programmers prefer Java because they've had no experience with C#), and whether you trust Microsoft not to sink Mono with patent claims vs. whether you trust Oracle not to sink Java into the ocean in a giant safe that only Larry Ellison knows the combination to.
For us working with web stuff there really isn't anything important missing from Mono.
Coding web stuff in Mono? Care to elaborate? What server are you using?
I like C#/.Net, but playing "catch up" on features that have been out for years is really a crippling hinderance.
Best of luck to the Mono team. I will continue trying the new releases in hopes that it matures enough to be a truly cross-platform environment.
I have never really understood the hatred for Mono here on
In my years on Slashdot I have not noticed the developers of Wine being vilified in even remotely the same way as de Icaza, despite the obvious parallels.
Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters. Instead of promoting FOSS, they bash anything with a slight connection to MS (sorry M$). Mono is a really nice product and C# is really much nicer than Java, but since Mono is based on
I considered starting my kids on C#, but decided Pascal is still a better teaching language. However once they've got the basics of programming down and I want to start in on OOP I'll move them to C# on Mono (MS doesn't make
That and there's some surprisingly nasty patent traps in there...
And yet Microsoft hasn't raised a single lawsuit. Now, Java, on the other hand, has been an amusing source of patents suits recently.
Mostly because the site has been taken over by mindless Microsoft haters
They are not mindless. They made an educated decision based on their experience with Microsoft and other commercial software vendors.
I'll tell you what, unless you're a pre-teen, there has been plenty of evidence of microsoft being a shithead, eat-your-baby, fuck-their-friends-wife-in-the-ass type of corporation. It should be pretty clear to you by now why people hate that corporation. If you're just being obtuse, go fucking google this shit or even just hit search on this page.
The only part I really take offense in your post is that you call M$ haters mindless. We're absolutely normal people who don't have the memory of a goldfish.
Thankyou for proving the GPs point...
No, he didn't prove that MS-haters are mindless--he simply proved that he, himself, is rude.
There may be good people who work for Microsoft, but Microsoft, as a whole, is nothing less than evil, and has been for a long time--probably forever. Apple's not much better, nor is Amazon. I'm afraid the list goes on and on.
Microsoft has less of a dominant position in some markets than it used to have--I guess that's why fewer people seem to hate it. It's no less evil, though. It seems to me that anyone who doe
This is
This is
The name comes from the days we would have to say "h t t p colon slash slash slashdot dot o r g". It does not come from the POSIX current directory.
Good choice for Pascal. It was oiginally created as a teaching language IIRC.
For OOP though, the terchniques are the same for C++, Java and C# so unless you want them to learn the C#/.NET specific parts (eg WPF, WCF, all the wizard generated bumpf) then or learn how to use Visual Studio, you might as well show them Java instead. The tooling should be better for your platform and I'm sure you can find better example code.
Of course, if you want to use something 'unnatural' for your platform, go for Oberon. no
For OOP though, the terchniques are the same for C++, Java and C# so unless you want them to learn the C#/.NET specific parts (eg WPF, WCF, all the wizard generated bumpf) then or learn how to use Visual Studio, you might as well show them Java instead. The tooling should be better for your platform and I'm sure you can find better example code.
Well, if "MS doesn't make
Apparently because Microsoft is always just around the corner from suing people for patent infringement for using Mono (lather, rinse, repeat for every year since this has yet to happen) despite all evidence to the contrary. It's funny that despite the FSF declaring that there was no longer a "Java Trap" after Sun released a GPL version, that Java is the source of patent flaming whereas Microsoft hasn't done anything but help Mono and make constant promises about not suing.
Mono is not a language.
Until Microsoft moves on to the next great thing the hate will continue. Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, shame on me. Screw me 3407292 times, you must be Microsoft.
I've been folowing the mono project for years and think it is a great open source project.
However, if I want to write
The SDK for Android is free and fully supported yet I'm expected to $399 for mono on android?
I know the major benefit is supposed to be a "cross-platform" development environment but charging for the runtime seems a bit braindead to me!
By all means charge for the other stuff (e.g. IDE integration, support and updates) that's fair but "loc
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It's Grouchy Mother's Day, and Oscar has ordered a fish bouquet for his mother. He wants this to be the worst Grouchy Mother's Day ever, especially because Oscar's mom thinks everything on Sesame Street is horribly nice. Oscar's sister, Bunny, drops in to celebrate, too. She gives her mom a dozen stinky fish, but Oscar only gives her six. Oscar adds that he also got their mom stinky perfume, but Bunny brought perfume with a real skunk applicator. Oscar and Bunny argue over whose present is stinkier while their mother remarks how she loves hearing her two children argue. Since Grouchy Mother's Day isn't just about getting presents, Oscar has planned for them to go on a trip to the dump. As they try to start the car, everyone on Sesame Street comes up to them. Oscar's mom thinks everyone on Sesame Street is too nice! Oscar finally fixes the car, which makes his mom even angrier. What kind of Grouch fixes things? Bunny thinks that Oscar has lost his grouchiness. Oscar's mom wants to take Bunny back to Grouchland before she loses her grouchiness too. To prove to his mom and sister just how grouchy he really is, Oscar has Bob, Gordon, and Chris sing a Grouchy Mother's Day song. It's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her. Her day is ruined by both of her kids. It's her grouchiest Mother's Day yet, and she feels lucky to have such rotten kids. THEME: Social Development Y / 12
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(visited by Eirik Refsdal, Kristian Barek, Jon-Finngard Moe and Erling Hagen)
19-Aug-2003 -- On a rainy afternoon we set out from Trondheim, took the ferry (a very nice one) from Flakk to Rørvik and headed north.
About an hour and a half or so later, we finally reached Grøttingen, parked the car and turned on the GPS. After walking some 400-500 meters through partially rocky terrain, we had the disappointment of a lifetime.
Our goal - our confluence - was right in front of us, 25 meters out into the water.
I had feared this and brought along both shorts and a towel, but it seemed a bit too deep, a bit too cold and I didn't really want to carry both the GPS and the camera with me out there. To put it mildly.
So thankfully the others wanted to find a local inhabitant with a boat we could borrow, and a nice and friendly man tipped us about his neighbour, Helge Rovik, who had a boat just a few hundred meters down the road.
Road? This was when we realized that we could have saved ourselves the trip through the "rough" terrain and just gone straight here. But hey, this is what it's all about, isn't it? :)
Anyway, we went back along the road, found Helge (he was just as friendly as his neighbour) and minutes later we were sitting in a rowboat heading for 64N 10E.
Finngard took care of the rowing, while Erling, Kristian and I were looking at the very nice surroundings and just enjoying life in the beautiful weather (it stopped raining just as we left the car, and now an hour or so later the sun was shining).
And as you can see from the pictures we finally reached the confluence, got our pictures, took the boat back to Helge, thanked him and his wife once more and headed south for Trondheim.


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St. Luke M. E. Church
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Springfield Leader, August 20, 1927, page 2
Church founded under tree plans expensive new edifice; Six charter members who saw St. Luke Church spring from open air meetings now hope to aid in getting larger temple.
"A handful of Christians, feeling need of a church and Sunday school in the extreme northwestern part of the city, where there was none at the time, began meeting under a huge shade tree on Atlantic near Nettleton, 18 years ago. As a result of those meetings the St. Luke M. E. church now stands at Nettleton and Atlantic, near the big tree which once served as an open air edifice.
"The edifice consists of a basement and an auditorium and another basement has been constructed on which an auditorium, almost twice as large as the present auditorium, will be erected within the next few years, probably next year.
"From the devout handful the church has grown to boast 250 members and many regular worshippers who are not members; 16 Sunday school classes of three departments; three Epworth leagues; two missionary societies; a Boy and a Girl Scout troop; and a cradle roll headed by Mrs. L. M. Williams, one of the six living charter members. Other survivors of those first meetings under the giant oak are Mrs. O. B. Cooper and Mrs. Sarah Cole, both of whom are active workers, E. O. Cooper of the board of stewards, Mrs. E. O. Cooper and L. M. Williams, on the board of trustees. Cool weather in the late autumn drove the Sunday school classes to take quarters over a drug store at Newton and Atlantic Streets.
"The following spring a basement was erected in which services were held. Later a roof was put over the basement. And later a chapel was added.
"Recently the church had a large basement constructed which will be part of its new edifice and the present church will be divided into Sunday school rooms when the new church becomes a reality.
"The Rev. James M Decker, 19-year-old pastor of the church who took the pastorate last September, this year added a record number of 35 members to the church roll. Eighteen were taken in on one Sunday."
This church building was on the northwest corner of Nettleton and Atlantic until about 2006, when the building was purchased by the Queen of All Saints Catholic Church. The corner stone of the building suggests that the current building was built in 1958.
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A charge of animal cruelty has been laid against the part-owner of a Whistler sled dog company after 100 dogs were slaughtered in 2010.
Robert Fawcett has been charged with causing unnecessary pain or suffering to a number of dogs, confirms the B.C. Crown.
In a WorkSafeBC compensation claim for post-traumatic stress disorder, Fawcett alleged he killed the dogs over a two-day period in April 2010, following the Vancouver Olympics.
Fawcett was the part-owner of Howling Dog Tours, along with Whistler-based Outdoor Adventures, which used the sled dogs on its tours.
Outdoor Adventures maintains it never sanctioned the killing of that many dogs, and did not take over the operation of Howling Dog Tours from Fawcett until a month after the slaughter.
The bodies of 52 dogs were exhumed from a mass grave in May of 2011 as part of an investigation led by the B.C. SPCA.
The discovery of the slaughter horrified the province and led to amendments to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, increasing fines for animal cruelty convictions to a maximum of $75,000 and allowing jail terms of up to two years.
In February, the provincial government also introduced the Sled Dog Code of Practice, which sets standards for health, nutrition, housing, working conditions, transportation and euthanasia.


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Consumer Expenditure Survey, Integrated Diary and Interview Survey Data, 1984-1994 (ICPSR 6714)
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This collection contains data integrated from the two components of the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the Diary Survey and the quarterly Interview Survey, for the years 1984-1994. The integrated data provide a complete accounting of consumer expenditures and income, which neither component alone is designed to do. For the Diary Survey, consumer units complete a diary of expenses for two consecutive one-week periods. The diary survey is designed to obtain data on frequently purchased items such as food and beverages, housekeeping supplies, etc., that respondents are less likely to recall over longer periods of time. For the Interview Survey, consumer units report information to an interviewer once every three months for five consecutive quarters. This survey is designed to obtain data on expenditures and income that respondents can be expected to recall for a period of three months or longer, such as property or automobile purchases, and those that occur on a regular basis, such as rent, utility bills, and insurance premiums. The standard tables include age of reference person, composition of the consumer unit, size of the consumer unit, number of earners in the consumer unit, income before taxes, occupation, quintiles of income before taxes, housing tenure, race, type of area (urban-rural), and region of residence. There are also cross-tabulated tables that include age by income, consumer unit size by income, region by income before taxes, Metropolitan Statistical Areas by the four census regions, and single persons by age and by income.
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Meet English bulldogs Sylvester and Shirley. Just a couple of weeks old, they're currently being looked after by their breeders Scott and Shannon Lathrop from SuburbanBullies.com.
The thing is... the poor dears can't walk very well. Then again, they're only little, so what did we expect - backflips?
But it's their inabilty to walk so well that makes them so adorable - that and the ever-so-squeaky squeaks that peep out their mouths every other second.
Frankly, we thought we'd seen the ultimate video of English Bulldog puppies being adorable years ago - see below - but we were wrong. Dead wrong.
But we need to know... which video is cuter? Sylvester and Shirley (above) or this Bulldog father meeting his daughter for the first time (below)? Let us know in the comment box.
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DSOGaming writes: "Remember Nvidia's and Activision's facial tech demos? They were amazing, weren't they? Well get ready for a new facial animation capture technology that looks even better."
Come on, DSOG, it's impressive as hell for a real-time performance capture, this is no where near as high fidelity as NVidia's Face Works.
doubt next-gen games will have this kind of facial expressions. Perhaps next-next-gen games
Pretty outstanding to say the least. Imagine how much production time they could cut with this.
Good God this is amazing, not just because the level of detail in the capture but the simplicity of it all including the rig. Wonder how large the animation files are and just how viable it would be to use in a game for all facial animations. Wonder if we'll see this in any next gen titles?
Thats funny. When I watched it the ads by Google pop up was for a hairloss treatment.
OT Thats pretty amazing. Remember were looking at realtime performance capture, not so much the lighting or texture detail.


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WARRNAMBOOL City Council has lost its fight to stop eight electronic gaming machines from being installed at the Flying Horse Bar and Brewery.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has ruled in favour of the planning permit application which had been refused by a majority council vote in March.
It is expected the machines will be operating in the east Warrnambool venue by February.
Another controversial application for Raffertys Tavern in west Warrnambool for 19 pokies, refused by the council last year, will come before the tribunal for the second time early next year.
Flying Horse operators Graeme Rodger and Matthew Monk welcomed the decision as a sweet victory after a long, expensive battle they estimated had cost them at least $100,000 on top of the $1.04 million paid at the licence auction in 2010.
Mayor Michael Neoh, who was the minority opponent to the council's refusal of the permit, said he was not surprised by the VCAT ruling.
"I'm not pro or anti gambling, I looked at the issue from a planning perspective," he said.
"We'll wait with interest the Raffertys decision next year."
Tribunal senior member Russell Byard, in his ruling on the Flying Horse application, agreed with the council's planning officers the proposal should be approved.
He said it did not increase the total number of pokies in Warrnambool, nor would it increase harmful effects on lower socio-economic sectors of the community.
Mr Byard also challenged the council's view that pokies should be concentrated in central Warrnambool.
"I do not think the strategic or structural importance of the central activity area would be compromised by this minor proposal," he said.
"I think that exposure to the convenience of and opportunity for impulse gaming is the most important consideration in relation to the appropriateness or otherwise of gaming locations.
"It seems ironic to reflect that this exposure to convenience and opportunity is far greater in relation to the concentration of venues in and around the more robust and diverse environment of the central city.
"This place is not within convenient walking distance from homes or convenience facilities."
Mr Rodger slammed the previous council's decision because it was based on moral, rather than planning grounds.
"It was the council that put us in dispute mode and ratepayers would be amazed to find out how much this has cost in legal fees and expert reports," he said.
"We are providing a niche in a very small part of the gambling market," he said.
"There is already a TAB outlet here, so if someone wants to put $30,000 on a horse we can't stop them, so why should we stop them putting 20 cents in a pokie machine.
"I'm saddened and disheartened by the lack of council support for business investment in Warrnambool."


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MELBOURNE Heart's festive season took a turn for the worse on Boxing Day when Croatian striker Josip Tadic was forbidden from flying to New Zealand with his teammates for the clash with Wellington Phoenix on Thursday.
The forward did not have the requisite visa to travel, so had to wait at the airport while the rest of the party took off.
But club officials were able to make the necessary calls to ensure Tadic had the right papers to allow him to travel on a later flight.
The next three games - against the Phoenix and at home to Newcastle and Brisbane - could shape Heart's season as it battles to stay in touch with the top six and snare a finals spot.
John Aloisi's squad travelled to Wellington already weakened by the loss of first-choice centre-backs Simon Colosimo and Patrick Gerhardt to suspension, while Socceroos Aziz Behich and Richard Garcia have been left in Melbourne to give them time to rest after their busy schedule through December.
Irishman Steven Gray, a mature-age recruit who began his career with English Premiership club Southampton, is likely to be given a Heart debut in the centre of defence alongside teenager David Vrankovic. Gray joined Heart after playing in the Victorian Premier League.
Jason Hoffman could come in for Garcia in an attacking role, while Sam Mitchinson, who deputised for Behich while the latter was with the Socceroos in Hong Kong, looks the obvious replacement at left-back.
Jeremy Walker, who impressed in a couple of games earlier in the year, and newcomer Ersin Kaya, have also been promoted to the squad from the youth team.
Aloisi will weigh which of the pair might be more useful providing cover on the bench. Kaya is a winger, while Walker has played as a full-back in his previous A-League appearances.
Heart's football manager, John Didulica, said the decision to leave Behich and Garcia behind had been made for strategic reasons.
''They played in a lot of those Socceroos matches in the East Asian championship, returned for the game against the Mariners and then played in the derby [against Melbourne Victory],'' he said.
''They have had a lot of football in December, and with the big games against Newcastle on New Year's Day and the short turnaround to the game with Brisbane on January 6, John Aloisi decided he wanted them to freshen up for them.''
The Phoenix showed it would be right up for this game with a 1-1 draw against league leader Central Coast at the weekend. Ricki Herbert's team is missing key forward Paul Ifill, who has had an ankle operation which could keep him out for up to six weeks.
But the Phoenix showed plenty in the draw with the Mariners, when Herbert put his faith in teenagers Tyler Boyd and Louis Fenton, to suggest that Heart's makeshift rearguard could be in for a torrid time.
''We did some good things the other night and if we can keep building on that I don't think we will be too far away,'' Herbert said.
''I don't think I'll change the team, but there are things we need to be better on. We talked about the crossing, and the set play delivery in particular wasn't where it needs to be, so someone else [will] take up that role.''


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In what possible way is Dr. Ben Carson's belief that marriage is between a man and a woman "in conflict with [Johns Hopkins University's] core values of diversity, inclusion and respect," as Hopkins Dean of Medicine Dr. Paul B. Rothman put it in a letter to colleagues ("Hopkins chides Carson for gay-marriage remarks," April 6).
Has it never occurred to Dr. Rothman and the left-wing progressives that redefining marriage is offensive to the vast majority of us who believe that marriage is, as Webster's puts it, "the state of being unified to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship."
To call Dr. Carson "homophobic," as Sun columnist Dan Rodricks recently did, is not only incorrect but hypocritical. Homophobia is a hatred or fear of homosexuals. Just because a person opposes same-sex marriage does not mean he or she hates or fears gays, who are entitled to equal rights under the law. That's what civil unions are for.
And for Hopkins student Jordan White to say that it was "unfortunate that [his comments on gay marriage] are the legacy that Ben Carson is leaving us" is preposterous. Here is a man who has achieved success against improbable odds and who any school should be honored to have as a commencement speaker.
Dr. Carson represents the best of what America offers and embodies the values and work ethic that made this country great.
Universities used to encourage diverse opinions and open debate. Hopkins should be ashamed of the way it has bullied Dr. Carson and sought to suppress his faith-based opinions.
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First time I've seen a "double post triple quote".
I found a copy in the exact same place Yahtzee did, lets see if it measures up.
Absolutely on the mark; and I was actually a bit worried going in, considering the last couple of FPS reviews of vaguely similar titles. I was forgetting that unlike Turok or the other one, Painkiller is actually really good. Nothing fancy, no lame gimmicks, just a great little shooting game with some ideas that have seen depressingly little imitation.
The title weapon alone was so ingenious it's almost a shame players weren't forced to be more reliant on it; it took me until my second play through to notice you could set this clanky little gem to the basic face-chopper mode, then LAUNCH it, reducing whole columns of golems to so many gibs.
Quite a bit actually, Painkiller started that though, especially with the fact that you could nail them to the walls, and also, Painkiller is more than just a spike, it was a nice little crucifix/wooden stake that we all know does horrible things to demons.
Whereas shooting a giant wooden Crucifix/wooden stake through a normal person is completely inneffective.
Whereas shooting a giant wooden Crucifix/wooden stake through a normal person is completely inneffective.[/quote]
LOL Oh man, I usually catch myself on that but the one time I slip, it's on a god damn internet forum...
no it isn't inneffective, it's just extra horrible towards the undead and such.
I heard about that song at the end in some Dave Barry column several years ago, and thought that he had to be making it up for once. I guess he wasn't.
As for the actual review...hilarious as usual, but I have to say that I'm getting a little disturbed by most gamers' love of violence for the sake of violence. When did that start, anyway?
I think around Medieval Times.
Well, the Roman Colloseum might argue with that...
How come? Please elaborate.
Oh silly me Rome was WAAAY before medieval ages...well not that long but still quite a bit.
Some colloseum myths I'd like to clear up, since you brought that up:
1.) It wasn't a "prisoner death match" - they had skilled fighters who trained just like MMA fighters today, there were rules and everything.
2.) The crowd only had a choice in the matter when a fighter was too wounded to continue, or was a coward.
--- ok that's out of the way, I just hate how the movie "Gladiator" messed around with the history.
Also, how about Atilla the Hun? I think he could also join this debate.
And going back even further, the Spartans thought it rather entertaining when things got especially violent. Whereas the Persians favoured gardening.
And that clinches it. The presence of Metal at every fight promotes this from awesome to excellent! (Riffs on air guitar).
I just love the fact that one day after Yahtzee's review, Steam is advertising Painkiller next to Call of Duty 4 and the Orange Box with his review "All you need to know is that there is a gun that shoots shurikens and lighting" as the only text coupled with it.
I admit I never took a decent look at "Painkiller" while it was advertised on steam, but after playing the demo version, it plays a lot like Serious Sam; and Serious Sam while being shallow in the plot department never truly disappointed me. Just the sound of those be-hooved demons approaching me in the dark was enough to keep me playing. So after playing the demo about four times, paying as much as it took for me to see Indy: 4(10.50:USD) I bought painkiller, and it'll provide me with more than two hours of entertainment for less than the same price of a movie at the theater.
Sorry, if I've made an offending error in my post, I just split half a bottle of absinthe with a dear friend of mine, the weak American brewed stuff, but it's still pretty potent in the quantity I've imbibed. Europeans get to have all the fun.
Yahtzee, Good job, thank you for plugging Psychonauts, I was hoping somebody would publicly enjoy that game so people would get off their ass and play it. Thank you for being a critic, and above-all thank you for being a critic that is "Balls out" honest. Nail on head when you said that critics indulge in under-appreciated games which interest themselves and nobody else, I think that's what most people do between launches; I play a lot of Dosbox in-between launches, that and X-com.
Well, spot on review. When playing through the Painkiller SP one day because I had nothing better to do, I suddenly realized: This game is really, really good! But forget the Shuriken and Lightning gun (For the record it's called the Electrodriver), what about the minigun/rocket launcher combination?
Am I the only one who thinks the Raven Guy looks waaaaaaay too Much like Eddie? If you don't know who Eddie is, turn your head 10 degrees to your left.
Argh, I don't like the new screen layout it's impossible to keep the cursor on the "pause" button because now it covers the bottom of the screen.
Serious Sam was a fantastic game, as was its expansion. The graphics engine was actually surprisingly amazing for the day, as was the physics engine, and what isnt glorious about taking out a stampede of bulls with a freaking Cannon-gun?
the Serious Sam sequel seriously sucked though... ... ...seriously...
Detatchable Peeeenis... Detatchable Peeeenis...
I got the same sort of distinction wrong in a Dis or Dat on "You Don't Know Jack". Category was differences between Vampires and Peacocks. Can be killed by cutting their head off and pounding a stake through their heart. (Vampires:1, Peacocks:2, Both:3)
I seem to like making comments that are only mildly relevant, and slightly annoying apparently.
Spikes, stakes, who cares as long as their pointy and horrible?
Sooo far into the future, like the year, 3000, and no flashlights on guns? Besides, it loses the horror appeal after the imps pop up EVERY MINUTE.
LOL, I missed that post. What a sheep.
My friend happened to have a copy of Painkiller, so I'm playing through it now. Yahtzee was right; The combat is incredibly fun. The guns are fantastic (especially the stakegun), the physics are great, and the graphics aren't half bad. The best part is the boss fights though; They're epic.
The only downside is the crappy story. I agree with Yahtzee that it doesn't really need a story to be enjoyable, but it does need one to be memorable. A better story probably would have taken this game out of the bargain bin and given it a sequal.
It's a good show, like all of them, but I can't really get the game right now.
The part that really stands out in my recollection of this game is the orphanage level where you get to blow little demon-children to bits. How did that make it past Jack Thompson?
Oh, come on, Yahtzee. You have the game Painkiller and you don't use Judas Priest's Painkiller as the intro? Haha.
Bought it after watching this, bloody awesome. Plot can definitely fuck right off, though, and so can Overdose.
Either its too obvious, or he's not hard enough to handle it. Well, as Heath Franklin would put it, he'd better harden the fuck up, at least in time to review Brutal Legend.
Painkiller is now on Steam for like, $9.99.
you should review painkiller:overdose
That'd be redundant, dontcha think?
thanx mate!the dead season was the reason(fokin poetic start there..i ll fix it)I suggested that
LMFAO spot on Yahtzee
did anyone know there is at least one exspantion for Painkiller (yeah cool I know) well that's all I wanted to say really (if someone has alredy said this sorry for repeating it but it's alot of pages to look throw)
all the best, The-J-Cool-Slim-Stupid
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At Forrester, Katie tells Brooke to stay away from Bill. Brooke protests that he's a shareholder in the company. Katie scoffs at the excuse they're using to spend time together. Brooke tells Katie she's the real problem - the demands she's making on her husband. Katie protests that Bill needs to participate in their marriage too. Brooke complains about how hurt Bill was when she walked out on him. "Appreciate him, before you drive him away." Katie turns the tables - it's amazing how Brooke can justify everything she's doing. Brooke goes on about letting him have a drink. Katie brings up Brooke's history and how she needs a man to fill the void now that Ridge is gone. "Not my man." Brooke insists she's just been trying to make Katie's marriage work. She says Katie needs to turn him on or she'll lose him. Katie asks, "To you?"
At Spencer, Alison joins Bill in his drinking game. He goes on to Alison about the relaunch of Brooke's Bedroom and the gossip about Eric and Taylor. They discuss the nature of his drinking game. Bill asserts that he doesn't take orders - not from his wife, not from anyone. Alison offers to drive him home or call his driver. He says fine and then calls Brooke to apologize for missing the press conference. She says Katie was just there. Bill tells her to meet at his house to hash this out. He hangs up and grabs his keys. On her end, Brooke doesn't think Bill was alright and heads out.
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Before Edmund S. Muskie went to the U.S. Senate in 1959, the problems of the Androscoggin River had come to the fore through the work of Dr. Walter Lawrance, a Bates College chemistry professor.
Since the 1880s when paper mills began creating pulp with a sulfite chemical process, water downstream of paper mills often smelled awful and was too polluted to use.
A study of the Androscoggin in the early 1940s showed that it had almost no dissolved oxygen and therefore could not support fish or aquatic life.


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The Georgia General Assembly recently adjourned the second-half of its two-year session by passing several bills of interest to the state's farming community. Among these is "The Landowner's Bill of Rights and Private Property Protection Act" or eminent domain bill.
Highlights of House Bill 1313 include clarification that eminent domain may only be used for public use, the condemnor must prove public use to a court, and public use does not include economic development. The bill, according to officials with the Georgia Farm Bureau, also brings better definitions to pertinent terms, restricts who can authorize eminent domain proceedings, offers more reimbursement for costs associated with moving landowners, and provides a way for landowners to seek to buy back their property if the government doesn't use it within five years.
The bill includes the following provision: "Neither this state nor any political subdivision thereof nor any other condemning authority shall use eminent domain unless it is for public use. Public use is a matter of law to be determined by the court and the condemnor bears the burden of proof. The public benefit of economic development shall not constitute a public use."
A related resolution also passed and provides for a constitutional amendment to be on the ballot tightening the use of eminent domain. Many related bills did not pass. Among them was a house resolution which proposed a constitutional amendment to compensate landowners damaged by "inverse condemnation."
The General Assembly also passed an immigration bill which contains provisions that prohibit the business expense deductibility of labor costs for workers who cannot provide "acceptable documents." The bill pertains only to illegal workers, but Georgia farmers have been concerned about unintended consequences of the legislation. Farmers who depend on migrant labor are concerned that legal farm workers may decide to forego working in Georgia and go instead to neighboring states that do not have similar laws.
Tax bills also were on the legislature's agenda this year. The passage of House Bill 834 provides a sales tax exemption on the fuels used in swine facilities and will result in a savings to hog producers. Another bill, which passed early in the session, provides a state income tax credit for landowners who donate a conservation easement or a tract of land to the government.
House Bill 1293 will loosen restrictions for some senior landowners to get out of the conservation use covenant without penalty under certain circumstances. Yet another tax-related bill gives a sales tax exemption for biomass material if it is used in energy production.
Commodity commissions also were up for discussion this year by the Georgia General Assembly, including the Equine Commission, which was established by Senate Bill 380. Equine producers throughout the state supported the commission, which will be funded by a specialty vehicle tag purchased voluntarily by equine enthusiasts. The new commission will be structured essentially like other commodity commissions, and since there will be no mandatory producer assessments, there will be no producer referendum.
Lawmakers also passed a bill regulating irrigation permits for the Flint River Basin. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has lifted the moratorium on irrigation permits in the region. According to the legislation, future irrigation permits in the Flint River Basin will require an application fee of $250 to prevent an anticipated run on speculative permit applications. Issued permits will have to be acted upon within two years, and they will be in effect for 25 years, renewable at expiration based on future circumstances.'
Other agriculture-related bills that passed include:
House Bill 999, Vet Practices Act — The minor changes in the bill will allow for more access to large animal vets in rural areas through the use of veterinary technicians.
House Bill 1213 — Concerns about controlling poultry diseases prompted this bill to prohibit the slaughter of poultry at a market where live birds are sold.
House Bill 1320, Litter Bill — The aim is to reduce the amount of litter in Georgia, and the final version included some needed farm exemptions.
House Bill 1392, Vehicle Gross Weights — In current law, holders of Class C drivers' licenses may tow a trailer with a gross vehicle weight of no more than 10,000 pounds. This bill allows farmers with Class C licenses to exceed the 10,000-pound trailer weight provided the combined weight of the truck and trailer do not exceed 26,000 pounds. This change effectively expands the current agricultural CDL exemption from 150 miles to the entire state.
House Bill 1412, Biodiesel Requirements — The original bill required most government entities in Georgia to use biodiesel by 2008. However, an amendment added in a House committee changed "requiring" to "urging."
House Bill 1551, Joint Comprehensive Water Desalination Study Committee — This bill creates a 10-member committee to study the feasibility of water desalination in Georgia.
Senate Bill 636, Biodiesel Definition — This bill provides a legal definition for biodiesel fuel.
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First Meeting of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
The first meeting of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law took place in São Paulo, Brazil on 6-7 October 2010. The meeting was hosted by Former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the Commission's Chair. The meeting opened with an address by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark followed by an exchange with Commissioners (Helen Clark: Remarks at Inaugural meeting of HIV Global Commission available here).
The São Paulo meeting was an important milestone in the Commission's process of interrogating and analysing key legal and human rights dimensions of the global HIV response. The aim of the meeting was to discuss priority HIV-related legal and human rights issues on which the Commission's work will focus over the next 18 months. The Commissioners met over two days at the Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso to deliberate on three key areas of inquiry proposed by the Commission's Technical Advisory Group:
Laws and practices that effectively criminalise people living with HIV and vulnerable to HIV;
Laws and practices that mitigate or sustain violence and discrimination as lived by women; and
Laws and practices that facilitate or impede HIV-related treatment access.
The Commissioners endorsed the agenda put forth by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG). With the first meeting of Commissioners now over, the TAG and invited experts will begin the work on preparing state-of-the-art research papers on a range of key issues. Preparations for Regional Dialogues have begun. Submissions from civil society as received and compiled by the World AIDS Campaign (21 networks and individuals made submissions) and from UN bodies and related entities (the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights, UNESCO, the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria) were discussed by Commissioners at their first meeting. Another call for submissions from civil society and other stakeholders will be announced soon. The aim will be to have a call for submissions that reaches out proactively and more broadly to a more diverse range of civil society stakeholders.
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The Pajama Game
Pajama-inspired lines are just starting to blossom into trendiness, but it's always nice to see one take things in a different direction.
American Viceroy is a new line with the sleepwear-inspired tagline "Made for Daydreaming." It's hard to come up with a better slogan for daytime pajamas, but they're more interested in Wes Anderson-style youth culture than Schnabel-esque scene-making. The references are all pitch-perfect—J. D. Salinger, Cat Stevens, Pavement—and it doesn't hurt that they're drawing on real tailoring prowess for the deceptively simple outfits. One caption proclaims, "we got in fist-fights to make sure that shirttail was right."
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Nets snap losing streak with win over Bucks, 90-82Lopez scored 38 in Brooklyn's victory
Call it a perfect time for a trip to Milwaukee.
Lopez scored 32 points, Joe Johnson had 15 and the Nets beat the lowly Bucks 90-82 on Saturday night.
Lopez dominated inside, making 11 of 13 shots from the field. He also had seven rebounds and four assists as Brooklyn bounced back from Thursday night's 113-83 home loss to New York. The Nets had dropped four of five overall.
"When you have a player like Brook or Joe, who can also command double teams, you're going to have some shots around the arc that we made tonight," Nets coach Jason Kidd said. "So, everybody pitched in."
Alan Anderson added 13 points for Brooklyn, which shot 46 percent from the field and enjoyed a 41-36 rebounding edge.
O.J. Mayo led the Bucks with 22 points and John Henson added 18 points and seven rebounds. Milwaukee has the worst record in the Eastern Conference at 4-16.
"We had no answer for Lopez. His size down low was too much for us," Bucks coach Larry Drew said. "We couldn't play him one on one. We tried different things, but he got the ball out to their shooters. We tried everything."
Lopez had 20 points in the first half on near-perfect shooting. He also was a defensive presence in the low post.
"I just tried to take my time in the post and really read what they were doing," Lopez said. "Just play off that."
Milwaukee tried to double team Lopez, put big bodies on him, but nothing worked. He either sank the shot or made the free throw.
"That's Brook. That's who he is," Kidd said. "He's a guy who demands attention. Again, he's seen a lot of double teams in his young career. He's making all the right plays. He's letting guys get to their spots. Guys are knocking down shots."
Nets forward Kevin Garnett struggled from the field, hitting just 2 of 9 shots while scoring six points, but he had two key fourth-quarter baskets.
Brandon Knight's two free throws with 3:54 remaining cut Brooklyn's lead to 82-75. But Garnett rebounded Johnson's missed 3-pointer at the other end and scored to restore the Nets' nine-point advantage.
The Bucks closed to 84-78 with 2:38 left on Khris Middleton's two foul shots. Lopez then got free under the basket and Johnson found him for an easy dunk, and Garnett hit a 19-foot jumper with 1:42 remaining.
Johnson made a 17-foot jumper as the shot clock expired with 43.3 seconds left to put Milwaukee away.
NOTES: The Nets and Bucks held a pregame moment of silence in honor South African leader Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday. ... Lopez extended his double-digit scoring streak to 37 games dating to Feb. 26. ... Milwaukee was without F Caron Butler (sore left knee) for the sixth straight game and C Zaza Pachulia (sprained right foot) for his second game in a row. ... For the Nets, F Andrei Kirilenko (sore back) missed his 16th consecutive game, guards Jason Terry (bruised left knee) and Deron Williams (sprained left ankle) each missed their ninth straight and F Paul Pierce (broken right hand) won't be back for two to four weeks.