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August 29th 2013, 22:29 CEST by Gabe
Discussion for the 2013 PCFFL season. Also other sports talk if you desire. Just because I can.
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<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
OK, since we were filled up to 12 I increased it to 14 to give room to Eggbert.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
My balls are itching.
Joker, Ph.D. Procedural Assholian Behaviour, Pedophilosopher
- All your ass are belong to my wang Jafd. Prepare to are penetration.
"I fart in THX." - Sgt_Hulka
WILL SUCK COCK FOR A Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III.
The PCFFL Coach's Armchair -- 2013 Draft Grades
The 2013 NFL offseason was the first normal offseason for the NFL in a few years. Lest we all forget 2011 saw us staring down the barrel of a work stoppage and 2012 had the referee lockout that cost the Packers a win and all of us some points. In the PCFFL world, though,things could not have been darker. Planetcrap.com is all but dead, with even the bots have forsken the place. Our poor commish Trunks had a rough offseason with the Disney Business and PCFFL found itself adrift without a rudder or a home. Apathy looked like it would swallow the league when like a Phoenix* it burst into new life from those ashes. On August 26th the league found a new home at NFL.com and a new, some would say super awesome, commish to shepard the league into a new era. With nary a week to get things going the league was formed, everyone signed up and a draft was held. It would have been considered a great success if 10 teams were able to make the move, but we found the league overflowing with 14! Truly good times are in front of us now.
With the expansion we have two new teams in the the league. Actually 1 new team, and one comeback. Gabe rejoins with the Taking One For the Teams and McBains friend Sudheer rounds out the league with Monkey Tricks. Everyone else from the 2012 campaign has returned to join us in this new venture.
Of course that does beg the question of zombies. The goodwill of a new league and bounty has lead management have a feeling of redemption for our former zombies. Their zombieness were not held against them and the draft order was done in worst to first order regardless of how we all go there. The new teams were inserted smack dab in the middle.
Speaking of the draft we saw a decent representation at it, though a tech sanfu marred it a little bit. It seems the Redbeards, Monkey Tricks and the Team that Time Forgot tried to join but were not able to right away. Only the Team that Wanted to Play Diablo and Draft at the Same Time got bit by this bug which resulted in an autopicked first round. Hopefully Andy Reid works wonders on Jamaal Charles for that Team With a Wordy Name. 11 owners participated in part, and 9 in full. Perennial absentee owners Utah and Arizona were absentee. Some things, after all, do not change. The Totes Adorbs Kittehs were off galavanting in Europe, allegedly. I personally have to question their commitment to their team and league.
All I can hope for the new season is that everyone enjoys themselves, no zombies will be seen and that there will be a repeat champion. Enough of that blather, on to the grades.
* This is not an endorsement of the Outlaws, and especially not their coach.
Draft Grades
Cherry Hill Chumps -- Absent for most of the draft they at least auto drafted AP. Thats always a good move, so they get a +. Luckily the NFL autopicker isnt bonkers like the CBS one with loading up on kickers in the final rounds.
Grade: F+
Predicted record: 3-11
Leet Doodz -- Formerly from Boston (the league wasnt the only thing that moved), the Doodz led off with C.J Spiller of the Bills who Doug Mahone says is going to get 1,000,000,000 carries this year. This will either work greatly in the Doodz favor, or not. Like, hurt in week 3 not. They followed this pick up with secretly disgruntled Larry Fitzgerald in AZ who has uhm someone, I guess, throwing the ball to him. Oh, thats right, Raider cast off Carson Palmer. Thats when I stopped looking.
Grade: D-
Predicted record: 4-10
Austin Blahas -- The Blahas continue to sport the Texans logo for their avatar. So naturally they started off with a homer pick getting Arian Foster. They didnt stop there, choosing two more HOU players for their roster. Outside of the homers, they went Peter King with Tom Brady in the 3rd and questionably choosing 87 year old Steve Smith in CAR with their 4th pick.
Grade: H
Predicted record: 8-8
Utah Teen Brides -- What can we say about the Teen Brides? Well, the autopicker got them to the finals one year, so theres that. This year the Autopicker chose the Bengals DST for them in the 8th round. I predict a long year for the Brides.
Grade: F-
Predicted record: 6-8
PA Marinos -- The Marinos were around just prior to the draft, but they were stoned and had the munchies so they had to wander off to get something to eat. They eventually returned to stock up that all important bench with Sam Bradford and Aaron Dobson. At least the non-stoned autopicker got Ray Rice and Andre Johnson. Too bad about Matt Stafford, though.
Grade: THC
Predicted record: 4-20
Arkansas TDs -- 2nd round pick, Steven Jackson, 3rd round, Roddy White, 4th round, Matt Ryan. More like Atlanta TDs. At least they held the homer pick off till the 15th round when they pissed it away on the Vikings DST.
Grade: A(tl)
Predicted record: 2-12
Taking One For The Team -- The Team that Took one for the Team took one from home by nabbing Andrew Luck in the 3rd round. Frank Gore and Jamaal Charles round out a top trio that the Team With Too Long of a Name wont slight them with missed yardage bonuses like in their years past. Well, except Gore. He likes to get 150 combined yards, but not 100 in either often.
Grade: C+
Predicted record: 7.6 - 11
Monkey Tricks -- A lot of the draft chatter centered on how the new guys always win it, with the Leet Doodz braying about how good and serious the Monkees are (/me pours one out for Davy Jones). Well, our experience in the PCFFL is that its none too kind to newbs, regardless of past leagues.Picking Tony Romo is a good way to meet that trial by fire, just ask other scorned Romo-ers.
Grade: R
Predicted record: 1-13
Vancouver Rough Riders -- The Second City m0nties havent sniffed the finals in the past couple years and were intent on rectifying that. A good draft positioning, despite their gripes, yield them Calvin Johnson, Peyton Manning and McFadden with their top 3 picks.
Grade: M
Predicted record: 7-7
Downunder Redbeards -- GOOD GOD MAN! Why are you picking Matt Forte in the first round? That never works out. No word if the Redbeard paid real money for that information or not. For their sake heres hoping that Cam Newton reverses his sophomore year and doesnt pull a Dirty Sanchez on the Redbeards.
Grade: U
Predicted record: 3-11
San Francisco CG Robots -- Last years top regular season winner the Robots have a lot to prove that it was not a fluke (totally, have you seen their record over the years?). To that end they picked Drew Brees in the second round. In Brees we trust.
Grade: B(rees)
Predicted record: 6-9
BC Adorable Kitties -- The 49ers fan Kitties may have been flittering about France but the AutoPicker did them a solid homer and picked up Kaepernick, Vernon Davis and the 49er DST for them. If the 49ers can repeat, the Kittehs have a chance. If not theyll wish they were back in France.
Grade: C-
Predicted record: 7-7
Arizona Outlaws -- Ray Lewis has retired so that must mean the Outlaws can forever now forget about queuing up a DST for a first round pick. It doesnt mean we will stop reminding them of that move, no, but pretty sure we wont see it again. The autopicker must be a BotDog cousin, it chose Carson Palmer for them (bench QB so it wasnt 100% troll).
Grade: F+
Predicted record: 6-8
Jersey Devils -- Our most awesomest of teams, if unoriginal name, and defending league champions have drafted a team of Awesome. Clearly the best of teams. We at the armchair dont see how you can go wrong with Rodgers at the helm Ridley in the backfield and Reggie Wayne on the outside. If its possible to be to awesome this is it. Oh, whats that? They took two kickers? Why in Gods name, why? And the Giants DST? Thats a worse homer than anyone.
Grade: F
Predicted record: 2-12
General Shit
Finally our long national nightmare comes to an end.
I guess this makes Gabe our Browns or something.
Hugin allegedly wanted to join but sat on it all weekend. Metus, too.
Yea, the Leet Doodz technically may have relocated last year, but their name didnt.
Now that the Marinos are in the PacNW they no longer pine for Poulsbo, but PA. I dont get it either.
These predicted records probably dont add up square. Just a hunch.
Who am I kidding, regardless of how the Kittehs do theyll wish they were back in France.
I wish that more than one weekend had the double MNF, unless it means Boomer and some other jerk announcing it. In that case I dont want it at all.
I suppose this concussion settlement means we dont have to feel guilty anymore about being NFL fans.
I joined two suicide leagues and couldnt find a single pick i felt comfortable about. Not even the Pats vs. Bills. Any given Sunday.
I actually moved this past summer. Same state, but in a new county. Felt ok keeping my team name.
Two hours and 1,700+ words. I have no idea how long I can keep this up, so enjoy it while it lasts. Its not Peter King, but maybe a bit more amusing for our circle.
Will Sudheer ever read this? He certainly cant respond to it here, though.
Your team sucks.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
Yeah, Armchair!
How dare you, I was at least an E. This is totally going to blow my metacritic rating.
According to the projected win totals, I'm pre season regular season champion! I don't think we even need to play, lets just assume that happens and come back in 15 weeks...
As long as Peyton and Calvin don't get injured, I'm in.
Peyton's neck will suddenly snap loose when he tries to throw a 60 yard pass.
I'm curious what teams that haven't picked yet will swoop in and have a winning record. The projected record of every team except maybe 2 is under .500.
"The buyer of a [credit default swap] does not need to own the underlying security or other form of credit exposure; in fact the buyer does not even have to suffer a loss from the default event." WHEEEE!
Trunks, yeah, that Peyton Madden guy is totally washed up.
"The buyer of a [credit default swap] does not need to own the underlying security or other form of credit exposure; in fact the buyer does not even have to suffer a loss from the default event." WHEEEE!
Yay for Armchair!
|To correct for no Romo meltdown, the universe ensured Philip Rivers collapse.
Yep, my team blows...
Oh, and PA is Port Angeles, where I live now. No pining, just loving.
"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients
None of my other players cracked double digits but it doesn't matter because Peyton.
Citizens demand armchair.
The PCFFL Coach's Armchair Week 1
Im in the end game of Saints Row IV and I totally forgot about this. True story. Also true is that Im not a fan of the end and am somewhat grinding the story missions out to finish the game. I guess what I am saying is who knows how long this ride will last. Or, pretend that it was super late games yesterday with week 1 and all that and I couldnt stay up to watch Rivers and San Diego implode. Yea, thats the ticket. Anyway, onto the shit.
Weekly Recap
NJ (92.36)vs. IND (75.81) -- What happens to you if you get 5.60 points out of 3 WRs on your active roster? YOU LOSE! (Gene Wilder/Willy Wonka style), thats what. IND suffered a Torrey Smith brownout in the Lightning game on Thursday and managed to field the only skills player in the SF/GB game that did not get a point. Meanwhile their worst WR/flex player on the bench scored 6.90. Welcome Back to Fantasy, Gabe! For their effort the Devils road the coattails of Rodgers and Crazy Legs Bush (29.31 and 21.55 points respectively) to a comfortable week 1 win.
UTA (71.31)vs. PA(105.59) -- A duel of autopicked teams for this week and we see that the Teen Brides were totally jobbed. Bradshaw was a high draft pick (or is it low?) and saw him reel off an outstanding 1.65 point stinker. Not that they have anyone on the bench to make up for that, may be a long one for the Brides. The Marinos saw Matt Stafford to live for another week, and throw up a 20 spot to boot. WRs Marshall and Johnson rounded out there other top scorers with a 30 point combined effort to secure the win.
SF (56.29) vs. PHL (108.50) -- The CGI Robots picked up where they left off two years ago to prove that last year was a fluke by tossing the stinker of the week. 23 points from Brees and not much else for them. It was so awful that the Texans DEF was their next highest scorer (and double digit player) with 10 points. No help from the bench, either, you could roll that up into their score and theyll still lose to the chumps by over 30. The Robots can only hope that this is an anomaly this week. The (autopicked) Chumps, though, got 3 TDs and 23 points out of AP despite getting stuffed after that opening run of the year. Eli Manning was their high hook with 35 points, but needed garbage time to get that,
BC (115.59) vs. AZ (104.25) -- Another battle of autopicked teams, this one saw our highest scoring (combined) game and narrowest margin of victory. If my recollection is right the Kitties phoned it in from EU and took the 49ers DEF out of the starting lineup ahead of that GB game. Smart move, but it only mattered to the tune of 2 more points. Kaepernick was tops for the Kitties with 35.34 points, but that teamed up with Boldin to help him along with 24.40 points of his own. Throw in J. Nelson from the GB side with 18.50 and it all adds up to the Kitties winning the points week. The (small) irony for the Outlaws is that Palmer got them more points on the bench, though not enough to win. Cruz led AZ with 29.90 points and J. Cook followed up with 24.05.
AUS (99.75) vs. MIN (84.08) -- The Redbeard-less and Doodz had to wait to Monday night to see how their game would resolve. AU feasted on 26 points from AJ Green and 23.5 from J. Thomas on TNF. They were even fortunate enough to get a double digit game from Forte. The Leet Doodz were not in the best position to win with only Griffin to play on Monday. Three players in double digits prior to Monday, but Fitzgerald with the high at 16 is not a recipe for success. Griffin recovered to get 21 points but it was too little too late for the Doodz.
VAN (96.34) vs. AR (73.52) -- Manning. Thats it. Rough Riders had one player in double digits, but those double digits happen to score 59.14 points. The TDs were just as terrible. Err, worse, I suppose. Matt Ryan gave them 22 points and 24 points from the Chiefs DEF (46 combined) and nothing else in double digits. This game felt like it was over on Thursday, but the TDs could have had a chance. But they didnt, because theyre the TDs.
BOS (106.16) vs. ATX (65.16) -- Newcomer from Boston (making an educated guess here) took on old timer Austin Blahas in a battle royale. OK, not so much a royale but more of a bludgeoning of the old guy by the new as the Blahas lost by over 40 points. LeSean McCoy (21.45) and the Dallas DEF (21) were the top dogs on BOS. Throw in 4 more players in double digits and it was an easy victory. The Blahas only saw two players (Brady, 14.5, Daniels, 15) reach double digits as it was a long weekend watching not much of anything else.
Coach of the Week
It has to go to the Kitties this week. They got fortunate with the autopicker homering for them, but it was smart coaching to look at the matchups and go to the waiver wire and get a DST that would be in a better place to win.
Kotite of the Week
Sorry, but its gotta be the CGI Robots. Live draft picks and they stunk it up to the lowest score in the league, and its doubly so if you include benches.
A Look Ahead
Thursday night football all year so make sure your lineups are set.
The Commishs Ink
There is some talk that the rosters are too damn big with 14 teams in the league and the waiver wire is some slim pickens. Well see how the league shakes out and consider it for next season assuming we still have 14 teams.
The scoring system needed some adjusting following the Thursday night game. If you noticed some scores changing thats why. The main change was passing for 1 point for 10 yards to 1 for 20 to keep in line with our changes at CBS. Also the bonuses were cumulative so they had to be adjusted, too.
There was an issue with the Leet Doodz losing a point when Welkah fumbled on a punt return. Unfortunately such situations are tied to a player and not the team, for whatever reason. It is above my paygrade, as they say, and not something that I can address. Its unfortunate, but hopefully rare and in this case did not factor into the game.
This section wont necessarily be here all year. I suppose if the zombie policy needs to be enforced, or other league matters crop up, it will be done so here.
General Shit
Lots of ugly football this weekend. I have to believe that the new CBA limiting practices and coachs reluctance, other than Rex Ryan, to play starters in pre-season all contribute to this sorry display of football. I even consider the TD record that was set a symptom of this, too. Hopefully better football returns in week 2.
Oddities of fantasy scoring, Eli finished a hair ahead of Kaepernick in scoring.
Take solace, Trunks, Redbeards had the lowest performing bench with 8.5 points. So thats something, right? Right?
The newcomer Monkees already had enough of that name and tried to sidle up closer to the Armchair by changing their name to LeVeon A Prayer, Little do they that shit doesnt work! The Armchair isnt a native of the Garden State, so the yolks on you!
The Prayers probably scored a point with the Outlaws, though.
Its late, allow my me bad puns.
Woo, football!
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
PA Marinos get no love again.
"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients
The PCFFL Coach's Armchair Week 2
I had expected to write this on the eve of GTAV but never got around to it. Instead Los Santos sits downstairs right now and here I am pecking away at my keyboard for you, my fan. I digress, we wrap up week 2 in the PCFFL where the last remnants of new season smell waft away to be replaced by hope, fear, or a combination of the two. Hopefully you got at least one win and arent staring down the barrel of a possible 0-3 start that will wreck your post-season chances. Anyway, on to the show.
Weekly Recap
Jersey Devils (95.1) vs. San Francisco CG Robots (86.99) -- The Robots had a good bounce back from last weeks Kotite of a show but ran face first into an Aaron Rodgers buzzsaw. Rodgers threw up a sick 41.45 points (highest among starters this week) for the Devils to lead them to the victory. Add in 21 points from the Shehawks DEF and 17.55 from Steve Johnson the Devils had just enough to hold the victory. The Robots went into Monday night with a sliver of hope with Antonio Brown yet to play on Monday but the pathetic Steelers did him no favors. High scorer on the Robots was Mike Wallace with 17.75, but another 4 players crossed double digits to make it close.
PA Marinos (57.11) vs Cherry Hill Chumps (63.29) -- There were two teams that scored less points than the Chumps this week and was their luck that the Marinos were one of them. A close, but pathetic game, couldnt even muster a combined score that would put them on the top for the league. The Chumps got 20.95 points from Jimmy Graham along with two more players that broke 10 to put them in front of the Marinos. The Marinos only had two players, Brandon Marshall with 17.65 and Matthew Stafford with 16.61, cross in double digits. Their next highest scorer on their team was the Falcons DEF with 6. The sad thing is their bench outscored the starters. That is not a winning formula in this league.
Arizona Outlaws (72.74) vs Utah Teen Brides (139.56) -- The Teen Brides stood pat and were rewarded for their effort. Vick scored 35.61, Lynch 24.75 and Jones 21.10 to lead the Brides to the highest score of the week. Dez Bryant led the Outlaws with 19.05. 3 other players crossed into double digits and yet somehow the Outlaws still ended up with 70+ points. The bench, though, looks like trouble, only getting them 9.96. That does not bode well for later in the season.
Leet Doodz (71.45) vs BC Adorable Kitties (57.14) -- The Leet Doodz evened up their record by jumping on RG3s back. He lead with 28.45 points while the Kittehs only had one player in double digits, Jordy Nelson with 15.3 points. The Kitties were riding the homer 49ers train that ran off the tracks in Seattle. Kaepernick stunk it up for -.11 points. Thankfully that game at SEA is but once a (regular) season.
Arkansas TDs (72.08) vs Taking One For The Team (75.77) -- The only matchup of week one losers saw the closest game of the week separated by a measly 3.69 points. Gabe made some changes to his WR corp and promptly saw them pile up points on the bench. However, the TDs left more points on the bench and came up short in the end. Luck led the Teams with 18.32 points who had 3 more players contributing to double digits. The TDs had 25 from Matt Ryan and 6 other players scoring 7 or less, 4 of them scoring less than 5 points.
Austin Blahas (57.90) vs Downunder Redbeards (79.33) -- The Homer Blahas left their highest scoring homer on the bench, D. Hopkins and his 17.85 points, in favor of starting a Raider.. Instead they had to settle for 14 from the Bucs DEF for their top scorer this week (and only 1 more player in doubles). The soon to be married Redbeards had 4 players cross double digits, with Cam Newton on top with 15.33 points, which was all that they needed to polish off the Blahas.
LeVeon A Prayer (83.26) vs Vancouver Rough Riders (104.44) -- Newbie Prayers were brought crashing back to earth when they faced off against somewhat perennial power *cough* house Rough Riders. Peyton returned to merely superhuman this week to lead the Riders with 23.99 points. They got another 23.8 from Megatron to blow the game open and trounce the Prayers. DeSean Jackson lead the Prayers with 21.65, but LeSean McCoy on second hook with 14.35 was not nearly enough to keep pace with the Riders.
Coach of the Week
Can I give this to the inanimate carbon rod? The Brides stood pat with draft day, so I cant give it to them. Grudgingly the Rough Riders may get some consideration since they actually made some moves in their roster since they werent going to get a 7TD week from Peyton, but those moves accounted for little in the end.
Kotite of the Week
The Marinos bench outscored the starters.Thats a picture perfect Kotite right there. Coupled with it being a close game where one move out of a half dozen would have gotten you the win, you get the Kotite.
Honorable mention: The TDs. They were in another close game and had a bench that was less than 7 points behind the starters in a game lost by less than 4 points.
Honorable mention 2: The Blahas. Go homer or go home! Also, Raiders? Dont care if its against Jacksonville.
A Look Ahead
Rivalry week! The undefeated Chumps take on the undefeated cross state nemesis Devils, while out west sees the 2-0 hated Redbeards marching in on the equally hated 2-0 Vancouver Rougher Riders. Fun times.
Down in the cellar either the TDs or the Robots will break their schneid and get into the win column. The other will get into the wino column and drown their sorrows at a lost season before October dawns.
The Commishs Ink
No new comments about anything, so we presume everything is honky dory.
General Shit
Tough to tell if anyone is a zombie yet or are standing pat because its still early and there are no byes. Im looking at you Teen Brides.
Too many NFC east players on the Prayers, I think. More than 1 is too many incase youre wondering, they have 4 starters.
The NFC east stinks in case you were wondering.
Who knew the Bucs would be a bigger coaching mess than the Jets?
I do not think the Giants are the worst in the NFC east, but they sure as shit arent the best.
One comment between armchairs is not a harbinger of good things.
Oops, maybe Im wrong, Eli just committed another turnover.
Terrible week for coaches, 3 Kotites and 1 rod.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
Yeah, it's going to be a long season for the Outlaws, fortunately, 20+ years as an Arizona Cardinals fan has properly prepared me to deal with it.
I comment in IRC about the armchair.
But I expect the armchair to stay here.
Yeah, it's going to be a long season for the Outlaws, fortunately, 20+ years as an Arizona Cardinals fan has properly prepared me to deal with it.
I comment in IRC about the armchair.
You don't talk there, either.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
Most likely, few saw my earlier announcement: I have come to have an appreciation for sports. I would like to associate in this thread to learn, if those of you potent and presence are of a willing mind.
Also, fuck your mother. For old times' sake. Hey, remember when I went to the Mariners' no-hitter? Good times, good times.
Whoa, hang on, I just got a scan of someone's mom while re-reading that line. When did we start getting porn fed into our eyeballs?
*slowly reaches for keys*
"You've just defined what's rude for everyone, not just you. Thanks, I needed help with that." - Matt P
Oh, so there is, in fact, IRC. As I recall, IN FACT, the last time I was there, I said hello, everyone said goodbye, and the entire server vanished out from under me, and so, I could not connect.
I would presume that this is a salt mine deposit? So it would seem. Thank you for the intel, lwf.
Is there anything else I can do for you in return? You would look really nice in that turquoise sundress. Tell me how to tell it to you slow.
Wow. The mind bleeds. Some of you are really into this eyeball porn. I'll catch up and let you know when I'm done with the third blond. Or, at least, tired.
I am really getting tired of these /groan jokes, by the way. It isn't me holding it in!
"You've just defined what's rude for everyone, not just you. Thanks, I needed help with that." - Matt P
Commissioner disclosure.
I was picking up a player on IR to move to my RES spot. I had selected the Giants DST to drop since I couldn't add them to the RES right away, but it dropped the Seahawks. I did not intend to do this and don't know why it was done (seriously, who would drop the Seahawks DST for the Giants?). There is a small chance it was user error. I tried to re-add immediately, but it was added to the waiver wire. Therefore I used commissioner tools to add them back. If anyone has a issue with this, air your grievance now.
Speaking of the RES spot the player needs to be on IR or be suspended to use it. In the default drag and drop interface I could not get this to work. I switched to classic view and I was able to assign the RES spot via a drop down.
Suffice to say I find some of this website wonky.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
"Speaking of the RES spot the player needs to be on IR or be suspended to use it."
What about PUP?
"I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
Yes, that appears to be the case. link.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
The season is ruined.
Hey, I'm not interrupting here, I sincerely want to mention that I honestly do find this shit fascinating now. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss these things, because this shit reads like stereo instructions.
"You've just defined what's rude for everyone, not just you. Thanks, I needed help with that." - Matt P
Now with more poop!
"You've just defined what's rude for everyone, not just you. Thanks, I needed help with that." - Matt P
|Cheesy: I thought you swore never to get another GTA game?
Just when I thought I was out ... they pull me back in!
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
|So what's the verdict? Also have you played SR4?
It's far too early for a verdict, but all the signs point to it being a much, much better game than GTAIV. I haven't been on a single man date, there are continue points in story missions and if you fail a bit too much the game will let you skip past it. Those few things make the gamer quality of life much better than IV. Throw in the huge area of Los Santos / Blaine County and you have a pretty good open world. That said, I'm early and only messed around a bit and don't know if the activities and sandbox are all that yet, but there's a tank and fighter jets, so.
I have indeed played SR4. It's pretty great. The world is a carbon copy of SR3 but all of the superpowers make it feel like something new. I have a few qualms about it but nothing to keep anyone that enjoyed any of the previous ones from getting it.
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
The PCFFL Coach's Armchair Week 3
At 4:44 pm EDT we ushered out summer 2013 and welcomed in fall 2013. Roughly a scant 45 minutes prior the Giants saw their season flushed down the drain losing 38-0 to the Carolina Panthers. Its ignominious to be out of contention in this league before fall. I suppose what I am saying is that I the PCFFL is now my primary rooting interesting in football now. This is what it feels like to be a Cardinals/Browns/Lions fan, huh? It stinks! Anyway, enough of my tiny violin playing, on to the recaps.
Weekly Recap
Jersey Devils (46.3)vs. Cherry Hill Chumps (91.91) -- The battle of Jersey went out with a whimper as the Devils couldnt even muster up a defense worth of a pork roll. The Devils had only one player in double digits, the Seahawks DEF with 12 points, and left gimpy old Reggie Bush on the roster to score zero. The Chumps lucked out in starting Alex Smith over Eli Manning, despite their coach lamenting the fact on Friday, relatively speaking, as the QB play was not a highlight. Jimmey Graham lead the Chumps with 24.7 points, which was over half the Devils totals. Throw in four more players in doubles and you had an easy game.
Arizona Outlaws (82.44) vs. PA Marinos (41.50) -- The Outlaws almost doubled up the Marinos in this matchup. AZ had two players in the 20s, Wilson (25.75) and da Bears DEF (21.00) to knock out the Marinos. The pitiful Marinos had one player in double digits, Matt Stafford with 23.80 and 7 under 5 (the unaccounted starter he in the lineup had 7 points if you were wondering). It was a thoroughly lackluster of a game only saved (relatively speaking) by Wilson.
Utah Teen Brides (70.62) vs. Leet Doodz (45.27) -- The Bengals DEF, of all things, led the (zombie?) Teen Brides 4 double digit scorers with 18.00 points to their victory over the Leet Doodz. The Leet Doodz didnt do themselves any favors by setting up a roster that had more points on the bench than on the field. Only two players in double digits, with RG3 on top with 11.37, while 5 under 5 doomed the Doodz. The bench had 3 doubles mocking their coach.
SF CG Robots (101.29) vs. Arkansas TDs (69.02) -- The Robots left no doubt in anyones mind that they are the best of the worst and smacked down the TDs. Standout performances from Brees (35.89) and Antonio Brown (27.80) were almost all the Robots needed to win. The TDs had 3 players in double digits with Decker leading with 18.65, but 4 players scoring 5.40 or less hurt them in this game.
BC Adorable Kitties (25.80) vs. Austin Blahas (62.65) -- Homer Bowl! Too bad both of the homers suck, but the 49ers sucked more. Turning in a second terrible game, against the Colts at home nonetheless, the 49ers dragged the Kitties down with them. Featuring no players in double digits the Kitties were led by kicker Blair Walsh with 9, and in distant second was Jordy Nelson with 4.65. The Kittie bench, however, was stellar (in comparison at least) with 3 players in double digits and 52.96 points languishing on the bench. The Blahas had 3 players in double digits and DeMarc Murrays 22.15 almost single handedly beat the Kitties.
Taking One for the Team (79.18) vs. LeVeon A Prayer (75.58) -- The Gabes are going to go for the best record, and most heartburn, in close wins this year. The Gabes took a Westbrooking with Jamal Charles getting more all purpose yards than McCoy, but getting less points for having the audacity to catch some balls. Such is life in the PCFFL. The Gabes were led by Jordan Cameron with 21.30 points and two others in double digits. They had to sweat out a garbage time Denver DEF against Oakland, of all teams, but they held on enough to ensure the Gabes win. The Prayers had 3 players in double digits led by McCoy with 19.90, however had 3 under 5. On the Prayers bench were two players in the 20s that didnt help ease the sting of a close loss.
Downunder Redbeards (79.41) vs. Vancouver Rough Riders (101.45) -- The other marquee matchup of the weekend saw a much more competitive game as the hated not-a-Redbeards fell the the equally hated Rough Riders. The Rough Riders, top scoring team by 0.16 of a point, climbed back on P. Moneys back and rode that golden arm to 30.38 points. Add in a Raves DEF with 21 and another 3 in double digits and it was too much for the Redbeards Cam Newton (28.71 points). The Redbeards tried, but only one other player made it to double digits, there were too many coulda, shoulda, wouldas on the Oz team.
Coach of the Week
Of all the coaches that won this week, only one made a move that ensure their win. The Gabes moved James Jones over Eddie Royal whose +7.05 points were the difference in their game. The Gabes get the CotW.
Kotite of the Week
Its not just that they led the league in scoring this week, but that more than enough points were on the bench to help them win the game. This weeks Kotite goes to the Kitties, and the 49ers.
Dishonorable mention to the Leet Doodz with a bench that outscored their starters and plenty of orphaned points to pick up the win.
A Look Ahead
Show yourselves, zombies! Bye weeks start so well see who is paying attention to their teams. Green Bay and Carolina sit this week, so make sure you get your subs in.
The Commishs Ink
Id like to talk a little bit more about the snafu that happened this past week. If you scroll up a little bit you can catch up on the backstory. Since this was not the first time I noticed the NFL, either, not saving what I thought it would (like draft order), or acting differently than CBS enough to cause trouble Id think that others maybe seeing these issues, too. If anything similar happens to you that is team impacting, please raise them quickly so that it may be resolved. In order for something to not smell fishy, I would expect people to make a post (here, or on the NFL.com discussion area) not long after the error occurs. If it takes a few days to notice I feel that it may be too far long to not smell bad. What I am also saying is double check yourself, adds, drops, or trades, make sure they are executed correctly. Similarly with starting lineups since that RES spot was flaky for me too.
General Shit
I feel that the NFL should get outright get rid of kickoffs instead of this facade.
Are the 49ers going the way of the Jets and Rex Ryan? Maybe a stretch but there are some interesting parallels. Helps that the niners have the jerky Harbaugh.
Can we get a new call signal other than Omaha? Watch a Manning play and thats all that you hear.
I got ahead on this, but then GTA put me behind. I hope to at least get (any?) future armchairs out on Tuesdays.
Maybe a Thursday night game is what SF needs to right themselves, no time to dwell, move ahead to the next opponent.
You see, its not just the high scorers that get the CotW.
Speaking of, no shortage of Kotites this year.
I would like to close this edition by giving a heartfelt congratulations to the not-a-redbeards manager, m0nty, on his marriage! It was a short two years ago when he was out this way for Crappalooza enjoying his bachelorhood, and now he returns with a bride in tow (and no Crappers on the sked, as it should be). That should take some of the sting out of losing to the Rough Riders.
Gratz m0nty!
<Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
Sorry if I ruined your special day, m0nty.
Hooray Marquis Colston giving that THAT much more effort tonight!
Armchair: I win again. And the Chumps too.
I'm 3-2 with all three of my FFL teams. Weird.
Lwfchair: Another win for lwf!
I wonder if I could field a team of Peyton, players on IR, plus the Jags DST, and still go 16-0.
YawnChair: Week...4? 5?
Nothing exciting happened this week as the Steelers didn't get to play ( and lose). AGAIN.
w0rd up!
YawnChair: Week...5? 6?
Yay Steelers! Finally a win. Coach Black Guy exclaims we are really only 0-2 in the division at 1/2 time, give me a win!!! Keep up the good work Rothleshamburgler.
w0rd up!
Sure, Manning was on bye, but so was my starting QB and blew the number one guy in the league out of the water! Black Flag award mother bitches!
"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients
GG Matt.
Heavyweight clash between myself and Sudheer, McBain's friend, ending with Forte winning it for me in Q4 of MNF.
Need to back it up against Perkins though if I want to pinch top spot in Joker - the one true division.
Yeah, you got me by the numbers. Hoping my guys can over perform as they did last week!
"programmers talk from a very deep gnome cavern, full of gold mechanics" - wisdom from the ancients
Hooray Matt, you did it!
Yeah, I'm done.
So this is probably sour grapes, but I think 14 teams is too many with our structure, the waiver wire is a ghost town. I lost two running backs this week, I don't think I can start a first string running back next week. We probably should have cut a bench spot to keep the number of players taken similar.
I've been more invested in my work league lately, even though I'm not doing so hot there either. I really do think having an auction makes a big difference in how invested in your team you are; it's more personal when you've picked the players you want, versus whoever's fallen to you.
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Hollande's first three months: Has 'Mr Normal' won the austerity battle?
François Hollande has been France's president for a little under three months. He came to power vowing to fight the European trend for austerity. Laura Baines and her panel discuss whether Hollande has managed to turn the tide in Europe, or whether the French president is merely swimming against it as the eurozone crisis rumbles on.
- Gregory VISCUSI, Reporter, Bloomberg News;
- Denis DEMONPION, Editor-in-Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur Magazine;
- Pierre ROUSSELIN, Senior Editor on foreign affairs issues, Le Figaro;
- John GAFFNEY, Professor of Politics, Co-Director, Centre for Europe Aston University and author of "The French Left and the Fifth Republic".
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Five friends from Doncaster spent their Sunday on a gruelling climb, conquering Ben Nevis and making a mountain of cash for two charities.
Chip shop owner Martin Bilby and former soldier Paul Bristow aim to raise as much as they can for war veteran Ben Parkinson's charity Pilgrim Bandits, and for the Nichola Hughes Memorial Fund to help children who have lost a family member through violent crime.
The two pals were joined in the bid by Shaun Hayes, Paul Holmes and Mark Brierley.
Bessacarr hero Ben Parkinson and Bryn Hughes, the father of murdered policewoman Nichola, met the men at the Stag Inn to see them off on their journey.
The men started their climb at 6am and battled wet and windy, and very cold weather to complete their challenge.
Martin, 45, owner of Scawsby Fisheries, said: "It was a tough one, no doubt about it, but when it got hard we just thought of what we were doing it for, to spur us on."
Further endurance events are planned for this summer in the hope of raising £10,000 in total for Pilgrim Bandits.
The mood was merry at the Stag Inn as regulars joined family and friends of the climbers on Saturday.
Three of the men returned home on Sunday night. But Paul Bristow and Paul Holmes cycled back, and tomorrow, Paul Bristow will attempt a 500 ft abseil, then swim a mile at Adwick Baths early next week, before a parachute jump on August 20 and a half marathon on August 24. Martin plans a man versus food challenge at his chippy.
Both Ben and Bryn thanked them for their ongoing support.
Ben has recently undergone another operation on one of his legs, but looked fit and relaxed as he smiled and joked with the fundraisers.
Mr Hughes said: "It's great that people like this are supporting our charity. So far we've raised£250,000 to help stricken children. There have been a number of police efforts and we have new events planned." such as a Lands End to John o' Groats baton relay."
To help amass the cash log on to the justgiving website and the link for Pilgrim Bandits then Paul Bristow or call in at The Stag in Dockin Hill Road.


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It's not every day you run into a national championship-winning football coach. Jack Harbaugh and his wife, Jackie, are on WKU's campus Friday ahead of Saturday night's game against Southern Miss. The two will be honored before the game in an on-the-field ceremony.
Coach Harbaugh led the WKU football team from 1989-2002, winning the 1-AA national championship in his final season.
He spoke to WKU Public Radio today about how far the football program has come since he was here. When asked if he ever thought WKU would beat an SEC opponent like it did last weekend against Kentucky, Harbaugh was blunt.
"To be honest with you, no," he said. "The times when we were here, it was just trying to keep your head above water, so to speak. We didn't have much time to think ahead and be visionary, I guess."
WKU will honor the 2002 national championship team and the 1992 team at halftime of Saturday's game.
Check out our audio link above to hear Coach Harbaugh tell WKU Public Radio about what it's like to be back on the Hill, the impact of the win against Kentucky, and how he thinks that game is more important even than the 2002 national championship victory against McNeese State.


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MILFORD – The School Board wants to up the ante in a bond referendum they want the supervisors to set for school facilities.
The School Board initially went to the supervisors with a request to set a $25 bond referendum to pay for two projects for Caroline High School and Madison Elementary School.
At the panel's regular meeting May 13, the School Board endorsed a recommendation of its capital improvements committee, which met earlier in the month to consider building needs to keep pace with growing student enrollment at the elementary school level.
The committee considered two options – expanding Madison Elementary School or building a new elementary school. It recommended the latter, converting the school system's Diversified Learning Center in Ladysmith (formerly Ladysmith Elementary School) into a two-story elementary school. The committee's recommendation was unanimous.
The new elementary school could cost an estimated $18 million. The panel recommended this option because it is more cost effective and will accommodate more students. The option is more cost effective largely because the school division already owns the land, it is served by utilities, and a portion of the building could be salvaged in the conversion process.
Of the School Board's previous request of $25 million, $21 would pay for extensive renovations and additions to the high school, and $4 million would pay for modifications and improvements to Madison Elementary School.
The committee, made up of school officials, parents, and citizens, urged the School Board to ask the supervisors to set a bond referendum for $40 million. Its report was presented to the School Board by Herbert Tate.
The School Board voted unanimously to add the third project and to seek slightly more, $41 million.
At the suggestion of board member Mary Anderson, the panel split its request into two pieces – the $25 million it originally sought for the high school and Madison Elementary School, and an additional $16 million for a new elementary school. Structuring it that way gives the Board of Supervisors – and ultimately the voters – the option of approving either request, both, or none.
Anderson expressed fear that if the three projects were combined in one request, voters may balk at the entire package, and the school division would lose out on the two projects that are the highest priority – the high school and Madison Elementary school.
Fellow board member George Spaulding initially disagreed. "These things…are not extra," he said, referring to the need for another elementary school.
"I really think that it's time for the county to step up to the plate and plan for the future," said board member Mack Wright Jr.
"The growth is here," added Wright. "You have to face it."
Superintendent Greg Killough noted that enrollment is increasing because of Caroline's growing population, not because of growth in new home construction. The school division will need another elementary school in three to five years, he predicted. (Caroline's enrollment was at 4,222 in the fall of 2012 and is projected to reach 4,529 by 2016 and 4,846 by 2022.) Killough also noted that deferring action on needs for facilities will result in higher building costs in the future.
"People have got to wise up pretty soon," said Spaulding, and recognize the school division's growing enrollment and need for facilities and adequate funding. The School Board is constantly in a position of "begging, begging to try to keep our school system afloat," he said.
"We don't want to be second class our whole life," added Spaulding.
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Vecoy Nanomedicines has a whole new approach: a virus 'decoy' to outwit the world's worst enemy before it does any damage.
'"Viruses are one of the biggest threats to humankind," Israeli biologist Erez Livneh, CEO and founder of a new biotech company Vecoy Nanomedicines tells ISRAEL21c.
"A viral pandemic could be more damaging than global warming or the Iranian nuclear program."
Vecoy offers a cunning new way to disarm viruses by luring them to attack microscopic, cell-like decoys. Once inside these traps, the viruses effectively commit suicide.
"Viruses are one of the most polymorphic and resilient organisms out there," says Livneh. "They are rapidly changing, and can change anything in their genome, either by changing their exterior so our immune system wouldn't recognize them or by changing their enzymes so that the handful of drugs we have won't affect them anymore."
Yet all viruses, he notes, have one unchangeable Achilles heel: their cell host recognition site. Vecoy uses nanotechnology to give the virus two choices: either latch on to the Vecoy host trap or mutate in such a way that it cannot penetrate real host cells. In both scenarios, the end result is bad news for the virus.
While it takes years to come up with new drugs, Vecoy's virus traps could be tailored to address emerging new viral outbreaks quickly and efficiently, even in the event of a bioterror assault. If a government sees a threat coming from an enemy nation or a potential pandemic blowing its way, Vecoy's solution could potentially inoculate populations before peril arrives.'


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The Rolling Stones Play Another Warm-Up Show
The Rolling Stones Theatre played their second warm-up show on Monday night. This time The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band performed at Paris' Mogador Theatre, not far from where the group has been rehearsing for four 50th anniversary shows. The performance was invite-only for Paris-based investment company, Carmignac Gestion. The gig was rumored to happen before the group played their first warm-up gig at Paris, France's Le Trabendo.
Monday night's show featured a similar setlist to Thursday's stealth gig. Both shows featured the new Stones song "Doom and Gloom" as well as hits like "It's Only Rock n' Roll," "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Brown Sugar." On Monday, the Stones' busted out "All Down the Line," "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Start Me Up" and "Honky Tonk Women." The Stones are expected to play at least one more warm-up show before November.
Here's a look at Monday's setlist via Setlist.Fm
Monday, October 29, Mogador Theatre, Paris, France
It's Only Rock n' Roll
All Down The Line
You Got Me Rocking
Tumbling Dice
Miss You
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Doom And Gloom
Midnight Rambler
Start Me Up
Honky Tonk Women
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Just sayin'... the guy looks like such a crook; I always wondered how he could get supporters.
They're also (as a general populace) more lonely, less educated, more dependent on repairmen to do tasks for them, and more financially well-off than their younger counterparts.
They're basically the perfect soup for travelers, gypsy trash, and other assorted con-artist-pieces-of-shit to take advantage of. Makes me want to go back to the days when a tall tree and short noose waited for that filth when they got caught. There is very little in this world lower than someone willing to take advantage of the elderly.
That's some primo racism in there buddy. Here's a hint: If you replace the word "gypsy" by "jew" or "black" or "muslim" and something would appear racist, then it's racist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiziganism [wikipedia.org]
But of course you'll claim you're not a racist, and travelers are really like that, because you know someone who heard something that happened this one time, right?
Gypsy isn't a race, and con-man sure as hell isn't. But if you want to call me bigoted against people who take advantage of the weak and feeble-minded with scams and cons, then you are certainly correct on that point.
Have you heard about a thing called "romanipen"? It's essentially "gadjas are not human, you should never steal from or cheat someone following romanipen but everyone else should be distrusted, and being not humans, crimes against them are not a bad thing".
Things are so bad that in Slovakia you have 80% unemployment among Romas (ethnicity not romanipen wise) while the general population has 7%. This is way more than could be explained by antiziganism, especially that legally no one can discriminate agains
I'm right on the cusp of the baby boomer gen (on the younger side), I'm turning 50 in 4 months, so I'm just entering into this era of my life. I have to say that either I'm not in the norm OR I being an IT professional has helped OR I'm just a jaded old fart because I've certainly grown much more cynical of other people and institutions, not less.
I have to wonder (as with all of these things) if it's correlation or causation.
Do these structures in older people decline
All brain functions are in decline throughout most of our lives, I doubt any one specific area has much more of an impact than any other. Judgement, trust, memory, reasoning, caution, etc.
Up to a certain point, sheer experience helps prevent older folks from being scammed, but somewhere there's going to be a tipping point in most people's cognitive skills in general that make them an easier mark. A headline like "Elderly found to be easier to scam!" just gets "no kidding!" from me.
I'd also wager the average 85 yr old is easier to coax into a stranger's car than the average 5 yr old.
I'm sure I'll get a reply from one or two telling me their Aunt Gracie was sharp as a whip till the day she died at 90, and you'll run into that from time to time, but those people are by far the exception to the rule.
All brain functions are in decline throughout most of our lives, I doubt any one specific area has much more of an impact than any other. Judgement, trust, memory, reasoning, caution, etc.
You have to live for an awful long time to make up for it, or in a very unusual culture, where teens and twenty-somethings are the pinnacle of judgement, caution, and reasoning. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of it at the time, but compared to way back then, I've slowly improved to something like wise old Gandalf now.
I don't think any of that peaks until probably 50s or so. Maybe early 60s. Its an exercisable facility, 40 adult years of watching TV is not going to improve that individual, but on
I've successfully developed my brain to the point where I don't trust anyone.
I've successfully developed my brain to the point where I don't trust anyone.
I don't believe you.
As we all know, the human cerebral cortex is heavily wrinkled, allowing a very large sheet of neural network to fit inside the skull.
During the aging process, the wrinkles gradually diffuse through the skull, collecting on the skin surface, and leaving the cerebral cortex much less efficiently packed. This, obviously, is why old people are wrinkly and suffer cognitive decline. What theory could be simpler or more parsimonious?
Wrinkles, like hair, are a conserved quantity.
Everybody knows that as you get older, hair travels from the top of your head and starts coming out of your nose and ears.
In much the same way, wrinkles travel out of your brain and collect on your face and neck. By the time you reach your 80s, your face looks like something out of a movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel, but that brain inside is smooth as a baby's bottom.
Called the anterior insula, this structure — which fires up in response to the face of an unsavory character
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief. The inverse holds true as well.
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits, rather than black guys in hoodies.
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief. The inverse holds true as well.
But its still statistically correct enough to be a survival advantage.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I'm guessing its something like: If as a youth you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" either you're lost at the wrong campfire or its wartime or whatever so be worried. As an old dude you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" that's because all your ancestors/family are dead and these weirdos are your in-laws, so chill and play nice with them.
Old people
Old people having stuff worth stealing is a recent phenomena.
No, the longer you're here the more time you have to collect stuff.
"Signs of untrustworthiness include averted eyes; an insincere smile that doesn't reach the eyes; a smug, smirky mouth; and a backward tilt to the head."
It's not about some new age, face based phrenology; it's about reading body language and facial expressions. Especially the involuntary micro-expressions that we all make every minute of every day but that are too subtle to be consciously detected by most people. A "smile that doesn't reach the eyes" isn't something you're going to see and say to yourself
That's outdated. It's perfectly possible to train smiling with your eyes. That's the whole point of being a sociopath, no connection to any actual emotional state or bond with the other required.
No, what this describes is the average (if not cocky) amateur doing something fishy, it's how you catch a dumb person in an unprepared lie. But that's about it.
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief.
Enough about McAfee already.
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits, rather than black guys in hoodies.
As in several orders of magnitude more. A mugger might want my pocket change once but the government takes a third of my income before I even see it, then comes back to demand extra fees on everything I buy.
I was watching The Queen of Versailles the other night (a pretty amazing documentary) and in one scene the tycoon is bragging on the phone that he defaulted on a $9M loan, then secretly sent a third party to the bank to buy back the assets on auction for $3M. Just like that, he stole $6M with a few phone calls, probably completely legally. More welfare than a dozen inner-city welfare moms could get in a lifetime. No retribution, even after everybody knows. The
And you get nothing in return! Poor baby.
Did I say that?
I get plenty in return much of it worth paying for. However the government is paying people who choose not to work, overpaying its own under performing staff, and underpaying the hard workers I really do respect.
And don't try and tell me that voting changes anything because you can't vote out the civil service.
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief.....
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits....
Yes, white guys in suits look like crooks. But why are you contradicting your own statements?!
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.
Agreed, but what person do you see others shy away from on the street more readily - a guy in a nice suit, or that shaggy dude wearing 6 coats and mean-mugging everyone?
Sure, people tend to be noobs that way. I actually think assuming bad character when dealing with dirty and/or poor people is projection to no little degree: if someone is starving through no fault of their own, and I'm well fed through no merit of my own, I better make up a story real quick in which I'm not the asshole; the rest follows from there. Just like we love to believe that we're somehow a winner when being taken advantage of by someone with a big bullshit smile. That can also go the other way, too
being PC is ruining peoples' comprehension of simple things.
"shady looking" is less about physical looks and more about behaviour and mannerisms (failure to maintain eye contact, inability to keep still, hem/haws before answering a straight question, etc.), though being unkempt or bleary eyed are also indicators of someone "not at their best".
This might also explain why so many of them watch Fox News and buy stupid things on TV. In fact, the association between right wing causes and commercial scams is well known [thebaffler.com].
Without picking on any network in particular, according to Nielson one network has an average viewer age over 65. Surprisingly, the competing networks are not wildly younger wrt age demos.
Not the source but a nice overview of the demographics:
http://www.quora.com/Fox-News-cable-news-network/What-are-the-demographics-of-Fox-News-viewers [quora.com]
Could certainly be considered trollish, I know. But it's an interesting hypothesis nonetheless.
No need to ask Nielson, I caught a few minutes of that network waiting for a doctor, all commercials were for gold, seniors insurance, medicines and mobility scooters.
You are absolutely right. Old people are in general desperately lonely, and they often suppress `warning messages' for the company when being conned by a smart personable young person (or a cheerful voice at the end of the phone line).
The problem is really social isolation.
The father of one of my closest friends (in his 80s) was conned into investing close to $250,000.00 into a real estate venture in Latin America. He is not someone who comes across as a doddering old man. He is still alert, reasonably physically fit (for his age) and shows no signs of dementia. He had a successful career in business and survived all the vicious corporate politics of the huge corporation that he worked for, and retired with a healthy retirement account.
But pretty much everyone he knows is either dead or lives too far away for regular contact. His children live across the country and his spouse is no more. He has almost no living friends. Pretty much everyone whom he knew before he was 30 have passed on. The elderly do not make new friends very easily with their own age group. He goes for weeks without talking to a single soul (think of the guy from the movie `Up', that scenario is quite accurate). He is isolated, lonely, disenfranchised and desperate to feel relevant to society.
He was ripe for the picking by the smart young woman who knocked on his door in a business suit, heels and with a briefcase full of glossy brochures.
Beany Babies? Oh yes, those little stuffed animals that some adults were spending upwards of thousands of dollars on to get a "rare" Beany Baby... These days I can't go to a garage sale where some sucker.... I mean individual isn't trying to pawn them off as if they were actually worth more than 99 cents a piece.
I wonder if this is correlated or even causality related to older people having a much-reduced circle of close friends?
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March 1, 2007Nonbargaining unit employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration may become the latest test group to work under a new pay-for-performance system proposed by the Office of Personnel Management.
The proposal, published in the Federal Register earlier this week, aims to compress the 15 pay grades under the General Schedule system into multigrade paybands. The process would eliminate the fixed steps that give automatic pay raises to employees, and would make annual pay adjustments performance-sensitive.
More than 2,000 employees could participate in the project. It will affect employees in every major headquarters and field organization of NNSA, which is a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department.
The small group of employees in NNSA's only bargaining unit will be an exception. But according to the National Treasury Employees Union, NNSA has succeeded in removing some positions from the bargaining unit over the past few months.
"We are concerned that DoE will use this as a foothold to expand the project to include bargaining unit employees, or to obtain broader authority to depart from the General Schedule," said NTEU President Colleen Kelley. By law, OPM is authorized to conduct demonstration projects that experiment with different human resources management concepts to determine if changes in policy would result in better governmentwide management.
OPM hopes the proposal will improve hiring practices by allowing NNSA to compete more effectively for high-quality employees by offering higher salaries, the notice stated. The project also is designed to motivate and retain staff by providing faster pay progression for high-performing employees and eliminating automatic pay increases so only "fully successful" employees will receive pay adjustments.
The project may be modeled in part after the controversial National Security Personnel System being developed by the Defense Department. "To ensure expeditious and effective project implementation and completion . . . NNSA will review the successes, mistakes and lessons from the experiences of other agency demonstration projects, notably the current [Defense] laboratory projects, [including the] new National Security Personnel System," the notice stated. But modeling after the controversial Defense system may prove difficult. Congress granted the department authority in 2004 to create the human resources system, based on the notion that the current system was too rigid and outdated to allow Defense to respond with agility to modern threats of terrorism.
Pentagon officials have said they have congressional authority to override collective bargaining agreements after they are reached and the ability to narrow the items over which employees can bargain. But a coalition of federal labor unions sued the department, arguing the rules effectively eliminated collective bargaining.
The Pentagon lost in a lower court in February 2006 but later appealed the ruling, arguing that Congress gave Defense officials authority to make far-reaching changes to collective bargaining. That case has yet to be decided.
A similar court case brought by NTEU and other labor unions against a Homeland Security Department personnel system concluded in June 2006, when a panel of judges said the proposed labor relations portion of the system gave too much power to department managers and did not provide adequate collective bargaining rights for employees.
American Federation of Government Employees President John Gage and NTEU's Kelley said after the launch of the DHS system in 2004 that they were pleased the department had pledged to move slowly on the project, with only 7,000 to 8,000 employees affected in the first year.
But NTEU may not be as gracious this time around. "NTEU will carefully examine this proposal and plans to submit comments," Kelley said. "NTEU has yet to see a paybanding or pay-for-performance program in the federal government that is superior to the General Schedule in that it is fair, credible, transparent and appropriately funded."
Written comments on the proposal must be submitted by March 30, and can be sent by e-mail to email@example.com. A public hearing on the demonstration is scheduled for April 4 at the Energy Department headquarters.
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[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Susanna Fraser] Total history geek. Love books, cooking, singing (alto), baseball (Mariners), football (Auburn), Nathan Fillion, and the Duke of Wellington.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about An Infamous Marriage?
[Susanna Fraser] Gladly! It's the story of a couple who on the surface seem terribly ill-suited–a plain young woman who's barely traveled 50 miles from her birthplace in her 25 years of life and a dashing, handsome womanizer of an army officer who loves his varied, world-roving profession. And yet they get married the week they meet, because she's his best friend's impoverished widow, desperately in need of a home, while he's equally in need of a caretaker for his ailing mother during his long absences serving king and country. Then, when he comes home in 1815 after a 5-year separation, they have to figure out how to make the best of each other.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Susanna Fraser] As we all know from multiple real-life examples, powerful men often make horrible husbands. Specifically, Regency England's greatest military and naval figures, Wellington and Nelson, both made their wives miserable. Despite how much I admire the gentlemen, I can't help but pity Lady Nelson and the Duchess of Wellington. So I decided to take the vicarious revenge of creating a high-ranking officer–Jack starts the story as a lieutenant-colonel and ends as a major-general–marrying him to an outwardly meek and plain woman, and making him discover her hidden depths.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Elizabeth?
[Susanna Fraser] Loyal, persistent, and strong. Though, note that "persistent" can also mean "stubborn," while "strong" can become "unyielding."
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If Jack had a theme song, what would it be?
[Susanna Fraser] "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?
[Susanna Fraser] I think "inspirations" is a better word than "influences," but Jane Austen, Dorothy Sayers, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jacqueline Carey, Bernard Cornwell, and Patrick O'Brian. And in other media, Joss Whedon–though sometimes he drives me crazy with the most gratuitous character deaths this side of George RR Martin–and Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra fame.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Susanna Fraser] A whiteboard, a notebook, and a computer.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Susanna Fraser] I've read a lot of good books this year, but one that especially stands out is Catching Jordan, by Miranda Kenneally. It's a YA romance about a girl who happens to be the best high school quarterback in Tennessee, and it perfectly captures the football culture I grew up in. Seattle is my home now, and I'm a happy Pacific Northwest city girl, but I was born and raised in Alabama, and my inner Southerner shows up more during football season than any other time.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Susanna Fraser] King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry. I was a horse-crazy child, and my edition of the book had the most beautiful illustrations.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Susanna Fraser] Cook, sing, go to Mariners games, and spend my fall Saturdays watching SEC football. (War Eagle!) Though the way Auburn is playing this year, I haven't had the heart to tune in as much as normal.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
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Northumberland, 1815
At long last, Britain is at peace, and General Jack Armstrong is coming home to the wife he barely knows. Wed for mutual convenience, their union unconsummated, the couple has exchanged only cold, dutiful letters. With no more wars to fight, Jack is ready to attempt a peace treaty of his own.
Elizabeth Armstrong is on the warpath. She never expected fidelity from the husband she knew for only a week, but his scandalous exploits have made her the object of pity for years. Now that he's back, she has no intention of sharing her bed with him—or providing him with an heir—unless he can earn her forgiveness. No matter what feelings he ignites within her…
Jack is not expecting a spirited, confident woman in place of the meek girl he left behind. As his desire intensifies, he wants much more than a marriage in name only. But winning his wife's love may be the greatest battle he's faced yet.
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The second-ranked Louisville Cardinals close out a three-game homestand to begin the 2012-13 season when they welcome the Miami-Ohio RedHawks to the KFC Yum! Center on Sunday.
Rick Pitino's Cardinals are viewed as a real national title contender this season and with good reason. Louisville returns the core of a team that made it to the Final Four a year ago. The Cardinals have certainly looked the part of a national power in the first two games of the season, making light work of both Manhattan (79-51) and most recently, Samford (80-54).
John Cooper is in his first season at the helm at Miami-Ohio and the team has begun his tenure with a road loss at nationally-ranked NC State (97-59), followed by a home win against Grambling State (80-54).
This marks the fourth meeting all-time between these two teams. Louisville has won all three prior matchups, including a hard-fought defensive battle (47-44) in the last meeting in 2007.
The RedHawks were simply out-manned at NC State, but turned things around at home against Grambling State last time out. The team did so with superior defense, setting a program record with 22 steals, while 32 total turnovers. Reggie Johnson led the way at the offensive end, coming off the bench to pour in 20 points in 26 minutes of work. Will Felder, Jon Harris and Allen Roberts added 12 points apiece, while Bill Edwards chipped in 11.
The numbers are a little out of whack for Miami after two games, as the team has experienced both sides of a blowout. Currently, the team is averaging 69.5 ppg, while giving up 75.5. It may take some time before those number settle out, although it doesn't look good staring down the barrel of Louisville's impressive arsenal.
Louisville has a trio of players that can be found on the John R. Wooden Award watchlist to begin the season in Peyton Siva, Gorgui Dieng and Chane Behanan. However, it is Russ Smith who has been the most impressive Cardinal in the early going, scoring 23 points in the opener against Manhattan and following that up with a team-high 18 against Samford. Behanan is netting 10.0 ppg thus far, while grabbing a team-high 13.5 rpg, powered by his 18-rebound effort against Samford. Dieng (9.5 ppg, 8.0 rpg) is a force inside as well. Siva hasn't filled up the basket yet (8.5 ppg), but is absolutely the orchestrator of the Louisville symphony, doling out 17 assists over the first two games. Usually two games are not a fair barometer of a team, but Louisville has excelled defensively, limiting its first two foes to just 52.5 ppg on a mere .375 shooting. In addition, Louisville holds a +10.5 rebounding margin and has already forced 48 turnovers.


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As we've been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we've come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.
Valve goes beyond just building a Linux distribution and grafting Steam on top of it. They are actually working very closely with hardware manufacturers and game developers, which has already resulted in graphics performance improvements. They are also working on reducing input latency as well as audio performance. In other words, they are very serious about upending Windows as the default PC gaming operating system.
In SteamOS, we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we're now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level. Game developers are already taking advantage of these gains as they target SteamOS for their new releases.
Valve also unveiled that it's working with the major game developers so that triple-A titles will be natively available on SteamOS. As for your existing Windows games - SteamOS will support game streaming from your existing PC so you can play them on your SteamOS machine in the living room (or anywhere else, of course). 'Hundreds of great games' are already available natively on Linux through Steam, too.
This is just the first in a series of three announcements, and it stands to reason that the second one will be a dedicated SteamOS machine from Valve. The third announcement? Well. It's got a three in it, so Half-Life 3 is pretty much confirmed.
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I am not talking about my own failures. I am talking about the Linux design; unstable APIs. Whenever Torvalds change something, you need to recompile all drivers. Frequently there will be problems after upgrading the kernel. Have you missed all the complaints on this?
How sane is it to have one driver tied to a kernel version? Kernel v3.1.23 runs this driver, and v3.1.31 runs another version, etc. Linux driver model is broken.
If you talk about LTS long cycle distros, they are not better. You want to install a software, which requires new version of a library. So you need to upgrade library too. And then other software breaks, so you need to upgrade them too, etc. It starts a chain reaction where you have upgraded everything, so you are not on LTS long cycle distro anymore.
How can this broken Linux driver design, be "my own failures"? No other OS has unstable APIs, maybe for a reason. My old WinXP drivers, still function fine on all WinXP upgrades, ServicePack1, SP2, etc.
Imagine the situation where Crysis is running fine on WinXP, but if you use a upgraded WinXP kernel with SP1 you need to patch Crysis. And patch yet again for SP2. etc. Is this sane? Is this the "failure of the Windows user", or is it a broken design? If Windows functioned like this Windows would be so bad mouthed by every nerd. But when Linux functions exactly like this - it is the "user's fault". Dont you see the problem? You dont acknowledge there is a problem in Linux driver model? No other OS functions like Linux, for a reason.


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Some that you listed aren't even first rounders but third and second rounders. By that logic, Tannenbaums recent bombs include Gholston, Sanchez, Wilson, Ducasse, Greene and he didn't hit on any other picks because he was too busy trading them away. Hell, half our 2012 draft was cut.
His draft resume is fine.


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Vienna & Naples Inc., a Venice company managed by Ursula Kohl, paid just $787,500 for a 2,376-square-foot house at 8040 Manasota Key Road in Manasota Key.
The previous owner - Robert Tscheschlog - paid $2.9 million in September 2006.
In March of last year, he lost a $2.29 million foreclosure judgment and ceded the house to the Bank of New York.
Vienna & Naples, which is also managed by Austrian resident Peter Bartos and Venice resident Erik R Lieberman, has spent more than $4 million since the start of the Great Recession to purchase seven properties in Sarasota County.


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A new species of Waoraniella (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Lachesillidae: Eolachesillinae) from the Reserva Florestal Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil
Una nueva especie de Waoraniella (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Lachesillidae: Eolachesillinae) de la Reserva Forestal Ducke, Amazonas, Brasil
Alfonso N. GARCÍA ALDRETE1 y Edward L. MOCKFORD2
1 Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70153,04510 México, D. F., MÉXICO Email: email@example.com
2 Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4120, Normal, Illinois, 617904120, USA. Email: email@example.com]]>
Recibido: 15/06/2010
Aceptado: 22/09/2010
Waoraniella vidali n. sp., the second species in the genus, is described and illustrated on the basis of a male from Amazonas, Brazil. The hypandrium and clunium are autapomorphic for the family. The phallosome is similar to that of Eolachesilla, and the character state "Forewing RsM joined by a crossvein" is found to appear in three genera of the subfamily Lachesillinae. Thus Waoraniella and Eolachesilla are close, and the genera of Graphocaeciliini stand apart in the subfamily.
Key words: Taxonomy, Amazonia, neotropics, Waoraniellini.
Se describe aquí Waoraniella vidali n. sp., la segunda especie en el género, con base en un macho colectado en Amazonas, Brasil. El hipandrio y el clunio son autapomórficos para la familia, mientras que el falosoma es similar al de Eolachesilla; el estado de carácter "Venas RsM del ala anterior unidas por una vena transversal", se encuentra en tres géneros de la subfamilia Lachesillinae. Waoraniella y Eolachesilla son cercanas, y los géneros de la tribu Graphocaeciliini constituyen un grupo aparte en la subfamilia.]]> Palabras clave. Taxonomía, Amazonia, neotrópico, Waoraniellini.
The genus Waoraniella García Aldrete, is known from two females collected in the Waorani Ethnic Reserve, in Napo, Ecuador (0°30' 10''S: 76°26'00''W); they constitute the type series of W. erwini (Lachesillidae: Eolachesillinae: Waoraniellini) (García Aldrete 2006).
One single male, belonging in the subfamily Eolachesillinae (cf. Key to subfamilies of Lachesillidae, in García Aldrete 2006), was found in the Collection of Invertebrates of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, made available for study by Dr. José Albertino Rafael, researcher of that institution. This specimen was assigned to Waoraniella García Aldrete because it falls within the diagnoses of the tribe Waoraniellini and of the genus (e. g., with ocelli; epistomal sulcus developed only laterally, not present dorsally; lacinia bicuspid, with outer cusp bidentate; tarsi two segmented; Rs stem in forewing flexuous; RsM in forewing joined by a crossvein; fore and hindwing membranes with abundant microtrichia; veins in basal half of forewing [except Cu2] with two rows of setae; areola postica small; pterostigma much broader posteriorly).
The character state "Forewing RsM joined by a crossvein" has appeared three other times in the family, in the Lachesillinae genera Hemicaecilius, Lachesilla and Nadleria. The specimen here dealt with can not, for obvious reasons, be assigned to any of those genera. This specimen is of considerable interest, as it provides information on the male sex of the genus, and because it was collected some 1900 km E of the type locality of W. erwini.
The specimen above is here described and illustrated as a new species, at the risk of creating a synonym with W. erwini, minimized, we believe, by the distance between the two collecting localities, and because the areola postica in the Brazilian specimen is distinctly higher and narrower than in the Ecuadorian specimens.
One male specimen was available for study; color was recorded by placing it in 80% ethyl alcohol, under a dissecting microscope, illuminated with white cold light at 80X. The specimen was dissected in 80% ethyl alcohol and its parts (head, right legs and wings, and genitalia) were mounted on a slide in Canada Balsam. Illustrations were made with a drawing tube, and measurements were taken with a filar micrometer and are stated in µm. Abbreviations of body parts measured are as follows: FW and HW: lengths of right fore and hind wings, F, T, t1, and t2: lengths of femur, tibia, and tarsomeres 1 and 2 of right hind leg, ctt1: number of ctenidia on t1 of right hind leg, fl...fh: lengths of flagellomeres l...n of right antenna, IO, D and d: minimum distance between compound eyes, anteroposterior diameter, and transverse diameter of right compound eye respectively, in front view of head, PO: d/D. The male holotype will be deposited in the Collection of Invertebrates, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amâzonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.]]> Family Lachesillidae
Subfamily Eolachesillinae
Tribe Waoraniellini
Waoraniella vidali n. sp.().
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Color. Ground color orange brown. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Wings with a dark orange hue. Abdomen with brown, transverse subcuticular rings, less pigmented ventrally.
Morphology. As in generic diagnosis (García Aldrete, 2006), plus the following: Five distal labral sensilla, in line, a central placoid, flanked by two trichoids. Pretarsal claw with a small preapical denticle, pulvillus broad. Wings (Fig. 1) as in generic diagnosis (cf. Introduction above and García Aldrete 2006). Hypandrium (Fig. 3) broad, setose, with a posterior truncate projection in the middle. Clunium (Fig. 5) projected posteriorly over the area of the epiproct to form a strongly sclerotized, almost rectangular extension, with the posterior edge straight, with small indentations. Phallosome (Fig. 4) closed anteriorly, with border rounded; aedeagal arch narrowing posteriorly; external parameres broad, blunt ended, with a row of pores on outer edge posteriorly; endophallus with nine small, elongate, spindle shaped sclerites. Epiproct (Fig. 2) broad, rounded posteriorly, with pigmented area deeply concave anteriorly, setae as illustrated. Paraprocts lost in preparation.
Measurements. FW: 1477, HW: 1129, F: 362, T: 614, t1: 212, t2: 88, ctt1: 13, f1: 193, f2: 159, IO: 289, D: 170, d: 78, IO/d: 3.7, PO: 0.45.]]> Type locality. Brazil. Amazonas. Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke (03°08'S: 60°02'W), 26 km NE Manaus, Rodovia AM 010. IX.2004. Malaise trap, Mata. Joao F. Vidal. Holotype .
Etymology. This species is dedicated to Joao F. Vidal, for many years technician of the Collection of Invertebrates of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), in recognition to his expertise and enthusiasm as insect collector of that Institution.
The description of W. vidali broadens the diagnosis of the genus (García Aldrete 2006) with the following male characters: Hypandrium with a truncate posterior projection in the middle. Clunium with a posterior rectangular projection over the area of the epiproct, the posterior edge of which presents small indentations. Phallosome closed anteriorly, external parameres broad, endophallus with small, spindle shaped sclerites.
The hypandrium and clunium of Waoraniella are autapomorphic, and the phallosome bears more resemblance to the phallosome of Eolachesilla (Eolachesillini), than to the phallosomes in the genera of Graphocaeciliini. In Waoraniella and Eolachesilla the phallosome is closed anteriorly, rounded; the external parameres are broad, distally blunt, and the endophallic sclerites are small, whereas in the genera of Graphocaeciliini, the phallosome is also closed anteriorly, but it is straight or extended anteriorly in the middle, the external parameres are often distally pointed, and the endophallus is compact, radulalike, or with large sclerites.
Considering the above, Waoraniella and Eolachesilla are close, and the genera of Graphocaeciliini (Graphocaecilius, Anomopsocus, Antilachesilla, Prolachesilla, Nanolachesilla, Tricholachesilla, Mesolachesilla, and Notolachesilla) stand apart in the subfamily. Presence of the character state "Forewing RsM joined by a crossvein" in the Lachesillinae genera Hemicaecilius, Lachesilla and Nadleria constitutes an independent event.
One of us (ELM), has found a female Waoraniella, that represents a species different from W. erwini, from Indiana, Peru, down river from Iquitos, in the area where the Napo and the Amazon rivers come together; this maintains Waoraniella as an endemic Amazonian genus.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]]> We are grateful to José Albertino Rafael (INPA, Manaus), for the loan of specimens of Psocoptera in the Collection of Invertebrates. We also thank Felipe Villegas (Instituto de Biología, UNAM), for his help with the plate of illustrations here included. ANGA thanks Instituto de Biología, UNAM., for supporting his research throughout the years.
García Aldrete, A. N. 2006. New genera of Psocoptera (Insecta), from Mexico, Belize and Ecuador (Psoquillidae, Ptiloneuridae, Lachesillidae). Zootaxa, 1319: 114. [ Links ]
Mockford, E. L. & D. M. Sullivan. 1986. Systematics of the Graphocaeciliine psocids with a proposed higher classification of the family Lachesillidae (Psocoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 112: 180. [ Links ]]]>


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Drupal 8 will be the open-source project's "boldest release to date", according to Drupal's creator, Dries Buytaert. The new version of Drupal is due at the end of the year or "whenever it's ready" and includes significant behind-the-scenes changes, such as the incorporation of elements of the Symfony2 Web framework.
Buytaert, who is also the founder of Drupal services firm Acquia, has ambitious goals for Drupal, as it continues to shift away from purely a content management system towards a unified Web platform that organisations can standardise on to build Web-based services, for both internal and customer-focussed sites.
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2005 Football
Mount St. Joseph vs. Bluffton preview
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., interim sports information director
October 24, 2005
The Matchup
When: Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 1:30 p.m.
Where: Bluffton, Ohio - Dwight Salzman Stadium
On the Radio: Listen live to Bluffton University football on WDOH 107.1 FM.
Bluffton University (3-4, 2-1) knocked off perennial Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference power Hanover (3-5, 2-2) 33-19 on Saturday, October 22. Mount St. Joseph (6-1, 3-1) handed Defiance College its first HCAC loss of 2005 when it defeated the Yellow Jackets by a score of 40-19.
The Head Coaches
Head coach Greg Brooks is in his third season at the helm of the Bluffton University
football team. Brooks' teams have collected ten wins during his tenure as head coach
of the Beavers. Prior to assuming the head coaching duties at Bluffton, Brooks was
the quarterbacks' coach and offensive coordinator for the Beavers.
Mount St. Joseph is led by Rod Huber who is entering his sixth season as the head coach of the Lions. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati where he earned a bachelor's degree in social studies education. Huber has been a member of the Lions' coaching staff since the program was founded in 1990. He took over as the head coach in 2000 and after compiling a 2-18 record during his first two years Huber led the Mount to three consecutive seasons over .500, including a first ever HCAC title in 2004 when the Lions posted a 10-0 regular season record.
Bluffton-Mount St. Joseph Series History
Mount St. Joseph holds an 8-6 advantage in the all-time series with Bluffton. The
Beavers fell to the Lions in 2004 by a score of 25-13 at Schueler Field.
Last Week for the Beavers and Lions
The Beavers ended a ten-game losing streak to Hanover College when they knocked off the Panthers 33-19 at Hanover on Saturday, October 22. The Panthers threatened early but the Bluffton defense forced turnovers deep in Beaver territory on two of Hanover's first four possessions to keep Hanover out of the end-zone in the first half. A 75-yard Ben Dodds run late in the first quarter set up the Beaver's first score, a one-yard Jared Owens rush. Owens found Anthony Bryant all alone in the second quarter for a 67-yard touchdown completion that put Bluffton up 13-6 at the half. Following a Hanover touchdown on the Panther's first drive of the second half, the Beavers rolled off three scoring drives in a row as Owens, Dodds and junior fullback Ben McCullough all hit paydirt to put Bluffton up 33-13 with less than four minutes to play. A late Hanover touchdown ended the day's scoring as Bluffton finished with a 33-19 victory, only the fifth in 29 games against the Panthers. Dodds and McCullough both went for over 100 yards on the ground while Owens completed ten passes for 154 yards and one touchdown. Jeremy Anderson picked off two Hanover passes and Kyle Rode force a fumble on the Panther's first possession of the game.
Mount St. Joseph ended the Defiance College four-game winning streak and with that victory created a four-team logjam at the top of the HCAC as Anderson, Defiance, Mount St. Joseph and Bluffton currently have only one conference loss with three weeks remaining in the 2005 season. The Lions were determined not to be the third conference power to fall victim to the Yellow Jackets in as many weeks. The Lions found themselves down 12-7 early following a 79-yard scoring strike from Yellow Jacket quarterback Hans Vetter and a 76-yard run by Scooter Curtis. Mount St. Joseph then exploded as it scored the next 33 points to take a 40-12 advantage at the end of the third quarter. Two Lion scoring runs and two long touchdown strikes from Rashon Lewis to Andy Wellendorf stunned the Yellow Jackets who had not been defeated in conference action. A Defiance touchdown early in the fourth quarter provided the final margin for the Lions who finished with a 40-19 victory. Andy Wellendorf caught three passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns while Mike Lovell rushed for 73 yards on 17 carries. Matt Lawless and P.J. Volker led the Lion defense with nine tackles each.
Last Season's Contest
Bluffton fell 25-13 to the Lions at Schueler Field on October 30, 2004. The loss dropped the Beavers to 2-2 in the Heartland Conference after they had opened HCAC action with victories over Manchester and Anderson. Tight end Mark Gable caught five passes for 66 yards. Running back Ben Dodds led the rushing attack with 86 yards on only 15 carries while scoring the lone Bluffton touchdown in the first quarter. Seth Burkholder kicked a pair of long field goals for the Beavers. Sam McCullough led the Beaver defense with 15 tackles, including 6 solos.
Mount St. Joseph finished with 371 total yards, including 309 on the ground as it
controlled the ball for nearly 37 minutes and picked up 20 first downs. The Lions
scored on three of their four chances in the red-zone and they limited Bluffton to
189 total yards of offense for the game. Mike Lovell picked up 168 yards on 20 carries,
two of which went for touchdowns. Ricky Story also went over 100 yards as he gained
119 on 22 rushes. Matt Lawless led the Lion defense with 11 tackles.
Leading the Beavers
Senior Ben Dodds leads the Bluffton rushing attack with 152 carries for 843 yards and six touchdowns. Dodds has 17 catches for 178 receiving yards. Junior fullback Ben McCullough has gained 324 yards on 63 carries while reaching the end zone four times. Quarterback Jared Owens has completed 59 passes for 733 yards and five touchdowns while also finding the end zone six times on the ground. One of his favorite targets has been tight end Jeremy Haselman who has hauled in 15 receptions for 192 yards and one touchdown. Aaron Whitlock has four catches for 101 yards and a touchdown. Anthony Bryant has nine receptions for 124 yards and one touchdown.
Sophomore linebacker Sam McCullough leads the Beaver defense with 73 tackles (27 solos, 46 assists), including 8 TFL's for a total loss of 20 yards. Sam has forced two fumbles while also recovering one this season. Junior cornerback Jeremy Anderson has recorded 42 tackles while picking off an HCAC-leading five passes. Sophomore safety Taylor Iceman has 3 interceptions while senior safety Jon Mershman has two interceptions to go along with his 41 tackles. Senior defensive tackle Rashid Morton and freshman defensive end Kyle Rode lead the Beavers with three sacks apiece.
Next up for the Beavers and the Lions
Bluffton will travel to Franklin on Saturday, November 5, 2005. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. (Indiana time). Mount St. Joseph travels to Anderson on November 5. The game is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/carbon_diem/
World's first auto carbon calculator
Feel guilty for every journey you make
Posted in Personal Tech, 7th October 2008 15:37 GMT
Calculating your daily environmental impact isn't easy. So, a former student's designed what he claims is the world's first automated carbon calculator.
Carbon Diem works with GPS-enabled phones
Carbon Diem only works with GPS-enabled phones because it requires the location technology to feed information about the user's speed and pattern of movement – or at least the phone's – back to it.
The software then calculates which form of transport the user's travelling by, based on the GPS-determined speeds, and displays what the associated environmental impact will be.
For example, if the software works out that the user's moving less than 15mph then it might decide that he or she's cycling and record a zero CO2 emission for that journey.
How it decides you're not simply stuck in traffic, burning fuel, isn't entirely clear. Presumably, it works on the basis that if you've been travelling at speed and suddenly you're not, you're likely to be still in the car. Unless you've climbed out, of course.
The software doesn't require any input from the user and because it's able to run continuously, the user can track their eco-travel habits over a prolonged period of time and, ideally, learn to develop more environmentally friendly ways of getting from A to B.
Inventor Andreas Zachariah, a graduate student of the Royal College of Art in London, told The Guardian that when he tested Carbon Diem on Nokia and Blackberry devices, the software was almost 100 per cent accurate at determining when people were in aircraft or on trains. But he admitted that it was only between 65 and 75 per cent accurate at guessing when people travelled by bus.
Carbon Diem will be launched commercially in spring next year.