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Winter 2007-2008
Alison LePage
Eating Maine – Lessons and Rewards of an All-Maine Diet
by Alison LePage
If you asked me five years ago where my food came from, I probably couldn't even tell you what state it was grown in, much less the actual farm that produced it. But when my husband and I left "big city living" and moved to Maine in 2002, something changed in the way I looked at food. I realized that every plant and animal had a story and I wanted to know what it was.
We started buying locally produced products more and more, supporting Maine farmers and businesses as much as possible, reveling in the bounties produced here. We instituted a mealtime ritual of recognizing which items were local and what farm they came from. Even during the long winter we maintained our connections, buying local meat and dairy products and eating berries frozen the summer before. So when spring arrived this year, we decided to try to take it up a notch and eat only Maine foods for the summer and into the fall.
The only guideline that we set was that all food items had to be grown in Maine and anything that was purchased had to have all Maine ingredients. That eliminated many things right from the start: coffee, chocolate, olive oil, peanut butter, sugar, and pretty much every item on the shelves at the grocery store! It took a couple of weeks of research to figure out where we could buy staples such as Maine-grown oats and flour, what dried fruits and seeds were available, and how to replace the "packaged" items we had come to rely on, such as cereal and granola bars, but we were confident it could be done. It wasn't that long ago that everyone ate local foods. Grocery stores didn't even exist until 80 years ago, and processed foods are a truly modern idea (although not necessarily a good one).
On July 1st we went "all Maine." There were some hurdles at first, finding substitutes for some things and simply learning to go without others, but it continues to be an amazing experience. Over 90% of the dollars we spend on food went directly from us to local growers, which is incredibly gratifying. Our food hasn't been shipped cross-country or packaged in plastic; we know where it was grown and in most cases who grew it. We have been eating well and feeling great … sugar-, caffeine-, additive- and preservative-free. But the most gratifying part has been sparking other people's interest. We have had fascinating conversations with so many people who I know are now thinking more about where their food comes from. To reach even more people, I started a blog (
), which I updated daily all summer with commentary about the experience, daily menus and lots of great "all-Maine" recipes.
When September rolled around we decided to add a little flexibility to our diet by making some allowances for dining out occasionally and eating at friends' houses without bringing our own local food doggie bags. We also decided to add a couple of non-local items: olive oil, nuts and the occasional piece of chocolate that we were really missing. (Local eaters often refer to such items as "Marco Polo" exemptions, referring to the fact that even hundreds of years ago, explorers traveled to far-off lands to bring back spices and other specialty foods that could not be obtained or grown locally.) So with a few minor exceptions, we have been able to maintain our Maine diet.
Things will certainly get more complicated when the Farmers' Market closes for the season and I face the trauma of returning to the grocery store. Till then we will continue to enjoy and share wonderful local food and keep packing our freezer to extend the season as long as possible.
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While Maine has lots of connections for local foods, our experience was very successful with a limited number of sources.
• We have a couple of CSA shares: vegetables, pork, chickens and eggs through Broadturn Farm in Scarborough (
) and grass-fed beef through O'Donnells in Monmouth (
• We shopped the Portland Farmers' Market both Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Most of our meat during the summer (since the CSAs don't deliver beef and pork till fall) came from Windy Hill Farm in Windham, which carries its own naturally raised beef and pork, Maine-ly Poultry chicken and turkey, and naturally raised bison from another farm. It also carries a great assortment of Pineland Farms cheese from New Gloucester.
• Until we recently began milking a cow each week in exchange for milk, we were purchasing our dairy at Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook (
), which also houses the Silvery Moon Creamery, makers of many wonderful cheeses. Customers can find milk, cream, butter, yogurt, cheese, crème fraiche and more at the farm store. (Smiling Hill also makes great ice cream with only a few nonlocal ingredients.)
• We stocked our freezer through several pick-your-own farms, including Maxwell's Strawberry Farm in Cape Elizabeth, Estes Blueberry Farm in Buxton, and Libby and Son in Limerick.
The above resources provided about 90% of our diet, so almost all of the food dollars we spent went DIRECTLY TO FARMERS and back into the Maine economy.
The remaining 10% mostly came from the bulk aisle at Whole Foods: dried apple rings from Ricker Hill Orchard, roasted pumpkin seeds and whole oats from Grandy Oats, dried beans from the Beanery, and whole wheat pastry flour from Aroostook County. We also purchased Aroostook Wheat from Borealis Breads.
A couple of other good sources for specialty items include: Sabbathday Lake Shakers in Gray for dried spices (also sold at Maine's Pantry in Portland), Maine's Pantry in Portland for dried blueberries, Overland Honey in Portland.
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My Maine eating blog
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That's how much I liked Insomniac's alternate history shooter, which saw the England of 1951 besieged by the alien-esque Chimera. That purchase turned out to be a good call, as I've played through the campaign a few more times since then. nope
And when the sequel hit last fall, I bought it without reservation. Two hours later, all of my excitement had been replaced by frustration, the disc was back in the case and the case was on the shelf--where it would remain for close to a year.
With the recent sign that Resistance 3 is in the works, I opted to give Resistance 2 another chance. After wrapping it up this week, it's safe to say my feelings didn't change much and that I'm hoping Resistance 3 is closer to the first than the second.
Resistance 2 abandoned much of what I loved about the original. Where the first Resistance provided players with a cache of creative weapons and the freedom to experiment with them, Resistance 2 took a more guided and much more linear direction which resulted in a restricted experience that simply wasn't as gratifying.
Instead of tempting me to be creative with multiple approaches to a given situation, much of Resistance 2 felt like an experiment in trial and error to find that one correct approach. Worse, numerous areas featured one-hit kills that forced me to replay a section over and over until I had it memorized.
For example, there was one particular area where I had to get close enough to a foe to "lure" them into a trap three times. If I got too close, it was instant death, meaning that I spent a lot of time trying to do this three times without dying. How much frustration could have been avoided by replacing one-hit kills with more gradual damage, or removing that section all together, I can't even begin to speculate.
There are plenty of other examples. Multiple areas feature invisible foes that kill in one hit. Even better, they appear in groups of twos or threes, meaning I'd take one down, not notice the second, and then keep replaying until I'd memorized their positions. Another area repeatedly forced me to wait while a certain even unfolded and then crushed me to death with falling debris because I zigged when I didn't know to zag.
Another major issue stems from only being able to carry two weapons at once, instead of having an entire cache of weapons available a la the original. That means I was stuck using only the weapons the designers wanted me to, instead of having the freedom and variety of weapons to come up with my own approach.
And while we're on the subject of weapons, Resistance 2 falls short there as well. Part of the fun of the original Resistance was messing around with unconventional weapons--using the Hailstorm to bounce bullets off a wall and around a corner, setting a trap using the explosive sticky goop of the Sapper, that sort of thing.
Sure, Resistance 2 brought some of them back, such as the Auger that can shoot through walls and the time-slowing Fareye sniper rifle. Not everything made the cut though, and their replacements, like the flying saw blades of the Splicer and the HVAP Wraith minigun, don't really change anything up.
Perhaps most frustrating is that these issues are, at least in hindsight, extremely obvious and could have been avoided with some slight tweaks here and there. It felt like the developers forgot what made the first Resistance so unique, and rather than build upon that, they tried to make a more conventional experience instead.
So please, Insomniac, if it's not too late for some constructive criticism, please take these points into consideration with Resistance 3. Give me the freedom to experiment with a variety of approaches and weapons. Give me more creative weapons.
And above all, please, please don't give me another Resistance 2.

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I have been stuck with no mouse support after a major hardware upgrade (basically the only old components are the case and the harddrive) for about 2 days and havent been visiting as much. with no mouse things like firefox are a chore to use however i decided to bite thebullet and use elinks to catch up on the latest news
basically just wanted to congradulate you on hom good the site looks and works with a command line browser, i didnt expect it to work this well. everything seems to work and i find that in some cases work alot better (for example i find the alt text for the topic new reply works better than the pictures)
the only thing i would sugest is alt tekt for the smilies as all i get is bigsmile.gif instead of somthing easier like =D
once again good job, its making me rethink my site a bit
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keyboard only firefox: http://conkeror.mozdev.org/
which I don't use, i like also very much links2 http://links.twibright.com/ and http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ )
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HAH! I guess ill se the terminal to view this webpage just to verify it.
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yeah i used to have that plugin for firefox but its a bit hard to reinstall it without the mouse
i do like w3m as it does a great job of rendering but i find there isnt one cmd line browser i use more than others as they each are better at one thing than the others, anyway there is always netcat
anyway im backing up and changing distros at the moment so i expect i will be using links alot more over the next couple of days
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I use Lynx. It's avaiilable on both my OpenBSD box (Which is REALLY hard to use without any additional software!) and my linux boxes. . Hmm. . There a version for PocketDOS?
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Only Henry Blodget says it more elegantly.
HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY... (And How To Fix It)
After decades of instant gratification, Americans have also come to believe that all problems can be solved instantly, if only the right leaders are put in charge and the right decisions are made. And so our government has devolved into a permanent election campaign, in which incumbents blame each other for the current mess, and challengers promise change.
The trouble is that our current problems cannot be solved with a simple fix. They also cannot be solved quickly. It took 25 years for us to get to this point, and it will likely take us at least a decade or two to work our way out of it, even if we make the right decisions.
So it is time that we began to face reality.
A handful of economists, meanwhile, argued that the recession was actually fundamentally different—a "balance sheet" recession resulting from a quarter-century-long debt-binge, one that would take a decade or more to fix.
In the past four years, it has become increasingly clear that the latter diagnosis was correct: The US economy is behaving exactly the way other economies have behaved after piling up mountains of debt and eventually going through a financial crisis. It is bumping along with disappointing growth, high unemployment, and, increasingly (and understandably) social unrest.
More specifically—and here's the critical point—you reduce the debt that is crippling the productive part of the economy. This is the part that creates most of the jobs, prosperity, and wealth. It is also the part that pays for the rest of the economy. That part is the private sector.
What debt is crippling the private sector?
Consumer debt. The household mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and other obligations that is forcing consumers to save and pay down debts instead of spend. Consumers still account for about 70% of the spending in the US economy, and that spending is now constrained. (See chart below—click for larger).
(Consumer spending was also artificially boosted for 25 years by the debt binge, so there's no way we're going back to that era. And we shouldn't strive to).
- Spending less
- Saving more
- Paying down debt
- Restructuring debt
- Defaulting
Also importantly, this healing process has nothing to do with "restoring confidence." Or "reducing regulation." Even if you could suddenly cast a spell and make all Americans (irrationally) exuberant again, you can't solve a debt problem with more debt. Specifically, you can't reduce the amount you owe by borrowing more.
So where does that leave the economy?
It leaves the private sector, the productive engine of the economy, nursing its way back to health.
And it leaves the public sector—the government—trying to minimize the pain while the private sector heals itself.
Where the disagreement comes is when and where the government should cut back—and how much.
One side argues that the government should cut back immediately and completely, forcing the country to "take its medicine" in one quick dose.
The other side argues that the government should continue spending to support the economy until the private sector is healthy enough to once again carry the torch.
The policies that arise from this argument affect the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, so it's not surprising that people feel strongly about them.
So what's the best approach to solving our problem?
Here's where philosophical differences come into play. "Best" is, at least somewhat, in the eye of the beholder.
The two extreme solutions are these:
Do you want to pretend we don't have serious problems and just keep the government spending vastly more than it takes in every year until our government debt load finally becomes unmanageable and the currency collapses?
Then just keep doing what we've been doing for most of the past 30 years.
For obvious reasons, neither of those two approaches are appealing.
Fortunately, there's a third option, which lies somewhere in the middle.
This solution consists of two parts:
- Acknowledging the problem (and the problems with either extreme approach)
- Designing an approach that addresses these problems and helps us work our way out of our predicament with the least possible pain, dislocation, and disruption.
- Acknowledge the real problem with the economy—that we're in a "balance sheet" recession
- Acknowledge that, to fix the economy, consumers need to work off their debts
- Acknowledge that trend-line government spending is already too high relative to both GDP and the taxes that the government collects
- Acknowledge that, eventually, to fix the latter problem, government spending will have to drop and taxes will have to go up
- Acknowledge that, raising taxes and/or cutting spending sharply right now will wallop the economy
- Acknowledge that walloping the economy right now will make the problem worse, not better, at least over the short term (consumers will have less money to spend, so the economy will shrink, and tax collection will drop...and then this vicious cycle will repeat. See Greece.)
- Acknowledge that making the problem worse right now will increase social frustration and unrest (See Occupy Wall Street). It also won't help the rich get richer.
- Acknowledge that denying the problem and continuing runaway government spending indefinitely will eventually lead to a debt and currency crisis (see Argentina)
- Acknowledge that, right now, the government can borrow as much money as it wants at historically low interest rates—rates that are getting lower all the time
- Acknowledge that the only spending in the economy that the government can directly control is government spending
- Acknowledge, therefore, that the "best approach" given our current reality involves two specific goals:
- Minimizing short-term pain while giving consumers time to nurse themselves back to health
- Getting the long-term deficit under control before the government implodes
- The government should construct and pass a long-term budget plan that
- Minimizes short-term pain, while
- Getting the long-term deficit under control
- This budget plan should be designed to benefit all Americans, not just special-interest groups or different classes or industries
- This budget plan can theoretically include an increase in short-term spending designed to minimize the country's pain, as long as it also includes a decrease in long-term spending (again, right now, the world is willing to lend us as much money as we want)
- One form of government spending that unequivocally benefits all Americans is infrastructure spending (when the projects are finished, America has the infrastructure)
- Infrastructure spending would help America address another reality that has emerged in the past three decades—the reality that the infrastructure of many countries in Europe, Asia, and other regions has vaulted past that in the US and made the US look like a second-world country
- Infrastructure spending would boost employment in one sector of the economy hammered by the recession—construction
- Infrastructure spending would involve fewer of the conflicts and misaligned incentives that infuriate many Americans about "entitlement programs," extended unemployment benefits, welfare, food stamps, and other government expenditures that seem to encourage sloth and laziness and "socialism"
- The 10-year government budget designed to get us out of our current predicament, therefore, should probably include a massive, multi-year infrastructure spending program.
I think this is the most reasonable approach to solving our nation's problems. I'll explain more about why in the coming days.
SEE ALSO: Here's Why This Recession Is Fundamentally Different
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Qt Version
- Feature parity with the GTK version
- Improved pie menu performance but two pie menu display bugs
- Simplified layout with the potential for rotation
- 3382 LOCs
- From June 8th to July 16th
- 4473 LOCs
- From January 30th to February 25th
The LOC counts look nice, more drastic than my Gonvert port for what it is worth. I had a lot more distractions going on during my port of ejpi so a comparison of implementation times between Gtk/Qt or Gonvert/ejpi is as meaningless as the title of this post suggests.
My main Qt disappointment in this port is what seems like high coupling both in Qt itself and in code written by others (the example pie menus).
Now for some of the upsides. Though I implemented them differently, the similarity in the drawing code between Qt and Cairo helped. Also finding out about QStandardItemModel made my life easier.
I'm split on which direction I want to go in my learning of Qt. Originally I had planned on porting Dialcentral for gaining experience with threading. I have too many ideas though and not enough time. Possible directions include: porting other apps of mine, a new app using QGraphicsView, or some QtMobility contacts (and eventually calendar) plugins (though then I'd also have to learn the quirks of Qt in C++ and deploying compiled apps to Maemo).


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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suffered bleeding during his cancer surgery in Cuba that required "corrective measures" to stanch the flow, his government said Thursday.
But in the latest of a series of unusually frank reports about the president's delicate condition, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas also said Chavez has been making a "progressive and favorable" recovery after the complications from Tuesday's surgery.
"This recovery process, nevertheless, will require a prudent period of time as a consequence of the complexity of the surgery performed," Villegas added.
The government has begun providing regular updates on the president's recovery after the six-hour surgery in what appears to be a slight easing of the secrecy that has surrounded Chavez's medical treatment since he fell ill last year.


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Why do cats get on counters? Because they can! Cats are amazingly agile creatures and are in no way limited to traveling only on floor level. In fact, quickly and easily jumping up to high places is a survival strategy for our domestic felines.
Once your cat has made it onto your kitchen counters, there are a few reasons (other than staying away from the family dog) that may entice him to return. If you have a cat who is young and inquisitive, a cat who is a sun spot lounger or a hunter, or even a kitty who "assists" you with everything you do, you may find you have a frequent flyer on your kitchen counters.
Natural explorer: These are usually kittens and young adult cats up to the age of 2 or 3. A cat who is new to a home will have a natural tendency to investigate every single inch of the living space, high or low. You can prevent your new or young cat from becoming a regular visitor of the kitchen counters by keeping the counters clean when you are not preparing food. Provide daily interactive play (you get to play, too) away from the kitchen with a toy such as a Da Bird. Encourage your little explorer to climb and perch on the places where you do allow him.
Sun spot lounger: This kitty loves the warmth of the sun and very much enjoys looking outside at the goings on. If your best sunny window is in the kitchen and kitty can only access it by crossing your counters, she certainly will. Your solution options are to make that glorious sun spot somehow inaccessible, make an alternate sun spot even cozier, or provide an alternate travel route to that particular sun spot.
Cat shelves along the wall placed strategically for kitty to hop from floor to shelves to sunny window will do the trick. Don't know what cat shelves are? Watch almost any television episode of Jackson Galaxy's "My Cat from Hell" and you will see them in action.
Kitchen hunter: This kitty likes food, and if he finds it on the counter once, he will go looking for it again. He will dip his paw into your cereal for the milk, try to drink from almost any cup, and amaze you when he tries to eat food -- even bread -- left on the counter. This kitty will not be deterred easily or permanently by any "stay away" message you devise, because there is a big payoff for him to keep trying. He needs to go "hunting" every day and the best time for this is during your meal preparation.
Don't worry; you don't need to send your cat outside to hunt. There are fun and enriching ways to provide hunting opportunities indoors. This kitty loves searching for and finding his food. He finds it boring to have every meal served in the same bowl in the same place. He will enjoy using his paws to pull his food out of a toy one kibble at a time or to roll a toy around as it occasionally drops food. He likes to work for his meal. Almost any cat toy and even any cardboard recycling item can be converted into a feeding toy.
Also, your house can become your kitty's hunting ground. A great dinnertime activity, especially for kids, is to feed your cat by using five to 10 small dishes, rather than one bowl, and creating a hide-and-seek game with kitty's dinner in five to 10 places in the house other than the kitchen. Guess where your kitty will be during meal time? Not in the kitchen.
Kitchen assistant: The sweetest counter surfer is the kitty who wants to be with you. The draw for her is social time together. She stays within an arm's reach of you for most of the time that you are home, in the living room, bedroom or even the kitchen. She can be a talkative assistant or a silent participant.
This kitty needs her own perch on top of a high stool or some designated high surface where she knows it will be easy for you to reach over and pet her. If you talk to her, pet her and interact with her only when she is on her personal kitchen perch, she will learn to stay there while you are preparing your meal. Her needs will be met.
If you use the strategies above, you may never again need to be the nagging "no, no, no-er," because you have provided your cat with what she needs.
Need some additional help with your feline friend? The Humane Society of Boulder Valley provides consultations for a variety of feline behavior questions. Call our Training and Behavior Center at (303) 442-4030.
Helena Kokes is Training and Behavior Consultant at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, located at 2323 55th Street in Boulder. Visit boulderhumane.org for more information.


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Reunion and Homecoming and Family Weekend Set for Oct. 4-6
- 09-30-2013
- By Jay Goyette
Thousands of UVM alumni, parents, families and community members will converge on campus Oct. 4-6 for the University of Vermont's Reunion and Homecoming and Family Weekend 2013.
A wide variety of events will be happening on campus and around greater Burlington over the course of the weekend. Register for a package covering admission to most events at the Dudley H. Davis Center throughout the weekend. Included is a button that entitles the wearer to special discounts at various locations on campus and in downtown Burlington and complimentary admission to the Fleming Museum. Many events are free and open to the public, including school and college open houses and receptions and the George V. Kidder outstanding faculty lecture.
Weekend Highlights include:
- A "Welcome Back Tent Party" on Friday evening
- UVM Fest on Saturday with live music, local vendors, food carts, games and entertainment
- Segway tours of campus and UVM Historic walking tours
- Academic unit open houses
- Greek open houses and programs to highlight campus
- More then 100 different activities, programs and events
- View the complete weekend schedule
Information: email@example.com, (888) 458-8691.


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When a man gets grey hair, he looks distinguished.
When a woman gets grey hair, she looks old and is encouraged to dye it dark again.
When a man has many sexual partners, he is a player or a stud. He is often looked upon with admiration by other men for his exploits.
When a woman has many sexual partners, she is a tramp or a slut. She is considered cheap and is looked down upon by most men.
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Futsal fever is spreading quickly around the world after Brazilian superstar Falcao's incredible spinning back-heel and lobbed free-kick in an exhibition match went viral earlier this week.
The 35-year-old, widely regarded as the best futsal player of his generation, has regularly scored breathtaking goals throughout his career, with 339 goals in just 201 appearances for the Brazil national team.
However, Falcao's latest entry for goal of the year has a new rival in the form of Safar Tony - a player from Hungarian side Dunakeszi Kinizsi, who produced another mesmerising piece of skill in a Futsal Magyar Cup match against Vasas.
Receiving the ball just outside the box, the number 22 twice rolls his foot over the ball before producing a sensational rainbow flick over the head of the helpless Vasas goalkeeper.
The stunning effort really must be seen to be believed, and as the debate of which goal is better - Tony's (above) or Falcao's (below) - GiveMeFootball is giving you the opportunity to compare two of the most inventive futsal strikes you are ever likely to see, and leave a comment below.
Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE: https://www.givemesport.com/writeforgms


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animal tracks.....
IV tracks
race tracks.......
Race Relations
Public relations
Public Convenience
public house
Public Nuisance
Public welfare
Public response
Public hearing
General Public
Attorney General
Defense Attorney.
defense mechanism
Insanity Defense.
Chewbacca Defense
Best Friend.
Best time.....
time machine
sewing machine
machine gun
Nail Gun..
Gun control
control tower
guard tower
Tower Bridge
London Bridge
Contract Bridge
Bridge gap
I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.
gap insurance
insurance broker
Stock broker
take stock.......
Chicken stock
... Passionately Australian
Chicken Marsala
Chicken Fricassee.
Chicken Little
... Passionately Australian
Little Bighorn
Little man...
Burning man
early man.....
prehistoric man
repo bird...
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Tuesday, Jan. 15, is the 15th day of 2013. There are 350 days left in the year.
Today's birthdays: Actress Margaret O'Brien is 76. Actress Andrea Martin is 66. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 56. Rapper/reggaeton artist Pitbull is 32.
In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The republic later became the state of Vermont.)
In 1913, actor Lloyd Bridges was born in San Leandro, Calif.
In 1919, a large storage tank burst in the North End of Boston, sending a wave of molasses through the streets that killed 21 people and injured 150 others.
In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of War.
In 1967, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I.
In 1973, President Nixon announced the suspension of all US offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace talks.
In 1993, in Paris, a historic disarmament ceremony ended with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.
In 2009, US Airways Captain Chesley ''Sully'' Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River; all 155 people aboard survived.
In 2012, at the Golden Globes, ''The Artist'' won best musical or comedy; ''The Descendants'' won best drama.


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SPRING TOWNSHIP — With the exception of the PIAA Class AAA Swim Championships, it's hard to imagine any other boys' meet in the state having a more talent-laden lineup than Saturday's Wilson Relays.
Five of the 12 teams competing are favorites to win district titles this season — Hershey (District 3), La Salle (District 12), Emmaus (District 11), Wyoming Valley West (District 2) and Upper Dublin (District 1). The lineup also features perennially strong programs such as State College, York Suburban, North Penn, Cedar Crest and host Wilson.
Upper Dublin and La Salle had strong performances at Saturday's 38th annual staging of the event at Wilson West Lawn High — but not strong enough to finish ahead of powerful Hershey High. The Trojans placed first with 284 followed by La Salle (252), Upper Dublin (224). North Penn and Emmaus tied for fourth place with 204 points apiece.
One of Upper Dublin's best showings came in the 800-yard (4x200) freestyle relay. The team of Michael Jensen, Chris Devlin, Eric Jensen and Bobby Bantley took first with a meet record time of 7:03.39. The old record was 7:08.77 set by Emmaus in 2012.
"With the Jensen brothers and Chris Devlin, we're really deep in the 200 free," said Bantley, a senior. "We want to make an impression at this meet. La Salle and Hershey are two of the best teams in the state and we want to show we belong right up there with them.
"We want to make a name for ourselves today. In the 800 free relay, we didn't really look at the record. We just wanted to do what we had to do to win. But, I'm not surprised we got the record because we've been doing a lot of hard training."
The Cardinals also were second in the 200 backstroke relay when Joe Starosta, Eric Jensen, Devlin and Bantley hooked up for a time of 1:38.82 and second in the 400 free relay with Eric Jensen, Devlin, Flynn and Bantley at 3:12.98.
Upper Dublin's showed its depth by placing third in the 200 medley relay at 1:38.98 with the foursome of Cooper Tollen, Arthur Yang and Ian Flynn, third in the 400 IM relay at 3:45.11 with the unit of Flynn, Devlin, Jensen and Jensen and third in the 200 butterfly relay with the team of Jake Easton, Mike Jensen, Yang and Tollen.
La Salle also made some changes to the list of meet records. The Little Explorers set a new standard in the 200 medley relay when Joe Maginnis, Mike McBryan, Greg Rogers and Brendan Koch clocked a 1:36.06. The old meet record was 1:35.37 set by Wilson in 2010.
In the 200 butterfly relay, the La Salle boys erased the previous record of 1:33.12 — a record they set a year ago. The new record time of 1:31.67 was logged by Maginnis, Rogers, Greg Bracato and Sean Regan.
"We had our eye on the meet record," said Maginnis. "All of us have been regularly doing 52's in season (in the 100-yard butterfly). So, it was a pretty good race for us today."
The Little Explorers also won the 400 IM relay at 3:36.77 with the quartet of Evan Holder, Vince Everman, Regan and McBryan and the 200 breaststroke relay at 1:52.40 with the team of Koch, McPeak, Nick Stachel and McBryan.
"That was a great time in the 400 IM relay," said Regan. "We've been looking to do really well at this meet. In the IM relay, we were just looking for the win."
LaSalle took second in the 200 freestyle relay at 1:27.84 with the foursome of Brocato, Stachel, Kyle McElwee and Koch, second in the 800 free relay at 7:09.15 with the team of Colin Happ, Holder, Egan and McElwee and second in the Grade 9-10 200 free relay at 1:34.84 with the quartet of Harrison Schultz, Joe Vizza, Luke Chadwick and Tom Rogers.
North Penn's best finishes were second in the Grade 9-10 200 medley relay (1:42.85), third in the 200 free relay (1:30.25), third in the Grade 9-10 200 free relay (1:36.51) and third in the 800 free relay (7:13.67).


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Aborting throttling is definitely a good thing.
However the caps and overage fees are definitely an issue, and I can see this being part of a plan to get that bandwidth used up earlier, and collect the overage fees. Dirty, but we should know better than to assume they're doing something for the good of the customers.
I'm still dreaming of the day when the physical layer is run by an agency that has no relation to the provider, and the provider of your choice can hook up at the CO.
The current setup is too much of a conflict of interest, and they'll want low caps so people use their TV services and such. This should never be...
It couldn't have anything to do with the face that bell has been hemorrhaging customers for the last year and a half or anything could it? Especially since the incumbents can't lock out other providers from dslams anymore.
They have one with a 2GB cap! Hello? 1995 called, they want their plans back.
Did 1995 reach your cell phone? If so, we know where the single digit GB cap got to.
Similar to cell plans with unlimited nights and weekends, usage-based-billed broadband also ought to be cheaper during periods of low demand when there's plenty of spare capacity. If I were on such a plan, I would stream movies less and download movies more, during the wee hours, to save money. The ISP would also save money by not having to add capacity just to prevent the network from getting congested a couple of hours each day.
Everybody wins with efficient pricing.
For most ISPs, peak time is in the evening. They would actually save money if they raised everyone's speed to the max during the rest of the day, since large torrent downloads would have the time to finish.
I live in a relatively small city in Idaho and just signed up for a 50Mbps (seriously... and I really do get that!) for ~$50 a month (this is with CableOne in case anyone is interested).
It has a cap at 50GB a month (which is already pretty generous) but it also has a couple of other niceties:
1. If you go over it's only 50 cents per gigabyte... which I think is pretty fair.
2. Any traffic between midnight and 6 AM is completely unmetered. So if you have a big download to do (like a new game on Steam) just
It has a cap at 50GB a month (which is already pretty generous)
You have an interesting idea of "generous". Two hours of Netflix a day and your cap is gone.
I can't imagine watching two hours of TV per day. I just can't. There isn't 14 hours per week of stuff worth watching.
First, most people are not you. Second, Netflix allows you to distill what you do want to watch and do so all at once. Third, that applies to the entire household of at least two or three, commonly more.
I live in a relatively small city in Idaho and just signed up for a 50Mbps (seriously... and I really do get that!) for ~$50 a month (this is with CableOne in case anyone is interested).
It has a cap at 50GB a month (which is already pretty generous) but it also has a couple of other niceties:
1. If you go over it's only 50 cents per gigabyte... which I think is pretty fair.
2. Any traffic between midnight and 6 AM is completely unmetered. So if you have a big download to do (like a new game on Steam) just start it after midnight and you're good to go.
Overall I'm extremely happy with the service. Streaming over Vudu and Netflix is awesome... downloading game patches happens instantly... And my wife can listen to Pandora while I play an online game without issue.
Hopefully more parts of the country will get service like this.
50GB is generous for a 50Mbps connection? That's only 3 hours of downloading at your full bandwidth. Or 25 hours of HD Netflix streaming (less than an hour per day). Or 10 DVD ISO's.
Comcast's 250GB limit seems much more reasonable, even if I "only" get 15Mbps
Do you work for Cableone?
>50 cents per gigabyte... which I think is pretty fair.
Not remotely. Costs to run a network are partly fixed (same number of kilometres of line, count of humming boxes to buy and then maintain each month, however many bytes flow) and partly per-byte.
Once you've paid that fixed cost with Internet - clearly around $25-$40
The 50 cents/GB is over an order of magnitude high for even a conservative, high-profit "fair price". And remember, this is a regulated, licensed monopoly. Their rates are supposed to reflect service costs.
For comparison, Amazon EC2 charges 12 cents/GB (if you transfer less than 10TB/month). Their top tier published pricing is for 5 cents/GB for 100 - 350TB/month. (their prices can vary depending on the region).
Only thing good I can see there is the midnight - 6am being free. My home server actually downloads all my video/podcasts and rsyncs all my Linux mirrors starting at 2am each night (typically done by 6am). Other than video streaming (NetFlix, Amazon Prime), our daytime usage is pretty minimal.
If all the major ISPs did this, perhaps we could have pre-buffered real HD (not this "better than SD" so we can call it HD) online streaming from NetFlix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, etc.
1. If you go over it's only 50 cents per gigabyte... which I think is pretty fair.
That's at least 50 times what your ISP is paying for their bandwidth. So, no, that's not even close to 'fair'.
If I were on such a plan, I would stream movies less and download movies more, during the wee hours, to save money.
Next thing you know the MAFIAA will have their lobbyists writing new laws to make demand-based pricing illegal because it encourages copying of movies instead of streaming them...
So, for what this means, here is some data on pricing and data caps:
Essential Plus - Speeds up to 2Mbps - $34 per month
2GB of bandwidth per month
= 2.27 hours of usage per month
Performance - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month
25GB of bandwidth per month
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 6 - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month
25GB of bandwidth per month
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 12 - Speeds up to 12 Mbps - $54 per month
50GB of bandwidth per month + $5 per 40GB
($1.50 per GB not prepaid)
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 16 - Speeds up to 16Mbps - $64 per month
75GB of bandwidth per month
= 10.7 hours of usage per month
Fibe 25 - Speeds up to 25Mbps - $74 per month
125GB of bandwidth per month
= 11.4 hours of usage per month
Basically, Bell figures that you will use the full capacity of your connection about 10 hours a month or so.
Not only are those 25/50GB caps ridiculous, but that 2GB cap? What planet are those people living on?
You also forgot to mention the prices for going over the caps. Most Americans will think it's low enough to not care, when it fact it's probably something insane like 5$ per GB.
It's not quite as steep as $5 per GB, but it is still high IMO.
$2.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Performance: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe6: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe12: $1.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe16: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe25: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
"As a Bell Internet or Bell Fibe Internet customer, you can log in to My Bell and add the 40 GB Usage Insurance plan to your service any time. For the 80 GB or 120 GB plan, call us at 310-SURF (7873)."
I just love how they call it a 'Usage Insurance' plan.
http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp#cable [teksavvy.com]
I've downloaded well over 1 TB this month (of Linux distros!) on the unlimited package with no throttling or caps so far.
Guy I work with just moved to Teksavvy and bought a Docsys 3 modem. He did a speed test last week before he left for work and was getting 60M down which is far and above the 30M he pays fo.
Well according to the screenshot from http://speedtest.net/ [speedtest.net], he got 60. But I could see that it would be a short burst. They need to use a bigger package for testing.
http://teksavvy.com/en/res-internet.asp#cable [teksavvy.com]
I've downloaded well over 1 TB this month (of Linux distros!) on the unlimited package with no throttling or caps so far.
I was going to second the recommendation for TekSavvy, but wait, what, 1 TB / month?
That's > 1,000 Linux images.
I don't believe the internet has that much data.
Man, that's a lot of downloading.
This is a straw man. Most people don't use the "full capacity" of their connection 90% of the time. Some people do, sure, and as streaming video gets more popular it will increase, but you can watch HD video on Netflix at 3Mbps. So the second cheapest plan listed here you could watch 15 hours of HD movies per month (that's 10 90 minute movies) and still have plenty of bandwidth for general web surfing. If you're watching regular TV shows and don't mind a slightly less than HD image, that doubles.
I'm not say
1. Sell product with *unlimited bandwidth usage. *Restrictions may apply.
2. Implement traffic shaping because of overselling actual available bandwidth
3. Change everyone's plans to tiny, capped plans
4. Announce new *unlimited bandwidth usage plans and upsell existing customers. *Restrictions may apply.
TekSavvy DSL is still giving money to Bell. TekSavvy cable is giving money to Rogers. They win unless you cut it all.
True, but in my case, I switched from Shaw to TekSavvy. Shaw was getting >$80 / month for basic cable & high speed internet. Internet alone was about $45, if unbundled.
Having dropped cable TV, I'm now paying $30 / month for high speed internet to TekSavvy, so while Shaw is getting some money indirectly from me, it's a tiny fraction of what it used to be. And I don't hate Shaw like I
Bell is not cable. TekSavvy DSL is still giving money to Bell. TekSavvy cable is giving money to Rogers. They win unless you cut it all. WIND might still be its own entity, though.
So what the fuck do you expect TSI to do, start running their own phone & cable lines?
Bell is not going to do anything - ANYTHING - unless they believe they can squeeze every possible dime out of their customers.
To be fair, many customers do the same to the company.
First: I'm glad to see traffic shaping gone.
Second: I don't really have a problem with caps. I mean, is it really, truly reasonable to expect unlimited bandwidth? And before you flame me, take a moment to calm your gut reaction nerd rage in regards to this issue. I mean, that shit's not free. There should be some expectation that people pay for what they use. We don't expect unlimited electricity, so why would we here. That being said: the overage charges need to be reasonable. I have no idea of what the ma
Oh man, I can't wait for the "bits are free" arguments to start flying.
Look, bits aren't like electricity. Me using more bits doesn't mean there are less for you to use. Bandwidth is limited instantaneously, but *practically* infinite over time. And creating bits doesn't cost anything either. Of course there are infrastructure costs, but really most limits are just designed to do two things: discourage heavy use that negatively affects other users and to make them more money. The pricing is as artificial as
Bandwidth is limited instantaneously
Caps are a way to get people to use less bandwidth at peak times so that it doesn't saturate instantaneously at peak times. For example, a cap on transfer outside the least saturated hours encourages customers to shift large transfers to the least saturated hours. But as more people shift their usage away from peak times to the wee hours, the network will start saturating during the wee hours as well. At that point, use throughout the day becomes fungible, and any use of the network at all negatively affect
It is indeed strange to see Bell throttle people when they have ridiculous bandwidth caps and extra fees in the first place... One has to wonder if this wasn't planned all along: throttle down the connexions because they were not technically capable to force usage-based billing to their customers. Now that they have figured out that bit, they can get in the lucrative business of reselling bandwidth. And they resell that bandwidth at high price.
Doing the math:
1Mb/s down, unlimited bandwidth. I know that I could upgrade to a better speed, but that would mean loosing the "unlimited" part. As it is, Netflix, at the highest quality setting, works just fine. What more could I ask?
A couple thoughts:
1) You could check out TekSavvy (not affiliated, just happy customer), and you could fund a small, agile company instead of a humongous, predatory one.
2) You might have unlimited bandwidth, but it's limited by your speed*time_in_month. You could likely get faster speeds fr
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|TAAL VOLCANO BULLETIN 25 August 2012 8:00 A.M.
Taal Volcano's (14.0000°N, 120.9833°E) seismic network recorded three (3) volcanic earthquakes during the past 24-hour observation period. Field measurements conducted on 21 August 2012 at the western sector of the Main Crater Lake yielded slight decrease in water temperature of 32.0°C from 32.9°C, increase in water level of 0.75 meter from 0.20 meter, and no significant change on acidity of pH 2.72 from pH 2.73. Ground deformation survey (precise leveling) on the Volcano Island last 9-19 July 2012 indicated no significant change compared with February 2012, but is nonetheless still inflated compared with baseline data. GPS data for the period of February 2011 to 13 July 2012 show steady deflation beginning in August 2011, but nonetheless also indicated that the edifice is still slightly inflated compared to February 2011 baseline data. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission at the Main Crater Lake increased to 627 tonnes per day on 07 July 2012 compared to 482 tonnes per day last 18 October 2011.


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A long battle about whether same-sex couples should be allowed the freedom to marry in Maine was finally settled on Election Day.
A long battle about whether same-sex couples should be allowed the freedom to marry in Maine was finally settled on Election Day.
In a narrow victory that follows a national trend of changing attitudes toward gay rights, voters passed Question 1 to allow so-called gay marriage.
Mainers should be proud.
In addition to being the seventh state in the nation to forward the cause of equal rights for gays and lesbians, Maine is the first state to pass gay marriage by popular vote.
Maryland and Washington followed suit Tuesday, and all three states now join New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York and Iowa, as well as the District of Columbia, in allowing same-sex marriage.
In Minnesota, a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage was rejected.
The tide is turning.
According to Gallup, the shift began around 2011, when the national polling organization found for the first time in its history that 53 percent of Americans favored legalizing same-sex marriage. That May report reflected a 9 percent increase over the previous year's poll on the same topic.
Support for gay marriage has risen markedly since 1996, when Gallup recorded only 27 percent of Americans being in favor. The margin narrowed in 2012, dropping to an even 50 percent, but the shift in attitudes has been enough. Tuesday's results were a huge win for gay marriage supporters.
Up until Election Day, the fight for gay marriage rights had largely been fought in courtrooms or state legislatures.
The first attempt to allow gay marriage in Maine was made by former Gov. John Baldacci in 2009, when he signed a bill legalizing full marriage rights for same-sex couples.
Through a citizen's petition, that law was overturned by voters later that same year.
Mainers have since had a change of heart, many who first opposed the law realizing that they have friends and loved ones who have been denied the full rights of citizenship.
While Maine is among the small group of states to have rounded a corner on gay rights, 30 states have constitutional bans on same-sex marriage today, and others have similar measures. There's a great deal of work to be done.
The biggest obstacle ahead may be the Defense of Marriage Act, which leaves it to the individual states to decide whether or not to recognize same-sex marriage. President Barack Obama just this year became the first sitting president to publicly support gay marriage, and his administration has refused to defend DOMA, declaring the law unconstitutional.
It's the U.S. Supreme Court that really wields the power to extend the rights and protections of marriage to every loving couple in this country, and we anxiously await the day that the momentum spreading from Tuesday's vote will tip the scales, triggering a decision that will be even more historic.
Then we'll really have something to celebrate.


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DETROIT — Justin Verlander's second pitch of the night went sailing over the wall in right field, and the struggling ace figured out immediately what was wrong.
"I just realized pretty quickly that I didn't have great fastball control, so I started to give a little bit more effort — thinking, 'Well, if I don't have great control, I'm not going to get beat with 90 (mph) over the plate,'" Verlander said. "I'd rather get beat with 95, 96."
The White Sox didn't have much of a chance once Verlander made his crucial adjustment. He shut down Chicago after the first inning, and Delmon Young hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth Sunday night to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 4-2 victory and a share of first place in the AL Central.
Alejandro De Aza homered off Verlander (13-7) to lead off the game, but the right-hander was outstanding after that. He allowed four hits in eight innings, striking out 11 with two walks. The Tigers swept the three-game series to pull even with the White Sox atop the division.
"Like I said, this wasn't the Super Bowl today, this was a game. We had a good weekend," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "We just beat a very good team, a team that's been in first place for most of the year. It's going to be hard to take that away from them. They're good and they've answered every bell so far."
Chris Sale (15-6) allowed four runs and five hits in six innings.
Jose Valverde allowed a run in the ninth but held on for his 28th save in 32 chances.
Pinch-hitter Dan Johnson hit an RBI single off Valverde, and with men on first and third, Orlando Hudson hit a line drive to center. Austin Jackson momentarily misjudged it before tracking back to make the game-ending catch.
Amid a playoff-type atmosphere for a rare Sunday night game at Comerica Park, De Aza struck immediately. In his first at-bat after coming off the disabled list, he connected for his seventh homer of the year. De Aza had been out with injured ribs.
Verlander shook off that setback quickly, striking out three in the first inning and making it clear this would not be a repeat of his eight-run, 12-hit disaster at Kansas City in his previous start.
Sale was sharp too. He struck out seven and walked four, but Brennan Boesch sent a drive to center in the fifth for his 12th homer of the season, tying the game.
In the sixth, Omar Infante singled and Miguel Cabrera walked to start a Detroit rally. Prince Fielder struck out, but Young — who is on an eight-game hitting streak — homered to left. It was his 17th home run of the year.
"Just trying to put a ball in play and hope for the best," Young said. "I was looking fastballs so I can get ready and just try to make the adjustment."
When Sale returned to the dugout, he angrily sent a container of gum flying.
The lead was plenty safe with Verlander, who passed teammate Max Scherzer to take a 209-204 lead atop baseball's strikeout chart. It's the first time two Detroit pitchers have reached 200 since Mickey Lolich and Joe Coleman did it three straight seasons from 1971-73.
Verlander received a huge ovation from the crowd after striking out Dewayne Wise with his 124th and final pitch.
This is Verlander's fourth straight season with 200 strikeouts and sixth straight with 200 innings pitched.
The White Sox have lost seven straight to the Tigers. They were swept in a three-game series at Comerica in July, momentarily ceding first place to Detroit before taking it back in short order. Now the teams look set for a tense September. The Tigers begin a series with Cleveland on Monday, while the White Sox head back to Chicago for a 10-game homestand that includes a four-game showdown with Detroit from Sept. 10-13.
There was already a hint of contentiousness in this one, when Verlander and A.J. Pierzynski exchanged words during one of the Chicago designated hitter's two strikeouts.
"After the 1-0 pitch, he yelled something — two words that I could not repeat either one of them," Verlander said. "So I had some words back at him once he struck out."
Pierzynski downplayed the incident.
"The way (Max) Scherzer and Verlander pitched the last couple nights makes it tough on anybody," he said. "You could throw the '27 Yankees out there and they're going to get them out."
Scherzer went eight scoreless innings for Detroit on Saturday night.
Chicago slugger Adam Dunn missed his second straight game Sunday with a strained oblique.
NOTES: As expected, the Tigers recalled RHP Al Alburquerque from Triple-A Toledo before the game. He hasn't pitched for Detroit since offseason surgery on his pitching elbow. ... Jackson reached in the fifth on a weird error when first baseman Paul Konerko let the ball roll all the way until it hit the base and bounced away, allowing Jackson — who wasn't close to the bag yet — to arrive safely. ... Chicago's Tyler Flowers went from first to third on a wild pitch with two out in the seventh but was stranded. ... Detroit RHP Anibal Sanchez (2-4) starts today against Cleveland RHP Corey Kluber (0-3). ... Chicago LHP Hector Santiago (2-1) starts against Minnesota RHP Samuel Deduno (5-2).
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Slowly but surely, more Mass Effect 3 news is trickling out of BioWare. Firstly, the PC version of Mass Effect 3 will require an internet connection at launch, but will no longer require the connection afterwards. Considering BioWare isn't owned by Ubisoft, we'll hold them to that.
Local co-op, whether it's split-screen on console or via LAN on PC, also will not be supported in Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode. That's a tad unfortunate, given how recent co-op games, such as Uncharted 3 and Gears of War 3, offer these features.
You also won't be able to create your own multiplayer server. "Because of a lot of the match making systems are quite server intensive, we have no plans anytime soon to allow the creation of an offline server," BioWare's Jesse Houston explains in a new Q&A.
If you love griefing your friends, you'll be disappointed to know that friendly fire is also not a part of multiplayer. "We didn't believe it added a lot to the co-op experience," Houston explained, adding it may be available later as some sort of modifier to the game, but not at release."
Finally, Mass Effect 3's Kinect functionality will be stripped from multiplayer, mostly because you'll be using a headset to communicate with friends, not AI. "We'd want you to yell at them and not your TV," Houston noted.
Mass Effect 3 will be available on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on March 6th.


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This Rainbow A-OK, Not Gay, Says the Kremlin
Gays may have ruined the rainbow for the rest of the world, but officials at the Kremlin now say that Russia will have its rainbow flags and enjoy them, too. A top adviser declared that the rainbow flag flown by Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region, which looks very similar to the Pride Flag, does not violate the country's ban on LGBT propaganda.
"Regarding the similarity of this flag with the symbol of the gay movement, we explain that not every rainbow image is linked to sexual orientation," Georgy Vilinbakhov, a Kremlin advisor, reportedly wrote in an official response to an unnamed resident of the far eastern region who had raised concerns over the flag. Vilinbakhov goes on to note in the letter, shared by local website EAOMedia.ru, that Pride flags feature added "labels and images."
According to Buzzfeed , Vilinbakhov said that the flag of JAO, which is situated in the Russian Far East, bordering with Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of China, was officially determined to not be a gay symbol, now illegal under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law. The JAO was created by Josef Stalin in the 1930s in a bid to isolate the Soviet Union's Jews.
"Obviously, the above described flag, the flag of the Jewish Autonomous Region, whose foundation is a white cloth, has nothing to do with that," Vilinbakhov wrote. "This flag does not contradict the current law of the Russian Federation and so there is no basis to cancel or change it."
In an interview with Alexander Valyaev, who in 1996 designed the rainbow flag for the Jewish Autonomous Region, the creator pointed out the many differences between the flags, among them the number of stripes and colors present.
"On its flag the gay movement uses seven stripes, not six," Valyaev explained. The rainbow and their flag have nothing in common, it's totally different. The rainbow is a divine symbol, taken from the Bible. God threw the rainbow from the sky into the wilderness of the desert as a symbol of hope. Gays used this divine symbol, the rainbow, but removed from its spectrum the light blue color, so it's already not a rainbow."
The outlet did not reveal who had questioned the legality of the region's flag. A poll taken in July by the Levada Center, an independent Russian pollster, found that 76 percent of those polled supported Russia's ban on propaganda of "non-traditional relations."


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Since I am a rookie I will start with a problem
I have this problem
When the program starts, you will be
asked to input an amount of numbers to for your calculations. This can be any number of
numbers. No matter what number you put in, it should ask you for that amount of numbers.
For instance, if you put in 100, you will be expected to put in 100 numbers. Once you put in the
total numbers for use, your program should ask you for each number, while displaying how
many numbers you have put in and how many you have left to go. At the end, the program
should be able to show you the Sum, Difference, Product, and the average of all your numbers
This is my code so far ( it doesn't give me the proper result)
package javaapplication13;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class JavaApplication13 {
/** Main method */
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create a Scanner
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
// Read an initial data
System.out.print( "Enter a number of numbers to use in your calculation ");
int data = input.nextInt();
// Keep reading data until the input equals number of numbers
int sum = 0;
while (data !=0) {
sum += data;
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Stop ****in putting Novak and Nadal on the same side of the draw
Stop ****in putting Novak and Nadal on the same side of the draw
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Gee how disappointing a year this is turning into for Federer and what a time for Blake to finally beat the (for the meantime anyway) world number 1. I'd like to see Novak win it now but I'd still place my bets on Nadal winning gold.
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The color of immortality, nature and envy - you are truly a unique person. While clearly the color of nature, you also symbolize rebirth, fertility and hope in the world. On the other side of the spectrum, a natural aptitude to money with green coming to signify money and possibly even *********!
I love Rafa, but Novak at 2.62 vs. Nadal on hardcourt is too good to not take up. I put my bias aside and laid down the dough for Novak.
Whoever wins I'll be happy now.
Novak & Rafa produced a great game, delighted for Rafa and feel for Novak at the same time. You could see it meant so much to both players a real testiment as to why tennis should be in the Olympics.
Wow, awesome final set.
Rafa, what a man! Take home the gold son!
Spain vs. Chile final
Gonzalez will become the first tennis player to complete a full set of Olympic medals when he loses the final, pretty good effort frim him.
Novak delighted as he claimed bronze. Happy for him, pity he had to meet Rafa in the semi.
What a cool consolation for Federer. That has to feel good.
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At home, Brady wakes up to Theresa trying to call him. He ignores it and sighs. Brady flashes to Maggie telling him he's still behaving like an alcoholic. He finds her downstairs and apologizes. He doesn't want to live his life this way. She has to go but hopes he's sincere.
Theresa, at work, looks frustratedly at her phone and talks out loud about Brady ignoring her. She decides to do some work. John appears.
In the square, Jordan comes upon Sheryl and Nick looking at proofs in Club TBD. Sheryl asks Jordan why she's still in town. Nick excuses himself. Sheryl says Rafe must be happy. Jordan asks what she's doing with Nick Fallon. She says they're working together. Jordan asks about Lucas. She says that is going well professionally, and maybe personally. Jordan goes, and Nick returns. He acts interested that they knew each other before.
Sami joins EJ in the DiMera parlor and they make out. They talk about Kate and Gabi losing their minds last night. Sami clucks about Kate going on a date with Stefano. She gasps and wonders if that's why he needs erectile dysfunction drugs. EJ rushes over to shut the door and stops Sami's ranting about it. She decides she'll ask Kate. EJ wants her to leave it alone. Sami grumbles about Gabi not listening when it comes to Nick Fallon. She wants EJ to talk to her - he got through to Abigail. EJ flashes to sex with Abigail. Sami pleads. He agrees. EJ asks Sami to keep the 'ED thing on the DL' as she leaves.
At Club TBD, Lucas and Kate discuss Jordan. She insists it's about Rafe getting hurt. Lucas tells her to stop going after Jordan. Ben overhears. Kate says she'll do whatever it takes to find out what she's hiding. Lucas says she needs a new hobby. Sami appears wanting to talk to Kate about where she spent last night. Lucas leaves. Sami tells Kate that Gabi was on a date with Nick. Kate sighs that she should learn from her mistakes. Sami brings up Stefano. "Are you nuts?" Kate said she promised Chad she'd share a meal with his father. Kate wonders why she cares anyway. Sami says, "Because I like you and..." They both stop in shock. Kate finally says, "Sami. Me too...you." They agree they're frenemies. Kate says Gabi is the only one who can bring them trouble. Nearby, Jordan arrives. Ben tells her there was an older woman in there who has it in for her. Sami follows them outside.
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I have a short response to Obama's Libya speech at The Daily Beast. Suffice it to say, I didn't like it, and I don't think it did any of the things Obama needed to do to reassure the public that he and his advisors have a clue what they're doing. My contribution to the responses published last night had to be brief, so there is still much more to say.
As many others have noted, Obama defined the Libyan war as an expression of Americanism. For years and contrary to all the evidence, many opponents of Obama have denied that he accepted American exceptionalism, and they have tried to interpret everything he has done according to this completely false assumption. These people will have no idea what to make of Obama's speech. What I didn't emphasize often enough when correcting these misinterpretations was that we shouldn't want Obama to embrace American exceptionalism if it means that we are going to have put up with foreign policy idealism and recklessness.
One of the most obnoxious arguments that interventionists have used over the last month is that "America is different" when it comes to intervening in other nations' conflicts. If that is true, and I don't accept that it is, this is a flaw to be repaired rather than a virtue to be praised. As far as I can tell, it isn't true. Americans aren't any more likely to want to intervene on the other side of the planet to prevent atrocities, but it's also misleading to conflate refusal to intervene in another country's conflict with indifference or obliviousness to atrocities. There is something twisted in the idea that the chief way for a nation to express moral concern and compassion for people under attack is through the use of armed violence.
There is a pretense that humanitarian interventionists care more about different nations' shared humanity, but in practice they seem to have less awareness of shared humanity when it comes to urging military action against foreign governments and their supporters. Once the "bad guys" have been identified, humanitarians suddenly turn into hard-liners for the other side of the conflict and start mimicking the collective punishment arguments that other hawks routinely employ. It was officials in the last humanitarian interventionist administration that enthused about "crushing Serb skulls," but the attitude today seems to be much the same. What began as a mission to save Benghazi is turning into an occasion for Americans to start rooting for major assaults on Sirte and Tripoli. What seems to concern them most is that the rebel forces aren't capable of launching those assaults. Sirte may be a Gaddafi stronghold, and people there may be remaining supportive out of tribal loyalties, vested interests, fear, or some combination of the three, but if the U.S., allied and rebel forces end up doing to Sirte what U.S. forces did to Fallujah it will be inexcusable.
Praising a willingness to launch humanitarian interventions as an expression of American uniqueness is no less irritating than any other form of self-congratulation. It is a bit more incoherent when the intervention in question is one that Obama has been at pains to portray as anything other than American-led until last night. Even when it seems that the administration might be trying to extricate itself as quickly as possible from a conflict it mostly wanted to avoid, we still hear the same tedious refrains about "leadership" and America's special role.
Last night was a liberal expression of the same impulse that drives some people to insist that America is the greatest country in history. Where many mainstream conservative enthusiasts of American exceptionalism define that exceptionalism in terms of being the freest, most prosperous country or the one with the greatest social mobility, some liberals want to define it in terms of superior idealism or morality. It doesn't make it any better if Obama conceives of this as a struggle to make America more idealistic and moral. In fact, it makes it worse in some ways. It's one thing to recognize past American mistakes and crimes and vow never to do such things again, but it's something else entirely to see the use of military force as an appropriate means to expiate past national sins.
Beinart's response took a particularly odd turn when he wrote this:
That's what makes his Libya decision powerful. He knows that there are good reasons for Middle Easterners to fear when they see American planes overhead. And yet he is acting to show that it does not have to be that way.
Leaving aside the geographical confusion*, these are very strange sentences. Right now, if you're a Libyan and you're not on the side of the rebels, you have some good reasons to fear American planes overhead. Even anti-Gaddafi civilians in cities controlled by Gaddafi's forces are going to have reason to be afraid of the gunships and tank-killers buzzing overhead. Restrictive rules of engagement, precision weapons, and training notwithstanding, all of the people living in Sirte and Tripoli have good reasons to be afraid. The ease with which humanitarian interventionists seem to forget that they are cheering on the deliberate killing of people who have done nothing to them and theirs is bad enough, but the notion that America is making great moral progress if it uses force to kill the right sorts of people for the right reasons, and especially when the conflict has nothing to do with us, is simply evil.


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MOLINE, IL -- As the first new building in Phase I of the Western Illinois University-Quad Cities campus construction, the WIU-QC Riverfront Campus—which houses the School of Engineering; undergraduate classes in business and technology, human services and arts and sciences; and administrative offices—has another mark of distinction: being the first WIU-QC facility to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification.
The 60,000-square-foot facility on River Drive in Moline opened in January 2011 after nearly two years of construction. According to Bill Brewer, architect and director of facilities at WIU-QC, LEED is a nationally recognized accreditation process that helps building owners ensure they are constructing and operating sustainable facilities.
Certification is achieved by earning points for various sustainable-related initiatives based on the strict guidelines set by the U.S. Green Building Council during the design, construction and post-occupancy periods of a facility. In the case of the Riverfront Phase I building, examples of sustainable features include a geothermal heating and cooling system, energy-efficient lighting and controls, the usage of recycled building materials and finishes, a vegetative roof system and a 90 percent construction waste diversion from the landfill.
"Western has made a commitment to green building practices whenever it's feasible during a new construction project," Brewer said. "We're always targeting LEED Silver certification, and we're pleased to have achieved that credential for our first Riverfront Campus building."
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Despite popular belief, women were not born to shop, but instead have been constituted as the shoppers of society for particular reasons. So too, downtowns have not always been spaces of consumption, but instead became feminized shopping spaces in the mid to late 19th century for particular reasons. In this talk Mona Domosh examines how space structures our understanding of gender. She explores why and how gendered norms were literally inscribed into the spaces of late 19th century New York City, and the ways in which those spaces reinforced Victorian notions of separate spheres.
Mona Domosh, Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, received her PhD from Clark University. She is the author of Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in 19th-century New York and Boston (1996), the co-author of Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World (2001), and co-editor of Handbook of Cultural Geography (2003). Mona Domosh is founding co-editor of Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography.
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text: I just found this link on ESPN. It's under the NFC East blog and was pretty eyeopening about Beatty this past weekend. It was mostly positive about him and went pretty in depth. It's encouraging since Beatty was not very good last year and I had my doubts about him. But if he plays like this last weekend against Trent Cole then I think he can bulid off that and perform well the rest of the season.


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Capcom's Mega Man series has had a rough couple of years, including various canceled projects. At least one of them was scuttled without ever being announced, though: Maverick Hunter, a gritty first-person shooter reboot of the Mega Man X series. It was being developed by Armature Studio, a new developer composed of Metroid Prime talent.
Polygon reports that the project was only in development for about six months, but in that time Armature built a working prototype and had nailed down the general look and feel of the game. It was scrapped during greenlight meetings in late 2010, just before Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune left Capcom.
The character's armor was to be designed by Adi Granov, the concept artist behind the Iron Man films. Core concepts to the MMX series would have been reimagined, like replacing his X-Buster arm as a transforming handheld gun, and using the dash to finish off dazed enemies. It introduced new wrinkles as well, like the ability to combine weapons taken from enemies. It was to feature a reimagined version of Zero, along with a new human police officer character as a sidekick. The major plot points came from Inafune, but it was to be written by a western scenario writer.
If successful, the game would spawn a trilogy of Maverick Hunter games culminating in a third title starring Zero, as he fights against X, who had grown too powerful and intelligent to be controlled over the course of the series.
In only the last few years, Capcom has canceled Mega Man Legends 3, Mega Man Universe, and Mega Man Online. Scuttling Maverick Hunter brings that count up to four, of the ones we know about. Capcom recently announced a new Mega Man game is in development, but hasn't given any further details.
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Hello people. I finish my new game called SpongeBob.
It have good graphic and its classic platform game but little bit logical game.
Your mission is: collect all food and find the way to the finish.
Controls are little bit harder.
In the game look at the controls if you want to see again controls.
Controls: Use arrow keys to move, up to jump, if you are on ladder, hold l. Alt to clibm up and key down to climb down.
Press space to blow up. You have "blow up meter" that shows you how long you can stay in air. You have also 2 type of water.
killing water and normal water.
in normal water you have underwater HP that shows you your oxigen underwater. Killing water can kill you when you touch it.
You have many enemies in the game and you can save and load your game or activate autosave.
Now stop reading this and download my game!
In my game are cheats. Press ; that key under Esc to activate CheatWindow. Then enter a cheat and press ENTER to confrim.
If you want, send me a message and I will tell you cheats.


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Is There a Bright Side to the Phillies Skid?
With 6 straight losses, horrible defense, an anemic offense and banged up pitching staff, the 2012 Philadelphia Phillies are going nowhere fast. Unless of course the "somewhere" you are thinking of involves a deep, dark, black hole in an alternate universe.
But for those of us stuck in the reality of here and now, being a Phillies fan sucks right now. And there are no signs of relief on the way either.
I have been a Phillies fan for over 30 years and will always be a Phillies fan. I remember all the ups and downs; even the mention of the name "Joe Carter" still makes me want to vomit.
But this recent downhill spiral is harder to take than most. It is a combination of a lot of factors: Getting used to winning in the recent past; the enormous $175 million payroll; the injuries to key players; paying more for everything from parking to tickets to food at the ballpark; the utter depletion of the farm system to get all this expensive players; etc…
Before spring training even started, I predicted that the Phillies would not make the playoffs this year. I also hoped that I was wrong. But check out the trend:
2008: World Series win!
2009: NLCS Champs, World Series loss :O(
2010: NLDS Champs, NLCS loss
2011: NL East Division Champs; NLDS loss
The Phillies have literally gone down exactly 1 step on the postseason ladder every year since winning the World Series in 2008. If the trend continues, that means either a Wild Card spot or no playoffs at all.
And the off-season moves the Phillies made did not inspire confidence either. It was like Ruben Amaro Jr. tossed a coin and said, "Gee, I hope this is enough for us to scrape by with." Hmmm…no so much.
So let's take a few moments to review the bright side of cheering for a bad team. I worked very hard on this list so hang in there with me…
– If you can afford it, it will be a lot easier to find tickets to the games in a good spot (i.e. – not the nosebleeds).
– Games will be less crowded, therefore concession stand lines will be shorter (again, if you can afford to buy food at an overpriced stadium).
– Better parking spots!
– Less traffic!
– Lower expectations: It is easier to watch your team suck when you totally expect them to suck. Trust me…I have a lot of experience with this.
– Fewer people at games also means it should be easier to get autographs! And the players who were once too smug to sign should have a new attitude very soon.
– When someone on the street sees your Phillies gear and tells you how bad they suck, you can simply reply with, "Yes, we suck. But they are still my team." This is WAY less work than feeling the need to defend your team to a total stranger.
So who's with me for the next home stand?! Meet me Tony Luke's in the 3rd inning; don't worry, the line will be short so we won't miss much of the game and once we return to our seats behind home plate, we will have a great time cheering despite strike-outs, pop-ups and bad plays while easily fending off haters rooting for the opposing team.
It's a plan. Go Phils!


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Australian media personality Sarah Wilson, who was in Iceland in August, writes about her time in the country in a three-part post on her blog, the first of which is entitled "Icelanders are kooky."The crowd during an Of Monsters and Men concert in Reykjavík in July. Photo by Zoë Robert.
"Iceland is one of the weirdest places I've ever been to. As in weird-good," Wilson writes.
The journalist and television presenter says she was overwhelmed with the "cultural ticks, fashion quirks and mannerisms" she absorbed while in the country. "[...] the long daylight hours, the lunar-like landscape and the FRIGGEN cold (11 degrees and it was SUMMER)… and it all added up to a whole lotta weird. The weirdness of the place has spawned a people who fully embrace intuitive, kooky, whimsical, creative living," she continues.
Wilson describes Icelanders as "notoriously ascerbic", noting their "take-the-piss sense of humor." She also takes note of the "off-beat, no rules" focus on fashion.
The blog post is accompanied by photographs of Reykjavík by Australia-based photographer Marija Ivkovic who accompanied Wilson on her trip.
Wilson's second post is a guide to hiking in the country, in which she recommends going on a guided ice hike and climb.
Earlier this month, Wilson wrote about her interest in Icelandic food, namely skyr.
Wilson is perhaps best known as host of the first series of the reality-television series MasterChef Australia, which is screened on BBC Lifestyle.


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By Jeb Bush – Special to CNN — (Editor's note: Jeb Bush was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 and is chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.)
Kaleigh Fair had to make it work.
The Las Vegas teenager suffers from two different illnesses — one an excruciating immunodeficiency, the other a rare brain condition called Chiari malformation where portions of the brain protrude into the spinal cord.
When spending five hours a day hooked up to an IV prevented her from continuing classes at her traditional high school, Kaleigh didn't give up on her education. She transferred to the Nevada Virtual Academy, a tuition-free online public high school that individualizes curriculums for students of all learning abilities.
Inspired by Kaleigh's strength, her twin sister Danielle switched from her traditional high school to Nevada Virtual, as well, allowing her to receive a quality education while spending more time helping her sister overcome two life-threatening illnesses.
The Fair sisters graduated from Nevada Virtual Academy last spring and enrolled at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. After all the time she spent at the doctor's office, Kaleigh is pursuing a degree in nursing — through online courses, of course.
Parents, students and community members will gather at more than 3,000 events across the country this week in order to celebrate thousands of outstanding students like Kaleigh and Danielle, and the educational options that they've utilized in order to thrive when presented with situations that just a few years ago would have kept them on the educational sidelines.
The nationwide celebration is called National School Choice Week 2013. Led by a bipartisan, grassroots coalition, National School Choice Week celebrates the rights of parents and children to choose high-performing traditional public schools, public charter schools, private schools, magnet schools, home schools or virtual schools.
The right to a quality primary and secondary education is something that can and should be one of our most fundamental, uniting American issues — and digital education is no exception.
One of the ways digital education unites us is in the ubiquity of its tools; computers, tablets, and even cellular phones make up the future of 21st century communication. We can learn on and with these devices just as much as we use them recreationally. Thanks to technology, parents are empowered to choose not only the best school, but also the best course for their child.
Educational pioneers like Sal Khan of the Khan Academy are harnessing the power of "blended learning" — a classroom structure that harnesses the power of technology to empower teachers and allows students to learn at their own pace. In doing so, they're maximizing students' potential to succeed by opening their eyes to a more diverse, customized array of learning techniques than ever before.
Students in these programs can learn anywhere, at any time, with a customized course load that emphasizes what the student and his or her parents want their son or daughter to learn. Combined with the capacity for instantaneous feedback, this approach emboldens kids who have a demanding schedule, battle learning disabilities, learn at a different pace than others, or, in the case of Kaleigh, suffer from a medical condition that makes attending a traditional school impossible.
This type of customization liberates students from a wasteful, one-size-fits-all system borne from a bygone era and an archaic way of thinking — it's why we see it celebrated over and over again at National School Choice Week events.
Like the Fair sisters' Nevada Virtual Academy, or my home state's very own Florida Virtual Academies, many digital schools across America are, in fact, public. Money that goes to those schools, therefore, stays in the public domain and goes to certified public teachers. When a student transfers from a traditional public school to that virtual school, their per-pupil spending goes with them — other students' funding is not affected. In fact, many digital learning centers' most robust accomplishment might be their cost savings.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it costs an average of $7,848 to educate a student at a traditional Arizona public school. And yet, it costs more than $1,000 less to educate a student at based Carpe Diem schools, a leading education provider in the Southwest based in Yuma, Arizona. Carpe Diem isn't the cost exception — it's the norm. And it exemplifies how students transferring to a digital school can actively save taxpayers' money.
Digital learning is just one important element of the overall school choice movement being celebrated during National School Choice week — and rightfully so. There is no silver bullet. There is no one-size-fits-all option. There can and must be only a proliferation of ever-growing options so that students and parents can embrace whatever educational scenario is best for them.
While digital learning may not be the best way to learn for all students, it is the best way to learn for some students. That very fact alone is defense enough for the right of digital schools — and all forms of choice — to rise in the marketplace of educational ideas.
Every child is not a Kaleigh Fair and might not choose virtual learning. But every parent deserves to choose the education that best fits their child's needs.
It might be their only chance for success.
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