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Proposed changes to the landfill's tire disposal program
During Tuesday's Butler County Commission meeting, Public Works Director Darryl Lutz and Butler County Landfill E-Waste Coordinator Linda Johnson talked to the commissioners about proposed changes to the landfill's tire disposal program.
"This is an alternative to shipping tires off to a recycler," said Lutz. "We've got a program to use a local vendor."
The alternative is to have the local vendor come to the landfill to cut the tires up and keep them at the landfill instead of sending them to a recycler.
Johnson told the commissioners the proposed local vendor has been disposing of the landfill's aluminum since 2008. She also estimates the amount of tires that would go into the landfill would be relatively small, about 10 tons each month.
Some tires, such as heavy industrial tires, would still need to be shipped to a recycler.
The county has been paying $15,400 to a tire recycler each year. If implemented, the proposal to have vehicle and tractor tires cut up and kept at the landfill will cost around $6,700 annually.
The commissioners expressed approval for the change, so Lutz will work on a formal proposal to bring before the commission during a later meeting.
In other business, the commissioners:
• approved a homestead lot split with agricultural preservation overlay in order to separate an existing homestead and five acres from a parcel containing approximately 472.5 acres by Stephen and Louis Vestring.
• approved a homestead lot split with agricultural preservation overlay in order to separate an existing homestead and five acres from a parcel containing approximately 77.1 acres by Bert Bonham.
• voted to remand an application by Johnnie L. Shoemaker to rezone approximately 40 acres from an AG-40 agricultural classification to an RE residential estate classification back to the planning commission. The motion passed 4-1 with Commissioner Mike Wheeler opposed.
• approved a request by Vincent A. Burnett on behalf of Kenton Hupp to establish a general office for engineering firm KLH Consulting on property in the RR rural residential zoning district. The commissioners approved a conditional use permit with six conditions.
• approved an application by Charles W. Roach to rezone approximately 40 acres from an AG-40 agricultural classification to an RE residential estate classification.
• approved a pilot program for a city-wide cleanup program for the City of Augusta. In the past, the city has allowed residents to bring waste to a dumping location for a set amount of time. City officials believe those who live outside Augusta have been bringing trash during this time, and are looking for ways to make sure only Augusta residents use the cleanup program. Instead of the cleanup time, the city will be offering residents two coupons to take trash to the landfill. These coupons can be used any time during the year, and the coupon holder will not have to pay the landfill fee. Residents must go to the utility office to pick up their coupons and be able to prove Augusta residency.
• designated the week of Saturday, April 13 through Saturday, April 20, 2012 for the annual county-wide cleanup program.
• approved a renewal of a KDHE grant for cathode ray tube management through the county's e-waste collection program. This is a recurring grant that provides $15,000 annually for the disposal of cathode ray tubes.


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As I've said in the cleanup template, this article is really short, doesn't really contain much useful information, and I seriously doubt that people will be looking for this. However, I have a few suggestions for things that could also be added to make the article longer. You could maybe mention that, until GTA Vice City, the only animals that were in the games were birds - if I'm remembering correctly, this dates back to GTA London, where there were pigeons (or possibly seagulls) that were pretty much just static props (they "acted" the same as the traffic cone from GTA 1 when run over with a vehicle), however, I'd need someone to confirm that, as I haven't played GTA London since 1999. Seagulls then reappeared in GTA III, but were merely a minor visual aspect, until GTA Vice city, where they could be "sniped". GTA San Andreas featured other birds alongside seagulls; eagles (in the desert) and dove-like white birds, I'm fairly sure there's another bird that does a "loop" a couple of times in the air before disappearing. Then, of course, there's the "Flying Rats" in GTA IV. I suppose you could also mention that animals were - apparently - planned to appear in the woodland areas of San Andreas, but were taken out later in the game's development. Lastly, some pictures may help as well.
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Having surgery; prayers please
I am having surgery to repair 3 hernias next Monday (2/4). The surgery isn't scheduled until 3:30, so I'll most likely be here in the a.m., but not sure how I'll feel on Tuesday ... we shall see. It's out-patient. I'm praying that this will finally get rid of the pain on my right side ... and my left too. I had always thought the pain on the left (which I've had much longer) was from my back, how surprised I was to find I had a hernia there also.
I was supposed to be flying to Greenville AL next Wednesday to spend my birthday with my cousin Judy & my aunt that I haven't seen in nearly 15 years; another cousin, from MS, was driving over to spend it with us. When I talked to Judy Monday night I found out that my stepmom (in Mobile) was planning a birthday party for me on Friday and a lot of family (again most I haven't seen since my grandmother passed nearly 15 years ago) were going to come. Can you spell ... HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!!! Of course they are all more concerned with my health and told me to just don't worry and to take it easy. I called my mom (I feel like she's a mom & don't like to use the term step; she's actually my mother's 1st cousin too) and spoke to her and she said the same thing and is wishing she could be here. Unfortunately she is taking care of her 85 yr old sister who is ill.
Anyhow ... life goes on, but prayers would be appreciated. I'll update when I can.
I hope it goes really well for you, and that you feel a LOT better! Sorry about your trip :(
Prayers,Take it so easy the first 8 weeks after surgery and feel so much better.


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It seems to me that the big winner from the whole Miers brouhaha is Luttig. Before her nomination, he had practically no chance of being nominated, since he's not a woman or a minority. But now, every time someone says Miers is unqualified or mediocre, they add "unlike Luttig, who is a brilliant, supremely qualified conservative intellectual." Why people don't mention Karen Williams or Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown as the primary preferred alternative, I don't know. Luttig is getting huge free publicity. If the Miers nomination is withdrawn or if she is not confirmed by the Senate, there will be huge pressure for the President to nominate "Luttig or someone like Luttig."Very interesting. And clearly, this ties to ideas about affirmative action. Some Miers supporters are even throwing the word "sexist" around. Don't say she's not qualified, or you're a sexist? That translates into: See, you wanted a woman hired, and this is what we had to do to find a woman, so please be discreet and don't mention her inferiority. Don't compare her to Roberts. If we could pick a man, we'd find someone lustrous, like Luttig. But everyone says we shouldn't. We tried picking Roberts for the O'Connor slot, and everyone complained. We're doing what you insisted upon, so you'll have to accept the consequences.
How insulting to women this is! And the implicit critique of affirmative action is quite cheap, because, as the emailer notes, there are impressive women the President could have chosen.


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Tempest over Titian
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise
Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise
Le Siècle de Titien is the fourth major show of sixteenth-century Venetian art in ten years, following The Genius of Venice in London in 1983–1984, Titian in Venice and Washington in 1990, and Jacopo Bassano in Bassano del Grappa and Fort Worth last year, to name only the most ambitious. Venetian painting is beautiful and historically important, but this alone does not account for these four spectacular exhibitions. Equally important is the convenient fact that Venetian artists of this period produced more works on canvas than their predecessors or contemporaries elsewhere in Italy. In most instances curators are rightly unwilling to allow panels to travel, but they have fewer reservations about canvases. Thus this is the only type of Italian Renaissance painting that can be exhibited in quantity.
Even so, many Venetian masterpieces are too large or too precious to be moved, so the number of works available for loan is quite limited. This in part explains why in both Paris and London there were a number of paintings by artists of the Venetian territories on the mainland, and why there was a good deal of overlap with previous exhibitions, with Titian's late Flaying of Marsyas, for instance, putting in its third appearance. But on this occasion the organizers were able to take advantage of a nucleus of major works from the Louvre, particularly by Titian, and they have managed to assemble a remarkable group of great paintings, as well as an impressive series of drawings.
An important function of shows of this kind is to attract a public that is unwilling or unable to invest the time and money to see the individual works in their normal settings. At the same time, the inevitable risk of wear and tear on the paintings themselves is usually defended on the grounds that bringing them together in one place is a contribution to knowledge. In the present case the claim is certainly justified, since the exhibition includes an unprecedented number of works by or ascribed to Giorgione and his two closest known followers, Sebastiano del Piombo and the young Titian.
The early works of Sebastiano present relatively few major problems of attribution, although three of the smaller paintings exhibited as his in Paris were clearly by other hands. By contrast, the career of Giorgione and his relationship with Titian is the most contentious single chapter in the history of Renaissance art, and this exhibition provides the best opportunity anyone is likely to have of seeing so many of the key works assembled in one place.
The complexity of the problem will be evident to even the most uninformed visitor. Thus the second room contains no fewer than eighteen pictures, all of them ascribed to Giorgione, but no one can fail to wonder how scholars have been able to establish that a group of works so wholly inconsistent in style were painted by the same artist over little more than a decade. The paintings attributed to early Titian, too, seem surprisingly diverse,…
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Actor/writer Bilal Dardai has lived his life balanced between worlds. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, he moved with his family to Downers Grove when he was only a month old.
"My mother is Pakistani and my father is Indian," Dardai explains. "Finding the balance between American culture and Pakistani culture was the challenge growing up. ... It was a lot of negotiating."
"Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind"New Year's Eve show: Doors open at 9:30 p.m. for pre-show refreshments; performance begins at 11. New Year's toast (champagne or cider) at midnight Monday, Dec. 31
Regular showtimes: 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, Chicago. (773) 275-5255 or neofuturists.org.
Tickets: Admission $9 plus roll of a six-sided die ($10-$15) for regular performances, $50 for New Year's Eve
Theater was a safe zone for Dardai then -- and now. He was recently named co-artistic director, with Megan Mercier, of The Neo-Futurists, an innovative Chicago theater company.
He discovered theater in high school.
"We really threw ourselves into productions," Dardai says. "There were plenty of nights I was there until 8 or 9."
When Dardai wasn't working in theater, he retreated into words. "My mom taught me to read before kindergarten," he says. "I was pretty much reading when I was 4."
Soon after, he started to write. And he has been doing theater and writing ever since.
Dardai majored in rhetoric and creative writing at the University of Illinois. His theater work took off five years after graduating when, in 2004, he joined the cast of Neo-Futurists' "Too Much Light Makes the Baby go Blind."
"I had first seen the show toward the end of high school," he says.
The cast writes and performs new material every week. They appear as themselves on stage, speaking from personal experience.
With "Too Much Light," Dardai, as a writer and actor, had found a home where he could exercise both of his creative outlets at once.
Over the past eight years, Dardai estimates he has written between 200 and 300 short pieces for the show, many of them autobiographical works exploring the world around him, and the balancing act that is his life.
"Too Much Light" continues into 2013, and welcomes the new year with a special show.
"The goal," Dardai says, "is to start the show at exactly 11 p.m. Ideally we will be finishing the show and handing out champagne at midnight."


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Gorillas still under severe security threat
In this fragile and insecure context, the UK-based oil company SOCO is still moving ahead with its plans to look for oil in the Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site. Leader of WWF's Green Heart of Africa Global Initiative Marc Languy says, "We know that SOCO has put all its activities around Lake Edward on hold because of the recent fighting. But this doesn't mean it has changed its plans to start exploration. In fact, SOCO now own 85% of the concession after recently buying the shares of Ophir Energy, another UK-based oil company." In an extremely poor region with a government still is not able to manage the potentials profits from the countries resources, the oil rush led by European companies will have a strong destabilizing effect on the park and neighboring communities.
Not only are the mountain gorillas under threat, but hippo families are being killed by militia groups, with their meat sold in return for weapons. The hippo population in Virunga used to be the largest single population in the world with an estimated 27,000 in Lake Edward in the 1970s. They make up a critical component of the ecological system. In 2003, however only 350 were left. Thanks to conservation efforts of park authorities and WWF, hippo numbers have increased to 1,200 today. The recent violence again puts this protected species under sever threat.
Armed militias present in Virunga National Park and the whole of eastern DRC profit from the easy access to natural resources such as coltan, gold, and, if the oil companies continue their exploration in the future, perhaps the new black gold --crude oil. This makes the park a very dangerous place to be for the animals and people living in it and for those who rely on its unique ecosystems for their livelihoods. After a couple of years of relative stability in the park with steady growth in ecotourism and its associated economic benefits to the state and local communities, the current conflict is a huge morale set-back for all people protecting and depending on the park.


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Marcus Thornton?
First I'll start by saying that I am aware we have a new owner, and a new GM. I am VERY hopeful that we have an entirely new scouting department as well. Since 2005 (CP3) the Hornets have got to be one of the worst drafting teams in the league. Let's hope that this years score is a great sign of things to come.
Rd1 Hilton Armstrong
Rd1 Cedric Simmons
Rd2 Marcus Viniciuos
Are any of these guys still in the league? Honestly, this might be one of the worst drafts of all time? Hilton gave us maybe 30 good minutes ----- in his entire career. I know we traded Simmons for Wesley, but I am just looking at the player selection and scouting ability.
Rd1 Julian Wright
Rd2 Adam Haluska
Wright was a poor choice. Adam (who the hell are ya?) . Just messing with his name, 2nd rounders are not expected to produce. If you get a good one, fantastic, if you don't oh well
Rd1 Darrell Arthur
Traded for cash?? We took our entire draft and traded it for cash?
Rd1 Darren Collison
Collison is a good one. This is the first decent pick we made since CP3 IMO. He will continue to get better and should have a nice long career. Honestly, we could really use him on the team now. His speed with our young horses?
Rd1 Cole Aldrich
Instantly traded, for Q. Pon and some cash maybe? But as far as player selection. He has done nothing. He will probably be out of the league in another year. Q. Pon never did anything for us as well.
Rd2 Josh Harrellson
So, that is 5 years of drafts after CP3, and only 1 good pick - Collison. That is a pretty bad track record. Now, Demps did not have a lot to work with in 2011 so I'll give him a pass. It appears we had a FANTASTIC draft in 2012. Honestly, I believe that Miller is going to end up being a really good player for us. Love his BBall IQ and he is nailing open jumpers. You don't need to be an elite athlete to be successful, as long as the smarts and intangibles are there.
Has the scouting department been revamped? Who has final say in the draft process? How are we feeling about our future drafting abilities? The NBA isn't like the NFL where you MUST build through the draft, but it is still a very important part of a franchises continued success.
I disagree about 2012. I think it's obvious that both Davis and Rivers are going to be major busts. And Miller is doomed from the start. That's just me, though.
"Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal."- Demetri Martin
Left out Thornton.
Left out Craig Brackins who was included in the trade for Jason Smith.
Emeka Okafor - Joe Smith - Carmelo Anthony - Manu Ginobili - Jason Williams
Al Jefferson - James Posey - Aaron McKie - Shaun Livingston
Aldrich was traded to get rid of Morris Peterson. We got Pondexter, who we traded for Vasquez. We acquired our backup PG AND got rid of Morris Peterson's contract with that pick. That is far more value than Cole Aldrich has provided to this point (and look at my avatar--I love Cole Aldrich).
Josh Harrellson was traded for cash that we used to buy out Gustavo Ayon and bring him to the states. Ayon gave us a great year, and then allowed us to acquire Ryan Anderson, one of the most underrated big men in the league and a critical piece of our core.
Think of the draft like playing chess--you have to look several moves ahead in order to understand Dell. These draft decisions were made for financial reasons, and those good financial choices directly allowed us to obtain a great (backup) PG and a sixth man of the year favorite. Not a bad yield for a late lottery and second round pick.
Edit: Totally forgot about getting Brackins, and consequently Jason Smith, as part of the Aldrich trade.
Listen, I don't think Dell is infallible. I understand why people point to the almost Lakers trade and Gordon's free agency as negatives. However, Dell has been GREAT in using his draft picks. I just don't see how you can criticize his draft-related moves--ALL of them have been great moves in the end.
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Is this "analysis" supposed to only rate what the did for the hornets and not what they netted?
"I don't know if people know I dislocated my pinkie finger. And [Tyreke] told me, 'You wanna go home or you wanna be here?' I want to be here. And he said, 'All right, then go tape it up and let's play. Let's go. We not stoppin' at no stores. Straight gas. That's what we do, just keep going.'"
I left out Thornton because we did not draft him.
Again, not questioning Demps ability to shift pieces, moreover trying to focus on the actual player selection. Aldrich was a high first rounder that we traded to dump a contract for a lower first rounder that we then traded for another low 1st rounder? We could have just traded back in the draft to dump Peterson's expiring and ended up with Bledsoe 8 picks later, and would probably be in a better situation.
1. Try to keep chris Paul and build a team around him. Failure
I don't blame this on Dell. The CP3 situation was brewing well before he got here.
2. Get a good deal for Paul. Wash
I'll give him a wash bc he was going to take a deal that was worse than this one until Stern ultimately veto'd it and we ended up getting some expiring contracts, a hurt player, a player with an extremely low floor and an extremely high ceiling.
3. Begin Rebuilding After the Paul Trade. Pass- So Far
Dell has rid himself of terrible contracts (Outside of Gordon at this point). Gotten what seems to be a good draft and has space to go after guys in FA. We also signed Ryan Anderson, have some guys that would make EXCELLENT bench players with a strong starting cast (Vasquez, Miller, Smith, Anderson).
You really can't say "Dell didn't know on draft night that we would eventually get Vasquez, so I'm going to call it a bad pick." He knew he would get SOMETHING good out of it, and in the end, that was true.
There is data (too lazy to find it right now) on ESPN that has measured teams draft picks relative to expected wins a player at that position would produce and the Hornets rank 8th according to that metric since 2002.
Fans of teams remember with superhuman accuracy how well or poorly their teams do, but they sometimes fail to broaden their view and realize every team has a ton of busts, so while you feel your team does a poor job of drafting, they might not relative to the entire league.
That's fine- point out all the Hornets busts, but then look around the league and find the teams without worst picks. Even better, go find out how many teams have drafted as well outside of the lottery as the Hornets (Collison, Thornton, Bass, West, Miller) and you will see that while you are frustrated with the misses, there are fan bases who would die to have the Hornets track record
I was so upset that we traded Collison and mostly Marcus Thornton. It was pretty obvious that cp3 would leave sooner or later. They could have formed part of our future now.
The Hornets have been drafting bums every season, hope this one IS finally the "Year", and we start having a bright future.
I am still searching for answers to my post however, I am not challenging Demps' ability to draft players or manage players/contracts. I am trying to see if the hornets have revamped their scouting department. I am hoping that whomever has been "director of scouting" or whatever it would be called has been upgraded.
Again, only wanted to focus on our ability to scout / draft talent. I am not criticizing Demps or his abilities as a GM to manage the cap and get great value in trades.
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The German army's Marder armored infantry fighting vehicle is leaving Afghanistan after a four-year deployment.
Bundeswehr TV has produced a video showing a Marder being prepared to be airlifted by leased Antonov An-124 to the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon for its sea journey back to Germany. This includes nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops spraying the vehicle with formic acid to prevent it from bringing animal diseases back home.
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Colleges get new life under state Senate budget bill
Four Texas community colleges facing closure will escape the axe under a preliminary Texas budget submitted by state senators Monday.
The four institutions, which include Odessa College, would have had their state funding eliminated under the House version of the budget, which was released last week. Under the Senate version, however, funding has been restored.
Aside from Odessa College, Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Frank Phillips College in Borger and Ranger College would be closed under the House plan to slash $145 million in state funding for Texas community and junior colleges.
State Sen. Kel Seliger, whose district includes both Odessa and Frank Phillips, applauded the Senate action.
"This is consistent with the value provided to the people of Texas and their future by the community college system," Seliger said in a statement released Monday. "I started working on this issue the moment I heard of the cuts proposed in the House budget last week. I appreciate (this) recognition of the invaluable role that these community colleges play in educating our workforce."
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I want to archive my old emails so that they are still accessible to my email client but do not clutter up my PC. But I still want my recent emails available when offline. So some sort of cloud storage would be good. But a full-blown cloud service might cut me off from recent stuff when I am offline.
For similar reasons I don't want to be too dependent on a proprietary storage format, but something that the average mail client can navigate happily.
Currently using Evolution and storing everything locally. Can I, er, evolve archive storage onto the cloud or would I be better finding a more modern app?


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University's Department of Theatre and Dance will host "Shepardfest" — short plays, monologues and short stories by noted playwright and actor Sam Shepard — the last two weekends in October.
"'Shepardfest' focuses on the transformation of Shepard's writing style from absurdist abstraction to rock 'n' roll and country and western plays," said director Gary Grant, professor of theater at Bucknell.
"These works will take us on a unique inner journey through the profound changes that have occurred in Mr. Shepard's artistic life over his prolific 45-year career as the most important American playwright of his generation."
Drawing upon Shepard's 50-plus plays as well as well as screenplays, short stories and music compositions, "Shepardfest" will offer two completely different programs. Each performance begins at 8 p.m. in Tustin Studio Theatre.
· Oct. 22, 23, 24, 25: "Killer's Head," a rambling monologue blending horror and banality in a murderer's last thoughts before electrocution; "The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife," an operetta exploring the demise of the Old West; and "Chicago," where Stu sits in a bathtub while his girlfriend packs to leave for a new job in the city; "Motel Chronicles," monologues taken from one of Shepard's earliest short story collections; and two stories from his latest publication, Day Out of Days.
· Oct. 29, 30, 31 and Nov. 1: "Cowboy Mouth," an autobiographical play co-written with rock 'n' roll poet, Patti Smith; "Red Cross," about the timely topic of bedbugs, and "Tongues," a play about voices; and "Cruising Paradise," a story drawn from Shepard's short story collection.
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A musical manuscript of "California Girls" is one of the Beach Boys items to be auctioned.
A massive collection of Beach Boys memorabilia is up for auction, with goodies including what seems to be the band's first royalty check for $990, handwritten scores for hits like "Good Vibrations," personal photos and letters and dozens of signed contracts. The collection was discovered at a Florida storage facility and was sold unopened to a buyer after a long run of missed storage payments, the The Associated Press reports. The buyer found quite the surprise upon opening the boxes.
Brian Wilson on another Beach Boys reunion: "Doubt it"
The items are being sold as one unit and are expected to bring in several million dollars. "We thought it would be a crime to break it up," said Ted Owen of the Fame Bureau, the London-based firm leading the auction. Owen touts the collection as unique because of the handwritten scores that showcase Brian Wilson's arranging and songwriting talents.
Beach Boys releasing 50th anniversary tour compilation
"What's striking is just how creative and detailed it is," Owen said. "You get the notes, then you move into the music sheets, he does the horn construction, the violin construction, you see the song development. This is right from the beginning -- well thought-out melodies, well thought-out harmonies. It's an inside view of the construction of songs, and his genius, really."
The items appear to have been placed in the storage unit for safekeeping in the mid-Seventies by a relative of a band member. The Beach Boys attempted to secure legal ownership of the memorabilia, but Owen said the archives were ruled a fair find and the rights are all clear for sale. The band is not too thrilled about the situation.
"I can confirm that the band is aware of the auction," Beach Boys representative Jay Jones said. "The band will not be available for interviews in regards to this matter." The auction ends May 15th.
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for the record I don't like nicknames like that at all. while they might be cute now you know family is still going to call him "Prissy Boy" when he is grown up and somehow at 20ish prissy boy takes on a whole new meaning.......
To most of us, "prissy" is not a derivative of "kissy", it is a word used to describe a feminine male and it is usually used in a derogatory manner. I think this is what the woman was responding to.Obviously the family is not using the nickname in this way, but it may open the child up to unwanted chastising by other children in the future. Something to think about it.
I can't think of a positive connotation to the word "prissy" whether it's used for a boy or a girl. I wouldn't want it as a nickname.
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LISLE – Benet Academy announced the following students from the Class of 2014 were named semifinalists in the 2014 Merit Scholarship Competition: Daniel Bensen of Downers Grove, Maria Hanna of Naperville, Stephen Hubona of LaGrange, John Stucky of Lisle, Daniel Weithers of Wheaton, Ryan Wolfe of Naperville, Mary Kate Zimmerman of Naperville, Ariana Zlioba of Lisle, and Nicole Zolman of Downers Grove.
Semifinalists are chosen by their high scores on the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualify Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors.
These academically talented students will have the opportunity to continue in competition for Merit scholarship awards worth $35 million that will be offered next spring.


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We blogged about this last month - created by Interactive Things in Zurich for the City of Geneva and shown at the 2012 Lift conference, this week's O'Reilly radar's visualization of the week illustrates the digital traces left by people in geneva when they use their mobile phones. Its awesome. Click on the image for the video..
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MEMBERS of the Essendon staff were consuming supplements that would have been illegal for their players to take under the world anti-doping code, according to the club's former sports science chief.
Stephen Dank, the man at the centre of an investigation into the club's possible use of banned substances, has claimed the players were injected with nothing more than vitamins, and not given any illegal products, with or without their consent.
He said the program involved ''detailed discussion'' with coach James Hird and other members of the club's coaching and medical staff, and that everything the players were given was logged on the club's intranet site.
As he was speaking the parents of Essendon players were listening to the club's explanation. Parents were tight-lipped as they entered the administration department, with one mother, who wished to remain anonymous, saying she was ''hopeful'' of some answers.
Dank also claimed that after being interviewed by the Australian Crime Commission last September, before he was sacked by Essendon, he had satisfied investigators that he had not breached any rules.
''They were obviously quite happy with what I had discussed with them, and I figured that must have been consistent with whatever information they had. And they indicated to me they were happy with that information,'' said Dank.
''They said they didn't think I had done anything wrong.''
Dank, speaking on the ABC's 7.30, said he would often consult with Essendon players while a coach was present, and that they, club doctor Bruce Reid and suspended conditioning coach Dean Robinson were fully informed of the program.
He said some of the coaches - who are not bound by the World Anti-Doping Agency code - were taking supplements that would have been illegal for the players to take.
''Look, there were some differences in what we offered the coaches. Let's face it, the coaches themselves are not subjected to any WADA code. Off the top of my head three, four or five were taking vitamin supplements, protein supplements,'' he said.
''To be perfectly honest a couple of coaches were using supplements that were a little bit outside the WADA code but again, they were entitled to it and [there was] nothing illegal in those.''
Dank, whose work with rugby league club Manly has also been questioned, denied players were delivered intravenous peptides, and were in fact injected with vitamin B and D, both compliant with the code on performance-enhancing drugs.
He drew a clear line between his work with anti-ageing clinics and his work for Essendon, saying it was no different to a situation ''where a club doctor in his medical bag will carry certain things which will of course be prohibited in a sporting sense but they can use it in a therapeutic setting''.
Dank also said Essendon's players were fully informed throughout last season of the substances they were taking, and that the consent forms they signed reaffirmed their understanding of the program.
''Often at early times, particularly in the early stages, we'd get them to reaffirm what they were taking and what they were doing … there was a lot of discussion with the players on that,'' he said.
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Interesting report listing the top 25 academic football teams.
OT - The College Football Top 25 – As Ranked By Academics - Michigan 21
Not quite. That is ranking of the current top 25 only. So being 21st out of 25 isn't exactly impressive.
"the New America Foundation bases its rankings on several factors: how a football team's graduation rate compares to that of the school's overall male student body, how a team's black-white graduation gap compares to the male black-white graduation gap in the general student population, and the spread between a football team's black graduation rate and the school's overall graduation rate for black men."
That doesn't sound like it's ranking the quality of a school's academics.
Yeah seriously. Northern Illinois gets a bunch of points because it's players graduate higher than the general student body (72% white players/63% black players - 56% white general student/30% black general student), even though their overall player graduation rate is a 66%
Yeah.... if this were ranking the schools as a whole and not limiting to the football teams, we'd be somewhere between 3 and 5 on this list.
The fact that Boise State and San Jose State are in the top six tells you enough about these rankings.
On the flip side, look at the team from Michigan, a school with a strong academic reputation, yet finishes near the bottom of these rankings. While Michigan graduates 88% of its students, only 59% of Wolverine football players get their diplomas. While the black-white graduate gap on the football team is only four points worse than black-white gap for all male students, just 47% of Michigan's black football players graduate, compared with 70% of Michigan's black male students overall.
Read more: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/12/11/the-college-football-top-25-as-ranked-by-academics/#ixzz2EqWFhTha
Less than half of Michigan's black football players are graduating? That seems really, really low. And I mean that in a "I follow the team/roster close enough that I'm usually aware when kids leave school before graduateing" way, not an educational statistics way. I assume that includes transfers, but still. Less than half? I'm legitimately surprised.
And a 59% rate for the entire team is only slightly less surprising.
They use a "federal graduation rate" which does not take into account attrition by transfer or early entry to NFL like the GSR. The formula also takes into account APR which Michigan is slowly recovering from after damaged in Rich Rod years.
I expect our ranking will rise in the next couple years after our attrition rate normalizes back to average.
This only counts guys who graduate within a 5-6 year window. Players who go on to the NFL often don't graduate that soon, though they often return eventually in the offseason and finish their degrees.
This metric is deeply flawed (does anyone really believe Boise's football team is better academically than Stanford's?), but that still doesn't excuse that Michigan is near the bottom.
Yeah....that list is bogus. No way 20 of those schools are better institutions than UM. Hell, number four, Boise State, couldn't join the PAC-10(at the time) because of academics.
I have my problems with it, too, but "bogus" doesn't quite stretch to cover a complex set of criteria, IMO.
I'm OK with "bogus" as a description for the list. "Bogus" is in the dictionary between "biased" and "bullshit."
There is at least the potential, perhaps even the liklihood in many cases, that a school that is less rigorous academically would come out higher using the article's system.
Indeed. Boise State is essentially a 4 year community college.
In addition, any players who leave early for the NFL draft are going to count as not graduating. While it's commendable to stick it out 4 years and get a degree, I would have had a hard time turning down a few guaranteed million job offer when I was a junior in college.
Thankfully, no one in the real world (for me, medical school admissions) agrees with that, as I'm constantly complimented on the rigor of my undergrad education...there's simply no way that UM isn't one of the top 10 educational institutions in the United States.
Wait... top 10? Are we talking about the medical school still?
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Penn, Caltech, Northwestern etc. off the top of my head may disagree.
It really depends on the program too. Michigan engineering, for example, is far better than any of the Ivy League schools' engineering programs. But nobody would say that Michigan is better than Harvard, etc. in maybe core science or other literature programs. Not to say Michigan isn't up there though. One of the reasons we aren't in the top 10 on most rankings list is just because of the size of the school. Since there's a large number of slots, even though the top percentiles for things like ACT score is awfully high, the 25th percentile is still on the lower end if we were to be a top 10 school, and college rankings sites take things like that into account way too much.
I disagree that ACT/SAT scores are given too much emphasis. The quality of your students does affect the quality of your school. The ACT and SAT both have their flaws, but they do weed out high quality students from poor quality ones well enough. The average writing ability of students in a University of Michigan first year writing requirement class is so low that the level of instruction is lower than some high school classes (because the level of instruction was at the level of most of the students in the class). This isn't as big of a problem in math or science classes (and some others like economics) where if you get left behind you get left behind, but in the Humanities for instance where there's a lot of Socratic method being used it matters. Michigan is a good school, but it admits a lot of students that better schools would not. Consequently, there's some handholding that goes on (that isn't limited to remedial instruction).
I understand your point, and agree it's important, but I was saying that the size of Michigan has something to do with the lower standards too. We can't say we're going to accept 5,000 incoming freshman all with near-perfect scores, it just doesn't happen. It'd be a lot different if we only accepted 1,000 like a lot of schools ranked above us. Michigan's 25th percentile ACT score is something like 28 (that's the number I saw for a year or two ago, I think it went up since then), which ranks below a number of smaller schools. But our 75th percentile score is a 33 I believe (someone told me its even higher for engineers, but I'm not sure about that), which is very good, and extremely good for a public school. Just the size of the school leads to quite a bit of a range, and you can see that range if you ever see the grade distribution for a class like econ or organic chemistry, for example.
Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Michigan is a top tier institution in both academics and campus life, in my opinion possibly the best mix of both anywhere in the country.
I'd rather spend winter in Palo Alto.
There are few institutions that can match the comprehensive rankings of UM, when considering the medical, law, business, engineering, and liberal arts departments.
U chicago, duke, brown and dartmouth probabaly. But as mentioned above, all of these schools aren't as comprehensive as far as all fields are concerned.
not OT.
The attrition from coaching changes greatly affects these rankings.
When Alabama and Florida are ranked higher than Michigan based on academics...yea it's a joke. I lived in Florida and their school system is an utter joke. Even my friends that went to the University said it wasn't that much different from highschool. Sorry if there are any alums here, but just reporting on experience and from people that have graduated.
It only compares athletic grad rates to overall grad rates and the differences in those same rates between black and white students. Basically if your overall school has low grad rates that helps you in the academic rankings.
is rewarded because a huge percent of its student body doesn't graduate and doesn't ever have players leave for the NFL, whereas almost everyone from Michigan does graduate and the team does have players leave for the NFL, hmm...
He went to Boise State....that is all you need to know.
THIS RANKING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ACADEMIC QUALITY. Its a poorly titled article at best, misleading title at worst. Its about graduation rates. There is not one study in the world that links graduation rates to acedemic quality. Not a single person would argue that Northern Illinois is a "better" school than over half the schools on that list.
It might not be completely useless to compare player graduation rates to the overall school. I think a school should be making efforts to help student athletes to get those numbers as close as possible. But that has nothing to do with quality.
I just can't believe someone got paid to write about a ranking that is nothing more than a formula that put the schools in an order. Give me the data, and I can come up with thousands of formulas that will rank these schools. That doesn't mean it actually has any use.
Boise State is ranked above Stanford in an academic ranking of some sort.
And we are supposed to take this as legitimate?
Child please.
Thats what I said, so looking looking further into it:
BSU Grad Rate is 26%
Football Grad Rate is 61%
Nice stupid stats they use.
Doesn't this measure neglect to factor in students who didn't graduate because they went to the pros?
the metric does not care if you flunk out, transfer or early entry to pros. It counts them all the same.
I think. Once we get the Rich Rod years and attrition from coaching transition off the books in 2014, our ranking will rise significantly. Does anyone else feel they did a poor job describing their method/formula in determining these rankings?
According to this document detailing the formula, they used a "federal graduation rate" that does NOT account for transfers (meaning attrition counts as players not graduating). This formula is flawed by that metric.
The question is why do our black players graduate at such a low rate? I am betting a big reason might be the attrition that has occurred over the pat few years.
Obviously good academic schools still did well on that list (NW, Stanford, ND toward the top) so us being so low has to do with other factors.
No, the good schools on that list are pretty equally distrubuted from the top to the bottom (in fact most of them are either at the top or the bottom, not so much in the middle). The top has NW, Stanford and ND, and the bottom has UM, UCLA and Texas. Maybe not a coincidence that the good public schools are at the bottom and the good private schools are at the top. Point is, the top of the list has good and bad schools, as does the bottom of the list, so I doubt this list has much correlation with quality of education.
Right next to UCLA and Texas, the other two elite public institutions on the list. Not sure what it means.
TIL the graduation rate at Boise State is only 29%. I guess being locked in to 4 years in Idaho will do that.
What a ridiculous methodology! you should compare it to average of all schools and take into account transfers and early entrants. dumb. NIU ranks so highly because they are really crappy at keeping normal AA students in school! Only graduating 33% vs. 66% or whatever shouldn't give them a high grade....
crying foul because of the racial criteria. But if I read this right, Michigan needs to better by its football players all around. Hardly the end of the world, but I become disappointed in posters when they just need to categorically condemn something like this rather than dig in and sift.
If a study uses APR, it's fundamentally bunk.
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Rowling was one of hundreds of witnesses to testify to the Leveson Inquiry into media standards and ethics, set up in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
The judge who led the inquiry, Lord Justice Leveson, released his long-awaited report Thursday, in which he recommended an independent regulator be set up by the press, which would be backed by new laws to make sure it meets certain standards.
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This is a glitch, or more of a trick really, occurring on all blocked bridges before they have become unblocked. In it, the invisible block that keeps you from jumping over the visible roadblock has a top, which can be walked on.
One of the largest blocks is the one on the Gant Bridge. The best way to get on top of it is to spawn a Jetpack and fly up to the top of the southernmost tower support. Admire the "No Easter Egg" sign for a moment, then walk directly off of the support in the direction of San Fierro. After a second or two, you'll land on an invisible surface. This surface does have finite boundaries, so be careful where you step, You can walk about halfway down the bridge in the opposite direction of San Fierro, and only a short distance towards it. If you attempt to walk over the water on either side of the bridge, you will fall.


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The staff at Arrowhead Advertising in Peoria got a break from their work Wednesday afternoon, less than 24 hours from the tip-off of Thursday's March Madness college basketball games.
"OK, does everyone have their bracket?" asked owner Kyle Eng of his assembled staff.
Sixty-five employees with nothing to lose all handed over their completed bracket predictions of how the NCAA tournament games will play out.
The employees are competing among each other for prizes being offered up by Eng, including an extra day of vacation, a round-trip ticket on Southwest Airlines and $200 in cash.
"Just a fun way for me to give back as the owner to say lets have some fun and a friendly competition," said Eng.
I'ts fair to say that for a good number of the employees, this is their first exposure to the competition surrounding college basketball's springtime rite of passage.
"This is completely new to me," says employee Jesse Sparks. "I had to learn what a bracket was."
"I look at really important factors like the color of their uniform and their mascot," says employee Catherine Reynolds with a laugh.
This office could be considered among the few where no cash is being bet on the tournament. Estimates from gaming industry experts indicate as much as $10 billion is gambled during March Madness, more than on the Super Bowl.
"No matter who you are or where you work, everyone really seems to get caught up in March Madness," says director of the Arizona Department of Gaming Mark Brnovich. "We wanna make sure people are doing things on the straight and narrow and not doing things that run afoul of the law."
Deciphering which office pool is legal and which one is not actually isn't that difficult.
"The key always, is someone directly or indirectly benefiting from the gambling," says Brnovich.
In practice, that would mean if everyone in your office put $5 into a pool and the winner collected all the money, then that would be legal.
However, if the organizer of the pool took a percentage from the bets, or charged you a certain amount to participate, that person would, under the law, be getting a benefit and subject to prosecution.
"If somebody is getting that cut, we want to make sure they know it's illegal, and if someone calls and wants to talk with us about it, we would follow up and investigate that," says Brnovich.
Eng and others in his office had no clue what constituted illegal gambling when it comes to office pools. He was not taking any chances, though, of running afoul of the law, and that's one reason he keeps employees cash out of it. But another is that he considers it a perk for his staff, and he gets full participation by not charging anyone.
"The last thing I need is someone banging on the door asking if we paid taxes on that winning or who's collecting it and all that kind of stuff," says Eng.
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For the fifth straight year, Memphis-based Medtronic Spine employees are spending the month of June volunteering at more than a dozen locations in the area.
Memphis-based Medtronic Spine employees are spending the month of June volunteering at more than a dozen locations in the area as part of the company's effort, dubbed Project Six.
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The effort, dubbed Project Six, helps kick off Medtronic Spine's volunteer efforts throughout the year and also practices the sixth tenet of the company's mission to maintain good corporate citizenship, said Victor Rocha, a spokesman for the company. The company-wide, global project helps unite Medtronic employees through volunteerism.
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Medtronic Spine employees involved in Project Six are helping meeting community needs that range from volunteering at events like the Arthritis Walk and WRC Cycle the Greenway, to assisting at the Memphis Veteran's Administration Hospital, to mulching at SRVS, and spending time with Alzheimer's patients at Dorothy's Place and students at the Memphis Oral School for the Deaf, and at Youth Villages.
Local employees already have filled the 30 Project Six volunteer shifts throughout the area, and the company is adding several more to fulfill extra demand, Rocha said.
Last year, about 860 Medtronic Spine employees contributed 2,900 volunteer hours through Project 6, and other volunteer efforts throughout the year, according to figures provided by Medtronic Spine.
Medtronic Spine employees volunteer at Friday Fun Day at Shelby Farms on June 7.
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Llanelli are lurking behind in fifth position but with two games in hand, they are in a strong position to reach the play-off stages at the end of the season.
Wednesday's 30-15 win over Carmarthen Quins saw Pontypridd run in four tries though they left a number of scores out on the pitch, much to the frustration of the players and coaching staff. And although they have a healthy points advantage over the chasing pack, team manager Richard Langmead says it will count for little on Saturday.
"The league table looks good from a Pontypridd point of view but there will be no complacency creeping into our mindset," he said.
"We simply have to go out and win every game that comes up. It's the old sporting cliché but we take one game at a time and aim to get the maximum return from each one.
"We have five league fixtures remaining, each one a very tough prospect, starting with the away trip to Llanelli on Saturday."
Ruled out for Ponty is winger Chris Clayton who was carried off from the midweek win over Carmarthen with an ankle injury. Taking over the number 14 shirt will be Owen Williams who makes his 100th appearance for the club.
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Who was the guy he kissed in the classroom in that Dance Flick movie? It had to have been one of his nephews because he looked like a Wayans! That was so damn hot!
Who was the guy he kissed in the classroom in that Dance Flick movie? It had to have been one of his nephews because he looked like a Wayans! That was so damn hot!
It's a small pic but I think this is the one Marlon kissed. His name is Gregg Forrest WaYanS-BeNSon Jr. I found his myspace under Damon Wayans Jr's myspace page. Damon Jr is really hot too. So it is his nephew.
post clip now please i don't remember that scene
Here is the clip: Skip to about 0:58
I just saw that movie Today. I was anticipating that kiss and it happened! That guy he kissed was soooo hot.
Does anybody find Marlon Wayans hot? I was watching Requiem For a Dream last night and thought he had one of the hottest asses ever Anybody know where I can find a screencap of it?
None of those pics are showing.
Actually i think he is the least attractive- Sean is the hottest
Marlon got better looking as the years went by....go watch the first season of the Wayans Bros...skinny as a stick and homely
Damon is my favorite....especially since he bulked up as he got older....like Marlon
I haven't seen the movie yet but I heard you see him naked quite a bit... is that true? Also, I think you see him having sex with nothing (it's supposed to be a ghost) and he does some pretty hot positions. Any clips or photos?
He has about three or four nude scenes in the movie. Yeah, the ghost bit was hilarious. At first, it slept with his wife after dragging him out of the room into another room. Initially, she thought Marlon was the one she had sex with and said it was the best she ever had, but they looked at the video from the camera and found out it was the ghost. Either the next night or a few nights after, she got all dressed up for the ghost so they could go for round 2, but he didn't come and she went to the bathroom or something like that. After she went in the bathroom, you see the sheets being pulled down and the ghost lifts Marlon up a little and pulls down his boxers and does the deed while Marlon is screaming in pain haha. Also another hilarious bit is when he does these crazy sex positions on a teddy bear while his girlfriend is getting dressed for bed in the bathroom. That movie was the hardest I've laughed at a movie since The first Hangover movie. Really funny stuff. So much better than the last few Scary Movie sequels.
i have to agree with you, it was very funny through most of the movie, had some slow parts, but overall, it was good...
sure seemed to be a great deal of male nudity, not that i'm complaining...
marlon looked great in it...
marlon wayans...
getting ghost fucked...
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washing off the herpes…
^ OMG That movie has to be one of the best ever in terms of gratuitous scenes featuring male skin. I've always thought Marlon Wayans was really hot ever since I saw White Chicks. It seems like he's aware of his sexiness because there as I've fished around I've found quite a lot naked scenes showing off his perfect body with a perfect ass.
The teddy bear sex scene is probably one of my ultimate fantasy come true!
I also love that he's comfortable doing homoerotic scenes albeit always in jest.
A twist on the usual ghost sex scene. Is it the first time ever a guy has had sex with a ghost in film?
I hope the sequel will have just as much or even more gratuitous scenes from Marlon. It's so rare when a film especially a comedy film has male nudity more than female. Although the straight guys seem to have been pissed off by it because this was the top comment on the sequel's trailer on YouTube - Finally more comedy and less nudity. As if every other comedy didn't have female nudity of some sort. This picture is giving me some hope.
Jealous of that damn doll...
The Wayans family ages really well, but Marlon has definitely gotten better with age.
Wow the sequel had just as much gratuitous scenes as the first one. I fear Marlon's straight male fans may have been put off forever by the amount of male skin show
This is one straight guy who knows how sexy his ass is and loves flaunting it
Just wanted to lighten this one up a bit!
thank you so much! I've been waiting to jerk to this!
From Fifty Shades of Black
Gorgeous booty
He's hot. But are those last three gifs really him or a stand-in model? Never saw the movie.
He definitely loves getting naked for the camera. I'll be watching this.
His booty doesn't age.
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Im worried that the injuries will pop up again the minute he signs the deal.
So what's the verdict?According to ESPN New York, free agent SS LaRon Landry is "believed" to be seeking $6 million a year.
For the elite safety Landry envisions himself being, it's actually not ridiculous money. Landry, somewhat surprisingly, made it through a full 16-game season in 2012 and forced six turnovers while recording 100 tackles. Last July, the Raiders signed SS Tyvon Branch to a four-year deal averaging $6.65 million annually. So Landry isn't trying to become the richest safety in the game.
Is Landry worth 6 mil a year? Seems a bit expensive for a safety. I'm sure Landry will test the market, but I doubt he'll get that much. I'll take him back for 4 mil a hyear. Anything more, forget about it.
Im worried that the injuries will pop up again the minute he signs the deal.
I'd give him the deal with games played incentives.
Fact is that this dude has a pretty well documented injury history. 4 million base, 2 million bonus for all 16 games played.
See you later, LaRon.
Not a ridiculous asking price for a player of his quality.
Of course, as the team, you'd want injury protections written into the deal - the kind of per-game active bonuses that Landry earned with the Jets this year.
Trouble is, from the player's and agent's perspective, that's the last thing you want to agree to. They will be pushing hard for a big guaranteed number up-front, which would be a major risk for any team given his injury history.
In a perfect world, if we had the cap room, I'd probably offer him near his asking price with some injury offset language. But I don't think it will happen - he will go somewhere with more cap room for a bigger guarantee.
I would offer him 2yr/$12MM or 3yr/$15MM fully guaranteed. I don't think he would take it but it is worth a shot.
But to maximize his value we would need to add a true FS that can play center field and cover.
Not a snowball's chance in hell that Idzik pays him that kind of scratch.
Guys like Antrell Rolle are making 7 million this year, Woodson 6.5, Eric Weddle 6, Quinton Mikell 6, Tyvonn Branch 6.
Safety shouldn't be too difficult a position to improve at. Not sure why our FO has struggled to get somebody for this long.
Either way, I would NOT pay a safety that much. No way.
When he signed his contract last year, he was basically making very little money. And if he had gotten hurt, the Jets would have only had to pay him basically peanuts.
Now that he's proven that he can stay healthy for a whole year, he's definitely going to want more money.
so its an extra 2 mill from last year. IF he can play and stay healthy the way he did last year... id give it to him. That is a HUGE IF though and I dont know if the Jets are willing to take the risk based on that if.
Excellent player but I'd rather use that money towards Revis.
Remember... It's his ASKING price.
How much does Bell want.
I don't think Landry's asking price is unreasonable. Safety is an experience-based position; I don't think you can expect to have two draft choices back there and have good enough play.
It is a tough one but it in the neighborhood of what I think his contribution is worth. As others have said, guaranteed years will be the big thing.
So he's asking for 6 and was making 4. Probably settle for 5. Trade Cromartie and he brings back 1.25M this year and 9.75M next year. I say definitely resign Landry at this price. Draft a free safety. Resign Revis and we'll be fine.


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Switch 810 has four 5.25'' bays. Bottommost 5.25" bay is an HDD docking bay that acts as a hot-swap unit. Unfortunately, we cannot show you this since our test sample lacks a hot-swap connector and it seems as if someone simply forgot to include it in the package.
Again unfortunately, this is not the only thing that's missing on our Switch 810. Namely, the topmost bay should come with a bezel that covers the optical drive. The first picture below shows how the optical drive bezel looks on the reference Switch 810 case. The picture after that one shows that our Switch 810 only comes with standard covers on 5.25'' bays. The cover over the HDD docking bay comes with air inlets.
There's no need to take the entire panel off just to mount a DVD drive – all you need to do is remove the bay covers and you're good to go. The front panel 5.25" drive bay covers can be removed by grabbing them from the sides, pushing inwards and pulling. The plastic is tough but bends just enough to ensure easy handling.
Installing 5.25" devices is easy. The toolles mechanism works well. You'll find spare thumb screws screwed into the HDD cage, which is something we saw in Alienware's cases some five or six years ago. We're glad that NZXT left spare screws here because they'll always be within reach and you won't lose them. There are some cables hanging from the I/O panel, but there is enough room for them not to get in the way of mounting drives in topmost 5.25'' bay.
There are two removable HDD cages, each with three bays for 3.5" or 2.5" drives. HDD cage on the front comes with a cage handle for easier removal. Note that you'll first need to unscrew four screws that hold the cage.
Once the lower HDD cage is removed, there is room for 140 or 240mm radiators on the bottom panel.
The drives are mounted in the HDD cage from the back.
You'll find anti-vibration grommets in every bay. While the plastic brackets are quite tough, I personally didn't like the mounting system since the grommets move and are hard to set in the right position. Still, they performed their main task well, which is preventing vibration.
The HDD cage has a pivot fan that can be angled to blow air onto graphics cards and CPU coolers. This is definitely a nice way to improve airflow inside the case.
We had some problems while angling this fan since it is set a bit too low and leans on the bottom HDD cage. The picture below shows that the fan stretches outside of its frame on the HDD cage. NZTX said that the sample we received is a pre-production one and that this will not be the case with retail versions.
All cables that come from the I/O panel, as well as fan cables, are sleeved for better looks and easier cable management. Switch 810 comes with internal USB 3.0 connectors. We liked the fact that the e-SATA connector on the front I/O panel uses SATA power rather than Molex.
We have about 17mm free space to work with in the back. There are ten wide holes for cable management. You'll find plenty of clips and notches on the back of the motherboard tray for tying cables.
Internal fan extension PCB (power hub) will come in handy when installing additional fans, but it would be nice to see some fan controllers here as well. The power hub is on the picture below and, as you can see, it's mounted on the back of the motherboard.
Just like the other three fans in Switch 810, the fan on the front panel uses a standard three-pin fan power connector. The power hub enables for powering the fans via a single peripheral Molex power connector from the PSU. The power hub will take a total of seven fans.
The PSU is on the bottom of the case. It has six stands for shorter and longer PSUs. The stands come with quality rubber grommets that don't seem to come off lightly, which wasn't the case in some other cases we tested, like Gelid's Dark Force for instance.
The PSU filter can be taken off from the back without opening the case. All the other intake spots also come with easily removable filters, that won't require you to open the case.
LEDs are cheap to install and tend to be quite a nice feature, especially when putting them in the right place, which is exactly what NZXT did. The LEDs on the rear panel can be turned off but come in quite handy when you need to connect devices to the rear USB ports in a dark room.
We were pleased with Switch 810's cooling. Perhaps the only flaw we found would be the fan noise. Closing the air slits on the top panel will knock a few dBs but we couldn't make them inaudible. If you want maximum silence, you'll need a fan regulator.
We tried to angle the pivot-fan to blow towards the graphics and CPU cooler, which resulted in 1.5°C less on the CPU and 1°C less on the graphics card. Although it doesn't seem that impressive, we often have to buy better thermal paste or even new CPU coolers in order to get such results. This time around, it only took a bit of angling.


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Lure of court proves too strong for Beisner
One college semester without volleyball was too much for JaNhea Beisner.
So the Charlotte High School graduate transferred from University of West Florida to State College of Florida, where she became a beach volleyball walk-on. The freshman has been teaming with Kelly Rossip, formerly at Port Charlotte High School, and will play indoor volleyball during the fall.


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Calls tonight will be made to re-evaluate the standard of referees after Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir made the decision to give Manchester United winger Nani a straight red card for a seemingly unintentional act of trying to receive a high ball.
Manchester United were leading 1-0 on the night thanks to a Sergio Ramos own goal 3 minutes into the second half, when with 34 minutes left to go the game swung in Real Madrid's favour.
Red Card
The controversy began when Alvaro Arbeloa and Nani collided. Nani would not have known that he was under pressure, and accidently he caught the Spaniard. Cakir went straight to his top pocket and summoned a red card. Ferguson was incensed, and rightly so were the United faithful. Yet it still remains unclear what the red card was for. Serious foul play? Violent Conduct? Or denying a clear goal scoring opportunity? Non of the above seem to justify Cakir's decision, and once again call will be made for consistency in relation to red card offences.
It is unquestionable that refereeing is a difficult job. All decisions are made in the heat of the action, and the officials don't have slow motion replays that we as viewers have seconds after the event occurred. The linesman wouldn't have seen it either, and in the laws of the game the referee's decision must be "beyond unquestionable doubt". I highly doubt that Mr Cakir was 100% sure on the decision, and that he will need to explain the logics of his decision. I think that it is the job of one of F.A's top referee's to provide judegement on the situation in hand, and after watching it again, I think he will realise the scale of his decision.
It appears that this one decision could go on to shape Manchester United's season. The scale of this decision is huge. Manchester United were on top, and subsequent to the decision they lost the game. United set out to win, and were playing well until what will go on to be the most controversial decisions in Champions league history.
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It turns out Captain Kirk is afraid of flying.
William Shatner, famous for playing Captain Kirk in the original "Star Trek" series, has turned down a flight on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane.
''He actually said he's frightened of airline travel," Sir Richard told The Sun, "which is slightly disillusioning. Captain Kirk is scared of flying.''
Shatner, 82, said he was intrigued when he heard about the Virgin Galactic offer in 2011, but that rather than pay for a flight, someone would have to pay him.
''He [Branson] wanted me to go up and pay for it and I said, 'Hey, you pay me and I'll go. I'll risk my life for a large sum of money'. But he didn't pick me up on my offer.''
Branson and his family will be on the first two-hour flight into the planet's orbit. Other celebrities putting down $200,000 for a seat include Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, British rock band Muse, Justin Bieber, Russell Brand and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The flight will reach an altitude of 62 miles, the boundary to space, where passengers will experience weightlessness and see the curve of the Earth.


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(RNN) – "In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He had three ships and left from Spain, he sailed through sunshine, wind and rain," wrote Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. in the poem The History of the U.S.
Monday is Columbus Day, a day where many are sleeping in, attending parades, shopping and enjoying good Italian cuisine.
To some, it's just another excuse for a day off work, but the people who are grumbling at those sleeping in tend to care a little less about the holiday. So instead of being bitter, here are a list of dates, facts and digits to give you a look at Columbus Day by the numbers.
1451: Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
1492: Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered 'The New World.'
15: Age he became a sailor.
3: Number of ships the city of Palos gave Columbus – The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
2: The number of ships that made the return trip. The Santa Maria ran aground and had to be abandoned.
35: The number of days it took for the first sailor to spot land.
1506: The year Columbus died.
1992: The 500th anniversary was celebrated.
1504: Christopher Columbus stopped sailing the ocean blue after three voyages.
1843: 400 years after his first voyage, Columbus' likeness was placed on a U.S. postage stamp.
1792: The first monument for Columbus was erected on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery in Baltimore, MD.
17: Number of ships used during the second voyage.
90: Men set sail with Columbus during his first voyage.
40: The number of men Columbus left behind on the island of Hispaniola because there was no room on the two remaining ships.
2004: The year supporters of Hugo Chavez destroyed a 100-year old statue of Columbus in Caracas, Venezuela.
1937: Year Columbus Day was declared a national holiday.
2: Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October.
3780: The approximate distance in miles from Portugal to Bavaro at the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is on the island of Hispaniola, where Columbus is thought to have first landed.
1892: President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage with patriotic festivities.
1971: Originally observed every Oct. 12, it was this year Columbus Day was fixed to be celebrated the second Monday in October.
19: Opposition to Columbus Day dates back to the 19th century, when anti-immigrant groups in the United States rejected the holiday because of its association with Catholicism.
1502: Columbus reached Central America on his third voyage.
23: Number of people who testified against him, charging him with atrocities and cruelty while he was governor of the colony Hispaniola.
0: Number of paintings based on what he actually looks like.
13: Number of places in the U.S. named after Christopher Columbus. (Columbia, MD, Columbia, MO, Columbia SC, Columbus, GA, Columbus, IN, Columbus, MS, Columbus, WI, Columbus, OH, District of Columbia, Colombian County, OH, Colombian, OH, Columbia County, PA and Columbus Circle, NY.)
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I scored an 18 out of 20 not so much for my deep knowledge of Microsoft OSes (hint: It's not as deep as it should be given my years as a Wintel user). Rather it was due to my uncanny knack for remembering useless information I might have read ten years ago. Internet questionnaires tend to bring such trivia bubbling to the surface.
Granted, more than a few of my correct answers came from personal experience; I remember well when System Restore was a big deal in WinME both for its promises and its failures. I've also personally experienced the dual-boot bug that wipes restore points. Others were guesses and I was purely lucky, like the Notepad .LOG question (it seemed logical) and Windows Live Messenger Companion. Still others had nothing to do with Microsoft and Windows but are common knowledge in the geek world, i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and cut/copy/paste.
And the two I missed? The number of Windows 7 versions; I couldn't care less as I was only really interested in Ultimate. The other was the "system.filename" question. If I had ever had occasion to use it, I'm sure I would remember it. Then again it's quite arcane.


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Forget about robots rising up against humans for world domination.
In the future we're all going to be robot-human hybrids with the help of wearable computers. We've already seen Google Glass, the search giant's augmented-reality glasses, and now the latest Y Combinator startup to come out of stealth, Thalmic Labs, is giving us a wrist cuff that will one day control computers, smartphones, gaming consoles, and remote-control devices with simple hand gestures.
Unlike voice-detecting Google Glass, and the camera-powered Kinect and Leap Motion controller, Thalmic Labs is going to the source of your hand and finger gestures – your forearm muscles. "In looking at wearable computers, we realized there are problems with input for augmented-reality devices," says Thalmic Labs co-founder Stephen Lake. "You can use voice, but no one wants to be sitting on the subway talking to themselves, and cameras can't follow wherever you go."
I'd argue that thanks to Bluetooth headsets and Siri, we've already been talking to ourselves for the last decade, so talking to my glasses isn't a huge stretch. But, I won't deny that it looks cool to casually flick my hand to change the song on my MacBook, which is what Thalmic Labs is promising with its $149 forearm gadget called the Myo (a nod to the Greek prefix for muscle, but rhymes with Leo), which has an adjustable band that can accommodate almost anyone.


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You and U knew this was coming.
On the heels of their 42-24 loss to Virginia Tech last night, the Miami Hurricanes have gone from a season-high No. 7 going into the Florida State game to No. 14 going into the Virginia Tech game to No. 24 as of this morning's new AP ranking and No. 23 in the USA Today coaches' poll.
The Canes were ranked 11th in the BCS standings going into Virginia Tech. The new standings will be released tonight.
It was nice while it lasted, but the Canes can't have performances like last night -- on national television no less -- and expect to keep the respect of voters and analysts and anyone who has seen them of late.
How much hope is there for the rest of the season? They travel to Durham, N.C. to face a Duke team (7-2, 3-2 ACC) that is winning and fighting in the Coastal Division, then return home to face lowly Virginia (the team that somehow manages to upset UM regularly), then go on the road for the regular-season finale at Pittsburgh the day after Thanksgiving.
Pitt beat Notre Dame last night.
The Canes will do all they can to keep this season from unraveling. But right about now, it doesn't look especially promising.
1.Florida State(9-0, 7-0)
2.Clemson(8-1, 6-1)
3.Syracuse(5-4, 3-2)
4.Boston College(5-4, 2-3)
5.Wake Forest(4-6, 2-5)
6.Maryland(5-4, 1-4)
7.NC State(3-6, 0-6)
1. Georgia Tech (6-3, 5-2)
2. Virginia Tech (7-3, 4-2)
3. Duke (7-2, 3-2)
4. Miami (7-2, 3-2)
5. North Carolina (4-5, 3-3)
6. Pittsburgh (5-4, 2-3)
7. Virginia (2-8, 0-6)


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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2000--Boats.com today announced an agreement with The Cobalt Group (NASDAQ: CBLT) to acquire YachtWorld.com, a popular online yachting marketplace wholly owned by Cobalt. The acquisition is the first Internet content deal within the boating industry, a $100 billion business that reaches an Internet-savvy market demographic of more than 75 million active boaters worldwide. Boats.com, which also announced its first-round financing and management team today, is building the premier e-commerce marketplace for the boating community.
Launched in 1995, YachtWorld.com has become the yachting community's top online marketplace, establishing relationships between yacht brokers and boat dealers with prospective buyers of new and used boats. With tens of thousands of current boat listings from hundreds of professional brokers, dealers and builders, YachtWorld.com has evolved into the most-frequented yachting online resource with more than seven million page views each month.
"YachtWorld.com's long term pioneering efforts to connect boaters, brokers and manufacturers has resulted in an excellent online destination," said Rolando Esteverena, CEO of boats.com. "Today's acquisition will enhance YachtWorld's current boat listings with outstanding new content and the resources of an enterprise dedicated to establishing the world's premier value added site for the boating community."
YachtWorld.com will continue to be lead by its current management, General Manager Neil McCurdy, founding Publisher Jessica Muffett, and other YachtWorld.com staff, all of whom will become employees of boats.com. The business will continue to operate from facilities in Seattle and remain focused on expanding the YachtWorld.com traffic and product offerings for the yacht broker and boat dealer communities.
"YachtWorld.com has surpassed expectations as the focal point for connecting the yachting community," said John Holt, Cobalt's president and chief executive officer. "We concluded, however, that the boating community would be better served by the combined efforts of boats.com and YachtWorld.com as Cobalt resources are focused on the fast-moving Internet-based automotive businesses. We were very impressed with the boats.com management team and their vision and are confident that YachtWorld's customers will be served very well by this acquisition."
Boats.com is building the premier e-commerce hub for the marine community. The company will unite boaters, marinas, boatyards, brokers, dealers, service businesses, distributors and manufacturers in a mutual exchange to improve the boating and marine experience. Founded in 1999, boats.com is a private company funded by Mayfield Fund and Trident Capital. Headquarters are located at Pier 38, The Embarcadero in San Francisco.


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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Police in the Seattle suburb of Redmond say they've arrested a 65-year-old woman accused of stealing more than $67,000 from her elderly parents and depriving them of proper food, medication and care.
Police allege the daughter strapped her mother into her bed for as long as 12 hours a day and also strapped her into a wheelchair. Both parents suffer from dementia and the daughter had power of attorney for them.
Lt. Charlie Gorman says the daughter was taking more than $3,000 a month to care for the pair. She was arrested Tuesday for investigation of unlawful imprisonment and first-degree theft and then released. She was not identified.
King County prosecutor's spokesman Dan Donohoe tells The Seattle Times the case has not yet been turned over to prosecutors for a charging decision.
Gorman says the 89-year-old mother and 92-year-old father are now at an adult family care home.
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