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iLoveBoobies wrote:
Hmm, I do think that I have a pretty good idea for a manga. I do have the artistic skills, but the thing I lack is the writing skills. My drawing skill isn't bad, but it's not good either. I tried to do a manga but when I think about how much work there is, I gave up.
If you are interested in reading what my idea is about, message me and I'll write it and then I'll give you a quick summary.
The genre I was going with the idea is : Action, Romance, Demon, Super Power, Magic Academy, Fictional, Tragic.
That's all I can think off. But It's mostly a manga that people who like action would love.
And don't worry it is nothing like School Days.
Are you planning on posting it online?
PatMasta wrote:
I have been working on my production for well over a year now. It's getting close to being published thanks to the gracious donations of my uncle Leon. I'm hoping Zombie, Desho? will be a hit and will capture the interest of my readers. Wish me luck.
Good luck with your endeavor! ^_^
I'm currently making one! I was going to submit it to tokyopop but it's shutting down... So I'm looking for a different manga publishing company! I'm really excited about it! ^^
Haha, I knew a lot of western people have tried to draw "Manga," or "graphic novels" as I like to call them. Can you imagine if we had that "manga" acceptation here in America, we would have a ton of manga up the ass! xD
Anyways I have tried to draw my graphic novels ever since I was 9, I like to mix western styled fun looking charactrers with serious story-telling. It kinda works. I've also tried to do a Shounen styled story, I just went on and wrote it as I drew it it looks fine for something that I drew back in 6th/7th grade, but I'll remake it and make it better, the story is quite generic. Last summer I had a certain job which lead me to create this awesome graphic novel that is serious and psychologichal but fun. I'm sorry I sound so secretive about it. Lol. I've wrote more stories but to me those stand out the most.
Also, I am not the best artist, if anything I want to study Film and Art. My goal in life is to direct 2 movies and 2 video games and publish 2 Graphic Novels before I die. If you wanna check out one of my drawings look me up on deviantART, same name, TriforceDaniel.
I have butt i have no plot , i fail at writing ......i also have problems redrawing characters .-. especialy when my drawing style is changing alot
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drawing is the problem...i can't draw background and clothes well, so...
Last Day in everyday life...
cupcake_love wrote:
like the title says
have you attempted to do your own manga like have your own storyline and you came up with the character etc etc.
i will admit i have but drawing the characters is so hard so i only have the storyline haha
nope... i already realized it's quite hard to create manga or even doujin... both ways are hard which require drawing skill and patience which i don't have
imagination~ imagination~ -spongebob
yes, and self published it. I'm working on the graphic novel which is issue 2 and beyond. http://www.pleasedieana.com It's kinda graphic in language.
My mind is clouded with many stories I'd love to write/draw some day, but I have no drive.
My brother, on the other hand, is an excellent artist, and is writing his own sci-fi graphic novel, called "FRONTIER: 2170". It is quite good, and you should check it out if you ever have time.
The website is https://sites.google.com/site/frontier2170/
You can also find it on Facebook.
It's free to read, but you can also purchace t-shirts, mugs, etc. if you like them, and also the first volume is available for purchase online.
With great freedom comes immence boredom.
Yes, true. This is the best advice. I forgot to say that Manga books are the best reference.
ksrandall wrote:
If you've never drawn a cat girl, draw a cat girl. If you've never drawn a mecha, draw a mecha.
Frankly, I don't recommend drawing everything randomly. My advice would be to concentrate on designing the same characters over and over while trying different poses, a 6-month practice should be enough. Then after you master that part concentrate on something else. For example, if you're writing a Manga about robots created by mankind which took over the Earth, you should begin by designing your protagonist, (a group of teenagers hiding while planning a counter-attack, for example) draw 3 girls and 5 boys over and over again while changing their style as your drawing skills get better. After that draw robots of all forms and heights. Finally practice everything else that you will need in the future. If you're not interested in mecha than don't draw mecha. Of course this is my personal opinion and you might prefer ksrandall's advice. For my part, I prefer specialization rather than trying everything.
ksrandall wrote:
Don't be afraid of copying realistic drawings too! Anime and manga drawings improve when the artist learns how to draw in a realistic style. If you have a friend who knows how to draw realistically, get a copy of their drawings and copy the picture. You can also find realistic drawings on Deviantart as well.
Practicing realistic drawings is recommended but optional. I tried like 20 times and it was useful but not as fun as drawing actual Manga. I once drew myself, and actually liked the idea of drawing my hair. I now draw one of my characters with the same hair. So if you have no problem using realistic references, then do it!
yaa so far its the drawing that troublesome the storyline is going great and that's about it.
it takes a lot of time patients and people a bunch of friends and i are makeing one and i have my storyline i just need to get off my lazy butt and draw it.
come over to the darkside-we have cookies!!!!!!!
Currently in the process but still in art school
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It's November, so three events are sure to happen, come Hell or high water: Thanksgiving, the beginning of the college basketball season, and the release of a new Call of Duty game. Activision's latest annual release, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, is an invigorating story-driven look at future war, marred ever so slightly by aging technology driving the game.
Black Ops 2 is a tale of two Masons, tied together by characters old and new. If you've played the original Black Ops back in 2010, then you already know Alex Mason, the protagonist who chased Dragovich and Kravchenko to the ends of the Earth. This time around, Mason's missions stretch across the 1980s, from Afghanistan to Panama, as he fights Cold War-era Russians, MPLA forces in Angola, and other foes through time. His son David fights in 2025, where he's followed in his father's footsteps. This isn't his daddy's Cold War, however; China is the new power standing toe-to-toe with America, and the world finds itself in a new, but familiar position. Proxy battles still exist, but they're now complimented by cyber warfare and PMCs (Private Military Contractors). David finds himself on these proxy battlefields, much like his father several decades earlier, while dealing with advanced weaponry and fleets of drones coming from all sides.
The story is one of the most interesting in the Call of Duty series to date. An amalgamation of historical fiction and a surprisingly believable take on our world's future, game director Dave Anthony and writer David S. Goyer successfully manage to capture the franchise's Hollywood polish whilst mostly avoiding "that's impossible!" moments.
The futuristic setting affords the game some fantastic equipment to play with. Everything falls into two distinct categories: natural progression or prototype-turned-reality. The FA38 fighter, for example, is inspired by the F-35 fighter currently used by the US Air Force and Navy. The fictional M8A1 assault rifle doesn't look too dissimilar from the XM8 platform, and there are plenty of real weapons in the game as well (AN-94, M27, AK-47, etc). The flip side of that coin is the copious amounts of future tech and weaponry, like the Storm PSR (it's like the railgun in Eraser, but smaller), target-identifying scopes, wall-climbing palm-sized spider drones, active camouflage, and nanomachine-infused rock climbing gloves. None of these things are used on the modern-day battlefield, but they all represent technology that our soldiers will likely use in a generation or two.
While the new weapons introduce some interesting new gameplay mechanics, some make the campaign a cakewalk. The target finder scope, for example, removes the need to find your enemy. Instead, you're simply looking for a red square around vague life forms off in the distance. The Storm PSR is the worst offender. Like the Farsight railgun in Perfect Dark, the Storm highlights enemies, including those behind several cars or thick concrete walls, and pulverizes them. The missions where the Storm is available are the easiest, by far. You'll never need to leave cover, and you can kill anything, human or otherwise, in a matter of seconds. The future is a scary place.
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Strike Missions prove to be one of the greatest additions to the single-player experience. Fusing FPS action with basic overhead RTS elements, this mode offers a refreshing change of pace from the run-and-gun tactics that have become all too familiar. The RTS elements add depth without being cumbersome; I hope we see more of it in DLC and whatever the next Call of Duty game is.
Unfortunately, the ambitious story, set pieces, and gear in Black Ops 2 are hampered by the technology powering the game. The experience feels sloppy, thanks to dated graphics, primitive special effects, and AI that's on vacation. While it's easy to blame the aging console generation, Halo 4 serves as a reminder on how visually stunning current-gen games can be. Does Black Ops 2 look better than MW3 and the original Black Ops? Yes, but just barely. It seems like the real elbow grease went into the pre-rendered cutscenes, which look dramatically better than gameplay.
The AI in Black Ops 2 is non-existent, a fault that's only amplified by the new weaponry. The sight on my SWAT-556 highlights enemy targets in red squares, making it that much easier to mow them down. Of course, mowing them down is already a breeze when flanking is out of the question, and they remain stationary behind the same piece of cover for the duration of the firefight. Every time you enter a room, the enemies either run straight for you, or they cling to one piece of cover. Whether you're fighting through the streets of LA or a generic, bland marketplace square in Yemen, enemies do not change how they react to your tactics. Sadly, and uneventfully, many encounters ultimately become mere shooting galleries; Black Ops 2 is as predictable as its predecessors.
There is fun to be had in Black Ops 2, but it can be hard to see it at times through the sea of shortcomings. The compelling narrative and Goyer's script is marred by lackluster tech that can't fully realize its vision. The fun gunplay made possible by the futuristic setting is disrupted by an overpowered weapon that upsets the game's balance. And while the standout Strike Missions prove that the franchise still has worthwhile innovation left in it, their brief appearance in the campaign will leave you wanting. Activision will need to have something truly special lined up for 2013, if they expect its already-dated technology to stutter its way for next year's game.
This Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 review was based on a retail Xbox 360 version of the game provided by the publisher. The game is also available on PC and PlayStation 3, and will be available on Wii U on November 18th. A separate multiplayer review will be available on Shacknews later this week, to ensure the reviewer gets sufficient time playing with the online community.

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Maybe, but if it's good local news (well researched and useful to me), I'm willing to pay reasonably for it.
One of the oldest local newspapers in London, the Evening Standard [wikipedia.org] used to be 50 pence and is now free. It's online content isn't behind a paywall either. They still seem to be doing ok so it can work out in some cases.
Even better; but I wonder how long advertising can sustain such an effort. I've also found that many of the free papers are totally irrelevant wrt newsworthiness due to being just a collection of syndicated items.
As someone who has worked for a newspaper/online news org, I've seen the profit/loss statements, & subscriptions/sales don't even rate on it.
Newspapers make the lion's share of their revenue purely from advertising contracts. Some may see this as an outdated business model due to the prices charged for advertising space (upwards of AU$100k per full page), but it's is how they've made money in the past. The main hurdle with going online is that no one is going to pay you the same rates for banner ads. Paywalling has its own problems too: Murdoch paywalls are easily bypassed, others drive consumers away due to no free content.
I really don't see any answer other than accepting the fact there's not massive amounts of money in news media these days.
Personally, I tend to read independent online publications such as New Matilda, Conversation AU, & Independent Australia, (yes, I'm an Aussie) which rely on donations & small amounts of advertising revenue. The level of journalism is actually higher than that of news sites subsidised by their print or TV media.
...New Matilda, Conversation AU, & Independent Australia...
Thank you. I was not aware of any of these.
I found New Matilda [newmatilda.com] and Independent Australia [independentaustralia.net] but would like to confirm I have the correct site for Conversation AU [theconversation.edu.au].
Yes indeed, that last one is correct.
When the Evening Standard was sold for a price, it was a failing paper and was loss-making. Now it is a free-sheet (and under new ownership) it is popular and profitable.
I don't read the Standard as I don't live in London, but it's owned by the same proprietor as The Independent- one of the few genuinely quality daily nationals.
I worry that we are heading to a real-time wikipedia of truthiness that is driven by rumour and here-say.
News outlets on occasion provided us with a reasoned and measured interpretation of events, albeit interspersed with whatever political dogma was pertinent to the writer, editor and paymasters respectively.
Now the the first "frosty piss" on twitter is rebroadcast, amplified and contorted until it's a hideous warping of one singular and imperfect being's interpretation of events. I thInk we should all lam
The Evening Standard is fine if your idea of news is is mostly celebrities and sports. If people didn't grab it to read on the train going home after work, they'd likely go under.
But the quality has dropped. It's news for hire now.
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
...when so many people are happy to do it for free.
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
clearly your hookers are less sarcastic than mine
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
How else are you going to find out what's in your kitchen that could be killing you?!
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
Because the truth is unpleasant. As cliche as the saying goes, it is true: People can't handle the truth.
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
Because the truth is unpleasant. As cliche as the saying goes, it is true: People can't handle the truth.
It's true. Sometimes I think they're going to come after me with pitchforks.
Why would anyone pay to be lied to
Most of the lying isn't in the articles, it's in the ads. Particularly lying by omission, which is the sine qua non of advertising.
I'd wager a lot of the price of media companies now reflects their control, not their profitability. Sure, making money by selling news is great, but the power to set society's agenda, and frame events for the history books, is infinitely more valuable.
If you think of that as the raison d' etre of the big media companies, it becomes obvious why they offer "news" free on the internet. Also, that Buffet will pay a premium for these shares...
In my country there are a lot of newspapers, like everywhere else. Almost all of them lose money. I can give you two examples on both extremes:
There's a piece of toilet paper called "Correio da Manhã" (Morning Mail) which is a huge commercial success. 1 quarter is ass-kissing the government, the other is filled with sensationalist news about murders and robberies, the other is about sports, and the last is celebrity gossip + tits n'ass. It appeals to the uneducated masses and exploits the lowest f
And to control educated minds you have to spend a huge lot of money.
or, you know, run an ad network masquerading as a forum masquerading as a blog
Guy buys a lot of newspapers and now is discovering that he can't make money with them?
He doesn't think they have a viable business model?
Well he hasn't made money for a bit to be honest, and has made some seriously bad blue-chip gambles that fell flat on their face too. Which has a lot of people wondering if he's simply hit the senile point and he's out of touch with the markets. I remember reading hmm was it zerohedge or somewhere else, that he hasn't made money in over 3 years on any investments he's done.
Well he hasn't made money for a bit to be honest, and has made some seriously bad blue-chip gambles that fell flat on their face too. Which has a lot of people wondering if he's simply hit the senile point and he's out of touch with the markets. I remember reading hmm was it zerohedge or somewhere else, that he hasn't made money in over 3 years on any investments he's done.
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
Of course it doesn't. Though it usually does, and one doesn't get anywhere without taking risks. The reality is traditional media as it stands isn't a risk, or even a worthwhile risk. It's a poor risk with no ROI, the deadtree form of media is just that dead. The electronic form of media is and quickly been subverted by free media, and a round of large aggregate services.
The smaller papers which have gone to paywalls have quickly killed any viewership unless they have very unique content which is being
Past 3 years you say? Hmm... I seem to remember something about a recession... maybe starting in 2008.
Nah.. that can't be right.. Buffett probably is just senile.
Yeah I mean it's not like other people haven't made money or anything. Making money when the economy is on the downturn is the easy part. It's keeping it when it's booming that's the hard part.
well, he's buying papers which he thinks has a local monopoly.
that's pretty much his "safe bet" in this. charging for local gov. bulletins and soccer practice timetables. if you give those for free on your net edition, why would the locals bother subscribing?-)
No, he thinks that they are under-valued and have the potential of making money in the future . . . if the free news model disappears, and the pay-walled model becomes the norm and profitable.
If that actually will come to be in the future . . . is quite debatable.
So anyway, he bought them because he thinks he can give them a better business model.
No. It's more like "Guy thinks he can forsee a sea-change in the way an industry works, buys up some of the industry, and then makes announcements about how the industry will change, possible encouraging the very change he's speculating on by virtue of his reputation."
If you analysis model is, "Warren Buffett should be smarter than this," you should think harder about it. I'm not saying he never makes a mistake, but he's a pretty smart investor.
For example, an alternative model is, "Warren Buffett sees a solution to the problems of print media. First, he invests in underpriced, struggling print media organizations. Then, he comes out saying that their old model is bad business. Finally, he introduces a new, more profitable model."
Warren Buffett's no idiot. Everyone clear
I'd venture to differentiate between online news and offline news. A paper magazine, sure, I'd pay for it more than the paper it's written on if I consider it a collectible. But online... I'm more interested in the hard data itself rather than the way it's written, and with all the portals publishing user-generated content (and some of those are REALLY good), I am not afraid of lacking any news sources any time soon.
So what if I won't get informed about Justin Bieber's latest deeds right now? Some blog would republish the news in some way or another, if it's important enough, and Google's your friend. And of course, there's always Slashdot. As a matter of fact, I'm regularly visiting just Slashdot, Wikipedia, Wimp, Failblog and a couple local news sites (which are both awesome). Everything else can go to hell, as far as I'm concerned, and if any of the above go to hell themselves, well, I'll look for the next best thing.
"Free" is increasingly becoming the new thing; free-to-play models are starting to rise and succeed in video games, free steaming tv shows and other video are becoming increasingly popular, and naturally there are companies that operate in a way someone-like Google does. How many android/iPhone apps are free? And then we see various music services cropping up that allow free streaming music..
Why would the news be different from this trend? It's harder and harder to prevent the dissemination and replication of information
(pirating etc) and companies are finding creative new ways to still make money even in light of that. And the news is subject to the same problem; a paywall is not a big deal if one person has a subscription and can pass the text of the article around elsewhere.
All it takes is for one competitor to shit in the pot and go free or next-to-free to ruin the market for everyone else; I don't see pay-for news being a viable or stable strategy in the long-term.
How are reporters going to be paid? Do you think they will work for free?
There are already applications that write better news articles than the average Times or Guardian piece.
Newspapers are a modern equivalent of buggy whips. Their business is based around limited availability of information - and on explaining the information to a minimally educated person.
Today you can get your news directly from news agencies of all countries in the world. Cost of each short piece of news is nearly zero. Some news are produced on taxpayer's dime (NASA and other government entities; BBC.) Other news sources are financed by governments to disseminate the information about the country.
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Buffett's right, of course. No business can survive without making a profit. I am skeptical, however, that local news is going to save the day. Why? Because people are not as interested as they say they are in local news. My local daily paper publishes a weekly section targeting my suburb. I don't see much news in it, but I do see a lot stories about clubs, schools, kids, and churches, I once had the chance to ask the editor why they went with that rather than hard news about town government, politics, etc. The answer: We print the stories that sell newspapers. The local news market is not a hard news market. It's a feel-good gossip market.
When a newspaper shrinks and fires newsroom staff, news production in that market drops and is not replaced by online sources. We are all more ignorant as the result, and it's an ignorance that's spreading.
Well, that's your experience. Around here we had a small TV channel create a local news program that talked exclusively about the government, and politics. One day it did go to a public hospital, and interview the governor (we don't have a mayor here) asking why it is so bad, the other it was asking the transportation people when a hole in a street would be fixed... That kind of thing.
In the end, they made so well that all the other news had to adapt. Some channels even stopped doing news because they could
When the quality of newspapers has been going down, and the shear quantity of news is going up, I fail to see how newspapers are going to be able to compete.
Compare a guy who is willing to post news to his blog and get the generated ad-revenue to a newspaper, who has a reporter, editor and all the other associated overhead of a newspaper I would say no contest.
If newspapers did good reporting, they may have a shot, but right now I don't see that happening.
Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of subscribing to things. Sure, maybe it's only $2 a month for your favorite local news. And it's $5 a month for your favorite game. Netflix is $8 per month. Flikr is $2 per month. Hulu Plus is $8 per month, but soon they want to require that you have a cable TV subscription, so that will be another $50 per month or whatever.
This shit really adds up! If I'm paying all this money, I sure as SHIT better not see one god damn commercial or product interruption. Oh wait, they alre
Just stop paying for a few months. See if you miss it. Go out more or read more books (yes they cost $ but not a subscription) or play board games or???
This just in: having someone collect facts, check them, and then present them takes time and money. Free news was never sustainable, it's just that until recently it wasn't attainable. News will always have a price, be it paying for your paper or having someone else pay for it by inserting ads. Unfortunately advertisers are discovering that online advertising doesn't work, so we'll probably have to settle on the former.
The vast majority of "news" is reprocessed news hey pulled off the news wire. If the newspapers do investigative reporting and generate unique content that people actually want to see they won't have a problem. If they have interesting or knowledgable people that contribute or comment on the news they can probably build a business model on that. If all they're doing is reading internet news and then republishing it as their own then that isn't going to work.
Is free news really not sustainable? I don't know if even that is true. Companies especially local businesses are DESPERATE for relevant advertising options. Absolutely desperate. Radio, newspapers, park benches... anything. And that has always been a big part of newspaper revenue. When newspapers started they were little more then glorified classified ads. Maybe one or two pages of local news followed by forty pages of classifieds.
And yet crag's list exists. Why is that? How could Crag's list have a viable business in cities with major newspapers? Because they offered a better classified ad. And that sort of thing is evident throughout the newspaper business. They're generally bad at the internet. Even their ipad apps are bad. Seen the new york times app? Horrible. When most people bring up a news paper app they want it to be the actual newspaper and not what is basically a webpage configured roughly into the shape of a newspaper. It would be really easy to do this. Hell, you could literally scan the pages vertabim jewelry ads and all into the system. A lot of people would prefer it that way... especially those willing to pay for an online new york times subscription.
Anyway, Buffet just bought 63 news papers across the country. So we'll see how he does but I'm predicting epic failure. This is sort of like the time Bill Gates tried to reform American public schools and found so many useless dicks in the system that he figured it would be more practical to cure Malaria in Africa.
Have fun with the newspapers Warren... at the very least then you can say it was entertaining.
Companies especially local businesses are DESPERATE for relevant advertising options. Absolutely desperate. Radio, newspapers, park benches... anything.
True to an extent, but if you have a cute local restaurant you're not going to want to put an ad for it right next to a write-up of a recent child murder. Around here, that kind of advertising goes into the weekly papers, along with the live music listings and the coupons for discount spa treatments. None of that stuff is underwriting the actual news reporting.
Well, if your classifies page is crap then someone is going to do it better. A lot of the free papers... totally free papers have no news in them at all. They're just ads and classifies... and sometimes real estate stuff.
Every single ad dollar that went into those papers is a dollar the big main paper didn't get. Possibly the big paper could publish both and publish them separately. That way you can fund your unprofitable news charity with real business dollars from the ads.
Whatever... the reality is that t
Maybe this means you have to increase the ratio of ads to news? So what...
Believe it or not, there are laws about that, at least if you plan to sell your product through the U.S. Post.
There are newspapers that are 100 percent ads... so I don't see how there is a law about this... if there is there shouldn't be... what right does anyone have to tell the paper how many ads they can put in it? that's just silly.
Yeah, free news is unsustainable, right Mr. Buffet!
Oh, you must mean don't buy Gold because gold isn't money too eh Mr. Buffet? (As he secretly uses proxies to sell off ETF's to drop the price so he can buy _physical_ gold for low prices.)
Or maybe Mr. Buffet really means in translation: We need to put the alternative media out of reach of the internet because too many people are connecting the dots and realize how much of a scam our government is and how the political system really works.
(ala Rothchild she
Buffet bailed out his local paper first. I worked there. It was "employee" owned in that you could buy stock, but the stock had to stay with the company and usually when the company got rid of people, the executives kept just awarding more and more stock to themselves. They kept paying themselves huge bonuses and talked publicly about record profits, but they maintained the profits by layoffs and pay cuts followed by more layoffs and pay cuts.
The publisher/CEO told me that the thought the internet wouldn't affect the newspaper industry at all. It was the same as radio and TV before it.
He also bragged about how proud he was of the newspaper's legacy of enacting change in the community via propaganda. When Nebraska was being considered for the first legal casinos outside of reservations, Atlantic City and Vegas, the World-Herald ran front page stories daily about how gambling was evil and would immediately destroy any metropolitan area it was in. So the casinos built right across the river in Iowa. Iowa has been rolling in tax revenue since then, while all the money comes from Omaha. The casinos haven't destroyed our city, but we missed out on all the tax revenue thanks to the paper. I also spoke to a reporter whose assignment was literally to slander someone running for city council in Lincoln, Nebraska as much as possible. He owned a sex toy company, which was against the morals of the paper, and they felt it was their duty to bury the guy. Oddly enough, the paper didn't have morals when it came to abusing employees and laying them off.
The company was run exceedingly poorly. Oddly enough, most of the suggestions I made to improve the company were implemented about two years later when the newspaper was somewhat forced to embrace the digital era.
Google News has said they'd share revenue with newspapers who feed them stories. And I specifically frequent news sites that have good writers and good view points. You can run a successful newspaper, though the physical product may eventually die out. It is a shame that Buffet is bailing out poorly run companies, because the same corrupt executives who lined their pockets as they laid everyone off just got rewarded for their behavior so it can continue some more.
You are paying by watching ads.
Soon it will be like television where you pay for the service AND are forced [slashdot.org] to watch the commercials!
i'm not talking about people that circumvent the system.
And some are about impossible to block. ( like the redirect pages ).
I get all of my news from weekly magazines: The Economist, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. They actually report on things that are important (that is, things that I consider important), because I am paying them. Free online news exploits my psychological weaknesses to present me with ad impressions, because the advertisers are paying them. I think what Buffet is saying is that there are (at least) two different markets for news: people who want a distraction, and people who want insight
I get all of my news from weekly magazines: The Economist, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books.
May I ask:
What are the main benefits you get out of this quality journalism? Making you a better citizen/voter? Making you a better conversationalist? Making you a more moral person? Making you better understand the world so you can make better decisions (purchases and other life choices)? Making it possible to comment and impress your views on the public debate?
And what use do you make of the ads in these quality publications?
You want subscription money? You're gonna deliver a product free of ads.
You want subscription money? You're gonna deliver a product free of ads.
That's not going to happen with most newspapers and magazines. People won't pay extra for an ad-free experience when it's easy to ignore or block the ads. It may be another matter if unblockable animated ads start getting placed around content in publications such as tablet apps.
Free news is not sustainable?
Somebody better tell CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and CNN soon. They and others have only been doing that for 90 years or so. I wonder how they pay the bills??
Or perhaps Mr. Buffet is not in the right business.
"Warren Buffet proof that rick people are not smart", says Lumpy.
Honestly, the old fart has no clue at all. there has been free news for thousands of years. I think the man needs to get a clue as to how the world works and step outside his ivory tower and see how things have been done for the past 200 years.
free news has been king for over 50 years now. I dont pay for my TV news.
"Warren Buffet proof that rick people are not smart", says Lumpy.
Honestly, the old fart has no clue at all. there has been free news for thousands of years. I think the man needs to get a clue as to how the world works and step outside his ivory tower and see how things have been done for the past 200 years.
free news has been king for over 50 years now. I dont pay for my TV news.
TV news can more accurately be described as 'infotainment' for the masses; worth-while stories are glossed over, discourse limited to 30 second sound bites, certain important topics not covered at all, human interest stories (puke). Yeah, you don't pay for TV "news". What Buffet's doing is signaling that market that pay walls are OK. Here's what I think is happening: The occupy movement has actually been quite effective at one thing and that's bringing wealth inequality into national discourse, much to
Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett
Billionaires Unsustainable, says Free News...
TV news broadcasts work on the free news model, already, and it works. Ask CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. Ask your local TV stations if they will be an alternative news source to the paywalled locked local newspapers when Buffet comes buying.
Face it, we need at most less than 10 english language papers.
There is no need to have 63 copies of the same AP articles and random articles about someone 1,000 miles away getting robbed or murdered.
Plus, the news is so CLEARLY propaganda these days, that the people pushing the propaganda better pay for it, or why bother consuming it.
There is a huge glut of news (and every other form of entertainment.) It must fall in price.
It can do so now because instead of selling to 100,000 readers, it's selling to 1,0
Is this the beginning of the end of 'free content' for local news?
No, it's the equivalent of the whining you see from the other old corporate clowns whenever a technological paradigm shift happens. It's akin to the *AA and their histrionics about home video back in the 1980s and filesharing today.
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47:45 Nicole Buffett describes her life, then gets booted from the family for good for having said not much at all. Her claim to the Buffett name was indirect, and it might not have been the first time she said more than Warren liked, but still it's hard to imagine such a cold business.
If you can fold a device, such as a pad or an e-reader, around it. Without a physical access barrier (which obviously has to be attractive in other ways) - forget it.
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Mayme Carmen Carlson
Mayme Carmen Carlson died Sunday, Nov. 11 in Tucson, Ariz.She was born Jan. 21, 1921 in Saybrook, Pa. to Angeline Frontera and James Servedio.She was married to Kurt Carlson. Mayme was a longtime resident of Wilcox until moving to Arizona in 1965. She worked as a bookkeeper but enjoyed entertaining with her beautiful piano playing. She is survived by her sisters, Ann Hallberg of Kane and Maxine Nelson of Ludlow; her children, Judy, Scott and Linda; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.Mayme requested no services but a celebration of life with music and stories, which will be held in Tucson at a future date.


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There are always lessons to be learned in running. And this past week, the lesson learned is that all runs are not created equal. The first week of summer training, by far, has been one of the top five worst weeks of running in my life. Shocked aren't you? Well so am I! But hey, it's a good thing, because you can't expect that just because it is an easy no frills week that there will be no pain. Battling the heat, nagging hunger pains, running after being on the precious legs all day…there will be pain. For those of you who think I'm made from granite….I'm not, I can easily break just like the next runner.
Another lesson learned when having a tough week, is that music will not always pull you through. I don't really endorse running with music only because you miss out on everything that's going on around you. (You can't race with music, so therefore I try to leave it for the gym or dreaded treadmill) But if you love running with music then by all means keep doing it.
But if you're a competitive runner you might want to ditch the tunes every now and then and here's why: When I painfully ran with music, I felt the same. I felt every sore muscle in my quad and then on top of that my pace was all off because I was going along with the beat of the music. Instead of having a nice relaxing run, it was a run still filled with annoying muscle soreness and a pace that was nothing close to being consistent. When you don't have music you are in tune with everything. You know the cadence of your breath, the noise of your foot striking the pavement and the sounds of nature. The better you know yourself and how it operates, the better runner you will become.
I challenge some of you music clingers to ditch it and just appreciate the run for what it is. It's a beautiful thing; happy running.
Miles logged to date: 40 (including today) just 860 miles to go...
Your Running Enthusiast,
Kendyl Seawright


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Efren Navarro and Kole Calhoun drove in runs in the sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels overcame Drew Smyly's early dominance for a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.
Tyler Skaggs yielded five hits in 5 2-3 resourceful innings for the Angels, who have won 14 of 19. Los Angeles improved the majors' second-best record to 61-41 and pulled within two games of the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics, who lost at Texas.
Miguel Cabrera homered and Smyly (6-9) had a career-high 11 strikeouts while pitching into the sixth for the Tigers, who have lost seven of eight in Anaheim.
Navarro had two hits after replacing Josh Hamilton in the fourth inning as the Angels earned their majors-leading 36th home victory by beating the majors' best road team.
Los Angeles' bullpen backed up Skaggs with 3 1-3 innings of one-hit relief, retiring nine straight along the way.
Mike Morin (3-3) struck out Torii Hunter with the bases loaded to end the sixth inning.
Huston Street pitched the ninth for his second save in three appearances for the Angels.
After Detroit's pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts in Thursday's series opener, Smyly struck out eight of the Angels' first 10 hitters. The left-hander overwhelmed Los Angeles until the sixth, retiring his first 13 batters and striking out nine different Angels.
Everything changed abruptly with consecutive, one-out doubles by Chris Iannetta and Calhoun, followed by Navarro's go-ahead RBI to chase Smyly.
Skaggs struggled much more than Smyly, needing 43 pitches to get through the first two innings alone, but still struck out five.
Cabrera connected for his 16th homer leading off the fourth inning, putting his second shot in three days into the stands in right field. Los Angeles didn't get a ball out of the infield until Mike Trout's one-out fly ball to right in the fourth.
The Tigers chased Skaggs with consecutive, two-out singles in the sixth. Detroit then loaded the bases when David Freese botched Martinez's soft grounder to third, but Morin fanned Hunter to end it.
Hamilton left the game with soreness in his left knee and was replaced by Navarro in left field. The former AL MVP grounded out weakly in his only at-bat, and he failed to make a play on J.D. Martinez's long fly to left in the second, allowing it to bounce for a double.
NOTES: Angels LHP C.J. Wilson threw a bullpen session in his recovery from his sprained right ankle. … Kevin Jepsen struck out the Detroit side in the seventh for the hard-throwing right-hander's 14th consecutive scoreless relief appearance. … Detroit's Justin Verlander faces Matt Shoemaker on Saturday night at the Big A. … Trout was 0 for 4, going hitless for just the eighth time in his last 56 games.
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Sam Houston would have to win five games in a row in three days to overcome the curse of the No. 1 seed. Only twice in the tournament's 20-year modern history (2004 and 2011) has the No. 1 seed won the event. In only one of those championships (in 2011) did the top seed battle through the loser's bracket to win.
The Bearkats, however, knew exactly what they needed to get done and they were up to the task. They nearly pulled it off.
In a pair of hard-fought battles, Sam Houston, after coming off a 4-3 walk-off win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, fell just short in the semifinals as fourth-seeded UT Arlington rallied to beat the Bearkats 7-6 to move on to the tournament's championship game today at 5 p.m.
The Mavericks will play either Southeastern Louisiana or Stephen F. Austin, which defeated the Lions 4-3 to force an elimination game before the tournament title game, at 5 p.m.
The emotions after Friday's rollercoaster day were intense.
"It hurts and it's not fun," Kats sophomore left fielder Luke Plucheck said after the team's loss to UT Arlington. "I'm proud that we didn't back down. The better team won today and we can't hang our head about that."
Trailing 5-3 in the eighth inning, the Kats were hurting for some runs in a big way as they were staring elimination straight in the face.
Freshman center fielder Colt Atwood jump-started the inning with a single through the right side of the infield. Plucheck attempted to lay a sacrifice bunt down the third-base line, but beat out the throw from Mavericks closer Adam Boydston. The ball fell out of first baseman Jordan Vaughn's glove, which allowed Atwood to advance to third base.
With a prime opportunity to do some damage without any outs, junior third baseman Kevin Miller waited for the right pitch, and once he got what he was looking for, he launched it over the left-field wall to give the Kats their first lead of the game after trailing by as many as three runs.
"Every time we come in, we tell them that we're going to follow the leader and one person's going to get on and the next person's going to get on," Miller said. "(Mavericks reliever Collin Reynolds) left a changeup up and I left my hands back and the ball went from there."
The Kats couldn't make that lead stick as UT Arlington rallied to tie the game. A pair of two-out singles set the stage for third baseman Travis Sibley, who drove in left fielder Preston Morrow to knot the score at 6.
In the top of the ninth, the Bearkats put together their own two-out rally as freshman shortstop Corey Toups singled up the middle, Atwood doubled down the third-base line and Plucheck drew a walk to load the bases.
Miller had another chance to be a hero. He drilled the ball up the middle, however, Mavericks shortstop Ryan Walker made a spectacular diving snag. Walker flipped the ball to teammate Michael Guerra a split-second before Plucheck reached the base, which prevented the go-ahead run from scoring and ended the inning.
"Kevin hit that ball about as hard as you can hit it and the guy knocked it down," Plucheck said. "You can't control what the umpire's going to do. He felt like I was out and he called me out. You've got to give UTA credit."
Just as quick as the wind came out of Sam Houston's sails, the Mavericks ended the Kats' hopes of a tournament championship and an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament in one fell swoop as UTA right fielder Preston Beck, who was 0-for-4 going into the ninth, hung a low-flying liner that just cleared the right-field wall for the walk-off win.
Missing out on the opportunity to take care of business themselves in the conference tournament, the Bearkats will now have to hope that the NCAA Tournament selection committee feels they have done enough to earn one of 34 at-large bids to the NCAA regionals, which get under way next Thursday.
"We're playing next week, though, we're hoping," Miller said. "We can't control our fate, so we have to let things play out. We're ready to get back to practice and get ready for next weekend."
The selection show will air Monday morning at 11 a.m. on ESPNU.
"I feel like we made a pretty good argument to get an at-large bid for a regional. We've been playing well all year and we won the conference outright," Plucheck added.
In the earlier elimination game against A&M-Corpus Christi, the score was knotted at 3 going into the bottom of the ninth when Sam Houston's sophomore designated hitter Anthony Azar uncorked the first pitch he saw and sent it soaring over the left-field wall for a walk-off home run.
"I was just wanting to give my team the best chance to win. I just wanted to hit the ball hard and put it into play and ultimately just try to get on first base," Azar said. "I ended up getting a fastball and I hit it pretty well."
The win not only knocked the Islanders of the tournament, but also allowed the Bearkats to stave off elimination for a few hours.
Bearkat closer Michael Burchett did an outstanding job in the late innings closing down the Islanders at the plate.
"Michael did a good job. He just left one pitch up and it hurt us," Sam Houston head coach David Pierce said. "Allen Scott and Burchett were great. That's exactly what we needed. We were able to get deep enough in the game and we didn't burn any bullpen."
Sam Houston State stood No. 49 in last week's NCAA Division I RPI ratings, a major factor in the NCAA Selection Committee's process.
The Kats built an impressive resume in their first 50 games this season. Sam Houston defeated Rice (No. 11) and Dallas Baptist (No. 22) in midweek games, while winning series San Diego (No. 28) to open the season, Texas State (No. 60) and Southeastern Louisiana (No. 56). The Bearkats own a 10-8 record against teams currently ranked in the RPI top 64.
Inversely, losses against Houston , A&M-Corpus Christi , McNeese State and Central Arkansas could hurt the Kats' case as well. Sam Houston faced some later season injury problems and struggled at times, going 8-9 in May. Two of those losses however came at the hands of top 20 teams Rice and Texas A&M.
"The San Diego series was definitely early, but it really has helped us to stabilize our RPI right now. At the same time, with them doing as well as they have that's definitely documented by the committee," Pierce said.
"Playing some better RPI teams like DBU and Rice and getting wins from those is great. Southeastern, Texas State and even UT Arlington are all in the top 60 to 65, so those are all good wins. The other part of it is seeing how the automatics play out. If the right schools win the automatics, it can definitely help you as well as if the wrong schools win the automatics, it can definitely hurt you. Hopefully we've done enough to get some consideration."
2012 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
Bobcat Ballpark, San Marcos
UT Arlington 6, McNeese State 2
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 9, Sam Houston 2
Texas State 11, Stephen F. Austin 1 (7 innings)
Southeastern Louisiana 6, Central Arkansas 3
Sam Houston 7, McNeese State 1 (Cowboys eliminated)
Stephen F. Austin 7, Central Arkansas 2 (Bears eliminated)
UT Arlington 10, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 5
Southeastern Louisiana 7, Texas State 1
Sam Houston 4, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 3 (Islanders eliminated)
Stephen F. Austin 9, Texas State 7 (Bobcats eliminated)
UT Arlington 7, Sam Houston 6 (Bearkats eliminated)
Stephen F. Austin 4, Southeastern Louisiana 3
Stephen F. Austin vs. Southeastern Louisiana, 1 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin- Southeastern Louisiana winner vs. UT Arlington in championship game, 5 p.m


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Defeat the Pattern of Male-Pattern Baldness
Hair loss is a topic most men don't want to discuss. Yet it affects more than two-thirds of them by age 35. Nearly 85 percent of men will have thinning hair by age 50.
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Everyone loses some hair each day. It's part of the normal hair-growth cycle. Excessive hair loss, though, can be caused by a number of reasons, such as an illness, hormonal changes, or certain medications. In men, the most likely culprit is male-pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia.
Despite what you may have heard, you can't solely blame your mother for male-pattern baldness. Such hair loss can be inherited from both parents. In fact, it's the result of a genetic variation that increases the level of a certain androgen, which is a type of hormone. A rise in the level of this androgen makes hair finer and shorter, eventually stunting growth.
Male-pattern baldness can start as early as the teen years, but it's more likely as a man ages. The condition usually starts at the temples. As the hairline recedes, it often forms an M shape. Many men also lose hair on the top of their head, which may eventually lead to baldness.
Not all hope - or hair - is lost
Male-pattern baldness can negatively affect all aspects of a man's life: self-esteem, relationships, and career. Fortunately, treatments to slow or even stop hair loss are available. For the best success, though, men need to talk with their doctor early, before significant hair loss occurs.
Two medications that help treat male-pattern baldness are minoxidil and finasteride. Minoxidil, better known as Rogaine, is put directly on the scalp. It has helped some men regrow hair, but it doesn't work for everyone. Another potential drawback: Men who start and then stop using it will begin to lose their hair again.
Finasteride comes in pill form. It's effective in stopping hair loss and spurring new hair growth in many men who use it. It works by lowering how much androgen a man's body produces.
Some men may also benefit from various surgical procedures, including scalp reduction or expansion and hair transplantation. Transplantation involves moving hair to the head from another part of the body. Better instruments and techniques have made this option much more effective.
Test your knowledge about male-pattern baldness with this quiz.
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American Hair Loss Association - Men's Hair Loss: Introduction
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We Sang Every Song That Driver Knew: More America
Because I've been mulling over American songs this past week, I thought I'd share two more classics of the genre.
Incidentally, they are both in that strange category of "posthumous number one singles" which always bear an undeniable poignancy. (Particularly when you think about the actual content of both of these songs. Personally, I've heard both of them so much over my life that I almost can't hear them anymore. But when I give the same attention to these songs as I would to an entirely new-to-me song, I hear them again for what they are. [Glorious.])
(Previously: Arlo Guthrie, "City of New Orleans"; Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler")
The song: Janis Joplin, "Me and Bobby McGee"; 1971
The song: Otis Redding, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"; 1968


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Tell me what you think and what you would do if you were standing behind me.
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It is a great looking ass.
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GOLDEN Square's premiership-winning coach Mark Lloyd has decided he will not tackle the role in the Bendigo Football League next year.
Lloyd capped his senior coaching debut by leading the Bulldogs to a fourth consecutive grand final victory.
Increasing family and work commitments meant the 29-year-old made the "tough call" to not coach, but he will stay on as a player for the blue and gold.
Two of his biggest fans, wife Rebecca and son, Alfie, who is eight-weeks-old tomorrow, cheered him on as Square won the grand final against Gisborne by three points.
"It's a busy time at work, and also having a young family," said the architectural draftsman at Bendigo firm OTS Architecture.
"Being senior coach was really challenging and takes a lot of time," said Lloyd, who the previous four years had been assistant coach to Mark Adamson and then Nick Carter.
"I can't thank the club enough for giving me the opportunity to coach the senior team. I learnt a lot during the season, and have not given up the idea of coaching again in the future."
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Submission + - RIM Trying to Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? (cio.com)
AZA43 writes: "Everybody knows that BlackBerry-maker RIM is hurting these days. But is it hurting enough to try to attract new customers with the promise of porn and/or gambling apps? A new rating system added to RIM's BlackBerry App World store suggests that it just may be that desperate. The new "Adult" rating covers, "graphic sexual content, graphic nudity," " graphic violence," and gambling apps "as permitted by law." And that suggests RIM will allow this kind of content into App World, in stark contrast to Apple's no-porn-on-the-iPhone stand."


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Corpus Christi (kiii sports)- The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi volleyball team cruised to a 3-0 victory (25-15, 25-13, 25-21) over Prairie View A&M (9-23) Tuesday evening in non-conference play at the Dugan Wellness Center. The Islanders (15-10) snapped a three-match losing skid and 14 players saw action in the match.
Haley Satterwhite Day powered the Islanders' offense with eight kills while Ivy Baresh and Brianna Brink each chipped in seven kills apiece. Logen Bourque recorded her 10th double-double of the season with a match-high 44 assists and 10 digs. Shayla Maldonado propelled the defense with 15 digs and Baresh added 11 digs. Freshmen Shaquinn Parker and Morgan Carlson tallied four block assists apiece to help the Islanders out-block the Lady Panthers 8-3. The Islanders hit .278 in the match and limited PVAM to just .046 hitting.
The Islanders jumped out to a 5-3 lead in the opening set before the Panthers took the lead at 7-6 on a 3-0 run. After rallying back-and-forth the Islanders garnered the lead for good at 9-7 after straight kills by Ashley Phelps and Sarah Sanchez. The Islanders extended its lead to 19-13 on a 3-0 run and capped the set on a 5-0 to win 25-15. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi hit .353 in the set behind Phelps' six kills.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi surged out to a 12-7 lead in the second set after a kill by Satterwhite. The Islanders padded its lead to 19-9 after putting together an 8-0 run. During the stretch, Nicole Soifua added a pair of kills, Satterwhite, Brink and Carlson each added a kill and Megan Olivarez chipped in an ace. After rallying back-and-forth, the Islanders finished the set with a 25-13 victory.
Prairie View A&M gained momentum in the third set which featured 10 ties and seven lead changes. The Lady Panthers and Islanders stayed even early on before the Islanders built a 13-11 lead with three straight points. The Lady Panthers evened the set at 14-14 with two straight points. The Islanders followed with a 6-1 run to push ahead for good at 20-15. After a Prairie View A&M timeout, the Islanders traded points before back-to-back kills by the Lady Panthers pulled the visitor's within three. Satterwhite followed with a kill before the two teams traded points. Bourque tacked on an ace to make it 24-19. The Lady Panterhs followed with consecutive kills before Soifua clinched the set at 25-21 with her fourth kill of the match.
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Horrible,and with 2 outs.
I hate the West Coast already and we are only one inning into it.
Kay Bruce sure makes a lot of bad plays in RF for supposedly being such a good defensive RF.
I'm not saying a perfect throw would have got him, but Jay's throws to home SUCK!
I may have to go to bed early or get drunk
The older I get - the better I was
and yes - I hate the Cardinals (Reds fan since 1958)
WTH was Bruce doing with his approach to that ball??? At first, I didn't even think he was going to throw. Then he uncorks that one. Of course, no Cincinnati catcher since Bench has been able to handle OF throws home.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Healthy Phillips fields that grounder. End of inning. Of course, he's not healthy.
Rounding third and heading for home...
Good ole Jay Bruce and his Sean Casey-esq slow grounders to 2nd.
Giants' pitchers have hurled three consecutive shutouts.
Sandoval is their number six hitter? Crazy.
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The project consists of joint contracts with Jones Lang LaSalle and the USRC to supply eight KONE escalators to the station and ten to the adjoining garage and bus terminal. The joint award also includes a three-year maintenance agreement with a full-time in-house service technician serving 33 units.
The escalators will be equipped with KONE's sleep-mode feature, designed to help buildings that operate 24 hours a day, like Union Station, conserve energy. The feature adjusts the speed of the escalator depending on the flow of traffic. The optimal speed is set to maintain the flow of people during peak times and reduced during off-peak times, helping cut energy costs and reducing the building's overall carbon footprint.
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At the courthouse where I work, the maintenance man is often helped out by prisoners who are called "trustees." They help with heavy lifting and the jobs that nobody else wants to do, like cleaning toilets, and they come to work wearing black-and-white striped prison jumpsuits. Sometimes, a former trustee will come back for a visit to say hello, and it's always kind of weird to see them in street clothes after looking at them in the jumpsuit for so long. Once, a co-worker and I were shopping on our lunch break, and we ran into a former (male) trustee in the store. We'd all liked him and gotten to know him because sometimes, on slow afternoons, he would come in to chat and joke around and make us laugh. I recognized him and waved, but my co-worker didn't--she kept giving him the "don't I know you?" look. He finally walked over and said:T: Miss X, don't you remember me?CW: You look familiar.T: I used to come by your office all the time. Remember? You always said I put a smile on your face on those slow afternoons.CW: Oh, YEAH! I didn't recognize you at first, because this is the first time I've ever seen you wearing CLOTHES! It took me the rest of lunch break to calm down. For the rest of the afternoon, I could barely even look at CW because I'd start giggling again.
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Every star that's visible to the unaided eye has a long list of aliases. They're listed in several different star catalogs, and the brightest of them are designated with letters of the Greek alphabet. And the brightest of the bright also have proper names, usually bestowed many centuries ago.
As an example, consider the second-brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius, which arcs low across the south on summer nights. The star is at the top left corner of the "teapot" formed by Sagittarius's brightest stars.
The star's list of names includes Sigma Sagittarii and 34 Sagittarii, plus catalog listings SAO 187448, HD 175191, and more than two dozen others.
Its proper name is Nunki, and it may be the oldest star name that's still in use.
The name comes from a list of 30 stars from ancient Babylon. The name refers to the sea, perhaps because the star lies near the shores of a region of sky known as the celestial sea. Over the centuries, the name disappeared. But a few centuries ago, it was resurrected by European navigators, and it remains in use today.
Nunki is more than 200 light-years away from us. It looks so bright in our sky because it's much bigger, hotter, and brighter than the Sun. That flashiness means it will live only a tiny fraction as long as the Sun will. Even so, this star with an ancient name will continue to shine in Earth's night sky for millions of years to come.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2010


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Recovered Vietnam veteran Jim McGarrity, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, speaks in a NAMI lecture series.
Photo courtesy of: NAMI Athens
Frances Strickland, the former First Lady of Ohio, and Sandy Stephenson, the former director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health, participate in a Memorial Day ceremony on the Ridges.
Photo courtesy of: NAMI Athens
Nov 4, 2012
By Kristen Spicker
Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, the Ohio University community is participating in United Appeal's "United 2 Give, United 2 Help" fundraising campaign. Through this editorial series, Compass seeks to highlight some of the community agencies that will benefit from OHIO's giving.
When members of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) walk between the gravestones at the Ridges Cemeteries, they aren't looking for spooky thrills. Instead, the organization works to restore and beautify the cemeteries, dispelling myths about mental illness while restoring respect to the nearly 2,000 former mental health patients buried there.
With chapters throughout the United States, NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. Although NAMI Athens is one of the smaller organizations, families across southeast Ohio are touched by its work: advocating for and promoting the recovery of people with mental illness.
In addition to its work with the mentally ill, NAMI Athens provides information and support to friends and families of people with mental illness. Likewise, the police-training course, Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), teaches officers throughout the region how to handle emergency situations involving the mentally ill.
NAMI is one of the 19 organizations receiving aid from this year's United Appeal campaign, which has served the less fortunate of Athens County for 57 years. Long-term member of NAMI Athens Tom Walker recently spoke with Compass about the organization, its work and its first year partnership with United Appeal.
What services does NAMI Athens provide?
Walker: We offer all three (of NAMI's) flagship courses … a course for persons having adult loved ones with mental illness, parents with children with mental illness and a course for and taught by people in recovery. Those courses are very important in helping people dealing with mental illness, helping them help themselves or their loved ones.
How does the organization connect with the community?
Walker: Because of stigma, there's very little communication among people about having a mentally ill loved one. We can't get to people through word of mouth; we have to get to them by advertising in the newspapers, and that costs money. So that is one of our challenges.
How does NAMI work with the University?
Walker: The Ohio University Police Department is very involved in our Crisis Intervention Training. Most of their officers are CIT trained. That training is marvelous because it … prevents an escalating situation that could become dangerous. …We've had spectacular, successful cases.
How would donations from United Appeal help the organization?
Walker: If we had more money we could do another conference, we could certainly bring in people from further away for our lectures and we would continue to fund Crisis Intervention Training. …The more money we have, the more we can do.
United Appeal's "United 2 Give, United 2 Help" fundraising campaign runs through Dec. 24. For more information, visit http://www.unitedappeal.org/.
American Red Cross of Southeastern Ohio
Appalachian Community Visiting Nurse Association, Hospice & Health Services, Inc.
Appalachian Peace and Justice Network
Athens County Child Advocacy Center
Athens County Food Pantry
Athens Photographic Project, Inc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Athens County
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
Habitat for Humanity Athens County
Ohio University – Community Health Programs
Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Inc.
Jessica Wingett, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jennifer Kirksey, President's Office
Monica Chapman, University Communications and Marketing
Chris France, Psychology
Jim Harris, Alumni Relations
Mark Sutton, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Andrew Stuart, Libraries
Eileen Theodore-Shusta, Libraries