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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Packers coach Mike McCarthy says Pro Bowl linebacker Clay Matthews will miss at least a couple weeks with a thumb injury.
McCarthy said Wednesday that Matthews may have to play with a cast when he returns. He says it could be "multiple weeks" overall.
Matthews was hurt last weekend against the Lions. He has also been bothered by a sore hamstring. A hamstring injury sidelined Matthews for four games last season.
The Packers play the Ravens on Sunday in Baltimore. Nick Perry and Mike Neal figure to start on the outside with Matthews out.
Neal had six tackles and a sack last week in his first start at linebacker opposite Matthews.
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UVM to Commemorate Veterans Day with Suite of Nov. 11 Events
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On Veterans Day, UVM will host several public events in commemoration of those who have served and sacrificed for the country. At a 9 a.m. Roll Call ceremony held on the Davis Center Green, a color guard will post the colors, and the names of those service members killed in action in the past year will be read aloud. The event will also include remarks from student veterans and from David Carlson, coordinator of student veterans services at UVM.
From 1:45 to 3 p.m. a celebration and reception will be held in Waterman Memorial Lounge. This public event follows a private president's luncheon for UVM veterans. (UVM veterans who have not received an invitation can contact Bess Malson-Huddle: email@example.com.)
And from 3 to 5 p.m., UVM Veteran Services will host an information session in Memorial Lounge, where visitors can learn what UVM is doing to support student veterans, a growing population on campus, and their success. Prospective students are welcome.
The day's events are sponsored by the Student Veterans Organization and the Student Government Association.
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The footed pajamas fail to meet the federal flammability standard for children's sleepwear, posing a burn hazard to children.
Hazard: The footed pajamas fail to meet the federal flammability standard for children�s sleepwear, posing a burn hazard to children. The garments are being recalled because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements.
Remedy: Refund
Consumer contact: The Children�s Place toll-free at 877-752-2387 between 9 a.m. and5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online here.
Units: About 38,000
Description: This recall involves three styles of The Children�s Place bunny-themed one-piece cotton footed pajamas. One style is pink with dark pink bunnies and a ruffle at the neck. It was sold in size 9-12 months. This style has a sewn-in label at the side seam with both 2158 and one or more of the following numbers: 042521, 042523, 042571, 042572, 042774 or 042816. The other two styles are both blue/green with bunnies on the feet and bunny print fabric. They were sold in sizes 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 2T and 3T. One style has bunnies with eyeglasses. The other has bunnies and yellow chicks. Both styles have a sewn-in label at the side seam with both 2598 and one or more of the following numbers: 030647, 030779, 038826, 670409, 670602, 670603 or 945210. �Made with love by PLACE� with a heart outline is printed at the neck of the pajamas.
Incidents/injuries: None reported
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled pajamas away from children and return them to any The Children�s Place store for a full refund.
Sold exclusively at: The Children�s Place stores nationwide and online at www.childrensplace.com from January 2012 through May 2013 for about $15.
Importer: The Children�s Place, of Secaucus, N.J.
Manufactured in: China


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An American soldier's return home from his time as a prisoner of war should be celebrated—but the move that brought Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl back from Afghanistan should also be criticized. Stephen Colbert doesn't appreciate the president's "negotiating with terrorists," but he thinks he understands the reasoning behind it.
Plus: Obama unveils a new (and wasteful) energy plan, mass shootings like the recent incident in Santa Barbara are becoming all too commonplace, and the NSA is peeking at your selfies.


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If it weren't for Microsoft, Apple would be Microsoft.
If it weren't for Microsoft, Apple would be Microsoft.
I believe your statement. I remember in high school hearing about the Apple vs Microsoft case regarding Windows. I thought (and still do think) it was lame for Apple trying to maintain a monopoly on the GUI; they had been using it for so many years why not let others now innovate with it. (This was also before I learned how Apple ganked it from Xerox.) It was political moves like this which helped fuel the decision for me to upgrade from my Apple ][ to a 386dx-40 instead of an Apple Macintosh.
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This was also before I learned how Apple ganked it from Xerox
Apple didn't steal the GUI from Xerox PARC. In return for an investment in Apple Xerox invited Steve Jobs to Palo Alto Research Center, PARC [fortunecity.com], in 1979. There he saw some of the technology Xerox was working on there. Seeing the gui Xerox came up with he took the idea back to Apple where the Woz, Steve Wozniak [woz.org], had a team work on the Lisa which became the Macintosh.
Now here I am 12 years later, typing on an AMD based computer running Windows
Yes, I know you've been around longer than I have.
"Apple, the penultimate source of cool"
So Apple is second to last in coolness?
Apple's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to make money.
A person's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to reproduce. So I take it you support rape? What about prostitution? Hell, why are you even on Slashdot? Go breed!
The fact that a form of natural selection means we're left with the companies best able to make money does NOT mean that is or should be every company's sole purpose in life. It is NOT a justification for Apple behaving the way it does, or for M$ behaving the way it does.
Whether or not Google lives up to it, stating "Don't be evil" as a company motto is a good idea.
And ultimately, I'd hope that evil companies lose in the long run anyway. Don't you? Don't you hope that a combination of regulation, customer dissatisfaction, employee moral crisis, and honest competition will one day unseat the Microsofts and Sonys of the world?
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's only a matter of time (and regulation).
And regulation removes power.
For that matter, I don't know about Apple, but I really see no way that Canonical could become corrupt. If they did, we'd fork and move on. Or take IBM -- yes, I can buy an IBM server to put Linux on. And if IBM becomes corrupt, I'll buy Dell servers, or build my own.
It is possible to be a profit-driven company and not seek or maintain absolute power.
Oh, and by the way, are you religious? Are you aware that this statement applies to God? Just thought I'd mention that. If you believe in a God with any shred of compassion, then you must reject the "absolute power" statement.
Some examples off the top of my head - legal action against bloggers, iPhone trade mark, stock options, treatment of Woz.
If anything, they are able to get away with actions which would be considered unforgivable were they committed by Microsoft. The only reason they are not considered as evil is due to their size - except in the case of music downloads, they are not in a monopoly position.
Apple are a very big company (albeit smaller than Microsoft) and have been for many years. To pretend they are otherwise is naive to say the least.
On the other hand, Apple has one distinction that makes them different from Microsoft: they're currently making good products. However much I might like or hate a business emotionally or philosophically, I feel like we should all give some credit to those who are putting out a product worth buying.
Microsoft hasn't released anything worthwhile since their 2000 line, excepting perhaps the XBox. Pretty much their entire product line is reliant on bullying OEMs and leveraging product lock-in. Otherwise, the
I don't see Steve trying to get John Lassater a few million more bucks through monkeying around with stock option timing worrying a lot of people. Anyone familiar with the history of Pixar knows John deserves every penny and then some.
What the hell has deserves got to do with anything? If done, it was illegal and to the detriment of each and every stockholder and potential stockholder. In that place, I don't give a flying fuck if he deserves it. Plenty of people deserve things, illegal actions are not the
Among the reasons given: Apple's call to be rid of DRM (while continuing to use it in iTunes);
My understanding is that they are still using it because their deal with the record companies, who actually own the rights to the music, won't let them sell it without DRM. If some of the labels don't require DRM, then Apple should definitely not require it either, though.
Apple's perceived arrogance when they warned consumers not to upgrade to Vista, while not rushing to fix the problem themselves;
This is unf
As long as they follow their business model they've always had - tying software to hardware - they'll never achieve enough market penetration to be Microsoft.
Actually, in our current non-free market, that is the only way they can have significant growth.
For consumer level stuff, if iTunes becomes too cumbersome, people will move on. It's yet to face any serious competition, when it does, it won't seem like such an unstoppable force.
iTunes is a music jukebox application with about 1/10 the penetration of MS's Windows Media Player. Your comments don't make a lot of sense in that light.
They could have very microsoft-ish market share if they'd sell OS/X for commodity hardware.
They could go out of business if they'd sell OS X for commodity software. They already tried that once when they were ahead in the OS wars, and almost died. Several companies brought superior OS's to the market, but dies because of MS's monopoly power. Having a better OS is not enough to win in a monopolized market. It isn't even enough to survive unless you have a complete, separate chain of supply the monopoly cannot undermine.
I'd install it tomorrow if I could
Great. With you and all the other people that can afford to pay for a copy and who know how to install an OS, or even what an OS is, and who aren't locked into Windows for some applications or purposes that should boost Apple's market share about 3%, while completely killing the 50% of their revenue they get from hardware sales.
People don't install OS's. If Apple can't reach the pre-install market with OS X they are missing the largest chunk. If they are missing that chunk and are missing the business market who is still locked in with ActiveX,
I'm sure some businesses love Macs and are all Apple this and Apple that, but that's the exception that proves the rule.
Apple does not target business for a number of pretty good reasons I'm not going into right now. Apple can slowly grow market share (as they have been) so long as they maintain their hardware/software chain. The minute they break that, MS can kill them.
You're right that the only way Apple will gain a large share of the market is by unbundling the two, but what you're failing to realize is that action is only possible if MS's monopoly is already broken or severely weakened. If Linux takes the business market, for example, then Apple could unbundle these two items. Or, if the government actually prosecuted MS effectively and broke them up into companies that were in competition with one another, then Apple would be forced to unbundle their products to survive as all the value of bundling would be gone, while the market would be highly competitive. Both are very unlikely in the near future.
So, Apple is bad because they continue to use DRM on the iTunes store. Brilliant. It can't be because, oh, I don't know, that the media companies would absolutely freak out if Apple unilaterally dropped DRM. They can't -- they would end up in court I suspect.
According to Fred von Lohmann of the EFF, Apple would not drop iTunes Music Store DRM even if they could [eff.org]. As I understand it (I don't recall exactly where, but I think it was from one of DVD Jon's recent blog posts on the topic), Apple employs DR
Lets look at these one at a time:
Apple's call to be rid of DRM (while continuing to use it in iTunes);
Apple is selling music players and needs a way to get music to users easily so they will buy said music players. The providers of said music are a cartel convicted of abuse multiple times. The cartel required DRM and Apple pushed back on how restrictive it is and prices. Does anyone think it would be better if Apple refused to do business with them and let Microsoft dominate the DRM market? Apple needed to be there to stop MS from using the incompatibility of DRM'd songs against their OS offering. There is nothing hypocritical about saying it would be better for everyone (except the RIAA) if DRM was no more, either voluntarily or by law. Does anyone complain that OpenOffice reads and writes
Apple's perceived arrogance when they warned consumers not to upgrade to Vista, while not rushing to fix the problem themselves;
Perceived arrogance? Some people think Apple was arrogant when they apologized for their software not working and recommended people hold off upgrades? Can you tell me the name of a software vendor that isn't cautioning customers to wait until things stabilize, because I'll happily stop doing business with the irresponsible twits.
They have about 70% which is the minimum share where some governments start investigating possible antitrust issues due to dominance. Compare this to MS's 90% and multiple convictions for abuse. Some of Apple's actions are antitrust abuse if they have enough market share, but all in markets where MS already is abusing their monopoly and the governments have declined to stop them. Two wrongs don't make a right, but two monopolies battling one another is a lot better than one screwing consumers as hard as possible.
The iPhone featured heavily as well, aproduct[sic] that is months from release but steals the press from more competitive products.
Ummm... umm... what? Apple released pictures and discussed a cool upcoming new device and people paid attention and this is somehow indicative of Apple becoming an evil empire? I like it when companies come out with cool toys. I hate it when they come out with crap that no one likes but everyone has to use anyway.
Could Apple suddenly gain a dominant position in the market and then abuse that position? Well, it is vaguely possible, but the items listed are no reason to think it might be likely. If they do that, and we all suffer as a result I'll complain my head off, but one nice thing Apple has done to date is avoided any lock-in that keeps me from migrating all my hardware and files to another platform like Linux. Until they do that, I'm not about to lose any sleep over the danger of Apple, when the danger of MS has never been stopped and shows no signs of slowing.
Talk about spin:
The announcement of the impending iPhone at last month's MacWorld conference set off shockwaves that rippled beyond the assembled geek alliance. It won't even be out until this summer, and it's already the most buzzed-about tech innovation since, well, the iPod, stealing the thunder of every gadget unveiled at Las Vegas' Consumer Electronics Show.
Forgetting that Steve Jobs explained the decision to announce now rather than later. His explanation was that Apple was about to file applications with the FCC. Jobs wanted to quell any rumors and address everything up front once Apple did that.
I guess this is compared to Cairo and Longhorn where some features promised have not been released in Vista even though they were promised 10 years ago. These announcements by MS had the effect of stifling adoption of other OS like OS/2, NextOS, etc. Maybe Apple will do the same thing, but I would wait til summer before I would accuse Apple of MS tricks.
Steve Jobs announced Tuesday that he has asked the record labels to scrap their proprietary DRM software that prevents music from being shared, as he feels it's ineffective and merely hampers consumers from being able to listen to music how they please. Sounds good, right? Well, it's propaganda. Lost in his release is that that the largest source of proprietary DRM software is Apple, which prevents songs purchased from iTunes to be played on any competing player (and prevents the iPod from playing songs purchased from competing online music stores).
Did he happen to read the rest of the article where Jobs explains that Apple has to include DRM or the content providers would not license the content to Apple. Also Apple is not alone in this situation. Sony, MS, Best Buy, hmmm. It seems that most online music distributors use DRM.
When problems cropped up between iPods and the new Microsoft Vista operating system -- songs purchased through iTunes wouldn't play, and some users found their iPods corrupted after connecting to their PC -- Microsoft engineers hurriedly worked to try to solve the problem and make their system compatible. Apple, on the other hand, officially warned PC users to avoid installing Microsoft Vista -- at least until Apple gets around to updating the iTunes software in the next couple weeks or so.
I don't know where this information comes from, but Apple's statement [apple.com] is thus:
iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs. Apple recommends, however, that customers wait to upgrade Windows until after the next release of iTunes which will be available in the next few weeks. This document will be updated as more information becomes available.
If you are upgrading to Windows Vista or have purchased a new computer with Windows Vista pre-installed, here is some information you may find helpful:
Considering that some MS applications don't work with Vista, most companies are waiting until SP1 to install Vista, and other third party vendors like McAfee, Intuit, etc, are also having issues with Vista, I don't see how Apple's stance is unique.
I see it going both ways
A lot of us already know MS has been trying to be more like Apple for quite a while (as eveidenced by articles stating them trying to match Mac/iPod feature by feature.)
But Apple has taken a thing or two from MS's strategies
We use Macs at work and compared to Windows they are a breeze to work with, nary a problem, and I would not want to switch to Windows. But as much as I like them I've seen Apple streching themselves out sacrificing a bit of the business computer market for the consumer electronics market.
The only group that is serious about business needs now seems to be Linux (and those that have adopted it Oracle, Novell, etc.).
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Monday, July 5, 2010
A Tour of the FamilySearch Beta
The layout of the FamilySearch Beta site is scheduled to replace the older FamilySearch.org layout sometime later this year (perhaps sooner rather than later). Here is a mini-tour of the new site:
The search part of the Home page (see above) gives you a rather extensive search of all of the older FamilySearch resources, such as the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index (IGI), and links to additional resources not previously connected. The Library Catalog search does give you the option of searching for place names, surnames and a lot of other options.
Clicking on search All Collections, takes you to a modified list of the collections presently in Record Search, with the additional options of a whole lot of filters:
There are links to FamilySearch Indexing and to a Blog. Indexing is the engine that is driving the whole machine right now. It is only through indexing that additional records with indexes are being added to Record Search.
There are obviously a whole lot more features to the Beta site. I suggest exploring the site and then sending in some feedback. There are certainly features that need to be better thought out and right now a few very circular links that lead nowhere, such as the What's New link that takes you to a page with no information and then back to the startup page. But overall it is an interesting concept site but does not obviously provide all of the features of the older FamilySearch.org site, yet.
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We are getting ready to go in to Vegas for my grand daughter's father in law's funeral. I really don't like to go to funerals, but then who does. Funerals always remind me of my first husbands death and how hard that was to go through. We felt we needed to support Jason and Renee at this sad time in their lives. So sad, he was only 52 years old.
On another note I forgot to post some pictures of a project that Frank and I did a few weeks ago.
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I like the painting you did. Your floor plan looks similar to ours (especially the kitchen lay out), only we don't have arches. I wish we did. We have been debating doing an accent wall...personally, I want to put up a faux rock wall behind our TV and husband's bar.
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The All Whites might not have the same profile as Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka but the average football fan in China should be able to identify one of the touring party for Wednesday night's international.
Those with a reasonable football memory will remember the tall figure of 84-cap All White Ivan Vicelich who enjoyed a fruitful five months with then-Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Ruby in the 2010 season.
"I've had a bit of contact from people I met during my time in Shenzhen asking me if I was making the trip across and playing,'' Vicelich said. "Some might recognise me, but my time there was pretty short and sweet.''
Shenzhen finished 12th out of the 16 teams at the conclusion of his stint, with Vicelich playing 14 matches at centre back for Shenzhen.
After his return to New Zealand the Auckland City captain made a prediction about the future of club football in China, comparing it to Japan's J-League which benefited from an influx of older ex-internationals.
Fast-forward two years and the Drogba and Anelka have made the move to the world's most populous nation, kick-starting renewed interest in football after a difficult period for the sport.
"There were already a lot of foreigners when I was there, but what they're doing now is bringing in a few big name ones to create a buzz,'' said Vicelich.
"The potential in China is huge. There was so much room for improvement when I was there and obviously with such a big population and their wealth the ability to do that is a lot easier.''
Vicelich has since been back to China, captaining the All Whites in a 1-1 draw with China in Wuhan in March last year.
"It was a tough game, we got a good result that night after going behind early,'' he said.
Vicelich is predicting a similarly difficult night in front of a potentially packed house at the 33,000-seat Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium.
"With the national team playing in Shanghai it should be buzzing. There's a population of about 23 million so hopefully we get a good crowd.''


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We thought Kevin Bacon's footwork in Footloose was impressive, but this player's fancy dancing just blew our mind. He plays DanceDanceRevolution X3 on the highest difficulty level, which requires the use of both dance pads.
Watch Takaske of Japan perform some incredible footwork to Paranoia Revolution in DanceDanceRevolution X3. What's incredible is that he only scores a C. This is A+ work in our book Takaske.
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U-Bop Mini Headphone Jack softTOUCH Rubber Tipped Stylus | Finger-Touch Screens – Black – Orange San Francisco
- The Stylus for Finger-Touch Screens lets you type, tap and scroll effortlessly on a finger-touch screen.
- We all know typing on a touch-screen can be frustrating at times and almost impossible if you're wearing gloves.
- The Retractable Stylus is the perfect solution as it lets you type with precision and tap or scroll with ease.
- Soft tip won't scratch your screen.
- Small compact design. Includes a small cap which plugs into the headphone socket of any iphone, smartphone or tablet. You will never loose this stylus, it will always be handy.


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MPs call for radical reform of UK university science
Change, or fizzle out
The House of Commons select committee for science and technology has called for a radical reform in the way universities organise and fund the teaching of science subjects.
It says short-termism has led to a decline is students graduating with science degrees, and has prompted departmental closures. Acknowledging that there is unlikely to be a sudden influx of extra cash, the committee instead proposes a totally new approach.
At the moment, university departments are graded on a scale of 1 - 5*, and future funding is determined according to the grade. A 5* or 5 rating is only awarded to a "world class" facility, and will get considerably more money than a department that wins a rating of 4, reflecting a status of "national excellence".
Universities that don't get a 5 or 5* rating often struggle to improve. The Register understands that such institutions often have trouble attracting the best research staff, because of fears in the academic community that a rating of four means a department is almost certain to close.
Exeter and Newcastle universities have recently pulled the plug on some science degrees. Exeter closed its chemistry department, and Newcastle shut down pure physics. The committee says this is also a result of short, rather then long-term planning.
In a report (pdf) Strategic Science Provision in English Universities, the committee said "Unless some important long term measures are taken to ensure the sustainability of the sector, the Government may find that it does not have enough STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates to meet its economic goals," the report cautions.
Instead, it wants universities to specialise, playing to their strengths, to avoid further closures. It says universities also need to work together, using a "hub and spokes" system. Under this scheme, instead of all 130 universities competing for funds, institutions should collaborate, and pool resources under the guidance of a new Regional Affairs Committee.
This committee would make sure that each region had at least one major "research hub" in each of the core disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Other universities would then focus on research, teaching or knowledge transfer, and bid for funds accordingly.
However, the suggestion has not been well received. "Collaboration is already a natural and integral part of higher education in the UK at all levels of academic activity, in both teaching and research, and the sector is in the best position to explore how this can be enhanced and built on," a spokesman for Universities UK told the BBC. "A rigid structure that is imposed by the funding councils or government - as the committee suggested - would be not be desirable." ®
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This is Kit and Ace – we make technical apparel for your real life. We take the best principles of athletic performance design and apply them to clothing you can wear all day.
We live, design, fit and test in Vancouver, Canada – a city perfectly suited to our full-contact lives. We are on the go non-stop from 6AM to 10PM. We design clothes that can transition from city to nature, from bike to boardroom, from strategy session to Sunday session. That West Coast ethos extends to our international markets and Showrooms in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Japan.
We compare ourselves to the best retail shops in the world and we set our standards high. Our culture is strong and we take it seriously. It is founded on integrity, innovation, quality, accountability and continuous development.
We are committed to a culture of transformational development. We make more than just technical essentials – we are developing the leaders of tomorrow.
Anything is possible and we have big plans.
- Allocate 30% of your time to lead, develop, coach and guide your team in establishing goals and developing their competencies that drive performance
- Model the company culture, and exemplify our shared values on a day-to-day basis
- Define, model and demonstrate the behaviours that enhance engagement, build enduring relationships and represent the Kit and Ace brand at all times
- Support the development of a culture that balances financial results and an execution-focus with a fun, dynamic and creative atmosphere
- Foster an environment of continuous learning and development that embraces individuality
- Be a strategic leader by identifying problems, seeking solutions, and outlining key company objectives
- Provide the greatest impact to the shop by coaching, developing and leading by example spending 70% of your time on the shop floor.
- Provide direction to employees based on established policies and management guidelines
Brand and Culture:
- Run an entrepreneurial business that is rooted in the intricate workings of the city in which it resides
- Build authentic relationships and connections with our target market and those inspire them
- Responsible for developing innovative strategies that support business, brand, culture and people growth that result in driving top line sales
- Understand the importance of continuously creating an unexpected and noteworthy shop experience
- Responsible for planning and building a local market calendar that consists of unique events
- Understand the importance of community partnerships and how to apply the principle of abundance
- Responsible for managing a shop budget and labour costs to ensure the running of a profitable business
- Hire and develop an exceptional team that is able to drive strategy and produce results
- Support and hold your team accountable for business strategy and results
- Own the strategy and development of high performing team members, and up and coming leaders
- Manage the daily as well as long term needs of the business
- A proven leader with documented success in leading noteworthy projects and teams
- You are a visionary and have the ability to see the big picture
- Creative, adaptable, entrepreneurial and driven by integrity
- Living and designing a life that is uniquely your own via goal setting and personal responsibility
- An undergraduate business related degree, or diploma
- An exceptional communicator, both internal and external
- A relationship builder in the city and neighbourhood - a true connector - out and about building key relationships
- Ability take initiative and manage multiple projects and once
- Capable of working in a fast paced highly flexible environment
- Great sense of humour, positive outlook, and able to effectively receive and communicate feedback
- Encourage a transparent, honest and positive team environment
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As the company grows, opportunities will present themselves and internal mobility and growth will be encouraged. We need awesome, hard-working people now that understand the ethos behind a start-up and are willing and excited to be a part of everything that goes along with it.
Please apply by responding to the email listed below and attach your resume and cover letter in either PDF or MS Word format. In your cover letter please outline your mid-term life goals (the next five years) and explain how this position will assist you in reaching your objectives.
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Well its been a long time since i proposed to start working on this being my first attempt at a model viewer/extractor for a non pc game. My last release was for halo pc which was a full map model converter with added batch texture conversion support. (check http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com...t=50412&page=1 for details)
I have been cought up in allot of stuff at school and with work and all but i did manage to squeeze a bit of time into trying to understand the .dat files for smash brothers melee.
So far i did make a few discoveries. Hopefully i can get the help from some experienced people here on this forum. So far i understand that the header in each file contains the size of the file at the 0 offset. It was quite obvious. But at Offset 4, theres a pointer to an index of the file which i am still trying to understand. I noticed that the values in the file index gradually increase and never go over the size of the file i proved they are some type of pointers to the blocks in the file. They all point directly to somewhere close to what appears to be a new block only about 32 bytes away. All this data is stored using Big Endians of coarse.
I been mainly observing the player files and the trophie files. The different files are determined by thier file name's prefix. The "Pl" stands for Player which contain all the models, textures, animations, etc for that player. The player names are abreviated. for example "PlPeWh" is accually Player Peach White which is peach in her white dress. Trophie files or 'Toy' files with the "Ty" prefix are named in a similar fashion. These are also package files with models and textures stored within these files.
Also something that resently halted my progress on this for a while was my suspicion of vertex coord blocks being compressed in these files since the blocks for the vertex coords seemed very random and didnt make any sort of floating point data. Then did happen to come accross a few models which did have the vertex blocks which used single precision floating point in there standard IEEE representation. It was the "TyPeacR2.dat". After loading the vertex points into a 3d viewer, i noticed it was the true vertex coords immediatly which was X Y Z for every 12 bytes. Shortly after that data, seperated by a line of 16 0 bytes, i found another block which stored the vertex normal I J K since they all normalize properl using the equation I^2 + J^2 + k^2 = 1. So i proved that this is indeed the vertex data. The polygon triangle index data comes shortly after a few unexplored blocks which im assuming is just texture coord and shader blocks for now.
Heres some pics of the vertex points that i loaded up into a 3d viewer. See if you can make out who that is.
Anyways, I was informed by Thakis that the vertex data in these files which i thought to be compressed are stored just like some of the models in the Bmd files which he worked on. They are 16 bit fixed decimal thingies. I still have no clue how to convert this data in visual basic which i am using to program this viewer. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to explain or link me to a algorythm out simply so i can write a low level function to convert the hex. When i google search it, all i can find is c++ code which is like japanese to me....
Anyways, im still very open for some help with this. I apperently still have allot to learn about this stuff and i am very anxious to get this model viewer working.
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Listed for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3, Mass Effect 3 will continue the planet-hopping adventures of Commander Shepard and his (or her) ragtag crew of helpful heroes--or maniacal miscreants, depending on your choices.
A brief description of the third adventure from EA's listing can be found after the break. Warning: if you don't want to know anything about the next installment, you should avoid the description.
No release information was added to the listing. The appearance of the game on the site--with platforms and price revealed--is perhaps placeholder data, but it's heavily rumored that this is the game BioWare is set to reveal during the 2010 Spike VGAs. It is also rumored to include multiplayer.
The listing offered the following summary for the adventure (warning, could contain spoilers):
Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.
Since this post was put in our editorial hopper, ready to go live, EA has pulled the listing. Thankfully, we've captured a screenshot of the PC version's game page. Now, the above link redirects to a page with a game title listed as: TBD (to be determined). We're determined to play some more Mass Effect, so EA might as well just hurry up and tell us it's already happening. They've already been talking about it anyway, you know.
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Given how lax Oda is on certain aspects of the manga, paying a lot of attention to the timeline won't do you much good aside from making you poke holes in the plot, and given the nature of this manga there are bound to be quite a few. Not that arguing over the timeline isn't entertaining, it just might be a good idea to keep in mind that this is a shounen manga which is updated weakly, probably not giving Oda much time to double check to make sure all the details are in perfect order, also the story would become a lot dryer if Oda spent many panels addressing those details.
The best I could do was Whiskey Peak, but then the way it is grouped with the other stories doesn't make sense. And there were other times during cover stories where the time of day in the Straw Hat's area didn't correspond with where the cover story was.
@ Louis Cypher, you are right, I honestly don't know if Oda intends to have so little time pass between arcs and what not, it does make some sense given they haven't aged until the time skip or even Aokiji acknowledging that the speed in gaining power for such a small pirate crew scared the crap out of him.
But I do know he paid attention to it several times. The whole phases of the moon ending at a full moon for Drum(I think) was proven true in an SBS. At that point Greg had only mad theory and eventually Oda confirmed it. So I don't think it's within the realm of impossibility that he intended everything so far to happen with in the same day.
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Folks who read One Piece... Just better people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We didn't see the moon at water 7 or thriller bark, however It was misty at TB, and i could have been new moon at W7
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Total: around twentyone days (three weeks), 6-7 of them at arabasta.
In Alabasta there were multiple instances of sleeping through the night, traveling through the day and sleeping again. Not to mention Luffy being sick in bed for 3 days. Saboady and Fishman Island contain events that line up one right after another. I've countered enough examples to support my claims, but you are the type who won't accept it because "it just doesn't seem right."
Folks who read One Piece... Just better people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm glad the timeline is being discussed. If Oda is planning on making the tea party an event (which I think he will), keeping solid track of the timeline would be important so the crew can arrive appropriately.
Now I wanted to point make an argument for the time passing during Fishman Island, but it turns out I misread chapter 653. I thought the Left Minister said it took half of a day for Fishman Island to set, which would be 12 hours and a normal day on earth only has 12 hours of sunlight so if half a day past, there's no way Fishman Island would be sunny.
BUT, what the Minister actually said was that each island in the New World would only take half a day to set. Even taking travel time, sleep, etc. into account, I've realized the crew could get into plenty of adventures before facing Big Mom. It's good to know, but it didn't say how long it took Fishman Island to set.
Originally Posted by Gregory House
LeftMinister: Oh, it's settled all right. All Logs from here on out will settle within half a day.
According to cnet.
I took it to mean that Fishman Island on would take half a day. But maybe i'm comprehending it wrong, or you have a better translation somewhere.
Still if Fishman Island did take half a day I suppose they could be setting sail late afternoon or early night while the sun is still out. You sure can't tell when they resurface.
I've got good proof that Fishman Island happened in one day. The biggest question mark is the party, it somewhat seems like it goes through the night. I argued that is not the case, as the events after are very close to the actual events of the party. Here is something better.
Point 1:
Directly after the battle, before the party, King Neptune claims that he will let the soldiers of Hodi's army live on the main island. Though they would now be working in the Neptune Army.
Point 2:
LONG after the party King Neptune tells Jinbe they recruited today! From C-Net!
Neptune: Why, only today this land has come into possession... / ...of a 70,000-man strong force of powerful, if rowdy, fighters from the Fishman District.
Ok that is the best I can do. If anyone argues that then all you want to do is argue and not take the facts directly from the story. Fishman Island is one day! Punk Hazard is certainly the end of that same day, with 4 day's still remaining for the tea party.
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@Romance Dawn. I used cnet too. I just assumed Left Minister just meant Islands after Fishman Island, though you could be right and it's meant as inclusive too.
And I also assumed the half day meant literally 12 hours. If that's correct, then it would be highly unlikely it's just 1 day since chapter 598, but he could also mean 6 hours, where day is meant when the sun's out (12 hours a day 12 hours a night) which would make the timeline much more reasonable if it was just one day so far.
As for Fishman Island. I would argue that if there was ever time passing, it would be between 652 and 653. But Oda is pretty good about revealing when time passes offscreen, so I highly doubt this argument but it's possible.
Originally Posted by Gregory House
Gizmo thanks to you I finally figured it out. This is without a doubt the undisputed truth until Oda out right says otherwise.
Many of you will be happy to know that the crew is on it's 2nd day since reuniting.
Point 1 -From the reunion until the end of the battle when Jinbe has a talk with Neptune, it happens all in one day, party included. All before night fall. Proof up above.
Point 2 - Sharley asks Keime to take the day off when she meets with the Straw Hats. By Chapter 653 she is working again, so a new day.
Point 3 - The real mega proof! Nami and Robin have the same outfits until they set sail! They are the only 2 straw hats that regularly change their clothes as pointed out in the SBS! Nami has a Criminal bra as they pinky promise, but before that it was something generic.
Robin takes off that sexy dark top with the light bottom that almost looks like a dress and changes it to something all dark.
New Criminal bra and new clothes for Robin.
SBS Volume 51
D: What's the third-most important thing on a voyage after food? Laundry. Who does it? Nami doesn't seem likely (sorry). If Sanji did it... he might ***** with the ladies' panties. Aaagh! P.N. Daze
O: Laundry, huh? Well, to avoid the kind of situation we can all imagine, the boys and girls split the task. Nami and Robin take turns doing their laundry everyday. Apparently all seven men have a huge cleaning extravaganza once a week. I guess this works out for them, since they rarely change outfits anyway. Right, Chopper?
C: Yeah, everyone stinks! We're all dirty!
3 days until the Tea Party!
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LOL, so it has been more than a day. But thanks for the proof, I'm impressed you noticed the Keimi thing.
It's the little things that turn out to be important when we're talking about... insignificant details, LOL.
Nice Romance Dawn that's impressive researching. Glad I could "help".
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Originally Posted by Gregory House
Because you questioned a specific portion of the comic(chapter 652-653) I decided that was questionable to me as well.
Though it really means nothing because Oda can draw out a single battle that can take months, it's nice to know that the Tea Party is slightly closer than I assumed.
Folks who read One Piece... Just better people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And to add a bit more relevance to the at least one day theory. Remember the newspaper that Monet had. It had updated pictures of the Strawhats at Shaboady, so it had to be at least a day so the paper could be printed.
So according to greg, oda says the final arc will make marineford look like nothing. Holy shit.
obviously, it's the end, the day every OP reader commits suicide because nothing beautiful will be left in life.
Veni, Vedi, Vici.
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"At first, I didn't have fairies for the older boys, but I thought they should have them, too," said Patti, who carefully selects fairies that remind her of each grandchild. The younger kids play with their fairies in the garden and make up stories about their adventures.
"They just have a ball," she said. So does Grandma.
"It's so much fun!" said Patti. "With a fairy garden, you can be so creative. You can let your imagination go wild."
A lot of imaginations are going wild in the garden these days, judging from the growing popularity of miniature plants, cottages, castles and fanciful figurines. In fact, fairy gardens, which are sort of like Christmas villages for the outdoors, are one of the hottest things in horticulture.
"It's catching on," said Sandy Seldon, a longtime gardener in Lakeville, who installed a miniature garden in her courtyard after she downsized to a townhouse. Her garden, also a hit with her grandkids, includes solar lighting, a remote-control fountain and a tiny Boston terrier and frog -- but no fairies. "I never found one I truly liked," she said.
Even without fairies, "I've had a lot of fun with it," Seldon said. "It's kind of a dollhouse experience. I'm reliving childhood, I guess."
Miniature gardens, a category that includes fairy gardens, have been identified as a top trend by both the Garden Media Group and Better Homes and Gardens.
"We've definitely increased the square footage devoted to it," said Jessie Jacobson, a manager at Tonkadale Greenhouse in Minnetonka. The nursery is propagating more miniature plants, and selling more fairy accessories, from $1.99 for a tiny lantern or shepherd's hook, up to $350 for a large, lighted resin house. As for the fairy figures, Jacobson said: "We can hardly keep them in stock."
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Why are so many gardeners dabbling in fantasy land? Demographics might have something to do with it. As aging baby boomers downsize, many are looking for ways to continue gardening in a smaller space.
"We hear that a lot -- 'I need something small; I only have a patio,'" said Anna Risan, Tonkadale's official "fairy lady."
And fairy gardens, because of their diminutive size, are manageable for gardeners of all ages, genders and abilities.
The Webers, for example, have multiple gardens, but the fairy garden is one Patti can maintain all by herself. "Things are so small, it's easy for me to move a plant," she said. "I don't have to get Lloyd to help."
Risan, who has been interested in miniatures since she was a child, has helped turned Tonkadale into a destination for fairy-garden fans.
"I started really small, and it went kind of crazy," she said. Fairy garden sales have increased about 200 percent in the six years since she installed the first fairy garden display, she said, and Tonkadale now has a web page devoted to fairy gardens and offers twice-yearly seminars.
"I tell people, 'You're not just buying an [item], you're buying a hobby,'" she said. "Fairy gardens combine a little fantasy, a little play. It's just a whole experience."
And although fairy gardeners can easily drop big money on their hobby, they don't have to, Risan said. "If you're looking for a house to start, you don't need to spend $300. Find a little birdhouse. Make things out of pine cones. As your hobby grows, you find things when you go on walks."
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Being resourceful is part of the fun for gardeners Bob and Enid Erickson of Bloomington.
Enid got inspired after she saw the fairy-garden display at Tonkadale. "I thought it would be fun," she said. Bob, who's handy, looked at the pricey little houses and said, "I can build those for 50 cents."
The couple now collaborate on their ever-expanding fairy and elf garden. Enid sketches what she wants, Bob builds a frame, then Enid finishes and decorates it, with concrete, paint and glued-on rocks.
"I can't wait until she comes up with an idea," he said.
He makes little benches out of buckthorn logs sawn in half, and scours garage sales for birdhouses and little figurines to add to the garden.
"I was at one, and the woman sees me and says, 'No tools here.' I said, 'No, I'm looking for fairy stuff,'" he said with a laugh.
Their 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also contribute things, such as little toy creatures -- "giraffes and orcs and polar bears all together," Bob said.
Not all fairy gardeners are DIY types.
"The most surprising are the people who come in and spend $1,000 in one visit," Tonkadale's Jacobson said. "They buy the houses, the bridge, the paths, the fountains. They want it all right away -- then have their gardener or landscaper install it."
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Networkers at Cisco Live: €300 discount for Reg readers
Justification letter to open the purse strings
Site offer Cisco is hosting Networkers at Cisco Live, its annual conference for techies, in Barcelona on January 25-28. Better still, the networking equipment giant is offering Reg readers a credit-crunchtastic €300 discount for everyone who signs up.
Go to Cisco's registration page and quote this offer code: READNWCL10. The offer ends on January 22.
Networkers at Cisco Live includes more than 240 technical training and education sessions in one of the world's great cities (which is sometimes warm at this time of year). Delegates can meet up with Cisco experts on a 1:1 basis and get troubleshooting advice on challenges that their companies face.
The full price for the conference is €1795 - about the size of a formal three- day formal training course, Cisco says. Your company will also have to stump up for transport, accommodation and subsistence. So it ain't cheap. But then again networking hothouses are not exactly ten a penny.
Is this for you? Cisco has helpfully penned an attendance justification letter to present to your employer (the link is on this page). Good luck! ®


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Set in the rolling hills of Batavia, Tanglewood Hills offers stunning estate homes surrounded by natural beauty -- 100-year-old oak trees, a wildflower meadow and a beautiful stream that meanders through the property.
Situated on the southwest side of Batavia, west of Randall Road and south of Main Street, the popular clubhouse community features a swim and tennis club for residents, 40 percent open space, parks and walking trails.
Listing sheetPrice of homes: $525,000 to more than $1 million
Age of homes: 9 to 12 years
Schools: Grace McWayne Elementary, Sam Rotolo Middle and Batavia High schools in Batavia Unit District 101
Parks: Batavia Park District
"This is the most desirable executive area in Batavia," said Eric Anderson, broker-associate with Kettley Realtors. "It's set on rolling land, so a lot of the homes have lookout and walkout basements, which people like. And it's partially wooded, really a nice piece of property."
Also, the subdivision is in School District 101, a very good district, and the highly regarded Grace McWayne Elementary School is within the neighborhood, Anderson said.
Steven and Kelly Holland enjoy their two-story Colonial home with a walkout basement and large yard. Ten years ago, the couple sought a larger home, more space and good schools for their growing family.
"We looked all over in St. Charles, Geneva and Batavia," Steven Holland said. "This home gave us all the amenities we wanted at the right price with the best schools and a location close to the highway."
With three children, Zachary, Connor and Emily, the Hollands have a child in each of the schools. "We love all the schools, and all the kids are happy," Holland said.
Tanglewood Hills showcases custom homes with unique architectural styles by various high-end builders and sidewalks and street lamps that contribute to its curb appeal. Homes feature more than 4,000 square feet with lots averaging close to a half acre.
This is a very friendly, fantastic, warm welcoming community, Holland said.
"The community center is inexpensive to rent for parties, and then you have access to the pool. It's great. We recently had a 'trunk and treat' where people pulled their cars up and opened their trunks with Halloween treats for the kids."
Batavia is proud of its rich history, and much of its past is reflected in the city today. Many historically significant homes sit in the downtown area where residents and visitors alike enjoy the quaintness of the original city. The Depot Museum itself, which preserves artifacts of local history, occupies an abandoned railroad depot built in 1854.
The Riverwalk, a 3.2-acre park and native wildflower sanctuary along the Fox River, is a focal point of the community where people enjoy the picturesque setting and beauty of the outdoors.
Batavia offers a bounty of recreation with much of it centered on or around the river. A wooden bridge that leads to a small park in the middle of the river highlights the river's scenic beauty.
Two bike paths follow the river and connect to several parks and forest preserves. Picnicking along the river, fishing, swimming and water skiing are popular summer pastimes. In the winter, ice skating, sledding, snowmobiling and cross-country skiing take over.
Tanglewood Hills offers the seclusion of a charming rural village, yet is just minutes from shopping and dining along the Randall Road corridor and near I-88. Commuters can board the train in Geneva or Aurora.
Situated 35 miles west of Chicago, Batavia is the oldest city in Kane County.


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Apple Files Suit Against Motorola Xoom In EU 181
CWmike writes "Apple isn't just going after the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Europe, it's also attacking the Motorola Xoom. Apple's lawsuit, which was filed in Germany and led to Tuesday's injunction barring sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe, makes reference to a separate complaint against the Motorola Xoom. Patent expert Florian Mueller, who told Computerworld on Tuesday that the mounting patent cases could cast a cloud over Android licensing, found the original lawsuit, filed in Dusseldorf, Germany, and pointed out the Motorola action. The reference in the suit says that Apple has also filed a complaint over the design of the Motorola Xoom, which runs the Android operating system. But it's unclear if Apple is seeking an injunction that would immediately prevent Motorola from importing the tablets into Europe."


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CDR Ronald Lewis Stoddart, USN, Ret., 82
CDR Ronald Stoddart, 82, died Nov. 23, 2013 after a brief struggle with leukemia.
Ron was born on Sept. 29, 1931, in Idaho Falls, the first child of Lewis James and Verda Mae Judd Stoddart.
When he was a young boy the family moved to Blackfoot where Ron attended school through graduation.
He joined the U.S. Navy in August 1950, and followed his dream to become a naval aviator.
He married his beloved wife, Jean Marie Harvey, on Dec. 18, 1965.
After joining the Navy in 1950, he underwent recruit training at Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif. His next duty station was the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Millington, Tenn., where he attended courses in electrical and electronic theory and graduated as an aviation electronics technician.
He then served at various duty stations, becoming an air combat crewman and as a radio/radar man flying in TBM and JD (B-26) aircraft.
In 1954, Ron was ordered to NAS Pensacola as a Naval Aviation Cadet for Preflight Training. Following "Preflight", he was ordered to Basic Flight training at various airfields flying SNJ and T-288 aircraft, completing his solo flight in early September, 1954.
In 1955, Ron was ordered to Advanced Flight Training to fly TV2 and FSF-2 jets, and in mid-August received his Navy Wings of Gold.
From May to December 1966 he was in the Vietnam war aboard the U.S.S. Constellation, Airwing-15, VF161, flying F-4 Phantoms. He flew day and night combat missions over Vietnam and flew close air support missions for naval forces. He has 98 combat missions to his credit. Upon his return, he was stationed at VF121 at NAS Miramar.
In 1968, Ron attended the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. His next duty station was at NAS Pt. Mugu where he served as the executive officer of VX-4, followed by a tour of duty in Yokosuka, Japan with the 7th Fleet Staff aboard the USS Oklahoma City. In 1974, Ron served as the XO of Naval Air Development Center in Warminster, Penn.. He retired in 1979 from the Naval Air Propulsion Center in Trenton, New Jersey.
Decorations and commendations include Meritorious Service Medal, 9 Air Medals, and 3 Navy Commendation Medals with Combat "V". He was a dedicated serviceman to his country, and a devoted husband and father.
Upon his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1979, he and his wife retired to Escondido, Calif. In his retirement Ron turned his passion for flying to remote control aircraft. He was the past president of the Lake Poway Skimmers and a member of the Palomar RC Flyers.
Ron and his wife, Jean, loved to travel and were constantly on the move, traveling the US and Europe. Ron especially loved Italy and they traveled there several times, visiting relatives and touring the sites.
Preceding Ron in death were his parents; his sister Darlene Hibbert, and two infant siblings.
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jean Stoddart; his stepdaughter Sandra Lake of Lakeside, Calif.; brother Richard Kent (Karen) Stoddart of Blackfoot and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Memorial Service with Military Honors was held at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013 at 1:30 p.m.
There was a gathering of family and friends following the service at Miguel's, 2912 Shelter Island Drive.


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Yes, I'm keen to get my hands on Mega Man 9, and yes, I'm posting about the soon to be released game again.
This time, Playstation.Blog have been lucky enough to get their hands on some exclusive Mega Man 9 Boss artwork, so I thought I'd take this advantage to put together a quick rundown of the Robot Masters our blue bomber will have to face off against, and share it with my ever growing reader base.
|Magma Man
Once a worker security robot at a geothermal power station, he can withstand magma thousands of degrees in temperature
| Plug Man
A line inspection robot at a television set factory. He carries out the final check on the products with a sharp eye.
Check out the other 6 after the break.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (November 21, 2012) West Virginia University Director of Athletics Oliver Luck has approved an amended employment agreement for basketball coach Bob Huggins, extending his relationship with the University to 2023 and increasing his annual salary and incentives.
The agreement takes effect immediately. We are delighted to have an updated agreement in place that will continue to keep Coach Huggins at WVU for his entire career, WVU Director of Athletics Oliver Luck said. ?He is the third-winningest active coach in the country and his record of accomplishment speaks for itself. His passion, caring and love for the University and the state of West Virginia is incredible. We look forward to many more years of successful Mountaineer basketball under his guidance."
Under the agreement, following the sixth year (in 2017-18), Huggins will assume a five-year Emeritus status appointment within the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, which concludes June 30, 2023. He will be involved in public relations and development activities in addition to other duties assigned at that time by the Director of Athletics. Huggins could defer his term of Emeritus status and continue to serve as head coach beyond 2018 with a mutual agreement between Huggins and the Director.
Huggins, who is in his sixth season as head coach of the Mountaineers, will be paid an annualized salary of $3 million this season -- $250,000 in base pay and the remainder in supplemental pay all from revenue generated by the athletic department. A portion of that annualized salary - $500,000 (during the first five years of the agreement) - is being deferred until his Emeritus status begins. His base salary in Emeritus status will be $50,000 per year.
Huggins contract also calls for yearly increases in annual compensation -- $100,000 in 2013-14; $150,000 in 2014-15; $75,000 in 2015-16; $250,000 in 2016-17; and $175,000 in 2017-18. The annual athletic and academic performance incentives also have increased.
Huggins, who has won 710 games in his 31st season as head coach, is the third-winningest active coach in Division I with 710 career victories. He has directed the Mountaineers to five consecutive NCAA tournaments, including the 2010 NCAA Final Four. Huggins? teams have participated in postseason play in 27 of his 30 seasons, including 20 NCAA tournaments.
Off the court, the WVU men's basketball team under Huggins ranked in the top 10 percent of all squads in the 2010 NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR). In addition, the Mountaineers were honored with the team excellence award for the highest conference grade-point average among men's basketball teams.
I feel blessed to be able to end my coaching career at my alma mater the place that all West Virginians love, Huggins said. I'm very fortunate to work for an administration that shows our passion for this University and this state. It's rare for a University to redo an existing contract to make sure that their people are taken care of and reassured to coach at that institution. Many thanks to all the people who have been so supportive of me, my family and Mountaineer basketball. I'm truly blessed.


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The next two days of "Stalled", went sorta like this:
(As stated before: If you are a Facebook friend, you may have already read this. If you don't want to read all this again, I understand. You may want to look at the photos tho. Or, not! LOL I get it. So for those of you who are NOT reading Facebook, here is what you missed over the last few days. Yes, there are multiple postings each day. Photos are captioned.)
June 20th (Posted over the entire day.)
Coffee brewing, no comments yet on how well we slept, mixed results there. SIGH
Man is on the phone already.
We have had several of our dear MOC friends contact us and are anxious to speak with Man on the phone. Dear ones, hold those thoughts. We cannot tell you how much this means to us, just knowing you are out there for us. WOOT!!
So, time for coffee and figuring this out. If we are quiet, we are working.
Thanks to you all for the great ideas and prayers and hanging in there with us.
Even tho at the moment we are a bit down at the mouth, one thing we both have is great bundles of tenacity.
June 20th
Order of the day:
Coffee, almost done.
Packemup, started with vengeance.
Slides in, some concern there.
Breakfast for fortification.
Load Tana on to Jolly (ok, this one stresses us both a bit).
Appointment set up for fixemup.
If you like or do positive thinking, and you have a bit to spare.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~June 20th
Slides in, no issues. No it was not a hurricane, it was the sighs of relief. Next up food fortifications.
June 20th
Breathing. Hitched. Nope not another hurricane. Just my huge sighs of relief. And may I say, rather proud of me. I nailed the back in. Best in weeks. Could not have happened at a better time.
Next? Thinking. Ohhh here is photo of cribbing required.
|Cribbing required to get Tana hitched up to Jolly when your landing leg is nonfunctional and MIA.
June 20th
We r rolling. Connectivity shaky. Later. Keeping positive thought.
June 20th
Arrived repair. All over Tana like bees on honey? She will be blushing with all this attention. LOL
They are even looking at the other side. Impressed.
Still working. Replacing parts. Welder came out. Fix it up.
June 20th
Fixed. Rolling.
June 20th
Test. Gonna unhook.
June 20th
HAHA, the short?? version.
This AM Man called Venture, the landing leg manufacturer back, told them we had problems. Before we could blink an eye they had us a place to go to get a repair. Near Portland.
As those of you who were following on FB today know, we got the slides in, went to breakfast, then came back and jacked the front of the trailer up with the assistance of a LOT of lumber and a 6 ton bottle jack. It was TENSE.
Several hours later after a TOTALLY delightful run cross the mountains on 26 and 47 we arrived at the repair facility and they were ALL over Tana before we had barely stopped rolling. Tana must be still blushing. She is such a slut!
|Within minutes of pulling into the repair facility, workers all over Tana,
investigating, problem solving.
|This U shaped bracket was a part of the problem, it is bent.
The repair facility replaced it by welding in a new bracket.
|Tana is feeling pretty special, all these dudes fussing over her:
welding, fixing, replacing parts.
They put on a bunch of new parts, reinforced a bunch of other stuff and we now have faith in that landing leg once more! WOOT!
We do have a small issue, in that the new motor works faster than the old motor on the other side of Tana. Tooooo complicated to explain. Man will go back over there tomorrow and have a chat with them. We expressed concern about this when they installed the new gear box and motor.
In the scheme of things we are RELIEVED and HAPPY.
June 20th
Before I go sit and go into a zone - -
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR FRIENDS and SUPPORTERS.
I may not have acknowledged your remarks or likes.
But, I read them, and appreciate them.
You are the best.
Said before, saying again
Just where would we be without ALL of you!!
THANKS!! Ditto, Thanks again.
June 21st
Tana STANDS!
Now, time for coffee.
Super kudos to:
Venture Manufacturing, on many counts. Shipped the correct parts. When we had fail they were extremely polite and helpful finding a repair facility to send us to RIGHT NOW! Man could not have been on the phone more than 20 minutes. Excellent!
Zieman Manufacturing, now Lippert. McMannville, Oregon. Now, Man and I are not newbies to repair facilities. We have spent a few hours (ok, a few days, ok, more than a week total) in such facilities. We have always been treated with kindness and professionalism. This facility took that kindness and professionalism to new heights. Every single person we came into contact with, on the phone, or in person, was simply: MARVELOUS! They worked hard, efficiently. Seriously, there are NOT ENOUGH nice words to say about the people working at this facility. From the lovely lady that answered my phone call, to the General Manager, Mike, to his qualified workers, ALL the employees we encountered, WELL DONE!!
Super thanks to Venture and to (Zieman) Lippert.
and Man!!


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...but we'll never be elite with Borges around (I think that's what Brian said).
#GoBlue #BeatNCState
Yes, that sucked. Guess what?
It's time to get over it and move on. Our 8-4 football team lost to teams with a combined 45-3 record. All of our losses were away from home. We are/were a good, not great, football team, just like most of us thought coming into the year. We still get to watch this team play on New Years Day (Ohio State already made bowl shirts for their game: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/shane-morris-puts-game-perspective). There's a good chance that we'll play in the Capital One Bowl, which brings up some great memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSTp0frDDWo&playnext=1&list=PLD038920368D35B6D&feature=results_video (no embed available, it's Jamar Adams vs. TebowTime)
What's all this layin' around shit!?!?
All is not lost. We've got a top 3 Basketball team to cheer for at Crisler (http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/m-basketball-3-usa-today). We've got a very talented hockey team that hopefully figures itself out soon. In football, we've got an extremely talented recruiting class coming in, playmakers all over, a few all B1G players, and we'll see some Michigan players drafted in the NFL.
Yes, losing to those dirty cheaters from Columbus hurts, and it should. Next year we've got them in our house and let's right the ship. We'll return a bunch of starters, plug in talented youngsters all over, and play again. Remember, Hoke still hasn't lost in the Big House. He's got a chance to have 20 wins in his first 2 years as coach. That's not too shabby. We're recruiting like gangbusters and set up to be a national contender for years to come. Until then, enjoy this team. Enjoy the Bowl. Enjoy hockey at Yost. And get ready to have a top Basketball team. As a 25 year old, I'm not really sure how to handle Michigan being good at basketball. I'm looking forward to it though.
...but we'll never be elite with Borges around (I think that's what Brian said).
#GoBlue #BeatNCState
Glass half-full and stuff!
The glass is all full. Half with water, half with air.
THANK YOU! The negativity around here is killing me. Considering where we have been in the past 4 years, things are looking pretty damn good for Michigan athletics right now.
Help me out. I see Morris at QB, but who are these playmakers all over that you speak of?
I don't know if lineman ever qualify as "playmakers", but Hoke is investing heavily in our lines and if you've watched our OL at all this year you'll see it's been a huge liability.
The game starts in the trenches. A solid line (maybe not the best next year, but it looks good from thereon out) will do wonders for your RBs and QB.
I'd like to see more recruits at RB and WR too, but we're not sacrificing talent elsewhere to bring in mediocre skill position players, either.
this isn't the nfl. there isn't a draft. you can bring in all the talent allowable by law at every position. so far morris is the only skilled position offencive player that qualifies as a game changer recruited by hoke and company. if anyone thinks otherwise it's probably because the bar has been lowered so far. some of these guys may become solid, but not game changers. i think braylon edwards father said as much as well the other morning on the gbw radio hour. i have to agree.
On offense Gardner qualifies, as does Gallon, Dileo might (especially considering special teams) Norfleet sure looks like he's due for a return TD, and we have a bunch of maulers coming in on the OL.
On defense we have Jake Ryan, Morgan, Ross, QWash, Pipkins, Frank Clark, Countess, and more highly touted recruits. Not too shabby, right?
definitely agree there are some game changers recruited by hoke on the d. on the o, morris, and that's it.
No room for optimism here
Stop telling me what to do, you insufferable brat!
The Lions didn't lose yesterday either!
for using "we" to refer to teams that play for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor? I am not objecting, but I try to avoid it, although I identify personally with their sucesses and failures.
IMO anyone with a huge issue on either side has too much time on their hands.
I appreciate all of your posts, and I have a jeep, but how does someone get a point for every waking hour of the last 22 months without a little time on his hands?
Anyway, henceforth I shall follow your lead in the use of we. We called a bad offensive game Saturday.
and got a few off season point bumps for diaries. but yeah, I couldn't care less if a team is "we" to other people or not
If we come out with the same second half bullshit in the bowl game then im officially worried. How loyal is Hoke to a guy who is a career journeyman?
Could Borges be considered for any of these recently open coaching positions at other schools? Schools have heisman campaigns, we should do the same for one of our coordinators who obviously deserves to be a head coach somewhere (anywhere).
Michigan's national rank in first downs per game: 22nd in 2010; 50th in 2011; 99th in 2012. I am as optimistic about our offense under Borges for a third year as I was about our defense under Greg Robinson for a potential third year. (Borges' 2004 year at Auburn gives me as much hope as Greg Robinson's 2004 year as DC for Rose Bowl winner Texas or Greg Davis's 2004 year as OC for Rose Bown winner Texas: almost none.)
Didn't even need to read a word to get me laughing. STOP WHINING is an all-timer along with "Thanks for the tip." Good post, though
I've been telling my son all season that he's going to see Michigan defense like it used to be played. The starting lineup is full of Fr/So players that is already playing well enough to keep this team in every game. The only game that I thought we got smacked in this year was Alabama and we're not the only ones it happened to.
I'm very excited. He's still not sure what I mean since the RR years were his formative years.
I'm still tempering my enthusiasm on the offensive side of the ball. Too many unanswered questions, but Gardner is definetly a step toward answering them. I am very leery of all the people pinning their hopes on a high school kid who hasn't even taken a practice snap as a Wolverine yet.
And it seems he didn't really play much his senior year of high school. I have watched his tapes. He has a lot to learn.
I am optimistic about Gardner. . I like the idea of Gardner for the next TWO years. Devin is smart and has a lot of potential. If we get him an o line and a running game this kid could really take off!
This is an elite program and will continue to be an elite program. This is Michigan fergodsakes


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I was a senior Genius on that "other" board for quite some time. They have their strengths and the general news content on that "other" board is undeniably excellent. However, as we've seen with many boards that grow past a certain size, the juvenile members start showing up and the quality of the mods starts going down and the value in continuing to participate starts to become questionable. I raised concerns with the management at that "other" board and was consistently insulted. So I've turned off my account there and moved over to this board.
I've been a lurker here for a long time. This board needs to grow content but the content it has is excellent and indeed very much "just the news you want to read" without all the other nonsense.
This is a testiment to the management of this site. Good job.
While I had thousands of posts at that "other" site, I'm not impressed with big post counts by members just posting nonsense to increase their membership status. That is a culture that BBOS seems to excel at .... really just the news and not the nonsense.
I hope I can learn a few things here and offer some contributions in the time ahead. Thanks for allowing me to participate.