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Monday, August 07, 2006
Welcome to a new Buckeye Blog
Got a nice email from the guys behind a new Buckeye site called The Men of Scarlet and Gray. While the site is new (and for that "other team"), it looks good and they already have some solid content up.
Welcome to the blogoshere, gentlemen and best of luck with the site.
Welcome to the blogoshere, gentlemen and best of luck with the site.
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- el Kaiser said...
Thanks for the kind words and the link. We look forward to moving the heated OSU/UM rivalry to the blogosphere as well!
- August 07, 2006 8:49 AM
As an Ohio State fan I only hope the can equal the content of your site.
Even though you regularly bash OSU this is one of my favorite site.
Keep up the good work (minus the OSU bashing)!
- August 07, 2006 7:45 PM
- Yost said...
Thanks for reading. And just remember - we bash our own team just as much.
- August 07, 2006 7:52 PM
Big Buckeye fan here. You hit it on the head, the fact that you can have fun at your own team's expense is great. This is why I visit your site everyday. I don't mind the tOSU bashing, it's all fun. Keep up the good work.
Go Bucks!
- August 08, 2006 10:18 AM
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I remember when someone named Jay Z first sold drugs back in 1988. He was the leader of the Brooklyn crew back in 88. Now this Jay Z cat has come out with Blueprint 3. Here is my review for this shit.
1. Why do I bite so much - Excellent track
2. My dick can't get hard to fuck Beyonce - Another excellent track by the biggest biter in HipHop history
3. I'm not from Brooklyn I'm from Idaho featuring Memphis Bleek - I am glad to see Memphis Bleek back rapping. This guy is lyrical and hes a genius when it comes to making good music
4. I want to fuck Joe Budden - I had to skip this track
5. Camron was right, I do look like Joe Camel featuring the Camel City All stars - This is a good track.
6. Biggie sat on my face when he was alive - Another excellent track by the biter.
7. Tickle me Elmo - This track got skipped
8. I'm a biter - I love this track.
9. Fake drug dealers featuring Master P and Gucci Man - Master P has the best verse I have ever heard in years from a pop rap goon.
10. I sold drugs to my own mother featuring Jay Zs mother - I never knew that the biggest biter in the world mother could sing.
11. I wear tube socks - This is a great track
12. HipHop Effect is where I hang out at - This is a good track too.
13. Eminem stole my dildo and used it on Nick Cannon - This track is funny but true.
14. Bugz Gorilla and Camel Man featuring Fifty Cent - Fifty Cent is very lyrical on this track
15. My breath smells like horse ass - I love this track too.
16. Me and R. Kelly pissed on each other featuring R. Kelly - The Kell man is back and so is the big biter.
17. Bonus track - Mainstream wackness featuring Drake and Lil Wayne - This is a great track made by a great team of pop rappers.
18. Double Bonus track - Yea I bite so what? featuring the Big Biting All Stars - This is a great bonus track to add to this great album.
Special notes: I bought this album today from Best Buy and it only cost me 9.99 plus tax. I was one of the first 10 people in line to purchase this great album created by one of the greatest biters in the world today. It is a very solid album I must say. Thats all for now.
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El Cajon Police Lt. Frank La Haye said Sunday that 30-year-old Israel Soto and 23-year-old Jessica Quezada are charged with willful cruelty to a child. The mother is also charged with possession of a controlled substance.
Investigators say the couple left the boy in the gray Chevrolet Impala sedan overnight at the Belle Vista Apartments after returning from shopping.
A family member called 911 Saturday afternoon to report a baby in distress.
Officers got the boy out of the car and started CPR until paramedics got there. The child died at a hospital.
The couple's other three children, who are three years old and younger, are in protective custody.
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The older I get the more I prefer doubles. But not because I can't play singles but because the game is more social for me than previously. I teach high performance juniors so I have to be able to play singles. I still play a number of tournaments each year but only singles. Yet, at the end of the day, I seem to have had more fun (whatever the reason) after playing a competitive doubles match.
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Caveat Emperor (04-19-2013)
BuckeyeRedleg (04-19-2013)
I would say that if I was woo hooing, I would be drunker n dumber than normal
Bring on 2018! #%?*!
Captain13 (04-19-2013)
Also, short of a tianneman (sp) square type execution on fountain square, the woo-hooing may not stop. Ever.
Bring on 2018! #%?*!
My position regarding the WOOOOO is a nuanced one which might shed some light on one of the main reasons why some players and fans like it and some players and fans don't.
Here's my official position:
1) as a diehard Reds fan living in San Jose California and therefore confined primarily to watching games on television, I find the WOOOOO "mildly amusing, sometimes irritating, but generally fun" as a television viewer
2) making a strongly educated guess — based on my past attendance at many sporting events – I would expect to find the WOOOOO somewhat less amusing, somewhat more irritating, but still fairly fun as a fan attending a game at GABP.
3) making another educated guess — based again on my past attendance at many sporting events and – I would expect to find the WOOOOOOO totally unamusing, highly irritating, and no fun at all if some Yahoo seated directly behind me did it several times an inning all game long
So anyway, I'm sure some of the disagreement depends on one's natural bent toward loud and goofy behavior, but I also think one's opinion is also dependent one's proximity to the phenomena (the farther away the better) and the frequency of the phenomena (occasional= OK ; constant= loathsome).
Anyway, that's my 10 cents
Go Reds!
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Blitz Dorsey (04-19-2013),IslandRed (04-19-2013),texasdave (04-20-2013)
What if this is as good as it gets?
Granted, it may have initially been created by the type of individual you describe, but the accounts from others who have also attended games regularly differ significantly from yours. Universally when I have asked my extended family in the area, they have responded that the kids love it.
Kids also love the wave and other audience participation events that receive much disdain.
I just can't believe there is a 22 page thread about this.
Like it or don't like it. It's really not a big deal.
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*BaseClogger* (04-19-2013),919191 (04-20-2013)
vuvuzeulas are terrible. Someone screaming/cursing at the ump is also very bad. The difference is, vuvuzuelas can be banned from the game and a person cursing can be removed from the game. Someone can scream "woo" all game long and there really isn't anything that anyone can do about it.
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William Rustem, director of strategy for Gov. Rick Snyder, says that nothing is more important to Michigan's future than building transit and transportation systems that work. Rustem has a long history of public service, going back to 1976, when he coordinated the petition drive and campaign for the Michigan "bottle bill." In 1984 he led the campaign for the constitutional amendment creating a Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund. Rustem was Gov. William Milliken's chief staff advisor on environmental matters and director of the Governor's Policy Council. Rustem also served as program director for the People and Land Project, a grant-making program at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
How important are transportation and transit to state's future prosperity?
Both are critical. You've got to move goods and services. And you've got to be able to move people to jobs. Younger people care less about cars than my generation did. This governor understands that if Michigan's going to be successful, we've got to be successful at keeping our young people here. They want more transportation choices. They're looking for different ways to move around.
The Detroit area is the largest metropolitan area in the continent that doesn't have a regional transportation system. How did we get to this situation? And how do we get out of it?
The history of public transit in Southeast Michigan has just been fraught with politics. Historically, both an income and a racial divide in Southeast Michigan has existed for a long time. That's one of the challenges. The other challenge is the fact that we have been a very much a home rule state, allowing local units of government to make independent decisions. Which means that sometimes it's tough to look at things from a regional perspective in Michigan.
What we're trying to do is basically start over. We've said look, we're never going to get
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, the suburban transportation system, to merge. It's just not possible for a number of reasons. Politics among them, but also there are huge legacy costs. The city doesn't want to pay the legacy costs for SMART and the suburbs don't want to pay the legacy costs for DDOT. We're going to start over, and build the spines on the routes that were important historically through Detroit. Again, those are Woodward, Gratiot, Michigan Avenue, and then across the top, across M-59 to connect the counties up there.
Have things changed to the point that the Detroit area is ready to get this done?
Slowly but surely we're getting there. In Southeast Michigan, and in Detroit in particular, there is a buzz going on about some good things that are happening, particularly in downtown Detroit. We know we've got 98 percent occupancy in the Midtown townhouses that have been built recently. So there's a greater demand. We've got to keep that buzz going and continue the momentum that has already started down there. That means we have to deal with this question of how do people get around. Because these are young people, and the availability of working mass transit is critical to them.
How can we get something running quickly enough to stop exodus of young talent from the state?
We're trying. We've got a decent public transit system in the Grand Rapids area. In the Detroit area we've been unable to do it because of politics. Over the last 50 years there have been 23 attempts to create a regional transit system, and 23 attempts have failed. At this point we now have a package of four bills on the floor to create a Regional Transit Authority. We will dedicate bus rapid transit lanes on Woodward, Gratiot, Michigan, and M-59 across the top, and provide the assurance that stops can't be wantonly prohibited by local municipal governments.
Do some municipalities prohibit bus stops?
Troy didn't try to prohibit it, but were refusing to take federal money to create a transit stop in the city. They had voted to reject the federal dollars at one time, but the council finally went the other way after. There are still pockets where people don't want a transit stop, despite the fact that all the data show that transit stops lead to significant economic development.
Will people finally be able to get from the airport to the city, as they can in other major cities around the world?
Actually that's part of the plan. Detroit has the only airport in the world of its size that you can't fly into and take mass transit someplace. A fifth spur to the airport is part of the plan. We'll provide a bus, rolling rapid transit system from Detroit Metro Airport to downtown.
How do we sell people on the idea of transit?
The strategy is to make certain that we get everybody together. Everybody who believes in a different and a better future for Michigan is in accord saying we've got to both take care of our roads and bridges as well as public transit. We started very early on putting together a team of people. We made sure we had the business community represented by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, that we had the environmental community represented by the Michigan Environmental Council, that we had municipalities represented by the Municipal League, and that we had the people who build roads and bridges and rails, the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association.
They're all in accord that Michigan must build an effective public transit system and also take care of our roads and bridges. It's tough sledding getting everybody to agree locally in Southeast Michigan on every aspect of it, but we're getting close. The bills have come out of committee and they're now on the floor of the Senate, and we think we're going to get them passed in the next several weeks.
Why should affluent suburbanites be committed to this?
There are 140,000 people that live in downtown Detroit and work in the suburbs. Without that workforce, the suburbs don't work. There are slightly more suburbanites who work in downtown Detroit. People live regionally. People don't live in isolation. It's only the politicians that worry about giving up power to some kind of a regional entity. But at this point, we are getting much closer. We've got support from Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb Counties, from the city of Detroit, and from Washtenaw County. And local officials as well as the public are supporting this effort.
Should carmakers be threatened by mass transit?
Absolutely not. In fact, we've had conversations with the carmakers, and they clearly understand. What's interesting is the carmakers themselves have begun to move away from being carmakers to being transportation providers. It's a different world than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Their business model now includes all kinds of transportation, movement of people. They've become less car companies and more transportation companies. They're clearly interested in this.
Where's money going to come from?
There are three possible sources of revenue--federal funds and then either an increase in the registration fee or a property tax or a combination of the two.
The federal New Starts program provides up to 50 percent of the capital costs for building the system. The operating money is provided for in one of the four bills currently in the Senate. Once you create the authority, it will put on the ballot, for people to vote on, the funding source for operations. There are two options for funding it. One is through some kind of a special assessment or levy on property taxes. It's the same way that both DDOT and SMART have been paid for. The second option is a new innovative option that the governor came up which provides for an optional increase in the automobile registration fee to be dedicated to public transit. Whatever the authority decides to put on the ballot that would be voted on by the people. We're confident that if you put it on the ballot in the counties that have said that they want this system, you can win an election and get it funded.
What could derail it?
There are a million things that could derail it. There's always a reason not to do something good. We've got to have enough support among the legislature to be able to do this; we need 56 votes in the House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Senate. If we can't get that, then it's derailed. So the key is for people who believe that this is important to let their elected representative and their elected senator know that it's important for the region. It's not just important for Detroit, not just important for the region, but important for Michigan. We've got to get votes from across the state to be able to get this done. Once the authority is created, there will be a public vote on whether to impose an increased registration fee or to dedicate a property tax millage to the support of the transit system. People need to be supportive at all of those steps.
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How many shots per dive?
Posted 29 July 2003 - 10:08 PM
How many shots are you DSLR guys taking per dive? And, is this a major factor in choosing a DSLR over a film camera?
Posted 30 July 2003 - 01:38 AM
My standard configuration allows me to take 84 shots in reasonable quality. I used 2/3 of the available space at most at great dive sites. A friend of mine missed a whale shark when surfacing because he didn't have any pictures left on his film I'm able to do 2 consecutive dives without opening the housing. This comes in handy when I'm out with a zodiac or small boat only.
The main factor is that I'm able to see my mistakes pretty soon. It helps me to improve. With film you get the results when you can't remember what you did wrong. In addition, you get a log of your exposure data along with the image. Good for analyzing.
Helge ;-)=)
Posted 30 July 2003 - 10:23 AM
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Posted 30 July 2003 - 11:26 AM
D100 raw = 107 images. 53 images per 2 tank dive. Not opening the housing is heaven. Discard bad images during the surface intervile.
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Posted 30 July 2003 - 11:48 AM
The greater number is great for diving, however I would argue that the true value is:
1) Greater experimentation
2) Preview of exposure (close anyway)
3) Ability to not have to waste images (either the 30 images taken on dive one, I'll have to change film for dive two)
4) Ability to take a couple of images topside and not have to worry about starting a dive without a full set of shots)
Posted 30 July 2003 - 05:02 PM
I tend to have the same shot rate with film: and in shallow water I often do 6-7 dives a day of about 40 minutes each - a roll each time.
So if you have complete freedom to decide about your diving then I actually don't think that the amount of shots is that important. However, we all usually have to conform at some point, and that is when digital is great!
This afternoon, as an example, I did an 80 minute dive on the North Wall in Grand Cayman and shot 55 shots with D100 and 28-70mm, then popped back to the boat collected my film camera and blasted off 34 of a Velvia 36 with F100 and 105mm.
I also agree that lots of shots are particularly great for experimenting - I was shooting long exposures this morning - meaning that I was throwing away 4 out of 5 shots, but 1 in 5 came out great. I'd never take risks like that with just 36 exposures.
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Posted 30 July 2003 - 05:14 PM
Posted 30 July 2003 - 10:41 PM
With film I would shoot 8-36 shots.
Was the greater number of available shots a reason for switching to digital? Not underwater. As Marriard pointed out, not having to make decisions on partial rolls is a big plus. If I took 18 shots on 36 exposure roll, should I switch out for the next dive?
Switching to digital for land use, the number of exposures and workflow dynamics was the primary reason for the change. Shooting a weekend roll was a pain in the .... Drive to and from the lab for one lousy roll.
Posted 31 July 2003 - 06:17 AM
I think you should shoot as many as you can thinking about the second dive too since I don't think you should open your housing in between dives.
It would be hard to put a rule in: shoot 40 pics a dive.
That's why we went digital to see the results fast and to be able to shoot as many as we want/can and then deleate the bad ones.
If you have a dive with 2 ft of vis. and you don't shoot macro then shoot 2 shots. If you have a dive with 100+ ft vis. you would be a fool not to shoot all your "roll" of course you have to conserve a coupple of shots for the safety stop. You will allways have the dolphins comming to play with you after your last shot.
I missed once when I was shooting film an octopus that would have made a beautiful shot. I am not going to do that again.
Posted 31 July 2003 - 06:43 AM
With Ike DS125's that recycle in 1 second, it sure is nice to be able to shoot a LOT of shots from different angles, bracket, etc.
I believe I shot about 30 pix of the mantas.
On a "typical" reef dive I shoot about 40 to 50 shots.
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Posted 31 July 2003 - 04:47 PM
Yes, I believe we saw that one and a smaller juvenile with an almost completely white underside.
The best way to ID a manta is to get a shot of the underside. Do you have one? I have one of that fish which I will post shortly.
Our siting was at East Bank #2 We also saw the same fish at East Bank #4
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I'm hopeful.
Obama makes me listen, and I'm paying attention like never before. He has managed to remain himself in this process, takes the hits and forges ahead.
On the other hand, Hillary the "shape-shifter" (so appropriately named by one of my faves on CNN) flashes her fake smile, waves a hand in time with the music, and turns me off with her false "sincere" words. Uggghhhh.
On another note, its amusing to see Donna Brazile on CNN after having met her in person. Once you meet someone "famous", they do seem so much more real somehow, I guess. Cracks me up when she calls Lou Dobbs her "boo". Still waiting to see who she will endorse.
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Alan Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and Ted Lehmann, assistant professor of government, contributed to the recently published Exploring the Global Financial Crisis, volume 18. It is part of the series Advances in International Political Economy, edited by Cafruny and Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia) under the sponsorship of the International Studies Association (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013).
In "Oil and the Sino-American Rivalry," Lehmann describes China's rise and incorporation within the oil-based energy and industrial order established by the U.S. after World War II. He concludes that as U.S. leverage wanes China may be decoupling the leading states of the Middle East from American influence and also leading a non-oil based industrial evolution toward electrified transportation systems.
In "The Crisis of the Eurozone" Cafruny (and co-author Leila Simona Talani of Kings College London) address the origins and implications of Europe's imploding monetary union.


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Hi,Well, I think a ready made PCB would go a long way towards those that are unsure of where what goes and if they're reading the instructions right, but it won't teach anybody so solder properly.For the rest, I agree that it would lock people down to "painting by numbers", although I think anything built from other peoples designs are in that category.Why don't you just start selling PCB's (and whatever you think people need) for the $50 'bot? It's not like anyone would be forced to go that route, but then there's an extra string to play for those that want.
by you you mean me i assume?
well it is admins bot so admin would probably be the guy who'd need to do it but i have thought of trying to make a kit for a bot that's as cheep as possible to make.
as for it becoming a $150 robot with the addition of pcbs i think you'll find that quite the opposite effect can be achieved as long as quantities are sufficient. [...] pcbs usually for $3.
Also that kit doesn't include a $50 robot PCB from what I can see. It includes a standard perfboard that will work for the $50 instead of the bread board.


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Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Review
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a turn-based strategy role-playing game based on the 1926 short story "Call of Cthulhu" by writer H.P. Lovecraft, as well as the table-top RPG which also bears the name. It takes place during the first World War, and pits your team of soldiers and investigators against the forces of the ancient titular enemy. Your team's task? To maintain sanity and save humankind.
As far as graphics are concerned, the game looks great– as great as gritty World War-era settings are likely to look on the iPhone, at any rate. Overall, the game seems to have a good idea of where it wants to be, featuring a popular mythos and the graphics to deliver it.
Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.
Unfortunately, when it comes to gameplay, that's where some people may find The Wasted Land comes up a bit short. With the release of version 1.2, we can at least say the game is now playable, a claim we were unable to make previously, as attempting to control anything beyond the camera was random at best, and flat out unresponsive at worst.
In the 1.2 update, some camera control tweaks have been added that allow for players to pinch to zoom, and touch and hold instead of double-tapping. Unfortunately, both seem kind of iffy in execution, though not nearly as bad as before.
Toy soldiers running amok.
The in-game logic feels bizarre as well. For instance, having your soldiers fire shots at the enemy from point-blank range results in a lot of misses. Now, we were not in the first World War and are hardly qualified to speak on the quality of the weapons used therein, but this seems a bit strange to us.
It also seems that the further away you are, the more likely it is that your bullets will make contact. In one instance, a soldier across the field managed to score a hit, but was taken down in one shot in an automated counterattack. Yet trying to attack nearer enemies was much more difficult. Yet they can still attack you with ease. Often one enemy soldier situated in a trench effectively acted as a sniper, taking down our approaching men with a pistol as we tried to engage the nearest combatant, who we only seemed able to engage by getting up in his face.
Perhaps there is some sort of internal logic here we have yet to be able to figure out. Hindering the process is an overcomplicated menu of options. All the same, we're marking this one with a 'caution,' less for the quality of the game, but more due to the fact that it may call for a certain type of gamer to get the most out of it. Try it if you want, but know that it might drive you insane.


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On Tuesday, January 1, 2013, at home in Niagara-on-the-Lake with his much loved wife Sally at his side. Mike taught at, and is remembered with great esteem, by both students and faculty at St. Andrew's College, Lakefield College School, and Upper Canada College, where he was Director of Admissions and Vice Principal. His impact on generations of Canada's leaders is matched only by his passion for the game of cricket in Canada - coaching cricket at UCC and touring his teams to Bermuda, England, and across Canada. Father of Robin, Valerie and Diana; father-in-law of Victoria Young, Eric Grundy, and Jorge Arias. He was proud of his grandchildren Michael, Mercedes and Maxwell Grundy, and Michael Arias. Also survived by his stepchildren Tory and David Ross and their families. A service will be held on Saturday, January 12th, 2013 at 11:30 a.m., St. Mark's Anglican Church, 41 Byron Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake. In lieu of flowers, donations to either the Upper Canada College Scholarship Fund or the Nature Conservancy of Canada would be appreciated. Memories, photos and condolences may be shared at www.morganfuneral.com
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I havn't had any cheap games popping up around me. But I have had a friend make a $50 bet with me on who can finish Fallout 3 first. Easy money.
i recently bought the black wiiu from my friend with nintendo land for 200$. cant complain ;)
All i have to say is Steam summer sale. i thought myself so clever for buying awesome 3-4 game bundles for 20 bucks. then i find myself buying 4-5 of those bundles...O.O so much money. Done properly though i don't think you can find better deals on games then the steam summer sale.
Last year I found Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for 3 bucks on PS1 at a used bookstore. Original version, not greatest hits, no scratches.
Best deal I ever got was buying Skyrim for full price. I have over 400 hours on that game so it works out to pennies per hour of entertainment. I don't worry about buying cheap or on sale if I know I will get lost of replay's the games I look for on sale are the ones that I will only play one or two times due to lack of reason to replay.
A good friend of mine sold me the God Of War Collection, you know, the one that comes prepackaged with new PS3's, for a whopping 3 dollars. Guess he didn't care for Kratos much.
I just recently bought the digital version of Bioshock Infinite on Amazon. It included a copy of Xcom: Enemy Unknown as well as a $30 credit toward another 2k game. A few weeks later they put Borderlands 2 on sale so I was able to use that credit to get both Borderlands 2 and the Season Pass for nothing. Not bad considering I was going to buy Bioshock Infinite whether it included any bonuses or not.
The THQ bundle was pretty incredible.
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Finding the original black label Final Fantasy Tactics for $15 brand new.
That Bioshock, Borderlands2, XCOM deal is awesome. All 3 of those are great games. B2 was my favorite game of 2012. Also just remembered, I got a free year of Ps+ simply for signing up for their card which has no annual fee. That was a pretty good deal considering all I have gotten from Plus membership through discounts and free games...
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It feels like a throwback to an earlier era at the Orange County Register, where a first-time newspaper owner is defying conventional wisdom by spending heavily to expand the printed edition and playing down digital formats.
Aaron Kushner added about 75 journalists and, with 25 more coming, will have expanded the newsroom by half since his investment group bought the nation's 20th-largest newspaper by circulation in July.
Changes also include thicker pages with triple the number of colors to produce razor-sharp photos and graphics. By the end of March, the newspaper will have 40 percent more space than under previous owners, Freedom Communications Inc.
Kushner, 39, believes people will pay for high-quality news. His bet is remarkable in an industry where newspapers have shrunk their way to profits for years, slashing costs while seeking clicks on often-free websites to attract online advertising.
As more newspapers begin charging for online access, Kushner's spending spree is drawing close attention.
"If he's successful, it's going to show the way for other papers to follow," said Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and an early advocate of charging readers for online access.
Seated behind his large, clutter-free desk near shelves stacked with newspapers, the former Stanford University gymnast said his lack of industry experience may be a plus because he hasn't been through the tough times in newspapering.
"So when we sit down and look at what's possible, our view of the world is different," Kushner said. "We're a little crazy in that we really do believe that we can grow this particular newspaper."
It's too early to know whether he's right. Kushner said advertising revenues have grown, though he won't say how much.
Average daily circulation rose 5.3 percent as of Sept. 30 from a year earlier to 285,088 on weekdays and 387,547 on Sundays, bucking an industry decline of 0.2 percent, according to the Alliance for Audited Media.
One key test will be when the Register begins charging for online access sometime before the end of March. He said readers will pay the same as the print edition -- a contrast to publications that charge online subscribers substantially less.
"If you have a wonderful restaurant and it cost $10 to come in the front door, I've never understood why it should cost anything less to come through a side door," he said.
"The value of the journalism isn't any less. The reporter isn't paid any less. The photographer isn't paid any less."
Kushner, who has a master's degree in organizational analysis, founded a business in the 1990s that allowed people to change their addresses online and later owned and managed a greeting-card company for seven years.
In 2010, he started an investors group, 2100 Trust LLC, to scout for newspapers, flirting with The Boston Globe and later with MaineToday Media Inc., publisher of The Portland Press Herald.
Tom Bell, president of The Portland Newspaper Guild, said Kushner presented the union with 50 demands, including a longer work week and increases in employee health care contributions.
"We got off to such a bad start that it was hard to recover," said Bell, who is skeptical of that Kushner's print bet will succeed.
Kushner settled on Freedom and its 107-year-old flagship paper, the Register, for an undisclosed sum. The newspaper serves affluent, growing, well-educated and ethnically diverse communities near Los Angeles, bolstered by 24 community publications.


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RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory signed four bills into law Wednesday, including a measure that prevents North Carolina for now from participating in two parts of the federal health care overhaul.
McCrory's office said the governor signed the legislation in the old Capitol building in Raleigh.
The press wasn't invited to attend the signings, but a spokeswoman for the governor said some legislators watched McCrory sign one new law that blocks the state from expanding Medicaid to cover more lower-income people and from operating an online health care marketplace. The federal government will run the exchange instead.
McCrory had already indicated he would sign the bill approved last week by fellow Republicans in the General Assembly, saying the state's Medicaid system needs to be fixed first before taking on any additional enrollees.
An estimated 500,000 low-income North Carolinians would have qualified for the government health insurance under the expansion. The federal government planned to cover 100 percent of the state's expansion costs through 2016, falling to 90 percent by 2020. GOP lawmakers said they couldn't trust Washington to keep its financial side of the bargain.
"My team conducted a thorough review of the Affordable Care Act and its impact on North Carolina," McCrory said in a prepared statement. "Before considering Medicaid expansion, we must reform the current system to make sure people currently enrolled receive the services they need and more taxpayer dollars are not put at risk."
Democrats and their allies said North Carolina was making a big mistake refusing federal Medicaid funds they said would ease the burden of charity care and create more than 20,000 jobs by 2021. Other states have been wrestling with whether to participate.
Another law signed by McCrory ensures group homes and Alzheimer's care units can access $40 million to deal with Medicaid coverage changes involving personal care services. Then-Gov. Beverly Perdue said late last year she believed a 2012 law only allowed residents of adult care homes to benefit from the money.
McCrory also signed legislation that will allow a live possum drop to continue on New Year's Eve in Brasstown by making clear the Wildlife Resources Commission could issue permits for such an event.
Another new law increases penalties for protests at funerals and the size and duration of buffer zones around services. The measure was a response to an anti-gay Kansas church picketing military funerals nationwide.
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RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory signed four bills into law Wednesday, including a measure that prevents North Carolina for now from participating in two parts of the federal health care overhaul.


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DURANT, OK-The city of Durant fell silent Thursday night as nearly a dozen law enforcement agents were honored for their ultimate sacrifice.
Over 400 Oklahoma police officers have been killed in the line of duty since the 1800s. Eleven of those men were from Bryan County and they were remembered Thursday by friends and brothers and sisters in law enforcement.
Durant deputy chief of police, David Houser, called out the names of eleven fallen Bryan county officers Thursday at the law enforcement memorial held in Durant. One of them is his friend, Sgt. Michael Pace of the Bryan County Sheriff's Office, who was killed when his patrol car crashed in 1998.
"It's a tragic event when you lose a friend, a law enforcement friend because law enforcement is not just a profession, we're family. It doesn't matter if you're wearing a brown shirt, a blue shirt or a gray shirt. If you're a law enforcement officer, you're a brother and a sister," he said.
Officers from Durant, Bokchito, OHP and Bryan County Sheriff's Office placed roses on the memorial wreath as every name was called. Houser said a police officer's life is always on the line every time they go to work.
"What separates a law enforcement officer from maybe a normal citizen is that fear causes them to act, not retreat," he said.
Duty affects their family and Durant police chaplain LaWanda Mabery knows what it's like.
"Everytime they went to work you never knew if they'd come home that night, if they'll ever come home again," she said.
Mabery was married to a police officer for many years and said sometimes it was nerve-wracking. But she understood -- their duty comes first.
"Try to understand that they're trying to do their job for the people and just because they're not there, they still love you," she said.
Houser hopes the memorial will remind the community of the service made by officers.
"I would like them to walk away with the full recognition that law enforcement throughout the nation, not just Bryan county will sacrifice everything they have, including their lives to make them safe," he said.
Thursday's ceremony was part of "National Police Week".
In memory of:
Bennington City Marshal James Eli Parish 7-13-1912
Bokchito City Marshal Car Lee "Don" Hart 5-21-1972
Bokchito City Marshal Warren N. Smith 11-18-1951
Bryan County Sheriff's Deputy Michael D. Pace 12-29-1998
Bryan County Sheriff John Ellis Williams 11-4-1938
Caddo City Marshal Morgan Haddock 12-13-1951
OK ABLE Commission Agent Lori Dean Thomas 10-23-1994
OHP Trooper Houston F. "Pappy" Summers 5-26-1978
OHP Trooper Billy Gene Young 5-26-1978
OHP Lt. Pat Grimes 5-26-1978
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BLAAAAACHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ..................... (she even ruined the perfectly good broccoli)
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- d. moll, l.ac. said...
Yummy, bunnies should be happy you are eating cow, not bunny. I know that is going to be very controversial....
- April 13, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Jade said...
Ooooooh, the ultimate in disapproval, the Bunny Butt O'Snub. You guys are so in trouble now. ;)
- April 13, 2010 at 10:59 PM
- bunnits said...
Oh, yum! That looks really good. Making me hungry, RG, even if the buns don't like it.
- April 14, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Hef's Mom said...
Ok, it was my idea to make these so where is my meal?
- April 14, 2010 at 5:33 AM
- Glenna said...
LOL: Julia Burger! Do not show the section in Julia's book on the OTHER other white meat to certain sensitive little buns. BL can come live here any day. Last night for dinner we had something frozen out of a box, and a nice salad. We wound up tossing the boxed thing and just eating the salad.
- April 14, 2010 at 5:34 AM
- Lisa said...
It's always very disappointing for the buns to find cooked broccoli. On the one hand it smells like good broccoli only even stronger, but it's all limp and not so yummy anymore. It's like teasing.
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Can the pet sitter have the recipe?
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Marauders' Cole finding his rhythm05/12/2012 10:53 PM ET
By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com
A couple of rough outings early this season have done nothing to dull the shine on Gerrit Cole's future, something that was on display Saturday night in Bradenton, Fla.
MLB.com's No. 10 prospect yielded one run on three hits and struck out five over six innings as the Class A Advanced Marauders cruised to a 9-1 victory over the St. Lucie Mets.
Cole's only mistake was a third-inning homer by Mets' No. 17 prospect Danny Muno. After giving up a single to Wilmer Flores in the fourth, the top overall pick in last year's Draft retired his final eight batters en route his second win of the season.
"I was just making pitches early and getting ahead of guys and getting quick outs," the Pirates' No. 2 prospect said. "I was starting to hit spots a little more, and we had a six-run lead and that changes the game a little bit. It just lets you be more aggressive; you're not playing in a tight ballgame, so you just attack guys."
In his last three starts, Cole (2-1) has allowed three earned runs on seven hits over 17 innings. He's won twice in that span while lowering his ERA from 4.76 to 3.18.
"I kind of got in a rhythm in my last four or five starts," the 21-year-old right-hander said. "Sometimes I haven't had the results I wanted, but I've been throwing the ball better as of late, so I just have to keep doing the same thing."
The UCLA has recorded 39 strikeouts against 11 walks over 34 innings and has held Florida State League foes to a .193 batting average.
"It's been good," Cole said of his first Minor League season. "I'm learning a lot and I'm having a lot of fun. It's the same game as college but a little different. You just make some adjustments and keep on rolling."
Casey Sadler followed Cole with three shutout innings to earn his second save.
Alex Dickerson, Pittsburgh's No. 14 prospect, drove in a pair of runs, while Carlos Paulino was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored.


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David Hall: The 1920 Pilgrim half dollar was struck to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The original distribution was 152,112 coins, making the 1920 Pilgrim one of the most plentiful silver commemoratives. However, they are one of the few pre-1930 issues and most of those were not saved by collectors at the time of issue in as high a percentage as the post-1930 issues. Consequently, most 1920 Pilgrims only grade MS63 or MS64. MS65 Gems are scarce, and Superb MS66 examples are rare.
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Elected county officials heard the status of a county department during their weekly meeting yesterday. Zoning Administrator Steve Lafaurie presented the quarterly report for the months of April through June to the Washington County Board of Supervisors. He mentions the end of June marks the two-year anniversary of the zoning ordinance.
Lafaurie says the last quarter was busy having processed 24 subdivision applications and a total of 75 over the course of the last year.
Lafaurie adds a total of 35 zoning permits were issued in the last quarter. He says over the course of the last two years, over 300 zoning permits have been processed.


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The K St. apartment was over the garage on an alley at the back of a complex. The first few years this was actually two small apartments and the tenants shared the bathroom. Later the Uibles rented the whole place and had a bathroom to themselves. They were able to park their car in the garage but it was a tight fit as the American Legion [There is now an Apostolic Tabernacle in that building at 210 J Street] had a building on the other side of the alley that came right up to the property line. CJ liked to drive a big black Cadillac.
CJ, Gladys, Roberta, Harold & Catherine - March 1952
The Hortons also visited Lake Worth frequently and moved there c1952. Prior to living in Lake Worth they lived in Hillsboro and when they first moved to Florida lived in Riviera Beach, 12 miles north of LW for six months. Their first house in Lake Worth was a "shack" [per Marianne] on D St., then they moved to 731 N K St about five blocks north of the Uibles. The North Grade Elementary School, built in 1926, since demolished but rebuilt a block north, was across the street from them. This small house had only two (upstairs) bedrooms, one in which the Horton children slept dormitory style. In 1961, they moved to their new house, similar to the Uible house in New Vienna, at 1025 North B Street.
Bill Horton & Roberta - March 1955, Lake Worth FL (Catherine in distance)
Catherine & Roberta - March 1955, Lake Worth FL
In 1955 Catherine stayed with CJ and Gladys when HH, Jean and Roberta returned to New Vienna. During that Florida trip they also visited the Dr. Thompson's, parents of Charles, in the Fort Myers area. Dr. Thompson was a veterinarian who preceded Dr. South as the vet in New Vienna. Note that in this picture R&C are wearing their better dresses and good shoes rather than beach wear.
Catherine & Roberta - March 18, 1955
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Europe's Investment-Banking Recovery Isn't Sustainable
European Banks Have Only Stabilized Their Trading Businesses
Don't call it a comeback.
Europe's investment banks turned in a surprisingly good second-quarter performance, particularly in the closely watched fixed-income trading arena. But although they have regained some of the market share they lost to U.S. rivals in recent years, this doesn't yet look like a sustainable turnaround.
U.S. banks had set a weak tone. J.P. Morgan Chase 's 17% drop in revenues from fixed-income, currencies and commodities trading led U.S. banks' average decline of 9% in the second quarter versus the same period last year. This created expectations of lackluster results in Europe.
However, Deutsche Bank —the most global of Europe's investment banks—reported flat revenues and others followed with revenue gains. BNP Paribas turned in a 22% top-line increase. On average, nine European banks saw fixed-income trading revenue grow 2.5%, according to Nomura. Stripping out big declines at Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays , which took decisions later than peers to exit big chunks of these markets, European banks posted an average rise of 9%.
The results went against the script of falling volatility, less investor trading and low interest rates suppressing sales and margins. Overall, European banks regained two percentage points of global market share in fixed-income trading from U.S. banks after three consecutive years of losses, according to Citigroup . European banks now have 47% of the global market excluding Citi's own business.
But behind the positive numbers are a few oddities. First, the second quarter of last year was particularly poor for Europeans in general and the French in particular—hence BNP's stellar improvement this time. U.S. fixed-income trading revenues rose 12% on average in the second quarter of 2013, according to Nomura, while European banks' top lines shrunk by an average of 13%.
Second, this year saw a flood of new European bond issues, which helped promote secondary trading as investors shuffled portfolios. Europe had its best-ever first half for high-yield deals and its best first half in three years in investment-grade debt, according to Dealogic. In subordinated capital bonds for banks and insurers, Europe did more than 1½ times the volume of the rest of the world.
That is part of a continuing shift in European corporate fundraising, from a heavy reliance on bank balance sheets to more direct capital-markets activity. But this has been playing out in slow motion since the creation of the euro at the end of the last millennium. A record half doesn't presage a quantum leap forward.
Also, those tailwinds have dropped off in the third quarter. Corporate bond issuance was down 14% year over year in July, while volatility in currencies and European rates has been further damped.
For Deutsche Bank, the last European determined to challenge on the global stage, market-share gains in the half have put its fixed-income trading business on an equal global leadership footing with J.P. Morgan, according to Citigroup. But that came with an increase in balance-sheet leverage at the German bank, which must reverse.
Elsewhere in Europe, the decent trading results at best suggest that banks that are stripping back to niche strategies—like BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and UBS —have made viable choices, according to Deutsche Bank's analysts.
European banks have stabilized their trading businesses. But it is too soon to get excited about a real recovery.
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Manchester City will rival Arsenal for the signature of Sevilla winger Jesus Navas, according to Spanish newspaper Marca, reports talkSPORT.
The 27-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to the Premier League this summer, amid rumours of unrest at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has been credited with an interest in bringing the Spain international to the Emirates Stadium when the transfer window reopens on July 1.
However, Arsenal will now face stiff competition to secure Navas's services, after Manchester City emerged as contenders for the £25million-rated wide-man.
Roberto Mancini is keen to bolster his attacking options at the Etihad Stadium ahead of the 2013/14 campaign, and with Scott Sinclair deemed surplus to requirements the Italian tactician has turned his attention to the Sevilla star.
Navas has been with the Primera Division club since 2003, and has a £30million buy-out clause written into his current contract, but it's understood that head coach Unai Emery is willing to listen to lesser offers for the forward.
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Darren Pattinson has followed Notts team mates Mark Wagh and Samit Patel by signing a contract extension with the club.
Pattinson was a revelation in 2008, taking 47 LV County Championship wickets and making his England Test debut against South Africa at Headingley in June, and has now committed himself to Trent Bridge until the end of the 2011 season.
"It goes without saying that we want to retain a core of players on long-term contracts and Darren is deserving of a new deal after his performances last season," said Notts Director of Cricket Mick Newell.
"We have a very strong bowling attack and Darren will be fitter and stronger in 2009 and able to make another significant contribution to the club.
"He hasn't played much cricket in Australia during our winter which is good for us because he will report back fresh and ready to pick up where he left off."
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Talent expert to speak Jan. 24
Kevin Wheeler, an international human resources consultant, will talk about "The Future of Work: Global and Local Trends That Are Reshaping Business" when the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce gathers for its 125th annual meeting 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Cocoanut Grove.
He predicts that Facebook will become the top tool for tech recruiting and that recruiters will switch to mobile technology in two or three years.
The event will include introduction of the chamber board and officers, acknowledgement of retiring board members, and a report on the state of the chamber and plans for 2013. Cost is $37.50 for members, $50 for nonmembers. To RSVP, call 831-457-3713.
Hyatt to get $6M upgrade
The 550-room Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa announces a $6 million major renovation of the ballrooms and meeting spaces during the first quarter.
The new theme, inspired by poet Robinson Jeffers, will be "Land, edge, sea."
The upgrade will include creation of meeting suites with a living room like-feel, digital signage and a projector screen displaying promotional messages.
The hotel is the largest meeting facility in the region, with 40,000 square feet of meeting space, on-site audio-visual experts, a 24-hour business center and Wi-Fi Internet access throughout the hotel.


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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Starship Truffles a Grade 1 Favorite for $100,000 Musical Romance
Wildcat Lily Set to Take on Elders in Gulfstream Park Stakes
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Starship Truffles certainly showed herself to be a talented filly during the winter meeting at Gulfstream Park while winning three races, including a four-length victory in the $100,000 Claiming Crown Glass Slipper.
Returned to trainer Marty Wolfson by the new owner, Shane Ryan's Castleton Lyons, a few days after the Fasig-Tipton sale in Kentucky in mid-July, Starship Truffles made her first start since winning the Princess Rooney (G1) on July 6 in the Ballerina (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 13.
The 4-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper, who generally is an alert breaker from the starting gate, was jostled after getting away last in the field of 10, but recovered well to finish only 4 ½ lengths behind multiple-stakes winner Dance to Bristol.
"She would have won if she broke, but she was last," Wolfson said. "I told (jockey Luis Saez), 'I want this filly breaking sharply,' and she came out last."
Starship Truffles, who has been installed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the Musical Romance, came out of the Ballerina in great shape, Wolfson reported. Jockey Edgard Zayas has been named to ride the 14-race winner, who is one of four fillies and mares entered by Wolfson in the 6 ½-furlong sprint. Miller Racing's My Pal Chrisy, Sure Route and Bringingdown Babel will also be saddled by Wolfson.
My Pal Chrisy, who was purchased privately before her most recent start, made a strong first impression on her trainer while winning the $100,000 Paseana Stakes at Gulfstream by nearly seven lengths on Aug. 17.
"She'll be very tough. I never thought she was as good a filly as 'Starship,' and I still don't, but that race was really good," Wolfson said. "I think she's a better sprinter. I want to keep her under a mile. That's her best distance."
Another newcomer to Miller Racing, Sure Route, finished eighth in the Ballerina in her first start since being claimed for $100,000 at Saratoga on July 22.
"I really like that filly. That filly is probably training the best of all of them," Wolfson said. "She's a really nice filly. She came to this country as a turf filly, but she's got some strong races on the dirt. She loves the dirt."
Bringingdown Babel, a hard-hitting 6-year-old mare who has won 13 races, promises to be a strong early factor in the running of the Musical Romance.
"She'll be in front," Wolfson said. "She's going to the front. There's not much speed in there."
Bringingdown Babel's presence could provide at least early company with speedy Wildcat Lily, who is coming off a pair of sharp second-place finishes in the Prioress (G1) and the Test (G1) at Saratoga. Rated second in the morning line at 5-2, the Manny Azpurua-trained 3-year-old filly is set to break from the rail post position under jockey Jose Alvarez.
"She's a nice filly. She's very quiet. She's a quick filly out of the gate," Azpurua said. "She never fights the rider. He can do anything he wants with her. If he wants to go to the lead, she can do it. If he wants to stay behind, she can do it too."
Wildcat Lily, a $20,000 yearling purchase, has earned $393,065 for Rontos Racing Stable while steadily establishing herself as one of the top 3-year-old filly sprinters in the country.
Isabelle's Thunder, who finished second behind My Pal Chrisy in the Paseana after winning an allowance race at Gulfstream, will join Wildcat Lily, Appealing Stella and Defy Gravity against the Wolfson-trained quartet.
Appealing Stella and Defy Gravity are stakes-placed performers who have been racing in the Mid-Atlantic region most recently.
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International Week Provides Opportunity to Celebrate Cultures
Apr. 11, 2013
International Week is a UT Dallas tradition that celebrates culture on campus. The student body at UT Dallas includes Comets who hail from 100 countries. During the week, held April 1-5, students shared information about clothing, cuisine, design and music at the signature Passport to the World event and the International Talent Show. Other popular activities included Zumba dancing, henna and a dance party. International Week is sponsored by the Student Services Office and other student organizations and campus departments.
Media Contact: Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected]


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Etna High senior wrestler Hayden Kaae improved to 18-0 for the season by winning the 195 pound division at the North Coast Classic in Eureka, Calif., on Saturday Kaae was also named the outstanding heavyweight at the event and pinned all of his opponents The No. 11 ranked wrestler in the state at 195, Kaae began the tournament by pinning Kyle Tanuma of Eureka in the third period. In his next match Hayden defeated Tyson Miller of Eureka in the second period by pin. In the title match Kaae downed Thomas Keele of Gold Beach, Ore., by a first round pin. Kaae has now pinned 12 of his opponents this season. Fellow Lion wrestlers Morgan Bahen, Thane Forrester and Jace Cramer all came within one match of reaching the medal rounds.
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The Power Users of the Internet: Forging a New Women's Movement Onlineby Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone
Elisa Camahort leads all events, marketing and public relations for BlogHer while working as COO to ensure that all company operations deliver on their vision.
Jory Des Jardins is an author, media strategist, and the president of global sales and business development for BlogHer, Inc.
Lisa Stone leads product development of Blogher and works across the organization as CEO to advocate for bloggers and partners that fulfill their vision.
In early 2005, we co-founded BlogHer. It started in a coffee shop, as a labor of love to answer to a oft-repeated question roiling through the mainstream blogosphere: Where are the women bloggers? The conventional answer to this question was all too often based on the assumption that women simply weren't blogging—technology being one example of a topic about which women supposedly didn't blog.
So when Internet and technology conference speaking rosters were skewed 80-90% toward male speakers, and when media reports on the burgeoning blogosphere quoted and cited nearly 100% male bloggers, the rationale was that the rosters merely reflected the gender ratio out in the real world.
Women, who have long been the majority of Web users, are now just as likely to create or read a blog as men, as Pew reported in 2006. In July 2005, based on our work as media strategists; and as bloggers on politics, law, e-commerce, health, business, entrepreneurship and our own personal lives, we knew that. On July 30, 2005, more than 300 women who blog—and many men, too—sold out the first BlogHer conference, held in Silicon Valley.
What do women want? Technology. Our work with bloggers indicates that blogging is the gateway drug of technology to many new users. It is also a terrific source of emancipation from mainstream media coverage of the field for established female developers, tech writers, engineers, and tech entrepreneurs.
Today finds BlogHer planning our fourth year of conferences, publishing a news and social community site at BlogHer.com, and running an ad network. So where are the women bloggers? They are blogging—in huge numbers about everything under the sun (including technology) and they are, in fact, becoming technology's early adopters, changing our world and the face of the online marketplace.
Women are evolving with Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 tools, but BlogHer's mission remains rock-solid: BlogHer exists to create opportunities for education, exposure, community, and economic empowerment for women bloggers. Why is that our mission? And why does it resonate so with women online?
Because stereotypes of women and technology do not reflect reality. We couldn't resist partnering with other women who blog to pick up the money that media companies were leaving on the table. Let's just call it good business.
Part of that good business is the BlogHer Ad Network, where BlogHer publishes quality advertising on more than 690 blogs by women. A year ago we began with a test network of about thirty mommyblogs: that much maligned and denigrated population of women online. We live what many a flippant reporter or blogger forgets: that women make up more than half the population, more than half of all Internet users, more than half of all bloggers, and we control more than 80% of the household dollar.
Add to those impressive numbers a demonstrated female enthusiasm for social media. Women have adopted blogging technology at an unprecedented rate. Women's involvement and adoption of Internet technology grows, which should matter to technology companies and technology developers.
We women use technology, and our beloved computers and mobile devices, to improve all aspects of our lives. That's why even savvy non-technical companies (such as BlogHer advertisers Kraft, Dove, Gerber, and Uncle Ben's) are reaching out to bloggers across topics as varied as food, health, politics and business. Even those of us who are moms do more than parent. This isn't news but, according to our community, it is a novel approach:
"For the first time in my life, it was okay to be completely me at a conference: a woman, a mother of three, an entrepreneur, a writer, and a blogger," said Barbara Rozgonyi, BlogHer '07 attendee.
Today's woman (mom or not) is too busy changing her life, making room to Twitter, Flickr, or even "lick her iPhone," to slow down for old attitudes and old biases. Technology, as a tool for equipping women to improve our lives, is far too important to ignore. A new population of users is becoming early adopters, and we want a whole lot more than a "pink" version of a product.
Blogging and social media have created a new economy of personal publishers, many of whom want to bypass traditional media outlets altogether to create our own platforms, using Web 2.0 technology.
Blogging has provided a path for women to become DIY authors, technologists, and business people; we are entrepreneurs who are self-enabled by their use of technology. What could be more empowering than to grab your own corner of the Internet and grow your own business? Why wait for someone to invite you to contribute to a series such as this one, to a technology book, or to a conference?
Our fervent hope is that tech companies—from web application providers to electronics manufacturers—will reach out to women to find out how they can serve their primary customers, who are women of all ages, languages, and abilities, better. All they have to do is read our blogs.
We should talk about progress, and whether women are making it or not. We should also walk our talk: support women who are using blogs, using Web 2.0 technology to raise their voices, and to fund their passions. The marketplace is listening, even if technology companies or the IT industry isn't.
Are all BlogHer members geeks in the traditional sense? Are they women in technology? Yes, in a very holy way. At this year's BlogHer, keynote speaker Annalee Newitz said it was time to re-think our definition of what it means to be technical. We asked the crowd how many people out there considered themselves to be "self-taught geeks", and at least three-quarters of the 800 in attendance raised their hands. These are women who have taught themselves HTML, PHP, and CSS, not to mention audio and video production techniques.
Any company who wants to find the vocal, passionate users who represent half their user base (or even more than half) should visit BlogHer.com and mix it up with the women who read our news and lead our community via their blogs.
Women are telling you exactly what we think. We invite you to reach out and join the conversation.
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WFP has launched a major emergency operation to get food to the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing fighting in the world's newest country. Insecurity means that getting food to the hungry is tricky but still, since fighting erupted, WFP has reached 178,000 people. WFP's Challiss McDonough reports from the South Sudan capital Juba.
JUBA -- Much of the town of Bor has been reduced to rubble in fighting that has ripped apart South Sudan. Its once-bustling streets are largely empty, with most of the residents having fled for their lives. But even in what eyewitnesses describe as a "ghost town," the World Food Programme (WFP) has still had work to do, and has just finished distributing food to around 9,000 people who have stayed and sought refuge in a United Nations compound.
The story is the same in Bentiu and Malakal, which along with Bor have been the focus of some of the most intense fighting of the conflict in the world's newest country. In those towns and elsewhere around WFP staff are delivering urgently needed food assistance to those in need, reaching more people every day under immensely difficult conditions.
WFP has launched a new emergency operation to provide life-saving food assistance throughout the country to the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the fighting [you can donate here]. Since the crisis erupted in mid-December WFP, working with partners, has provided food for 178,000 people. But the numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs) is continuing to rise, and latest UN figures estimate that almost half a million have left their homes.
Food to worst hit areas
"We are scaling up our operation wherever we can," said WFP's South Sudan Country Director Chris Nikoi. "The security situation makes it difficult to know from one day to the next where we can carry out food distributions but we are managing to operate in some of the worst hit areas -- towns like Bor, Bentiu and Leer, and, of course, in the capital, Juba, where many people have sought safety."
Looting is a problem, and WFP is concerned that it may have lost some 4,000 metric tons of food from its warehouses -- enough food to feed more than 240,000 people for a month. Staff are working to establish exactly how much has been stolen and what can be recovered.
The 3-month emergency operation will cost around US$58 million. As well as basic food supplies, WFP aims to provide specialized nutritional support for young children and their mothers, who are most vulnerable in this kind of crisis.
WFP is reaching people sheltering in makeshift camps as well as UN compounds, and is working with partners, especially in rural areas, to coordinate the humanitarian response.
WFP is also providing assistance for more than 86,000 refugees from the conflict who have crossed into the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya.


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Friends and supporters have gathered to mark what would have been the 13th birthday of Zahra Baker, the 10-year-old disabled Australian girl killed by her stepmother in North Carolina.
The service was held Friday at the Zahra Baker Memorial, just feet away from the spot where the girl's remains were found.
Zahra was reported missing in October 2010. Her body was found weeks later. Elisa Baker was sentenced to up to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges including second-degree murder.
In May, Hickory opened a playground built in Zahra's honor. Zahra wore a prosthetic leg, a result of her fight with two bouts of cancer, so the playground honors her in part by having swings and other attractions that can be used by disabled children.


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What could possibly go wrong?
And for an illustration of why you should not follow American mining or waste disposal techniques, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania [wikipedia.org]
This thing has also been burning for 40 years.
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It's so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities, and it only didn't work once.
Success rate does not illustrate simplicity, especially not with that small of a sample set. That could be the equivalent of saying, "Putting a man on the moon is so simple, in fact, that the United States has used their method once and it has never failed."
"Putting a man on the moon is so simple, in fact, that the United States has used their method once and it has never failed."
Only once?
Actually, the US did it 6 separate times. And there were deaths, they were just on earth during testing.
I don't think we have any orbital nukes. We would have to nuke it from orbit, as it's the only way to be sure.
the tab to open up my can of pudding broke off.
Time to break out the thermonuclear device...
the ring came off my pudding can...
Use my pen knife my good man!
...it's that any and all natural disasters can be stopped by the liberal use of nuclear weapons.
...it's that any and all natural disasters can be stopped by the liberal use of nuclear weapons.
And the most likely side effect to the use of nuclear weapons is that some geek gets laid.
That's nothing. If Looney Tunes has taught me anything, plugging the pipe up with golf balls/shredded tires will cause the pipe to bulge... then the entire ground will bulge... then the entire area with explode covering everything with oil for miles around.
But could a large conventional blast do the same thing?
You think the greenies are (rightfully) pissed now? Tell them you're going to set off high-yield explosives in the ocean. Their heads would "pop" [wikipedia.org].
I don't think so (assuming any large blast can work at all in this case, of course); given the location is on the bottom of the ocean, and that the blast could require, for example, some drilling to place the explosive in the bottom...a nuke, with its small size, is much more practical.
I don't think you can dump enough conventional explosives to get the necessary yield. The difference between obscenely large conventional bombs and nukes is three orders of magnitude. The yield on conventional weapons is close to 1:1 between their mass and an equivalent mass of TNT while nukes offer at least 1:100. You just can't get enough power out of conventional weapons without using a LOT of them.
Having said that, I'd still pay to take a cruise down there and watch the boom. I'll even sponsor Greenpeace and SeaSheperd to get too close to the blast zone shortly before detonation.
MOAB - 11 tons of TNT
Little Boy - 15.000 tons of TNT
The cold war arms race averaged around 25.000 tons of TNT, though there were some weapons made that did 50k and some with a theoretical limit at 100k tons.
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent [wikipedia.org]
You're missing about 3 zeros off your cold war bombs. Those bombs were in the 25 Megatonne range.
For the US - the smaller "tactical" nukes went from 0.3, 1.5, 5, 10, 60, 80, or 170 kiloton explosive yield
Strategic nukes went from 170 kiloton to about 330 kiloton in the late cold war, with some larger bombs up to 9 and 25 megatons, 9MT was the most the US deployed on a missile and a 25MT dropped from a bomber, while the Soviets dropped a 57 megaton, their largest deployed was 25 megaton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons#United_States [wikipedia.org]
So, if you were going to nuke an oil well, you'd use a tactical warhead like the W87
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87 [wikipedia.org]
300-475 kiloton yield and about 600 pounds.
Or a bomb like the B83
15-1200 kiloton
I'm trying to figure out which part of this story is the scariest.
... that someone has suggested setting off an underground nuke to close an oil well?
... finding out that the Soviets did this all the time?
... finding out that the USSR was so careless they had six "petrocalamities" worth trying this trick on?
... finding out that there's an actual word for an oil accident of this size?
So you are going to trigger a device that will reproduce the heat found inside the sun, and are worried about oil "catching fire"? That's like worrying about dropping a 2000lb bomb on the gas tank of a lawnmower. Please.
Secondly oil does not "explode", it burns. Gasoline vapor explodes, but only in the presence of air because the reaction needs oxygen. Explosives explode because t
I have a special request, however. All global warming and card-carrying Greenpeace members should be placed on a boat immediately above the device if this is going to happen.
Yes, by all means, let's punish the people who were *right*.
Yes, by all means, let's punish the people who were *right*.
Right about what?
You are typing on a computer to tell me that I need to consume less energy? I bet you use electricity and drive to work, too. That resources need to be managed more carefully because of our overpopulation? Agreed. That people should be attacked/bombed/killed for it? Nope. That the Earth is warming and sea levels are rising? Agreed. Lying to people and ignoring this trend that has been go
Back in the late eighties, when the world was turned upside down by the fall of the iron curtain. my friends and I speculated that the fact that Reagan had survived assassination* had torn a hole in reality, thrusting us into a Bizarro Universe.
Now we have Russians suggesting something that only would make sense in a really bad TV movie or potboiler eco-disaster novel.
Like the man uptopic says, what could possibly go wrong?
We're there, man.
* Schoolyard mythology: presidents elected in years ending in 0 always died in office.
For some reason I see many people in boats waiting to pick up all the dead fish that float up from the nuke blast. Sort of a super sized red neck fishing lure.
On a serious note, as others have said, there is a lot of methane down there. I remember seeing a deep sea sub video of the methane bubbling up in the Gulf of Mexico. They captured it in a tube and the methane formed methane crystals due to the cold and pressure down there. Unless the plan is to cap the entire Gulf of Mexico to capture this methane, I would like to see a bit more informed planning.
The Gulf of Mexican? Honestly? I mean come on...
As a pyromaniac extraordinaire I fully endorse this under one condition:
That a TON of high speed camera footage is available at no charge to me later. Outside of that I'm sold.
Was if they had used Chuck Norris to punch the well dry it would have caused massive earthquakes all over the world making what was shown in the movie 2012 looks like a grabage truck passing by.
Can be viewed here. [rt.com]
Synopsis: If the oil leak is in a desert where nothing of value is living anyway and it has been going on for several years and it shows no sign of stopping and you've tried just about everything else, then a nuclear blast could work. However, in the gulf of mexico it makes no sense because we haven't tried all that many things and the leak hasn't been gong on for several years and there's lots of things around of value, including people and marine wildlife.
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Over the past half century, there have been some interesting proposals for engineering uses of nukes. One of my favorites was only a short distance south of the current record-setting oil spill: The proposed sea-level canal across Central America.
There have been several analyses of the possibility of such a canal. It could be much wider, deeper and cheaper than the current Panama canal, which is too small for many of the largest ships these days. Most of the proposed sites go across southern Nicaragua, where the passes through the mountains are lowest and widest. Several of the proposals amounted to burying a chain of nukes in a line through the area, and setting them off. The result would be a chain of interlocking craters with bottoms below sea level. A bit more work with large bulldozers to even out the shore line, and we'd have a canal.
There were various reasons why funding for these projects (through the US Congress, of course) was eventually rejected. One of the funnier ones came from research biologists. They pointed out that the Caribbean is a few meters higher than the east Pacific, so there would be a slow but significant east-to-west current in the canal. This would carry not just water, but lots of biological material, from the Caribbean to the Pacific. (The other direction would also happen, but would be limited to a few good swimmers).
The biologists thought this was too good a scientific opportunity to pass up, and started submitting grant proposals to do the Pacific-wide baseline population studies that would be needed to understand the ecological catastrophe that would follow. They argued that we missed a good opportunity by not doing the studies before the Saint Lawrence Seaway was built, so we were unable to track in detail the catastrophe that exterminated the Great Lakes' fishing industry, as the sea lamprey ate up all the fish in the lakes. They didn't want to lose out on all the valuable biological data that would follow the much larger catastrophe after the seal-level canal in Central America pumped thousands of new species into the tropical Pacific.
After enough of these grant proposals were submitted and Congress learned about them, the funding proposals for the canal were quietly "misplaced" and no longer discussed. Some of the biologists followed up by talking about their great disappointment that they would not be able to study such a large-scale biological "experiment". They didn't much lament the loss to engineers by the loss of a project to do large-scale nuclear construction, though I suppose in private a lot of civil engineers must have also been shedding crocodile tears over this loss to their profession.
Using a nuke on the BP well wouldn't do anything so biologically spectacular, of course. But I can see biologists hurriedly asking for funding to study the effects on the Gulf ecology. If it could be done right, we could get a lot of useful information out of the experiment.
Anyway, I'm still hoping to read lots of comments about nuclear construction
(Lessee; do I need a smiley to deflect the moderators who lack the humor gene?
"the Soviet Union used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities, and it only didn't work once."
I think the lesson that can be learned here is that you need to use 5 nukes all at the same time to guarantee success.
You know, just to be sure.
Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them?


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ASUS PQ321Q Monitor Brings Multi-Stream Tiled Displays Forward 94
Vigile writes "While 4K displays have been popping up all over the place recently with noticeably lower prices, one thing that kind of limits them all is a 30 Hz refresh rate panel. Sony is selling 4K consumer HDTVs for $5000 and new-comer SEIKI has a 50-in model going for under $1000 but they all share that trait — HDMI 1.4 supporting 3840x2160 at 30 Hz. The new ASUS PQ321Q monitor is a 31.5-in 4K display built on the same platform as the Sharp PN-K321 and utilizes a DisplayPort 1.2 connection capable of MST (multi-stream transport). This allows the screen to include two display heads internally, showing up as two independent monitors to some PCs that can then be merged into a single panel via AMD Eyefinity or NVIDIA Surround. Thus, with dual 1920x2160 60 Hz signals, the PQ321Q can offer 3840x2160 at 60 Hz for a much better viewing experience. PC Perspective got one of the monitors in for testing and review and found that the while there were some hurdles during initial setup (especially with NVIDIA hardware), the advantage of a higher refresh rate made the 4K resolution that much better."