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We're always looking for ways to improve World of Warcraft and, for Cataclysm, we introduced several UI features and new types of technology to help make questing more accessible, more immersive, and, most importantly, more fun! You've probably already encountered many of these mechanics as you've explored post-shattering Azeroth, but we still wanted to take some time to discuss their purpose and functionality with you, as well as get your feedback on how they've contributed to your leveling experience this expansion.
So, here's what's new:
- The ability to complete and accept new quests in the field. To help improve the flow of several quest chains in Cataclysm, we've added a feature that allows players to both complete and accept quests without having to interact with a quest giver. What does this mean for players? No more running back-and-forth during the heat of battle! (Most of the time, at least.)
If a quest is eligible to be completed on-the-go, a large button will appear just beneath the default mini-map that reads "Click Here to Complete Quest." As the message text suggests, clicking on this button will open up the standard quest completion window, letting you turn in the quest right then and there. You might also receive a prompt to start a new quest through this feature, so keep an eye out for that shiny button when you're getting your XP on.
- Quest NPC objective windows. Have you ever accepted one of those quests that asks you to administer some sweet, sweet vengeance on a certain NPC and, as you mount your trusted steed, shoulder your finely-crafted weapons, and start to saunter towards the horizon, you realize...you have no idea what this mysterious, soon-to-be-dead individual looks like? Well, now there's a mechanic for that.
The NPC objective window is designed to display 3D images of notable creatures or NPCs that you need to kill (or find) as part of a quest. While this window won't be used for every quest, its default location will always be to the immediate right of the quest Accept/Decline window. Be sure to use it to your advantage when it appears, as it's great for identifying named objectives -- like Warden Silva in Tol Barad or Bingham Gadgetstring in Azshara, for example.
- Highlighted quest NPC names. In many cases, if a creature or NPC is an objective for a quest you've accepted, its name will automatically show up in red, yellow, or green -- depending on whether the mob is hostile, neutral, or friendly -- whenever you're in range of it. Why is this helpful? Because, sometimes, finding those ten silver-tipped kobolds can be a bit cumbersome, especially if they look almost identical to their cobalt-tipped brethren (which are far more common, as far as kobold genetics are concerned). By highlighting their names, we can make the search for these illustrious creatures smoother and hopefully more enjoyable for you.
If you would prefer not to have names highlighted, that's okay, too. You can disable highlighted quest NPC names at any time through the Interface options menu by selecting "None" from the NPC Names drop-down box within the Names option subheading. (On the flip side, keep in mind that this feature won't be too useful if all NPC names are turned on, so if you want to get the most out of it, be sure to select "Quest NPCs." )
- Resource bars. Resource bars are used sparingly, but they're great for keeping track of important variables that are unique to certain quests and raid encounters (e.g. stacking buffs and debuffs, timers, etc).
A good example of this mechanic in action is in the Hillsbrad quest "Studies in Lethality." For this quest, players are tasked with testing nearby blight slimes to determine their lethality. Initially, the blight slimes will be ambivalent to a player's scientific poking and prodding; however, with each consecutive test, the blight slime collective will grow a bit more annoyed, eventually becoming hostile to the player and attacking him or her on sight. Fortunately, slimes have short memories and, over a period of time of no testing, a player can once again fall into their good graces. A resource bar is provided during this quest to help the player determine how angry the blight slimes are, as well as when it's safe to continue testing.
- Multi-tag targets. As the name suggests, this feature allows multiple players to tag or "tap" a single creature. This means that you can receive quest credit for killing an eligible quest boss, regardless of party status, so long as you participate in the fight (and the boss' death). Not all quest bosses will function this way, but quite a few of them do -- especially in Tol Barad.
- Terrain phasing. Terrain phasing is very similar to normal phasing, which works by hiding or revealing sets of intractable items, NPCs, and buildings depending on your progression through a specific quest or quest series. Unlike normal phasing, though, which only allows us to adjust objects in the world, terrain phasing gives us the opportunity to change the world itself -- or, more specifically, how it appears to you. We can literally move mountains and raze cities through this technology, providing you with a more engaging and dynamic questing experience. You'll see a lot of terrain phasing in starting zones like Gilneas and the isle of Kezan, as well as in higher-level areas like the Regrowth in Mount Hyjal or during the infamous bombing of Stonetalon.
- Personal summons. In addition to terrain phasing, another new technology that we've implemented in this expansion is personal summons . With personal summons, we're able to create environments and play out game events that only you can see. "Peacebloom vs. Ghouls" is a great example of personal summons in action. In this quest, players are provided with their own version of Botanist Brazie to interact with, their own lawn to cultivate, and their own waves of undead to squash mercilessly.
- New character camera controls. Our new control options are simple in concept, but they allow us to do some pretty cool things with character perspective -- including panning and sweeping the in-game camera to play out short, but personalized cut-scenes. While these controls aren't technically a quest "mechanic," they've given us the opportunity to create some epic cinematic moments for you as you level up.
If cut-scenes aren't your thing, though, we understand. Should you ever want to skip past a cut-scene, just hit the "Escape" key and you'll be brought back to the standard character screen.
We think these new mechanics help make players feel like a part of an unfolding story, but that's just our perspective. We'd love to hear your thoughts on these additions and how they've improved or otherwise affected your gaming. Tell us what you think in the comments!


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My DH doesn't have it at all - he calls me a kook (lovingly, of course!). His entire family is a bit lacking in both emotion and this kind of thing (I've noticed that people who have it tend to be more empathetic than usual - is that your experience?) My mother insists DD2 has it. Mum says once when she was babysitting DD2 (a few months old at the time) she kept looking at something, concentrating, laughing, and then glancing at Mum. I'm not convinced, though; I've not seen any signs either DD has it. My Dad's family doesn't have it either.In terms of explaining it, I lean towards it being a natural talent, like being able to sing in tune. Some people are born with perfect pitch, some people can be trained to sing, and others will always be tone deaf.
I don't keep mirrors in my bedroom, nor my boys bedrooms. The only mirror, that isn't part of a compact or toy, in my house is in th bathroom. I just am really uncomfortable with them at night. Mirrors are portals, I believe I've stated my feelings on that here before.I firmly blieve that buildings pick up the personalities/feelings/emotions that are in them. If many bad things happen in a building, the building has a bad feeling.I have a whole slew of stories, but I am not sure which ones I want to post, and which ones I have already posted.
As long as we're on the subject -My husband and I bought our first house in 1998. The minute I stepped into the house, I felt as if I were "home." I felt warm, cozy, and safe there. I knew it was the house for us. I had to have it.We had to move two years later when my husband got a promotion that brought us to Idaho. I always got the feeling the house didn't want us to leave (I know, I know...). In the 7-1/2 years since we left, there have been at least four other owners. In my more sentimental moments, I wonder if the house isn't driving people away, hoping we will come back. The neighbors across the street were good friends of ours. We were all around the same age with kids around the same ages, and we got together often. The wife and I took our kids for walks in their strollers nearly every nice day, and we were always dropping in on each other for coffee and whatnot. She told me years later that she'd never been able to develop a friendship with anyone who moved into the house after us.Coincidences? Probably.But maybe houses do have personalities and powers.
To all the PPs who have remarked on people in their families with a certain sensitivity to otherworldly things or supernatural abilities, I find it interesting that it's almost always the females in the family who seem to possess this.In my family, there's a marked sensitivity to these things among the females as well. Both of my mom's sisters, and my mom herself, have this to some degree. My mom has an uncanny ability to "see" the future, or to predict the outcome of almost any given situation. Part of it is her keen sense of observation, but there's a definite element of "the otherworldly" to some of her predictions. I'm pretty sensitive to ghosts and spirits, and have often had spirits "attach" themselves to me. My grandmother (the same one who I'm sure is watching over me now, although she's been gone from this world for six months) lived in a haunted house for many years, and even when I wasn't in that particular house (for example, when I was in college, hundreds of miles away), things happened to me that had no "normal" explanation, and at times, I had the sense of a very familiar "presence" in the same room with me when I was ostensibly alone, one that I'd felt at my grandparents' house. I've never checked with any of my female cousins about if they'd ever seen or felt anything. They don't seem to be particularly sensitive to the otherworldly, though. I think I'm the most "in tune" with that out of my cousins because I don't put much stock in the material (especially in material possessions, which they are obsessed with).
I have had a few minor experiences of my own. When I was growing up I would often 'hear' someone shouting my name, only not with my physical ears...it is a little hard to describe. Also I would often see dark shadowy people-shaped things watching me out of the corner of my eyes. They have never felt threatening,
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In the late 1990s, a team of investors rehabilitated a distressed public housing complex in Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. They built mixed-income housing, started a new charter school and enticed a YMCA, Publix Super Market and bank to open nearby.
In the late 1990s, a team of investors rehabilitated a distressed public housing complex in Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. They built mixed-income housing, started a new charter school and enticed a YMCA, Publix Super Market and bank to open nearby.
At the time, Atlanta banker and Spartanburg native Hugh Chapman was directly involved in the project. Before he died in 2007, he took former Spartanburg mayor Bill Barnet and developer George Dean Johnson to see the new East Lake Village.
Calling it a life-changing experience, Barnet said what he saw "was just a terrific transformation, from hopelessness to huge hope."
"Anyone who can go down there and see the pictures of the way it was and the way it is today would be advantaged and encouraged," he said.
Since his first trip in 2002, numerous Spartanburg civic leaders have traveled to East Lake to see the project. Now they want to do it here.
As the city of Spartanburg and its partners begin a massive project to remake the city's Northside community, they intend to follow a development model that billionaire investor Warren Buffett and others have marketed across the country.
After the Atlanta success, Buffett, billionaire investor Julian Robertson and developer Tom Cousins pledged to finance Purpose Built Communities, a nonprofit that would help other communities replicate the East Lake model's focus on quality schools, mixed-income housing and wrap-around social services.
Purpose Built Communities is now offering Spartanburg free consulting services for the Northside redevelopment project.
East Lake Meadows was a blighted public housing complex rampant with crime and drugs. It was an environment more suited to sending youths to prison than to college.
"You drive through East Lake Meadows, you wouldn't believe this was in the United States," Cousins said in a speech this past fall. "Had I been one of those kids, I am sure I would have been one of the crime statistics."
To help transform East Lake, Cousins enlisted his best friend, Chapman, who departed from the family's traditional role in Spartanburg's textile economy for a career in banking.
"He always had his ties to Spartanburg and always cared about his roots here," said Barnet, who is chairman of the Northside Development Corp., the nonprofit chartered to redevelop Spartanburg's Northside. "He would've been the person who made us most aware of the stories and opportunities presented by the East Lake model."
While Chapman quietly led the execution of the East Lake project, the idea was Cousins'.
During the past decade, numerous Spartanburg leaders in both city government and in philanthropic groups have traveled to East Lake, where they have seen how a blighted public housing complex became a healthy, mixed-income community. All have returned enthused and ready to try the model here.
When current Spartanburg Mayor Junie White asked Barnet to lead the Northside Development Corp., Barnet had already been to East Lake several times.
Barnet said the East Lake story is a tale of "monumental change" that begins in a run-down, hopeless environment and ends in a neighborhood with a mixed-income housing development, an award-winning charter school, YMCA and grocery store.
It's a story he'd like to be able to one day tell about Spartanburg.


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A Lenexa man is accused of killing his girlfriend's pets, one after another.
Chris Matthew Tittle, 23, is charged with three felony counts of animal cruelty, accused of killing two kittens and a ferret.
"The first one was poisoned," Lenexa police officer Dan Friesen said. "That would have been one of the kittens. Then the latter two were suffocation by a plastic bag."
Police said the animals were killed last fall about a month apart from each other.
Tittle and his live-in girlfriend got the kittens from the Great Plains SPCA in Merriam.
The first kitten, named Ozzy, was adopted in July and died in November. The next, Venus, was adopted in November and died in December. The ferret died soon after. It's unclear where the couple got the ferret.
"At first the lady was concerned that there might be something in the apartment that these animals were getting into," Friesen said. "Later on she became suspicious of her live-in boyfriend."
She contacted police on April 9 with her suspicious. Tittle was charged on May 1.
Friesen said the city's animal control staff rarely get animal abuse cases that allege malice. Usually, he said, it's a result of neglect.
"And generally that's rectified by education," Friesen said. "Maybe some assistance provided to people to have the proper tools to take care of their animals."
Great Plains SPCA director Courtney Thomas said shelter staff try to ensure that adoptive pet parents have those proper tools. They are screened about what they expect from a pet and what level of care they are willing provide in order to determine if they are a match for a particular pet or breed.
"I wish there was a way to predict malicious intent," Thomas said.
Friesen said Tittle's girlfriend has since split from him.
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text: Volunteers are needed to replace flags on veterans' graves in Middleborough. The first of several events to commemorate Memorial Day will be held on May 4, or May 18 in the case of rain. Events begin at 7 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2188 on Station Street, with a free breakfast for all that attend. Volunteers will then move on from the VFW in groups to the various cemeteries around town, and finish up prior to lunch. Last year, Little League ball players, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and their families assisted other members of the community and veterans, said Middleborough's Director of Veterans Services, Paul Provencher. To volunteer, call Provencher at 508-946-2407, or send an e-mail to email@example.com and label the subject line as "volunteering to help with cemetery flags."


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Ninth-Ranked Oklahoma Eases Past Mids, 26-10
Jan. 7, 2012
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Despite winning three of the first five matches and building a 10-6 advantage, the Navy wrestling team (2-3) dropped a 26-10 decision to ninth-ranked Oklahoma (4-2) in front of a raucous crowd at Wesley Brown Field House in Annapolis Saturday evening. It was the first dual meet held in the facility which was built in 2008 and was named for the first African American to graduate from the school, retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown.
"I knew we would be a little tired out there tonight because I worked them pretty hard this week, but overall I thought we competed hard," said 12th-year Navy head coach Bruce Burnett, whose Mids competed in the Southern Scuffle this past Sunday and Monday and did not get back to the Academy until late Tuesday evening.
"I think we let at least two matches get away from us. I think we panicked a little. But, when you wrestle the great teams they will exploit your weaknesses. The flip side of that is that you can see what those weaknesses are and work on fixing them. A perfect example of that is Bobby Barnhisel who did not make the mistakes tonight that he did early in the year. We dropped the match, but we gained a great deal by wrestling Oklahoma."
The Sooners picked up the first win of the evening, as 10th-ranked 149-pound Nick Lester scored a hard-fought 11-7 victory over Navy rookie Peyton Walsh (Glen Allen, Va.) in what was Walsh's first dual action of his collegiate career. Lester led Walsh 9-4 with under 30 seconds to go in the match, however, Walsh was able to score the escape and get a takedown in the final 16 seconds to close to within two. Lester was awarded an escape with four seconds remaining and gained another point with more than a minute riding time.
Navy junior Bobby Barnhisel (River Forest, Ill.) gave the Mids a much-needed boost in the following bout, as he scored a huge upset over 12th-ranked Matt Lester at 157 pounds. Barnhisel, who in the last week has gotten back on the mat after suffering a knee injury in mid-November, struck quickly as he took Lester down just 10 seconds into the match and pushed his lead to 5-0 with a three-point nearfall. Although Lester would rally in the final period and a late takedown with 15 seconds remaining would clip Barnhisel's lead to just one, the Navy junior posted an escape with two seconds remaining to earn an 8-6 victory over Lester.
"Bobby competes hard all of the time, so that really wasn't a surprise tonight," said Burnett. "He wrestled with great intensity and energy, but again he was able to learn from previous mistakes and earn a great win tonight.
Hometown favorite Bubby Graham of Oklahoma put the Sooners back on top thanks to a 12-5 victory over Matt Jackson (Rising Sun, Md.), who gave a valiant effort. The Mids have been riddled with injuries at that weight class and Jackson, normally a 157-pounder, stepped in to meet the challenge. Graham, an Annapolis High School graduate, wrestled his first two seasons at American before following head coach Mark Cody to Oklahoma this season.
The Mids took their first lead in the match following a major decision by junior Oscar Huntley (Stafford, Va.) at 174 pounds. Huntley's takedown with 35 seconds remaining in the second period gave him the lead for good, however, he used three third-period takedowns, including one with five seconds left, to earn a 12-4 victory and put the Mids up, 7-6.
In one of the most anticipated matchups of the evening, the 184-pound weight class was as exciting as last year's bout in which Navy's Luke Rebertus (Gloucester, Va.) won in a tie breaker. OU's Erich Schmidtke, ranked 20th nationally, took a 2-0 advantage with a takedown late in the first period. Schmidtke rode Rebertus out for a good portion of the second period before the two-time NCAA qualifier was finally able to score the point for an escape. Rebertus turned the table on Schmidtke in the third period, as Rebertus was able to run Schmidtke's one-plus minute of riding time down. Rebertus, however, needed to make something happen as time was running out and Schmidtke held a 2-1 lead. The nation's 14th-ranked wrestler did just that, scoring the takedown with 11 seconds left and tacking on a two-point nearfall with one tick left on the clock to go ahead, 5-3. Schmidtke was awarded an escape at the horn, but Rebertus was rewarded for his hard work with a 5-4 victory to push the Mids' lead to 10-6.
"If you want to take about competing hard until the final horn, Luke was a great example of that," said Burnett. "He was definitely tired from our workouts this week, but I was proud of the fact that he found a way to get it done. Finishing is important in this sport."
It appeared Navy would extend its lead in the following match as newcomer Paul Rands (Cary, Ill.) held a 4-3 advantage over OU's Keldrick Hall with under 20 seconds to go. Although Hall looked exhausted, he had enough in the tank to take one final shot and score the match-winning takedown with just six seconds left in the match to earned a 5-4 decision.
Sophomore heavyweight Dan Miller (Berlin, Md.) made a costly error late in the opening period which resulted in a takedown by OU's Kyle Colling, dramatically changing the match. Miller looked as though he would score the takedown over Colling, however, Miller's momentum put him on his back as Colling secured the takedown. Colling used that momentum to open the second period, earning a three-point nearfall en route to an 11-2 victory.
Eighth-ranked Jarrod Patterson overpowered Navy rookie Patrick Prada at 125 pounds, as Patterson utilized five takedowns and better than three minutes of riding time to deliver a 12-4 loss to Prada.
Navy senior captain Aaron Kalil (Salem, N.H.) battled 11th-ranked Jordan Keller of OU at 133 pounds in what was another stellar matchup. After a scoreless first two periods which included Keller riding Kalil out the entire second period, Keller picked up the first point on an escape to open the third. Kalil took the lead, however, with a takedown with 1:13 to go in the match and was working on whittling down the riding time when Keller was able to score the reversal to take a 3-2 lead. Twentieth-ranked Kalil battled the remaining minute, but was unable to work is way free, as Keller picked up the 4-2 win with riding time.
The final bout of the night featured the nation's top-ranked 141-pound wrestler, Oklahoma's Kendric Maple, against Navy sophomore Raymond Borja (Virginia Beach, Va.). Maple spent the majority of the first two periods riding Borja out and nearly pinned the Navy youngster in the second with a three-point nearfall. Maple toyed with Borja throughout the third period, playing cat and mouse, as he recorded four takedowns before finally pinning Borja at 6:29 (12-3 score).
"Peyton (Walsh), Paul (Rands) and Dan (Miller) all came up short tonight, but they put forth a great effort. There were a few technical errors that were made that can be fixed, but they were in it to win it."
The Midshipmen will be back in action next Friday when they travel to East Stroudsburg for a 7:00 pm match and then will face Lehigh on Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. at 7:00 pm.
Oklahoma 26, Navy 10
149 – #10 Nick Lester (OU) dec. Peyton Walsh (N), 11-7
157 – Bobby Barnhisel (N) dec. #12 Matt Lester (OU), 8-6
165 – #20 Bubby Graham (OU) dec. Matt Jackson (N), 12-5
174 – Oscar Huntley (N) major Nolan McBryde (OU), 12-4
184 – #14 Luke Rebertus (N) dec. #20 Erich Schmidtke (OU), 5-4
197 – Keldrick Hall (OU) dec. Paul Rands (N), 5-4
285 – Kyle Colling (OU) major Dan Miller (N), 11-2
125 – #8 Jarrod Patterson (OU) major Patrick Prada (N), 12-4
133 –#11 Jordan Keller (OU) dec. #20 Aaron Kalil (N), 4-2
141 – #1 Kendric Maple (OU) fall Raymond Borja (N), 6:29
Exhibition - Marcus Armato (OU) dec. James Mannier (N), 6-5
Attendance: 547
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Job Corps is more than the summer job for teenagers. "It's about careers," D'Ambrose Finch told "First Take with Lando and Chavis" hosts Steve Chavis and George Peck. Finch visited KUVO to recruit more applicants.
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Men's Tennis Matches Rescheduled
February 07, 2013, 01:50 PM (CT) Updated: February 08, 2013, 01:52 PM (CT)
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BATON ROUGE - Due to the chance of rain, the No. 25 LSU (3-1) men's tennis team's Sunday matches have been rescheduled.
The Tigers will face No. 56 Rice (2-3) at W.T. "Dub" Robinson Stadium next Thursday, February 14 at 1 p.m. CT, and the match against Prairie View will be moved to a date that will later be announced.
Additionally, the Tigers' match on March 24 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff has been cancelled and LSU is in the process of finding a replacement team to face.
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The supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has indicated that he and his followers may be willing to hold peace talks with western politicians.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, two of the movements senior Islamic scholars have relayed a message from the Quetta shura, the Talibans ruling council, that Mullah Omar no longer aims to rule Afghanistan. They said he was prepared to engage in sincere and honest talks.
A senior U.S. military source said the remarks reflected a growing belief that a breakthrough was possible.
There is evidence from many intelligence sources [that] the Taliban are ready for some kind of peace process, the source said.
At a meeting held at night deep inside Taliban-controlled territory, the Taliban leaders told this newspaper that their military campaign had only three objectives: the return of sharia (Islamic law), the expulsion of foreigners and the restoration of security.
[Mullah Omar] is no longer interested in being involved in politics or government, said Mullah Abdul Rashid, the elder of the two commanders, who used a pseudonym to protect his identity.
An interesting turn of events. Of course if something comes of this it'll be lauded as a success perpetrated by the Obama administration. :rolleyes:


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The Cougars used solo home runs from Marty Gantt and Brandon Murray in the first inning to take a lead that they would never relinquish thanks to strong pitching and outstanding defensive play.
College of Charleston (28-12, 16-7) has now won four straight home series and have won seven of the last eight games. The Citadel moved to 17-23 and 7-10 in the Southern Conference.
Gantt continued his outstanding week by going 3-for-3 with a home run, double and two runs scored. He was also intentionally walked twice and made a spectacular diving grab in center field to keep the Bulldogs off the board in the fifth inning. Dating back to the South Carolina game, Gantt has hit .538 with four doubles, a home run, four RBI, three stolen bases and a slugging percentage of 1.077.
Powell (7-2) earned his seventh win of the season with by going 7.0 innings, allowing just four hits, one run and striking out four. Kyle Owings struck out two with an inning of relief in the eighth inning while David Peterson and Drew Freie pitched the ninth inning.
Murray also had a strong game for the Cougars, tallying three RBI including his first inning solo home run. Bradley Goodson and Devon Reed also tallied RBIs.
Citadel starter Kevin Connell (1-3) allowed six runs, five earned, in just five innings of work. Drew DeKerlegand and Nick Orvin each tallied RBI for The Citadel's two runs.
The Cougars scored first for the 25th time this season with a pair of solo home runs in the first inning from Gantt and Murray.
The Citadel responded with a sacrifice fly from DeKerlegand in the top of the second, but the Cougars responded with another run in the bottom of the second. Gunnar Heidt reached on a fielding error by the Bulldogs and eventually came around to score on a two-out single from Goodson to make the lead 3-1.
Both pitchers settled down after the second inning neither team scored until the sixth. Powell was helped by spectacular defensive plays in the fifth and sixth innings to work out of jams. With runners on the corners with two out in the fifth, Mason Davis hit a line drive to the gap, but Gantt laid out full extension to make the grab and end the inning.
In the sixth inning with a runner on second, Goodson dove to his left and threw across his body to get DeKerlegand for the last out and end the Bulldog threat.
The Cougars exploded for three runs in the sixth inning that put the game out of reach. CofC led off the inning with singles from Brandon Glazer and Heidt and Devon Reed singled in a run. A two-out single from Murray scored two more runs, and the Cougars led The Citadel, 6-1.
Gantt added another run for College of Charleston in the eighth inning with a leadoff double and a steal of third base before Goodson singled him in.
The Bulldogs added one run in the ninth inning, but Freie came in to relieve Peterson and induced two flyouts to end the game.
Before the contest, the College of Charleston inducted former standouts Chris Campbell '07 and Nick Chigges '07 into the CofC Baseball Wall of Fame.
The final game of the series is currently scheduled for Sunday, April 22 at 1 p.m.


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Extraordinarily tasteless.
I saw a much better take on this earlier today. It was "Diana at 50: Her Legacy Lives On" and examining how her different charities and things continued now. That's the way Di would've preferred to be remembered, I think.
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"Read the Wikipedia article, don't bother with the book"
Kurzweil spends more time comparing himself to the great minds of humanity than he does actually discussing his theories. The content is laced mostly with anecdotal fluff, and quotes by other people to make his writing sound more impressive. I'm really happy Audible allows returns because this book is a waste of money. You'd save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just reading a synopsis of the book.
"Articulate but familiar brain-inspired AI pitch"
If you don't know much about the current state of artificial intelligence, brain science, or the philosophy of consciousness, and don't mind a little bit of technical discussion, Kurzweil does a fine job of articulating the current rapid converge between these areas of understanding. However, if you already do know the basics, this book probably isn't going to do much to expand your own consciousness.
Speaking as a software engineer who has a fascination with AI, I largely agree with Kurzweil's glowing assessments about the future of machine intelligence, though I'd probably push his timeframe back a few decades and could do with a bit less of his self-promotion. Though there's a lot we still don't understand about how the human brain operates, neuroscience and computer science are starting to form the same fundamental insights about how intelligence "works", whether it's represented as neurons or a mathematical process. In a truly intelligent machine, data from the outside world is taken in by a large, hierarchical array of pattern-recognizers, which gradually rewire themselves to better anticipate the messy-but-hierarchical patterns of the real world (visual squiggles to letters, letters to words, words to syntax, syntax to meanings, meanings to relationships, relationships to concepts, concepts to insights -- and back down again). To some extent, the software world has already made useful progress in this direction.
However, most of the insights Kurzweil offers aren't anything new. Indeed, most of what he says was explored in Jeff Hawkin's 2004 book, On Intelligence, and in academia before that. Briefly stated, the hierarchical architecture of the human brain's neocortex is the major engine of human intelligence, and it seems to start out mostly as a blank slate, a generalized learning machine that builds neural connections through experience, eventually forming a complex inductive model of reality, which constantly makes predictions about what comes next. Kurzweil shares some of his own successes solving certain kinds of problems decades ago, but the new ideas he advances seem somewhat vague and underdeveloped (maybe he's saving the nuts and bolts for his new job at Google).
Still, there's plenty here for a general audience, when he gets away from the geekery. Kurzweil is passionate and pretty convincing about his belief that even limited gains in awareness of how the human brain works still provide AI researchers with some powerful springboards, and that, conversely, advances (or missteps) in AI teach us more about the brain. As he points out in discussing Watson, the IBM computer system that famously won on Jeopardy after acquiring most of its knowledge from scanning natural-language documents (the sampling of questions it got right is impressive), things have already come a long way. And there's no reason to believe that the rapid convergence won't continue, especially in the post-cloud computing world. After all, the specific, idiosyncratic way our monkey-rat-lizard brains were shaped to think as our ancestors crawled/darted/clambered around undoubtedly isn't the only way an evolutionary process can discover thought.
There's also a succinct but informative history of the field of AI, with brief overviews of significant thinkers and developments. And Kurzweil wades a little bit into the philosophy of consciousness, exploring some its more paradoxical aspects in light of what science knows about the human brain. For example, it's been shown that the two cerebral hemispheres, in patients with a severed connection, operate almost as two separate brains. Yet, each one still seems to think it has a conscious link to the other. Maybe such individuals are more like two people in one body, but don't realize it? Eerie, huh? His other thought experiments are nothing new, but still fun. Everyone should know what the Chinese Room is.
Finally, there's a section in which Kurzweil responds to critics, and calls out a few flagrant misunderstandings of his ideas. While it's debatable how on-target his past predictions about technology have been, as far as I'm concerned, if he was even halfway right, then he'll be fully right soon enough.
Overall, I think I would recommend this book most to AI neophytes who haven't read anything by Kurzweil before. His enthusiasm for the topic can be quite inspiring. For other readers, especially those who have read On Intelligence, I don't think you're missing anything essential. I'd probably give this one 4 stars for the former audience, 2.5 for the latter, 3.5 overall.
"Interesting, but author is full of himself."
The author is full of himself. A lot of '...in 19bladiebla I did this, predicted that, I've discovered this, I founded this or that company..
Something else of the author Nick Bostrom, after his great and very thrilling "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies"
Not at all a problem with him.
Dissappointment and anger: cut to the core!
His ideas felt somewhat old, not quite right ...
"Almost Brilliant, Almost Antiquated, Not Anything"
I'm a fan of Kurtzweil. I find his book The Singularity is Near to be an essential part of any modern education. He is also the most financially successful Artificial Inelegance (AI) researcher to date. So he's a great philosopher, a great researcher, and a great businessmen, but apparently he's not infallible, because this book missed the mark.
In a nutshell his answer to the question, "How do you/we make a mind" is "The same way we've been trying for the last 30 years". This answer is so close to brilliant it's spooky. I think there have been profound changes in AI over the last 5 or 6 years. Big data is suddenly revealing (or at least strongly suggesting) that we in fact may have been making pretty good synthetic minds for decades and just didn't know it. The problem has been that having made a good synthetic mind we don't know how to educate it. At the same time (because of advances in AI) we may be on the cusp of discovering that we don't know how to educate biological minds either (and have been making nearly the same mistakes as the AI community has been making). In this book Kurzweil presents much of the data in support of this argument, and then walks away from what to me seemed the logical conclusion.
To make matters worse his overview of 30 years of AI is quite narrow. One might get the impression that he believes that Multi-Layer Hidden Markov Models are all that is needed. Perhaps in some since any of a dozen AI methods are sufficient, in the same since that Truing Machines are sufficient, but the field of synthetic mind creation is much richness than presented here, as the author must have known.
"Kurzweil is very full of himself"
A few good chapters but mostly just kurzweil going on and on about his predictions in other books.
"Brand new Kurzweil book! ... Excellent!!"
I am currently 2 hours into the book and it is everything I hoped for - possibly the best audiobook I've listened to so far. I am a Ray Kurzweil fan. I've already listened to "The Singularity is Near", a book which contains a lot of data tables, that, in my opinion, kind of hampered the listening experience. This book on the other hand, has a straightforward narrative style that translates very well into the audio format. The reader speaks a bit slow for my taste, but that is a very minor complaint. The information in this book is fascinating. If you're a fan of science, technology and futurism, or if you are interested in the human mind and how it works, you will love this book.
"How a Mind Tinkers Itself Apart"
I am offering this mainly as a quick, dissenting opinion. Having finished the book a week ago, I find that surprisingly little lingers in my mind. Undoubtedly Kurzweil (such an ironic name, given his passion for immortality) has an explanation for this in units of Shannon entropy. I am actually sympathetic to Kurzweil's post-humanist ambitions and mechanical modeling. It's nice to have a stream of books by such an ambitious techno-provocateur. But unless you are planning to tinker together a mind in your garage workshop, the book can be a little tedious. There is a lot about "pattern recognition" in the neocortex, which is not exactly news. We hear about "neuron firing" speeds and networks, about exponential rates of change and phase shifts, which again did not generate any "Aha" moments in this listener's mind. While Kurzweil trots out a few philosophers for refutation, the many philosophical and common-sensical objections against a physical analysis of consciousness are largely swept under the rug. As a visionary technologist with many knowledgeable admirers, Kurzweil has perhaps earned the right to tout (once again) his many correct predictions, though I don't know if anyone is keeping track of the hindsight factor. Still, his confidence reminds me of those brief, brilliant historical moments (the Vienna logical positivists; particle physics just prior to quantum theory) when thinkers felt certain they had finally drained the bogs of metaphysics, only to find paradoxes bubbling back up and themselves sucked back down. If you are a Kurzweil fan, by all means, enjoy. If you are building a brain in the basement, you may prefer the printed text. If you want an audiobook with fresh insights into the philosophy of mind or an ingenious new model of consciousness, you may find this disappointingly dry, bogless, and shallow. But easy on the ears: the reading is very good.
"Good guide on what it means to be human"
Kurzweil is not for everyone, but he is for me. He covers a wide range of topics from how the brain works, quantum physics, logical positivism and Ludwig Wittgenstein up to what does it really mean to be human.
I get a little glossy eyed during the description of the brain and its interactions, but he explains them as good as anyone and I could follow them but not well enough to repeat it to others, but when he's talking about what constitutes a thinking human is where he really excels and excites and I can and will repeat to others his thoughts on that stuff.
The narrator really added to the books enjoyment. I thought he was narrating the book exactly the way the author would have been while he was writing the book.
"Another great piece of work by Ray."
I would give a repeat listen again in one years time to compare the rate of technology to his predictions. Especially now that he is working at Google. I have read or listened to all of Ray's books, and while I think some of his predictions are a little grandiose, many are spot on.
Technology has always fascinated me. The whole idea of a set of machine software to bring about innovation, products, revelations and revolutions to many areas of our world is both exciting and intriguing.
The explanation of how the mind is layered with pattern recognizer's over and over not only has this been proven, but replicated on some small proof of concepts already. It is an exciting time.
None come to mind.
He brought an energy and excitement to the book. Sometimes the material get a little dry, he kept you interested.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
Having the kindle version of this helped out a lot. There isn't too many charts or pictures, but I found that following along during a section/chapter that I found really interesting helped me understand it a little easier.
"The intersection of human behavior and technology"
Great insights into the evolution of the human mind and technology. A must have for people interested in learning about the origins, current applications, and predictions of the field of AI.


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Let me start off by saying i have owned 3 maxxes before. 3906, 3908, and a 3905 that was dewalt powered but eventually got a mmm and made it a 3908. Those are all gone and all i had was a 1/16 revo. Its too small for me. I sold it and bought this roller for $250. Has rpm arms and bumpers, trx black linkages, lundsford hingepins, trx center steel driveshafts, 1/8 truggy shocks, and max mashers.
I ordered a savox1232sg for steering, mmm2 waterproof esc and black castle motor, and ***** 5s lipo
Nice truck, I love the emaxx it's my fav truck,, I don't see a wheelie bar you will need it.
That will be a good project!
a wheelie bar is needed for sure. i needed it bad as i destroyed my body without it.
Living life.
Nice buy! That MMM setup is the ticket. I'd love to run mine in the snow. Too chicken to plasti-dip....
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just get a waterproof esc like the HW WP 120a its the same thing as the MMM/MMM2 same rated amps at 120a just smaller and just a little less quality as well but atleast you can run it in the water.
Living life.
pick up an outerwear
I thought the new MM2 was waterproof?
Always get a 2nd Opinion!
nice shock setup. how does the 4 shocks compare to the original 8. nice e-maxx. hope to see a vid of those shocks in action.
I'm not krazy. My mother had me tested.
I'm not krazy. My mother had me tested.
I'm not krazy. My mother had me tested.
Well i have everything installed. Tried a 2s lipo from my merv to test the steering but it didn't work well. Light on reciever kept turning red when i would steer. Maybe remote batts are low or mmm needs more than 2s to send out proper bec voltage? Will see when 5s comes in
Well i got the 5s lipo in and just as i suspected, dosent fit a battery tray. Will end up making my own out of aluminum and mounting sideways behind motor. Only option i see. Its too tall and hits the tranny.
Figured the servo problem out. It was so power hungry than when i would turn the wheel quickly, the fan would slow down and reciever would lose signal. I bought a capacitor at radioshack and soldered a connector on and plugged into the reciever. Now it only slows the fan down if i turn the wheel back and forth fast about 5 times. But i wont be going that crazy with the servo anyways so its all good. Now just to find a place for the massive battery.
Decision is made. It will be sideways right behind the motor. Will make an aluminum tray and spray the inside with plastidip. Tray will be held by screws and battery will stay in tray with velcro straps.
On a side note. The wires on the battery make the power wires on the mmm look very skinny lol.
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Battery box is made. Box screwed to chassis. Foam on inside to cushion battery. And top of box is held on with thumb nuts. Feels very secure.
Hows the front to rear weight ratio?
When i drop it about a foot, the chassis sinks evenly. Didnt get a chance to run it yet
Just had a chance to run it and am very happy with it. Motor temp was 125 and esc was cool. Weight seems balanced while running.
After a few runs i realize that it is a little top and rear heavy. Im working on something else now. A metal box where the right batt. Tray is.
Battery box is complete! Made out of steel and sprayed it with a whole can of plastidip. Handles awesome. Now some pics...enjoy!


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2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. Monday is bare.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Friday fell after a substantial slowdown in jobs growth stoked pessimism about the pace of the country's economic recovery. The S&P 500 fell 0.43% to 1,553.27, to drop 1% for the week -- its largest weekly decline this year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday the U.S. added just 88,000 jobs in March, a sharp slowdown from an upwardly revised 268,000 jobs in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.28% to 14,565.25. The blue-chip index slid 0.09% on the week. The Nasdaq closed off 0.65% to 3,203.86. The tech-heavy index stumbled 1.95% for the week.
4. -- Alcoa ( AA), the aluminum giant, is expected by analysts on Monday to post first-quarter earnings of 8 cents a share on revenue of $5.88 billion. Alcoa reported adjusted earnings of 10 cents a share on revenue of $6.01 billion in the year-earlier quarter. Alcoa, which traditionally kicks off earnings season, will issue results after the market closes.
5. -- General Electric ( GE) announced Monday a deal to buy Lufkin Industries ( LUFK) for $3.3 billion. Lufkin is an oil and gas equipment company. It has a market capitalization of about $2.2 billion.
6. -- Taiwan's HTC said first-quarter earnings fell 91.5% from a year earlier, largely because of the delayed launch of its 2013 flagship smartphone HTC One.
7. -- International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways and Iberia, is close to ordering about 20 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft worth $332 million apiece at list prices, Reuters reported. If the deal is closed, it would be a challenge to Boeing as the airplane maker has been trying to persuade IAG to buy a proposed update of its 777 model, dubbed the 777X, the Journal reported last week.
8. -- UPS ( UPS) appealed the European Union regulator's January decision to block its roughly $6.7 billion bid for TNT Express, the Dutch delivery company. However, UPS said it wasn't renewing its interest in TNT Express; it was seeking a "more accurate assessment of the EU competitive landscape and that there's no precedent that could limit international growth opportunity," a spokeswoman for UPS told Bloomberg.
10. -- Louisville meets Michigan for the NCAA Championship in Atlanta on Monday evening.
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Elizabeth McAlpin Moss Bradley died of cancer on October 25, 2002 in London, England. She was 52 years old. The funeral service will be held at the chapel in Kensington Cemetery in London on November 4, 2002. A memorial mass will be celebrated at St. Joseph's Chapel, Garrison, New York on November 9, 2002 at 11:30 am with a reception following the service.
Elizabeth was a graduate of the Garrison Union Free School and The Brearley School in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College and her Master of Business Administration degree from the.. Wharton School of Finance. She was first employed by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and later served as Head of Private Banking at Saudi International Bank in London.
Elizabeth is survived by her husband, Jonathan Bradley, her son, Christopher and her daughter, Cassie, all of London. She is also survived by her parents, William J. and Kathryn Moss of Garrison, her sisters Mary Moss Appleton of Los Angeles, California, Katy Moss Warner of Alexandria, Virginia, Amy Moss of Greenwich, Connecticut, P. Quinn Moss of Croton, New York. Susan Moss Homola of Garrison and Dr. Barbara Moss of Manchester, Maine, and her brothers, John H. Moss of Jersey City, New Jersey, Gerard C. Moss of Marquette, Michigan and Hugh M. Moss of Cold Spring, New York as well as by eight nieces and eight nephews
In lieu of flowers, celebrating Elizabeth "Bets" Bradley's participation in the New York, London and Paris marathons, the family requests that donations be sent to the "Race for the Cure", Komen Foundation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, Texas 75265-0309.


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What I really like about the BBC's approach to creating transmedia content for Sherlock was that the show's producers kept everything super simple and everything they created was worked back into the show as important story points.
This is an excellent case study in the use of transmedia storytelling techniques. The article contains lots of specific examples and I'm already looking forward to Part 2.


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The program addresses all aspects of the highly integrated field, including the study of the nervous system biology, the cognitive and behavioral processes, and the applications of mathematics and computer science to understand and model neurological function.
As a student in the program, you will focus your degree work in an area of the field that interests you and best prepares you for your career and research goals. Areas of specialization include neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neuroscience.
The program is offered in collaboration with a nearby partner university, giving you access to faculty expertise, research facilities and resources at both institutions.


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UH Board of Regents Approves College of Pharmacy at UH Hilo
First doctoral degree to be offered at UH Hilo campus also approvedUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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At its monthly meeting held today at Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved in concept the proposed College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
The BOR also approved the recruitment of a dean for the College of Pharmacy. When a candidate for the position is submitted to the BOR for approval, the UH administration will provide the BOR with an update on the financial status of the College of Pharmacy.
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has estimated an unmet need for pharmacists nationwide of 157,000 by 2020 if the need is not addressed by the creation of more pharmacy education programs. The pharmacist shortage has made it extremely difficult for Hawaiʻi students to gain admission to state pharmacy colleges on the mainland, and the proposed College of Pharmacy will help meet this need as well as Hawaiʻi's particular need for pharmacists in rural communities.
The BOR also approved in concept the establishment of an integrated program at UH Hilo providing a Doctorate in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization, a Certificate in Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization, and a Master of Arts in Indigenous Language and Culture Education. This program addresses the last remaining milestone for the Hilo campus' Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Languagethe offering of a doctorate degree.
It also builds upon the existing post-baccalaureate programs of the Collegethe Master of Arts in Hawaiian Language and Literature and the Kahuawaiola Teacher Education Programand the Hawaiian language-focused Bachelor of Arts in Hawaiian Studies with its preschool through grade 12 Hawaiian language medium laboratory school program. These existing programs are not only unique in the UH system, but they are the leading programs in indigenous language and culture revitalization in the United States.
In other action, the BOR approved a proposal from the UH Mānoa Athletics Department to sell tickets for courtside seating at UH Mānoa men's basketball games. The department developed the proposal to add courtside seats on the floor of the Stan Sheriff Center in an effort to better utilize the courtside area during games, offer more seating options for high end donors and sponsors, and increase revenue for the program.
The plan adds two rows of courtside seats with 44 seats in the front row and 24 seats in the second row. The proposed costs for two seats are within the range of $2,000 to $8,000, depending on economic conditions, supply and demand, etc. The revenue from these seats would support the men's basketball program and the Athletics department budget. The cost includes two seats in the first row for the entire men's basketball season, parking, food concessions, and tax donation. Other amenities may be included as the package is developed. The second row of seating would include the same benefits and would be sold at a lesser cost than the first row.
Other items approved by the BOR include a revised lease agreement with Kenneth A. Bansemer and Patricia A. Bansemer for space in Kealakekua Shopping Center for the University of Hawaiʻi Center, West Hawaiʻi, and an agreement between UH Mānoa and Blackwell's Book Services to provide monographic publications for the UH Mānoa Libraries.
The BOR also voted to approve a consultant's report provided to the BOR's Task Group on the Kakaʻako Biomedical Research Center, referring the report to the UH administration for review and consultation with the various constituents involved with the Kakaʻako Biomedical Research Center. The BOR requested that the president report back to the BOR in January 2005 with a recommendation on the report.
A number of personnel appointments were approved by the BOR, including the reappointments of John Nelson as head coach of the UH Mānoa men's tennis team, Pinsoom Tenzing as head coach of the UH Mānoa women's soccer team, and David Shoji as head coach of the UH Mānoa women's volleyball team.
The BOR also approved the appointment of Gary Ostrander as Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at UH Mānoa and the appointment of David McClain as interim president of the UH system. Separate news releases with details on these appointments will be distributed.


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The Haradrim or Southrons were the proud and warlike people of the Harad, in the south of Middle-earth.
Ancient enemies of Gondor, they allied with Sauron during the War of the Ring.
During the Second Age the Men of Númenor built a great city in the firth of Umbar, a vast natural harbour on the southern shores of the Bay of Belfalas, eventually turning the city into a fortified citadel from whose gates the Men of Númenor could levy great tributes upon the tribes of Harad.
At the time of the War of the Ring, the Southrons were in league with Sauron and fought alongside his Orc army. In the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, they deployed cavalry and gigantic, elephant-like Mûmakil. King Théoden of Rohan killed their leader, who bore the standard of the Black Serpent, during the battle.
Once Sauron was destroyed, the Southrons submitted to the rule of King Elessar.
Tolkien provided a description of one of their dead in The Lord of the Rings:
- "He came to rest in the fern a few feet away, face downward, green arrow-feathers sticking from his neck below a golden collar. His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood. His brown hand still clutched the hilt of a broken sword."
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Portrayal in Adaptations
2001-3: The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy:
- The Haradrim appear briefly in The Two Towers when Frodo and Sam witness a raid on one of their columns by Faramir's rangers. They are featured more prominently in The Return of the King, in which the battle between the Rohirrim and the Mûmakil is a major action sequence.
- While the book depicts the Southron army as primarily cavalry armed with scimitars, we see no horsemen in the movie: the Haradrim fight almost exclusively from platforms mounted on the backs of their monstrous oliphaunts. They have also adorned the animals' tusks with spikes and shafts that crush and impale numerous enemy horsemen.
- The costumes of the Haradrim in the movie are Middle Eastern in style and dark brown or black in color, while the Haradrim wore red livery in the book.


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Passengers are making their return home from sea as mechanical problems crippled two different Carnival Cruise liners, cutting guests' vacations short.
Two thousand passengers aboard the Carnival Legend are on their way back to Tampa Bay, Fla., after a technical problem caused the ship to sputter in the Yucatan as it failed to reach optimal speed.
Meanwhile, those aboard the Carnival Dream are flying back from St. Maarten after the emergency generator onboard caused the ship to stall at a dock on the island.
"Clearly, there is a larger problem going on at Carnival specifically," ABCNews.com's Travel Editor Genevieve Shaw Brown told "Good Morning America."
RELATED: Second Carnival Cruise Ship Having Trouble at Sea
Even the Carnival Elation suffered similar technical problems. While passengers did not have to jump ship, the cruise was given a towboat escort as it embarked from New Orleans March 9.
The issues plaguing the cruise line's two ships bear an eerie resemblance to the deplorable conditions on the Carnival Triumph, which lost power at sea a month ago.
An engine fire crippled the Triumph, leaving more than 4,200 people stranded for five days with overflowing toilets, no power and a scarce food supply.
But despite these issues, Carnival told "GMA" that "each of these situations was different."
"Technical issues will occur from time to time. We take each one seriously."
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Carnival is not the only cruise line facing public relations woes. More than 100 passengers aboard a Royal Carribean Cruise fell ill to norovirous March 8, forcing the ship to return to its Florida port.
Shaw Brown said the problems on the seas may be as a result of companies trying to outdo each other by building larger and more extravagant ships each year. But in the process, they could miss the maintenance problems on board.
RELATED: Carnival Dream Generator Malfunction Cuts Cruise Short
"You maximize the revenue, and you try to keep them, the boats, the ships moving as fast as possible back out to sea," Christopher Mullen, a professor at Boston University told "GMA."
The Legend was supposed to dock in Grand Cayman on Thursday, but the mechanical problems that hit the ship off the coast of Honduras forced the cruise's seven-day to be cut trip short. The cruise embarked from Tampa on March 10.
The Carnival Dream's mechanical problems hit the ship on Wednesday, forcing the cruise line to take swift action to accommodate its guests.
"Since it is unclear when the Carnival Dream will be departing St. Maarten," Carnival spokesperson Vance Gulliksen said in an email to ABC News Thursday, "it only makes sense that we fly guests home and we are in the process of arranging both charter and commercial flights for guests to be flown to Orlando or their final destinations."
Carnival said the Dream hadn't lost power and admitted there were interruptions to elevators and toilets for a few hours Wednesday night.
Only one public restroom was taken offline for toilet overflow and there was "a total of one request for cleaning of a guest cabin bathroom. Aside from that, there have been no reports of issues on board with overflowing toilets or sewage," Gulliksen said.
The Dream was on a seven-day cruise and is based in Port Canaveral, Fla. The ship was scheduled to call on Nassau, Bahamas; St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and Phillipsburg, St. Maarten before returning to Port Canaveral.
Carnival insists that potential vacation goers should still choose the company, saying, "We provide enjoyable vacations to 4.5 million people each year. It is important to remember that in neither instance was guest and crew safety compromised."


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My Sister Is Selling Her Car
My Sister Is Selling Her Car
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I told her no one here would want it, because 1. it's shit, and 2. I'm sure you'd all rather steal one. But anyway, she asked me to post her link here to see if anyone's interested in buying it because she got a new car a few months ago and still hasn't been able to sell her old one.
I am selling a silver 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa Elegance which I have owned for over 2 years. It has had 2 previous female owners.
It is a 52 reg, has air con, electric front windows, electric mirrors, 11 months MOT, 5 months tax, CD player, height adjustable steering wheel, full size spare tyre, 5 doors and is cheap to insure and tax. The car is in immaculate condition both inside and out and I have the full service history.
I have already purchased my new car and so I am looking for a very quick sale of £2,100 or nearest offer. It has been a perfect first car and first to see will buy. Would make a perfect christmas gift.
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Jurrah was carrying crowbar, witness tells courtBy Gail Liston
A court has been told that former AFL footballer Liam Jurrah carried a crowbar into an Alice Springs town camp on the night he is accused of assaulting his cousin.
In evidence to the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Lemiah Woods said he saw Jurrah carrying a crowbar as he ran into the Little Sisters town camp in March last year.
But under cross-examination Mr Woods told the court he had been drinking since three o'clock that afternoon and was "half-shot".
Jurrah, 24, has pleaded not guilty to unlawfully causing serious harm to his cousin, Basil Jurrah.
Liam Jurrah's aunt, Freda Jurrah, told the court she saw him with a group of people and could see he was carrying something but it was too dark to see what it was.
She said she tried to stop him fighting but he told her to stay away.
She said she heard fighting and later saw Basil Jurrah "lying down".
Earlier, Crown prosecutor Stephen Robson told the jury that witnesses would allege Liam Jurrah was involved in a night of fighting between rival families.
He said several people would allege they saw him striking his cousin on the head with a weapon.
Defence lawyer Jon Tippet QC told the jury it must question the reliability of every witness.
He said the events happened at night and many of the witnesses were drunk.
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When Suwannee River floodwaters at Wilcox rose above 9 feet on Sunday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) activated boating restrictions on Zone 4.
This section is from the County Road 340 Bridge at Rock Bluff to 1 mile below the Fowler Bluff Boat Ramp. This 51-mile segment will be an idle-speed, no-wake zone as long as the Suwannee is at 9 feet on the Wilcox gauge, where flood stage is 11 feet.
A 32-mile section on the Santa Fe River, Zone 5, which runs from River Rise within O'Leno State Park west to the confluence of the Suwannee River, was activated Aug. 23. This area of the river becomes an idle speed, no wake zone when the Santa Fe River reaches 17 feet as indicated on the Three Rivers gauge, where flood stage is 19 feet.
Another zone was activated Friday. Zone 3, a 23-mile segment which runs from Little River Spring to the County Road 340 Bridge at Rock Bluff, becomes an idle-speed, no-wake zone when the Suwannee River reaches 24 feet or more above mean sea level at the Branford gauge.
FWC officers are patrolling both rivers to ensure boaters comply with the idle-speed, no-wake rule, said Capt. Marty Redmond, area supervisor at the FWC's Lake City office. The FWC encourages boaters to stay off the Suwannee-Santa Fe river system until conditions improve.
An idle-speed, no-wake zone means a vessel must proceed at a speed no greater than what is required to maintain steerageway and headway. At no time is any vessel required to proceed so slowly that the operator is unable to control it or anything it may be towing.
The two zones that remain inactive are:
Zone 1 - from the U.S. 90 Bridge at Ellaville south to the State Road 51 Bridge at Luraville. This 39-mile segment becomes an idle-speed, no-wake zone when the Suwannee River reaches 47 feet or more above mean sea level at the Ellaville gauge, where flood stage is 54 feet.
Zone 2 - from the S.R. 51 Bridge at Luraville to Little River Spring. This 18-mile segment becomes an idle-speed, no-wake zone when the Suwannee River reaches 26 feet or more above mean sea level at the Branford gauge, where flood stage is 29 feet.
For more information about the flood zones, please call 386-758-0525. To report violations, please call 888-404-3922.
To obtain real-time river levels, visit www.mysuwanneeriver.com.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fran Dougherty had 19 first-half points and 23 overall to lead Pennsylvania to a 68-60 win over Columbia Saturday night.
Dougherty made all eight of his field goal attempts in the first half and grabbed 12 rebounds overall for his fifth double-double of the season and his second in as many games.
Penn (6-13, 3-2 Ivy League) also won back-to-back games for the first time this season as it shot 54.2 percent from the field and 68.2 percent in the first half.
Dougherty had 10 points during an 18-5 run that helped the Quakers jump ahead 19-10; they extended to a 10-point advantage at half and led by no less than six throughout the second. Tony Hicks added 13 points for the Quakers.
Alex Rosenberg had 17 points for Columbia (14-9, 3-3). Maodo Lo added 16 and Meiko Lyles 11.
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Probabilistic protocols in quantum information are an attempt to improve performance by occasionally reporting a better result than could be expected from a deterministic protocol. Here we show that probabilistic protocols can never improve performance beyond the quantum limits on the corresponding deterministic protocol. To illustrate this result we examine three common probabilistic protocols: probabilistic amplification, weak value amplification, and probabilistic metrology. In each of these protocols we show explicitly that the optimal deterministic protocol is better than the corresponding probabilistic protocol when the probabilistic nature of the protocol is correctly accounted for.


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AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – Gov. Rick Perry has named John T. Steen Jr. of San Antonio the 108th Secretary of State in Texas history. Steen's appointment takes effect on Tuesday.
"John's strong business background and dedication to public service throughout the years make him uniquely qualified to serve in this important role," Gov. Perry said in a statement. "His leadership over our state's elections process, economic development efforts and international relations will be an integral part of Texas' goal to expand economic prosperity and opportunity for all Texans."
As Secretary of State, Steen will "serve as the state's chief elections officer, the governor's liaison on border and Mexican affairs, and Texas' chief protocol officer for state and international matters," according to the statement.
His office will also be responsible for publishing government rules and regulations, keeping the state seal, attesting to the governor's signature on official documents, and serving as the formal repository for official and business records.
"I am humbled and deeply honored by Gov. Perry's appointment to serve Texas as its 108th Secretary of State," said Secretary Steen in the statement. "Serving the State of Texas is an extraordinary privilege, and I look forward to promoting the Texas success story to create more economic opportunities for our citizens and continuing to work with our neighbor, Mexico, toward a prosperous future. As chief elections officer, I will make it my highest priority to preserve the integrity of our elections and ensure they are fair, accessible and secure."
Steen received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
Steen is an attorney and past board member of the Texas Public Safety Commission. He is a fellow of the San Antonio Bar Foundation, a life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, and an executive committee member of the University of Texas System Chancellor's Council and a member of the Distinguished Leaders Council. He is also vice chairman of the University of Texas San Antonio Development Board, past president of the Fiesta San Antonio Commission and past chairman of the World Affairs Council of San Antonio. Additionally, he is a past commissioner and past chair of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and a past member of the Texas Commission on Economy and Efficiency in State Government. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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Submission + - How Lockheed Martin's 'Kill Chain' Stopped SecurID Attack (darkreading.com)
CowboyRobot writes: "A few months after RSA's SecurID database was hacked, defense contractor Lockheed Martin discovered an intruder using valid credentials of one of their business partners, including the user's SecurID token. But the user soon began tripping alarms, including pulling data in stages and trying to access unrelated data. So Lockheed launched its homegrown Cyber Kill Chain framework, which tracks an intruder's movements and blocks each attempt to siphon data. But the Cyber Kill Chain framework isn't for everyone, according to Steve Adegbite, director of cybersecurity for Lockheed Martin, "We have a multimillion-dollar investment in this technology." And that only makes sense for organizations at risk for advanced persistent threat attacks."


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Documented: The 1970 FF-1 Project car...
Posted 16 June 2011 - 11:46 PM
Posted 16 June 2011 - 11:48 PM
Basically they are temporary so don't worry bout it
Posted 17 June 2011 - 02:22 AM
...Let me know what you think!
I Think it's Awesome!!!
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That's some good car porn right there.
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Posted 21 June 2011 - 02:14 PM
Is it a problem that the tip of the transmission main shaft doesn't go into the crankshaft?
Posted 21 June 2011 - 02:28 PM
(I can't see pics at work, so not sure if I'm helping...)
Posted 21 June 2011 - 05:33 PM
I'm not sure what you are saying. Are you saying the EA81 doesn't fit in as an example, or that it should fit in because it keeps the clutch disc from wobbling?
it doesn't the ea81.... it just fits into the pilot bearing in the flywheel... it should at least fit in somehow to keep the clutch plate centerd on the flywheel... nobody likes a wobbly clutch disk
(I can't see pics at work, so not sure if I'm helping...)
Posted 21 June 2011 - 07:16 PM
Posted 21 June 2011 - 10:25 PM
Definitely needs a shave like Caboob says... might be able to take off both sides? but you'll need to be wary of the starter fitment too, and may need to space it out so it engages the flywheel properly....
what I meant about it doesn't on the ea81, I meant that it inserts into the pilot bearing, not the crank... looks like your setup is the same...
Posted 21 June 2011 - 11:35 PM
Isn't the pilot bearing in the flywheel and that's what the main shaft goes into?
I know it does on the ej,s. Memory is a little fuzzy on the ea,s right now.
Posted 22 June 2011 - 12:54 AM
Here was the bellhousing issue I mentioned before:
And the flywheel issues:
Basically, if this is as serious of an issue as you guys say...
I'm done.
Posted 22 June 2011 - 07:17 AM
in your photo above, you don't have the flywheel mounted.
you need to mount the flywheel, with the pilot bearing mounted in it, flush with the inside surface of the flywheel...
Posted 22 June 2011 - 12:05 PM
Did other model years have that kind of pilot bearing???
Posted 22 June 2011 - 12:12 PM
Will an EA71 pilot bearing fit this 1400 flywheel???
Posted 22 June 2011 - 12:19 PM
Just took these photos testing out the other bellhousing...
If that pilot bearing idea doesn't work, I have to have a different flywheel (EA62) and modify the bellhousing to match...
Posted 22 June 2011 - 12:50 PM
you need to mount the flywheel, with the pilot bearing mounted in it, flush with the inside surface of the flywheel...
Thats the flywheel installed. The crank goes about 1/2 way into the flywheel.
Do you think I could still put a pilot bearing on there?
The clutch disc isn't even close to it, so there is like a half inch of room or more between the disc and the flywheel bolts.
Posted 22 June 2011 - 04:08 PM
Posted 22 June 2011 - 08:22 PM
Just went looking through one of my part manuals on a whim...
806212030 Ball Bearing 12x32.5x10
And amazingly, I had a left over EA71 flywheel with that exact bearing on it... Fits perfect!!! It is indeed .5mm larger!
Now I just need to find a new one...
Posted 22 June 2011 - 10:07 PM
Posted 22 June 2011 - 10:44 PM
If I would have sent RenaissanceMan the 1100 bellhousing instead of the 1400 bellhousing when I had him modify it, and if I would have gotten the 1300 flywheel off the wrecked FF-1 that I forget who got a bunch of parts for me from, then I would have been OK through all of this...
No luck so far on finding a "new" EA71 fat-case pilot bearing though, they appear to be discontinued via Napa and the aftermarket stuff. Going to have to try the dealer tomorrow...
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Embattled Okaloosa County TDC Director Mark Bellinger died in an Alabama hospital this morning after being found in a car on a rural dirt road.
Authorities said he died of a suspected drug overdose.
He was found unconscious about 11:20 a.m. in a car on a dirt road in Pelham, Alabama, which is near Birmingham.
Paramedics were able to revive Bellinger but he died a short time later in a hospital.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with the Northwest Florida Mortgage Fraud Task Force, had obtained an arrest warrant for Bellinger on Friday morning.
Sheriff's investigators allegedly developed information that Bellinger had used TDC funds to purchase a home in Destin.
The $747,000 home is located in the exclusive, gated Kelly Plantation neighborhood of Destin and was purchased in August of 2011. Information indicates that some of the funds used to purchase the home may have come from moneys provided by BP to the Tourist Development Council following the oil spill in 2010, according to the sheriff's office.
A search to locate Bellinger started Thursday afternoon after his wife returned to their home and found a suicide note, the sheriff's office said. His wife called authorities and said Bellinger and his car were missing.
Bellinger's vehicle was described as a 2011 Subaru Legacy four-door sedan, bearing Florida Tag 262NFS. Authorities did not initially indicate whether Bellinger was found inside his car in Alabama, or whether it was another car.
The Northwest Florida Mortgage Fraud Task Force is comprised of members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the OCSO and investigates white collar fraud related to the Mortgage Industry.
Bellinger was a well-respected, well-liked, successful TDC director when, late last week, Okaloosa County received title for a 44-foot yacht that Bellinger bought using TDC money.
Bellinger appeared before the Okaloosa County Board on Tuesday and attempted to explain the purchase of the $710,000 yacht as a promotional campaign he had developed.
Records indicate Bellinger bought the boat from a Destin yacht broker in December and took delivery of it in January. The boat, which sleeps six and has staterooms with full baths, including showers, has been docked at the Marbella Yacht Club in Destin.
County board members initially attempted to fire Bellinger on the spot but opted instead to allow him to resign as of May 11.
On Thursday, county workers told NewsChannel 7 that Bellinger had turned in his keys, his cell phone and other job-related items and left. Later that day, his wife reported him missing.
Okaloosa County Sheriff's investigators launched an investigation into Bellinger's purchase of the yacht. He told commissioners he used county bed tax money to buy the vessel without telling anyone in the TDC or the county.
According to an invoice from a Tallahassee-based advertising and marketing firm used by the TDC, the Zimmerman Agency, the yacht was purchased as a " promotional package" which included giveaways, campaigns and contests.
"I purchased the boat at the end of December with the authority that was invested in me through the TDC ordinance, and the contract with the advertising agency that we have, which is Zimmerman" Bellinger said at Tuesday's commission meeting.
County commissioner Wayne Harris interrupted Bellinger and asked if he was authorized to buy a boat. Bellinger responded saying "not authorized to buy a boat, but a dollar amount."
City officials say Bellinger told them the yacht was only used twice, but did not know who was on-board, how many hours were put on it, or who paid for the gas or the captain.
The yacht is now considered county property. The county says it does not intend on keeping it and are exploring all of the legal options to get the bed tax money back and get rid of the boat.


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Damon Lapa, the agent for A's right-hander Justin Duchscherer, just informed media members that Duchscherer is seeking treatment for clinical depression and will miss the rest of the season. Lapa didn't provide many other specifics on Duchscherer's condition, and didn't predict a timetable for when he could return to pitching. Lapa did describe the depression as a "very treatable form."
"It's something I think he's been battling for some time, and he recently made the really difficult decision that he needs to put his career on hold for the time being and focus 100 percent of his efforts on his recovery," Lapa said.
Duchscherer is a free agent after this season. He's been out all season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow at the end of spring training, and also has been hindered by back problems.
A's assistant GM David Forst said the A's have been aware of Duchscherer's condition for a while, but didn't specify how long.
"Our only concern right now is getting him healthy," Forst said. "He obviously has all the resources available that we can provide and we've been trying to help him, and will continue to even beyond this season."
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Local youth bowlers take first place in state tournament
Back in June, 31 local youth bowlers traveled to Dallas to take part in the state bowling tournament. Several of the bowlers made great showings including five taking first place in their divisions.Pictured are the first place winners: (Back l to r) Casey Taylor, Camren Witt, Josh Howell (Front l to r) Kaisha Wortham, and Ashley Henderson. Each of the bowlers received a $125 scholarship.It is time for the Borger youth league to start up again. Sign ups will take place on September 10th from 10:00 a.m.-noon at Wildcatters and the league will start on September 17th at 10:00 a.m. Any questions about the youth league can call 886-7871.