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WALLY BROWN, '63, '73, is serving on a Rotarian mission in East Africa. In March, he received a Presidential Volunteer Service Award from ShelterBox USA and President Obama for his work in 2011 providing assistance to disaster survivors worldwide. He is a retired endodontist in Salt Lake City.
JOHN BYRON, '65, was named Volunteer of the Year by Florida Today for his pro bono work in strategic planning for more than 50 organizations in the state of Florida. He is president of Sun State Strategy Inc. of Cocoa Beach.
KAJ JOHANSEN, '70, has been elected to a twoyear term as chief of vascular surgery at Swedish Medical Center. He is a clinical professor of surgery at the UW School of Medicine and a nationally known vascular specialist.
DENNIS COLEMAN, '71, '72, was named a Voice for Social Justice at the Seattle Business and Humanitarian Awards gala. He is the artistic director of the Seattle Men's Chorus.
EDMUND K. JOYCE, '77, joined California Public Radio as its Orange County Bureau reporter after working as an environment reporter and afternoon news anchor at KPBS-FM in San Diego.
CORY CARLSON, '81, was named President and CEO of Washington Capital Management, a company he joined in 1999 as portfolio manager for real-estate equity portfolios. He was president of the UW Alumni Association from 1998-99.
RUSSELL ROSENDAL, '81, is the new president and CEO of Salal Credit Union, formerly Group Health Credit Union. He has more than 25 years experience in the financial industry.
KATHLEEN L. WEBER, '82, a director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's office in Bellevue, has been named one of Barron magazine's top 1000 advisers.
WARD S. BRANNMAN, '85, was named the 2012 Junior High Music Teacher of the Year by the Washington Music Educators Association. He leads the Jazz Ensemble at Kamiakin Junior High in Kirkland.
KATHY HSIEH, '87, was named director of the City of Seattle's cultural partnerships and grants program.
JOHN STARBARD, '90, director of the King County Department of Development and Environmental Services, was named Public Employee of the Year by the Municipal League of King County.
HOWARD F. JENSEN, '95, is a founding member and partner of a new Seattle-based law firm, the Veris Group. Alison Jones Robinson, '06, and Denver Gant, '07, also practice at the firm.
TRACY SUDMAN, '98, has been named vice president for human resources for Leisure Care, LLC.
GARLAND BROWN, '07, has been selected by the American Bar Association Journal as one of "America's techiest lawyers."
ALLISON KOESTER, '09, '11, has joined the faculty at Georgetown University's School of Business as an assistant professor of accounting.


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BENDIGO cyclist Glenn O'Shea this morning won an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit.
O'Shea and Australian teammates Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis and Michael Hepburn finished second to Great Britain, which won the gold medal in world record time of 3 minutes 51.659 seconds.
Bendigo Cycling Club president Garry Pontelandolfo said O'Shea's silver medal was a long time in the making.
"He is a family friend and I have followed him since he was in the under 13's in Bendigo," he said.
"To see him win a silver medal is an amazing achievement, Bendigo should be proud.
"To be an Olympian is already something to be proud of and to come home with a medal around your neck is amazing."
The reigning world champion in the omnium, O'Shea will now turn his attention to the six-discipline event, which starts tonight, where he shapes as one of the leading contenders.
"He is a very determined person, I think he can win," Mr Pontelandolfo said.
O'Shea joins swimmer Faith Leech, gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and basketballer Kristi Harrower, silver at Sydney, Athens and Beijing, as the only Bendigo athletes to win an Olympic medal.
O'Shea is a dual winner of the bankmecu-backed Bendigo Advertiser-WIN Television Sports Star of the Year award.


text: ShawCor Ltd. announced its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a significant contract from Technip USA, to provide concrete weight coatings, anode installation and other related services for a Latin American pipeline project. The project will consist of approximately 100 kilometers of 36-inch pipe to be installed offshore for the transportation of natural gas. Bredero Shaw will mobilize two compression coat technology (CCT) concrete weight coating plants to La Brea, Trinidad for this project. Initial operations are scheduled to commence during the first quarter of 2012 with concrete coating scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2012.


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April brings warm rain, dogwood blooms and incredibly tasty morel mushrooms. Chances are this tasty gem has met your shadow during springtime walks in the woods.
April brings warm rain, dogwood blooms and incredibly tasty morel mushrooms. Chances are this tasty gem has met your shadow during springtime walks in the woods. They are masters of concealment in dead leaves and under or around spring foliage. The average hunter may find 10 and walk past 100. Morel hunting is an enjoyable challenge.
Most Midwestern states offer unlimited public access where filling a bread sack with morels is possible. You will likely have competition so keep looking. No one can find them all. Dedicated hunters search from early morning to dusk. Most search to dine on the succulent morsels. Others sell morels at farmer's markets, mom and pop grocery stores, taverns or even door to door. Fresh morel mushrooms bring $5 a gallon in some areas and often more.
My first morel mushroom hunt happened 60 years ago with my mother. I was born the next day. She has never missed a mushroom season since. My brother and I join her when possible. Mom does not handle the Ozark creek banks or hills as easily these days, yet still manages to hunt through creek bottoms. Morel mushroom hunting is her only addiction.
"I guess you learn a few tricks after half a century of hunting morels," She said. "I always carry a heavy walking stick to move vegetation out of the way and to hit stinking snakes. You never know when one of the slimy things will just suddenly be there. But I have spots that have to be checked. I have several old red oak stumps and trees I look around every year. Some years they produce and some years they don't. But I always have to go back and look."
WHERE TO FIND MORELS: We start looking for morel mushrooms in late March or early April when woodlot plants are growing. Half-grown mayflowers are a good indicator of the required soil warmth when early morels start to pop up.
Dying elm trees produce a rotting root system that feeds morels. You may not find morels in the same spot after the roots are rotted away. Don't limit your search to only elms. Check unlikely areas. The darn things could pop up anywhere. Apple trees are good too. Constantly rotting fruit can produce morel mushrooms.
Areas with good leaf matting, typically under trees that drop their leaves and bark earlier in the fall and have longer to decay consistently produce. Light-colored barked trees like birch, sycamore and cottonwoods are good examples while dying elm trees may only produce morels for a year or two.
WATCH THE WEATHER CHANNEL: Morel mushrooms are temperature sensitive. Early-season hunters should start by checking southern hillsides and creek bottoms that are open to sunlight. Warming trends make eastern areas productive. Northern spots are best when air temperatures heat up at the end of morel season.
A combination of warm days and nights with adequate spring rains is best. The perfect morel environment is wet conditions and temperatures between 60 and 80 degrees. Dry springs seldom produce exceptional moral mushroom numbers.
More grow when it is wet, but some will grow no matter what. You might still find morels in good numbers, but they may not grow as large.
Morels do not grow by the sun, lacking chlorophyll the chemical that absorbs sunlight as energy to reproduce. They start popping up at dusk and grow through the night. When the sun comes up, morels dry out and release their spores, the seeds for new morels. Some catch a wind current and float to meet another spore from another morel to create more, occasionally making them grow in unexpected places.
TWO NEAT TRICKS FOR MORE MORELS: Experienced hunters use mesh bags to gather morels. A mesh bag allows spores to release for future mushrooms.
We use the same bag over and over, season after season without washing. Spores that may create new morels come from the mushroom's head. The ridged pattern of the bag helps release the spores. Some stay in the mesh and release later.
Always cut or pinch morel mushrooms off at the bottom. Leaving the roots often helps produce new mushrooms when conditions are correct.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR MOREL MUSHROOM HUNTING: You will need a good pair of walking boots, light colored clothing in case early ticks make an appearance, a mesh bag, a good walking stick and your best pair of eyes. Then walk slowly and search. When the first morel is found, kneel down and look a little longer. My father always said: "Where you find one, you will find two or more."
He was always right.
EXERCISE: Start exercising before hunting woodlot hills. Walking daily will get you started. Make sure you consult a doctor before beginning any type of exercise program.
DISABLED HUNTERS: Wheelchair or disabled morel hunters are limited to paved paths at wildlife areas. Morels can occasionally be spotted from these trails, sometimes with binoculars. You may need a helper for picking out-of-reach mushrooms. Driving slowly down logging paths is another good way for disabled hunters to mushroom hunt.
COOKING MORELS: Soaking in salt water is good for fish, but not morel mushrooms. This does not kill or remove the bugs and the mushroom's texture will become slimly and salty. Instead, soak morels in cold water.
Try cutting your morels in little pieces to mix in omelets. Most mushroom hunters cut each morel in half and dip them in eggs. Each "shroom" is fried in cornmeal, flour or crushed crackers. Either way, fry until golden brown and don't invite company that night. Few entrées taste better.
Kenneth L. Kieser is a local outdoor enthusiast.


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Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality is 'Unnatural' and 'Destructive' | Kirk Cameron : Just Jared
Kirk Cameron is interviewed by CNNs Piers Morgan and makes some radical comments about his stance on homosexuality in this segment which aired Friday (March 2) on the news channel.
[Homosexuality is] unnatural I think that its detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization, the 41-year-old actor-evangelist said.
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve, Cameron said to Piers. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I dont think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I dont.


text: Join the Southborough Open Land Foundation Saturday for a look at animal tracking. Tracking expert David Brown will lead a walk through the Beals Preserve in town, showing participants the skills of careful observation used to identify the tracks and signs animals leave behind that help us learn about them and their relationship with their environment. The walk is limited to 20 participants, adults only, and will begin at 1 p.m. Participants are advised to dress warmly and bring snowshoes if you have them. To register, e-mail email@example.com. Information on where to meet will be provided after registration. To learn more about Brown and his years in the field of animal tracking, visit dbwildlife.com


text: I know there are already P's growth charts over at Tama-Zone but TamaTalk needs some too! I forgot to include the secret connection characters, d'oh. Anyhow, ignore the "made by Kurosantchi for Tama Cafe" thing at the bottom. It's there because I was going to use it for my own forum but decided not to. I also forgot to put the images of Cosmotchi and Maimaitchi next to their names in the boy chart but I guess I can just tell you Maimaitchi is the snail and Cosmotchi is the blue guy.


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The Bruins might have their hands full tonight at the Bell Centre if Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban is in the lineup and starting to feel like himself again.
The dynamicrookie was recently a healthy scratch — like Tyler Seguin was for the Bruins Wednesday in Buffalo — but has continued to struggle in three games since his return from his three-game hiatus. For a player that requires flash and dash to combine with his natural talents to make him successful, confidence is like gasoline to a car.
There's a chance, Subban might be running on empty in that department. As Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette wrote after the Canadiens' loss to Toronto Saturday:
"I'm not going to beat myself up," Subban said after the Canadiens dropped a 3-1 decision to the Maple Leafs.
But that's exactly what the usually confident Subban did on a night when he was on the ice for all the Toronto goals.
"It's been a tough two nights," said Subban who returned to the lineup Friday night in Detroit after sitting out three games as a healthy scratch. "It's been tough just to make a pass. I have to feel confident making that pass out of our zone. Right now, it's just not happening."
Subban said he wasn't going to use his enforced absence as an excuse, but he did just that when he said he couldn't expect to come back at the same level.
Things didn't get any better last night for Subban, who committed one of two of the Habs' major giveaways that led to goals in a loss to Philadelphia. In the long run, those healthy scratches might benefit Subban and the Habs, but right now they're hurting both the player and the team.
It's the same situation the Bruins are now in with Seguin. Determining the right balance between how much "learning time" he should spend in the press box and how much his confidence is being deteriorated will be one of the stiffest tests for head coach Claude Julien and his staff going forward. If you re-insert Seguin and he makes too many mistakes, do you banish him to the press box the next game? Or do you let him learn by trial by fire, which seemed like the initial plan when the Bruins decided to retain Seguin's services rather exercise their option to return him to juniors for a year. It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.
As for Subban, maybe thinking back to November, when he was an early favorite to win the Calder Trophy and burned the Bruins for his first NHL goal would help him get back on track.


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9-22-05 - Houston has as lot more drivers than New Orleans, making for a crowded getaway as motorists flee southeastern Texas in advance of Hurricane Rita.
Residents of the Houston area have more than 2.7 million cars and trucks by the government's count. That is more than three-and-a-half times as many vehicles as there were in greater New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina devastated that region, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Highways leading inland from Houston were gridlocked and on some highways vehicles backed up for 100 miles as millions of residents heeded orders to evacuate.
"Texas has never seen anything like this," said Mike Cox, spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation. "Literally, millions of people are trying to get out. The roadways are all clogged up at unprecedented levels."
To help ease traffic snarls, Gov. Rick Perry early Thursday ordered a 130-mile stretch of Interstate 45 north of Houston to become a one-way highway out of the hurricane's path. Interstate 45 is the main highway between Dallas and Houston.
Local officials warned residents to get out, and told them they would not be rescued if they waited.
Getting out is not so simple for many residents. More than 83,000 households in Houston _ about 11.6 percent of the city _ had no vehicle as of 1999, according to the latest figures available from the Census Bureau. Throughout the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria metropolitan area, 127,000 households, or 7.8 percent, had no vehicle.
By comparison, 27.3 percent of households in New Orleans _ about 51,400 _ had no vehicle before Katrina hit the area, according to Census figures.
People unable to escape low-lying areas in Houston on their own were urged to call a city hot line, and Mayor Bill White said 10,000 people have called.
Throughout the night the city was sending buses to get them, but people were still told they needed to count on family, friends and neighbors.
"There will not be enough government vehicles to go and evacuate everybody in every area," White said. "We need neighbor caring for neighbor."


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Submission + - Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Python creator Guido van Rossum discusses the prospects and criticisms of Python, noting that critics of Python performance should supplement with C/C++ rather than re-engineering Python apps into a faster language. 'At some point, you end up with one little piece of your system, as a whole, where you end up spending all your time. If you write that just as a sort of simple-minded Python loop, at some point you will see that that is the bottleneck in your system. It is usually much more effective to take that one piece and replace that one function or module with a little bit of code you wrote in C or C++ rather than rewriting your entire system in a faster language, because for most of what you're doing, the speed of the language is irrelevant.'"


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#2 Mount Union Hosts OAC-Rival Capital For Homecoming
2010 University of Mount Union Football
#2 Mount Union Purple Raiders (6-0, 5-0 OAC) vs
Capital Crusaders (3-3, 3-2 OAC)
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 - 1:30 pm - Mount Union Stadium (Alliance, Ohio)
WDPN 1310 AM (Alliance): LISTEN LIVE
WRMU 91.1 FM (Alliance): LISTEN LIVE
(Tape Delay): Joe Tait (play-by-play) and Harry Paidas (color)
WIVM Ch. 52 (Sat. Oct. 23 at 8 pm; Sun. Oct. 24 at 1 pm)
SportsTime Ohio (Sat. Oct. 23 at 7 pm; Sun. Oct. 24 at 3 pm; Mon. Oct. 25 at 12 pm)
LIVE STATS: Click Here
Complete Mount Union Game Notes in PDF Format: CLICK HERE
Capital: Roster | Schedule | Statistics | Media Guide
NOTE: No coaches teleconference this week ... If you wish to set-up an interview with Coach Kehres contact Lenny Reich at 330-823-6093 or Coach Stanford contact Chris Woodley at 614-236-6174.
No. 2 ranked Mount Union hosts Ohio Athletic Conference rival Capital for homecoming Saturday at 1:30 pm at Mount Union Stadium.
The Purple Raiders posted their 49th consecutive regular season with a 45-7 victory over Heidelberg last week. Mount Union sophomore running back Jeremy Murray (Martins Ferry/Martins Ferry) rushed for a career-best 224 yards on 30 carries and had a pair of touchdowns in a 24-point second quarter that staked the Raiders out to a 31-0 halftime lead. Sophomore quarterback Neal Seaman (Louisville/Louisville) threw for two scores and ran in another as the Mount Union offense had a season-best 556 yards. The Mount Union defense kept the OAC's second-ranked offense off the scoreboard until the fourth quarter as sophomore Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood) had a pair of interceptions, one he returned for a TD just before halftime.
Capital rallied with a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter to score a 23-13 victory over its cross-town rival Otterbein. Quarterback Kory Hartinger threw two TD's to Ryan Gunnarson while fellow receiver Kevin Wehby had six catches for 93 yards and ran in a score. The Crusader defense held Otterbein to 218 total yards with seven sacks, two interceptions and a forced fumble.
All Mount Union football games will be broadcast on the radio on WDPN 1310 AM and WRMU 91.1 FM and simulcast online along with a LIVE STATS game tracker at http://athletics.mountunion.edu.
Ric Brienza and Mark Grossman broadcast the games on the radio on WDPN 1310 AM in Alliance. You can listen to Mount Union's student radio feed on WRMU 91.1 FM on any phone by calling (330) 445-7900. This game along with the final regular season home game will be shown on television via tape delay on SportsTime Ohio and WIVM TV52 (Stark County). Image Video produces the broadcasts with Joe Tait, who enters his 39th and final season as the radio voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers, does the play-by-play and Harry Paidas handles the color commentary.
This is the 45th meeting between the teams with Mount Union holding a 32-12 lead in a series that dates back to a 17-0 Purple Raider win in 1958. Mount Union has won 23 straight meetings with Capital's last win coming in its OAC Championship season of 1987, 26-25 in Columbus.
Larry Kehres (Mount Union '71) is 295-22-3 (.926) in his 25th season as head coach as one of the most successful coaches in college football history. His teams have won 20 OAC Championships, including the last 18 in a row, along with 10 of the last 17 NCAA Division III National Championships. This year he is president of the American Football Coaches Association.
Henry Stanford (Ohio State '98) is 3-3 (.500) in his first season as head coach at Capital. He spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach with the Crusaders and in 2009 was offensive coordinator and OAC Assistant Coach of the Year. He also had assistant coaching stints at Elmhurst (Ill.), Tiffin, Otterbein, Kenyon and Ohio State.
Mount Union is back on the road next Saturday traveling to Central Ohio to take on Otterbein. Kickoff is at 1:30 pm from Memorial Stadium in Westerville.
Henry Stanford is the third head coach in the last four years at Capital, but the Crusaders style of play has not changed much -- a balanced offensive attack with an aggressive defense.
Fifth-year senior quarterback Marty Assmann was injured early in the season and has since been moved to wide receiver, so the Crusaders have handed the reigns of the offense over to junior signal caller Kory Hartinger. Hartinger has thrown for 1300 yards and nine scores through the air and has a team-best four rushing TD's. Senior All-OAC running back Dominic D'Andrea (371 yds, 3 TD) and junior Garrett Bennington (375 yds, 1 TD) pace the ground attack, while senior wide receiver Ryan Gunnarson (112.5 rec yds/game) is second in the OAC with seven TD catches.
The middle linebacker position in Capital's 4-3 defense has always been a key position and this year is no different as All-OAC senior Sam Jacobs is second in the OAC in tackles. Senior All-OAC defensive back Ronnie Smith is second on the team in tackles and leads a secondary that has 11 interceptions. Sophomore defensive end Dominic Pezzutti has 6.0 tackles for loss along with junior tackle Dan Frankart anchor a defensive line that had seven sacks against Otterbein last week.
Mount Union returns nine starters and 31 letterwinners in 2010.
Mount Union's win-loss record since 2000
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The Raiders hold the NCAA's two longest consecutive college football win streaks -- 55 from 2000-2003 and 54 from 1996-99
game regular season win streak for Mount Union dating back to a 21-14 loss to Ohio Northern in Alliance on Oct. 22, 2005.
game home winning streak for Mount Union dating back to a 21-14 loss to Ohio Northern in Alliance on Oct. 22, 2005.
consecutive regular season road victories for Mount Union dating back to a 21-18 loss at Baldwin-Wallace on Sept. 28, 1991.
Since 1996, the Raiders record when winning the turnover battle.
The Raiders record since 1990 when winning the turnover battle. That lone loss was a 20-17 loss to Wisconsin-LaCrosse in a 1995 national semifinal game in Alliance. In that game, the Raiders had a +1 turnover margin.
Sophomore defensive back Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood) missed the Marietta game with an injury, but returned to the lineup in a big way against Heidelberg has he had two interceptions and returned one for a touchdown. It was the 10th interception of the season for the Mount Union defense and first brought back for a score since Drew McClain ran one back 32 yards against Albright (Pa.) in last year's NCAA Playoffs.
Sophomore running back Jeremy Murray (Martins Ferry/Martins Ferry) had his first 200-plus yard rushing game of his career with 224 on 30 carries against Heidelberg. After 170 at Marietta, that gives him 394 for his last two games which was the highest two-game regular season total since Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 2008 when Nate Kmic had 399 yards (181 vs. Muskingum and 218 vs. Baldwin-Wallace) over two games.
For a second week in a row, sophomore wide receiver Jasper (nicknamed Junior) Collins (Geneva, N.Y./Geneva) filled in for All-American wide receiver Cecil Shorts III (Cleveland/Collinwood) and for a second-straight week he went over 100 yards as he had a game-high seven catches for 117 yards against Heidelberg. He had a 47-yard catch against Heidelberg which was the longest reception of the season for a Purple Raider.
Another receiver who stepped up was junior Ben Shenk (East Petersburg, Pa./Lancaster Catholic) who had career touchdown catches No. 1 and No. 2 against Heidelberg has he had a career-high five catches for 84 yards.
Larry Kehres is in his 25th season as head coach but 36th season working at Mount Union as he spent 10 seasons (1975-84) as an assistant coach to Ken Wable then in 1985 worked only as director of athletics before becoming head football coach and director of athletics in 1986. You might not know, he was also the first swimming coach at Mount Union.
Capital has had three head coaches since 2007 - Jim Collins (2007), Jim Bickel (2008-09) and Henry Stanford (2010), while Mount Union has had only three head coaches over the past 54 seasons as since 1956 it has been Duke Barrett (1956-61), Ken Wable (1962-85) and Larry Kehres (1986-present).
Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Tait missed last week's game as he was hospitalized in Houston with pneumonia while traveling with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Tait is in his 39th and final season as the radio voice of the Cavs and has been doing Mount Union football on TV since 1986. Joe returned home Saturday and is hoping to make a return to the press box soon. Mount Union alum Jeff Shreve '87 filled in last week and Lenny Reich will fill in this week if Joe can't go.
PURPLE RAIDERS IN THE PROs
Former Mount Union wide receiver Pierre Garcon is in his third season with the NFL's Indianapolis Colts and had four catches for a game-high 103 yards and a touchdown as the Colts beat the Washington Redskins, 27-24. He had a breakout season in 2009 as he started 16 games including Super Bowl XLIV where he caught one of his six touchdowns on the season. Against the NY Jets in the AFC Championship game, he had 11 catches for 151 yards and his post-game celebration that included waiving a Haiti flag (birthplace of his parents) made national news headlines as he was bringing awareness to the nation that was ravaged by an earthquake just days before the game. This past offseason he returned to Mount Union and completed his bachelor's degree in communications. He had 3,363 yards and 47 touchdowns receiving in three seasons at Mount Union. He played his freshman season at Norwich (Vt.) and in 2008 the Colts drafted him in the sixth round (208 overall).
Former Purple Raider Nick Sirianni '03 is in his second season as an assistant coach (offensive quality control) with the 3-2 Kansas City Chiefs.
Mount Union alum Dom Capers '72 is the defense coordinator for a Green Bay Packers unit that is ranked No. 15 in the NFL.
Former Mount Union quarterback Kurt Rocco has signed a contract to play for the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League.


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We need a second party. There is only one ruling party right now.
If by that you mean "money" which pays "lobbyists" then I will agree.
Otherwise, no. We have two parties and that makes it too easy for them to run negative campaigns against the other party. You might not have heard of me, but I disagree with everything about THAT candidate the YOU don't like.
The things he did that you didn't like? I didn't like them either. And when you elect me, I won't do them!
That is MUCH more difficult when you have to sp
In 2003, just 1% of all households -- those with after-tax incomes averaging $701,500 -- received 57.5% of all capital income, up from 40% in the early 1990s. On the other hand, the bottom 80% received only 12.6% of capital income, down by nearly half since 1983. http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/w
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Parties are the problem, not the solution. We need no parties; we need politicians to think on their own about some issues for a change. Things like cohesive party-wide election strategies, "whips", thoughtless polarization on the issues by candidates, and thoughtless voting along party lines by voters have no place in a system originally designed to represent the interests of the people.
Not to mention the existence of political parties violates the doctrine of separation of powers, as one can observe fr
I wasn't inferring that I agreed with Bush's policies... in fact, I deliberately chose wording that would not reflect any particular political stance. What I meant is that Bush had an easy time of influencing legislation that was favorable to him until the recent congressional election.
do you really want the government dictating the kids you can have? what if you get knocked up and go over the states limit? will they abort like china?
gore's interest in environmental policy is completely self serving. i think if he had of won you'd all be in a great deal of trouble. i'm no bush lover, but he was the best of a bad choice.
gore's use of global warming uses the exact same play book bush has been using with terrorism. common theme's are fear of the unknown, ignorance of the masses and the apperance of saving the world.
Second, no, he actually believes that stuff is for the benefit of human kind.
You've really aroused my curiousity here. How do you KNOW that he really believes this stuff? Yeah, he says over and over that he really believes it, but he could, you know, be lying. So how do YOU know?
Worse than wanting to destroy a national park in Alaska by drilling into it for oil?
(That's the issue that made me reject Bush the first time, before he had a chance to make all the other fuck-ups!)
Don't forget his and his wife's stance on music [wikipedia.org]. (Although the linked article talks about Tipper, Al did support his wife's work at the time it happened - and let's face it, she probably wouldn't have gotten any air time if he didn't - though he later backed away from it.)
That's unpossible!
Perhaps that's why there wasn't any evidence and it had to be redone?
Great stuff, dude, but should not we count them votes first ?..
Your mistake is an issue of scale. It's relatively easy to slip in one or two false paper ballots. It may not even be that hard to make the machine a little more picky when it comes to checking punchouts on the democrat side of the ballot. But there's backups, paper backups, that get checked and confirmed, even if at a small ratio. Someone watching the pile of ballots go through the machine can find it odd that mostly left-leaning candidates get kicked out as incomplete ballots. Little things can be snuck through easier.
But electronic... that's what you want when you want to do BIG lies. Just off the top of my head from the last 2 POTUS elections... cards coming preloaded with thousands of votes. Systems designed so that if you left a busy machine collecting votes and forgot to empty it out, it would kick over at 16384 to -16383 (funny how that happened in left-leaning counties, eh?). Funny "glitches" (I hate that word when it comes to elections) that lost entire counties of votes. Concerns that the system might be undercounting Demos and overcounting Repubs. Software that made it exceedingly easy to switch your entire ballot to republican on the last page, without really telling you it was. Or software that just preselected your candidates for you.
Add too all that... NO paper trail... NO hard copy in your hand to confirm... NO audit trail to be checked to ensure fairness and honesty. Just trust the magic box will tell the other, main, magic box, the correct vote, hope for the best, and ignore the man behind the curtain promising Ohio to Bush. Also, ignore those pesky pollsters and statisticians, they don't actually know what they're doing.
Yes I understand all that, but that doesn't change the fact that you can't ignore the flaws in previous systems and the possible advantages to this one. Any new system is full of bugs. This is why I always avoid the first few generations of a product just because I know there are issues that need to be worked out and I don't want to have to deal with that. This is no different except the implications and reprecussions are far more drastic (politics is a bit more important than say your car afterall). We
# A proper paper trail needs to be provided including a receipt for both the voter themself and the voting district in the event of a recount.
Receipt is pointless and worthless.
# The design, production, and upkeep of electronic voting systems needs to be taken out of the the hands of the private sector and instead be taken care of by the government.
Since we all know that the government is the epiphany of proper management and lack of abuse. I mean politicians would never do things to further their own careers at the cost of the public.
* Electronic systems need to have an operating system that is dratically different and absolutely proprietary to itself and further be completely open source so it can reviewed by the public at will.
So you want to add massive increases in costs (I do mean massive) for what comes out to a false sense of security. Likely since it will have less overview than existing OSes the new one will be massively LESS secure thus opening up tons of abuse possibilities. Like say having non-tri
So you want to add massive increases in costs (I do mean massive) for what comes out to a false sense of security. Likely since it will have less overview than existing OSes
Bullshit! It's a voting machine, for crying out loud! All it does is count! My pocket calculator has a fancier OS than a voting machine needs!
Your mistake is an issue of scale [
You got it - nicely summarised: Electronic Cheating Scales, while Manual Cheating is Hard Work. Paper voting systems provide a backup counting option which removes the element(s) which make cheating in this environment possible, while electronic voting recounts are just as susceptible to cheating as the original count - the elements which make cheating possible in this environment, in the first place, are still there.
I cannot articulate the degree to which electronic voting scares the ker-snarf outta
Oh yeah, and the States *really* needs to take the management of elections (drawing riding/county/whatever borde
so just how much of your democratic process will you give up to save a little money?
UPDATE Votes
There is no need to thank me.
So ? If you have a paper trail, you can at least prove that there was something wrong with the election, or the counting process (if you recount and arrive at a substantially different number of votes). Then you can initiate corrective action (for example, a really, really meticulous recount), followed by making sure that it doesn't happen again (like sticking whoever tried to rig the election in jail).
Electronic voting without a paper trail ? Sure, here are your results. Doubt them ? Sucks to be you. The machine is infalliable and you have no way to prove anything else.
The good thing about electronic voting is it allows more voters, and over the internet voting would be a great step
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Tonner's saddle stand and Integrity's Avantguard stand add a good amount of thickness to that area of the doll supported by the stand, namely the crotch and the butt. It used to be that one could hide the ugly plastic of a stand when the doll was wearing a gown or a skirt. Now that many of the styles have become short and tight that doesn't work anymore.
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Rihanna: 'Rockstar 101' Music Video Preview!
Rihanna sports a bright red wig in this preview for her new video, "Rockstar 101″!
The 22-year-old beauty from Barbados, who was spotted across the pond in London last week, will be going on tour across the U.S. this July with Ke$ha on the "Last Girl on Earth" tour!
RiRi also recently got a drum lesson from Travis Barker so she can rock on the road!
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Katie Fetting-Schlerf, a senior copywriter with Seattle's Portent, shares her insights about how to write solid copy that converts.
Most writing is persuasion, be it promoting a product or convincing a reader to turn the page.
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Palm Bay Utilities Recognized for Excellence and Safety
PBUD Named Wastewater Collection System of the Year; Wastewater Facility Presented With Safety Award
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PBUD Named Wastewater Collection System of the Year; Wastewater Facility Presented With Safety AwardPALM BAY, Florida – Palm Bay Utilities Department's commitment to the environment and workplace safety was recognized by the Florida Water Environment Association (FWEA) during its annual meeting held in Orlando on April 8, 2014.
Palm Bay Utilities Department was named Wastewater Collection System of the Year in the mid-size utility category (10,000 to 50,000 wastewater connections). This award recognizes utilities for significant accomplishments and efforts to properly manage, operate, and maintain their wastewater collection system. The City's wastewater collection system is comprised of over 250 miles of sanitary sewer gravity and force mains, 2,500 manholes, and 105 lift stations located throughout the City. Palm Bay Utilities Department currently services 15,389 wastewater accounts or approximately 40,000 residents. In 2012, the department was also recognized with this award.
The utilities department was also awarded third place for its exemplary safety program in its respective class of domestic wastewater treatment plants. Criteria for this award was based on the plant's safety program and time devoted to training and safety topics. First place in Class B was awarded to Three Oaks Wastewater Treatment Facility (Lee County Utilities, Ft. Myers, Florida), and second place was presented to Northeast Wastewater Treatment Facility (Davenport, Florida).
"We are honored to be recognized with these two awards from FWEA. As a utility service provider to the community, effectively managing our operations and resources as safely as possible is critical," said Dan Roberts, P.E., utilities director. "We are continuously working to make our utility more efficient and effective, and I am thankful for the continuous improvement efforts of each utilities employee.
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Usually a reliable critic of the president's job performance, Gov. Rick Scott offered Barack Obama a compliment during his visit to the White House with other governors Sunday.
The reason? Obama's announcement last week that he will seek to lower the corporate tax rate.
"Allow me to take this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate your recent proposal to reduce the corporate income tax rate to help spur private sector job creation," Scott wrote in a Sunday letter.
The rest of the letter will be familiar to Scott trackers, as he details Florida's tax-reducing, job-creating advances during his first year at the helm. He mentioned the letter in an interview with national radio host and former Education Secretary Bill Bennett on Monday.
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MOST of us go out of our way to keep our social missteps and vulnerabilities well away from public view. But within the fashion industry, airing such intimacies on social media sites has become part of a key marketing strategy to sell more clothing and magazines.
Just ask the editors at Shop Til You Drop magazine, who recently posted a photo on Instagram of themselves committing a classic faux pas (wearing the identical dress to work on the same day). Or burlesque dancer and clothing designer Dita Von Teese, who confessed on Twitter that a planned concert in Germany had been cancelled after the promoter pulled out.
Far from being admissions that are likely to erode the brands' reputations, they enhance it by connecting with their loyal customers in an authentic way.
''What we do find is that people that buy into a brand are very interested in the people behind that brand,'' says Marie-Claude Mallat, the director of the MCMPR fashion agency. She says that it is ''imperative'' for all fashion brands to participate on social media.
Graeme Lewsey, the chief executive of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival agrees.
''It's at your peril to ignore this [social media], because consumers are moving at a very fast pace, as is technology,'' he says.
Lewsey says a main focus of next year's festival, which will be held in March, is strategies that local fashion businesses can use to maximise online interaction with their customers. The festival will be unveiling a new ''Shop the Runway'' tool that will enable attendants at runway shows to scan a fashion show program with a mobile phone or iPad, which will then direct them to websites where they can purchase the clothing they've just seen on the catwalk.
And while engaging directly with consumers can have a downside - Von Teese, who designs fashion and lingerie ranges, was recently criticised after posting a food diary on Twitter, for example - proof of its upsides are in increasing profits.
Guerrilla marketing tactics have definitely boosted sales of Von Teese's first range of dresses, which was launched in Australia earlier this year with Melbourne company Lime Door Brands, says the founder of the business, Michele Hamdorf.
Consumers regularly contact Von Teese through Twitter and Facebook to ask where they can purchase the clothing, which has led Hamdorf to her next strategy: to sell Von Teese's next range of clothing, 10 separates, due to launch in Australia next year, via Facebook. (It will also be available at David Jones.)
All items will also have a QR code embedded in the clothing's lining which, when scanned by a phone, connects consumers to Von Teese's Twitter account which, at last count, had close to 1.3 million followers. Von Teese's first range of dresses featured this technology, too.
''It was very important to me to align with a company that understands the power of social media, because I've been very successful in using Twitter and Facebook personally to reach my fans to tell them about my performances and various projects,'' says Von Teese in an email from her home in Los Angeles. ''Every update [is] made by me personally, and I think people respond to the authenticity of that.''
This dovetails with a 2011 Nielsen survey which revealed that Australians spent $155 million online in 2010, using mobile phones to do so. It also circumnavigates the need for designers to sell their wares in bricks and mortar stores, which have been struggling with declining sales over the past few years.
Another brand to take advantage of Australians' mobile phone habits is Zimmermann. Within 48 hours of the swimwear and leisurewear giant posting a photo of a baseball hat on Tumblr a couple of months ago, the item sold out. And after receiving constant questions from consumers about where they could buy the brand's clothing, the company recently launched worldwide online shopping on its website.
Ms Hamdorf sums up the new regime: ''I can transcend any retailer [because of] the capability we now have of being able to take an order [and fill it ourselves].''
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T-Mobile today re-launched themselves as the anti-carrier of all the carriers today. They did this by announcing their new fee structure for their new plans as well as the whole system of paying for your phone.
Essentially, what T-Mobile is doing is that they're doing away with the annual contract and presenting a much more transparent billing model for their customers. The plans are pretty straight forward, for an individual plan you simply start out at $50 for unlimited talk and text and 500MB of data, $60 for an additional 2GB, and $70 for Unlimited Data plus 500MB of Wi-Fi hotspot.
So, to put it quickly, T-Mobile's plans are unlimited talk and text with 500MB for $50 a month and 2.5GB for $60 a month and $70 gets you unlimited everything plus 500MB of Wi-Fi hotspot. All of this actually sounds quite pleasing and reasonable, especially if you already own your own devices and simply want to get them quality service on the cheap. However, the fact that T-Mobile is metering Wi-Fi hotspot is borderline unforgivable considering the fact that they, as a carrier, have to do almost nothing to enable Wi-Fi hotspot and it is simply a way for the users to utilize the data that they're already paying for with their plans. So, for that, we are still mad at T-Mobile.
Now, when it comes to devices, since there won't be any annual contracts you will essentially be paying a monthly payment to pay off your phone. These payments are usually shorter than the 24-month long contract period and will transparently tell you exactly how much of your monthly contract is actually paying off a device. A good example is the Galaxy Note II which you can either pay off completely, right away, or add a monthly payment (with or without down payment, depending on your credit) to slowly pay off the price of the phone every month.
So, based on these current models, there's no doubt that T-Mobile is trying to approach being a carrier in a somewhat more transparent manner. Their approach is a bit different, and we'll see how many people it attracts. Personally, I'm in a bit of a dilemma right now as a T-Mobile customer who is recently out of contract. I personally share many of the questions and concerns that many other consumers have, but with this new plan structure I have to say that I'm starting to lean towards staying with T-Mobile knowing that they offer unlimited everything for $70 a month. Considering that Sprint's Simply Everything Plan is $110 a month, there's very little competition between the two in my eyes. T-Mobile can now, with their network re-farming, attract lots of unhappy AT&T customers that already have phones and don't want to have to pay extra.
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Luol Deng, Taj Gibson and Jimmy Butler each posted double-doubles to lead the depleted Chicago Bulls to a 93-76 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday.
Deng finished with a game-high 25 points and 14 rebounds and Gibson had 19 points and set a career-high with 19 rebounds for the Bulls, who were without starters Joakim Noah (foot), Carlos Boozer (hamstring) and Kirk Hinrich (elbow).
"I'm exhausted, they kept giving me electrolytes on the bench, but I just kept wanting to play," said Gibson, who played 48 minutes in Friday's loss to Brooklyn. "I know late in the game I ran out of gas, but I just had to go out and play a little harder."
Gibson was one of three Bulls' players to log at least 45 minutes on Saturday.
Butler scored 16 points and pulled down 10 boards and Nate Robinson added 20 points and eight assists for the Chicago.
Josh Smith scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Al Horford scored 14 points and pulled down 12 boards for the Hawks, who have dropped two of their last three following a three-game winning streak.
"You have to give that team credit, they played last night and just came out (tonight) and imposed their will the whole game," Horford said of the Bulls. "They dominated both ends, so you have to give them credit."
Chicago held a 24-17 lead after the first quarter, but trailed, 44-43 at the break.
The Bulls, though, held Atlanta to 32 points on 33.3 percent (12-for-36) shooting in the second half.
Chicago, on the other hand, opened the third period on a 14-4 run to go up 57-48 with seven minutes remaining and never looked back.
Atlanta pulled within 61-56 2 1/2 minutes later, but Chicago responded with an 8-4 run at the end of the stanza to take a 69-60 lead into the fourth.
Chicago's lead swelled to 81-66 following Butler's trey with just over five minutes left and the Hawks couldn't get closer than 12 the rest of the way.
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Robinson was 4-for-6 from 3-point range ... The Bulls scored 15 points off of 14 Atlanta turnovers ... The Hawks shot just 53.3 percent (8-for-15) from the free throw line.


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When getting a new puppy, there are a lot of things you must purchase before bringing the puppy home, especially if you are a new dog owner. The same goes for electric cars, and a home charging station is a big purchase that comes along with EV ownership.
Plug'n Drive and Ontario's energy producers want to make the process of purchasing a home charging system as seamless as possible. ChargeMyCar.ca provides consumers a simple, 1-2-3 step approach to acquiring a home charging system without frying your fingers into cooked hotdogs or overloading the local grid and burning your neighbour's house down. It does this by bringing your local utility into the loop on your home charger install so they can plan for demand.
This service may be provided for Upper Canadians, but it does have some good information about home charging no matter where you are in Canada.
Plug'n Drive launches new on-line portal called ChargeMyCar.ca at the Canadian International Auto Show, making it easy for consumers to get their homes ready for electric cars and helping utilities protect the electricity grid
TORONTO, Ont. – Chargemycar.ca is an on-line portal where consumers can choose, buy and arrange the installation of their electric car charger. The project is a partnership between Plug'n Drive and Ontario's local electricity companies to ensure that the installation of electric car chargers does not disrupt the power grid.
"One of the barriers to electric car adoption is the perceived complexity of charging at home instead of refuelling at a gas station" said Cara Clairman, CEO of Plug'n Drive. "Charge My Car simplifies the process of installing an electric car charger." This on-line portal provides customers with maximum choice of chargers, gives charger manufacturers a forum to sell their products and, most importantly, provides the local utilities with a channel to connect with their customers during the charger installation process.
Recent studies predict at least 100,000 electric cars on Canadian roads by 2020 and drivers will do the majority of their charging at home. In most cases, local electricity companies have no way of knowing where electric cars are located. Without this information, these electricity companies cannot learn about the potential impact these cars may have on the electricity grid. "Charge My Car fills an important gap in the electric car ecosystem," said Gerry Smallegange, CEO of Burlington Hydro. "It provides customers the opportunity to involve their local utility in the installation process which will assist utility companies in protecting the local electricity grid."
"The Electrical Safety Authority is pleased to partner with Plug'n Drive on Charge My Car. The service protects the safety of homeowners by listing only products that are approved to be sold in Canada and by connecting homeowners with licensed electrical contractors," said David Collie, President and CEO of the Electrical Safety Authority.
About Plug'n Drive
Plug'n Drive is a non-profit organization accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles to maximize their environmental and economic benefits. Plug'n Drive has been actively involved in educating consumers and businesses about the advantages of driving electric since 2008.
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I saw a red DeLorean last night on my way home from work, with a spoiler!
I'm so buying this shirt.
Nice work, Travis! I knew this one would make it :D Congrats.
Congrats on a great print!
A theme song for today's shirt woot:
1985 by Roper.
flynnerdsp wrote:Can someone translate this for me? I'm not into modern Egyptian.
McFLY ! You Irish bug I thought I told you never to come in here......
Who actually hauled Marty's ride to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza (the only one tall enough to achieve the 88mhp velocity required) and how did they do it? Could this be yet another undiscovered Great Wonder of the World?
For those that missed this post in the original thread for this t-shirt, this was an explanation of the hieroglyphics:
tgentry wrote:Hey everyone, sorry to leave you hanging on those hieroglyphs.
I got a lot of the symbols I used from here. The symbol above the radiation symbol apparently means "no". I used two 8's to represent 88, although as someone mentioned I could have used a more accurate way of showing 88. I figured having two recognizable 8's might be easy to spot.
The two blossoming reeds by themselves are ambiguous and could represent any number of things. Maybe Marty fell in love, or someone fell in love with Marty? Maybe it involves the setup they used to get back. I kind of wanted actual Egyptian symbols that might get lost in translation or not readily apparent what they might symbolize in terms of the story.
On the next line I made up the lightning symbol and combined it with "was coming" from the above link. Then the rest should be self explanatory.
Originally I wanted to have the Sphinx being the thing hit by lightning, with the lightning being what damaged the nose, and the two time travelers using that info to get back home (like the clock in BTTF). But I found it pretty impossible to get that information imparted in the design in a simple way. Plus Doc and Marty would have no way of knowing when the lightning might have struck, so I just scrapped it.
Hope this helps.
Enjoy :D
*edit* - I should note, when tgentry references "was coming" he is referring to the two reeds and the half circle with legs in the second line of hieroglyphics (which is translated in the link that tgentry provided).
colinm09 wrote:This plan seems destined to fail. When the DeLorean reaches the bottom of the pyramid, it'll simply crash into the ground. The angle made between the pyramid and the ground is simply too steep...in order for this plan to work, the slope would have had to have been much more gradual...of course, then the DeLorean wouldn't have ever gotten up to 88 miles per hour...
If the Delorean reaches 88mph prior to hitting the ground, it will disappear in the same manner that it does not run into the movie theater in the first movie.
tqrnr wrote:so what ever happened to george mcfly?
oh, this.
i love the fact that this website could either be read as "crispin g lover" or "crisping lover." i plan to see it as the latter based on my love of bacon and chips. mmmm...bacon...
Ben64 wrote:You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally!
This needs to be a quality post.
this shirt got featured on /Film today!
congrats tgentry!
I'm from the future so I know this shirt is going to sell out soon. I missed it the first time. So I traveled back in time and got one before they did. Now, where did I leave that 2010 Sports Almanac...
Congrats on sellout tgentry!
Nooo I can't believe I missed out! Stupid Pacific time *sigh*
I guess it wasn't my density to own this shirt...
Congrats on the sellout, Tgentry!
If you can't wear creme, just overdye the t-shirt into a color you can wear. Oh, I'm the only crafty one here?
Overheard in the Office is on board with this design!
Aww.... I really wanted this! I guess I want it bad enough to pay 15 for it tomorrow though =P
Congratulations, Travis. This is a great design. Clever, subtle, well-executed. And the one morning I sleep in, I missed it. D'oh.
Congrats tgentry!!!!! I am so proud you got first, even though I don't know you .
Wow, I thought this shirt was entered pretty late, I just looked and realized that wasn't the case. I am surprised at the low votes in the past derbies.
The shirt is great, I love BTTF, however, I would hate having to explain the shirt every time I wore it. Because, I must say most people wouldn't look at that and get it the second they look at it.
Also...I'm too pale for the shirt. A pale red head in a cream shirt... just wouldn't work. But it works perfectly for the design, looks like a story on a cave or on an old piece of paper.
Someone suggested it would have been nice on asphalt, nah. I have one with black writing, which I think you probably would have had to use, and it doesn't turn out well. You can't read anything on it.
Congrats on the sell-out! :D
Thanks everyone for the print and sellout! I'm going to go celebrate with my cousin Marvin Gentry.
MadamAtom wrote:Here's the artist's explanation from the derby thread.
I got curious and read the rest of the story in the link he provides. On page 2, the two-reed glyph is translated as "meal". So here's my interpretation:
"A strange chariot arrived on tracks of fire, bearing a bushy-headed man and a boy who traveled on a board. They could not find any of their device's food to make it go 88 miles per hour, so they decided that it needed to eat lightning, which was coming. They brought their chariot to the top of a tomb and let it fall at just the right time for it to be struck by lightning at the base of the tomb; and then the chariot and its riders were gone, leaving only tracks of fire."
I'm waffling on this. I love the idea, but damn it's going to take a long time to read, and I'm not used to being gawked at for quite that long.
The link doesn't work...
Though, I probably should be able to find it--ha.
tofof wrote:Although the glyph depicting it shows the DeLorean at the bottom of the pyramid, it's obviously not to scale. Therefore it's safe to assume that it's at least potentially feasible to hit 88 MPH say.. halfway down the pyramid. Marty and the Doc would materialize Back in the Future at that same point, and could put on the brakes and come to a reasonable stop while still on the incline.
By my calculations, they'd be able to slow down to about 20 mph before hitting the base of the pyramid. Fast enough for possible damage to the car but survivable.
angle of slope = 51.82 deg
length of slope = 186.34 m
rolling acceleration = gravity * sin(angle) - friction ~= 7.613 m/s^2
distance to reach 88 mph = .5*a*(v/a)^2 = 101 m
distance left for stopping = 85 m
distance needed to reach complete stop = v/2*.7*g = 112 m
Sellout. :p
arparham wrote:The link doesn't work...
Ack! I tried to use the permalink, but apparently my BBCode Fu is weak. Oh well. Anyway, it's in the shirt's thread on the derby page, a fair ways down; just search for tgentry's name.
Anyone know how to get a sold out shirt? is there a secondary market anywhere?
I dont say this a lot, but...
Got one. Why doesnt woot make more available when they KNOW it will be a hit?
sajhan409 wrote:Anyone know how to get a sold out shirt? is there a secondary market anywhere?
eBay, or wait for it to come up on woot for $15 in the other section.
robio wrote:You're mistaken about the sides of the pyramids. At the time they were built, they did have smooth surfaces, layered atop the structures we see now. There's still remnants of the smoother surface atop the Pyramid of Khafre (the "middle" one).
Still not clear what these are:
those together me "was coming" as in the lightning was coming.
i8id wrote:Simple question from a new Wooter. New to the shirts anyway. I love the shirt. If the size is uncomfortable, can it be exchanged for a different size?
nope. go a size bigger because aa shirts do shrink.
i don't care if i am right or wrong, this is how i interpret it and how i will explain it. it's my shirt now so my interpretation!
the delorean goes fast enough to leave fire streaks
doc and marty w/skateboard mistakenly go to 1985 b.c. instead of a.d.
they don't have plutonium
but they need to get to 88 miles per hour
to get the flux capacitor to run
to get back to the twin pines mall
they know a lightning strike is coming
so if they race down the pyramid
when lightning strikes
the car will return to 1985 a.d.
oh and congrats T on the sellout! so glad this printed!
Just a great shirt, period. I couldn't resist buying one; I think that makes #37. Sheeeeesh. Congrats on the print.
I don't know what was funnier; the shirt or the board. Loved all the movie quotes ;)
acschaab wrote:According to Tgentry in the derby comments for his shirt, this shirt is actually telling a different tale from Doc and Marty's time-travelling adventures, and not one that was ever shown in a movie (or the short-lived animated series, I would assume). Here's the story as we were told and have pieced together from semi-factual Egyptian glyphs:
The Delorean arrives in ancient Egypt (glyph #1) with Doc and Marty (glyph #2) in tow. There is no plutonium available (glyph #3), which is needed to get the DeLorean back up to 88 MPH (glyph #4) and send them "back...to THE FUTURE!" The flux capacitor is dark (glyphs #5 and 6) but needs 1.21 jigowatts, the exact power output of a bolt of lightning (glyph #7), to make it work again (glyph #8). They move the DeLorean (glyph #9) to the top of the pyramid and use the velocity of gravity to accelerate the car to 88 MPH (glyph #10), where it is struck by lightning at the base of the pyramid (glyph #11) and disappears, leaving twin trails of fire behind (glyph #12).
Hope this helps!
I think the last glphy on the top line represents the pine trees at the 'Twin Pines Mall'? After he went back to the future, one of the pines was run over by Marty (hence the second glyph on the botton line)?
Fisrt one I think represents the Twin Pines mall (one of which Marty ran over when he went back). Not sure on the other one.
wonders where the mother bit is represented.
arcsus wrote:I'm from the future so I know this shirt is going to sell out soon. I missed it the first time. So I traveled back in time and got one before they did. Now, where did I leave that 2010 Sports Almanac...
When you find it can you tell me if the Jets win on Sunday? J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!
I LOVE THIS SHIRT! Wish I would of checked earlier in the day. Great design, great movie!
Our Movie Genre This shirt is awesome I want one!
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Edward leaves in new moon, Bella gets lost in the woods, Victoria finds her, she's changed and it's a hundred years later Bella's returning home, what will happen when there are seven golden eyed vampires there as well?
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Edward left me. He said he didn't want me anymore and I wasn't good enough for him. Stupid me, desides to try and follow him. The next thing I know I'm staring at the wild red hair of victoria as she stalks towards me. Before I know it there is fire seering my veins closed and licking it's way into my heart and throat. I scream, but it's useless. I try begging for death but it's never delivered. How could I have wanted this? Would I live on humans or animals? Would I have a gift? Who would teach me? These were my questions. The only ones I could think of while the fire burned on.
The fire began to fade, my hearing became clearer, as well as my sense of smell. I could now feel the earth beneath me, I guessed I was left alone, I didn't hear anything other than birds. I opened my eyes, stunned at the sharpness of everything. I could see farther, I could think without that stupid one track mind, hell, I could even taste the leaves around me! I was shocked. But right now, I was still heartbroken. It had not been edward's venom used to change me. He didn't love me enough to do that. I was just a pet.
I was returning. After 100 years I would be returning to the place I once called home. I had spent the past 100 years finding myself. I learned I had three gifts. The first was a mental sheild, the second the ability to read minds, and third, I could give vampires the ability to have children. I had never used it on myself, I found no desire to have a child unless it was with someone I loved. I spent twenty years with the volturi, I learned about my bloodlust there. I had slipped up about four times. Each time was more delicious than the others. I reighned myself in though. I went back to my only animals diet.
I had also bought my old home. My car was a new model ferrari, cherry red. I would be starting school the next day. The story was, when I was ten my parents were murdered and with no living relatives I was placed into the foster care system. On my sixteenth birthday I became an emancipated minor, a year later I found out about trust funds that my parents had put in my name, I decided I wanted a nice quiet life and so I came here, to Forks.
I pulled into the school parking lot that was almost all the way full. Everybody staring at my bright red car. I listened to their minds as I got out.
' I'll have her in bed my thursday.'
' Oh god, Edward, another vampire', I knew the mind this person's thoughts belonged to.... ALICE CULLEN......
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Texas Nationalist Movement Official Statement On Election
Throughout successive regimes in Washington, the Texas Nationalist Movement has fought for the freedom and independence of Texas.
It is guaranteed to us in the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution, reinforced in Article 1 Section 1 of the Texas Constitution, secured in Article 1 Section 2 of the same Constitution and, more than all of those, it is a guaranteed right on the level of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the right to bear arms. Our freedom and independence are sacred to Texans.
Indeed, Article 1 Section 1 ends with the words, "the perpetuity of union depends on the right of local self-government unimpaired to all the states."
This presidential election serves as a clear signal from the rest of the Union to Texas - we do not care for your right of local self-government and we do not share your values.
I am reminded of the line from the Texas Declaration of Independence that states, "We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government."
Tonight, the Union seceded from Texas.
While the alternative candidate could not have alone saved the United States from the looming economic disaster nor could he single-handedly have repaired the damage to our liberties and the Constitution which is the sole thread holding this union together, his opponent represented a descent into the final destruction of the republican form of government envisioned by the Founders of the United States and Texas.
With this, Texas cannot abide.
I again, as I have done for many years, issue the call to all Texans who love liberty to rally with the Texas Nationalist Movement to erect a bulwark against the escape from freedom that has taken hold in the rest of the states. It is our duty to stand tall and become the example of what a free and independent people can be.
I urge all Texans to stand with us as together as we follow the examples of the heroes of 1836 and declare that Texas is and forever will be free and independent.
You can declare your independence at http://www.texasnationalist.com.


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Bruxie, a fast-casual restaurant specializing in a variety of sweet and savory waffle sandwiches, is expected to open at Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street mall this summer.
The planned restaurant at 1685 29th St. would be Bruxie's eighth location and the second shop that the small Southern California chain has opened outside its home state. Bruxie opened a location at 1000 S. Colorado Blvd. in Glendale earlier this year.
"Even though we're a fast-casual (operator), we're definitely a chef-driven concept unique to our space," said Dean Simon, a founder and chief executive officer of Bruxie.
Simon added that Boulder's and Denver's strong culinary culture made this region a logical landing spot for Bruxie.
Bruxie's roots trace back to a trip to Belgium that Simon made about 15 years ago. At that time, he grew fascinated with some of the waffles being sold at the farmers' markets and by street vendors.
"It was so versatile," he said. "Before, I was never a waffle eater. This was light, crispy, not sweet and more like a fresh-baked pastry or bread."
The experience led him to start Brux Waffles, a maker of waffle mixes sold directly to chefs. With the help of Chef Kelly Mullarney, Simon shifted gears, tweaked the recipe — to create a thinner, more foldable waffle — and went the made-to-order route.
The result was Bruxie, a shop that offered gourmet waffle sandwiches such as a turkey club; bacon, egg and cheddar; peanut butter and jelly; and Nutella and bananas. Other fare includes salads, soups and sides such as Poutine waffle fries.
The menu varies by location and is intended to incorporate local products, Simon said, adding that the Colorado restaurants feature items such as Haystack Mountain goat cheese, Coleman beef and Plum Daisy Colorado Mountain jam.
"We found a product that really complements what we're trying to achieve from a culinary perspective," Simon said.
Bruxie is among a couple new fast-casual restaurants to the Twenty Ninth Street retail district. The Protein Bar, a restaurant featuring high-protein sandwiches and salads, opened recently. Additionally, Boulder's Hapa Sushi plans to open Motomaki, a new quick-service sushi concept, later this summer.
"We welcome local and national retailers with targeted concepts that will connect with our shoppers," Kate Taggart Honea, Twenty Ninth Street's senior marketing manager, said via e-mail. "Twenty Ninth Street enables these retailers to reach a new audience and offer an even greater variety and mix for Boulder. "
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The Manicureby Emuna Braverman
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New revelations emerge in US spy chief scandal
US lawmakers on Tuesday will begin probing the shock resignation of David Petraeus, as new revelations about the sex scandal that brought down the CIA director ripple through Washington.
Defense Secretary and former CIA chief Leon Panetta said Petraeus had been right to resign as a matter of "personal integrity" over an extramarital affair, as a torrent of leaked accusations shed new light on the scandal.
Petraeus resigned on Friday, just three days after President Barack Obama was re-elected following a heated campaign in which the CIA faced questions about its handling of a deadly attack on a US consulate in Libya.
The retired four-star general had been due to testify to Congress this week on the September 11 assault in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including US ambassador Chris Stevens and two former Navy SEALs working for the CIA.
Panetta, Petraeus's predecessor and the most senior administration figure to yet speak out on the resignation, told reporters on a flight to Australia that Petraeus had taken "the right step."
"I think it's important when you're director of the CIA, with all of the challenges that face you in that position, that personal integrity comes first and foremost," he said.
But a defense official later said that General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, had been linked to a woman involved in the unfolding scandal and was under investigation, indicating a wider probe.
Petraeus took command of the CIA 14 months ago, retiring from the military after a glittering career that saw him lead the 101st Airborne, the US war in Iraq, its CentCom regional command and international forces in Afghanistan.
But two months after hanging up his uniform, he started an affair with Paula Broadwell, a former army officer 20 years his junior who travelled with him in Afghanistan and has written a glowing biography of him.
Retired US Army colonel Steve Boylan -- a close Petraeus associate -- said Petraeus "regrets the poor judgement and the lack of discipline more than we can probably put into words ... His words to me were 'I screwed up.'"
Boylan, who served as Petraeus's spokesman when the pair were in Iraq, said the 60-year-old retired general had warned his wife of 38 years, Holly, about his affair before the news broke and was trying to make amends.
Boylan said the affair ended about four months ago.
The investigation into the affair began when Jill Kelley, a Tampa socialite with close military ties who was a friend of the Petraeuses, complained to an FBI agent acquaintance that she had received threatening anonymous emails.
According to widely-reported leaks from US officials, FBI agents traced the mails back to Broadwell and, on scrutinizing her online records, found a series of sexually explicit exchanges with Petraeus confirming their affair.
The pair was interviewed separately by investigators in late October and early November but, despite reports Broadwell was found to be in possession of some classified material, no criminal charges were brought.
The Pentagon official on Tuesday told reporters travelling with Panetta that the FBI had uncovered a trove of 30,000 pages of correspondence, including "inappropriate" emails between Allen and Kelley.
Panetta later issued a statement confirming that he had referred Allen to the Pentagon's inspector general and had asked the Senate to put Allen's pending nomination to be the next NATO supreme allied commander on hold.
Nearly a dozen FBI agents on Monday searched Broadwell's North Carolina home, removing bags, boxes and pictures, local media reported. She has not been seen at her home since Petraeus resigned over the affair.
Broadwell may have revealed classified information last month by claiming at a public forum that the CIA was detaining Libyan militia members and that the practice may have triggered the September 11 attack on the US consulate.
The spy agency has strongly denied holding prisoners in Benghazi.
Adding political intrigue to the scandal -- according to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal -- the original FBI agent who was contacted by Kelley brought the matter to the attention of Republican lawmakers.
They in turn contacted the FBI, and Petraeus resigned late last week.
The Journal said supervisors had pulled the whistleblower FBI agent off the case after he became "obsessed" with the matter and was caught sending Kelley, 37, shirtless photos of himself.
US lawmakers already plan hearings into the Benghazi debacle and claims the four US victims were denied sufficient protection because of confusion between CIA and State Department leaders over security responsibility.
Now they also want to know why the FBI and Justice Department did not inform them or the White House about Petraeus's affair until last week, after the spy chief's sudden departure and public admission of guilt.


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I have to take Nakita to the vet tonight. We've been having ongoing 'odd' issues over the last few months with her health. We're not sure if these symptoms are being caused by her food, stress or other behavioural problems - or a combination. Might be linked with her hyperesthesia but could be something else as well.
I don't ask for vibes unless I'm worried. Right now I'm quite worried about her and adding Phoenix to the household hasn't made things easier. She's avoiding her and staying upstairs and I really didn't plan for this type of reaction. On the advice of a vet I added Phoenix to help Nakita, not hinder her. :(
We have our appointment at 6:45 tonight. Can you send us plenty of positive vibes? I think right now we both could use some positive thoughts that Nakita's health issues will be figured out and we can return at some point to a calm household. I just want my emerald girl to be healthy. Thanks!


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Two Detroit men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing tires from cars parked at an apartment complex.
Clinton Township Officers Dan Byrge and Nick Fornier were on patrol at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday on Harper Avenue when two men in a car ran a stop sign in the area of Country Squire Apartments and almost smashed into their squad car, said Detective Capt. Richard Maierle.
The officers had to swerve to avoid the suspects and were not aware a larceny had occurred minutes earlier and the stolen merchandise was in the suspects� car.
�Unbelievable,� Maierle said of the arrest.
Christopher Jones, 22, and Nikell Lamar Belin, 19, both of Detroit, were charged with larceny from an auto, a 5-year felony.
A man and woman who live in Country Squire had just returned home and encountered the thieves.
�The woman was walking toward her apartment with a friend when a man jumped out from behind the car he was stealing tires from and jumped in the getaway car, which drove toward Harper,� Maierle said. �They almost ran into the officers who were on Harper and were forced to pull over.�
Soon after spotting the car run the stop sign, Byrge and Fornier heard a dispatch over their radio regarding the theft. The officers found a tire in the suspects� car and it matched another tire on the ground near the car that was broken into.
Maierle said that police realize criminals like to strike at night. Police spend extra time at night keeping an eye on residential parking lots and residential streets.
�Many good cases have been solved by a good traffic stop,� Maierle said. �In this case, the crooks almost fell into the laps of two officers who were just patrolling the streets.�


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BLOOMER, Wis. (WEAU) -- WEAU 13 News has the shocking details of how local teen boys are accused of shooting deer for the thrill and leaving them for dead.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said this could have been going on in the Bloomer area for weeks.
But now that suspected deer-killing spree is over.
The DNR said wardens and officers from the Bloomer Police Department were able to track down the teens with the help of a tip caller.
Although they weren't arrested, the boys could face criminal charges.
Six deer were shot and left to die in the Marsh-Miller Lake area.
One was an eight point buck with its head missing.
It was a mystery wardens in Chippewa County had been trying to solve.
But then there was a break in the case when someone in the area called the DNR tip line.
"That gave the warden some initial information that there were teenagers driving around the area shooting deer at night and using spotlights," said Ed Culhane with the Wisconsin DNR.
Culhane said on Friday, wardens put out the word to Bloomer Police to be on the lookout for suspects' vehicles.
That night, he said officers found the suspects at the Bloomer Golf Course, shining a spotlight to find deer.
"So there was a traffic stop, and wardens then came to the scene and conducted interviews," Culhane said.
Culhane said four Bloomer High School students, boys ages 14 to 17 are the suspected killers.
"They were going around shining a light on them at night, using a 22 rifle, either shooting from the car or on the road. It's very unsafe and very illegal," Culhane said.
It's not yet known why the teens were slaying the deer.
But one thing is clear.
"These are now deer that are not available to legal hunters who are hunting in a proper manner, and who are going to make good use of the animal and the meat," Culhane said.
Charges are now left to the Chippewa County District Attorney's Office to decide.
Wardens believe other teens could be involved.
If you have any information you can leave a confidential tip at 1-800-TIP-WDNR.


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The US government has been heavily promoting next month's ministerial meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Singapore. US Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to embark on a trip to Japan, China and South Korea on Monday.
One observer says that the purpose of Biden's Japan visit is to tighten the nuts of the two countries' ongoing TPP negotiations in the hope that Tokyo will make some final concessions on the trade barriers that it uses to protect its farming sector.
Japan has already bowed to pressure from other TPP partner countries by agreeing to scrap 95 percent of its import tariffs. That is a big advance over the trade liberalization rate of 83 percent to 85 percent that Japan offers under its existing free-trade agreements (FTA), but the US wants to see between 95 percent and 100 percent trade liberalization by all TPP partners, except for Vietnam. That makes Japan's position relatively conservative.
Japan had thought that the US would not encroach on the forbidden territories that it wants to protect — rice, pork, beef, dairy products and sugar. However, Japan's hopes have been dashed, and some partner countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Chile have even indicated that they will propose zero tariffs for all these goods.
Meanwhile, on Nov. 18, South Korea and China decided during the second stage of talks on their proposed bilateral FTA to include the service sector in the negotiations. South Korea's plentiful experience in negotiating FTAs has allowed its FTA talks with China to move forward quickly.
Since talks started in May last year, the two sides have held eight rounds of negotiations. They have already reached consensuses on issues like trade liberalization in agricultural and aquatic goods, government procurement agreements and trade diversification, and they plan to further strengthen their cooperation in services such as culture, logistics and healthcare. The two sides expect to bring their negotiations to a conclusion by the end of next year, if not sooner.
Negotiations on the TPP and the South Korea-China FTA are likely to be completed this year and next year respectively. They will both have a tremendous impact on Taiwan, but Taiwan seems to be in an otherworldly state, with absolutely no sense of impending crisis.
Not long after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) started his second term last year, he said that Taiwan would try to join the TPP within eight years. Eight years! That will be long after Ma has finished his second term and left office.
Ma's go-slow attitude stands in marked contrast to that of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who decided to join the TPP negotiations immediately after his Liberal Democratic Party came out on top in July's election for the Japanese parliament's upper house — the House of Councilors — and those negotiations are now close to completion.
The fact that Vietnam will soon enjoy customs tariff advantages under the TPP is prompting a new wave of moves offshore by Taiwanese textile mills, yet the government has no idea what to do about it.
If and when Taiwan joins the TPP, it will certainly involve allowing more imports of agricultural products, notably US pork. However, this prospect is taboo for Taiwan's main governing and opposition parties, who dare not even mention the issue.
To make matters worse, the snail's pace of negotiations between Taiwan and China on follow-up agreements to the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), plus the opposition parties' inevitable negative reaction to anything involving China, may allow the South Korea-China FTA to overtake the cross-strait trade liberalization process. That would give South Korea's exports to China better tariff advantages than those accorded to Taiwan, and if that happens, Taiwan's economic climate will go from bad to worse.
Although the TPP is likely to be finalized by the end of this year, followed next year by the South Korea-China FTA, Taiwan's government and opposition still refuse to contemplate the risk of Taiwan getting marginalized by these regional agreements. They dare not talk about the problem of increased farm-product imports that is bound to come up with TPP negotiations, nor are they willing to face up to the impact that the South Korea-China FTA will have on Taiwanese industry.
It is a tragedy for Taiwan that our politicians are so blind to the unprecedented changes taking place in East Asia, and that they cannot offer any answer to the ongoing trend of manufacturers closing their factories in Taiwan and setting up business elsewhere.
Julian Kuo is a former Democratic Progressive Party legislator.
Translated by Julian Clegg