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Incumbent village president Ed Hetterman is being challenged by political newcomer Maggie Haney.
Haney sued the village in 2010 in a dispute over who owns an undeveloped, 60-foot stretch of Maple Avenue in the Buena Park subdivision that leads to the Fox River. A judge dismissed the lawsuit, but Haney's fight against the village continues. Haney also has raised concerns about what she says are missing village checks that she's sought under the Freedom of Information Act, late fees having to be paid on certain bills, and checks being issued before receiving board approval.
In her meeting with members of the Northwest Herald editorial board, Haney acknowledged that she decided to run for village president in large part because of her dispute with the village. We don't think that's a good reason to run for elected office.
Hetterman is seeking his second term as village president. He served as a village trustee for the 12 years prior. He certainly has the experience necessary to fill the position.
But we're concerned about an ongoing grand jury investigation into the property dispute between Haney and the village. Village staff were subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury after a request for village documents by Illinois State Police went unanswered. In 2012, the village also refused numerous Attorney General's Office requests to submit unredacted copies of the village attorney's billing records as part of an ongoing FOIA dispute with Haney.
We're also concerned about ongoing internal strife between Hetterman and some members of the village's Board of Trustees.
Because of these concerns, we are not endorsing in this race.

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West Virginia has some things going for it, including relatively low labor and business costs (ranked No. 23), comparatively low taxes and limited regulations (No. 25), and moderate energy costs (No. 18). But, it is dead last (No. 50) in our analysis when it comes to the overall education level and experience of its available workforce. Only 18.5 percent of its adult population hold a bachelor's degree or higher -- lowest among all states. West Virginia was ranked No. 49 for innovation and growth (including a No. 50 rank in entrepreneurial activity) and No. 48 in business opportunities. The state offers a relatively low cost of living (No. 14). But, low scores for other quality of life factors, including No. 49 in median household income and No. 46 in the number of people that use the Internet, bring down its overall quality of life/cost of living rank (No. 43).
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AirAsia falls on Q4 income slide
2 February 2012
AirAsia Bhd, the region's biggest budget carrier, dropped 1.9 per cent to RM3.58 as of 9:50 a.m. in Kuala Lumpur, bound for its lowest close since Jan. 31.
The airline's fourth-quarter net income slid to RM135.7 million (US$44.8 million) from RM311.1 million a year earlier due to higher fuel costs, it said in a statement. -- Bloomberg
Press Release from AirAsia Website
AirAsia X records highest overall load factor and 45% revenue growth in 2011
Sepang, 15 February 2012
AirAsia X continued its growth trajectory in the fourth quarter of 2011, carrying 0.64 million passengers, an increase of 7.3% over the same quarter in 2010, with the same aircraft fleet of 9 Airbus A330s and 2 Airbus A340s. This brings its total passengers carried in 2011 to 2.5 million (up 31.5% from 1.9 million passengers in 2010), and its highest ever full year load factor of 80.1% (up 3.6 percentage-points from 2010). This was achieved despite a challenging year with natural disasters in Christchurch and Japan, and floods in Queensland that slowed down demand on affected routes.
In terms of passenger traffic, AirAsia X grew by 12.3% to 3.6 billion Revenue-Passenger Kms (RPKs) for Q4-2011, and finishing the full year at 14.1 billion RPKs, a 36.2% growth from 2010. Total capacity for Q4-2011 grew by 12.2% to 4.4 billion Available-Seat-Kms (ASKs), resulting in a load factor of 82%, and 17.6 billion ASKs for 2011, a 30.0% year-on-year growth.
Azran Osman-Rani, CEO of AirAsia X commented, "AirAsia X was able to achieve positive load factor growth and average fare growth at the same time, on all of its routes that it has operated for at least a full year. With both load factor and average fares growing positively, we were able to achieve a total Revenue of RM1.9 billion in 2011, a 45% growth over 2010. This demonstrates the resilience of the low-cost long-haul model, and underpins AirAsia X's recently announced 2012 route network strategy to focus on building a stronger presence in its core markets. The plan will see AirAsia X increase our flight frequencies on existing routes and look at expanding our network further across Asia Pacific."
Cargo operations continues to be strong, with AirAsia X carrying 8,474 tonnes of freight in the fourth quarter and 35,016 tonnes for the year, registering a 31.6% growth from a year ago.
Operationally, even with its high aircraft utilisation model, AirAsia X has been able to produce industry-leading engineering reliability and capping the year with an on-time performance rate of 88% of departures within 15 minutes.


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With the cut of Antonio Bryant, the season of surprise NFL cuts is upon us. Brcause they have a ridiculously low roster number (53) and no DL for a grueling 16 game season, surprise cuts are a part of the game. I thought this article from SI was interesting and this writer thinks Colt McCoy is already in danger of being cut in Cleveland.
I had no idea he was looking that unimpressive. How bad do you have to be to get cut as a third rounder that your team traded up to get?Colt McCoy, the Texas golden boy and college football's all-time winningest quarterback, seems to have avoided the NFL chopping block. Or maybe not.
McCoy's disappointing preseason has led to his name surfacing as one that could fall victim to roster cuts. Browns coach Eric Mangini recently offered an endorsement, sort of, for McCoy. He said the decision has not been made and offensive coordinator Eric Mangini has kept four quarterbacks before. When it comes to NFL roster cuts, though, nothing ever
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Skip to comments.Feds: Couple planned babysitting business as cover to abuse children
Posted on 03/21/2013 9:17:45 AM PDT by Morgana
A New York couple has been arrested and accused of plotting to babysit children as a cover to drug and sexually abuse them, federal prosecutors said.
Special agents with the FBI and NYPD detectives arrested Bebars Baslan, 35, and Kristen Henry, 25, from Brooklyn, on Tuesday night at a hotel in Jersey City, N.J.
Prosecutors say they believed they were going there to meet an acquaintance and three children, including a 1-year-old and a 3-month-old baby, that the group was planning to drug with children's Benadryl and take sexually explicit photos.
Prosecutors say that acquaintance was actually an informant who had contacted authorities last month to report that the couple possessed child pornography and were planning to open a babysitting business to find victims to abuse.
According to the criminal complaint, the informant then began working with the FBI to record phone calls and obtain other evidence.
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Glad they were caught.
Meanwhile the public schools continue to abuse kids and expose them to pornography and almost no one says a word.
Sorry they're not dead.
SICKOs!! Are they Obama's supporters??
Bebars was stuned...
IOW a organized pedophile ring. I seriously doubt these two just had an entrepreneurial epiphany and figured out a unique way to make money. Animals like these rarely operate in a vacuum. There is more to this than 2 creeps just deciding to crank out kiddie porn. It looks like the cops busted part of a procurement/distribution operation. I am willing to bet the trail leads to others higher up. Where there is smoke there is fire.
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good point
Any background info on Bebars? Country of origin, immigration status......?
A one year old and a newborn??? Those people are beyond sick.
I think Bebars may be Arabic. There is a page on LinkedIn for some guy in NY named Bebars Baslan. Don't know if its the same one but he seems to be the right age. The background summary says he's multi-lingual with English and several Arabic dialects. If that helps any.
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Feds planned public education as a cover to abuse children. There...fixed it.
I never saw a young couple without children (outside of family) wanting to babysit for my children. It would strike me as odd behavior if a couple wanted to spend their time babysitting for other people's children. That would be enough oddness for me to stay away.
I did a lot of research on people proposing to care for my sons. With social media and camera monitoring systems these days, parents have an easier time checking out babysitters and day care workers. Check 'em all. We are living in odd times.
I think classroom streaming video monitoring available to parents on their laptops should be done now. Parents should be able to drop in and see what is going on in the classroom any time they want. There is no reason for teachers to have secret classrooms. It would cut out a whole lot of misbehavior.
My wife taught at a daycare for 6 months. During that time she found and reported 4 cases of rape. All were children under 13. One was a 13 yr old down syndrome girl. Another was an 18 month old baby. My wife discovered blood in her diaper while changing her.
In all cases the children were from broken families. Everyone needs to be careful and watch over our babies.
Oh my! That is terrible. I'm thankful your wife was looking out for those children.
Looks like the guy shown this AM on WPIX 11 NY. They didn't show a pic of the female.
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Nolan John Joyce, child of Jeffrey and Sandra Joyce of Emmetsburg, born on January 16, 2013, was baptized on April 7, 2013.
Fr. Thomas Hart of St. Mary's in Mallard performed the ceremony. Godparents are Maureen Edsen of Ankeny, and Josh Joyce of Graettinger, aunt and uncle of Nolan. Grandparents are John and Bernie Kenyon of Mallard, Paul and Ann Joyce of Graettinger. Nolan has two sisters, Josephine and Anastasia.
Also in attendance were great grandfather Kenneth Kenyon of Emmetsburg, Jerry Joyce family, Josh and Julie Joyce family, and Jason and Mandi Joyce family, all of Graettinger, Jason and Susan O'Brien family of Ames and Ryan and Maureen Edsen family of Ankeny.


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When did headphones get so complicated?
Back in the dark, ancient world of 2002, you - and everyone else on the face of the earth - could be the height of audio fashion by simply wearing the white plastic earphones that came free with your iPod.
Now - just ten years later - if you're not wearing a pair of premium-blasting megabuds sponsored by at least one major hip-hop icon, you might as well not bother.
That said, with the renewed focus on earphones as a lifestyle choice there have also been definite improvements in sound quality.
For while Apple's ubiquitous earbuds liberated us from the fashion arms race, they also sounded about as good as Justin Bieber's fan base on a bad day. Premium headphones aren't just about the look - they're also about the tech.
Which is where we get interested.
The latest entrant into the premium headphone game is British-based Atomic Floyd, whose SuperDarts earphones promise "supercharged" sound for their supercharged priced - £199 a pair.
Costly they may be. But in build quality the SuperDarts are virtually unmatched.
The earphones themselves are crafted out of solid, stainless steel, the plugs are gold-plated, and the cable is coasted in Kevlar.
Yes, that Kevlar.
No, they aren't bullet-proof, but the Kevlar does mean they are virtually impossible to tie up in a knot - and this makes a huge difference. These earphones aren't going to tangle up in your pocket, though that said if you're keeping a pair of £200 headphones in your pocket and not in the supplied rubber pouch you're a braver man than us.
In fact pretty much everything about the SuperDarts is premium to the ludicrous (and slightly un-British) degree.
Take the accessories - which include the pouch, some spare SoftSeal silicone soundproof ear tips, a flight adapter and a DJ plug. Not only is all this whatnot variously gold-plated and reinforced, they come packed in a vacuum pack bag.
Never have sound accessories smelled so box-fresh.
And the sound? Well, it's not even sound. It's like someone rattling around your cerebral cortex with a diamond spoon.
Insert your own rubbish adjectives if you like (you know the sort… 'crisp', 'resonant', 'shimmering'), but the key is that the SuperDarts sound exactly as good as earphones made this well should.
To our ears it's hard to know how they could sound better. And frankly, we'll defer to the audiophiles, who gave them the thumbs up.
In terms of specs, Atomic Floyd say you'll get sensitivity of 100dB, a frequency range of 5-25,000Hz and impedance of 16ohms. It also comes with their trademarked 'SuperCharged' sound and speaker drivers, and a 2-way noise isolating SoundProof design (again, trademarked) .
Let's just say the SuperDarts actually made us ashamed for listening to a grizzly Iggy Pop album made for less money than they were. The SuperDarts deserve better.
There are issues, though. The attached remote, while made of steel, is a bit fiddly and doesn't work for Android phones. And if you're listening to speech, the soundproofing means you can literally hear your own heartbeat on a busy Tube train. You'll have to decide if that's cool or creepy.
With all the metal and bright red details they're also a tiny bit... flashy. If your the type of chap who likes to showcase his coin on the daily commute, you're in business. If you generally dress in shabby black suits or make a habit of going down dark alleys at night, you might want to think again.
And then there's the price. Which, again, is £lots.
For us these are undoubtedly among the best-sounding earphones on the market. If you want to drop the cash for a really, really good pair of earphones, like is a good choice.
But only you can know if that £200 would be better spent on something more useful... like an augmented reality drone.


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Jan. 10, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Josh Akognon scored 20 of his game-high 29 points in the second half to rally Cal State Fullerton to a 62-58 basketball victory at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.
Akognon made 5-of-11 shots from the 3-point line as the Titans (8-8, 2-2 Big West Conference) got their second-straight road win.
James Powell led the Gauchos (7-9, 1-3 Big West Conference) with 19 points, but he missed two 3-pointers and committed a turnover while they went scoreless in the final 2:14.
Marcio Lassiter sealed Fullerton's win with a pair of free throws with 4.6 seconds left.
UCSB led by as many as 13 points in the first half while shooting 53.6 percent. Chris Devine had eight of his 13 points and six of his nine rebounds in the first 20 minutes.
But the Gauchos shot just 27.8 percent in the second half while committing 13 of their 24 turnovers.


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Dangerous tiger mozzies found in imported plants
Federal authorities have eradicated a dozen potentially dangerous mosquitoes found inside a shipment of Chinese plants.
Investigators from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry discovered the Asian tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) inside two glasshouses at a quarantine station on Melbourne's outskirts.
The department says the mosquitoes can carry dengue fever.
Spokesman Wayne Terpstra says they represent a potential risk to human health.
"They are a known vector for what they call arboviruses, such as dengue fever," he said.
"So they do pose a health risk for humans if they were to establish."
The department says that no Asian tiger mosquitoes have been found outside the glasshouses.
The plants will be destroyed and the quarantine stations sprayed with insecticide.
Officials say further investigations are underway to confirm all mosquitoes have been exterminated.


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Manchester United and Chelsea could be about to land two of their long-term transfer targets as Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini are set to leave Everton.
According to Metro, David Moyes' future is and he could be following the Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge targets out the door this summer.
Chelsea have long been linked with a move for Fellaini and the report claims they are putting together a bid for him once the season comes to a close.
The 25-year-old has been struggling of late after starting the season in blistering form for the Toffees scoring 12 goals in all.
Meanwhile, it also claims Manchester United may be ready to move for Baines as their search for a successor to Patrice Evra goes on and they have been credited with an interest in the England international for some time.
Sir Alex Ferguson signed Dutchman Alex Buttner from Vitesse Arnhem in the summer but he has seen only limited playing time since the switch to Old Trafford.
Baines has been steadily improving over the past few seasons and many feel it is only a matter of time before he moves on, especially as Everton's financial limitations would make it difficult to turn down a sizeable bid.
It would be a major blow to the Goodison Park club should Fellaini and Baines depart, though any transfers would likely bring in sizeable funds for further squad improvement.
Were Fellaini to join Chelsea, he would become one of a significant contingent of Belgian's at Stamford Bridge.
The Blues already have Belgium internationals Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin de Bruyne and Thibaut Courtois on their books.
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why was this ever changed to effect anything past just casting time? I realize it was probably an unintended side effect of scaling everything with haste, but this seriously needs to go.
I have not been on the PTR but I haven't heard anything about mind numbing other than shuriken toss not applying nonlethal poisons.
I know it's not a huge deal now, but resto druid is in line to be the worst healer bar none come 5.2, and every other team will have a rogue or DK (welcome back necrotic spam...), which just makes things even worse. Trying to heal or cast with a rogue and/or another melee sitting your nuts is already bad enough, why does mind numbing have to excessively penalize what casts you DO get off as well?
I've been planning to play spriest/rdruid/x next patch for awhile now having leveled my priest not too long ago - and if mind numbing stays in current state it will be nothing but detrimental to take a druid over any other healer (even mistweaver looks to be good come 5.2) given what will likely be a vast increase in rogues and DKs next season.
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Co-op zombie shooter Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City sounds intriguing in theory but how does it look in practice? While publisher Capcom did release the ubiquitous unhelpful E3 cinematic trailer and batch of screenshots this week, it also kindly has shared actual gameplay trailers, so we can judge for ourselves.
Developed by Slant Six Games, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is headed to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this winter. What say you?
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2006 Women's Soccer
Defiance 2, Bluffton 1
Beavers fall at Defiance to the Yellow Jackets, 2-1
October 5, 2006
DEFIANCE, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's soccer team traveled to Defiance College on Wednesday, October 4, to face off against the Yellow Jackets. Although the Beavers struck first, Defiance pushed two second half shots across the line for a 2-1 Heartland Conference victory.
21 minutes into the contest, Jessica Good (Lima/Elida) lofted a shot from the top of the box over the goalkeeper's extended reach to give Bluffton its first lead of the 2006 season. The Beavers continued to fire shots, but the score remained 1-0 as the teams headed into halftime.
The Yellow Jackets knotted the game 11 minutes into the second stanza when Hanna Jones took a sharp pass from Angela Gratz and drove it into the goal. With the contest up for grabs, Deidre Trujillo drilled her fifth goal of the year, the game winner, to the inside post off of a free kick at the 73:15 mark.
Much like the men's contest at Defiance the day before, the women's team took 13 shots compared to 15 for the Yellow Jackets. The difference was in accuracy as Defiance placed 10 of its 15 shots on goal while the Beavers were only five-of-13. Bluffton took eight corner kicks while Defiance finished with four.
Ashley Bloom (Tiffin/Calvert) notched eight saves in the contest while Good took four shots, including the Beavers' lone goal as Bluffton fell to 0-10, 0-3 HCAC.
The Beavers return to action on Saturday, Oct. 7, when they host the Franklin College Grizzlies at 1 p.m.


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MacBook Pro 15" Retina Mid 2012
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On June 12, 2012 Apple announced the new 15" MacBook Pro with Retina display. It has an LED-backlit display with a 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch. Like its regular display counterpart, the MBP Retina 15" has two USB 3 ports and an SDXC card slot but sacrifices the FireWire 800 and ethernet ports to include two ThunderBolt ports (increased from one) and an HDMI port. The MagSafe Port has also been replaced with the MagSafe 2 port allowing for an even thinner case design.
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Arsenal and Liverpool are set to go head-to-head in the race to sign defender Nicolas N'Koulou, according to reports.
The Daily Star claims both the Gunners and Reds are showing a keen interest in the 23-year-old Marseille defender, with Newcastle United also pursuing the Cameroonian international.
And, whilst the Ligue 1 club are eager to keep N'Koulou at the Stade Vélodrome, the sales of Loic Remy and Stephane Mbia have shown that the club are willing to consider doing business, the paper reports.
Arsenal have shuffled their centre back pairings on a number of occasions this season, with Arsene Wenger using Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen in the main.
N'Koulou would add additional strength-in-depth to the Gunners line-up, but the Emirates Stadium outfit are unlikely to have a transfer battle all their own way.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is in the market for a defender, with Anfield legend Jamie Carragher set to retire at the end of the season.
That leaves Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger and Sebastian Coates vying for chances, and with the Uruguayan yet to impress on Merseyside, reinforcements are needed.
N'Koulou's solid ball skills make him an obvious target for Liverpool, given the style Rodgers loves to play, and his previous omission that L'OM might have to sell him will only fuel transfer talk further in the coming months.
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This is from yesterday's Chicago Tribune.
Another article states that Pittsburgh is interested in Preston Wilson. It looks like Pittsburgh is wasting a lot of money to me.Could Sammy Sosa be returning to play right field in Wrigley Field? No, not as a member of the Cubs, but as a member of the Pirates. An article from a Dominican news service said Pittsburgh is interested in signing Sosa.
According to the article, after signing Joe Randa as its third baseman, the Pirates want to sign one more free agent this winter and now that first choice Eric Byrnes has a tentative agreement with Arizona, Sosa is the primary target.
But a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said there is no indication general manager Dave Littlefield wants the 37-year-old Sosa, who had a star-crossed 2005 season in which he batted .221 with 14 home runs for Baltimore and was tailed by controversy.
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The opening of this column is usually reserved for random banter, but with so many upcoming events there just isn't enough time to deviate from the script. Consequently, in an effort to save both time and space, I won't mention that a night filled with adult beverage consumption, followed by a fishing trip the next morning, is a unique way to lose weight. Painful, that's how I would describe my weekend. Life finally returned to normal on Monday when Bill Engberg and I took some lovingly tolerable ladies to Eagleglen Golf Course in Anchorage for the Pro-Lady Tournament. Neither Bill's team nor my own won the event, but we led the field in fun. I keep telling myself that anyway.
Walker Cup Week
The Walker Cup is taking place at Birch Ridge Golf Course on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The event, a series of matches between Kenai Golf Course and our own, has turned into a real pressure cooker for both sides as each golf course attempts to claim supremacy over the other. Which is a lot like a couple of Nigerians arguing over who's the better skier. This will be my first year playing the role of spectator during the matches, so if you're interested in watching some intense and always amusing golf, come on out and join the fun.
Bassackwards Tournament
As the name suggests, the bassackwards is a truly bizarre tournament. We set the golf course up backwards. That's right, you'll play from nine green to eight green, eight green to seven green, and so on, all the way around the golf course. It's absurd and hilarious all at the same time. The tournament is Saturday and the entry fee is just $50 for Birch Ridge Golf Association members and $60 for non-members. Teams consist of A, B, C and D players, and golfers can form their own team or the BRGA will pair individual entries together.
Senior League
Thirteen extensively experienced golfers teed it up last week for Senior League play. Don "Legend" McGhee lived up to his moniker with a sparkling net 31 for low total, closest to the pin on eight, and the long putt on nine. Only the insatiable Sid Cox prevented Don from a grand slam by capturing closest to at the sixth. If my beloved Seattle Mariners could hit a baseball as well as "Legend" hits the golf ball, we'd have something to be excited about this summer.
Tuesday Morning Ladies League
The sun was finally shining on our ladies for league play, but the brightest stars in the sky were Leona "Eye of the Tiger" Jackson and Carol "Sunshine Scooter" Hussey, who captured low gross and low net, respectively. Shirley Johnsrud got a piece of the pie with closest to at the eighth. The ladies were at it again awarding a "mystery team" prize. The winning team was Tonya Boedecker, Sandi Poe and Sally Hoagland. The real mystery is why they're awarding a mystery team. Why not the winning team? Why girls? Why?
Tuesday Couples Night
It was a beautiful night when our madly in love duffers teed it up for another night of promiscuous golfing action. This week, couples played alternate shot with the men teeing off the odd holes and the women doing the same on the even holes. Couples were also instructed to keep track of their putting totals, which no doubt required extremely advanced calculators. Dave and Sharing Keating won the event with a net 30, edging out adversaries Darrell and Susan Jelsma by a stroke. Vic and Carol Hussey rolled a paltry twelve putts for the lowest total of the night. Myrna "Mrs. Boss" Cowan provided some delicious nachos for everyone to enjoy after play had completed.
Birch Ridge Golf Committees Officially Unofficial Golf Rankings
The British Open provided plenty of entertainment over the weekend. Two Americans failed in their bid to end European major championship dominance as Darren Clarke, yet another Northern Irishmen, won his first major. Phil the Thrill teased his fans again by surging into contention before faltering down the stretch, and Dustin Johnson hit an iron out of bounds on the back nine to add to his collection of confounding second-place finishes. The results led to quite a shake up in the Celebrity Panel's rankings.
1. Rory McIlroy; 2. Luke Donald; 3. Lee Westwood; 4. Jason Day; 5. Steve Stricker; 6. Charl Schwartzel; 7. Dustin Johnson; 8. Phil Mickelson; 9. Graeme McDowell; 10. Darren Clarke.
Golf Trivia
Answer from last week: Harry Vardon has won the most British Open Championships with six victories. His first was in 1896 and his last triumph was in 1914. Vardon is truly one of the all-time greats by any standard. The overlap grip, used by many players today, was originally coined the "Vardon grip," after its inventor. Vardon was so dominant in his day that he won an absurd 14 consecutive tournaments at one point.
Q. Everyone knows Jack Nicklaus owns the record for the most major championship victories, but do you know how many second- and third-place finishes the "Golden Bear" has in majors?


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Did the radio just say Broom is out for the rest of the season with concussion?
****ing hell, this game is doing us more harm than good.:ph34r:
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Did the radio just say Broom is out for the rest of the season with concussion?
****ing hell, this game is doing us more harm than good.:ph34r:
anyone have any clue what condition the pitch is in?
commentators said flat earlier
yay Gillespie must be alright :)
is Woakes an allrounder? batting above Broad...
Fmd, 11 no balls from Gillespie.
11th no-ball from Gillespie :blink:. And has apparently been rather erratic.
Meanwhile Wagner has another wicket but is only making the English play the new ball twice an over.
Patel not exactly impressing either.
Basically, the more these reserve bowlers bowl, the more we are reminded of their limitations and the less we want them to play for NZ. McClenaghan and Butler's reputations benefiting from not playing here :happy:
Neesham though :cool:
Catch for Otago & NZ under 19 bowler Michael Rae.
Update: sounds like quite a sluggish pitch so not really ideal for Gillespie or Wagner. According to Selvey Gillespie thought he had Cook caught behind with the 2nd new ball. And the Telegraph report indicates Broom is expected to be ok to bat.
I read a piece the other day where the writer reckoned that Broad and Onions are fighting over the 3rd seamer's place in this match. I think that Onions would have to significantly out-perform Broad to take his place, but it won't do Broad any harm to have to justify his selection. Ironic given that Broad initially came into the side in NZ five years ago when the previously undroppable Hoggard and Harmison were ditched.
I don't even know why the general consensus is that Finn has got above Broad in the pecking order tbh. Fitness would be the only thing that would make me not consider Broad as the second fast bowler on the teemsheet.
Anyway on ya Belly. He must be licking his lips at the prospect of no Asia until 2015.


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Thank you, Walt, for that kind introduction. I also would like to thank the Futures Industry Association (FIA) for the invitation – I'm honored that you've invited me to speak each of these last five years.
Ever since Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations, economists have consistently written that access to and transparency in markets benefits the broad public.
President Roosevelt understood this when he asked Congress during the Great Depression to bring transparency, access and competition to the commodities and securities markets.
The reforms of the 1930s transformed markets. They helped establish the foundation for the U.S. economic growth engine for decades.
Those reforms have given farmers, ranchers, producers, merchants and commercial companies confidence to use the futures market to manage their risks. They are able to lock in the price of a commodity at harvest time, or lock in an interest rate or currency rate, and focus on that which they do best – producing goods and services for the economy.
The swaps market emerged in the 1980s. It remained outside these time-tested reforms until last year.
Both futures and swaps, though, are just two forms of the same thing – derivatives. Both had become essential to our economy and to the way people and businesses manage risks.
The swaps market also had grown to dwarf the futures market in total notional outstanding. We now know the swaps market is $400 trillion in size, compared to the $30 trillion futures market.
Lacking of common-sense rules of the road, the swaps market contributed to the 2008 crisis. Need I remind anyone about AIG.
It became time to bring this vast, dark market into transparency. It became time to ensure that the broad public gained the benefits of central clearing and oversight of dealers.
Thus, the President and Congress passed reform borrowing from what had worked best for decades in the futures market.
Now, the swaps marketplace has been transformed.
It's been a remarkable journey these past five years – and all of you have been part of this journey. It not only took 65 finalized rules, orders and guidances by the CFTC. Your thousands of comments, meetings and questions were a critical part of the process as well. You worked hard – with real costs and against deadlines – to implement these reforms to bring us to a new marketplace.
Foremost, the swaps marketplace now has transparency that simply did not exist in 2008.
The public now can see the price and volume of each swap transaction as it occurs. This post-trade transparency spans the entire market, regardless of product, counterparty, or whether it's a standardized or customized transaction.
This information is available, free of charge, to everyone in the public. The data is listed in real time – like a modern-day tickertape – on the websites of each of the three swap data repositories.
Regulators get even greater transparency. Though there is more work to be done regarding the data flowing into data repositories, we now are able to see and filter the details on each of the 1.8 million transactions and positions in the data repositories.
Further, starting last month, the public – for the first time – has been benefitting from new transparency, access and competition on regulated swap trading platforms.
Economists have known the benefits of such transparency since the time of Adam Smith; it just wasn't a reality in the swaps marketplace.
Now, as a result of reforms, swap execution facilities (SEFs) are required to provide all market participants with impartial access. They must provide dealers and non-dealers alike the ability to make and respond to bids, offers and requests for quotes. This is a basic tenant that Adam Smith and so many economists have laid out – that access and transparency promote competition and benefit the economy.
We now have 18 temporarily registered SEFs where more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in swaps trading is occurring on average per day. That is a big number by any measure.
We'll continue to address questions as they arise to help smooth the transition to the transparency and impartial access of exchange trading.
Addressing one such question, as our cross border guidance directs, if a multilateral trading platform is a U.S. person, or it is located or operating in the U.S., it should register.
A multilateral trading platform that provides persons located in the U.S. with the ability to trade or execute swaps on the platform's market (either directly or indirectly through an intermediary), should register.
Registration applies whether those persons are U.S. persons or non-U.S. persons whose personnel or agents are located in the U.S. This is regardless of the location where the swap is ultimately booked, including in circumstances where a swap dealer arranges, negotiates, or executes the terms of a swap in a non-U.S. branch, but trades swaps on a multilateral swaps trading platform using personnel or agents of the swap dealer located in the U.S.
This will trigger some SEF registrations for foreign-based platforms that are already registered with their home country. For instance, one Australian platform is going to register with the CFTC, and we're working with the Australian home country regulators. We're prepared to figure out where we might defer to those home country regulators.


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Durango will once again celebrate Cinco de Mayo downtown at Gazpacho Restaurant the weekend of May 2-3.
Last year the event showcased cultural heritage as the people – or la gente – united to organize and share our rich Hispanic talent and to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. The event featured Hispano Bands, Ballet Folklorico Dancers, Durango Zumba Dance Instructors and a free health fair sponsored by San Juan Basin Health Department.
Club Ballet Folklorico de FLC and the El Centro Book Scholarship were the recipients of this generous fundraising.
2013 event photos website courtesy of Sheryl Engelhardt.


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Learned Leadership
It has been amazing to go through this journey thus far, but as I continue to follow this path I do not know where it leads. Through a tugging of my heart for ministry, God led me to Colorado Christian University to seek a Master's in Organizational Leadership to prepare me for full time ministry. … Continued


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Perrysburg residents who want to offer public comment at today's city council meeting will need to find their own way of getting there, but a levy issue on the agenda could change that in the future.
Council will consider a recommendation from the Health, Sanitation, and Public Utilities Committee to put a 0.8-mill, five-year request on the May 7 ballot to fund a public transportation system in Perrysburg.
"I fully expect that that's going to pass 7-0," councilman J. Todd Grayson said of the vote.
If residents pass the levy, it would raise an estimated $460,000 a year to pay Ride Right of Lake St. Louis to run two vehicles, one call-a-ride van and one shuttle for a fixed route. Both vehicles would serve handicapped riders.
Mr. Grayson said that soon the city would be negotiating new contracts with Ride Right that would allow the flexibility to adjust times and routes within the set number of total service hours.
"We'll do whatever demand dictates," he said.
This will be a second effort to organize a private-transportation system since the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority stopped service in Perrysburg in September, after voters earlier in the year approved withdrawal from the agency. A 1.45-mill levy lost in November.
The new levy is planned to support a reduced level of service, based on rider data collected during an interim period that the city paid Ride Right to provide transportation for city residents. Service would start as soon as voters approve a levy.
Service is expected to cost about $240,000 for the rest of 2013, $420,000 for 2014, and 5 percent annual increases after that through 2017.
According to the Wood County Auditor's Office, the levy would cost an owner of a home valued at $200,000 about $50 a year. That would bring the annual tax total to $4,111.
Gil Lutz, who is visually impaired and depends on public transportation, is a member of the local advocacy group Perrysburg4Transit. He said he is hopeful the new levy will pass.
"I hope it passes because I hope people will see what they've done," he said, adding that his activities have been severely restricted since he could no longer travel independently. "It's really clipped my wings," he said.
Mr. Lutz said countywide transportation services are impractical because of scheduling requirements, and a recent volunteer effort to offer rides is not a long-term solution.
Perrysburg4Transit is looking for volunteers to help with its Go Perrysburg! campaign to support the levy. Information is available on the group's Web site at perrysburg4transit.com.
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"Painful Truth" - I don't get it.
Well, sure, nobody wants to die; but big deal. Put it off as long as practical, but don't spend your life in "pain" because of it.
This seems surprisingly prevalent. Do most atheists spend their lives lamenting the fact that they're not immortal? I sure as hell don't, but maybe that's because I'm almost 70. As old age catches up to me, I can foresee a time when I might be fully resigned (or more) to death.
I genuinely feel that I am much happier BECAUSE I'm an atheist. The idea of spending eternity "at the right hand of God" could hardly be a more depressing thought. The idea of spending my life in the cause of silliness is far worse than the acceptance of my mortality.
I (my existence) am/is simply not sufficiently important in the big picture for me to spend any of this precious time wishing things were different.
Further I disagree with the posted image. People don't hate atheists because we represent truth, they hate us because our very existence is an insult to their beloved purpose in life.
If life is painful, it's easy enough to end it; but, instead, we should make the most of what little time we have and love the universe and each other.
It just does not seem that painful, more like a tiny disapointment, equal to not getting a pony.
The ideology seems to place a rather unnecesssary burden/focus on death, and too little hold on life. We should be working together to build a wonderful life together as a species, not find so many petty ways to divide us. We have wasted so many lives repenting for our imperfections, and little to overcome them as a personal/cultural quest. Ideology gives us so many ways to rationalize our pettyness and bigotries, but few ways to excape them. There seems to be a 'call' to grow or recognize our 'great souls', but again few tools to build them.
I would hope that 'atheists' might, in time, offer 'something more', but many of us spend time counting our improvements in debate skills.
Beause you are an action-packed fantasy and I am a documentary.
As a formerly religious person, this did resonate with me... even if I have moved on.
Here's what was beautiful about religion in my life: community, support, cosmic justice, a destiny, a safety net, an ever-listening "friend", immortality (yes, even that), spiritual experiences, revelations, etc. Sure, a lot of it was a bit convenient: religion appeals to our greatest desires... and savior from our greatest fears.
Here's why the truth was painful: my relationship with my mother has really suffered, yeah... I'm not going to live forever and I only found that out at 25 (wish I hadn't wasted all that time), I've lost friends and a support network, I don't have a destiny, no one is watching out for me, there is no cosmic justice, etc. I did have a great sense of loss once I stopped believing in fairy tales.
Yes, I do feel more liberated and empowered now. I learned quickly that now I get to choose the path my life will take; I get to create my "destiny". No questions or thoughts are forbidden to me. I am not inherently evil. I don't have to "struggle with doubt" anymore since I don't have to work at convincing myself anything I believe now is true. I believe things are true when they obviously are true. I can decide what I think is moral and immoral based on how things affect other people, not on whether I'm being obedient. I've learned so many beautiful things about science that I would never have known. The world and the universe are vast and breath-takingly wonderful, and I'm lucky to exist at all. Instead of greedily demanding immortality, I have to appreciate that I got to witness all of this like billions of others did not.
So, yes... there was a time when I believed religion was a beautiful lie and atheism is a painful truth. Sometimes, I still grieve the things lost, but... I'd never go back.
@Cara, thanks for that succinct post. Sometimes I need a little inspiration. ;)
@Cara - Nice post. I "hate" that you can enumerate all the emotions I feel but that I don't often take stock of.
It really sucks that you've lost family, friends, and support networks. I know for certain that my life would not be so happy without them. I'm from a large (Irish-Catholic) family - ALL religious (and, BTW, good) people. I guess I feel like a cousin with Downs Syndrome - continuously happy, unconditionally loved despite my affliction (atheism, not Downs).
HA! Interesting way to put it.
Yeah, my mom and family still love me... but, you know, they believe I'm going to Hell and it makes them sad and frustrated. My mom has said she can't just "accept it" because that means giving up on me. Ugh. Lol. I get where she's coming from. I wish I could put her mind at ease.
I would expect true Christians to love you even more.
And I would expect true Scotsmen to freeball it when wearing a kilt.
I don't believe in "true Christians" the way you do. If someone says they believe Jesus in the Son of God, they're a Christian. Some people are jerks no matter what they believe, atheists included.


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Everybody else is weighing in on the NFL MVP race, why can't Broncos coach John Fox?
The MVP award is largely between Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson, although quarterbacks Tom Brady from New England and Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers also figure to receive consideration.
"Obviously I might be a little biased and with all due respect to everybody involved, I think what's unique about Peyton ... he's done it in a new city with a new team," Fox said at his Monday press conference. "At that position in my personal opinion that's what separates him from the rest of the field."
Fox's opinion could get some oomph this week as he has a chance to become the 40th coach in NFL history to record 100 wins. Thanks to his team's current 10-game winning streak, Fox is 99-86, counting the postseason, entering the Broncos' game Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs in the regular-season finale at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
What sets Fox's record apart is he won eight games, including one in the playoffs, with Tim Tebow at quarterback during the 2011 season. He's won 12 more so far this year with Manning at quarterback.
"I've had a great staff, great players," Fox said. "A lot goes into that. It's not one guy. They put it on your record or tombstone or whatever, but I just happened to be head coach during that. But there's a lot of efforts and I appreciate all those efforts. We're just worried about this week. We've got a good team coming in."
Good team? Coach, the Chiefs are 2-13 after losing to the Indianapolis Colts 20-13 on Sunday.
"I looked at the stat sheet this morning from the Indy game and these guys (the Chiefs) put up 507 yards, 352 rushing," Fox said. "I thought it was one of those, 'hung in there and fought hard,' but they did everything but win."
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by Pete Dexter
(Doubleday, 352 pages, $26)
Puget Sound-based Pete Dexter writes a novel unnerving enough to make any reader squirm. He channels this tension into a soul-gripping story played out by believable characters with inescapable motivations. He happily avoids stuffing in any of the gratuitous snot and vomit often favored by some of our renowned "edgy" writers, but there are shocks: a sliced-off nipple, a rape that permanently rearranges the victim's genitalia, a pitiful man who eats pet flamingoes. Raw at its rawest.
Train, the title character, is an 18-year-old from poor circumstances who survives every obstacle by remaining super-cool. He develops a natural talent for golf and defeats the best country-club players, though he can't go into the clubhouse to collect the bets. Train is neither black nor African-American; rather, in this tale he is variously "Negro," "colored" or "nigger."
Collecting the clubhouse bets is his sponsor and mentor, Miller Packard, another super-cool man who, in the face of ultimate crisis, proves not quite cool enough. The physically and emotionally damaged Norah plays the third point in a triangle fated to rack up disaster. Packard is the catalyst. He is a police officer of the Dirty Harry school, kind to his friends, ruthless to his enemies. Norah plays the victim who provides the jumping-off place for the action when her husband is cruelly murdered and she herself is violated.
The ending crashes down around us in a shocking fashion. Still, the reader can see the clues were there, festering away. Dexter won the National Book Award for the excellent Paris Trout, and this novel should further enhance his reputation.
Dexter will read at Powell's on Hawthorne, 3721 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 238-1668. 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 9.


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ATHENS, Greece - Thousands marched through Athens Tuesday as trade unions held their third general strike in six weeks, in the run-up to a parliamentary vote on a new austerity program that will condemn Greece to more years of hardship in exchange for the money it needs to avoid going bankrupt.
Flights to and from the country stopped at 10:00 a.m. (0800GMT) at the start of a 48-hour strike that has already closed schools, halted train and ferry services, left Athens without public transport or taxis and state hospitals running on emergency staff only.
An estimated 10,000 supporters of a communist-backed trade union kicked off two days of demonstrations, which will culminate when lawmakers vote late Wednesday on a (EURO)13.5 billion ($17.3 billion) package of spending cuts and tax increases over the next two years.
The outcome of the vote is far from certain, due to disagreements in the five-month-old coalition government and a reluctance among center-left lawmakers to swallow yet another bitter austerity pill. But an anti-austerity vote would almost certainly force Greece to default on its mountain of debt, potentially paving the way to the country's exit from the euro.
Greece's two main unions are holding a separate protest march later Tuesday. Police are on alert for potential violence, as most major anti-austerity protests over the past three years have degenerated into riots.
This is the biggest crisis Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has faced since he formed the coalition in June: His small Democratic Left coalition partner has said it will not back the measures, while a handful of lawmakers from the third coalition party, the Socialists, are expected to rebel.
The government combined has 176 of Parliament's 300 seats, and needs an absolute majority of those present to pass the bill. Without the Democratic Left, Samaras' conservatives and the Socialists theoretically control 160 votes — barring dissenters.
The main opposition Radical Left Coalition has urged demonstrators to surround Parliament during Wednesday night's vote.
"The new measures must not pass for they will turn the country into a financial and social desert," a party statement said. "They will lead us decades back, without medicine or state healthcare, without schools and universities, without a future, with endless armies of unemployed, suicides and desperate people."
The deeply unpopular measures include new deep pension cuts and tax hikes, a two-year increase in the retirement age to 67, and laws that will make it easier to fire and transfer civil servants. The country is suffering a deep recession set to enter a sixth year, and record high unemployment of 25 percent.
If Parliament rejects the package, Greece will lose access to the rescue loans from the European Union and International Monetary Fund that have kept it afloat since May 2010.
The country would then run out of money — as soon as by Nov. 16, according to Samaras — default on its debts and, most likely, abandon the 17-member eurozone. The ensuing hyperinflation and currency depreciation would intensify domestic misery.
The international repercussions would also be severe, amid fears that other troubled eurozone members could follow Greece's lead.
Sky-high interest rates have kept Greece out of international bond markets since 2010. However, the country retains a market presence through regular short-term debt issues — mostly bought up by domestic lenders that need the paper as collateral for vital European financing.
On Tuesday, Athens raised (EURO)1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) in a 26-week treasury bill auction, that saw Greek borrowing costs ease slightly to 4.41 percent, from 4.46 percent last month. The issue was 1.7 times oversubscribed.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Return of the Taco Salad
Since I got pregnant, I've been stuffing myself when I get the chance. First, it was because I was 'eating for two', then it was the breastfeeding. That stuff makes ya ravenous! Now? She's eating just fine and the other, sadly, ended months ago. Time to shed those last twenty pounds! Bring on the Taco Salad!
The great thing about being vegan and eating a taco salad is you don't get caught up in drowning them in things like cheese and sour cream. Normally, I love to, instead, drown mine in a chipotle dressing that blows Moe's outta the water, but it's Vegannaise based and not the best bet every time when trying to whittle the waistline, so I was looking for a way to nix it. (I'll be sure to dig it up and share it with you soon, though, because it is SUCH a treat when I'm making them for others and don't run the risk of having a full carafe of dressing to use up on my own that I just have to share it!)
You can go the route of beans or crumbles or, you can do like I did with this one, and saute some tempeh. The flavor of chili powder, cumin, tamari, and a dash of chipotle is such that I never even boil or steam the tempeh. Never notice the bitterness in this dish. I heat up a touch of oil and brown the crumbled tempeh. Add some spices, water, brown some more. Sprinkle in some tamari, soy sauce, or shoyu, and let it get all brown and yummy before taking off the heat.
In place of the dressing (I promise, it's amazing but you won't miss it if you do this), I just chop up a juicy, red tomato. Add some red wine vinegar, oregano, & pinches of sugar and salt to taste and toss. Let that sit while you put together the rest. I like to chop up some lettuce and toss it with some chopped cilantro. Place that either on a plate or in a tortilla shell bowl (you know, if you've been good all day and can eat up the extra calories that way). Top with the tempeh and marinated tomatoes. Green or red onions are good here as well (I didn't have any). Avocado is even better (none of that on hand either). this is where I HIGHLY recommend Dreena's avocado cream. super yum. As I said, I was sans avocado, so that was a luxury I didn't have and I admit, I had to use up some Tofutti Better Than Sour Cream on mine. I know, this is not the healthiest option, but here's a trick. Place one Tablespoon in a plastic or pastry bag. If you're using plastic, seal and cut a tiny hole in the corner. Decorate your salad with the 'sour cream' in such a way that is pretty, spreads it out evenly, but delivers only half the recommended serving size! So good.
I'm not a fan of any vegan cheeses so I never top with that, but you could certainly add that addition if you're so inclined. And seriously, the avocado cream...the cashew one....oh yeah, it's fantastic. The best part? If you're preparing this for one? You'll certainly have left over ingredients to toss together in a snap the next day either in another salad or a wrap. Oh, and if you were to leave out the shell, scoop up the bites with baked tortilla chips for a lower fat meal!
12 comments:
- Emmie said...
I'm a fan of taco salad too. Yours looks lovely!
- VeggieGirl said...
¡Olé! :-)
- Tami (Vegan Appetite) said...
That is a seriously awesome taco salad!
- Vivacious Vegan said...
I like to bake my taco salad shells in the oven. I just drape them over a large tin can (or small oven safe bowl) and as they soften they get nice waves in them which stay when they harden up.
Love the sour cream idea!
- Don't Get Mad Get Vegan! said...
yeah, I bake mine too. it just seems like it'd somehow be healthier to serve the salad with a small handful of baked chips than devour that whole shell. I've honestly never looked and compared tho, so maybe not ! ;)
- Vegan_Noodle said...
I will make a note to try that avocado cream! I love taco salads too... but must admit I can be heavy on the tofutti as well.
Hope this salad is helping you reach your weight goals!
- aTxVegn said...
Fantastic taco salad! It's such a great one-bowl meal.
- jessica said...
I haven't had a taco salad since going veg, but before I went veg, I'd use Pace Picante as the 'dressing.' It was great. I ate it in a regular bowl so no taco shell.
- Susan G said...
That is a great idea for tempeh. I'm always looking for ways to disguise that bitter taste!
- KTBuns said...
DAMN this looks tasty. I think I might try this with some Boca Ground... *smacks lips!*
- bellacola said...
I adore taco salads! Hooray!
- leslie said...
i too am a taco salad addict! i have been craving it like crazy lately, but am too lazy to go to the store and get some ingredients. this post is sending me to the store right after work!
and as far as the chips vs. shell debate goes, i just crunch up a small handful of chips and sprinkle that on top - it does the job just fine, and really only takes a few chips!


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Roy Hodgson insists Wayne Rooney's bad-boy days are behind him, but the England manager has told the striker he is not bulletproof despite his appointment as captain.
Hodgson made Rooney's childhood dreams come true on Thursday when he announced the striker would succeed Steven Gerrard as England skipper.
Given that he is the only player in Hodgson's 22-man squad with over 50 caps, it was no surprise the England manager selected Rooney to lead the side.
But eight years ago, few would have thought Rooney was captaincy material. Back then, the Liverpudlian effectively cost England a place in the 2006 World Cup semi-finals by being sent off for a stamp on Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho.
In 2010 Rooney looked straight down a camera lens and aimed a volley of abuse at the England fans who booed the team off following their dire 0-0 draw against Algeria.
And Rooney's temper was brought into question three years later when he was handed a two-match ban for a rash and totally needless foul on Montenegro's Miodrag Dzudovic.
Hodgson is sure those kind of episodes are a thing of the past now, so he had no hesitation handing Rooney the armband.
"Wayne certainly isn't a problem player," Hodgson said.
"He's not been sent off in any games that we've had and not had many bookings.
"In these two years we've worked together I've not been worried that he's going to get sent off.
"I've not been concerned about that. I'd like to think it's in the past."
As ever, Hodgson had done his homework. Rooney has not been dismissed, neither for club nor country, since that miserable night in Podgorica three years ago.
Hodgson did not, therefore, bring the subject of discipline up when he met Rooney to offer him the captaincy at the offices of his agent Paul Stretford in Cheshire.
And he will never bring the topic up during the 28-year-old's time as captain.
"I have too much respect for his own thought processes," Hodgson said.
Rooney scored his first World Cup goal against Uruguay this summer, but he could not help England avoid their first group stage exit since 1958.
The striker's place in the team came under scrutiny, especially after Paul Scholes suggested Rooney may be past his best. Scholes has since claimed he was misquoted.
Hodgson stood by Rooney, but the striker could be hooked by his boss if he thinks it is required.
Hodgson said: "I don't think he would expect me, if he wasn't playing well enough, that he wasn't able to do the job we wanted him to do, to keep him in the team just because he is captain."
Rooney will be nearing 30 when Euro 2016 comes around and he wants to finally win some silverware with the national side after 11 years of disappointment.
"I have said previously that I will not look on my England career as a success unless we win something and that is my attitude to playing football," Rooney told his website.
"There is no point turning up unless we believe we can win."
Rooney, who was also named Manchester United captain a fortnight ago, is looking forward to leading his country for the first time as full-time skipper in Wednesday's friendly against Norway.
After that, England begin their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign in Switzerland, and the striker is determined to draw a line under what happened in Brazil.
"I will have many personal proud moments playing for England and none more so than when I walk out at Wembley for the first time as the manager's appointed captain," said Rooney, who has 95 caps.
"But collectively we want to be known as winners as all professional footballers do.
"We are now starting the cycle of two major international tournaments and reaching both finals and performing to our maximum is what we are aiming for.
"Anything less I personally will not see as a success."
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Since it was rather cool and windy out today I was playing around with some different chassiss and parts from the Tmaxx. I think this may be a decent little combination.
Its basically just a Mutant Maxx type build using an Ofna LX-One chassis with a Tmaxx front and rear bolted to it. Wheelbase is almost 14 inches long.
I just need to get a couple of center shafts the correct length or make a few adjustments to use what I have and make a couple custom braces from the bulkhead tabs to the chassis or center diff.
I will use the old narrow arms and stock bulks for now to test, and if it handles well enough, I will spruce it up with the wider track arms and some other goodies.
It should be pretty light weight and have a low COG even with a BB.
Geared correctly I should be able to use either MT or truggy tires/wheels or1/8th buggy tires/wheels to change the characteristics of the handling. It should fly pretty well too
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Nice! I am very interested. Trying different things can end bad...or good. Hopefully this will be good
Hows that nitro taste on your electric?
cool, hope it works out for you man
there's no life like a LOW LIFE!
Drag It!
thats cool let me know how it rides
Cool will that make it a Tmuggie!
454 bb maxx
Did some more mockup today.
I used the revo CD pinions to extend the diff drive cup to use the short center shafts I had and with a few bushings/spacers to keep the pinion from pushing into the ring gear they should work ok.
I threw some MT wheels and tires on it and a buggy body to match the chassis and temporarily added a wing to see what it would look like.
I need to make several braces and spacer plates, so it will be a while before I get to try it out.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
that thing looks sweet! do you think i would be able to fit the savage 3 speed transmission on an extended chassis using the big red motor?
dude that looks sick, cant wait to see how it does
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After running this for 4 tanks of fuel I managed to crack a rear bulkhead and shear the front ring gear screws in a old stock 4910 diff. It was enough run time to see that it was by FAR the best handling Tmaxx hybrid version I have ever screwed together.
I tore it down and am now assembling it with some aluminum bulks, BL EMaxx diffs and the wider track arms etc.
I also need to use heavier diff lube in the CD as it was unloading to the front (probably why the old diff failed)
I also saw a little chassis flex in the area where the bulks bolt to the chassis, just in front of the rear and the back of the front. I made 2 aluminum plates that extend further toward the center of the chassis and they are sandwiched between the bottom of the bulks and the chassis. It should take care of the flex completely once I make a better rear brace from the top of the bulkhead tabs to the receiver box.
I should get some run time on Sunday; Ill let you know how it goes.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Looks like it's going to be hard on drive line parts with the angles.
The only real angle is the offset of the center diff to the F&R diffs, a lot of buggies/truggies are setup the same way and the center shafts rarely fail. Its actually less of an angle than what a stock Tmaxx has for center shafts.
I have run the LX One with .28's and .30's for many gallons and never had a center shaft failure.
I'm more concerned with the front and rear diffs than anything else.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
What I'm referring to is a compound angle. But if you have the output shafts all the same height and parallel to the chassis you'll be good.
It has taken a little longer than I expected to get this up and running the way I wanted.
I made 2 new braces for the front and rear to help reduce the flex and to tie everything together a little better.
I also ran into a little issue with the wide track arms and 3.3 axle carriers. I had no toe links that would work with the stock LX one steering bell crank. I had to make a custom drag link a little shorter to bring the bell crank arms a little closer together to use the toe links I had on hand.
I also wanted to use my old reliable XTM 457 and a starter box. The biggest diameter 3 shoe flywheel I had required the engine to be lowered, the lowest engine mount I had was a little too short and the engine back plate hit the chassis about 1mm before the engine mount. I made 2mm shims to go between the engine block and the engine mounts to get the needed clearance.
It should be worth the extra trouble as the flywheel and starter box wheel line up perfectly now.
I have a few odds and ends to finish up but I should get some run time tomorrow afternoon.
Front chassis brace. The rear is similar.
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Looking pretty sweet,Snook.Truggy Maxx perhaps?Might want to try a 2 speed center and throw on some bumpers too!
slap some buggy tires on it as well
Hows that nitro taste on your electric?
I will be using a front bumper, just didnt have it bolted on for the pics. No need for a 2 speed, I could gear it close to 55mph (by my calculations) if I wanted.
A center diff is a 1:1 ratio unlike a 2 speed which would be a shorter ratio by far, and the 10th scale diffs are a taller gear set than the stock 1/8th scale diffs that came in the buggy.
The .28 has plenty of torque for the taller gears and larger wheels/tires Hold on tight
I will be trying buggy, truggy and MT tires/wheels to see which handles best. I also have mod 1 clutch bells from 13T through 18T to experiment with.
I just finished trimming it out to run. RTR without fuel it weighs 9lbs 8oz. Not bad with that heavy BB sitting 1 ¼ inches off the ground.
It weighs considerably more than the test version and all its plastic, so I will probably have to play with the shock springs and oil wt to tune the suspension for the added weight.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
I will keep you up to date when I get some run time and work out all the bugs.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Looks great, what pipe are you using?
Sorry if I missed it.
Do you think it will handle jumps well?
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Ive had the pipe for so long I forget what # it is It is almost the same as the Ofna 053 and works well with this engine (if you can stand the noise level).
It should handle the jumps rather well.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Thanks, awesome looking truck man.
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so you gonna get a video of the first run?
Hows that nitro taste on your electric?
Hard to video by yourself. No one ever wants to go play with the old Snook anymore, they all say the same thing…You stay too long when you take your trucks out
I'll see if I can find my tripod
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
i would come help ya out snook but you live a little far away in Ga. for me to come from ohio lol
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Ahh sort of like the Blackbird type setup.... Very nice, I was wondering when someone was going to sucessfully make a TMuggy...
Somehow I knew it was going to be Snook to put one together sucessfully and completely... Many have tried and I never saw a final build....
With the diffs on theupper side of the chassis the COG was dropped about 3-4 inches... That's huge!!!
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Its not complete yet but getting close.
Mother Nature did not comply today, but I did find another bug while testing in the driveway when it wasnt too wet.
The modifications to the steering bellcrank and the extra weight of the front end with the aluminum bulks and such made a big difference in the steering. Even with a fresh 1600MaH Hump pack and an almost new Hitec 645 steering was sluggish to say the least unless moving at a good speed and then it was too fast (if there is such a thing).
It took a little bit to figure out exactly what the issue was. I came to the conclusion it was a combination of the added weight on the front, the shortness of the bellcrank arm and the mod I made bringing the bellcrank toe link arms closer together.
The battery and servo was strong enough that when I installed a Kimbrough HD servo saver to test, the wheels would move approx ½ inch (without truck moving) but the servo would compress the saver spring completely. The shortness of the bellcrank arm also made the steering very fast with the wheels off the ground, so much so that about ¼ inch turn of the TX wheel in either direction would snap the wheels to full lock.
To add some leverage and to slow the speed down some I made an extension that mounts to the steering bellcrank arm. I added 1 inch from the original hole in the arm and curved the extension to have clearance of the a-arms. I also used a slightly shorter servo horn. I then just swapped the steering link from the inside of the servo horn to the outside and made the connection to the extension. Sounds easy huh? It had me scratching my head for a bit trying to come up with a solution but I works like a charm now.
Its supposed to rain tomorrow also, so I may find a few more bugs to work through.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Snook what tools do you use to cut the aluminum? also what kind of aluminum are those pieces made from? Once I head home for Christmas break I plan on working on some of my Trugg-Maxx Build. And if my Professors like me they may let me use some of the machines in the Engineering lab to cut my aluminum.
Have you see anything about using LST diffs in the Maxx? I think i'm going to do the mod so I can use those in my Trugg-Maxx. As long as the gearing would be alright with a CD and LST Diffs.
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I rough cut all my contoured parts with a Jig saw with bi-metal blades. I usually make a template out of plastic and transfer the design to the aluminum with a scribe. I cut as close as possible to the scribe line as I can and then finish to the line with a drum sander or a carbide dremel drum or sanding drum chucked in a drill press.
Im always on the look out for aluminum plate or bar stock and try to keep a decent selection of sizes on hand. I use T6 7075 for the main structural parts if at all possible, and T6 6061 for most everything else.
I wouldnt recommend putting your time, energy and money into anything less then T6 6061 into a chassis.
If you have to resort to a jig saw I can give you a lot of helpful advice to make it easier.
If you can get access to the machines at school thats a big +.
The LST diffs work well once you make the adaptor bushings needed to mount them in the bulkheads. They are a shorter gear ratio than the stock diffs but you can make up the difference with the clutch bell easily if needed.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
I got the chance to run a couple of tanks of fuel this morning in the street in front of the house. Its still too wet to take it to the track but I can see Im going to like this setup. Very quick off the line, good top speed and handles really well (on the street at least). I was also impressed with the turning radius.
I did however see more flex in the chassis. When starting the engine with the starter box I could see movement between the clutch bell and spur gear when pushing the chassis down on the box. It wasnt a huge amount but enough that it concerned me and needed to be corrected or something would probably eventually fail.
I like the idea of the center spine like the razorback but dont have the materials needed to make something similar to it atm.
Instead I am making a simple flat brace which will connect the rear bulk tabs to the center diff and then tie into the front bulkhead/steering post brace and bulkhead. The receiver/battery box also acts as another attachment point for the brace between the rear bulks and the CD.
Here are a couple of pics to show what I have come up with so far.
Chassis with rear brace and CD top plate removed
Plastic template
Template fitted to chassis.
I just need to make a few minor adjustments when I transfer the pattern to the aluminum and cut it out.
If it works well I may combine the brace to include the front bulk and steering brace as a single piece.
No slipper/tall gearing/power = broken parts.
Chassis flex is a common issue with buggy and truggy chassis designs.The last time I did a similar build,I tried both,bracing on top using tie rods bolted to the CD top plate and the steering plate in front and a another at the rear bolted to the bulk.The other method,was running 2 alum rails bolted under the chassis.The ground clearance would be affected but the chassis was pretty stiff.
Wouldn't centralising the front bracing to the middle of the chassis and the rear similarly so long as it can clear the engine fins be better?This should equalize the rigidity throughout the whole chassis.Your bracing template seems lob sided.Not enough support on the gear meshing side..Just my 2 cents.
not gonna lye, i read the words black bird and the first thing that popped in my head was call of duty: black ops. (they have a blackbird for a killstreak for those who dont know) lol
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'Unnecessary Farce' a scathingly funny night of theatre
Those looking for a scathingly funny night of theatre should look no further than Starkville Community Theatre's season opening production of Paul Slade Smith's "Unnecessary Farce."
This reviewer found himself laughing so hard he could barely breathe by the time the Friday night performance of the show concluded.
The basic premise of "Unnecessary Farce" is that two undercover police officers, Eric and Billie, played by Kris Lee and Heather Box, respectively — have staged a sting operation in a motel in order to catch their town's mayor, played by Gabe Smith, confessing to embezzling $16 million in government funds to town's newly hired accountant, Karen, played by Abigail Voller.
The simple premise of the sting is to videotape the mayor's embezzlement confession via a hidden camera.
While the "sting" setup may seem pretty simple, things soon go hilariously awry when the mayor's security officer, Agent Frank, played by Paul Ruff, enters into the equation, exposing a deeper scheme I won't reveal here.
Let's just say that complications aplenty ensue, with a Scottish assassin, played by Christopher Walrath, and the mayor's wife, played by M.J. Etua, getting in on the hilarity.
In addition to the plot twists, the show involves one hilarious sight gag after another, several of which place the characters in somewhat "compromising" situations, some of which are viewed on the "hidden camera" video feed set up for the sting.
Director Thomas LaFoe's staging of the production in two adjoining motel rooms is delightfully effective given the limited space constraints of the stage at the Playhouse on Main.
In fact, the limited space available for the adjoining hotel rooms set lends the production extra doses of comedy at times.
Characters are going in and out of the motel room doors, bathroom doors, closet doors and the adjoining room doors so frequently that one might get dizzy trying to keep up with the action.
But LaFoe is a pro at having staged other successful farces on the SCT stage, including "It Runs in the Family" and "Not Now, Darling" in recent seasons, and his work is effective here.
Each of the seven member cast gets moments to shine.
Lee and Box are an absolute scream as the bumbling police officers, both exhibiting a terrific comic timing throughout the show.
Lee is a brilliant physical actor whose facial expressions alone can send one into a fit of the giggles. Box gets the best line of the production as she tries to decipher the Scottish hitman's dialect for Ruff's mayoral security officer. She also gets to play a good bit of physical humor, which she does deftly.
Voller herself mines quite a few laughs as her character gets deeper into the sting operation, especially when she's trying to signal for help from Lee and Box's characters in a rather "hot and bothered" manner.
Smith's character portrays the straight man throughout the show, inconveniently walking in and out of hilariously compromising situations usually involving Voller's character. Ruff, as Agent Frank, is also hysterical as he frequently misinterprets signals being sent him by multiple characters.
Walrath's Scottish hitman provides much comedic fodder as he makes his entrance late in the first act and dominates much of the second act action.
From his raving about his non-functioning bagpipes to being misunderstood by Ruff's character — not to mention his "assassination outfit" — Walrath delivers a winning performance.
Etua's character provides the show's biggest plot twist — one I won't give away here — and she again demonstrates her comic timing with great effectiveness.
It's been awhile since I've seen a production that made me laugh until my sides hurt, that "Unnecessary Farce" did just that.
It's another reminder of that the talent on our SCT stage rivals that of any Broadway or professional theater production.
The show continues its run at the Playhouse on Main at 7:30 p.m. daily through Saturday.
Call the SCT Box office at 323-6855 to reserve seats.


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project site: http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/ [mit.edu]
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnEN9B18v6Q [youtube.com]
Then, of course, the telephone's such a _convenient_ thing; it just sits there and _demands_ you call someone who doesn't want to be called. Friends were always calling, calling, calling me. Hell, I hadn't any time of my own. When it wasn't the telephone it was the television, the radio, the phonograph. When it wasn't the television or radio or the phonograph it was motion pictures at the corner theater, motion pictures projected, with commercials on low-lying cumulus clouds. It doesn't rain rain any more, it rains soapsuds.
Yep, my thoughts exactly
Q. What purpose would this technology serve?
A. Joe Camel floating high above in 3D over our schools recruiting new customers to the ranks.
They my even be able to personalize this one day Minority Report fashion
" Joe slashdot geek, would you like a virtual prostitute today? Or maybe rent one of our new sexbots"
I'm from Tennessee, and people around here enjoy many amateur engineering projects involving projectiles. You may have heard of something called a "potato gun."
I have a feeling free-floating billboards would spark a resurgence in their popularity.
Don't worry. It won't work.
These things need power to keep flying. Currently the best batteries in terms of power/weight ratio are li-po. Li-po batters give you about 10 minutes flying time with a small chopper similar in size and weight to these things. Of course these will actually draw more power than that for the bright LEDs and more complex sensor/telemetry system.
Oh, and li-po batteries have some nasty problems. If you overcharge or try to draw too much power from them too quickly they explode. The pl
buzz kill. pay no attention to the rack sized power supply behind the curtain.
turn the goal posts into Tesla coils and voila!
Yes this sounds like a wonderful way to reduce our idiot problem here in the states.
I see Macy's (or rather, the company(s) that do their fourth of july stuff) as being a huge customer and early adopter.
Why reinvent the wheel? Trying to put sheep out of business? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw [youtube.com]
Especially when the swarm notices that you've learned to ignore it so it swoops down to 10 feet above your head.
The hot exhaust-laden air has made me rather parched. What beverage might I consume that would relieve such thirst? I do believe I've seen the name of one such product very recently? Battery acid? No. Horse urine? Nope. Oh, yeah, an only slightly more revolting beverage - printed on the billboard hovering 10 feet above my head - Coca Cola.
Nah, I think I'll just shoot down the leader and all the others will follow. Then I'll go have a glass of water and retain the integrity of my skeletal structure.
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It's not just the downdraft below them. Think about it. You have a fluid (air) That is being sucked downward creating a pressure difference. High pressure below, and low pressure above. This will be offset by a flow of air around the blades and upward. A diagram would look a lot like a torus [wikipedia.org].
There will be a downdraft that they will need to account for, but I don't think it will go very far. There will also be an updraft to the sides that they will need to adjust for. In other words, they can't get t
In Raymond Khoury's book The Sign some evil doers did almost the exact thing using smart nano particles or something. They used it to scare the hell out of the bible thumpers so they could get them all convinced it was the second coming. Read the book if you want to know how it turns out...
Makes me think it'll have the same destiny as that TV show marketing gimmick where they setup little LED robots giving the finger that scared the bejeezus out of Boston and other cities because you could see the D batteries in it.
This swarm technology is pretty cool, and that aspect of the project has merit. However the idea of using this as a mobile aerial display seems like super over kill. If each unit is a pixel or a few pixels, you need hundreds or thousands flying all together, and able to hold station in the wind, imagine recovering them all for charging, loss from crashes...etc.
If you want a mobile aerial display it would be much cheaper and easier to do something like what was used in the opening of the Winter Olympics. Lar
To spend lots of time talking about how cool their idea is, without actually doing it.
FUCK airborne advertisements.
And while we're on the subject, fuck public billboard ads, fuck the impulse isle when I just want to buy some milk for my son at the grocery store, and fuck every other invasive, "can't look away" advertising schemes ever invented. I'm so sick of being plundered by the commercial industry.
Is it too much to ask to look up, knowing you'll see the sky and not a Nike commercial? Jesus Christ.
I just want to buy some milk for my son at the grocery store
Get a cow? Although, it looks like you already tried to apt-get one...
Pretty much all there is to say.
Science-Fiction writers used to go on about how we'd have giant holographs... turns out you can just use physically floating objects and paint images far more easily. Whoa.
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Possibly not one of the honours he was thinking of when he took office but I thought he'd like it anyway. You can follow his squid adventures:
- Go to the Build a Squid interactive,
- Click on 'Find your squid',
- then 'Search for any squid by name' and enter "Barack Obama".
It was a job deciding what colour (or more appropriately colours) he should be. But I decided on the following:
- the biggest eyes because he's got a lot to look out for;
- a good strong mantle (a bit like having a pair of wide human shoulders) because he's got a heap of things to do and much to deliver on;
- a nice pair of big purple fins (purple being a healthy mix of red and blue) to help him steer things in the right direction;
- and long tentacles with a tint of green to reach out for all those 'green' issues.
Good luck with your new job Mr President…. I hope you like your squid.


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The overall thrust of the entry is that despite all the benefits that the REAL ID system offers, it comes with a price tag of associating your real identity to that of an online community.
Why is this an issue? Because you begin to lose control of the information that can be found out about you on the internet. And as TAGN writes, there is a high probability your name will be Googled by prospective employers, clients, customers, or even just some guy trying to sell you stuff.
A lesson learned
For the last 10 years or so I have been guarding my real identity in online games and communities. My last name is just not that common and a Google search will pretty much pop up anything related to me in microseconds.
I have no illusions that if someone wanted to figure out who I am and post my identity that they could do so without much trouble. So the reason I keep my identity guarded isn't because I don't want YOU to know.
The reason is fairly simple and can be best illustrated by this story.
After Warcraft 3 was released (not the MMO, the RTS), I worked on WC3 maps and mods. Being the generally helpful guy that I am, I wrote some guides and posted them on some forums. I never posted under my real name (just a nick) but I did sign up for the forums using my real name.
So imagine my surprise when 6 or 7 years later, upon Googling my name, I find another post on an entirely different website in which MY REAL NAME is credited for writing a guide. Again, remember that the only place I ever posted my name was on the signup page for the forum.
Even today, this is one of the top 30 or so Google results for my name. Ironically, the guides themselves no longer even exist anywhere.
I'm of the opinion that my virtual identity is one that I want to control. As much as I love MMOs, I simply don't want to be asked why I consider myself to be a SERIAL GANKER in a job interview.
And even when it's controlled, it's uncontrolled
I Googled an ex-girlfriend of mine maybe a year ago. No particular reason other than boredom and perhaps a morbid curiosity.
The search results didn't turn up anything that she wrote or that she associated herself with directly. But what it did turn up was pure gold. Basically, she had some type of domestic problem with her roommate.
The pissed off roommate, in all her glory, decided to blog about it. In detail. In which my ex was painted as one of the worst villains in roommate history.
Needless to say it was a great read and my morbid curiosity was well satisfied. Thankfully, I've never pissed off someone in such a way that they've wanted to document it for all the world to see.
Disturbing trend
I don't know if you've noticed it, but there is a trend happening that is moving us AWAY from privacy. Which, to me, is incredible considering that identity theft has become such a common financial risk.
The driving force behind this trend is two-fold. The first is that the under-25 generation doesn't care much about privacy. The second is that it's good for business.
Facebook, Blizzard, Amazon, Google -- they all want to know as much as they possible can about you. Facebook, in particular, is already the world's largest data repository for personal information.
They know who YOU are, who your friends are, what you like, and depending on how much you filled out on your profile -- where you work, went to school and live.
And, of course, all this information is made more useful to them if you give up the fight to control your privacy and let them decide what's important to you and who should be allowed to know things about your private life.
Even scarier is the long-term plan which Raph posted in which they become your single login and wallet for all things on the internet. If that happens, they'll also know all the sites you visit and where you buy stuff.
/tinfoil hat off