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Welcome to the third version of wolf. Sorry for the wait!
Sign-ups are now CLOSED.
This is a specifically themed version of wolf, so I've added some new roles compared to the previous two versions. Do read through them carefully.
General gist of the game: Basically there are two sides, the townies and the wolves. There will be day and night phases, day phases being the time where townies vote for people whom they suspect to be wolves, and the person with the most votes gets lynched, wolf or no. Their identity will then be revealed. During the night phase, wolves vote for who they want to kill through PMs, and special roles get to perform their actions as well.
How to sign up: I trust you know how to sign up. Just post something that says "I wanna join in" or something.
Common terms:
Day Phase: Both townies and wolves vote for who they think should be lynched.
Night Phase: Wolves and special roles take their action.
Inactive killed: You will be inactive killed if you do not vote for more than one day, regardless of what role you hold.
Phase Timing:
Each phase lasts for 24 hours. The day phase starts at 2am GMT-6, and will thus end at 2am GMT +1 the next day, harkening the start of the Night Phase. The end of the Night Phase the next day will mark the start of the Day Phase. This is to ensure players all over the world will be able to vote on time.
Conditions for winning:
Wolves: To lower the number of townies to the current number of their own.
Townies:To kill all the wolves and the survivor.
Mayor: Represented by Charles zi Britannia. The mayor has the advantage of having his vote count for two, should he wish it, and breaking a tie between two players. [This being when said players are tied to be lynched.]
Doctor: Represented by Cécile Croomy[SIZE=2]. The doctor has the ability to save any player, and has the ability to move during both the night and day phases, by PMing me. If, however the doctor and a wolf's vote should clash, either will die based on a coin toss.
Masons: There are 4 masons, represented by the Four Holy Swords: Kyoshiro Tohdoh, Shōgo Asahina, Nagisa Chiba and Ryōga Senba. These four players will know each others roles, but have no special abilities. They will, however be able to strategize among themselves and stack their votes.
Survivor: This role is represented by Diethard Ried. The survivor lives for only himself, and wins if the winning conditions for either side is fulfilled. Throughout the game he has one chance to kill someone, which will be sent to me by form of PM. Wolves cannot kill him; if they try to he will only be exposed, and can be killed by Van Helsing or through lynching.
Van Helsing: Represented by Suzaku Kururugi. This character can move during the night, but has a limit of one kill per night.
Seer: Nunnally Lamperouge / Nunnally vi Britannia. The seer has the ability to check on any players identity by PMing me. This, however is limited to one player per 24 hour phase.
Wolves: Players disguising themselves as townies that vote along with townies in the day phase and pass their own votes in the night phase.
Alpha wolf: The leader of the wolves. Has the ability to override all theiir votes if needed.
Townies: Normal players who vote during the day phase on who to be lynched.Rules:
1. All votes must be in boldboldbold. Or they will not be counted.
2. All lynch votes must be made in the Day Phase. If you do not vote for more than one day, you will be Inactive killed. (Dum dum dum dum.) You may change your vote multiple times, or at least until the day phase is over.
3. If you died, do not post in this thread again until the whole game is over.
4. Also do not post anything in this thread when the Day Phase is over / during the night phase.
5. Once the game has started, do not post in here if you are not a player, unless you are a Moderator.
6. Tell others your role at your own risk.
7. No trolling, no flaming.
Player List:
The Butcher
Blair Waldorf
St Jimmy
The Rebel
Digital Dragon
Pending: TheThunderBringer.


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Earlier this month, the original Dunkin' Donuts on Southern Artery in Quincy got an unusual makeover - one that restored the look and feel of the restaurant to what it was when it opened in 1950, down to the old-fashioned script outdoor sign and horseshoe counter with stools.
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Light is a home's best friend and the unassuming dimmer is a powerful ally.
Just ask Nicole and Bob Drummond, both 57, who recently spent a hefty $365,000, lightening up their 24-year-old home. Sitting on a big lot on a quiet street in the heart of Orléans, the couple decided on a radical renovation to stay in the neighbourhood. Starbucks, the grocery store and the LCBO are down the road and there is a park across the street.
They hired Gerhard Linse (gerhardesign.com) to lead the project, in which almost every wall in the 2,162-square-foot home was rearranged during four hectic months in 2010. Rose-coloured carpeting was carted away and the Salvation Army trucked off boxes stuffed with lamps and every stick of furniture collected while raising two sons.
The couple and Nicole's mother, Rose Lecour, moved out and crews moved in, taking the interior back to the studs, creating a front office and expanding the kitchen across the back of the house.
A stuffy, dark house is now open and filled with new furniture, a drop-dead gorgeous kitchen and lots of light.
There is the natural variety light that floods through the back windows and a patio door and filters through glass blocks set into a kitchen wall. A new skylight over a curvy staircase has turned a dark entrance into a sunny zone.
Then there is the artificial light generated by glass and chrome pendants, silver wall sconces and lots and lots of pot lights.
The retired Air Force colonel and his wife, who is still working as a mortgage broker, start to count, walking from room to room. There are seven pot lights in the den, five in the two-storey entrance, 10 in the kitchen and five in the neighbouring family room.
There are smaller pots under the dark kitchen cabinets, washing light down over red glass-block tiles and even smaller pot lights inside the cabinets, highlighting favourite pieces of china and glass.
"They used to be packed away and we never saw them," says Nicole Drummond.
She remembers sitting down with Linse before the first workman came through the front door. "We talked for several hours about light and how I used the kitchen. He asked where I would prepare dinner, where I read the newspaper, what kind of furniture I planned for the family room. Then he made a lighting plan.
"There aren't any shadows when you are in the kitchen because the pot lights are in the correct place," she says. "There is no shadow on the paper when you are reading at the kitchen bar and there is no glare in your eyes or on the screen when watching television."
Linse introduced added convenience with three-way switches, allowing the couple to turn lights on and off from different locations. "It saves a lot of walking," says Drummond, "especially when you have pots in your hands."
Then there are the dimmers. They are mounted on every light in the house. "You can have too few lights, but never too many," says Linse. "If there is too much light, adjust it down with dimmers. They add instant ambience."
In a plan to declutter table tops, there are only two pairs of lamps in the house, including a crystal set in the master bedroom.
PAGEBREAKThere is the regular switch on the lamp, but also a low wall switch, set within easy reach if someone is reading at night. "I didn't even notice that dimmer," says the colonel during a tour of the master suite, which includes a workout room and elegant bathroom. He points out dimmers and switch controls, clearly enjoying playing with the technology.
"The house is brand new again," he says. "Before it was dark inside. Now, it is a pleasure to come home."
Although a lot of planning went into the location of lighting, they were careful spenders. They splurged at Marchand Lighting Electric, spending $1,500 on a colourful trio of pendant lights hanging in the staircase.
Then they shopped carefully, spending about $1,500 at Multi Luminaire for almost all of the fixtures in the house, starting with frosted white glass and silver pendants over the kitchen bar, a complimentary single frosted glass fixture over the dining room table, silver wall sconces in the family room and pendants in the wild red powder room.
Pot lights were extra.
"We didn't spend a lot, but they look good," says the colonel.
Budget for lighting is always a problem, says Linse. "Most leave it to the end of a project and by then they have blown their budget. Good lighting takes careful planning from the very start of a project."
It doesn't have to be beyond pricey if you use a lot of pot lights, dimmers and layer lighting for different tasks, says the designer, who entered the Drummond house in design awards held last fall by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders' Association. The house was a top contender.
"The right lighting can make a space sing," says Linse. "It can make a dull space become a stunning space. It is the wow factor in design if you do it right."


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Welcome to a full week of eyeliner reviews from my latest finds from March 2011! Each review will be number 1 – 7.
One of my favourite types of liquid eyeliner is the refillable cartridge type, because you can control how much ink flows through. I have the Shiseido one and the Shu Uemura which I love but after 3 refills, the brush as started to fray.
So I bought this one from Aube Couture – a mid-high end brand from Sofina. Their stuff is very pretty but very sensible – proper work make up type colours:
I bought the liner and a refill in BK711. If you buy the pen you automatically get a refill with it.
The pen is nice – the holder is a metallic pink and it's heavyweight like the Shiseido and Shu ones. If this is supposed to last then it has to be well made!
The clicky mechanism is fine too – the Shu Uemura one had a habit of not properly clicking which made it hard to predict how much ink was flowing through.
Here is what the pen looks like inside – it works like a fountain pen:
It takes a good few presses (you can hold down the clicker) for the ink to flow through. It looks like this in the process:
Even though I love these kinds of eyeliner this one didn't hit the spot for me. The ink itself is a murky soft black – I prefer a deep dark black so I found this too wishy-washy. On top of this I don't feel like the liner spread as nicely as it could've – application was slightly blotchy.
Using the thick side of the brush you get the bottom line, using the tip you get the fine line:
Whilst I highly recommend these refillable eyeliners for people want a really easy peasy eyeliner, this one was not the best. Give it a miss.
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If Chapman is in the bullpen, it will make the Broxton signing look incredibly silly.
Because a) Chapman will close, making Broxton a 21M$ set-up guy. or b) Broxton will close, meaning the Reds will be wasting one of the game's best arms as a middle reliever.
I know I'm in the minority, but I'd prefer he stay in the bullpen. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Here's my prediction.
Reds begin Chapman as a set up man in the bullpen. They announce that they are leaving the door open to starting him later in the season.
When Broxton has a couple of bad outings, Chapman takes over as closer and does not start.
That's what I expect. Personally, I'd rather the Reds decide one way or the other. If it's the pen, let Aroldis close from the outset, and you have a great bullpen like last year.
Hopefully Leake has a good year as a starter.
Hopefully Cueto doesn't pull an oblique in the playoffs this year.
I frame the issue this way: Giving every opportunity for Chapman to break the rotation is answered by how it might look in a postseason series, when a member of the rotation like Cueto goes down in game 1, and ALL you're left with is Latos, Chapman, Bailey and Arroyo to finish out the series. Chapman in the bully didn't help us much in games 3, 4 or 5 last year.
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
The most interesting question is this:
How many posts in the thread when Reds announce Chapman will begin the season in the bullpen?
Tradrumor's post asks another good question - without Aroldis, is the Reds' rotation really that good? Is it a playoff winning rotation? I think it's a fair question and probably the key issue as the Reds think this through.
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Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
Using Aroldis Chapman in the bullpen is like driving an Indy car in a go-cart race. Using Mike Leake in the starting rotation is like driving a go-cart at the Indianapolis 500. One job is much more important than the other.
It is wise to use your best soldiers for the whole battle rather than saving them to mop up the enemy stragglers after the battle is almost over. You are much more likely to win the battle if your best soldiers are fighting it.
It is wise to use your best pitchers when the outcome of the game is being fought over in the early and middle innings rather than saving them to get the last three outs when the game is already pretty much decided.
Using Aroldis Chapman for the last inning with a three run lead is a waste. You don't need a great pitcher to protect a three run lead. He should be used to make sure the Reds get a lead in the first place, not to wipe up the crumbs. Even a bad pitcher can protect a three run lead 99% of the time.
You are more likely to have a lead in the late innings if your best pitchers throw more innings. As a starter Chapman will throw 3x more innings than he would as a reliever. If he doesn't throw those extra innings then a lesser pitcher will.
And while, as Doug often points out, a single reliever isn't that critical, I think differently about premium late inning relievers. Guys who regularly cover the 8th or 9th inning effectively. Not the same thing as a middle man innings eater.
The problem here, of course, is that Chapman's success level as a starter is unknown. So it's trading a relatively sure thing in the bullpen to something more questionable in the rotation.
To me, this one is for the professionals. They have to project how good a starter Chappy can be. If they believe he has enough different pitches, stamina, etc., and is likely to be a first rate starter, the decision is made.
If they think the odds of him being a first rate starter is in the 50-50 range, I think he stays in the pen.
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Kohl's. I was in the store here with my daughter yesterday, and I bought a pretty cute little dress for her that was intended as her Easter dress. Well, after we got home, she was having a friend spend the night (no school today), and went in to put on the dress to model for her friend. Which was when we realized there was a rip in the lace sleeve around the armpit.So today we returned ... that dress happened to be a hot seller. In the store, it came in three colors--black, a cream/almost an oatmeal, and coral (the one she got was the coral one). While there were still plenty of the other two, there was *one* coral dress on the rack, and it was a size XS (daughter is going to be 12 shortly, she wears a size S). Daughter didn't want either of the other colors, I happened to see two more of the coral on a return rack, but they were both the wrong size also (both were size L). No way was she going to fit into the XS. Well, the clerk didn't give us any grief about the return, called back to the person working juniors just to make sure that they didn't have any other size S coral because we obviously wanted the dress more than the refund. No luck there, so I got the refund.Came home, and they did have it in the right size and color on line. So I've ordered it, and it should be here within a week or so (so plenty of time for getting here before Easter). Tomorrow I'll have the email with the tracking so I'll know for sure. But Kohl's always is like that--most everything I've bought there was worked great, but on those occasions when I do have a problem, they'll try to make right with the merchandise if possible and a cheerful refund if not.Of course, I have to deal with the fact that my almost-12yo daughter looks more like 14 in that dress. It is cute--I'd totally wear it myself if I were 25-30 years younger, but wow, my baby is growing up.
Chik-fil-AToday, I went through the drive through and ordered a chicken nugget meal with an unsweetened iced tea. When I got to the window, after paying, I told the cashier that I never order sandwiches in the drive-through because pickles always end up on the sandwich (even when requested without them), and I don't want them and don't have time to wait for my order to be fixed. I get my food, leave and once I arrive at my office, I find that instead of nuggets, I received a sandwich with extra pickles. I call the restaurant to explain the problem, and they delivered the nuggets to my office, three miles away.
I really love Wegman's. [grocery chain]The produce and meat are incredibly fresh, there is a gourmet bakery and a food court in my store, and many brands are carried. The prices of the things I like are comparable to Walmart, and the customer service is supreme.The only downside - I haven't found Alex Baldwin in there, yet.
Chapters. They are my go to store for books, and always will be.
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Tocatì, International Festival of Street Games
Tenth Edition – 21, 22, 23 September 2012
Verona, Old Town
The tenth edition of Tocatì, the International Festival of Street Games, is organized by the Associazione Giochi Antichi in collaboration with the Municipality of Verona.
Born in 2003, the Festival was immediately a great success. Since 2006 it has been dedicated to a different country each year (2006 Spain, 2007 Croatia, 2008 Scotland, 2009 Greece, 2010 Switzerland), represented by its traditional games, music, dancing and gourmet features.
The theme of this year's festival is the European tradition of fun, and this will give us a way, thanks to many experts from all over the country, to study the situation of the traditional European game in its various forms.
For three days, on 21, 22 and 23 September 2012, the games and music which came to Verona in the past ten years, as well as a preview of future editions can be met.
Like every year, there are the most representative Italian games of the past, as well as numerous recreational traditions never been to the Festival before. Groups of gamers, ancient traditions and playful gestures, various personalities from the world of culture, music, singing and dancing are going to fill the streets and squares of one of the most beautiful cities in the world (for the occasion, the traffic is diverted from roads and cars disappear) where the public can discover and play fifty games.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham believes "the best way to confront a homicidal maniac who enters a school is for them to be met by armed resistance from a trained professional."
That's what he said in the wake of President Barack Obama's much-discussed gun violence prevention proposals.
He also cited the case of a Georgia mother who effectively repelled an intruder who had broken into her home, saving herself and kids from harm.
"In the case of a young mother defending her children against a home invader -- a real-life event which recently occurred near Atlanta -- six bullets may not be enough," Graham's statement read. "Criminals aren't going to follow legislation limiting magazine capacity. However, a limit could put law-abiding citizens at a distinct disadvantage when confronting a criminal."
I asked Graham's office which part of the president's proposal he could support and reminded them that the mother was armed with a six-bullet pistol, not an assault rifle.
Maybe he would vote to close the gun show loophole that allows the sale of 40 percent of guns in this country to be made without background checks.
Maybe he could get behind the effort to free up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct comprehensive research into the causes of gun violence.
Maybe he has ideas that might be more effective.
His office declined to answer specific questions, telling me to wait on the Congressional hearings scheduled for later this month.
But they were quick to point to the incident in Atlanta.
"I believe she shot the intruder 5 times yet he still managed to get in his car and flee the scene," Graham spokesman Kevin Bishop. "What would have happened if there had been 2 or 3 intruders?"
His question illustrates the type of thinking that might turn an honest attempt to curb gun violence into an arms race.
Graham's office and many gun rights advocates have asked that question. What if there had been two or three intruders?
I'll bite.
What would have happened if there had been five or six intruders? 10 or 20?
What if that lone intruder had been armed with a .223 Bushmaster instead of a crowbar?
What if he had the sort of shoulder-fire rockets used to breach the U.S. consulate in Libya?
Such thinking only leads to one conclusion: The only answer to gun violence is to arm as many law-abiding citizens with as many high-powered weapons as possible – just in case they come across a bad guy who is also well armed.
Don't tell Graham about the infamous 1997 shootout in Los Angeles between the police and bank robbers dressed like commandos.
Here's how one news account described that event:
"More than 200 police were on hand for the siege, which lasted more than an hour. Armored personnel carriers and dozens of police cars, fire engines and ambulances were called to subdue the attackers and attend to the wounded."
"Wearing body armor and carrying a trunk full of weapons, the robbers were ready for a fight. And that's exactly what they delivered, firing multiple hundreds of rounds, according to police."
"They fired armor-piercing bullets at anything that moved, and one suspect used a getaway car as a shield. Two suspects fought fiercely to the death, killed by helmeted police who fired bullets to the head at close range."
There will be rare cases such as those during which the good guys are outgunned, no matter how much we relax or tighten our gun laws.
That's why this discussion must focus on all the reasons the U.S. is No. 1 among like countries for gun violence, and not devolve into simple-minded talking points, particularly from our most influential leaders.
The best way to confront a homicidal maniac who enters a school – or temple or mall or movie theater – is not for him to be met by armed resistance from a trained professional.
It is to prevent him from getting the gun.
The question is, how to do that while making sure that others are allowed to protect themselves the way the woman in Atlanta did.


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MARANA, Ariz. -- Bring together the top 64 players in the world and no one knows what to expect. Especially at the Match Play Championship.
MARANA, Ariz. -- Bring together the top 64 players in the world and no one knows what to expect.
Especially at the Match Play Championship.
Hunter Mahan, the defending champion, was asked yesterday to list the top three players who have the best reputation in this format. He made logical choices in Luke Donald, Tiger Woods and Ian Poulter.
Donald, who won this event in 2011, has a magnificent short game and can produce the kind of shots that change momentum in a match. Poulter, the star of just about every Ryder Cup he plays, has such a strong self-belief that he can will his way to wins, as he did at Dove Mountain in 2010. And Tiger, well, is Tiger.
"Just a great player, and he doesn't like to lose," Mahan said.
Before anyone pencils in a bracket that puts those three players in the semifinals, consider recent history.
Donald was No.1 in the world and lost in the first round a year ago. Poulter hasn't made it beyond the opening round since he won the Match Play Championship.
Woods, the only back-to-back winner of this World Golf Championship, hasn't made it out of the second round since his last win, in 2008.
The brackets are set up like they are in other sporting events, whether it's a Grand Slam event in tennis or the NCAA basketball tournament. The difference in golf is that over 18 holes, there's not much to separate No.1 from No.64.
It all will start to unfold Wednesday on The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain, a Jack Nicklaus design that features massive slopes on the greens and might not be much fun to play if not for the format of match play.
Rory McIlroy is the No.1 seed and takes on Shane Lowry in the first of two matches between Northern Ireland and Ireland. Graeme McDowell faces Padraig Harrington in the opening round. Woods opens against Charles Howell III, while Poulter faces Stephen Gallacher of Scotland.
Most of the players arrived yesterday for practice or to see the golf course.
All of them would like to stick around as long as possible.
"If you get to the weekend, it's one of the most fun weeks of the year," Geoff Ogilvy said last week. "If you lose the first round, it feels like the worst week of the year."
Ogilvy failed to qualify for the first time since he won in 2006, when it was held at La Costa, though he isn't the only one missing. Retief Goosen ended his streak of playing in the Match Play for 13 consecutive years by not being high enough in the world ranking.
The top 66 qualified because Phil Mickelson (family) and Brandt Snedeker (sore ribs) are not playing.
David Toms knows both sides of this feeling. It was fun when he reached the championship match against Woods in 2003, and it was a blast two years later when he smoked Chris DiMarco in the final to win. And then there was the time he lost to Sergio Garcia in the opening round three years ago.
"I lose my first match and then I got picked for drug testing," Toms said. "I said, 'Don't you think you should test the guy who just won?' But it's a great week if you have a chance at the end."
The tough part, of course, is getting started.
It's not a good feeling to lose early, particularly for some of the international players who have crossed oceans to get here. Such was the plight of Thomas Bjorn one year. He played 14 holes and was on his way back to Europe.
Mahan was asked the feeling of losing the opening match, climbing into the van for a slow, long ride back to the clubhouse.
"You just don't want to be there anymore, unless you win," he said. "Then, you don't have a problem signing anything that anyone wants you to sign. But it's a weird feeling. The van can't move fast enough. People can't get out of the way fast enough. Everything bothers you. And if someone asks you, 'How was your day?' you want to punch them."
There have been some quick tempers over the years.
Woods, the one year he lost in the opening round as the No. 1 seed, walked down the 18th fairway alone at La Costa with a few thousand people in tow, not saying a word. Ernie Els is known as "Heisman" after losing in the opening round.
That's the gesture he once made when he saw a reporter approaching.
A European Tour official approached Pat Perez for a comment after he lost one year. Perez offered three words. Two of them couldn't be printed.
Mahan said of Perez: "He probably does all the things I think about."


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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
- Andy Warhol
First -- textual blogs. Then -- foto blogs (Flikr, FotoLog). Next -- video clips, then continuous video-streaming, and so on with the possible future technologies (3D-video, avatars, etc.)
in the future, everyone will have their own public-access TV show.
Not everyone has a blog today -- most people never will. This hobby (or profession) is not for all. Some prefer hiking, cars, computers...
That hasn't stopped pod casting has it?
All of these personal communication technologies, from email, through web sites, the evolution into blogs, podcasting and now this are full of crap. Really. After all, how many web sites of the ones you've surfed have you found interesting enough to check on a regular basis? 10%? And how many of those were personal sites?
Most of the net content is ego based, not quality based, and unless someone is prepared to put quality content on there it will remain as marginalised as the current ego trip hyped as pod casting.
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Screw that...in the future, everyone will have their own public-access TV show.
Seriously though...
What's not serious? Everybody already has their own radio show [ipodder.org]. And according to NPR [onthemedia.org], one of the most popular podcasts is The Dawn and Drew Show [dawnanddrew.com], which is nothing but an ordinary couple discussing their day before going to bed. Not something I'd bother with, but I have to admit that it's better programming than, say, Extreme Makeover.
My own opinion is that the technology isn't there yet for anybody to k
orVideo Distribution Platform Aiming to Peacefully Coexist With TV
Or am I just an old hippy.Linux Can Live Eternally In State Of Perpetual Grooviness With Windows
Sure the image quality of rendered content right now is such that no one is going to mistake it for live action. BUT, when you take a look at what engines like Unreal Engine 3 are capable of and you extrapolate out a few more years then you
At best this will create a lot of 640x320 webcam videos being viewed by noone, and a couple semi-pro's showing their content before going "big time."
Meaning the networks are better at deciding what content the masses want rather then the masses is rediculous! It may be true in the sense that the networks are the only ones who can control the distribution of said content, good or otherwise.
I don't think that is what it means. I think what it means is the networks are better at making content. This is because they have money and employ lots of people who make TV professionally. Doesn't mean it is all good, but it has a better chance of being something
Podcasting is beginning to creep into this, but there aren't more than about a dozen "real" (i.e. not produced originally as a podcast) programs being podcast (e.g. BBC 'In Our Time', Virgin Radio 'Pete and Geoff Show', WGBH Morning Stories), and these aren't otherwise commercially a
For this to kill TV, (or even groovily coexist as an alternative) it would require current producers of worthwhile content (e.g. battlestar galactica rather than survivor) to be willing to publish their content by these means.
Were copyright terms reasonable, this would be a great way to publish collections of works that have entered the public domain. As it is, this could still be a good forum for playing the few old movies and films that are now public. Add on to that, some cheaply produced, but inter
Maybe this is a bit off topic, but it has to be said.. Why is every other new tech story on slashdot about one technology/software/whatever trying to KILL another one? I think the appropriate word is "competition". Headlines like the above have lost their sensationalism through over use. Everyone take one step backwards towards reality.
That said.. unless your average 'other user' can spend millions to put together quality and/or entertaining programming, I don't see television leaving the picture anytim
If one thing the internee has done is lower the bar for people to get their creative works out to people.
If Sturgeon's Law of 90% of everything is crap was true before, as you lower the bar the percentage of crap goes up and finding the good stuff harder.
I can't help but think TV like this will suffer the same problems, but made worse that it requires more technical skills and money (or at least access to equipment) than say writing or making music. Look at public access TV and fan films.
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Loking for the parents of Mamie Treharne, NSW Australia
Mamie Traherne lived in Sydney in 1920-80. She died in Lismore in 1981. I am looking for records of her parents Georgina Yates and Treharne her father.I was told they were Welsh.
Looking for Brophey, Gunn, Sheridan, Tressiter, Treharne, Meredyth, Yates NSW Australia
The convict John Sheridan transported from Ireland on the Larkin to NSW in 1817, was also known as Dublin Jack Sheridan, for whom a reward was posted in the Sydney Gazette of 1826. He was freed by servitude, and appears to have had a son around 1857, William John Sheridan of Singleton NSW, whose daughter Maude Claire married into the Brophey family, free immigrants from Ireland.
Dublin Jack's great great granddaughter Jeanette Brophey married Brian Meredyth, descended from Old King Cole (Rodhri Mawr) and thereafter Sir Richard Meredyth who was a Bishop in Ireland in 1592, having spent 10 years in the Tower of London for treason, for which he was later exonerated by Elizabeth 1. His descendant Charles Augustus Jervis Meredyth was a taxi driver in Sandy Bay, Hobart, when he inherited the title, thus becoming known as the Cabman Baronet.Hence there has been a reunion in Australia of previous enemy factions in Ireland, after over 4 centuries.
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He believes it could be the beginning of a big payback. "Nature's vengeance. For all the tweety birds I shot with my BB gun, and all the fish, and all the ducks. I'm probably going to be stomped to death by webbed feet."
What's prompted Harvey Bennett's concerns was a run-in with a deer early in the morning last Thursday near Devon in Amagansett.
"I just bought a really nice bike. It was the third time I rode it. I just caught the deer out of the corner of my eye. Next thing I knew I was laying in the road. He must have grazed the rear end. I'm bruised and my knee got skunned up [that's Bonac for "skinned" as in "skunning an eel"], but I'm okay."
Striped bass, bluefish, porgies, and fluke are in good supply in Gardiner's Bay, but he said he's not sure if he dare go fishing.
The big question coming out of the Montauk SurfMasters Tournament this week is this: Will Gary Krist regret not weighing in his 21.36-pound striped bass? Not a big bass, relatively speaking, but then again the surfcasting harvest since the spring shoot-out tournament began on May 1 has been lean, to say the least. Krist's fish did place second in the Paulie's Tackle shop tournament over the weekend.
The point is, a 20-something-pound striped bass could very well take the prize, so better to look silly weighing in a 20-pounder than look silly when a smaller one wins it all.
The good news is there has been some pretty consistent casting action on the north side of the Montauk Lighthouse in recent days. Fred Kalkstein, an organizer of the Montauk SurfMasters tourney, said there was a 32-pounder taken over the weekend using a darter lure, "and some very reliable rumors of a few 'lost girls,' which would have tipped the scales north of 20 pounds for sure."
Speaking of lost girls, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has decided to reduce the number of tags that each of the state's commercial striped bass permit holders get this year. By state law, each bass caught for the market must be tagged.
The reason, according to Arnold Leo, secretary of the East Hampton Town Baymen's Association, stems from the fact that the state allocated more tags to each fisherman last year because for several years the overall state quota had not been met. "Lo and behold, last year instead of the usual 10 percent underage, they used up all the tags, plus the average weight of the fish was greater," Mr. Leo said.
The state quota for commercial fishermen will be 828,000 pounds this year, down from 854,731 pounds. The number of permit holders has remained pretty much the same. Each permit holder received 241 tags last year. They will get 210 for 2012.
The extra tags and extra weight resulted in a harvest surplus, thus the reduction in tags this year. Mr. Leo said that unlike the commercial fishery, the recreational side has no harvest cap. Sports are permitted to catch as many bass as they can at a rate of one per day, or two per day on for-hire boats, that measure at least 28 inches long. The total catch is computed later via random survey.
"The argument we would make is that this is a reallocation of the fishery, allowing the sportfishing quota to increase while capping the commercial harvest and then not acknowledging that the stock is in such good shape. There is a colossal stock of adult bass," Mr. Leo said.
A portion of that colossal stock was caught during the Ducks Unlimited fishing tournament held from the Star Island Yacht Club over the weekend. Scott Leonard, who runs the tackle section at the yacht club, said the winning bass weighed 41 pounds. Most of the bass weighed in the 20 to 30-pound range were caught trolling. During a fishing trip Sam Gershowitz, the yacht club owner, and friends caught two 35-pound bass on eels.
The yacht club is selling live bait eels and live bunker, which are usually in stock Thursdays and Fridays for weekend anglers.
Mr. Leonard reported excellent fluke fishing over the weekend with "a lot of eights" being caught. That is, eight-pound summer flounder. And Mr. Bennett reported the same productive fluke fishing around Buoy 2 in Gardiner's Bay. Dinner-plate-size porgies are schooling in the bay as well.


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Adventure Friday: Thrift Store Shopping in Burbank
Last night was Fashion Night Out in LA. I opted out this year since I can't really afford to go shopping and while boozing & shopping is fun, too many inebriated people in a small store is just asking for trouble (I went to last year's FNOLA so talking from experience). Realized this morning I … Continue reading


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There has long been a constituency on the left that despises Israel for what it perceives to be abusive treatment of the Palestinians. And, it seems, this element made itself heard at the Democratic National Convention.
There has long been a constituency on the left that despises Israel for what it perceives to be abusive treatment of the Palestinians. And, it seems, this element made itself heard at the Democratic National Convention.
During closed-door negotiations by the platform committee to update the wording of the 2008 Democratic Party platform, existing language that declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel was mysteriously removed.
Also deleted was language recognizing Hamas as a terrorist organization and calling on the United States and its allies to "continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel's right to exist, and abides by past agreements."
And, in a story that got much more attention, a reference to "God" also came out - as in a call on government to let U.S. workers make the most of their "God-given potential."
The language about Jerusalem and God was hastily restored a day later after an outcry in the media, and a lot of head-scratching by people in both parties.
But, shamefully, the condemnation of Hamas stayed out. So now, condemning a terrorist organization that has killed women and children is considered controversial by the Democratic Party? That's unbelievable.
About how all this came to pass, and just who it was that removed the language in question, no one is saying.
However, the Obama campaign is talking - in circles. According to Politico, campaign officials at first claimed that President Barack Obama was aware of the changes in the platform and then later insisted that he didn't learn about them until he watched the news. The Associated Press offered a counterview by reporting that Obama didn't know anything about the changes.
What the campaign did fully acknowledge, and wanted everyone to know, was that Obama had personally intervened to restore the language about Jerusalem and God.
Even this was messy. Putting the language back into the platform required a two-thirds voice vote by the delegates. But the voices of delegates against restoring the language turned out to be just as loud - if not louder - than the voices of delegates trying to carry out Obama's directive.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who served as the convention chairman, lost control. He called for three separate voice votes to get the result he wanted, and still couldn't get there. Finally, Villaraigosa declared: "In the opinion of the chair, two-thirds having voted in the affirmative ... "
In the opinion of the chairman? Really?
Inconveniently, someone on the convention floor snapped a photo of the teleprompter just as Villaraigosa was declaring the outcome of the voice vote. What you see, clear as day, are the exact words that Villaraigosa mouthed from the podium.
One of two things happened. Democratic Party leaders knew how the vote was going to turn out before it was called, and thus the language was loaded into the teleprompter for Villaraigosa to dutifully read. Or they hastily fed the language into the teleprompter to help pull the mayor out of the hole he was digging for himself with a series of voice votes that weren't going the way they wanted them to go.
Whatever. The significant thing is that, if you look at what's happening in the Middle East, this is hardly the time for political hijinks and foreign policy by teleprompter.
In March, Obama claimed that his track record in office proved "that when the chips are down, I have Israel's back."
Well, the chips are down. And this president and members of his party have repeatedly turned their back on one of America's best friends and strongest allies.
Recently, the Obama administration brushed aside new and troubling findings in a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency suggesting that Iran's nuclear program is accelerating faster than anyone imagined. According to the report, Iran has ramped up production of nuclear fuel and installed more than 2,000 centrifuges inside a fortified underground laboratory.
In response, the administration rejected calls by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for clear "red lines" that Iran can't cross without risking military conflict.
These are perilous times we're living in.
We are in need of a better president who shows more support for Israel and a firmer hand in dealing with Iran.
This job calls for someone who can be taken at his word, doesn't back down and states unequivocally the right thing to do.
The choice is clear: Mr. Teleprompter for President.
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The Band Perry continues their role as the face of the Outnumber Hunger campaign with the just-announced Bring The Band Perry to Your Hometown contest. Fans can enter for a chance to have lunch with the Perry siblings at Hometown.TheBandPery.com by writing an essay of 100 words or less describing how they are working to help made a difference on the local level.
One lucky entrant will win The Band Perry visit, which also includes a one hour trip to the local Feeding America food bank with the band.
For more information on how to help fight hunger in America, go to OutnumberHunger.com.
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For all you squid fans out there who've been waiting eagerly – and patiently for news on our beautiful colossal squid:
It's (just wait – I'm counting the days back in my diary…) 23 days 'til she goes on display here at Te Papa so today we are launching our Countdown site.
Everyday we will show a new image of the colossal squid and/or the crew involved in this amazing journey so far. You'll be able to access the blog where we'll be updating you on the display installation and also link through to our existing Natural Environment squid info pages.
So save the page to your favourites and check in everyday – be a squid geek and BE PROUD!
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Tubularix is a free opensource game similar to Tetris seen from a tubular perspective. Game's rules and behavior are very similar to the Tetris ones. It's written in c++ with the Qt 4 libraries.
The game can be run on GNU/Linux, Windows or Mac.
Please, send your comments, suggestions, etc. to firstname.lastname@example.com
Youtube video:
Qt 4 (tested on Qt 4.4.3 and 4.5)
Instructions (WINDOWS):
You just need to uncompress the downloaded file, enter the game's directory and run tubularix.exe.
Instructions (GNU/Linux):
If you downloaded a compiled version, you just need to uncompress the file, enter the game's directory and run tubularix.
Compiling and running (GNU/Linux):
- Uncompress the file
- Open a console, go to the game's directory and run:
- qmake (or qmake-qt4, depending on your distribution)
- make
If compilation ends successfully, you can go to the game's directory and run tubularix.
Installation (GNU/Linux):
- Uncompress the file
- Open a console, go to the game's directory and run:
- qmake (or qmake-qt4, depending on your distribution)
- make
- sudo make install
If installation ends succesfully, you can start tubularix directly from a console or launch it from any application launcher.
OS/2 additional notes:
Probably, in order to be able to save high scores correctly you will need to uncomment the lines from mainwindow.cpp that follow this commentary:
//that may solve some QSetting problems in OS/2
Game controls:
P to pause, R to restart game, F to switch between normal mode/full screen and ESC to exit full screen mode.
Player 1 (right player):
Left and right arrows to move, down arrow to move down faster, B to drop the piece, up arrow to rotate piece counter-clockwise and space to rotate clockwise.
Player 2 (left player):
A and D to move, S to move down faster, X to drop the piece, W to rotate piece counter-clockwise and Q to rotate clockwise.
Configuration files (Windows):
Settings are stored in Windows registry at:
Configuration files (GNU/Linux):
Configurations are stored at $HOME/.config/tubularix/tubularix.conf
Tubularix is available in czech, english, galician and spanish.
Created and maintained by Miguel Escudero Gestal firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Quote from: kingsrings on July 29, 2010, 02:03:18 PMQuote from: jimithing on July 29, 2010, 01:54:00 PMHow long of a drive back to the parking area are we talking here?They averaged one to two hours.I think given the length of the car ride, it's more reasonable that someone would fall asleep.I can also see where it would also be important to have at least one person awake and interacting with the driver, since it is a longer drive.Were you in the front passenger seat?
Quote from: jimithing on July 29, 2010, 01:54:00 PMHow long of a drive back to the parking area are we talking here?They averaged one to two hours.
How long of a drive back to the parking area are we talking here?
I tend to nod off during long rides, so I'd also vote not rude. It's not even voluntary on my part - sometimes I don't even realize I'd dozed off until I wake up, if that makes sense. Though it never occurred to me that just seeing another person sleeping could make someone sleepy as well (kind of like yawns seeming to spread from one person to the next?), but he should've explained that to you if that was the case.
I didn't think about the aspect of it making someone else tired by seeing another person in the car sleeping, that makes sense. That's especially true when it's just you and the driver in the car, because it's so visible, and then they don't have someone to help keep them awake. Although in this case with his car being so big - I wonder if that could of been solved by me sitting in the back of the car where I wasn't as visible? As far as the social aspect of it though, there wasn't a whole lot of talking going on anyway in the car, as we were all bedraggled.
It's not just that they can see you. I firmly believe (on the basis of absolutely NO scientific evidence) that sleeping people give off a sleep pheromone, and when you are around them, this pheromone, when breathed in, makes you sleepy.The lack of ventilation in an enclosed car means an extra-intense dose of this sleep pheromone.and of course, children give off a higher level, as do sleeping kittens and sleeping cats. So never, never, never drive at night in a car with two sleeping children.
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You're dyslexic? Well, good on you for doing such a fine job! That's a very difficult thing for a writer to deal with.
Yes, I had trouble with fanfiction.net too. The thing that threw me was that you have to split your book into chapters and upload each chapter individually. Once I'd worked that out, I was able to follow the rest of the instructions.
I have sometimes written chapters out of order, but these days I usually only sit down to write when I have a full story in my head, and then I go from beginning to end.


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Happy Canada Day! We'll be celebrating our nation's birthday with delicious food and plenty of drinks. Hoping you can too. Why not join us to chat all things wine and brew with our experts Christopher Waters @waters_wine and Jordan St.John, @saints_gambit. Send in your favourite summertime picks and questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In what has become something of a trend, a filmmaker seeking a "small-town vibe" encounters the Hudson Valley and decides to shoot his or her film here.
In what has become something of a trend, a filmmaker seeking a "small-town vibe" encounters the Hudson Valley and decides to shoot his or her film here.
This happened in June 2011, when Ramaa Mosley, who has made videos for bands such as Creed, Tonic and Five for Fighting, and commercials for brands such as McDonald's and Wal-Mart, found Kingston, Beacon and Newburgh for her film "The Brass Teapot." It provides the setting for Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano), a young married couple who find wealth through a strange antique.
"The Brass Teapot" began its theatrical release Thursday in Los Angeles, but Friday it'll be screened at the Beacon Theater, and Saturday it heads to the Downing Film Center. The screenings are an acknowledgment of the film's production location.
"It became an obvious choice," Mosley said. "It was supposed to be set in Indiana ... it feels like we're in Indiana."
Yes, the clean city streets, the antiquated buildings — some Colonial — the nearby country roads; Kingston, Beacon and Newburgh provided Mosley and her crew with the type of welcoming atmosphere necessary for her small indie flick. They also shot at Umbra of Newburgh, a certified soundstage, along with the Newburgh Armory Unity Center, staying at the Fishkill Extended Stay for weeks.
"I felt like the Hudson Valley community really rallied behind our film," Mosley said. "It was instrumental in getting this project made. You really need a lot of friends, especially when you have an indie movie."
The film started as a short story that became a comic book, then a screenplay. The comic book hasn't yet been published, but Mosley hopes to explore possibilities with an upcoming trip to WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif. The film, which is being distributed by Magnolia Pictures, also stars Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls"), Alia Shawkat ("Arrested Development") and Bobby Moynihan ("Saturday Night Live").
The screenings Friday and Saturday will be followed by Q&As with selected members of the cast and crew, but Mosley can't make it out for these events. She'll likely be checking in with a special digital message, however.
"I would love to come back to the Hudson Valley and shoot again," she said. "I feel so fondly for the community."


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Woman accused of cutting husband's throat jailed on murder charge
This article was originally published April 22, 2014 at 8:19 a.m. Updated April 22, 2014 at 9:33 a.m.
A 61-year-old woman who police say killed her husband by cutting his throat last week was jailed Monday night on a charge of first-degree murder.
Marilyn Gail Patterson remained in jail Tuesday morning after an initial appearance in Little Rock District Court, where her bail was set at $200,000.
Patterson is accused of killing 61-year-old Kenneth Patterson by cutting his throat with a knife while he was in bed and then attempting to kill herself by cutting her own wrists, according to a Little Rock Police Department arrest report. It happened before 7 a.m. Friday at the couple's sixth-floor residence at Buffington Towers Apartments, 224 E. Seventh St.
Authorities said Marilyn Patterson told investigators her husband had cut himself, but the wounds did not appear to be self-inflicted.
Marilyn Patterson was taken by ambulance from the crime scene to UAMS Medical Center, where she was treated for her injuries before being arrested.
The report said Marilyn Patterson was arrested at Little Rock Police Department headquarters, where suspects are often taken for questioning before being formally taken into custody. It wasn't clear when she was discharged from the hospital, but a booking photo taken Monday night at the jail appeared to show Marilyn Patterson still in a hospital gown. She was booked in about 8 p.m.
Marilyn Patterson didn't speak in the brief court appearance by video before District Judge Alice Lightle, who set the high bail and entered a preliminary innocent plea for Patterson.
A public defender representing Patterson for the hearing said she has bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia.
Police have said the motive for the killing isn't known.
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Funeral services for Mr. Boyce Ray Holt, age 79, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, February 17, 2013 at the chapel of Golden Funeral Home, Bastrop, LA with Bro. Tim Post officiating. Interment will be at the Mer Rouge Cemetery, Bastrop, LA.
The family will receive friends Sunday from 12 noon until 2 p.m. at Golden Funeral Home. Mr Holt was a retired Center Point Energy employee. He attended and had been active with Bethel Baptist Church and First Baptist Church. Mr Holt is survived by his two sons, Boyce Ray Holt II, and Benny Michael Holt and wife Debby, both of Poplar Bluff, MO; the mother of his children, Melba Yazell of Poplar Bluff, MO; his two sisters, Glenda Huffman and husband Kirk of Sheridan, AR, and Julia Foll and husband Frank of Mountain View, AR; his brother, Scotty Holt and wife Yong of Newark, AR; and his two grandchildren, Sarah Holt and Hannah Holt.
Mr Holt is preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Jewell Holt; two wives, Mary Louise Eppinette Holt, and Linda Shores Holt; and two brothers, Arthur T. Holt, and Gary Holt.
Mr. Holt was an avid sports fan and was a 1952 graduate of Newport High School, Newport, AR. He attended Arkansas State University in 1952 and 1953 where he played football and baseball.


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Gilbert Cisneros, 78, of Big Spring, Texas died Saturday Nov. 02, 2013 at his residence. Visitation will be 6: p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday with Vigil services at 7 p.m. at Myers & Smith Chapel. Funeral mass will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.Graveside services with military honors will be 3 p.m.. Friday at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco.He was born Dec. 5, 1934, to Isabel and Jose Cisneros in Robstown,Texas. He came to Big Spring in 1959 from San Antonio. He served in the Army during the Korean era. He worked at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Big Spring for more than 30 years, where he retired as an electrician. He was a wonderful husband and father. His family was always the most important thing to him. He enjoyed fishing and made his most memorable catch of a 180-pound marlin measuring 8'10" off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He also was an avid bowler. He owned and operated the Webb Bowling Lanes located on the Webb Air Force Base in the 1980s. He bowled in several local leagues as well as a traveling league. Until recent years, he participated in both State and National ABC Bowling Tournaments. He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church.He is survived by his wife Regina Cisneros of Big Spring; two daughters Isabel Blanek and husband Charlie of San Angelo and Reina Cisneros and Chad Heinis of Big Spring; four sons Gilbert Cisneros Jr. and wife Deborah of San Antonio, David Cisneros and wife Virginia of El Paso, Texas, Paul Ray Cisneros and wife Rachel of Abilene, Texas, and Matias Cisneros and wife Maina of Big Spring; four sisters Aurora Roque of San Antonio, Texas, Rebecca Garcia and husband Enrique of Big Spring, Luisa Garza and husband Ireneo of Buda, Texas, Elvira Flores and husband Ricardo of Abilene; seven grandchildren Danny Cisneros, Kassandra Ortega, Les Coleman Jr., Paul Cisneros Jr., Brandon Cisneros, Shayne Cisneros and Harper Cisneros; four great grandchildren Nevaeh Ortega, Natalie Ortega, Les Coleman III and Lailah Coleman; several nieces and nephews; and his first wif, Carmen Florez.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one daughter: Ester Cisneros, one brother, Vidal Cisneros and two sisters, Alvina Guiterrez and Dora Cisneros.Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home and Chapel. Please pay your respects online at www.myersandsmith.comPaid Obituary


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As disappointed global stock markets plummet in response to the Federal Reserve's latest stimulus initiative, few investors are paying attention to what may be the Fed's real intention behind this new plan: mortgage refinancing.
For the longest time, I have been convinced that the housing market holds the key to economic growth (or lack of it) in the U.S. As such, I have been hoping against hope that one or more of a long line of presidential candidates would actually have the courage and intellect to recognize and address our main problem.
Instead, I hear how "we need to get America back to work" or "we need to roll back all these regulations that are preventing
Over the last few months, the stock market has traded in a range that has confounded both bulls and bears alike. Now, we are fast approaching the top of the range once again. Will the averages disappoint once again or are we on the verge of a break out?
We turned to our old friend John Roque, technical strategist at WJB Capital Group, for some insight. Many readers know John either through these columns or because of his many appearances on CNBC and other media outlets.
"The S&P 500 Index has serious resistance at 1,220-1,227 and then 1,250," he says, "Meanwhile, support levels are 1,150, 1,100 and 1,050. However, 950 is not out of the question."
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"U.S. stocks opened higher Thursday as the Federal Reserve and four of the world's other major central banks agreed to make U.S. dollars more readily available in Europe's struggling financial system."
" ... Early Thursday, investors welcomed the news that the Fed — along with the central banks of England, Switzerland, Japan and the euro zone — is coordinating a program to boost dollar liquidity in the region."
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Titled Biohazard: Degeneration for Japanese audiences, the movie will, according to Capcom, feature "groundbreaking visual effects and a brand-new storyline" and is planned for a "terrifying release" in 2008.
It is currently unclear if that "brand-new storyline" bit means the feature will deviate from the plot of the game, as Paul W.S. Anderson's live-action trilogy has, or if it will simply investigate another aspect of the franchise's ever-growing zombie-oriented mythology, which goes so far as to encompass zombie elephants.
Other unknown factors include Capcom's plans for distribution--theatrical or straight-to-video--and the timeline of international releases.


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If you are building this thing like a fortress with super insulation and foam, you better find someone who knows how to size the A/C or you will have water dripping from the ceiling.
Example: friend had a 1700 sq ft 2 story (850 a floor) plus full basement. House was foamed including roof deck. Lots of windows, probably lots more than a townhouse with people on the sides. And exposure on both sides which even an end townhouse won't have. We get similar temps and humidity as NYC.
She did fine with a 2 ton. The 92% furnace was 60K 2 stage with 36K input on low. Each level was a zone. Furnace couldn't go to high without all 3 zones calling. She never turned on the basement stat. So this house heated below zero on 33,000 BTU output.
Dealers just don't know how to size a tight house. My friend the foamer who did this house, showed me an email from another customer who listened to their HVAC sub on sizing and now has humidity problems.


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Typical Tosu*.
And then there's the ball of class with this tattoo...
According to tipster who sent it to Deadspin, the body art above belongs to one of his co-workers whom he described exactly as you'd expect somebody with this on him to be described:
Basically he is the biggest bigot/redneck to have ever walked this earth but that's makes him so goddamned adorable. We live in Columbus and he would happily chop his own dick off to bring Tressel back. This is also the same kid who claims to have, in his own words, achieved the "unpossible" because he was entirely convinced that he had smoked so much weed his poop turned green. So yeah, go Bucks, I guess?
Yeah, those bigots are oh-so cuddly and cute, aren't they?
Seriously, is there any doubt this guy is a complete asshat? Really? You doubt it? Look at the tattoo again. The man paid money to have someone permanently put a tattoo of a giant nut mascot - with its pants unbuckled for realism - anally raping a wolverine. Apparently "Fuck Michigan" wasn't classy enough for this guy so he decided to go full-on visual sodomy.
How "adorable."
On second thought, I'm now guessing that "bigot" is probably one of the nicer things you can say about this dude.
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In Hawaii, the average person apparently eats about 5 cans of Spam per year, more than anywhere else on Earth. They fell in love with it during World War 2, when it was often the only meat available.
I personally fear Spam.
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between what's cute and what's idiotic.
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This week Dennis Wholey speaks with Dr. Dino Patti Djalal, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia. Ambassador Djalal explains many aspects of his country, including the fact that Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia and a tremendously diverse and complex population.
Visit the Website: http://www.thisisamerica.net/
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The city council agreed 4-2 to pay the law firm Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP $43,000 for its work defending the city's campaign finance law, which was ruled unconstitutional in federal court.
The legal challenge came from the American Beverage Association-funded Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes, which sued the city over its campaign disclosure laws requiring large, front page disclosures on all campaign mailers.
City Attorney Bruce Goodmiller said: "During the August recess the city was sued by the CCBT in federal court. We had a week to respond to a highly specialized, cutting edge first amendment campaign election issue. We had an opponent who sued us with a bevy of high-priced Washington DC attorneys to sue the city."
Goodmiller added, "The firm defended us at a deeply discounted rate."
Bates called the defense, and Measure N, the penny per ounce tax on sugar sweetened beverages that was defeated by 67 percent of voters on Nov. 6, a "big waste of time and money … totally ridiculous."
Councilman Corky Booze was more colorful: "I don't call 43,000 a minimal amount of money. They got beat. They got beat. (CCBT's lawyers) came in and stomped your face in the ground."
Councilman Jim Rogers, who wrote the defeated campaign disclosure law, defended the process and the efforts.
"That's the risk that you take. I will continue to do whatever I can to limit the influence of big money outside interests in Richmond politics."


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RAMALLAH, West Bank – A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas is dispatching representatives to Syria to try to secure the safety of Palestinians caught in fighting.
Ahmed Majdalani said Tuesday that representatives will meet Syrian officials to try to protect Palestinian areas from fighting that has engulfed parts of the capital Damascus. Generations of Palestinian refugees have lived in the crowded Damascus area of Yarmouk since their forefathers fled, or were forced to flee, their homes during the 1948 Mideast war surrounding Israel's founding.
Majdalani said they also will try to convince Palestinian factions to stay out of the fighting. The some 500,000 Palestinians in Syria are divided between supporters of rebels and government forces.
Like their Syrian brethren, thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes because of fighting.


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Thought you guys might like this.
My mother was looking through some old photos the other day and came across a picture postcard of Big Klu, autographed to my grandfather.
My grandfather was a pre-union days coal miner in Eastern Kentucky and a simple country preacher. He was a life-long Reds fan, but only got to see them in person once in his entire life - sometime in the 1960s.
That same decade, my aunt - his daughter - who was living and working in Cincy at the time, got the postcard autographed for my grandfather and sent it to him. All these years later it's an incredible find, and one that I'll treasure forever. I was 11 years old when my grandfather died. It was he who gave me my love for baseball, and the Reds. Eleven is far, far too young for a boy to lose his grandfather.
In any event, the files were too big to post here, but follow this link to my Facebook page and it's the first picture in the album.
The second picture, by the way, is the back of the postcard touting Big Klu's restaurant in downtown Cincinnati.
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A pressure blower being used at a pharmaceutical plant to create a fluidized bed for a pill-coating operation.
Single-stage blowers can offer tremendous operating-cost savings in low-pressure, dilute-phase pneumatic systems. Companies have used expensive compressed air for various drying, dust blow-off, air flotation, and cleaning operations. These blowers can also be used for vacuum service for parts hold-down, pneumatic conveying, and dust collection.
Standard single-stage, backward-curve-blade centrifugal fans can be supplied with efficiencies up to 80%. These fans provide oil-free, stable (no-surge) airflow with a nonoverloading horsepower characteristic. Fans of this size are found in printing dryer and metal-finishing systems with wide continuous conveyors. The fans can also be used for vacuum hold-down and air flotation chores in these same systems. Air-slide conveyors are used for gravity flow of hot granular and biosolid materials in the mining and chemical-processing business. The heating and cooling of the drying air can be accomplished for additional cost. High-efficiency filtration and silencing accessories are available. Direct-drive industrial fans and blowers that use standard frame motors are readily maintained and provide dependable service in 24/7 operating conditions.
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Pressure blowers provide relatively high pressures at low volume when compared with other types of centrifugal fans. For the purposes of this discussion, fans with volumes of 10,000 cfm to pressures of 140 in. water gauge (5.0 psig; 80 osi) are considered pressure blowers. Typical applications require constant pressure throughout the system's operating range. Outlet dampers are usually used to control air volume while pressure follows the fan manufacturer's curve values. Consequently, it is a requirement of pressure blowers that they provide stable performance from full-closed to full-wide-open air flow. The simplest pressure blowers employ a straight radial wheel design. These radial-blade wheels are inherently stable and produce moderate-efficiency performance. Pressure blower impeller designs have lower specific revolutions per minute and produce higher pressure and noise levels than other designs. Fan manufacturers have developed alternative designs with either slightly backward-curved or forward-curved blades. The volume and pressure characteristics of these designs remain close to those of radial-blade wheels without sacrificing stable performance conditions. These fan designs are generally directly coupled to a motor through a shaft and bearings, or they are directly mounted on the motor shaft itself. This results in greater reliability for continuously operating systems.
Single-stage pressure blowers are the most common and least expensive of the design choices for industrial systems. They can be provided in alloy and temperature ranges that are not available with multiple-stage and regenerative blowers. It is possible to design single-stage centrifugal blowers with extra-heavy-duty casings used in series to boost pressures beyond normal single-stage maximums while maintaining single-stage efficiencies.
An advanced wheel and aerodynamic housing design combine for air-handling efficiency that is superior to conventional radial-wheel designs.
A primary concern in many of today's industrial applications is the noise-level criteria. To meet these requirements, many pressure blowers require sound attenuation. The backward-curved, high-efficiency wheel design can result in an 8–10-dBA noise reduction over the traditional straight-blade designs. In some cases, this may make the difference between a suitable and an unsuitable installation. Another source of concern is the sound level of the electric motors driving the blowers. In some cases, traditional absorptive silencers are not sufficient, and complete noise enclosures are required. These noise enclosures, in turn, can require ventilation air in order to cool the machinery itself. This type of blower silencer package is best designed at the time of equipment purchase in order to gain minimum footprint and maximum noise-level reduction.
Selecting a pressure blower or any other type of fan for applications involving a relatively high pressure requires some special considerations. Pressure blowers are generally used with the pressure entirely on the inlet or entirely on the outlet. Air is compressed as it passes through the fan, lowering the volume and raising the density. In negative-pressure systems, air is rarefied to become less dense. The extent to which the effects of compression and rarefaction must be considered depends largely on the degree of accuracy employed in the actual system design and calculation process. During compression there is also a temperature rise associated with the energy expended to overcome the system resistance and blower inefficiency to determine the proper air volume for selection purposes. The effect on density of both compression and temperature must be considered.
Jeff Sostak is manager—technical support for The New York Blower Co., Willowbrook, IL, a manufacturer of fans and blowers for the industrial and OEM marketplace. Sostak can be reached at 630-794-5738 or [email protected]. For more information on the company, visit www.nyb.com.


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I would like to wish all my readers a happy Christmas. I have received lots of new toys today and will be reviewing these in the coming days so watch this space.
Every night for a few weeks my four cats have been running up and down by the window shaking their tails and making hunting noises. It took a while to find out the cause of all the excitement and it was only after a week or so that I discovered Mr Nibbles (pictured) as I have named him. After several days of sitting by the window with my camera and using a little cheese as bait, I finally managed to get a picture of our elusive night time visitor. At least we know the cats are not crazy now, there really was something out there. Mr Nibbles only visits when all the cats are closed in for the night so for now he is perfectly safe and its great entertainment for the cats.
This article suggests that snorers burn more energy whilst they sleep. Apparently people who are heavy snorers burn around 373 extra calories a day compared with those with only mild symptoms. Scientists studied the link between weight gain and sleep apnoea and looked at 212 patients. On average the volunteers burnt 1,763 calories a day, whilst those with the worst symptoms burnt 1,999. The extra calories amount to the same amount that you would burn if you did a 30 minutes work out in the gym.
This is quite cool its actually three parts of a tree that appear to look like one big tree from outside the house. Greig Howe cut a 35ft Christmas tree into three parts and put one part in his sitting room, another in a bedroom and the last part on the roof. It took several people two days to put the tree in place and some of the branches are so big that the windows of the house need to be kept open. The tree is decorated with 160 baubles and 2,000 lights.
I appreciate that products that contain nuts need to have warnings on them to alert people who suffer allergic reactions but I sometime wonder whether this policy goes a bit too far. The reason I say this is that I picked up a large bag of unshelled mixed nuts in the supermarket the other day. The product is clearly labelled as "unshelled mixed nuts" and it is clearly what it says on bag. On the back is a large label saying "warning may contain nuts". I find the wording somewhat amusing "may contain nuts", I thought I had brought a bag of nuts, is there any doubt that the product has nuts in it, what else would it contain?
This article suggests that otters are now starting to become much more common in Britain. Otters have previously struggled to survive in Britain and have been restricted to isolated parts of the countryside. Although they were widespread in the 1950's they were nearly wiped out by the 1970's due to the use of pesticides which poisoned both the otters and the fish they depend on for food. It appears that improvements in the water quality of rivers and increasingly fish stocks now means that the creatures are becoming more common. Some otters have also started to adopt an urban lifestyle with reports of them being seen in gardens, parks and churchyards.
Burger King have released a barbecue scented cologne. It is called Flame and is being promoted as "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat". It is currently only available in the US and costs $3.99. It is being marketed as a novelty stocking filler but I'm guessing it is not suitable for vegetarians.
This huge crab was caught by fishermen in Norway and was put on sale at a fish merchant in Swansea Market. At 3ft by 1ft and weighing in at 3kg, the crab which is as big as a table would cost you £75. I'm not entirely sue what you would do with all that crab meat, but this is one seriously large crab.
I got an invitation to download the beta version of Playstation Home a few weeks ago and after a good 45 minutes I had managed to install it. I was then prompted to install some further updates which the Playstation apparently requires in order to run Playstation Home. After around an hour of installation time I prepared myself to enter the virtual world and explore. First I created my avatar which despite my best efforts didn't look much like me but I did my best with the limited range of hair and features available. On entering the virtual world I then found myself in my virtual apartment and spent a few minutes looking around to see what I could do. I quickly found out that there there was not a great deal to do here. I could move the furniture around so spent some pointless time moving all my furniture out of the apartment onto the balcony before getting bored. Then I tried to throw myself off the balcony and found that I couldn't. Having exhausted all the possibilities of the virtual apartment I decided I would go outside and look around, so I approached the door expecting to be able to walk straight through. The system then promoted me to install the next section so that I could move on. I spent another 15 minutes in my apartment moving all my furniture back into the apartment and trying to stack it in the centre of room whilst I was waiting for the installation to finish.
Then I eventually stepped out into the virtual world. Once there I found that was not an awful lot I could do here either. I spent some time exploring before trying my hand at a game of draughts against another player in the square. After beating him soundly I looked around for more amusement. I found there was a bowling alley which always seemed to be full so I was unable to try this, a cinema where you could watch movie trailers and a shopping centre where there were lots of shops but with nothing to buy. All of these sections also require further downloads to access them. I tried some of the games in the arcade and played a rather poor game of pool whilst trying to avoid the other male players who seem to cluster around the female avatars like flies. After spending a couple hours in the virtual world the majority of which was spent downloading new sections of the world I took my avatar back to the apartment and went back to the considerably more interesting real world. In some ways I can see where Playstation are trying to go with Home, but it could certainly use a little more excitement.
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I used to own a creative zen touch which I used with kzenexplorer. I recently gave this to my Brother and bought the newer Zen Touch Photo, whilst over in the states on business. The protocol has been changed to MTP and now it will no longer work.
Does the LXF staff or readers know of any apps that support this yet or any apps in the pipeline that support MTP?