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During the annual Cañon City Chamber of Commerce meeting and banquet Friday, several awards were announced, along with passing of the gavel.
During the event, incoming President Allan Tormohlen praised outgoing president Mike Bandera for his work during a tough year.
"Mike has had a traumatic year," Tormohlen said. "He's done a wonderful job as president of the chamber of commerce. He's had a few distractions along the way, but he has continued to serve the chamber in an exemplary manner."
In the past, Bandera was named Distinguished Citizen award winner for the chamber of commerce and now has served as president.
"I want to thank you very much for your contribution and your leadership in the chamber for 2013," Tormohlen said.
Although Fremont County suffered after the Royal Gorge Fire in 2013, Cañon City Chamber of Commerce accomplished much throughout the year, Bandera said.
"Doug Shane worked very hard on the Ride the Rockies," he said. "When he came to town, the chamber continued to grow. At the end of the year, the chamber averaged 430 members."
Also, the board paid for the electronic sign about a year and a half ahead of schedule. In conjunction, the Entertainment in the Park had the biggest crowds throughout the summer, especially the last concert with Flash Cadillac. In addition to manning the Visitors Center seven days a week, it distributed several thousand visitor guides and handled all of the details of the chamber.
During the evening, Prospectors President Dee Stubbs introduced the Member of the Year.
"Our Distinguished Business Chamber of Commerce Member of the Year is St. Thomas More Hospital," Stubbs said.
The organization has outreach programs for health, 9Health Fair, Pamper Your Heart, supported the Boys & Girls Club, along with the Cañon City Pregnancy Center, and more.
STMH CEO Sheri Trahern said she was pleased.
"We are very honored to accept this award," she said. "We will continue to provide great service to this community and provide health and wellness. Thank you very very much."
During the evening, Susanne Cornell was named Prospector of the Year.
"This person is in charge of meeting a lot of you out there, talking on the phone so she can set up all these ribbon cuttings," Stubbs said during the announcement. "She has worked so hard to make this such a successful part of our little group. She is now with the Cornell Team at Keller Williams."
During his remarks, Tormohlen praised the work the chamber has accomplished in spite of the fire.
"It was devastating to the Royal Gorge Bridge," he said. "It hurt some of the other industries here in town, but besides that we had some very high points. We had the Ride the Rockies event, which brought in some 6,000 people in the community."
As he reiterated other accomplishments, he talked about the upheaval in the chamber, as well.
"The changes that came about in terms of our primary funding sources led to our executive director Doug Shane leaving the chamber," Tormohlen said. "It's not a position we wanted to be in, but that was the hand we were dealt. But we're now moving forward. The board has some real challenges in front of us and we ask you for your support."
The theme, "Partners in Progress" is a way to pull the factions together to move forward.
"Sometimes communities respond best when there's some adverse happenings," Tormohlen said. "In our case, (it was the fire at the) bridge, but we (can) use that as a (way) to move forward and to refocus on what we want to be."


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We should just go back to hangings. It works for killing Nazis and war criminals.
Firing squads are effective too.
For child killers, burning works for me.
I think it would be best to have a firing squad composed of the jury that found someone guilty and imposed the death penalty. If you have the guts to condemn someone to die, I think you should also have the guts to execute that penalty.
(and yes, I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal)
When the term "judge, jury, and executioner" is used, it's usually in a pejorative sense. Merging the latter two positions is a bad idea from a separation of power standpoint.
Until you get people willing to convict someone just for the chance to pull the trigger.
An interesting fact about firing squads is one person has a blank.
"One of the sharpshooters is secretly armed with a blank round, which means that each shooter can rest comfortably in the knowledge that there is a 20% chance that she never shot the prisoner."
Firing Squad History [about.com]
An interesting fact about firing squads is one person has a blank.
"One of the sharpshooters is secretly armed with a blank round, which means that each shooter can rest comfortably in the knowledge that there is a 20% chance that she never shot the prisoner."
Firing Squad History [about.com]
Strange how much effort we put into trying to relieve the guilt of those carrying out the murderous orders of the state.
Well most non-sociopaths dont want to kill people, therefore we either find sociopaths who have not illegally killed people to do it and hope it does not trigger it a murder binge or we get normal people to do it and try to minimize the trauma to them.
Or you could just let murderers rot in jail, thus avoiding both trauma and the rather unfortunate idea that life is a privilege that is subject to revocation by the state at its will. It's not like death penalty serves any practical purpose anyway, besides keeping the idea that violence is justice alive and kicking.
Coming to think of it, I wonder if this is one of the reasons why the US has constant problems with mass shootings and serial killers: if it's okay for the state to do it...
that there is a 20% chance that she never shot the prisoner
Interesting choice of pronoun. I'd guess that throughout history, there's a 99.8% chance that a given firing squad member is not female.
presumably, the shooters have all fires rifles previously, and would surely notice the difference in recoil between a bullet and a blank round.
Butchering is gross. I wouldn't mind snapping its neck and hading it off to someone else to butcher, though.
Being grossed out by something doesn't constitute a moral imperative. I'm pretty grossed out by a woman's period but I still have sex with them.
I think the problem with firing squads was occasionally they would miss and just horribly wound the guy...
But having the jury do it is an interesting proposal.
mount the weapons such that they cannot miss?
>and yes, I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal
I believe that every animal rights nut should be denied any medication or surgical procedure that has been tested on animals...
I disagree with this because the role of a jury is to determine guilt.
No, the role of the jury is to judge both the facts and law. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wrote, "It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision⦠you [juries] have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy".
If what you propose were the case it may sway someone to vote not guilty even when it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt the person is guilty simply because they don't want to execute the sentence
That is exactly the purpose a jury is supposed to serve. If the community, as represented by a jury of peers deems a punishment unconscionable, they not only have the right but the moral obligation to acquit. If the government wants the people to sign off on its punishments, the government must levy punishments that the community can accept. The jury is supposed to be a check on the legal system.
It's almost as if you're trying to punish the judge / jury for making a decision of guilty. It wouldn't have any positive impact that I can see and only negative ones.
The only way this would be punishment for the jury is if they didn't think the punishment actually fit the crime. If that's the case, they damn well should be discouraged. That's a very positive result.
The US injustice system is draconian enough. We are a "free country" that imprisons more people than than any other country in the world. We still use the death penalty despite the lack of any evidence that it makes our country safer. We are in dire need of reigning in the vindictive and authoritarian nature of our injustice system.
Also incorrect. Juries dont typically do sentencing, again the judge does that. In addition in the few cases they do if the feel capital punishment is unconscionable they also can do life in prison instead. They have options other than a moral obligation to acquit.
Though the practice is not uniform, many (most?) U.S. states require that, if a death sentence is to be imposed, that it be imposed by a jury. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/us-supreme-court-ring-v-arizona [deathpenaltyinfo.org] But I agree that this is mostly irrelevant to your point.
So if you sentence the guy to thirty years, should the jury have to house, feed and guard him?
So you're going to give a bunch of people who may or may not know how to fire and/or aim a firearm the job of executing someone? When half of them miss and the other half have bad hits its going to be mighty bad when the prisoner is on the ground screaming and dying slowly.
PS I've never understood the vegetarian quip that more people would be vegetarians if they saw and/or participated in the process of butchering. Vegetarianism is a rather new fad, and until relatively recently most people WERE pretty involved in the butchering process and there was no mass avoidance of meat eating.
Personally having been hunting since I was 7 (and killed my first deer at 9) I've been pretty involved with the butchering process and if you grow up with it its no big thing. I still kill a few deer per year (usually between 2 and 4) and skin/gut all of them myself. Still love eating meat. Heck when I see a cow grazing the first thing I think of is steak and get hungry.
> Hangings
And with Europe cutting off rope supplies, this is another good reason to invigorate our domestic hemp production.
Nitrogen aspixiation is an almost ideal way. It's cheap, very reliable (Survival rate: Zero), needs no people of medical skill, and uses only a commonly available mass-produced gas.
The only problem is that many death penalty proponents consider it insufficiently inhumane. It's actually a pleasant way to die: A period of euphoria, then unconsciousness, then death. So it doesn't do much to satisfy the desire for collective vengence.
Why not just pull the warning labels off everything they use and let the problem sort itself out?
We should just go back to hangings. It works for killing Nazis and war criminals.
Then the EU would block the export of rope.
I think a country/state that is very proud of (1) their inalienable right to own and wear guns, and (2) insists on killing people found guilty in a very imperfect process, should have the guts to just shoot those people. Executions aren't supposed to be nice, so just get over the squeamishness and just shoot the buggers.
I think a country/state that is very proud of (1) their inalienable right to own and wear guns, and (2) insists on killing people found guilty in a very imperfect process, should have the guts to just shoot those people. Executions aren't supposed to be nice, so just get over the squeamishness and just shoot the buggers.
The especially weird thing is that a lot of the same people who are big on capital punishment and packing heat also will be the first to bitch about "big government" interfering in their lives with their taxes, healthcare and other "nanny state" regulations. Seems that deliberately, intentionally killing citizens is the most serious form of government intrusion in one's life -- not something to trust to the incompetent, liberal, meddling "gubmint". You know, the terrifying phrase: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
It doesn't. The justice system has nothing to do with us being "better" than anyone else, it exists to
(1) interrupt the cycle of reprisals that "code of honor" systems create("An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"), by delegating judgement and punishment to a third party held blameless for actions committed in the line of duty.
(2) discourage future crime through a combination of making an example of criminals caught to dissuade others
(3) rehabilitate, imprison, or eliminating those who demonstrated a willingness to break the law to prevent repeat offenses
(1) requires that the punishments inflicted be sufficient to prevent the wronged individuals from taking justice into their own hands. Obviously if the crime is particularly heinous or the wronged often inclined to violence that may set the bar rather high.
(2) requires that punishments be sufficiently unpleasant that people who believe they probably won't get caught still don't think it's worth the risk.
(3) killing someone is the most permanent method to make sure they never commit another crime - the largest problem being that you can't release a falsely convicted person from death.
Does locking someone up in jail make us better than kidnappers? Pr fining them any better than thieves?
They are switching drugs in Missouri [theguardian.com], while adding a team of compounding pharmacists, so the drugs will be made on site and therefore not subject to Europe's politics. Also some of the European flexing here is a direct result of NSA wiretapping.
No. Europe's position is a longstanding one. And as the EU is a larger market than the US, an EU law forbidding a drug company to help with capital punishment carries weight.
The link with the spying thing is that US companies may be faced with the choice of picking either one or the other market, if privacy directives from the EU come into force. And this is terrifying for US companies, because, again, the EU market is larger.
They can just split up into two companies linked by stock ownership and privacy maintaining firewalls, one incorporated in the US and one in the EU. The US government can't (yet) force stock owners to force their foreign companies to implement spying mechanisms in their technology infrastructure AFAIK.
The companies still fear it because it will cost them money, but they will do it if necessary.
The amount of drugs used in lethal injections is trivial, not worth going through any efforts to make it possible, especially as - guess what - the executives and scientists at those companies are probably against having their drugs be used in executions as well! They got into pharma to save lives, not end them.
For instance, even the US firm Hospira apparently refuses to sell propofol to prisons and there's no ban against it in the US.
Maybe it's time for the US to take the hint and stop this barbaric and medieval practice?
Seriously, why does it not bother more Americans that by having the death penalty they find themselves in the illustrious company of countries such as Libya, Sudan, China, Iran, Iraq and North Korea (the "Axis of Evil") and Syria?
America is fundamentally punitive and violent. Same reason gun massacres every couple weeks make no impact, the highest proportion of people in prison for any country in the world makes no impact, military expenditures equal to the rest of the world combined makes no impact. Perhaps all empires come to be like that.
US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures
HIGHLY misleading headline. I read the headline and thought, "wow, so many executions are occurring in the US that there's not enough of this drug for non-execution purposes"... which is a much more straightforward interpretation than what the article eventually gets into, which is that the use of the drug in a single execution would make an EU regulation kick in.
BOOOOOOO, slashdot editor. Boooo.
Welcome to America where killing our citizens is more important than saving their lives.
And somehow they manage to blame the EU.
Propofol is, by far, the most-used anesthetic induction agent; it has almost entirely replaced induction-by-mask, which is now largely confined to kids who don't take well to getting an IV while awake. For non-gas procedures, it's also the most common (only?) anesthetic used for continuous infusion.
A large hospital can easily go through literally gallons of the stuff a day.
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Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
The Street this morning is mulling the latest smartphone numbers.
Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley, who has a Buy rating on Apple and doesn't formally cover shares of Samsung Electronics (005930KS), this morning writes that "a very strong initial Samsung Galaxy S4 global launch with Samsung ramping supply of the Galaxy S4 to over 300 carriers in 155 countries the next several weeks" could results in Samsung "extending its leading smartphone market share" this quarter, after ending Q1 with 33% share.
Walkley reiterates a Sell rating on BlackBerry (BBRY) shares, writing that his surveys suggest "strong" initial demand for the Q10 handset, which went on sale a little over a week ago, but weakening sales of the Z10. He cut his May-quarter sell-in for BlackBerry to 2.8 million 3.3 million units.
BlackBerry shares this morning are up 18 cents, or 1%, at $15.81.
Apple shares have gotten a couple thumbs up this morning.
Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes reiterates an Overweight Rating on Apple, after raising his price target to $525 from $465, writing that the stock is "back on the right track" and could "continue to rally above $500″ as it "changes the narrative," with new products starting with the June Worldwide Developer conference.
Reitzes raised his estimates for Apple after concluding margins can be sustained at a higher level.
And UBS's Steve Milunovich reiterates a Buy rating, and a $500 price target, writing that Apple may need to shift its emphasis to "higher layers" in the mobile battle, such as "additional services, which monetize the large user base and 500mn credit cards associated with iTunes accounts."
"Management keeps emphasizing its plan to offer hardware, software, and services," writes Milunovich. "As a multi- sided platform company, Apple traditionally subsidizes developers and services in order to monetize devices, but that may need to change."
Apple shares are up $8.60, or 2%, at $458.58.
Enterprise software vendor BMC's (BMC) shares are up a penny at $45.43 after the company this morning accepted a buyout offer from Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for $46.25, or about $6.9 billion, after years of speculation the company was a take-out target.
Intel (INTC) gets a thumbs up this morning, as RBC Capital's Doug Freedman raises his rating on the shares to Outperform from Sector perform, and raises his price target to $29 from $24, given "a gross margin bottom, all-time low sentiment in PCs, underestimated traction in mobile for 2014 on Atom to leading-edge, and positive change in leadership (removing some risk of the unexpected)."
And the stock also gets an initiation at Buy at Topeka Capital Markets this morning, with a $28 price target.
Intel shares are up 3 cents at $23.99.
J.P. Morgan's Christopher Danely today disseminated slides for "The Analog Devices Manifesto," a conference call being held with clients today to discuss what he calls "A high-quality stock with leverage" that is trading at 16 times calendar 2014 EPS, a 15% discount to peers, he writes.
Analog shares are up 78 cents, or 1.7%, at $45.78.
In case you missed it, The New York Post's Josh Kosman and Mark DeCambre this morning write that "Carl Icahn is not done with Dell (DELL)," reporting that Icahn with "preparing to team up with Southeastern Asset Management" to push to get director's onto Dell's board, citing two unnamed sources.


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The lights are on
We've had a few days now with the PlayStation 4. Sony provided us with the retail hardware during its launch event in New York City. It's been a great opportunity to get our hands on the console, its UI, and some of the launch software. As of this writing, however, we've only had a short while with the console following a major system update. This update added functionality such as Remote Play on the Vita, access to the PlayStation Store, and basic elements such as the ability to view trophies. We still have plenty of thoughts on what we've seen and experienced, even if we're not ready to provide a final hardware review at this moment.
Here's what we know about the PS4, what we like about it, and what we need to know more about as we move ahead.
The Form Factor
What we knowThe PlayStation 4 is a beautifully designed piece of hardware, with sleek angles and a contrasting shiny/matte black finish. There's a lot of power inside, too. Check out the first section of our previous PS4 coverage for the specs. Thanks to that finish, you may want to handle it with care; it picks up fingerprints easier than a CSI veteran. Sony cleverly hid the power and eject buttons on the unit as well (some might say too cleverly). It takes a little over 30 seconds to power the system, which is slightly longer than the PS3.
What we likeIt's gorgeous. It's also flexible, supporting both horizontal and vertical orientation. It's quiet, and it doesn't seem like it'll melt through your entertainment console; after five or so hours of heavy use, it was warm but not hot to the touch. We appreciate the lack of a power brick, too.
What we need to knowWe won't know how reliable the system is until after it's been out in the wild for a while. The lack of heat is encouraging, but until people have marathoned games on it, spent weekends using it to watch Blu-rays, and ran it ragged, we won't know how well built and engineered the machine truly is.
PlayStation Companion App
What we knowPlayStation 4 owners can download a companion app on their supported Android and iOS devices when the system launches. The free app will allow users to check messages and respond to them by voice or text while away from the console. Players can also make purchases from the PlayStation Store using the app, at which point their systems will power on and begin downloading the content.
What we likeIt's cool that players can fire up their smartphones and download a game when they're away from the house. It certainly beats scrawling down the name of a game your friend recommends and hoping that you'll remember to fish it out of your pocket when you get home. Sony says that developers can use the official app in their games as an alternative to developing their own full-fledged apps, which is also nice. And you can't beat the price, either.
What we need to knowAside from the messaging features, how much social networking will the app support? Communicating and sharing with friends is a huge pillar of the PS4's overall strategy (keep reading), and it should be interesting to see just how much access the app provides. Can users browse their complete "What's New" section and see what everyone's up to?
Social Features
What we knowWhen Sony announced the PlayStation 4 earlier this year, they hammered home the point that it was being built with social networking in mind. The system fills your friends' activities into a special What's New feed on the console, so you can see what trophies they've earned, the movies they've been watching, and games they're playing. Players can also share their real names with trusted friends, which makes the feed feel more personal.
What we likePlayers can now send out and respond to group messages, which could make life easier for people trying to organize multiplayer matches.
What we need to knowThe What's New feed has a lot of potential, but we're concerned that it could essentially become background noise over time. When everything you do is blasted out, do individual communications lose their meaning, and will the most important bits get drowned out? We'll have to wait and see if it becomes a powerful way to see what types of interesting things are happening at a glance or something that people largely ignore.
The PlayStation Camera
What we knowThe optional PlayStation Camera features dual cameras to capture video images, including depth, as well as four microphones to detect audio. The camera can recognize faces, which can then be associated with individual users. The process is simple, requiring users to move their heads around in several positions for a few seconds. The camera also enables voice commands for basic functionality, such as taking pictures.
What we likeThe camera quality is markedly improved over the PlayStation 3's counterpart, offering nearly twice the resolution.
What we need to knowThe big question for the PlayStation Camera is simple: Will any third parties take advantage of it? Since it's not bundled in with the console like the Xbox One's Kinect 2.0, we'd be surprised to see it widely embraced by developers. We'd also like to learn more about how accurate voice recognition is across a variety of different settings. People don't all live in silent environments, and previous attempts at this technology have had mixed results.
Capture and Streaming
What we knowSharing video content from the PlayStation 4 can be as easy as pressing a few buttons. Players can stream their videos on Twitch and Ustream, though only Twitch will allow those videos to be archived on the site. Players who pick up the PlayStation Camera can also embed their images onto the footage.
What we likeEasy is good, and this is about as easy as it gets. This could be a tremendous equalizer for people who have wanted to dabble in streaming but were intimidated by external capture devices. Having the Twitch chatbar beside the stream is pretty slick as well, so players don't need to juggle a laptop to keep up with the comments. The console also keeps a constant record of the past 15 minutes of gameplay even if you don't have the immediate intention of sharing your exploits with anyone. If you pull off something amazing – or run into a hilarious glitch – you can quickly scrub back to the appropriate part in your timeline, trim the footage, and share it online.
What we need to knowSony says that it will be patching in support for external capture devices at a later date. As it stands, the console has built-in encryption that prevents users from easily connecting the console to a capture box using an HDMI. We'll have to wait and see how this plays out.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
VOORHEES, N.J. — Steve Mason signed a three-year contract extension with the Flyers Saturday, good for $12.3 million.
He was hoping for more.
"Well, we were shooting for Clayton Kershaw-type money," Mason said, jokingly, Sunday at the Skate Zone. "But that didn't happen."
Kershaw is the Dodgers' left-hander, who soon will be earning roughly $10,000 per pitch. Mason is 19-11-5 with one shutout as the Flyers' No. 1 goalie this season, and he was yanked early from a 6-4 victory Saturday over the New York Islanders.
So the economics and fit, he will acknowledge, did make sense.
"Hockey has been very good to me," he said. "And it has put me in this position. So I am very thankful. It is a lot of responsibility. I am just very proud to be a Philadelphia Flyer and being a part of this organization, with the sense of pride that comes along with the tradition and what the Flyers mean.
"I am very fortunate to be a part of it."
Among the benefits of re-upping with the Flyers in January after a month of negotiations — somewhere behind the cash, presumably — is that it will limit Mason's hockey distractions to pucks whistling in his general direction.
"I am just happy that it is out of the way and that I won't think about it anymore," he said. "I am really looking forward to just being here for the next number of years and trying to get this team in a position where we can make a long run and eventually realize our goal of winning the Stanley Cup."
Defenseman Marc-Andre Bourdon, recovering from chronic concussion troubles, is on his way to a return.
Paul Holmgren, in a statement: "Marc-Andre has continued his rehab the past couple of months and has improved to the point where we anticipate him being loaned to the Phantoms this week and getting back on the road to playing professional hockey games."
For the second time in three days Monday afternoon at 1 the Flyers will play the New York Islanders.
"It's going to be tough," said Mark Streit, the former Islander. "They are in a desperate mode. They need to win games — and us, as well. At this time of year, all the games are intense."
The Flyers scored three times in the third period Saturday to win the opener of the home-and-home, 6-4.
"It was a crazy game," Streit said. "It was up-and-down hockey, back and forth. It's not the way you want to approach a game. So we have to play better. We can't fall behind every game. We need a good start. I think it's important that we play well defensively and play steady hockey."


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Does anyone know if there is any radio commentary for the domestic stuff this season?
Does anyone know if there is any radio commentary for the domestic stuff this season?
No, NZC pulled its temporary funding for four-dayers, just a bit of a pacifier until the steam went out of the backlash. Radio Sport have said they'll do shorter forms.
Wells missing, so New Jimmeh gets a top 6 berth. Goodin actually playing, ****, maybe he'll get just this one game.
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Is the 4 day stuff not even broadcast on-line then this season? For shame.
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Have to see if backlash regathers steam...Meanwhile, White confirmed NZ Cricket had pulled its funding for live internet ********* of Plunket Shield commentaries this season.
The Radio Network was flooded by complaints from listeners last year when it ceased commentaries from Plunket Shield venues, a popular feature of its summer programming in years past.
NZ Cricket stepped in earlier this year to pay for live internet ********* of commentaries, but White confirmed that that had stopped.
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hope Adam Wheater goes well. One of my favourite players. Is a pretty ridiculous player, really talented. Will play loads of shots- both good and bad, some really bad. Always fun to see a guy at 5'5'' trying to smash the ball out of the ground.
Battle of the good bowling attacks (and suspect batting sides) in ND vs Otago. ND 123/6 but could see them bowling Otago out for 200 as well.
Arnel batting at 9... Long tail!
Considering how quick Neesham was when at school I'm surprised by his bowling - seems he is focussing more on being a batting alrounder.
But the timing of his shots is something else though huh.
Interesting little tidbit from Ronnie Hira:
Quick Singles : Quick Singles with Ronnie Hira | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN CricinfoIn the Auckland team, Lou Vincent gets up to some strange things. Lately he's been carrying around this Justin Bieber doll. He's one of the weirder characters I've been around.
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For New Hampshire students to find good jobs here at home, for parents to be able to help students achieve their goal of a higher education, and for businesses to have the skilled workforce they need to grow and prosper, the New Hampshire Legislature should fund New Hampshire public colleges and universities at the lowest rate of any state in the nation.
The success of public higher education requires a true partnership with students and their families, higher education, businesses, citizens, and the elected leaders of our state to get there. As New Hampshire business leaders who depend on an educated workforce to succeed and expand employment opportunities, we are joining the presidents of the state's four-year public colleges and universities in asking that the legislature restore financial support to the 2010—2011 level of $100 million per year. Our collective future depends on it, and 71 percent of New Hampshire adults agree this should be a priority for the next legislature, according to a recent poll by the UNH Survey Center.
In the short term restored funding will help make higher education more affordable. New Hampshire students carry the largest debt load of any students in the nation. With the additional funds in-state students won't see an increase in tuition for two years and there will be additional financial aid available for those with need.
As employers in the state we are in desperate need of college graduates ready for the workplace, especially engineers, computer scientists, and programmers. And our public institutions are responding to that demand, but they need state support. The public university system is partnering with the community college system to double the number of highly qualified graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by 2025. Currently the two systems graduate approximately 1,120 students in the STEM fields. The cost of restoring funding to $100 million per year is minimal compared to the return on investment. Adding more than 1,000 graduates in these much needed areas means those businesses already here can compete globally and grow, and new companies will be attracted to the state.
In the long term an increase in the state's highly qualified workforce also keeps more dollars in the state. Each year, the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College and Granite State College contribute more than $2 billion to the economy in employment, direct expenditures, and workforce development. These graduates will stay in the state — New Hampshire's four-year public colleges and universities graduate more than 6,500 people into the workforce each year — to purchase homes, raise their children, pay taxes, and work as our engineers, nurses, teachers, farmers, law enforcement officials, and business leaders.
The facts are straight forward. For New Hampshire to grow its economy, attract new businesses and provide jobs for our economy, our colleges and universities must supply educated workers. The University System of New Hampshire has committed its limited resources to driving new and expanded educational programs where the state's workforce development needs are the greatest. We are proud to be their partners in this effort. It is time for the next governor and legislature to make that same commitment to our state's future workforce and economic prosperity.
The nearly 50 percent cut lawmakers made in their support of higher education in 2011 was the largest in the history of higher education in America. New Hampshire now provides just 6 percent of the budget for our public universities and colleges — by far the lowest per capita level of support in the nation. If our lawmakers doubled its support New Hampshire would still be last.
This glaring lack of state support is threatening the current and future success of New Hampshire's economy. We urge students, parents, and our business partners to contact your legislators and ask them to restore financial support to $100 million per year. Our collective success depends on it.
Larry Haynes is president and CEO for Grappone Automotive Group. He is a 1986 graduate of Plymouth State University. John Morison III is chairman of Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. in Milford. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of New Hampshire.
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Eight Pampa residents are among at least 13 Texas Panhandle passengers on the disabled Carnival ship Triumph, according to one's family member and a friend of some of the others.
Karin Sutherland said her son, Noah Sutherland, 38, his wife Amy and six of their friends are passengers.
Corey Coronis, a friend of several of the Pampa residents, also said eight passengers from the town are aboard Triumph, which is being towed to the Alabama shore from the Gulf of Mexico.
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At least four Texas Panhandle residents are aboard the disabled Carnival Cruise Lines ship Triumph stranded in the Gulf of Mexico since Sunday after an engine room fire.
The Associated Press reported the ship was about 150 miles off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula when the fire started. It is being towed by two tugboats to a harbor in Mobile, Ala., where it is expected to dock today.
Kirk Hill, owner of Hill's Sport Shop, said Wednesday his daughter, Kalin Hill, 30, is on the Triumph, and he has not spoken with her since she sent him a text message Monday.
He said she told him the ship was without power, and if there are working toilets, none of the passengers knew where they are located.
He also said she claimed passengers are staying on the top deck to avoid the overpowering smells and lack of ventilation below deck.
There is no way to communicate with passengers unless another ship pulls alongside them and they can "pirate" a signal from it, he said.
Hill also said passengers are eating bread with vegetables.
"They had bread with lettuce or bread with coleslaw or cheese," he said.
Like any father, Hill said he just wants to hear from his daughter. "I just reached the point where I'd like to hear her voice," he said.
He said Carnival provided passengers' families with a recorded message containing a number to call for information.
Kalin is on the ship with a friend and fellow Amarilloan, Ryan Tipton.
Jenneane Embers is the manager of the McDonald's restaurant in Borger. Restaurant owner Phil Benda said she, another employee of the Borger eatery and about 283 other McDonald's employees from across the nation are on the ship because they won a Coca-Cola incentive award that included the cruise.
He did not have any information about them other than the fact that they were all right. He said the employees are two of his best.
Joyce Oliva, a Carnival Cruise Lines spokeswoman, gave a conflicting report of the situation on board. "The ship has maintained emergency generator power since the fire occurred, and the technical team on board has been successful in gradually restoring auxiliary power to operate some basic hotel functions," she said. "Public and cabin toilets are operational in certain sections of the ship and some power in the Lido dining area is providing for hot coffee and limited hot food service."
Oliva said three other Carnival ships have met the Triumph to "provide additional supplies and meals."
She said guests are able to return to their rooms day or night, but some have chosen to stay on the deck. She said the crew provided pillows and blankets to passengers who decided to remain outside.
"The ship's crew has been conducting some activities for the guests such as trivia, card games, children's games, acoustic music," she said. "We were able to get some power to the aft lounge, so we have movies, comedy shows, etc."
She said there is running water on board.
Wire reports claimed passengers were given plastic bags to "do their business" in.
Oliva would not comment on that.
She said guests on the voyage will receive a full refund of the cruise, along with their transportation expenses.
"In addition, they will receive a future cruise credit equal to the amount paid for this voyage, as well as reimbursement of all shipboard purchases during the voyage, with the exception of gift shop and casino charges," she said.
Wire reports cited mechanical difficulties on the vessel prior to Sunday's fire.
Last month, the ship experienced a "propulsion problem" that caused the ship's midday Jan. 28 departure to be delayed until 8 p.m., the reports said.
Wire reports also said Carnival cancelled a dozen planned cruises on board the Triumph, and the ship will be idle through April.
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Elko County Sheriff Neil Harris said a highway patrol officer was responding to a different accident when he came upon the stolen vehicle in which 27-year-old Phokham Keomanivong was found dead Saturday.
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in an effort to reduce the number of reminders that bring undue stress into the lives of families waiting for their loved ones to return.
Huh? None of these whiners were going to buy this game to begin with so how are they being put under undue stress because someone else is playing a game where you can play people labeled as the Taliban? These whiners need to get over themselves. Secondly, how does this reduce the reminders when pretty much everyone who is going to play this game is going to know that this white-washed "opposing force" IS really the Taliban since all the models, weapons, etc are all the same.
it's pure entertainment of a situation that is extremely serious for some
Then they can choose to avoid the game. It's no different to how if you don't like a certain TV show that instead of trying to get it banned that you just *gasp* turn the channel and ignore it.
Then they can choose to avoid the game.
Or they also have the right to protest - which is what they did. If EA really wanted to press the issue, I am sure that there is very little that anyone could have done to legally require them to alter or halt production of the game.
In EA's own words: the voice of friends and families of fallen soldiers "is a very important voice to the Medal of Honor team". Maybe this is true, and the developers had a change of heart - something which is perfectly within their right to do. Perhaps more likely is that
"Even if you feel that you are correct and the opposition is overreacting - sometimes it's in your own best interest to avoid upsetting other people. "
That is how you can turn a democracy into a dictatorship.
It's completely like that here in Europe : if you protest something the EU doesn't like , they will make it very clear you should "avoid upsetting people , aka shut up "
Just look at the EU constitution/Lisbon treaty : people spoke up against them , the EU basically told them to shut up , and they just
I like how this is almost exactly what Blizzard did early on in WOW's development. IIRC, As an anti-poopsocking measure, they would start giving you XP penalties as time went on; you'd start out earning 100% XP, but then if you played for long enough you would slowly get penalties until you were only earning 50% XP. You had to log off and wait a couple of hours to get back to earning 100% XP.
Gamers were outraged. How dare you punish us for playing the game! etcetera.
So what did Blizzard do? Well, whenever you started a fresh session, you'd have a 200% XP earned bonus! This would gradually wear off until you were only earning 100% XP. If you logged off and waited a few hours, you'd get the 200% XP bonus again!
Gamers were pacified, because apparently the ones who really cared about this couldn't do math. Blizzard didn't actually make any changes, they just started calling the first part a 200% XP gain bonus, instead of calling the last part a 50% XP gain penalty.
It's funny how stupid people are. It's still the Taliban, you're still only earning half XP after a few hours of play - they're just calling it something else so you'll stop bitching.
As an anti-poopsocking measure
I feel this term needs some clarification... and no, I won't google that.
It's funny how stupid people are. It's still the Taliban, you're still only earning half XP after a few hours of play - they're just calling it something else so you'll stop bitching.
That's the thing, the models in the game with their movements and voice acting etc are no more "Taliban" than the other side is actually the US Army. They are just little models, with some texturing applied, with a voice track selected, controlled by AI (or not). There's no reason to get angry about whatever they decide to name each side.
So instead of "think of the children!" we get "think of the soldiers' wives!".
If they don't want to play the game they don't have to. Meanwhile, the rest of us [should be able to] make the decision for ourselves, like grownups.
No, it's the position of a bunch of whiners who are trying to use the deaths of soldiers as a way to censor others. It's extremely despicable.
Knowing G.I.s, they'd likely take turns playing Taliban while on actual deployment, since a shitload of G.I.s are avid gamers and have been since PCs were first available.
I suspect (lacking polling data) that given the typical military mind-set, most G.I.s would see the censorship reflecting complete pussification.
As for AAFES, they are at the mercy of every sensitive cunt who wants to turn their stores into a walled garden. Back in The Day, we could buy fap fodder like Penthouse on base. With the rise of Bible Thumpers and PC housecunts in the new corporate military, that went away.
The hassle of dealing with frothers makes it easier to just cave to them on non-mission-related issues, and G.I.s don't need AAFES for anything but food and booze.
I miss the days of the more isolated military when civilians left us the fuck alone, and our fun was our business. Booze and whores ARE fun when you are deployed to some foreign shithole, and none of that mattered outside the military for about two hundred years. Change is not always progress.
Then you would think, in a free society, that would be enough; not stocking it at the military version of Walmart. But, no, that's not enough. In an actual free society we would have been given the choice to either purchase the game or not, then play as the Taliban or not. The choice, the free choice, is now taken from us by whiny douchebags. Period.
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Same thing. If y
Nobody is forcing EA to take this out;
You mean except for how that general was going to get the game banned from all EA game stores on military bases? Saying that is not trying to force them into taking out the name is like saying that being held up at knife point isn't forcing someone to do something they don't want.
they are simply choosing not to offend the people who have expressed their concerns.
You mean people who were never the target audience of the game and weren't going to be buying or playing it? Yes, it's great that they are bowing to a bunch of whiners at the expense of the actual customers.
You mean except for how that general was going to get the game banned from all EA game stores on military bases?
No, the commander of AAFES said it would not be sold at AAFES locations. This means you can go off base (usually there's a GameStop within a few miles) and buy the game, and bring it on base and play it to your heart's content.
In other news, the teams in counter strike will no longer be known as the terrorists and the counter-terrorists. Instead, the weapons have been removed and replaced with paint ball guns, and the teams will be known as "accounting department" and "marketing department".
Animations of soldiers dieing and hitting the ground will be replaced with characters raising their marker and walking off the field.
My brother died in a marketing accident, you insensitive clod!
Isn't the Freedom to put 'whatever characters you want in a video game' exactly what the 'soldiers in harms' way are trying to defend?
Think about it. However infuriating it may be to the soldiers, families, friends and pundits to include Taliban in the game, like it or not, that's freedom.
there has been no government interference here.
The AAFES refusing to stock it is kind of government interference.
They're also free to complain, and EA are free to take action if this negative PR is causing shops not to stock their latest game.
Think about it. However infuriating it may be to you that you can't authentically pretend to be terrorists who hate your country, EA wants to make money.
However infuriating it may be to you that you can't authentically pretend to be terrorists who hate your country
How does this white-washing of the name stop anyone from still doing this? Everyone who is going to buy and play this game are still going to know that if they play the "opposing force" that it's really the Taliban. It's not as if by changing this name that no one is still going to know who those characters really are which is why this change is so asinine.
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Yep, and if the government had stepped forward and tried to remove the Taliban from the game you might have a point. Freedom of expression means that the government can't send you to jail if it doesn't like what you're saying, it doesn't mean that other people can't dislike what you have to say and it sure as hell does mean that those people have the right to state their opinion on the matter in public. How you respond to their opinion is of course your choice.
Perhaps those wanting to reduce the reminders should also remove the "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers and every other reminder they voluntarily put up. In fact, aren't the families of those soldiers currently at war responsible for 99% of the reminders that exist? If they started there, they could eliminate almost all of the problem without ever having to go near the game.
You know what will get those soldiers out of harm's way? QUITTING THE WAR!
Seriously, instead of pressuring EA to remove Taliban, these groups should divert their efforts to lobbying for a withdrawal.
They're doing nothing but deceiving themselves by hiding/masking the truth...
I find throwing away the liberties our soldiers have fought and died for to be far more offensive than having a side called "taliban".
This is very much a "Too Soon" situation. In another 30 years(assuming the conflicts end soon) it'll probably be fine. Even in another 10 years. Time does heal all wounds, even if some wounds never fully heal.
For a lot of people however this is much much too soon. There are people still burying dead from these conflicts. Out of respect for those people, I agree with this decision.
On another note, personally, I don't really have a problem with the Taliban being left in, and a lot of younger folks, and a lot
There are people still burying dead from these conflicts.
There are people buring dead on both sides, and innocents as well, yet they didn't feel the need to remove the Americans.
Well duh. How many burned-out shells in Afghanistan have XBox 360s?
Besides, who cares if we offend them. They're the *sinister chord* BAD GUYS!
For a lot of people however this is much much too soon.
Then they neither have to buy or play the game. Why should the actual consumers of this product have to suffer through some stupid censorship because of a bunch of oversensitive babies? It is absolutely hilarious that people will use the military service of their dead love ones as a way to impose censorship on people.
If you can generate enough support around the cause I'm sure they will. Not really sure why people are so upset about this. It's the free market. Obviously EA decided it would cost them more money in potential loss of sales (either in sales of this game, or people boycotting the company in general) than they would make with it. Nobody held a gun to there head to remove it.
They did. Its called "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars".
Killing virtual Nazi's and Taliban are bad apparently but its OK to gib innocent aliens and monsters...
Personally (as a Canadian) I loved the fact that in Counter Strike you could play the FLQ terrorist. I mean I don't care about the FLQ, but simply the fact that Canada is mentioned at all in a video game, and you can play that side, and the map is supposed to be in Canada, I thought was pretty cool.
Otherwise I will be waiting for the video game of canoeing
"Freedom" is now amended to mean "Anything you want to do except marry someone of the same sex, have a different skin color than the majority and expect to not be harassed, or play a video game that might be offensive to someone if they are both easily offended and a member/relative of the military."
Your passionate proposal for protecting the freedoms and rights of homosexuals and racial minorities is laudable.
Thought exercise: You realize that people in the service & their families are the overwhelming *minority* in the population, too, right? What makes it okay to say "Shut up whiners," to them, when we're routinely told that we can't use certain words and phrases because they'd offend other minorities on account of certain language being "hate speech"? Seems like you should extend your concer
Everyone is part of some minority or another. People who went to the same school you did are a tiny minority in the sea of the US educational system, people who like the same flavor of ice cream are a minority among the greater universe of ice-cream lovers, and so on. Your ideology ultimately boils down to "do not offend anyone, ever". The problem being, of course, when your own attempts at being politically correct ends up offending others, as this thread shows.
The reason society has determined 'hate speec
My grandfather killed six Germans at Normandy. Unfortunately, this happened in 1967.
It's done to some extent at the toy store. German WW2 planes have the swastika removed. Lego Indiana Jones have characters just called as "enemies". They still do the goose-step though.
Ok, look...I understand why there was public and military outcry (similar to the "no russian" level in MW2), but I wonder if there would have been as much controversy had it been for a war that was no longer going on. Beyond that, they are still in the game...they just aren't called 'Taliban'...what's in a name? This makes me think back to the GLA in C&C Generals...
What gets me is that there's more public outcry over the name of a team in a game than there is over an actual war. If these people their voices heard by the President and their representatives instead of a video game maker, they might actually save some lives.
Thanks EA, for letting the terrorists have win.
... and for extra realism you get to shoot at British, Canadian, Danish and other "allied" troops. Ultra-realistic!
Americans sure love their friendly fire! (A bunch of Canadians in Afghanistan were bombed by Americans by mistake)
Normally I'd agree with your position but here I think it is a bit tricky. By putting them in the game you are giving the Taliban legitimacy which a large amount of the US population would not approve of. You could also cause problems with the fanatical Muslim population because of the link the Taliban has with Islam. And lets face it the radical Muslims don't fuck around when showing their displeasure. All and all I think it was a good business strategy on EA's part to avoid that whole kettle of fish
The large amount of US population has been happy to accept the aid of insurgent groups (the various resistance groups in Occupied Europe, for example) when it has been convenient. Indeed, the US was largely liberated from British rule by an insurgency. Unofficial groups that do not operate under the command of a State have existed throughout history and have been utilized by every nation on Earth. Until the Iraqi "Awakening Councils" were accepted by the government there, they too were unofficial militia op
I'm sick of people pretending the war has only one side. Where are the families of the dead Taliban soldiers, who are logically just as offended by the ability to play as a US soldier? don't they have a "voice" too? or it it ok to disrespect people as long as you're on the right side?
Where are the families of the dead Taliban soldiers
They're in Afghanistan, probably not playing video games.
The popular children's game has now been renamed to "cops and opposing forces"
This PC shit is fer the birds.
Back in my day, if you offended someone, you tell them it wasn't personal and move on. Now we have both extremes.... People going out of their way to personally offend others, and people who are offended by simple shapes.
Know this...
It will never end.
It seems to me too many people give too much power to a simple word. Essentially that's what we're doing here right? Gameplay remains unchanged, we're just changing the name of the other team. So is it because we fear the Taliban? Should we start calling them "The opposing force that must not be named"?
What a bunch of weak-minded idiots. If a few people who can't handle a video game with content that they don't like that they don't even have to buy complain about said content, they remove it. Those people have just ruined it for anyone who actually wanted that content, as it was originally planned to be in the game. But, no, people who wouldn't buy the game anyway get their way. Absolutely pathetic. I'm sick and tired of this blatant censorship (even if it wasn't technically forced on them). I already had
Of course they shouldn't. The reality is that wargames depict a historical context and history doesn't change to suit the likes of one group or another. There is only one history, the events that took place.
Further, we learn from history that it is dangerous to make an enemy faceless. Doing so is the number one cause of wartime atrocities. What these pressure groups have basically said is that it is more important to hide the reality of the situation than it is to keep Americans aware that they are fighting against people with lives and beliefs of their own. This is a dangerous attitude to have.
I cannot blame a company for eventually caving under pressure, especially one as small as this. But frankly this whitewashing of history is disturbing and historically the consequences of such acts have never been good. This is extremely bad juju.
'nuff said.
I've seen a lot of comments on here that are derogatory towards EA and the families of soliders who have voiced their opposition to EA's decision. I agree that EA made a bad call by white washing the reality of the conflict. One of the fundamental cornerstones of our society seems to be freedom of choice. As Americans, we want the ability to do whatever we feel like doing, no matter how insensitive or offensive to others it might be. As others have said many times before, freedom is not free. That leads me to my question... how badly do all of you people whining about not being able to play the Taliban, want to play the Taliban?
Will you gather signatures and go on the record saying that you want to do it? Will you lobby and protest and make your voices heard? Are you so strong in your convictions that EA has made a bad decision that you will NOT buy the game in order to voice your dissatisfaction?
If there is one thing I've learned about being American it is that those who are willing to make the biggest stink about something usually get their way. So how strong are your convictions? Are you going to do anything about it, or are you just going to whine on Slashdot?
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling


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Submission + - New MinuteSort Record Set by Microsoft Research (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: A team from Microsoft Research has taken the lead in the MinuteSort data sorting test using a specially-devised technology, Flat DataCenter Storage. The figures are impressive — 1401 gigabytes in the 60 seconds, using 1033 disks across 250 machines. This is not only three times as much as the previous record, but also, uses only one sixth of the hardware resources, according to a blog post about the test from Microsoft. One thing that's interesting about the success is the technology used. While solutions such as Hadoop and MapReduce are traditionally used for working with large data sets, Microsoft Research created its own technology called the "Flat Datacenter Storage," or FDS for short. This isn't just academic research, of course. The team from Microsoft Research has already been working with the Bing team to help Bing accelerate its search results, and there are plans to use it in other Microsoft technologies.


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TSN Panel NHL Preview – Edmonton Oilers Analysis
So today TSN had their NHL Preview. There was some good stuff on there, but here is a good chunk of the Oilers-related analysis which featured opinions from Ray Ferraro (RF), Pierre McGuire (PM) and Craig MacTavish (CM). Here is the majority of the discussion: Continue reading 'TSN Panel NHL Preview – Edmonton Oilers Analysis'»


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I'm looking for a dictionary and am thinking about buying the 1977-edition of Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin (NOT the "concise" edition but the real one) as published by Macmillan General Reference.
My requirements: 1 volume, Latin examples, ideally hardback, for the general population of Latin readers, reasonably complete
I had a look at the 19th-century original on Archive.org and liked it. Before buying it, however, I would like to know if anyone of you knows of other dictionaries worth having a look at.
Carolus Raeticus


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For almost three years, the public swimming pool at the Willie Galimore Community Center on Riberia Street in Lincolnville has looked like a wasteland, with slimy, green water and a nasty film on the edges. Neighborhood children were left to stare through the chain-link fence and dream about what it would be like to swim there.
But those days will soon be over. Work will begin next week to rebuild the pool, and it should be open by the end of May, said Jim Piggott, director of general services for the City of St. Augustine.
"That's what we told the contractor," Piggott said. "It must be open by Memorial Day."
Judith Seraphin, president of the Lincolnville Neighborhood Association, said it's about time, and praised the city for taking the initiative to make it so.
"This is wonderful news, and we couldn't be more excited," Seraphin said Friday. "This represents a major turnaround of the city's attitude toward Lincolnville. They are listening to our needs, and I can't say enough about how happy I am with our city manager, John Regan. He listens to his communities."
The old pool, which was constructed in 1987 and closed by the Health Department in 2009 due a state of disrepair, will be demolished and replaced by a new pool, at a cost of about $285,000, Piggott said. Dicky Smith and Company out of Jacksonville is the contractor handling the project. Piggot said the new pool will be roughly the same size, though will have a slightly different configuration and an L-shaped form to accommodate the addition of a "learn-to-swim" area.
The pool restoration is the first phase of a larger project to refurbish the entire Galimore Center complex, which was given to the city by St. Johns County in 2011, along with $400,000 for repairs.
'What residents want'
In June, architect Jerry Dixon presented a three-phase plan to the St. Augustine City Commission that would provide cosmetic building improvements and the re-opening of the pool. After hearing Dixon's report, commissioners instructed city staff to move forward with the proposed improvements, creating a line item in the 2013 budget to provide for the project. Piggott said the total amount budgeted for the Galimore Center was around $700,000.
Dixon made several trips to the center and met with community and neighborhood groups to get their ideas about what should be done with the property. An overwhelming majority of those polled supported the reopening of the pool.
"Jerry Dixon made a very good study of the Galimore Center," Piggott said. "The city felt like this was what the residents want."
Seraphin said the most critical element of the new pool will be the addition of a the learn-to-swim area, which will make it more family-friendly.
"The old pool was more of an Olympic style pool, with nothing but swimming lanes," Seraphin said. "There was no place for small children to swim, especially if they were just learning. We're a family-oriented community in Lincolnville, and this will make the Galimore Center an even more important place, and even more of an asset to the city."
Seasonal pool
At least at first, the pool will not be open year-round, Piggott said.
"For the first year, anyway, we're going to operate on a seasonal basis, from Memorial Day until Labor Day," he said. "That may change later, but right now, that's what we're budgeted for."
The first phase will include the rebuilding of the pool, upgrades to the interior of the Galimore Center, improved restroom facilities and a catering kitchen, Piggott said. He said the infrastructure budget was about $440,000, with the operation of the pool estimated at $115,000 for the first year. He said the city will be accepting bids from independent contractors to operate the pool soon. Most of that money is coming from the money the county gave the city when it turned over the facility, with the city kicking in the rest from the general fund.
Asked if the pool will have a user fee, Piggott said "probably, though that has yet to be determined. If so, it will likely be in the same range as what they charge over at the Solomon Calhoun Center."
St. Augustine City Vice Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline said the sentiment on the Commission has always been to reopen the pool as soon as it was fiscally possible, and that it would be a benefit to residents throughout St. Augustine.
"The city is working hard to bring the pool back online and be the great community asset it was always meant to be," Sikes-Kline said. "I look forward to the spring, when everyone from all over the city will come to use it and enjoy it."


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Have You Lost A "mercedesish" Key?
Patty Knaggs writes-
Hi Joey,
Would you mind posting this pic on the blog? Spied it on the Magnolia Swamp trail in Ravenswood, heading up to the Salem Trail on the end of trail farther most from the parking lot. Found it in December/January I believe (pre snow deluge). So why did I wait so long to try and find its owner? Put it in a coat pocket and forgot about it…..sorry about that. Logo at top of silver part looks mercedesish (thats a word, check it out in wikipedia) to me.


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The lights are on
Xbox One streaming will be available sooner than expected. Twitch has announced that the app update will start arriving for users later this evening.
The official Twitch Twitter account suggests that rollout of the new app will begin at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern. For more on the streaming update and how it will work, check out our previous coverage.
[Source: @TwitchTV]


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Submission + - Halo4 Xbox update Microsoft disables controllers (youtube.com)
Stonefish writes: I have two xboxes, 5 controllers and recently purchased Halo4 for my childs birthday present, unfortunately Microsoft forces you to update the xbox firmware to play Halo4 so this was done. Afterwards I noticed that one of the MS controllers stopped working with this xbox however it still worked with the other xbox. Later the other xbox was updated with the new firmware and another controller, plus the one from the first xbox stopped working (now only 3 controllers work). I tried contracted xbox support and after a lot of being bounced around (wouldn't allow me to escallate) they finally gave me a references number of 1193769642 and told me to download the latest firmware and apply that to the xbox. I haven't done this because they said that they were unaware of any problem and I think there is a risk that the other controllers will stop working. The serial number on the controllers that stopped is the same x801769-707 75580276592599. Someone posted a URL demonstrating the same problem so it doesn't appear to be an isolated incident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VtjL2bg7wWs. I also found out that MS included functionality in the update to block third party controllers however my controllers areMS branded. I only noticed this because I have two xboxes, has anyone else been bent over by microsofts mission to stop third party controller and assumed that the controller died?


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Posted by Editoress on 09/23/04
Race for Miracles
CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Advisor Takes It To The Extreme In His Race for Miracles
Brian Culbert, an Investment Advisor with CIBC Wood Gundy considers himself a very lucky man. That's why he's taken it upon himself to launch a one-man crusade for helping children in need. Through extreme mountain biking races occurring in 2004, Brian has set off on his quest to raise money for the CIBC World Markets Children's Miracle Foundation.
Brian's story is somewhat unique, but shared in one way or another with millions of people around the world. Brian's four-year-old son, Matthew, was born with a serious skin disorder that hospitalized him at birth. The care he received at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) in Toronto was exemplary and made the first few months of Matthew's life a bit easier for his family.
Watching Matthew grow up and deal with his purely physical affliction opened Brian's eyes. His son was merely a toddler and he had an easier time dealing with things than did Brian and his wife Denise. The admiration he has for his son, combined with his experiences at Sick Kids, culminated in Brian's decision early this year to give something back to his community.
Brian has already competed in two of three big races for this year: the Canadian Championships in Alberta where he finished 13th out of 49 racers, and the World Championships in Whistler, BC, where he beat out 11 other riders to take the bronze in his category. Brian's third and final race of the year is known in the mountain biking community as one of the most difficult endurance events in the world, La Ruta De Los Conquistadores, in Costa Rica and takes place in November. For more information Click Here. To make a donation to the CIBC World Markets Children's Miracle Foundation Click Here.
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On the other hand you have corporate Microsoft general counsel, Brad Smith, whom I've met personally and who does a better job than most in articulating the hidden costs of technology within a mish-mash of multinational legal systems, arguing: "People won't use technology they don't trust. Governments have put this trust at risk, and governments need to help restore it."
In the end, I'm skeptical that we can trust either Big Tech of Government to truly look out for people's privacy. The upshot though is the debate has entered the national conversation and that's a good thing.
In the meantime, I'm still waiting for that app-for-the-common man & woman that can tell us when our data and devices are getting snopped and siphoned and gives us the power to do something about it.


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Story highlights
- New She-Ra comic is a revamp of the story about how the Princess of Power came to be
- Digital release is a dark twist on She-Ra's origin
- Artist: "She-Ra is iconic. She stood, and stands, as a strong and good-hearted character"
She-Ravers rejoice! A new She-Ra comic has arrived.
The comic is one in a series of "Masters of the Universe" character origin digital one-shots published by DC Entertainment. Not a continuing story of She-Ra, it is rather a dramatic retelling of her beginnings.
Wondering what a one-shot is? Here's a primer if you're more a fan of the animated "She-Ra: Princess of Power" TV series that began airing in 1985:
"A one-shot is simply an issue (or digital release) that tells a full story on its own," writer Mike Costa said. "... All the way up through the 1990s, telling single-issue stories was the norm. But today stories are increasingly told over several issues that are later collected into books, so a one-shot is becoming an unusual, special thing."
The She-Ra digital one-shot delves into our heroine's pre-Princess of Power's past -- before the Sword of Protection came to her, before she became the Most Powerful Woman in the Universe and before she ever uttered the phrase, "For the honor of Grayskull!"
Kidnapped as a baby by the evil Skeletor, She-Ra's alter ego Princess Adora -- twin sister of Prince Adam (who later became He-Man) -- was raised by the evil Lord Hordak in the dark dimension of Despondos. Lord Hordak renamed Adora Despara and brainwashed her into become a villain. Despara became a force captain in Hordak's army and Hordak's own personal assassin. Upon return to her birth planet, Eternia, Despara was initially Adam's enemy.
"Readers unfamiliar with her history might be surprised to learn that she was a very different person before that transformation," Costa said, "but the hero she would become is there, slumbering inside of her, and that's what our story is really about."
Put simply: An unhappy young girl who dreams of a better life discovers she's a princess and her dreams come true.
"But She-Ra's story is such a great inversion of that," Costa said, "because rather than being just a passive dreamer, she's actually already a very powerful character. Sure she's a powerful character working for evil, but that only makes her journey all the more heroic and interesting. The messages of strength, capability and redemption, those are some really empowering and sophisticated ideas for a princess character aimed at girls from 30 years ago."
The new release presents a darker, more unusual take on She-Ra.
"I think the trick for me was drawing this version of She-Ra as not really evil but detached and cold," artist Drew Edward Johnson said. "She wasn't born as this deadly Hordak enforcer but was made one, and over the course of the story, we can see how she's been kept in line and made to do things that are against her nature. I tried to show in a couple of close-up shots that her eyes are not those of a killer, and in those shots, divided her face down the middle with the panel borders to show her split nature."
In creating the planet Etheria, Johnson worked with colorist Kathryn Layno to "create the most infernal atmosphere possible." They surrounded She-Ra with fire, smoke, dead trees and hopeless people to get that bleak, drab, uninviting feel.
An individual dragged down by dire circumstances beyond her control, She-Ra -- in true hero fashion -- rose above those circumstances to become an inspiration to the world around her.
Johnson said he believes She-Ra still resonates with audiences because "like Wonder Woman, She-Ra is iconic. She stood, and stands, as a strong and good-hearted character that anyone of any age can get behind."
The other "Masters of the Universe" comic releases consist of a printed miniseries in which Skeletor -- having rewritten the laws of reality on Eternia -- rules from inside Castle Grayskull.
In addition, there is a digital series of 10-page stories featuring fresh takes on the origins of individual characters that are fan favorites, such as Orko and Trap Jaw. The new She-Ra is one in a series of full-length one-shots showcasing the origin of a particular character. Past comics told the back stories of He-Man and Skeletor.
Gift of the Day: He-Man She-Ra ugly Christmas sweater
Gift of the Day: He-Man She-Ra ugly Christmas sweater
"The line is diverse," Mattel executive Rob David said, "but every title shares one thing in common: We're not playing things safe. 'Masters of the Universe' isn't just part of our cultural past; it's alive and constantly growing."
For the most part, fan response has been overwhelmingly positive, but some die-hards resist the retooling of classic characters.
"Fans are thrilled to see He-man and the Masters of the Universe back in action," David said. "Not everybody wants to see any changes, of course, but He-Man -- ever since he first premiered -- has evolved. Hey, when he first came out, there was no Prince Adam! So long as you stay true to the core concepts, it's always fun to explore the possibilities."


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He got the native of Cantal into the hotel-dieu, where he took the greatest care of him.
At the hotel-dieu there is a Sallambier ward which perpetuates his memory.
And the devout sisters of the hotel-dieu, not fearing death, worked piously and humbly, not out of regard for any worldly honour.
The prelate's three hundred thousand livres were devoted to the internal repairs of the hotel-dieu.
A surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the hotel-dieu.
Bianchon did not wish to seem as though he were spying the head surgeon of the hotel-dieu; he went away.
The chapel of the religiouses of the hotel-dieu, is situated behind the high altar.


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Refrigerator issue
Author: Dawn K
Date: 3/24/2009 7:09 pm EDT
I just completed the layout for the majority of my kitchen. After placing the refrigerator back into it's place, it appears that the pressure it is placing on the flooring is causing it to raise the surrounding tiles just slightly. It is not so much that you can feel the difference when it is walked on, but it is visible. Am I OK to go ahead and grout the floor or is there something I should be doing differently? The Avaire tile is placed over vinyl which is in good condition and is very level.
Thanks in advance for your help! Thanks also for such a great product...I am excited to complete this project!
Author: Chris
Date: 3/25/2009 8:26 am EDT
Most of the time when I see tiles that are raised when an appliance is set on it it's due to the floor being unlevel, you indicated the floor was level so maybe try moving the fridge back out, make sure all the tabs are fully interlocked and the perimeter spaces are maintained, then move it back and if the same issue exists as long as it isn't moving when you walk on it, you should be good to grout. This is a new one, let me know how it goes. Thanks
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