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Maybe the upcoming Harbowl is so intriguing to America because we lack leadership in so many aspects of life.
Real leaders make tough decisions, popular or not, and respect is earned when they show the courage of their convictions.
Both Jim and John Harbaugh have proven themselves as leaders.
Neither the San Francisco 49ers nor the Baltimore Ravens would be getting ready for Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans unless each Harbaugh brother didn't pull the trigger on an extremely difficult and controversial season-altering decision.
In Jim Harbaugh's case, he made the high-profile move from game manager Alex Smith to the dynamic Colin Kaepernick at the quarterback position, not exactly a no-brainer since Smith took the 49ers to the NFC title game after the 2011 season and had San Francisco at 7-2-1 with one of the best touchdown-to- interception ratios in the game before suffering a concussion against the St. Louis Rams in Week 10 of the 2012 campaign.
Although not as captivating, Jim's older brother, John, had his own season- defining moment with the Ravens.
Despite his team's 9-4 record and spot atop the AFC North, Harbaugh fired his offensive coordinator, Cam Cameron, and elevated quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell, the former head man in Indianapolis, to the position after Week 14.
From the outside looking in, it seemed like a panic move and not the type of thing you do to a first-place club, but Cameron had been roundly criticized for his handing of quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice.
"My charge -- our responsibility as a coaching staff -- is to maximize the opportunities for our team to win, and we can still reach all of our goals for this season," Harbaugh said when announcing the move. "We have a motto we follow on this team: W.I.N. -- What's Important Now -- and what's important now is to find ways to get better."
Harbaugh's decision came one day after the Ravens lost a second straight game, coming up just short in a 31-28 overtime setback at Washington. That came on the heels of a 23-20 loss to AFC North rival Pittsburgh, a hiccup which halted Baltimore's imposing 16-game winning streak in Charm City.
Heck, take away Rice's miraculous 4th-and-29 conversion back on Nov. 25 in San Diego and the Ravens would have been in full crisis mode.
It was clear Harbaugh and general manager Ozzie Newsome felt Flacco had plateaued under Cameron, and that Caldwell, who spent nearly 10 years "tutoring" Peyton Manning in Indy, could unlock something.
The change looked suspect early.
Caldwell replaced Cameron before a Week 15 contest in Denver, a game in which the Ravens struggled mightily, especially early with five straight three-and- outs en route to a 34-17 shellacking at the hands of the Broncos.
Since then, though, the Ravens offense has turned it on, first putting up 533 yards against the New York Giants in Week 16. After resting players in the regular season finale at Cincinnati, Baltimore rung up a franchise postseason record 441 yards in the first round of the playoffs against the Colts.
The Ravens then won the sequel in Denver by hanging up 38 points the Broncos before destroying New England in the second half during a 28-13 win in the AFC Championship Game at Foxboro.
"We haven't changed a lot," Harbaugh said. "It's still the same system that we had in place. We call things the same way. Everybody puts their imprint on it, and Jim's done a great job with that. We have grown a lot in the last month. There's been some growth, and it has shown up in stats and things like that, and that's a credit to all of our guys, not the least of which, obviously, is coach Caldwell."
Caldwell brought some up-tempo things to the Baltimore offense and has been more willing to let Flacco generate things from outside the pocket.
Against the Patriots, the running game wasn't working early and Caldwell put the game in Flacco's hands in the second half, giving the signal-caller the type of freedom he never enjoyed under Cameron.
That's resulted in confidence for a quarterback, who already has eight postseason wins under his belt and is the only signal-caller in NFL history to win a playoff game in his first five seasons.
"I always believed confidence usually follows success," Harbaugh said when discussing Flacco's mind-set. "You can be fake confident. If you haven't really done anything, you can kind of walk around with a false bravado. But, to have success, especially in the last couple of weeks the way we have, is definitely going to generate some confidence."
Caldwell's philosophy seems to be simplicity. In fact, Baltimore's lack of pre-snap movement against New England was glaring and in direct contrast to what's en vogue around the rest of the NFL, where motion is the key to garnering mismatches.
An offensive line shift and an improved running game also have made things easier on Flacco. When left guard Jah Reid went down with a toe injury, the Ravens reinserted veteran Bryant McKinnie at left tackle, moved Michael Oher back to right tackle and shifted rookie Kelechi Osemele to left guard. Meanwhile, rookie Bernard Pierce has been teaming with Pro-Bowler Rice for a nice 1-2 combination in the backfield.
"The O-line, I think that's where it starts all the time," Flacco said. "If those guys are playing well, I think we play well as an offense, and I think that goes the same across the league. And, these guys have really stepped up and are starting to play really well."
A strong running game opens up play-action for Flacco, who throws one of the best deep balls in the NFL, and receiver Torrey Smith is one of the top vertical threats in the league with an ability to high-point the football like few others.
"To string it together like (Flacco's) done back-to-back-to-back-to-back in the most critical time of the year is the great thing about it," Harbaugh said. "I really believe that we saw that coming as a football staff and as an organization and as players. That's just the way he's been practicing. He's come a long way, but he's come the way that you would expect any quarterback to develop. It's in his fifth year, and to see it happen like this is something that we kind of planned for, but it's also a great thing to see."
Under Caldwell, who agreed to come back as Baltimore' offensive coordinator for the 2013 season earlier this week, the Ravens have stitched together a Daryle Lamonica- or Jim Plunkett-type Raiders offense designed to stretch the field and get vertical during a dink-and-dunk era.
"He's a really a solid football coach," Harbaugh said when discussing Caldwell. "He's been around. He's coached both sides of the ball. He's been a head coach. He's done it all. But, he's mainly a really good guy. He's a good person, and he's genuine. He's to the point (where) he doesn't mince words, and he coaches football from the beginning of the day until the end of the day, and the guys appreciate that."
Below is a capsule look at the offense of the Baltimore Ravens:
QUARTERBACKS: The underrated Flacco has thrown eight touchdown passes and no interceptions so far in this postseason so he is playing pretty well. In fact, the only signal-callers in NFL history to finish a full postseason with at least nine touchdown passes and no interceptions are Steve Young after the 1994 season, and Joe Montana, who threw 11 touchdown passes and no interceptions in the playoffs after the 1989 season. Flacco also set a single- season career high in passing yards with 3,817 yards, while connecting on 47 completions of 25-or-more yards, which set a Ravens' season record and led the NFL.
"I don't know if I feed off of it," Flacco said of making big plays. "I think those guys (his receivers) definitely feed off of it. When you give them the opportunity one-on-one to go up and make plays and they make them, it gets them going. It gets the other guys going."
RUNNING BACKS: A strong running opens up that play-action for Flacco, who throws one of the best deep balls in the NFL. Rice is the bell cow, totaling 1,621 yards from scrimmage, the NFL's ninth most. He was one of three players to post 1,000 rushing yards and 400 receiving yards. Rice ranked second in the NFL in catches by a RB (61) and fourth in receiving yards (478), marking his fourth straight season with at least 1,600 yards from scrimmage. Dating back to 2009, Rice owns an NFL-high 7,506 total yards from scrimmage (5,066 rushing & 2,440 receiving), including a league-best 39 games where he's gained 100-or- more total yards.
"Obviously, we are going to enjoy this," Rice said of placing in the Super Bowl. "Obviously, we are going to get to work this week, but you get down there, there's nothing like it. I said I have never been to a Super Bowl game. I have been down to a few Super Bowl appearances, but I told myself I'm never going to one unless I'm playing in it. This is the one that I finally get to say I'm playing in it."
Rice has also got help this time around with Pierce, who ran for 532 yards as a team-leading 4.9 yards per carry as a rookie , giving the Ravens a nice compliment.
WIDE RECEIVERS: Anquan Boldin has been a beast in the postseason, snaring 16 catches for 276 yards and three TDs, averaging 17.3 yards per catch and 92.0 yards per game. Since becoming a Raven in 2010, Boldin has totaled the NFL's most playoff receiving yards (512) and is deadlocked with Niners tight end Vernon Davis for the most receiving TDs (five) over the last three years of postseason play.
Meanwhile, Smith is one of the top vertical threats in the league, ranking fourth in the NFL with a 17.4 yards per catch average, posting a career-high 855 yards on 49 receptions.
Fleet-footed return specialist Jacoby Jones is the third option and another, albeit far less consistent, big play waiting to happen.
TIGHT ENDS: Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta posted career highs of 61 catches and 669 receiving yards and seven TDs and has a knack for finding the soft spot in a zone. Pitta isn't the best blocker in the world, however, leaving that for Ed Dickson, who is basically just an outlet receiver in the passing game.
OFFENSIVE LINE: The offensive line shift has fueled things. McKinnie was once a Pro-Bowler in Minnesota and although he's seen his better days and lives an undisciplined lifestyle, he's a natural left tackle, enabling Oher to move back to where he's far more comfortable -- the right side.
Veteran Matt Birk, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, could join Ray Lewis in retirement after the Super Bowl. Like Lewis, he's a natural leader who makes all the right protection calls on the line of scrimmage. The other starter is right guard Marshal Yanda, Baltimore's best offensive lineman. Yanda is a road-grader in the running game and mirrors in pass protection well.
"I think it's a pretty solid group that we have up there right now," Flacco said. "Bryant (McKinnie) is fresh and playing quick and moving well, and obviously, with his stature out there, he's a big strong guy. So, I think that allowed us to put Mike (Oher) on the right side, bring K.O. over to the left guard. He's a great young player. It gives us five really good talents up there, and they've been playing really well together, so you've got to give the credit to those guys."


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At E3 2012, Sony was markedly quiet about holiday titles slated for the PS Vita. Sony's lack of focus on the PS Vita was a major oversight for the company ahead of the holiday season. Instead of toting the banner of the core gaming handheld unit, the company dedicated way too much time to Wonder Book, a partnership with J.K. Rowling and Sony.
I gotta agree here. Both handhelds - the Vita and 3DS - were pretty much kept in the corner during E3. Very few new games announced and very little stage time.
Chose not to express my opinion on the conference. I actually didn't think it was that great aside from the Paper Mario demonstration. I was merely presenting the facts, is all.
For all the hate Wonderbook has been getting, I actually hope it does well.

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Just read a little further into the article. It seems that to avoid having to make changes in the VM, the Java generics have to become just like the current containers at the bytecode level. The main difference would be taht instead of having to type all the ugly type casts yourself, the compiler would do it for you. Obviously, this doesn't lead to any performance increases over Java 1.4 containters.
Compare this to, let's say, C++ templates, where the compiler makes a new copy of the template class specifically for each and every type you use on it. That makes the executable size increase a bunch, but it allows the compiler to pay the performance price, making the code perform almost like a program where a human programmer would have written a copy of the template class for each and every type you ever used it with.
Since the design of the java 1.5 generics is public knowledge, it's pretty easy for anyone with a reasonable programming knowledge to analyze it. It just seems that run-time efficiency wasn't the first thing in the designers minds.
You can get a very rough idea of the performance gain here [onjava.com] (scroll down to "Trove Primitive Collections"). It's a significant difference.
Of course, for most apps that people are writing for Java (i.e. webapps for business), an optimization of this magnitude won't be
Since in
.NET CLR a List is actually compiled into a list that only holds ints (and not objects), it actually has a completly different codepath then a List or List.
WTF are you talking about? The only way you're going to get an instance of a cl
ArrayList intList = new ArrayList();
ArrayList<int> intList = new ArrayList<int>();
I mean, how many value types are there already? So you get a couple instantiatians of the class instead of one. And if you are really worried about footprint, you can use only reference types in your list.
C# generics are smart enough to treat value types differently than reference types (or what you're calling a "first class Object"), while Java generics are not.
From your post, it seems that you're probably not working on a large (200K+ lines) application, where more than 3 or 4 programmers are involved in development.
If I could be the sole maintainer of all of the code in my project, I'd not see all that big of an advantage in generics. the main thing would probably be avoiding all of those ugly typecasts all java programmers have to live with, but all in all It'd not be a big deal. However, on a big project, I REALLY, REALLY want to be able to easily know which
If strong typing is really important, I can create my own strongly-typed collection.
Over and over and over again...
something called GOOD CODING, along with runtime exceptions, which enforce it. I don't see the need for all that extra ugly syntax just to enforce it at compile time.
Bwahaha. Nice troll. Ask any serious programmer, and he/she will tell you that good coding practice calls for as many checks as possible during compilation, while it's still in the lab. "Whew, it got caught during ru
List<double> dList = new List<double>;
dList.add( 42 );
double value = dlist.get(0);
Faster than what? Faster than the Java implementation would have been had they done it properly (i.e. modify the byte code, not rely on type erasure, etc). Or are you saying that this ommision makes the Java generics implementation faster than the C# generics implementation?So a collection of boxed primitives in Java may be slower than non-boxed primitives in C#, but this was done so that a collection of normal objects is faster.
There are two types of collections: 1) collections of value types, and 2) collections of reference types.
Collections of value types are usually faster because they don't require: 1) individual heap storage for each element, and 2) dereferencing references to elements.
Java doesn't have generic collections of value types.
C# will potentially on-demand JIT compile many
<oversimplification>So for example, an int[10] takes 40 contiguous bytes (4 bytes per int) on the heap. That block contains the actual values of the ints. An Integer[1
For example, with Java generics, you don't actually get any of the execution efficiency that I talked about, because when you compile a generic class in Java, the compiler takes away the type parameter and substitutes Object everywhere. So the compiled image for List<T> is like a List where you use the type Object everywhere. Of course, if you now try to make a List<int<, you get boxing of all the ints. So there's a bunch of overhead there. Furthermore, to keep the VM happy, the compiler ac
Welcome to the Microsoft business model.
But Matlab has a cool way of using Java objects, and Java objects have a less-fuss connection to Matlab than MEX-C++. And for tight loops in pure numerical code, Java oddly enough is actually pretty efficient.
JNI al
That's not "much ado about nothing", it's just that you don't know what you're talking about.
C# and Java are getting generics because you don't want to spend three days inheriting from DictionaryBase or whatever to crate yet another st
...but perhaps in a future VM version [Java] will allow primitive generics (obviously forcing a bytecode regeneration)
Allowing primitive type arguments in generics would not necessarily require any changes to the VM or bytecode.
The Java 1.5 implementation of generics is substantially based on the Pizza compiler, which allowed primitive type arguments without requiring boxing (links: the pizza compiler [sourceforge.net], the GJ compiler it evolved into [unisa.edu.au], some academic papers about the compilers [lamp.epfl.ch]).
If I remember correctly
BUT he is lying, it is actually the other way around.
"C# does strong type checking when you compile the generic type.
... <snip> ... So in C# generics, we guarantee that any operation you do on a type parameter will succeed."
I don't understand what Mr. Hejlsberg is saying here. Does he imply that C# code is checked before you compile it, and the programmer is prevented from typing the wrong thing, using their super-secret-mind-reader-thin
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Public Notice - Replat Notice 2 - Kings Country - 7/11/2013
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This notice is to make public a request to revise the plat for Kings Country Subdivision of Franklin County, Texas, shown of record at Slide No. 19 B, Surveyors Records of Franklin County.
It is proposed that the boundaries for Lot 115 (Part) and Lot 116, Section Two, be revised to create one lot to be designated as Lot L 115R owned by Richard and Janis Stevens. The first hearing for consideration of this application will be held July 22, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.. The second hearing for consideration of this application for plat revision, and at which public protests may be heard, will be held August 5, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. at the Franklin County District Courtroom at the Franklin County Courthouse Annex, 208 Hwy 37 S., Mount Vernon, Texas. B.F. Hicks, attorney for owners.


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A woman has filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging the flight crew failed to protect her from a passenger who moved into the seat next to hers while she was sleeping, then "masturbated to her" and—well, you've seen "There's Something About Mary"? Yeah, that.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
The woman slept most of the flight, but awoke about 20 minutes before landing when the pilot announced the plane was on descent into Los Angeles. When the woman opened her eyes, she saw that an unknown man had moved into the seat next to her and was staring at her as he masturbated, the suit states.
The woman turned toward the window in embarrassment and in an act of nervousness began to run her fingers through her hair where she noticed "a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance in her hair," the suit states.
The woman began to cry and tried to get the attention of a flight attendant, but was unsuccessful, the suit states. Finally a passenger in the row in front of the woman comforted her and verified the semen in her hair, the suit states.
When the plane landed, employee called airport police and the man was arrested.
The suit claims that during the police investigation, the flight crew acknowledged they saw the man move from his assigned seat to the seat next to the woman while she slept.
(Thanks to Rob!)
"Woman files lawsuit against AMR because passenger next to her masturbated while she slept" [Star-Telegram]
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Topeka attorney will not be able to represent two men charged in the same assault case.
Judge Mark Braun ruled Wednesday that having Billy Rork represent Monroe Lockhart and Anthony Talbert creates a conflict of interest under the 6th amendment.
Braun says the State will appoint both men with new counsel or they can hire their own.
Lockhart and Talbert are charged with a November home invasion where a woman was beaten then burned with a knife. During a hearing on the motion to disqualify Rork, a Douglas County detective testified that a third man involved in the case, Jacob Barnett, told authorities he had information about the case after his arrest on unrelated charges. The detective says Barnett placed Lockhart and Talbert at the scene, and recounted that Talbert served primarily as a lookout while Lockhart "called the shots" during the assault.
Prosecutors have said they may call Talbert to testify against Lockhart in the case.
Braun heard the detective's testimony and arguments from both attorneys and also questioned both defendants in closed court in arriving at his decision.
"Despite defense counsel's position, the Court finds a serious potential for conflict in this case," Braun wrote in his decision. "If Mr. Rork continues as defense counsel, then during the course of this representation, he may face a division of loyalty between Mr. Talbert and Mr. Lockhart. Further, if such a division arose, Mr. Rork would be faced with an actual conflict of interest."
A docket hearing is set for March 15.


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PRINEVILLE, Ore. – A convicted rapist wanted by the Portland Police Bureau for an alleged sexual assault on Tuesday, and sought by Prineville Police for an alleged rape Thursday, was arrested after running from a crashed stolen car following two attempts to elude in a high-speed pursuit, police reported. Weeks was taken into custody following a police pursuit and crash near Corbett in an allegedly stolen car - OSP photo Jackie Eugene Weeks, 47, of Portland, ... [full story]
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BEND, Ore. – A 23-year old Bend man received moderate injuries and was flown to the hospital by helicopter after his Jet-Ski exploded Sunday afternoon at Wickiup Reservoir, deputies reported. According to a news release prepared by Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Husband, John Randall's Arctic Cat PWC (personal water craft) had open wires inside the engine compartment which crossed and sparked, igniting gas that had leaked out of the tank and causing an explosion. Randall, 23, ... [full story]
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MADRAS, Ore. – Police say the pickup driven by a 45-year old Redmond man collided with a van on Highway 26 near Madras, Oregon on Sunday night in a crash that killed the other driver, injured two passengers, and closed the highway for more than five hours. Oregon State Police (OSP) Sgt. Chris Seber reported that Todd A. Rhoden, 45, was driving east on Highway 26 near NW Boise Drive in a 2001 Ford F150 ... [full story]
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BEND, Ore. – A 17-year-old Bend driver was arrested Sunday evening for allegedly driving drunk, reckless driving and eluding police after he crashed through a fence in northeast Bend, led officers on a short vehicle pursuit then fled on foot, authorities reported. Bend Police were called to 2450 NE 27th Street about 6:40 p.m., August 24, after 911 callers reported that a vehicle had crashed through a fence near the St. Francis of Assisi School and ... [full story]
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LA PINE, Ore. – A two-year-old boy suffered non-life threatening injuries and was flown to the hospital after he fell out of a second-story window to a cement driveway below at his family's home in La Pine, Oregon Sunday afternoon, deputies reported. La Pine Fire paramedics and Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies responded to the home of Mason Perryman, 36, at 16418 Heath Drive #A in La Pine about 4:45 p.m., August 24. Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan ... [full story]
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. – Police believe that excessive speed and alcohol contributed to an all terrain vehicle (ATV) accident about 30 miles north of Prineville on Friday evening that led to the death of the 22-year-old Madras driver after he crashed into a large boulder. According to a news release prepared by Crook County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Chapman and Deputy Brian Bottoms, Travis Tolman suffered severe head trauma and other injuries and died Friday night after ... [full story]
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... On those Trey Burke ankle-breakers... You could hear a collective gasp as he drove past defenders...
Well, last night certainly produced the most gif-able game of the season. Trey Burke crossovers alone were enough for a post—this one, in particular, just ain't right:
[The Trey Burke Crossover Series continues, plus much more, after THE JUMP.]
Click on each image to open up the gif in a lightbox.
"Guys, I figured out how to stop him! It only takes four of us! Thou shalt not pa-- oh."
ESPN2 appeared to have a dedicated Tim Hardaway Sr.—and Grandpa Hardaway!—cam last night, which led to this wonderful double-box replay:
The elders approve:
At this point, Nik Stauskas involuntarily twitching is going to cause at least one defender to jump. A half-sell pump fake is good for two, and yes, they do collide comically:
Eso Akunne appeared surprisingly umimpressed by Glenn Robinson III's circus layup:
Finally, the definitive Mitch McGary == Big Puppy gif:
If you have requests for future gifs (and I just got video of the Outback Bowl, so Norfleet dancing gif is one the way), the best way to make a suggestion is through Twitter.
... On those Trey Burke ankle-breakers... You could hear a collective gasp as he drove past defenders...
Michigan fans outnumbered NW fans by at least a 3-1 margin at the game. I'm glad we got picked up clearly on the audio feed for the game.
Gotta love McGary!
So much love for his team and leaves it all on the court every play. Sure, he still may be a bit unpolished, but when everything really does come together, he's going to be incredibly, incredibly fun to watch play (unless you're playing against him/rooting for the team playing against him, in which I can see him becoming everyone's least favorite player).
Made it 4 days without a double post...not off to a great start...
with that behind the back dribble is a major ankle-breaker. Those gifs plus the McGary gif are my favorite of the bunch. On the Stauskas one where the two guys jump, its hard to tell from the camera angle but they appeared in person to jump a lot higher than that and really bite on his movement. I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of that this season with defenders and Stauskas.
Burke. I would assume 1) they have met at some point and 2) if I was Burke, the first thing I would ask the guy is for tips on his handle, how he perfected it, techique to practice, etc. I don't remember Burke being so devastating with it last year.
Yeah it only took a game or two to notice but his handles have gotten much better this year. He's never out of control, hes a lot faster, and hes a lot more slippery.
I love THJ's grandfather. He's chuckling and happy with what he's seeing, but not really all that surprised. I guess when your son is a former NBA great, you've seen these type of things a few times.
I started thinking Don Hardaway (THJ's grandfather) was probably a good athlete in his day and did a little googling. Turns out Grandpa Hardaway was a good player in Chicago back in the day and Tim Hardaway grew up in Chicago and was a star at Chicago Carver before heading to UTEP for college
Interesting little read here and glad to see proud father and grandfather enjoying Tim's exploits at Welsh-Ryan
Hardaway came up on Chicago's playgrounds, where his father, Donald, had excelled before him. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/tim-hardaway#ixzz2H2bf2T9T
Hardaway's crossover late in the game. He missed the finish, but the crossover was sweet
Here you go:
Bonus: Hardaway pointing the "three goggles" at his own head, which was requested on Twitter.
Great job Ace. Big puppy is tremendous. I can't wait for "The Norfleet" dancing gif.
Ace...gif request for the Hardaway lost shoe play. If possible. You guys have brought a lot of great new series into the site between the draft snark and this. Really enjoying them.
Northwestern football and then Northwestern basketball have provided us with top gifs this year.
I'm sorry but "The Elders Approve" is going to become a fixture around here. Anytime something really good happens I'm betting it shows up in a thread.
That's fantastic.
Trey Burke moves and looks like something you'd see in an And 1 video! O Baby!
I'd like to request an umpire pop up at the end of big puppy McGary. Safe or out? Your call.
Not only an Burke change momentum when he runs the floor, but he can also change the momentum of a game. It is fascinating to me how he can establish the tone of the game from the start, making sure Michigan is comfortable which seems to relax the others. Then, like the start of the second half, the opposition has momentum after going on a run. He makes an unbelievable move, sets up a three pointer or dunk that fires up his teammates and deflates the other team.
Is that a measureable stat, momentum changing plays?


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So I'm familiar with the general observance that many men have a high sex drive. It's amazing though how many people out there don't even seem to be interested in relationships. I've kind of re-entered the looking around market and am really looking for a relationship. I've never really had a whore phase and don't intend to. I'm the type that could easily be happy cuddling and kissing with a partner all day rather than having sex every 5 minutes.
However, it seems like everyone I talk to, whether it be from gay apps like Grindr or Growlr (granted promiscuity is almost a given on these things), in real life, or from dating websites, it seems like just about everyone just wants a hookup. I've even seen a surprisingly high number of people in open relationships looking to have random sex (something I can't even start to comprehend how it could possibly work in the long run.)
Is this representative of the majority of the gay community? Are committed relationships (or at least people out looking for them) just not commonplace? Am I on a hopeless mission to find someone to want to be in a monogamous relationship with? What are people's thoughts on this?


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Wellington employers oppose increase in earthquake-risk threshold
Press Release – Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce
The Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the view of risk management expert Tony Taig that lifting the earthquake prone building threshold from 33% to 67% is of questionable benefit.
"The requirement to strengthen earthquake prone buildings is going to impose a huge cost on businesses over coming years and it is important that the required standards are supported by sound science," said Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley.
"Mr Taig's report to the government says that we should focus on bringing all vulnerable buildings up to the 33% threshold rather than raising the threshold. We agree that should be the priority.
"The issue of earthquake strengthening and higher insurance costs that have arisen following the Canterbury earthquakes are a major issue for businesses throughout New Zealand particularly in areas such as Wellington.
"Christchurch has taught us that we need to be prepared for the big one and saving lives must be the priority but at the same time common sense needs to prevail.
"We look forward to scrutinising the report more closely and making submissions on the government's proposals."
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John Clarke, 25. January 2013, 11:36
I always get a laugh out of the press releases from the Chamber of Commerce. When they say "saving lives must be the priority but at the same time common sense needs to prevail" what they really mean is "it's common sense to kill people in substandard buildings because that enhances the profits of our members".


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Following every Baltimore Ravens game this season, Ryan Chell and I will take to the airwaves Tuesdays on "The Reality Check" on AM1570 WNST.net with a segment known as "The Five Plays That Determined The Game."
It's a simple concept. We'll select five plays from each game that determined the outcome. These five plays will best represent why the Ravens won or lost each game.
This will be our final analysis of the previous game before switching gears towards the next game on the schedule.
Here are the five plays that determined the Ravens' 19-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday at Heinz Field…
(Note: not all pictures are always of actual play)
Glenn Clark's Plays…
5. Bernard Pierce tackled by Lawrence Timmons and Steve McLendon for one yard loss on 3rd & 1 (1st quarter)
You cannot start a 3rd & 1 run five yards behind the line of scrimmage. Oy.
4. Lamar Woodley sacks Joe Flacco for 10 yard loss on 3rd & 8 from Pittsburgh 34 (2nd quarter)
It would have been a long field goal attempt, but I'd rather that than a punt.
3. William Gay breaks up Joe Flacco pass intended for Jacoby Jones on 3rd & 12 (3rd quarter)
Man did that one really bother me watching the film again Monday. Very close to six.
2. Elvis Dumervil called for unnecessary roughness after Jerricho Cotchery 7 yard catch from Ben Roethlisberger (3rd quarter)
From 2nd & 17 to an eight minute drive.
1. Vince Williams recovers Justin Tucker onside kick attempt, Tucker flagged for illegal touching (4th quarter)
The decision was questionable. The execution was putrid.
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Submission + - Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? (hplusmagazine.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "Not yet, but it could." German artificial intelligence researchers are combining JavaScript with eye-tracking hardware to create "text 2.0," which "infers user intentions." Unimportant words also fade out while you're skimming the text, and a bookmark automatically appears if you glance away. It can pronounce the words you're reading, and reading certain words can trigger the appearance of footnotes or even translations, biographies, definitions, and sound effects or animations, almost like the truly interactive books in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. "With the help of an eye tracker, Text 2.0 follows your progress and presents effects just in time," the researchers explain in a video. Meanwhile, DFKI has already created a free "Processing Easy Eye Tracker plugin" (or PEEP) to manipulate windows with what they call "gaze-controlled tab expose," while there's speculation similar technology may be adopted by Apple. Apple has already purchased Tobii's eye-tracking hardware, and "Whether these are for internal research only or for a future product, Apple is characteristically not saying.


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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Michigan vs. Ball State
UPDATE: Post-game thread is above. Leave them there instead of heree.
17 comments:
I just tuned in to ESPN Gamecast online to catch the play-by-play... it says Prescott Burgess was 3 for 3 in passing... what gives?
- November 04, 2006 12:23 PM
From listening, pretty uninspiring. Good to hear that Mario got some reps.
- November 04, 2006 2:41 PM
This is an embarrassing effort against Ball State.
- November 04, 2006 2:50 PM
What the fuck is happening right now? Ball State is within a touchdown and a two-point conversion away from a tie. What the fuck?!?! I agree with Anon 11:50, this is damn embarrassing. Can't the WR catch one ball!?
- November 04, 2006 3:00 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. We've given up nine points on offense. We've let up two long passes that led to TDs. We've made key penalties and dropped third down passes. Look at the stats - we should be killing them. But mistakes are killing us.
- November 04, 2006 3:05 PM
- Q1Go said...
We have an unacceptable number of penalties, and how is it possible that we have a turnover but have forced Ball State to make none? And where, oh where is our pass defense????? I have seen nothing on the gamecast about a sack, either.
- November 04, 2006 3:06 PM
- Q1Go said...
We've already allowed friggin' Ball State to score more points on us than anyone else all season. WHERE is my defense?
- November 04, 2006 3:17 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Q1Go, the offense gave up nine of those points. But this was a horrible performance on offense and defense.
- November 04, 2006 3:24 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
This was just awful. And embarrassing. Who'd have thunk that of all the teams Michigan has played so far this season it would be Ball State scoring the most points.
About the only possible bright side to this is if Lloyd Carr had called Brady Hoke and together they planned to make it look close so Hoke can get some sort of bonus and people--Ohio State--will underestimate Michigan.
- November 04, 2006 3:25 PM
Wow, impressive W for the yellow and blue. But let me guess, they did what they had to. And, the rushing yards allowed - man their D is awesome! Think Troy and co. are going to throw a few times on the 18th? Holy crap I can't wait - OSU is going to stomp the so called number 2 team in the country (if the yellow and blue can survive IU)! Time to watch the Bucks destroy another opponent. Enjoy the W losers.
- November 04, 2006 3:27 PM
Anon 12;27
you are a worthless, sad, pathetic loser. stalking a Michigan website to post a comment after a close game? dry up & die and save the O2 for somebody useful.
- November 04, 2006 3:29 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
that was just about as bad a performance as we've put on. Lloyd said he'd rather have a bye- and that's what they played like.
unmotivated, undisciplined, and unprepared.
they had better take IU more seriously or they'll embarrass themselves even worse.
- November 04, 2006 3:31 PM
Anon 12:29,
The truth hurts. Wow - a little extreme don't you think? Did I hit a nerve or something? I'm actually quite a fan of the website and I visit everyday - so not really stalking. I just find it amusing how many UM fans try to rationilze the yellow and blue's subpar performances of late with references to the awesome D and the team getting it done. Is this not a website meant to discuss UM football?
- November 04, 2006 3:42 PM
What was with Lloyd's shit-eating grin on his face after the game as he was going over to shake hands with Brady Hoke? Why on god's earth would he be smiling? We played terribly and very well could have lost to Ball State. WTF!!!?
- November 04, 2006 3:46 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
Anon 12:29,
to paraphrase dozens of tosu posters on the subject of wearing Maize & Blue to cowtown, getting abused, and then deserving it:
you pop up on a Michigan site 30 seconds after a poor performance, and then think someone was harsh??
"you were asking for it".
besides, today's game was the "best" thing that could happen for Michigan, or don't you read the dispatch:
"Tough game could benefit Buckeyes
Tackling adversity might create a stronger team later in season"
for the whole story: http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/04/20061104-E1-03.html
- November 04, 2006 3:55 PM
- PeckHorn78 said...
9 points given up early by the offense, and two pass plays get behind the defense for nearly 125 yards resulting in another 14. How many dropped 3rd down passes, not just Breaston but Matthews too?
This had better be a wake-up call, or IU will beat us next week, and the OSU game will be over before the half.....
And to top it all off, I had to endure the haze of cigarette smoke in a sports bar for f#%king ESPNU.
- November 04, 2006 4:03 PM
Let me just say if we bring that team on the field the 18th,were fucking done. I've never been so pissed off at a football game in life.I am tired of hearing excuse after excuse "IT WAS COLD","OFFENCE HAD A BAD DAY","CARR'S NOT SHOWING ANYTHING".Bullshit get the fucking job done you guy's,drop the hammer. If i have to listen to them dam O$U fuck's for another 365 on how they beat us i'll go crazy.Please get the god dam job done MICHIGAN. GO BLUE FUCK O$U.And they don't have my respect for me to put that bullshit "T" in front of name!
- November 04, 2006 4:46 PM


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Nature "Wild Balkans" at 7 pm
Thick forests, vast wetlands, deep chasms – this is a wild, inaccessible place that belongs more to myth than reality. The landscape looks as if it was taken straight form Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." But here there are neither orcs nor elves; rather, bears and wolves. This is not Middle Earth; rather it is middle Europe – the Balkans. Through the centuries this land has burned its way into the soul and spirit of its people. The jagged contours have thrown long dark shadows over the history of the peninsula, always in the middle, between forces of the East and the West. It's as if the bloody history of the Balkans conspired to conceal its natural wonders. The landscape is still untouched and in it are wild animals that have all but vanished from the rest of Europe.
NOVA "Building The Great Cathedrals" at 8 pm
Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, soaring effortlessly atop a spiderweb of masonry, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. But how did medieval builders reach such spectacular heights? Consuming the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking 100 years to build, these architectural marvels were crafted from just hand tools and stone. Many now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse. To save them, an international team of engineers, architects, art historians and computer scientists searches the naves, bays, and bell towers for clues to how the dream of these heavenly temples on earth came true. NOVA's teams perform hands-on experiments to investigate and reveal the architectural secrets that the cathedral builders used to erect their soaring, glass-filled walls. This program reveals the hidden formulas, drawn from the pages of the Bible itself, that drove medieval builders ever upward.
NOVA "Quest For Solomon's Mines" at 9 pm
Inspired by the Bible's account of the splendor of his temples and palaces adorned in glittering gold and copper, countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines. They have trekked through burning deserts and scaled the forbidding mountains of Africa and the Levant. Yet to date, the evidence that's been claimed to support the existence of Solomon and other early kingdoms in the Bible has been highly controversial. In fact, there is so little physical evidence of the kings who ruled Israel and Edom that many contend that they are no more real than King Arthur. During the summer of 2010, NOVA and National Geographic embarked on two groundbreaking expeditions to expose new clues buried in the pockmarked desert of Jordan: the ancient remnants of a mass industrial-scale copper mine and a 3,000-year-old message from the past with the words "slave," "king" and "judge." These cutting-edge investigations illuminate the legend of Solomon and reveal the source of the great wealth that powered the first mighty Biblical kingdoms.


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Forward Stefan Schneider has been reassigned from the ECHL's Kalamazoo Wings to the Chicago Wolves.
Schneider has posted 2 points (G, A) in eight games with the K-Wings since he was reassigned on Nov. 26. While Schneider, 23, has not appeared in any games with the Wolves this season, British Columbia native collected a career-best 4 goals, 5 assists, and 9 points in 46 games with Chicago last season.
The Wolves host the Abbotsford Heat in a School-Day game at 11 a.m. Wednesday. For more information or to purchase tickets to the game, call 1-800-THE-WOLVES or visit chicagowolves.com.


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I have 2 wifi laptops and a wired desktop, all running Linux Mint 13 (Mate).
This issue applies to all 3 devices, and started 2 days ago, (Friday April 26).
There is just one forum that Firefox will not connect to properly (www.fiftyplusforum.co.uk).
I can enter the site ok in FF, and choose New Posts, New Replies or My Posts (from my profile), but it won't go any further when I try to open any particular post - just get "waiting for FPF" and the spinning circle.
I get no error messages.
I've cleared cookies and cache several times.
In Opera and Google Chrome, the site is perfectly OK.
On a Win7 / IE laptop the site works correctly.
I've tried FF in Safe Mode, have reset it, and even removed, rebooted and reinstalled it, all to no avail.
Everything else works correctly, so although I'm not convinced it's a FF issue I've looked at Mozilla Help, but found no answer.
Proxy settings are the same in all 3 browsers.
I've also rebooted my router.
I tried the command suggested in: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.p ... 13193.html
"sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart"
which returned the following message:
"Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces"
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hi, bit of a weird thing. Upgraded my mandrake10 offical installation to the mandriva linux limited edition. now when i go to log on the system takes about 10 minutes to log me on either as a user or as root. no problem previously.
any ideas? Where would i look to see whats going on log file some where.
thanks in advance.
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Jeff Dunham Details
How many comedians can you name? Okay, how many stand-up comedians? Now, how many stand-up comedians can you name that are also ventriloquists? If you can name any at all, it's almost certainly Jeff Dunham. He's not only the world's most famous ventriloquist (a distinction that may seem like a low bar), he's one of the most successful stand-ups in history. He got his start as a kid, first picking up ventriloquism at the age of eight and performing local gigs by middle school. By the time he was a junior in college, he was making $70,000 by performing 100 shows a year, many of which were high-paying corporate events. And while he would always be able to make a living, it would be awhile before he broke out as a comedian.
His big break came in the early 2000s when, through relentless lobbying, he started getting some of his performances aired on Comedy Central. His career high may have been the release of his second special, Spark of Insanity, in 2007. Featuring his iconic characters Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Melvin the Superhero Guy, Peanut, and Jose Jalapeno on a Stick, clips his act spread like wildfire as the emergence of YouTube helped give him a broader platform. With Dunham fully established as an A-list comedy star, his 2008 Very Special Christmas Special was the most-watched telecast in the history of Comedy Central. Seeing Jeff Dunham live is a chance that no comedy fan ought to pass up, as there may never again be a ventriloquist offering the polished, boundary-pushing humor that ranks Dunham among America's most successful comedians.


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Does anybody call you by your real name, which is Casey? "Yeah, my family does. (My wife) Kimberly tried to, but she thought it didn't sound good. A lot of my family and my old friends from way back when do. 'Case' started because there was a kid in my third grade class named Casey as well, so my mom told me to go by Case so I don't get confused."
How much do you keep in touch with Kliff Kingsbury, Kevin Sumlin and Art Briles? "Are you trying to get an interview with Kliff?"
What? No (maybe)… that's not my intention. "Then why did you draw little hearts next to his name? Just kidding. I talk to Kliff quite a bit. He does a good job of texting. Obviously, they're all pretty busy. But I stay in touch with them pretty regularly."
Now that you're a big time starting quarterback, do you get recognized out in public more often? "I don't go out a whole lot, but, yeah, it's starting to happen a little more regularly."
So you don't have a fake
Bummer. What's your favorite phrase in Spanish? "In Spanish? What's... 'let's eat'?"
'Comemos.' What do you plan on doing in January when the season's over? "Relaxing a little bit. I'm probably gonna hunt. Maybe work on my golf game."
If there were a Case Keenum movie, which actor would pl-"Denzel Washington." (Interrupted.)
And who would play Kimberly? "I guess it's got to be Eva Mendes from Training Day."
If you were in a dark alley and you had to fight your way out of it to survive, which two teammates would you like on your side? "I would like
Who would you definitely not want beside you? "I guess I got to say


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Historically, for most people, the approaching holiday season brings joy and happiness, family, togetherness and many reasons to be thankful.
Historically, for most people, the approaching holiday season brings joy and happiness, family, togetherness and many reasons to be thankful. For others, it can mean the exaggeration of issues dealt with on a daily basis, such as sadness, no family and loneliness as the world seems to go on without them.
It is during these times that substance use and abuse become a way of coping and reach record highs.
Substance abuse is a blanket term used to describe dependence on alcohol, illegal drugs, as well as certain prescription drugs.
When an individual persists in use of alcohol or other drugs despite problems related to use of a substance, substance dependence may be diagnosed. Compulsive and repetitive use may result in tolerance to the effects of the drug and withdrawal symptoms occur when use is reduced or stopped. These, along with substance abuse are considered substance use disorders.
There are also definite psychological and social consequences associated with substance uses. Studies have shown that the psychological dependency on drugs or alcohol is sometimes more complex than the physical addiction. Psychological addiction symptoms include intense cravings, irritability, insomnia, depression and anxiety.
Most importantly, everyone behaves slightly different in addiction.
To determine an addiction, answer the following questions:
- Has your use of drugs or alcohol increased over time?
- When you stop using, have you ever experienced physical or emotional withdrawal?
- Have you had any of the following symptoms: irritability, anxiety, shakes, sweats, nausea or vomiting?
- Do you sometimes use more for a longer time than you would like? Does one drink lead to more drinks?
- Have you continued to use even though there have been negative consequences to your mood, self-esteem, health, job or family?
- Have you spent a significant amount of time obtaining, using, concealing, planning or recovering from your use? Have you ever concealed or minimized your use? Have you ever thought of schemes to avoid getting caught?
- Have you sometimes thought about cutting down or controlling your use, but have been unsuccessful at your attempts to do so?
- Do you get annoyed at criticism of your drinking or drug use?
- Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking or drug use?
- Do you ever take an early morning drink (eye-opener) or use drugs first thing in the morning ("a little hair of the dog that bit you") to get the day started or eliminate the "shakes"?
Help is available in the form of drug and alcohol rehab. There are different groups that use different methods that range from completely secular to explicitly spiritual. Many individuals find success with 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. For help, contact your family physician, the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Resource Center at 1-800-390-4056, or for referral information to local agencies, call the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council for South Louisiana at 879-2273 or email email@example.com.
Alicia P. Toups is executive
director for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council for South Louisiana, 730 Belanger St., Houma. She can be reached at 879-2273 or


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This is the poster child for spring vegetables with artichokes, baby spinach and grape tomatoes! It's similar to the popular artichoke and spinach dip that everyone seems to love, but not quite as indulgent.
The creamy sauce is made by pureeing artichoke hearts with milk, scallions, garlic and basil, then adding Parmesan cheese and lemon zest. Lemon is a natural compliment for artichokes and goes far in brightening up the distinct flavors. Grape tomatoes give it a sweet, acidic pop and spinach adds a green earthiness along with both dried and fresh basil.
If I had to chose one vegetable to eat everyday for the rest of my life it would be the grape tomato. How about you? Without fail they will show up time and time again in my recipes especially during the spring and summer. If you've grown them you can understand why — one plant can produce hundreds of these sweet little orbs — and I grow many. Thank-you Mother Nature.
Pasta with a creamy sauce similar to the popular artichoke and spinach dip that everyone seems to love but not quite as indulgent!
- In a large, deep-sided skillet heat two tablespoons olive oil over medium-low heat, add scallions and garlic, saute until garlic is fragrant. Add artichoke hearts and dried basil, saute 3-4 minutes.
- Add the mixture to a blender or large food processor with the milk and pulse until smooth. Pour back into the skillet and bring to a simmer for 10 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile cook linguini according to package directions in plenty of salted water to al dente, reserving a 1/2 cup of the pasta water before draining.
- Add Parmesan, lemon zest and spinach to the sauce, when spinach begins to wilt add grape tomatoes, linguine and the fresh basil. Toss well adding pasta water as needed to make the sauce and coat the noodles. Remove from heat and serve immediately with additional Parmesan cheese.


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Probably Ken Burger would consider his life somewhat accidental: An Allendale boy grows up to write politics and sports for the oldest daily newspaper in the South.
He lives in Washington, D.C., for a while. He becomes a prominent sports columnist. He gets a contest named after him. And then he starts to write stories about the ways old and new collide, about how people in South Carolina see themselves and others, about what it means to live in this time and place.
Burger, a populist newspaper man for decades, retired from The Post and Courier in 2011 and now has put his pen to other use.
He has become a novelist. Now that his third has been published (by Evening Post Books earlier this year), The Post and Courier looked him up. We had a few questions to ask.
Q: Let me start with a silly question. Was there a reason all three of your novels, "Swallow Savannah," "Sister Santee" and "Salkehatchie Soup," have two words in their titles that both start with the letter "S"?
A: It's obvious I have an alliteration problem. I think there's a 12-step program for that somewhere. Truth is, I just like the way the titles sound.
Swallow Savannah is the name of the Methodist church in Allendale) where I grew up. To me, it describes that area of our state where moss hangs low, life is slow and the government plays with plutonium behind secret gates.
Then I write about the pine plantations in the Palmetto State and create "Sister Santee" as the name of a shrimp boat that's named for a dead singer.
From there, it's a slippery slope (no pun intended) to "Salkehatchie Soup," that mysterious and dangerous legacy of the Cold War that's still buried in our beautiful state.
Q: All three of these books tell tales that are imbued with a sense of place and time, and that deal with social and political issues, in particular race and the implications of nuclear energy. In what way do your own life experiences connect with the stories you write?
A: I think the best answer is consciously and unconsciously. In writing about life and times in South Carolina, I'm just doing what every author should do: write what you know. I grew up here during segregation, in a county that was 80 percent black, next door to the Savannah River Plant, a top-secret government facility where they produced plutonium for the atomic bomb.
In fact, everybody called it the "bomb plant." When it comes to writing stories, there is no better boogeyman than a top-secret boogeyman. Like I always say, where there is secrecy, fiction will fill the void.
Q: What's your writing "method"? Do you outline a novel in your head before writing it? Do you just write and see where the story takes you? How well-defined are your characters at the beginning of the process?
A: I suppose everybody does it differently. I've always been a "be creative on demand" kind of writer. Point the deadline gun at me and I can produce prolific amounts of copy. In the press box, we called it "literature in a hurry." I can turn it on and turn it off.
When I get into a novel, I become a hermit and hide out at the beach and write 5,000 words a day. I can do that for about a week, then I take a break, think about it all, then do it again. And, no, I don't plan it out. I'm fearless that way. I treat it like life. It will go somewhere interesting if you give it a chance.
Writing characters is equally intriguing. In a novel, unlike a play, there might be 20 characters and you're playing every part.
To write a really wicked character, like Frank Finklea in "Swallow Savannah," or a truly troubled character, like Maceo Mazyck in "Sister Santee," you have to go places in your imagination you didn't know existed until they appeared on the page.
And, for better or worse, there's a little bit of you in every character you create. It can be revealing.
Q: Novels often deal with unresolved issues, either personal or social. And your books indicate that race relations could use some continued improvement. What are you views, in a nutshell, on the state of race in South Carolina?
A: I think, because of our deep, contentious, racial history as the gateway for slavery, South Carolina has been dealing with race very badly, continues to think it will somehow work itself out and has no modern blueprint for improving race relations in our state.
It is true that black and white people coexist quite well in modern society. But it's a facade of tolerance. We are still living in parallel universes when it comes to our social and religious lives. We shake hands on Friday afternoon and disappear into our own separate-but-unequal weekend worlds.
And the farther you travel off the beaten path, back into the hinterlands beyond the interstate highways, racism is as rampant and malicious as it ever was because it's still taught at the knee of angry rednecks who think integration, like prohibition, is a passing fancy.
Meanwhile, it simmers on the back burner of an open stove in a trailer along a dirt road, like a familiar stew of fear and guilt, ready to serve at the next covered-dish supper at the little white church just outside of town.
Q: To what extent do your many years in journalism inform the way you approach fiction writing?
A: I will never have a job that was as much fun as being a newspaper reporter. It's that amazing feeling of empowerment you get when you realize that a notepad in your back pocket gives you the right to ask anybody anything, anytime. It's a powerful drug that led me down the road to being a Washington correspondent, a sports columnist, and a metro columnist before I retired.
So there's no way you go through almost 40 years of reporting in this state without learning a lot of things about a lot of people. This gives you not only the reporter's instinct to dig into a story, but the license to expand on it and bring it to life in another genre.
News writing is also the world's best training ground for clear, concise, tight writing. I still write like I'm on drop-dead deadline. That's when the creative juices flow.
Q: What are you working on now? Another SS novel or something else?
A: Funny you should ask. Having finished this trilogy, I thought I might be done. But once you start writing novels, there's a little wheel in your head that starts spinning and you can't turn it off.
So, without really thinking about it, I've jotted down another SS title, started making a few notes, and already find myself riding down lonely country roads in search of that perfect South Carolina story. We'll see.


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With the release of WWE '13 well past us, and the fans having had time to experience the game, let's see how all of the wrestling games thus far stack up! This will be the top 3 wrestling games of all time! These will be the ones that truly stood out, stood apart, and stood tall! They revolutionized the genre, made every game that came after want to be them, and will remain in our hearts forever!
here comes the pain shut your mouth wwe 2000 arcade on dreamcast dont like wwe 13
Stand out for me. All for the N64
WCW/NWO World Tour
WCW/NWO Revenge
WWF Wrestlemania 2000
WWF No Mercy
My top wrestling games are
WCW vs the world ps1- Introduced the game engine that would become WCW vs NWO, WWF No Mercy
2. WWF Warzone ps1- Not a great game but introduced full enterances and was first WWF 3d game really revolutionary for the time but insane button combinations DOSENT STAND THE TEST OF TIME
3. WWF No Mercy N64- You can group all the N64- games here (WCW world tour, WCW vs NWO, WWF Wrestlemania 2000) but I give a slight edge because of the roster
4. WWF Wrestlefest Arcade- Just awesome so simple 2 button but fun as it can get
Sega's own Giant Gram 2000 (All Japan Pro Wrestling 3) for Dreamcast. That one was and is still a fun game. I still play it with my friends on some weekends. Lots of laughs and tons o'fun.
Smackdown heres comes the pain is awesome funny, you cant help but feel anything can happen in that game.


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SALISBURY, Md. – The York College women's tennis team suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday, falling 9-0 to Salisbury in a Capital Athletic Conference tilt. With the defeat, the Spartans fall to 4-1 on the year, including a 0-1 in the CAC, while the Sea Gulls improve to 3-0 on the season.
Despite the loss, the Spartans did take a trio of singles matches to three sets. At second singles, junior Katelyn Acker picked up a first set triumph with a 7-6 (7-6) victory over Elaina Iosue. However, Iosue responded over the final two sets with 6-2, 6-1 results to capture the win.
In the fourth slot, sophomore Megan McCullin fell in the first set by a 6-2 margin to Jessica Babyak but came back to knot the score at 1-1 with a 6-3 win in the second. That decisive third set however went Salisbury's way as Babyak nabbed a 6-4 triumph.
Nicole Olson had a similar match in the sixth spot against Amy Matonak. After dropping the first set 6-3, Olson picked up the second with a 6-4 win. However, once again that third set went to Salisbury as Matonak won 6-3.
The Spartans return to action on Sunday, March 20, when they host CAC foe Mary Washington. Start time in York is slated for 11:00 am.
PHOTO: Megan McCullin competes in a match against Gettysburg during the 2010 season. Courtesy of Scott Guise.


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I have an idea backed only by my imagination.
What if those galaxies are proof of symetry, and they're some of the few that are made of both matter and anti-matter, and the high energy ejections we're seeing are from that collision. Maybe half the galaxies in the sky are made of anti-matter and the non-particle-scale properties of antimatter are otherwise identical to matter.
Just whatever you do, do not cross that streams. that would be bad.
ERMERGERD! It's FULL of STARZ!
Collisions between matter and antimatter in space produce a lot of gamma rays of specific energies corresponding to the energy equivalence of the mass of the particles involved (not exclusively at those energies, but a lot there still). This has allowed scientists to characterize collisions between gas clouds and antimatter in areas around our galaxy, but they involve very, very small amounts of antimatter spread out over a large volume.
As far as the discovery that these high energy particles might be coming from some place close, this was somewhat expected as the GZK limit [wikipedia.org] describes a process of high energy particles interacting with CMB photons to pair produce and lose energy, limiting the energy of high energy cosmic rays that travel a long distance. Unfortunately, that could mean there a lack of new physics involved at the cosmic ray energy, much in the same way that confirming a single Higgs particle is a boring outcome not hinting at post-Standard Model physics.
So to bring it around, what does that have to do with this specific observation in the article, because I can't quite bridge that connection in my head.
He states that he is a scientist, how dare you try to explain the well known facts to him, a scientist?
Don't you realize this is science man!
Take your common sense, reason, and facts and go somewhere where that kind of stuff is tolerated.
My favorite particle is still the OopsLeon.
It amazes me that this needs to be pointed out. Using a deity's name in a secular and preferably angry context is one of the fundaments of swearing, by deus.
It amazes me that this needs to be pointed out. Using a deity's name in a secular and preferably angry context is one of the fundaments of swearing, by deus.
And one that is generally frowned upon by religious people. The names are essentially anti-religious, not religious, in nature.
Thanks. Just this, thanks, but sincerely.
other particles we find similar to it could be given normal names like UHE particles, or super high energy rays but that doesnt secure grant funding in the theocratic Mormon state of Utah.
If the state of Utah is theocratic and makes funding decisions based on particle names, choosing blasphemous ones is not the path to big research bucks. Mormons take the prohibition against taking the name of deity in vain pretty seriously.
I prefer the Oh-My-Goddess! [wikipedia.org] particles, OVA version.
Running ther reactors without shielding.
Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?
Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?
The screams... it's all about the screams. And dinner. Think of it as the psychotic version of dine-in movie theaters.
This would imply that they are decelerating on the approaching trajectory.
This would imply that they are decelerating on the approaching trajectory.
Or getting as far away from us as they can.
that's an incredibly disturbing thought. thanks for that. not only can they throw beefed up protons at us, they're getting closer.
Its aliens who have created an Ion drive capable of accelerating Hydrogen ions to near speed of light.. - Giving an almost limitless supply of thrust. What we are seeing is pollution from the thrusters!
And this is the real reason for global warming
This post made me remember an old short-story (whose name I've now forgotten) written by Larry Niven. The gist of the story was that some time way in the future when humans had colonized space and things were so peaceful and hunky-dory that they no longer fought wars or weaponized their spaceships, a human spacecraft came upon an alien ship manned by an unknown aggressive and warlike species (the Kzin, maybe), which began to attack them without warning. Despite lacking any weapons with which to defend the
Hey, that's it! Thanks man.
or perhaps it's from a stargate
They have a nice graphic here of the OMG particle hitting the atmosphere.
Nope, it's a targeting laser. We are being painted. The rock will only move at 0.999 C but will be 5 km in diameter.
What exactly is a 20 degree radius? One wonders about that article.
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Regardless of what you may personally think about Apple, they have made some very valuable contributions to LLVM and Clang. So I just want to say, thank you, Apple. Your generosity has touched my heart, and made C++11 a reality.
One of the great things about Clang and LLVM are they are BSD licensed rather than GPL.
So are you seriously trying to start this flamewar again? Do you have nothing else to say?
Indeed. I'm a bigger fan of the GPL in most cases, but there is room enough in the world for both camps (crazy talk, I know). Now you have your compiler under a suitable license for you and your fellow travelers.
GPL is probably a better license for a compiler, if only because it prevents the stupid proliferation of proprietary extensions that have plagued the compiler market.
I work for a MIPS vendor (Cavium) and I know we push almost all of our extensions upstream and we ship very recent versions to customers. We're currently shipping 4.7 to customers. This includes support for the Cavium OCTEON proprietary assembly instructions as well (encryption, hashing, load/store indexed and atomic instructions). There is a lot of active GCC development where I work and in fact we are looking for more GCC developers for both MIPS and ARM.
Similarly we work hard to push all of our stuff ups
You can freely distribute clang. You can contribute back to clang. It's probably easier to contribute back since the code isn't a monolithic mess.
It makes no difference to me as a user whether my compiler is GPL or BSD licensed. But those license decisions affect the compiler architecture which affects the compiler. Clang/LLVM are modular for technical reasons. They don't care if you "steal" a component. GCC is monolithic for political reasons. RMS is afraid you'll use it without giving back. What
GCC is monolithic for political reasons. RMS is afraid you'll use it without giving back.
How does the design of GCC prevent anyone from *using* it without giving back?
Well the GPL specificly isn't a problem here, however it is really nice to have an alternative to GCC that actually encourages and facilitates reuse of their code rather than one that puts up deliberate obsticles to reuse even by other free software projects.
One of the big reasons that CLang was created was because there were some free software developers that wanted to integrate high quality front-ends (parser, etc) into other projects like IDEs, LLVM, and such. They prefered to work together with GCC to share the effort, but GCC refused. They were so paranoid about proprietary applications using GCC code that they refused to seperate the front-end into a GPL library that GPL applications could use. Their rational was that someone could easily write a GPL wrapper application around that GPL library that just serialized the data to/from a text representation, which could then be legally used with a proprietary application. In their mind, it was more important to make it difficult for proprietary applications to use their code than to make it easy for free software to use their code.
So LLVM was forced with the decision to either fork GCC or write their own. GCC was never designed with front-end modularity in mind, and a lot of changes would be necessary to do so. Once that massive refactoring was complete, it would be difficult to share improvements between the two codebases. Between that and some compelling technical reasons they chose go write their own and CLang was born.
Well they didn't exactly "switch" to Clang. They created Clang.
How can something be more Complete? I can understand less complete. Does this imply knowledge of the future?
The next version will be NP-complete.
This kind of comment is what keeps me coming back to
- It's pedantic
- The editors never edit out basic typos, let alone subtle grammar or phrasing
- It's the first post to be modded up
- You must be new here
Thanks goombah99, keep up the good work!
P.S. Sheldon Cooper is that you?
The fourth edition of The C++ Programming Language with c++11 coverage will come out next month. (ISBN: 978-0321563842)
There are already general books on c++ that cover the new standard, like C++ Primer 5th edition.
The standard specifies compiler behavior and the run-time library behavior. I know GCC has been pretty up to date with respect to the language features, but there are still some "Partial" and "No" entries in the run-time library implementation's C++11 status [gnu.org]. Is Clang's library implementation complete with respect to the C++11 standard?
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The science is settled. What's up with these finite-egg deniers?
Hey, if you were Al Gore, you'd be correct.
Hey, if you were Al Gore, you'd be correct.
Watch his amazing prior hoc ergo propter hoc demonstration.
"prior hoc ergo propter hoc"?
I think you meant "post hoc ergo propter hoc".
"prior hoc ergo propter hoc"?
I think you meant "post hoc ergo propter hoc".
I meant to say before this therefore because of this in Latin. I was refering to a graph behind AG showing temperature swings followed 800 years later by the Carbon Cycle.
If one wanted a post-hoc assertion, then he would say that the Climate Cycle drives the Carbon Cycle.
Can't tell if humor?
...or even regular menopause.
Pregnancy in forty-five-year-old women is a dangerous proposition.
If it's dangerous for the mother, think of the child in the womb
Babies born by older mothers have much higher chances of having being born with many types of defects
Down syndrome is just one of them.
It seems as if they do about as well as younger women that undergo induced pregnancies: http://www.livescience.com/18289-pregnant-women-age-50-complications.html [livescience.com]
But since those younger women are going for induced pregnancies they might not be that healthy either...
If those induced pregnancies weren't that much more dangerous than normal pregnancies, then it may not be so dangerous for older mothers and their babies if the eggs and sperm are good quality (whether donated or via some new-fangled stemcell thin
If it's dangerous for the mother, think of the child in the womb
Babies born by older mothers have much higher chances of having being born with many types of defects. Down syndrome is just one of them.
But you have completely missed the reason. It is because of the old eggs. If a 45yo woman is pregnant using a donor egg from a young woman, all those risks go away.
If it's dangerous for the mother, think of the child in the womb
Babies born by older mothers have much higher chances of having being born with many types of defects. Down syndrome is just one of them.
But you have completely missed the reason. It is because of the old eggs. If a 45yo woman is pregnant using a donor egg from a young woman, all those risks go away.
Actually, there's extensive evidence that it isn't because of old eggs: it's because as a woman gets closer to menopause her body spontaneously aborts less often, so she'll bear children with defects, that when she was in her twenties her body would've dumped. Tim Birkhead in "Promiscuity: the evolution of sperm competition" discusses this quite a bit. The theory is that when she's younger her body wants to focus its resources on only the best offspring, and as she approaches menopause, it's more important to just have kids to pass on her genes, than it is to be selective.
Most women lose their fertility for a reason. Whether it's menopause or cancer, getting pregnant is not a good idea in either case.
Trains and vehicles are unsafe. Humans do not move faster than they can run for a reason. How dare we either go against god or risk finding out why evolution made us this way!
Have you actually looked into this?
In africa infertility used to be the second most common reason women went to the doctor. AIDS was number one. They will not do to the doctor if they are just old.
Obviously menopause is a common reason women can no longer have children but it is expected. Cancer is way, way down on the list.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem. If you go to the doctor, much of the time the honest answer is that "we just don't know"
In africa infertility used to be the second most common reason women went to the doctor. AIDS was number one. They will not do to the doctor if they are just old.
The population growth of Africa is the highest of the continents. Africans have many problems but infertility isn't one of them.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem. If you go to the doctor, much of the time the honest answer is that "we just don't know"
And in most of those cases it is possible to use the woman's own eggs. When it's not feasible then there is some problem with the woman's body, which can make pregnancy a risk.
Unexplained infertility is a huge medical problem.
Is it?
It seems like an out of control population is a much, much larger problem.
So if we stopped attempting to treat all those darn infertile people of the world would that put any kind of dent in the population growth rate? Along the same of thinking, we should also stop medically treating old and sick people so that they die earlier to help lower the population and save money/resources.
Perhaps a better solution would be that all families be limited to 2 children and that we continue to treat people with fertility problems.
No, I doubt it would significantly correct population growth. Not when you have whack-job religious, middle-class families throughout America popping out 5-7 kids per couple. I would be willing to compromise and let infertility be treat if a "2 children per family" law was implemented and enforced, along with proper sexual education. Furthermore, there should be a very basic parenting license that you must apply for along with this hard limit. Repeat criminal offenders need not apply. People with adverse ge
People with adverse genetic defects that would be passed onto their children would be turned away.
Uh oh, treading on very shallow ground here. We already had this kind of stuff in a slightly different setting, some 70 years back. It was not so much turning people away from fertility treatment, but rather making sure they are infertile. The question always is: where do you draw the line? If there's a risk of injury / disability in your family or with your pregnancy, the doctor should inform the parents, so that they can make a decision, if they want to get pregnant or if they really want to carry out the
Hold on, let me put on my tin foil hat.
Obviously, it's a government plot to seed the clouds over Africa with chemicals to sterilize the population. It's one of the uses of chemtrails. We don't have the problems over here so much because drink water that's been treated, and most of us either drink bottled water or have a filter on the tap. The chemicals they use are not transdermal, so the little bit that's in our tap water doesn't affect most people from showering, laundry, brushing theeth, etc.
What about in vitro fertilization using a surrogate? This would allow a woman who is infertile to still have a child carrying hers and her husband's DNA. Not the most important thing, I'll admit, but for the rare couple in such a situation, it would be nice to have.
Along those lines, a quote in TFA on why women had all the eggs they will have in the beginning and don't make eggs:
"Then why would women have menopause?"
I found that less than compelling reasoning from scientists.
I was shocked to find that the biology I've been reading that says that a woman (and all female mammals) has all her eggs in the beginning is really just conjecture and that no one has ever seen the eggs stored. There's quite a lot of reasoning involved, about how important it is for integrity of
Most women lose their fertility for a reason.
No. Evolution does not operate by reason or intelligence.
The word reason implies some mental process or justification, an explanation or rationale for an event.
The word cause is neutral, and is appropriate to describe factual relationships.
If I say my car won't start and someone says "for what reason?" they aren't implying that the darn heap of junk has become sentient and made a conscious decision to go on strike.
If I say my car won't start and someone says "for what reason?" they aren't implying that the darn heap of junk has become sentient and made a conscious decision to go on strike.
Correct. They are implying that you (a human being) can supply a logical explanation that will satisfy their curiosity.
It's not actually well established what the reason for menopause is. Not all mammals undergo menopause. Socio-economic status is a far better predictor of the ultimate health of the child than the age of the mother. The reason why women lose their fertility is merely because they run out of eggs. They run out of eggs because from an evolutionary perspective, there's no downside to running out of eggs 20-30 years after the onset of menarche. Evolutionary adaptations don't have to be advantages per se; they m
Correct. Survival of the species is not a purpose.
Some species adapt and survive, and some don't. They don't try to adapt for the purpose of surviving. There is no guiding hand.
Some genes make it into future generations and some don't.
If a species is prolific and successful early on and then starts producing deformed offspring that die early its genes will still have made it.
Defective offspring is not necessarily a deleterious occurrence.
I don't think that "running out of eggs" is anything more than a bedtime story told to kids, or even flatly a lie. At 45 years old, one has lived around 16 thousand days. Even if someone ovulated once a day, running out of 16,000 cells is good as a joke. If you think otherwise, educate us, please. Show where someone counted those eggs, and has shown that they have ran out.
Ostensibly, the number of eggs that a female is born with is the number of eggs she carries through her life. It's perfectly believable that a) the number of eggs is a finite and small number; and b) no more eggs are created after birth. The wikipedia article on ovum claims that this fixed number is a property of all mammals.
I haven't seen any scientific articles that have claimed otherwise, though I admit that I've taken this on faith. It IS fact that human ovulation has a beginning and an end that don't c
30*365/(7*3) 522. Five hundred cells? Show some papers where they have counted them and can show that women actually ran out of anything. Oh, and it better be done by multiple groups, from various "angles", just to be sure we have reproducible results and not just due to one group's (mis)-interpretation. Because I think it'd be big news, possibly Nobel-prize-worthy. There's IMHO a whole lot of BS that's repeated over an over, but no one bothers to look at the original sources and think "hey, that's, like,
Sorry, meant to write 30*365/(7*3) < 522. Heck, and this probably should be more like 7*4, but still, we're talking about roughly half a thousand eggs. That's a rather silly number, if you think about it.
What does silly mean in this context?
You have some kind of feeling that it seems way off?
Or does silly have some biological meaning that I'm not familiar with?
In terms of number of cells, that's barely a blip. Since it's such a small blip, you'd think someone somewhere would have counted the damn eggs already. Now, the way things are, the ovaries have volume measured in millilitres, not nanolitres, and I've yet to see an actual egg count. That's why the assumption that humans somehow run out of eggs is silly, and that's why the presumed small number of eggs is silly as well. Unless there's some hitherto unknown (at least to me) mechanism that kills a whole bunch
Are you also opposed to therapies for lost eyesight, lost mobility, lost hearing, and so on? All of those happen for reasons.
This is Slashdot... do we care about the inner workings of a woman's body?
Maybe you don't but this should freeze your balls:
Tilly holds a patent on the human egg stem cells
(and is starting a company to help alleviate human suffering and cash out on his find).
Hopefully, no public funds were used in this endeavor, otherwise I smell an ethical rat...
holds a patent on the human egg stem cells
Public funds or not... in my opinion that is the rat I'm smelling.
How did the medical community miss this? Is this another 'we didn't bother checking with actual women' thing that seems to be plaguing them?
What is with that? I thought one of the benefits of being an MD was access to lots of women....
Because no doubt some researchers decades ago did a study with a p-value 0.05. Because most researchers--like everybody else--are statistical idiots, they presumed either the null hypothesis wrong and/or the the alternative hypothesis true and moved on. When what should have happened instead was generation and testing of a new hypothesis, preferably one which sheds light on both previous hypotheses.
Consider that with a p-value of 0.05 one out of twenty experiments, on average, will see "improbable" results
Someone mod this up. An insightful comment if I ever saw one.
I thought one of the benefits of being an MD was access to lots of women....
Yeah, lots of women with injuries or diseases, uncomfortable if not in actual pain.
Still, whatever turns you on...
Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women
So, as opposed to the egg cells found in men?
"rescue the fertility of women who have to undergo cancer treatments or who suffer from premature menopause."
They already have a solution for that. It's called adoption. Until we figure out how to sufficiently take care of the children there are on this planet we shouldn't be going out of our way to make new ones.
While interesting from a scientific point of view, why are we obsessed with fertility when some people have more children than they can take care of? Perhaps we can address fertility issues caused by rare events like cancer, or the fertility of women as they get older as a solution to a shortage of orphans.
Also, when you have your own child, then hopefully you have (some) idea of what might be in store for you genetics/environment wise. You know the family history (if it's bad, then maybe adoption *IS* a better option).
You also know that you aren't going to run into that possibly difficult moment where the child you've raised decides to look for the genetic parents. Knowing some people that have been adopted, the whole birth-parent-genetic-parent can be hard on a kid and on a family.
One fear of mine would be
My grandfather was raised in an orphanage.
One fear of mine would be not knowing the parent of your child, and the circumstances of birth. Was the parent an alcoholic or drug user? Did the child get enough nourishment, etc while in the womb? Many children are given up because of a bad home environment, which often might have adverse factors later affecting said child's health.
Adopters (here in the UK at least) get to know a fair amount about the birth parents. As most children aren't adopted as babies here, any obvious health issues are normally apparent by the time they are adopted.
And in any case, if an adopted child turns out to have some unfortunate medical condition, it's the same as if it's your biological child, you deal with it.
This is of course a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway. The answer is that you don't have be obsessed, but the women who get sick and can't have a child would like to have some kind of cure. Maybe that's selfish of them, but if what you are thinking of is the sustainability of the earth, I'm sure that if you did the math,, it's more selfish to eat meat.
The truth is that many Western countries have a fertility rate below 2 [wikipedia.org]. So while there may be too many children born in some parts of the
Dunno about that but when I play Arkham City as Catwoman I have a semi the entire time
I mean that could be downright dangerous for teenage boys. They should have a warning on that game about erections lasting longer than 4 hours...
So it's now acceptable to refer to them as chicks?
Occasionally there are news about how sperm can become redundant and some unpleasant banter about men becoming extinct comes along. Can we conclude from these news that the opposite could happen, ie: stem cells from a man being set up to generate his own egg?
Slashdotters would then be able to reproduce asexually, which would be clear progress
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First, many large cities do not have major college football (as defined by a BCS school) teams residing withing their city borders:
1. New York (no)
2. LA (yes)
3. Chicago (no)
4. Houston (no)
5. Philadelphia (no)
6. Phoenix (no)
7. San Diego (no)
8. Dallas (no)
9. San Jose (no)
10. Detroit (no)
11. San Antonio (no)
Second, look at the location of major teams: UM (Ann Arbor), Oklahoma (Norman), Texas (Austin), Florida (Gainesville), Alabama (Tuscaloosa)...etc., etc., etc. Major football colleges don't exist in large cities.
Third, why? NYU and University of Chicago abandoned their programs because they were losing money, and couldn't rationalize pissing money away on football when they could actually spend the money on something that gave the students a tangible benefit.
U of C, specifically, was being left behind in an arms race, trying to compete with Big 10 school while having an undergrad enrollment of 4,200 people (or, half the size of the tiny-for-D1 Northwestern).
Also, land: U of M, for instance, had a huge stadium, an indoor practice facility AND an outdoor practice facility - not to mention an entire campus building devoted to the administration of the team, and a devoted weight room. It can - the school spans nearly 3200 acres. U of C? 200 acres. NYU? 310. The cost of acquiring the real estate to run a successful program in a city like New York or Chicago, even 100 years ago, would have been prohibitive. U of C, when you consider academics and size is much more comparable to Harvard than it is to a Big 10 school.
The country is full of small, largely non-competitive schools that break-even financially by offering themselves up as sacrifices to the BCS alter (see the Sun Belt, MAC, Big West, etc.) on an annual basis. These schools, largely, compete for nothing other than the stubborn pride of saying "We play D-I football". NYU and UC decided not to engage in the quixotic process.


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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending article six thereof, by adding thereto a new section, designated section fifty-five, relating to revenues accruing from the sales of all permits and licenses to hunt, trap, fish or otherwise hold or capture fish and wildlife resources and money reimbursed and granted by the federal government for fish and wildlife conservation; providing that said revenues and properties are to be used solely for the conservation, restoration, management, educational benefit, recreational use and scientific study of the state's fish and wildlife resources; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such amendment.
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Platform: XBLA
Developer: Denki
Publisher: UTV Ignition
I fired up Quarrel this morning for one final game before sitting down to write this review. The next time I checked the clock three hours had passed and I was about to fall behind on my deadline. This is a game in which pirates battle ninjas, robots battle soldiers, and aliens battle vikings for territorial control using only the power of the English language. Conflicts are won and lost at the hands of the elusive anagram, which makes itself known only to the most capable of word-weilding warriors. It might sound like I'm being obtuse, but Quarrel is absolutely insane; fortunately, it's equally excellent.
Quarrel was announced for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade back in 2009. Since then, it's been stuck in a developmental limbo of sorts, with a whole host of publishers refusing to release on the grounds that "gamers don't buy word games". Denki though stuck to their guns, and we're now finally able to play the iOS hit as it was always intended: with online multiplayer support.
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I have installed my printer, Canon i560, using Turboprint and it works, however I want to print from other computers on the network and installed CUPS, now when I start Print Manager I get the following in a warning box:
Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused.
where is the printer list located and can I amend it manually?