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2 desktops * 2 bit sizes * with/without codecs = 8. However there are also 2 OEM version so 10 total.
Yep they do. Main page already has the 8 listed for version 13: http://www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=18 [linuxmint.com]
AFAIK the last time they put out an XFCE was version 9, when they also had a Fluxbox. I assume that's been completely dropped. The version 13 user's guide is written in terms of MATE. Are you sure they aren't going Gnome variants only?
Let me correct my previous answer. It appears the XFCE
As far as I can tell LMDE is targeted to desktop users as well, just as Mint was designed as a slight improvement over Ubunutu, LMDE is designed for those who run Debian Testing. The Mint desktop, the codecs and the software that Debian won't touch are the big advantages over just running Debian Testing all of which effect desktops. So installing Skype on LMDE is not a hassle.
The big advantage LMDE has over Mint (using Ubuntu) is they don't pick up all the heavy weight add ons of Ubuntu. At startup that
I wouldn't consider "with codecs" and "without codecs" flavors, exactly, since they don't really change the install at all. More like "legally covering our asses." They don't even have direct links to the downloads in TFA.
Mint, to me, is still a buggier and less supported version of Unbuntu.
Not to say I'm that pleased with Ubuntu but every time I've tried Mint I've come away with two hard realizations
1. If you have problems, they are harder to fix and it's harder to get support for them.
2. I have more showstopping bugs than Ubuntu.
3. You end up doing a
I'm not a moron and I've deployed mint on Good hardware that run both windows and other distros just fine. Mint just has a very vocal fanbase that I don't happen to agree with.
That said, Ubuntu's not very useful to me either. It's UI has taken a trip to lala land and isnt very useful anymore. I'd accuse them of copying microft's new UI efforts.. Except that Ubuntu's breaking of the UI predates both win phone 7 and windows 8. Go fig.
I suggest that everyone go check out Fedora. No, it's not very romantic or cutting edge. But it does work. Very well. It's also very well supported.
Check out the "spins" where you can download an iso customized to the UI of your choice. I'm a fan of xfce, which makes even gnome3 look bloated and slow.
I'm currently on Linux Mint LXDE 11, or Linux Mint 11 LXDE, or whatever it's called. I love that it's so extremely fast to start stuff up, much more so than my previous some-other-distro with KDE4.
Is there, or will there, be an LXDE release for Mint 13? I can't figure it out from the site. (Yes, I'm bad at reading, apparently.)
Mint has a fairly good 'data and software package list backup, then do a fresh install from livecd' approach for upgrades.
More here [linuxmint.com].
I just tested out 32-bit linux mint cinnamon in VirtualBox.
Most of the text is missing!
http://i.imgur.com/F0af2.jpg [imgur.com]
Well, duh! You're using the 32-bit version, missing out on half the bits. If you want all the bits to work, install the 64-bit version, like any sane person would.
I just tested out 32-bit linux mint cinnamon in VirtualBox. Most of the text is missing!
http://i.imgur.com/F0af2.jpg [imgur.com]
This is a good example case of some weird broken stuff you come across every now and then when using desktop Linux.
Can someone explain what happens there? Someone suggested it's about video memory. Then why does it not check if there's enough available?
Whatever the reason is, there's not enough robustness in the GUI.
The original purpose of Mint may have been to include codecs, but today Mint is more like a stable version of Ubuntu with sane software choices out of the box.
My laptop was dual-boot Win7 and Mint 12 (Ubuntu-based). What I noticed during installation / use:
1) Installed left me with an unbootable system. GRUB had the right menu items, but none worked. I needed to boot from the live Mint 13 installation CD, install a package for repairing the boot loader, and run the program that came with it. Worked pretty well, but not sure if it's fixed yet. And even now, I have two GRUB entries for Win7. Only the first one works.
2) Screen locking doesn't work, at least for me.
Under important info: Boot hangs on systems with b43 wireless cards.
Guess it won't be going on my laptop anytime soon..
Yea ok I used to like mint when ubuntu went "pants on head retarded", but I havent been lately
10 and anything before it works fine
11 constantly fucks up something on the desktop with a "your taskabar (or clock or whatever) has stopped working, would you like to delete it?" trap
12 ships with gnome 3 AND their clunky menu system, really how many start menus do I need
12 with gnome 2 suffers the random thing is going to break and you should delete it syndrome as 11
LXDE versions of them all plain suck, I view LXDE as a half finished pain in the ass version of XFCE that requires me to do dumb shit like open a file explorer to empty trash, or fart out a regular expression just to set the fucking clock format
so now that 13 is out, I say "not for me", too much trouble, xubuntu is doing great, thanks, and they just released a new LTS
I think most people are aware that Linux Mint is just a customized version of Ubuntu. Nothing special in that regard. However, the reason Mint is so popular is because it has something very important that a lot of people desire - sensible defaults.
Sure, you can take a stock Ubuntu installation and replace Unity with MATE/Cinnamon, install additional codecs, move the window buttons to the left so that you don't have to readjust your muscle memory and so on, but Linux Mint has this performed for you out of the box. It also has other changes like an absence of purple in the GRUB, Plymouth and login/desktop screens, which might seem petty but the Mint color scheme whilst grey and somewhat boring, feels far more professional and less garish. Once again, chances you can make if you know how with Ubuntu, but Mint is already preset with them for you.
Mint feels like a distro where the developers aren't interested in futzing around with challenging traditional UI perceptions, and would instead rather provide a distro based on a (reasonably) solid foundation which anyone can use which still looks nice and doesn't force you to relearn how to perform efficiently in a foreign UI. The motivation for Canonical is to be on as many devices as possible - the motivation for the Mint team is to make a usable Linux distro for computers with as few hindrances as possible.
For those wondering about Cinnamon vs Mate vs Unity vs KDE vs LXDE vs XFCE vs whatever, there is a new distro out called Hybryde. From the distrowatch announcement
Olivier Larrieu has announced the release of Hybryde Linux 1, a desktop Linux distribution with one unique feature - the ability to switch rapidly and fluidly between a number of desktop environments and window managers without logging out and without having to close open applications first. The list includes Enlightenment 17, GNOME Shell, GNOME 3 "Fallback" mode, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Unity, Xfce and FVWM. The switching between desktops is achieved via a customisable Hy-menu which also allows launching applications and configuring the system. The project's website is in French and by default the distribution only supports the French language, but extra language packs can be installed from standard Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.
Okay, MATE and Cinnamon weren't among the listed options, so it might have been good had they forked off Mint, as opposed to Ubuntu, so that they could have included that as well. I'm guessing that they probably only offer liberated software, which is why complete GNOME 3 is not offered, since it requires 3D accelaration to work, for which liberated drivers are not available. Unless they're trying to get the FSF seal of approval, they might as well offer a full GNOME3, w/ an advisory that it's not a fully liberated DE.
Oh, and then there are all the other Ubuntu derivative Linuxes, such as Comice, dyne:bolic, ExTiX, gNewSense, LuninuX, Trisquel and Zorin.
If I download and burn the installer DVD, can I just boot the DVD and click something to upgrade the machine's original Ubuntu (v11.10) to Mint, with little or no further intervention? Which will let me reboot and launch Evolution and Firefox with all my configs and data intact?
And if I don't like it, can I boot from an Ubuntu installer CD to revert? Or maybe something even easier?
It's not quite that easy, AFAIK.
If you've put your
But unfortunately, that also means that you'll have to tell Ubuntu's / Mint's installer that you're using a custom partitioning scheme. So you'll need to get a little more involved during the installation process than if you hadn't used a separate partition for your
But unfortunately, that also means that you'll have to tell Ubuntu's / Mint's installer that you're using a custom partitioning scheme. So you'll need to get a little more involved during the installation process than if you hadn't used a separate partition for your
I usually just let it go with the defaults in the OS partition and then later I edit fstab to restore my
I only briefly tested it, but the Mate edition looks excellent, it's not quirky. it's like the old gnome 2 is back, with no bugs and small applets such as xeyes. it's the editiion to use, works everywhere, no need for a 3D driver to run it. also in a funny way it feels lightweight nowadays, due to most other desktops being really bloated (or xfce not being that much lighter)
Especially awesome is, despite its Windows XP taskbar set up, with the big Mint menu, you can easily add a top panel if you wish, and c
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Hello, fellow GT Wiki editors! I'd like to propose that this article be merged with Unique jumps, since they seem to be regarding the same topic, yet each contains some information not present in the other. What do other editors think of this? Are they really two separate things? If so, I think efforts should be made to make the distinction clearer. Thoughts? EganioTalk 05:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- Firstly, you should use {{merge}} to alert readers of the merge (people don't read the talk page for every article they read). Secondly, try and keep all the discussion in one talk page, rather than spreading it across two (pick one talk page, and just link to it from the other). Thirdly, Unique jumps has the wrong capitalisation, so at the very least requires renaming (moving). Fourthly, yes they are the same topic and should be merged, either into Unique Jumps or Unique Stunts, depending which is the official name mentioned in the statistics for the games. If there is more than one correct name, use the most prominent or most descriptive term - Gboyers (?) 12:05, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- They should definitely be merged, but I think the actual wording used in-game is "Unique Stunt Jumps" in most games. I'm positive that the wording used in IV is "Stunt Jumps." How about Unique Stunt Jumps as the article and then have Unique Stunts, Unique Jumps, and Stunt Jumps redirect to it? --GuildKnightTalk2me 05:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- My thoughts exactly! I am of the opinion that because the name has varied slightly throughout the series, the most "neutral" name would be Unique Stunt Jumps, as GuildKnight suggested, since it is the most inclusive and the most descriptive. EganioTalk 22:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


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Despite the web being littered with reports of videogame-inspired murders, the vast majority of UK parents believe games can actually be beneficial for kids and families, it has been claimed.
Despite the survey being conducted on behalf of games console maker Microsoft, the latest Play Smart, Play Safe assessment discovered that 61 per cent of UK parents agreed that games create a great social experience.
The survey questioned over 2500 parents in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the US, but full regional breakdowns haven't been provided. It also quizzed 1000 kids in the UK, but for some unknown reason ignored young 'uns in other countries.
Over half of UK adults questioned – 52 per cent, to be exact – said that games bring families closer together.
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A whopping 80 per cent also see games as a vital component in a "balanced blend of modern and traditional entertainment", possibly after Scrabble, Radio 4 and Newsnight.
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Education needs local support
As I write this, SOU students are piling back into a bus to return from a rally they attended in Salem. The purpose of the rally was, unsurprisingly, to voice concern over continued divestment from public education.
While I commend the students who attended and hope it made an impact on those in the state's legislative bodies, two things continue to bother: The rally was attended overwhelmingly just by students, and those students felt the best action could happen at the state level.
Having grown up in this valley, attended public school here through high school and now as a graduate student at SOU, this is not surprising. It seems that education, from K-12 to universities to programs provided by entities such as the local libraries, struggle to gain necessary support.
Given the positive impact, economically and otherwise, SOU could have on communities far outside Ashland's city limits, one wonders why community members aren't more involved. The relative dearth of input and investment from the community in helping SOU not only to right itself but to grow, feels out of step with the generally open and supportive communities in the Rogue Valley.
That, at all levels, we continue to divest from, and ignore the necessity of, public education seems astounding given the positive correlations healthy public education has on communities. Do we care enough to begin involving ourselves in the institutions of public education, both K-12 and college-level, to support them, or are we going to continue to pretend that they exist separate from Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Medford, Eagle Point and Jacksonville?
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Where there's smoke, there's wasted carbon
I was saddened to hear that the Ashland Fire Department will continue this spring burning the watershed to save it from later burning. This is akin to randomly shooting people now so that they won't later be killed.
I've heard all the arguments in favor of "Resilient Stewardship" of the forest, but in my opinion as a former firefighter, this has more to do with logging income and keeping firemen busy than with healthy forests. When the entire world is focused on lowering air pollution, this seems insane.
Let the carbon remain sequestered in our natural forests where it filters our drinking water and don't put more smoke in the air. Haven't we breathed enough?
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SOU history proposal is equally appalling
In addition to cutting physics, SOU's retrenchment proposal outlines deep cuts in the history department and even the possibility of cutting the history department, creative writing, languages and economics entirely. This is disturbing at many levels.
As an educator, I assume that students will be able to take courses in these departments when they go to college. Additionally, I assume that SOU's education majors, who plan on teaching high school history, will be educated in the subject they plan to teach.
I am not sure how SOU plans to graduate qualified teachers if there are not courses in physics, creative writing and history. As residents of this valley and as parents whose children I hope will be well educated, we should all be outraged by the lack of funding and poor decision making that has resulted in this most recent proposal. SOU's leadership clearly does not have a wise sense of its path for the future if it doesn't plan on teaching about the past.
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The History of AES
In 1972 and 1974, the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) issued the first public request for an encryption algorithm for its new encryption standard. IBM submitted an algorithm that would become DES, arguably the most widely used and successful encryption algorithm in the world.
Despite its popularity, DES has been plagued with controversy. Some cryptographers objected to the closed-door design process of the algorithm, and wondered whether the NSA added a trap door to allow surreptitiously breaking the algorithm. The 56-bit key was viewed by some as too short; certainly it is insufficient for today's security applications.
There are other choices, including IDEA, Blowfish, RC5, and CAST-128. Triple-DES has emerged as an interim solution for banking and other conservative systems, but it is too slow for some uses. (DES was designed when 4-bit components were the norm, and it shows.) More fundamentally, the 64-bit block length shared by DES and most other trusted ciphers opens it up to attacks when large amounts of data are encrypted under the same key. And none of the other choices is a standard in the way that DES is.
In response to a growing desire to replace DES, NIST announced the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) program in January 1997 (http://www.nist.gov/aes/). Submissions were due in June 1998, and the 15 submitters presented their algorithms to the world in August at the First AES Candidate Conference. NIST will hold a Second AES Candidate Conference in Rome next March, and will accept public comment on the algorithms until June 15, 1999. It will choose approximately five finalists, solicit another round of public comment, hold a third AES Candidate Conference around January 2000, then choose a winner. Then NIST will make it into a Federal Information Processing Standard.
Think of the process as a cryptographic demolition derby. Everyone submits their algorithms into the ring, then attacks all others while defending their own. The crowd votes for the winner among those left standing at the end. Bloody, yes, but not a bad way to pick an industry standard encryption algorithm.
NIST's call was for a block cipher. Block ciphers can be used to design stream ciphers with a variety of synchronization and error-extension properties, one-way hash functions, message-authentication codes, and pseudorandom number generators. Because of this flexibility, they are the workhorses of modern cryptography.
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U-T San Diego -- The year: 2006. USD's baseball team opened the season hosting reigning national champion Texas. An elderly Longhorn fan stood at the bottom of old Cunningham Stadium and looked skyward.
Thirty-four rows to the top. No rail. Steep as an elevator shaft.
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Said Snyder, "(That climb) was disconcerting to a lot of people."
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Easily on my fav list
This series is one of my favorite anime series... I wish it was longer
I like this series because of the relationship Kentaro has with all the women he meets. Like most animes the girls hate him at first but then Kentaro does something that either help the girls alot or impresses them. He pretty much changes their lives.
The end of the series was actually one of my favorite anime episodes. It was a great nostalgia episode because it brings all the girls that Kentaro has met in the entire series.
I believe the series is NOT considered hentai becuase in my opinion in hentai they draw the characters er "doing it" (not quite sure if i can put it down) and he does not "do it" to any of the girls becuase Kentaro always messes up, kicks him out, then realize that he changed their lives. So they never really have the chance to uh "do it" with him.
I wish I was as smart and good with woman as Kentaro is
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The manga is much longer. I forgot how many volumes but the reason they had to stop the anime was because it was going to get way more graphic (sex scenes like it's cool in the continuing volumes).
Of course it's one of my favorite anime as well. The question still remains will he be able to save the world one day? You have to check out the manga because something big was going on. I think I left off at Volume 5.
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The translated manga now is up to Vol 3 chap 9. I don't think no more than 2 was released in the states. I'm not sure, but I found Vol 6 and 7 in the shop (japanese though). Like I said they probably gave up on it once it started to get more graphic.
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Okay ... this older anime OVA series was actually pretty funny, although odd in a strange sort of way.
The main character, having been born with tremendous natural talents is more than anything else honest with himself - he does not seem to have a bone of falsehood in his interactions with others in his body, accounting for his extremely eccentric and odd behavior to others. The behavior is not in of itself solely "good" or "bad", mind you, but it is honest.
And in some ways the series is an account of how this approach to living one's life in this way affects others, particularly those who act of think according to assumptions or deceptions ... erm ... "triumphs in the end", I guess.
Still - I have the feeling that it would definitely not be to everyone's taste.
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Doubts reigns supreme over Christian Benteke's Aston Villa future, as Chelsea prepare to move in for the Belgian ace.
Benteke, 22, signed for Aston Villa last summer having caught the eye of manager Paul Lambert whilst playing for KRC Genk in his home nation.
Since joining the Midlands club, Benteke has racked up an impressive 19 goals in 34 appearances, drawing the attention of some of Europe's biggest clubs with his physical and powerful show-stopping performances.
Whilst the striker was crucial in Aston Villa's fight for Premier League survival, where Benteke will be playing his football next season is unclear, with speculation over new contract concerns refusing to go away.
Benteke is still to sign an extension to his initial deal, amidst talk that Jose Mourinho is set to make a swoop to bring him to Stamford Bridge.
According to Goal.com, Chelsea are to turn their attentions towards the Villains' top scorer from last season, as Edinson Cavani appears destined for a move to Ligue 1 winners Paris Saint-Germain.
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Fans of football, Adam Levine and/or James Spader, mark your calendars now. On Monday NBC announced premiere dates for its fall schedule, including returning favorites "The Voice," "The Blacklist" and "Sunday Night Football" and new series "The Mysteries of Laura" and "Marry Me."
"Sunday Night Football" kicks off Sept. 4 (which is actually a Thursday) with the Green Bay Packers against the Seattle Seahawks, and will return to its regularly scheduled day on Sept. 7.
Another kind of competition altogether, "The Voice," begins its seventh season on Sept. 22 with coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani.
It will be followed immediately by the sophomore premiere of last season's highest-rated new series, "The Blacklist," starring James Spader as criminal mastermind "Red" Reddington. The drama, which currently airs on Mondays, will be given a post-Super Bowl berth on Feb. 1, before settling into its new Thursday time slot on Feb. 5.
And have the tissues ready: Tear-jerking family drama "Parenthood" begins its truncated final season on Sept. 25.
Seeking continuity in its new schedule, NBC is unveiling only a relatively limited number of new shows this fall with more to come at midseason. First up is "The Mysteries of Laura" (Sept. 24), in which Debra Messing stars as an NYPD detective juggling her career with a tumultuous home life.
Also on the drama side, comic book adaptation "Constantine" premieres Oct. 24 while the new "Homeland"-esque series "State of Affairs," with Katherine Heigle as a CIA analyst, begins Nov. 17.
As for comedies, "Bad Judge," in which Kate Walsh stars as a gifted jurist with a wild side, debuts Oct. 2, as will "A to Z," which traces the relationship of a young couple played by Ben Feldman and Cristin Milioti. Another romantic comedy, "Marry Me," about a couple whose engagement does not go as planned, begins Oct. 14.
The network's complete schedule of premieres is below.
Thursday, Sept. 4
8-11 p.m. Sunday Night Football (Green Bay at Seattle)
Sunday, Sept. 7
7-8:20 p.m. Football Night in America
8:20-11:30 p.m. Sunday Night Football (Indianapolis at Denver)
Thursday, Sept. 11
8-10 p.m. The Biggest Loser
Monday, Sept. 22
8-10p.m. The Voice
10-11 p.m. The Blacklist
Tuesday, Sept. 23
8-10 p.m. The Voice
10-11 p.m. Chicago Fire
Wednesday, Sept. 24
8-9 p.m. The Mysteries of Laura
9-10p.m. Law & Order: SVU
10-11 Chicago P.D.
Thursday, Sept. 25
10-11 p.m. Parenthood
Friday, Sept. 26
9-11 p.m. Dateline NBC
Thursday, Oct. 2
8-9 p.m. The Biggest Loser (time period premiere)
9-9:30 p.m. Bad Judge
9:30-10 p.m. A to Z
Tuesday, Oct. 14
8-9 p.m. The Voice (time period premiere)
9-9:30 p.m. Marry Me
9:30-10 p.m. About a Boy
Friday, Oct. 24
8-9 p.m. Dateline NBC (time period premiere)
9-10 p.m. Grimm
10-11 p.m. Constantine
Monday, Nov. 17
10-11 p.m. State of Affairs


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Ingatan is a clean, intuitive, and highly flexible memory quiz generator. It is perfect for a huge range of applications, including learning languages, remembering physics equations, labelling anatomical diagrams, practising any type of exam question, and reviewing organic chemistry mechanisms. When asking questions, a bias is placed toward those with a low historical grade. An inline symbol menu makes it easy to insert non-keyboard characters. Questions are intelligently organised into libraries, and libraries into groups, and can easily be shared.
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Latest wet snow increases concerns about overland flooding.
During the Polk County Commissioner's meeting on Tuesday, Sheriff Barb Erdman and Polk County Emergency Manager Nancy Shafer spoke about flood preparedness for Crookston and the surrounding area.
The chance of major flooding in Polk County has increased since February due to above average levels of new snowfall. The newest snow has an extremely high water content. With a thaw not expected until mid-April, spring rain could add up quickly on the frozen ground, causing overland flooding.
"We are waiting to see what kind of spring thaw we will have, but need to be prepared for possible flooding," Shafer said. " We still need to count the sandbags we have in storage, but first a large snowdrift needs to be removed to give us access."
As in past years, there will be sandbags available for those in the Crookston area. If you are in need of sandbags, call the Sheriff's Office at 281-0431 to arrange pick-up. The pricing policy remains the same - you may be charged for the number of sandbags you take at some point in the future. Please use discretion when deciding how many you may need.
Area townships who need help filling or placing sandbags should contact the Polk County Sheriff's Office, as volunteers may be readily available.
According to Shafer, "Crookston will be in a fairly good position because the lower Red and upper Red water levels are low due to drought. The only concern would be if spring rains come earlier than expected."
The Polk County Sheriff's Office will remain in close contact with the County Commissioners. Both groups are prepared to act quickly, if necessary.


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Shelby uses 5-run eighth to edge Hickory in game 3
Hickory tied its third playoff game with Shelby with two runs in the top of the eighth inning.
A half-inning later, it all unraveled at the seams.
Shelby scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth to come away with a 10-5 victory and a 2-1 series advantage against Post 48.
Hickory (21-10) trailed 4-1 after six complete innings, but would rally starting in the seventh.
Post 48 scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning, including a Ky'rawn Whitfield RBI single. Designated hitter Matt Johnson also scored in the inning on a balk by Shelby pitcher Phillip Black.
Although Shelby would add a run on a Black sacrifice in the bottom half of the seventh, Hickory would tie the game by the top of the eighth.
Aaron Rudisill led the charge to knot the contest at 5-5 with his RBI single, while Zach Jarrett also came across home plate to score on a error.
Hickory's hope of winning the game would be wiped away in the next half-inning on five Shelby hits, a hit batter and a walk.
The most controversial play in the inning came on an attempted bunt by Nick Hastings, who was awarded first base after the ball appeared to hit him in the foot.
Hickory coach Fore Rembert argued with officials on the play and would eventually be ejected from the game.
Post 82 (32-7) scored five runs in the inning, and Post 48 batters were retired in order in the top of the ninth to end the game.
Game four between Hickory and Shelby is scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Fairgrounds.
The winner of the Shelby-Hickory series will meet either Lincoln County or Cherryville in the Area IV final. Lincoln County leads that series, 2-1.


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ST. LOUIS (KMOV) -- A St. Louis woman who lives in constant pain called News 4 after her landlord refused to let her out of her apartment lease because of medical issues.
William Mae Bass says just getting up and taking a step is an ordeal. She suffers from COPD, asthma, bronchitis and emphysema.
But her back pain is the worst.
"I have barely no cartilage in my back and (the steps outside my apartment), they gets to me, and I can't walk up and down these steps," she said.
Bass is talking about the steps to her second-floor apartment, both inside and out.
After she recently fell down the stops, he doctor said enough is enough.
"The doctor told me not to go up any more steps," she said. "He gave me some papers for me to move out of this apartment and find me a place where there are no steps."
But the landlord did not see eye-to-eye with the doctor.
"She's telling me she's not going to let me out of my lease," Bass said.
So with moving boxes set aside, Bass stays put.
She said she offered to give up her security deposit and even pay an extra $100 to break the least.
Bass said she just wanted an opportunity to move to a place that is safer. She'd been trying work weeks to get an agreement.
After News 4 interviewed Bass, a representative with HUD called to say her landlord had a change of heart.
She's now allowed to break her lease and move into a new apartment.


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A pair of non-conference teams seeking a seventh win in eight opportunities take the floor in Berkeley on Sunday as the California Golden Bears entertain the 21st-ranked UNLV Runnin' Rebels at Haas Pavilion.
Up until last weekend the Golden Bears were flying high with their unblemished record after six games, but then a meeting with Wisconsin on the road changed all that as California suffered an awkward 81-56 setback. Had the team managed to slip by the Badgers, it would have marked the first time since 1959 that Cal had kicked off a campaign with seven straight wins.
As for the Runnin' Rebels, they too have won six of their first seven games of the new season, their defeat coming at the hands of Oregon (83-79) back on Nov. 23. Since then the squad has ripped off four straight victories, the latest coming against Portland on the road Tuesday in a 68-60 final.
The Runnin' Rebels lead the all-time series between the teams by a count of 4-1, taking the most recent meeting last season at the Thomas & Mack Center, 85-68 a couple days before Christmas.
Against Portland Mike Moser did not suit up, still nursing a hip injury, and Anthony Bennett got into early foul trouble, which is why the score ended up being as close as it was. UNLV trailed by six points at the break and then opened up the offense a bit more in the second half, but it was a 13-1 scoring edge at the charity stripe over the final 20 minutes that put the visitors into the win column. Bennett scored 18 points, Anthony Marshall 16, while Justin Hawkins came off the bench to offer up another 15 points for a team that shot a mere 35.5 percent from the floor and 6-of-25 beyond the arc. Should Moser again be out of action on Sunday, Bennett (18.7 ppg, 7.6 rpg) and Marshall (10.7 ppg, 4.7 rpg) will have to make up for his presence in the paint where he is generating 12.3 ppg and 9.2 rpg. Certainly the fact that the Rebels have as many as five players on the roster averaging double-digit scoring can go a long way in compensating for a lost piece of the puzzle.
California didn't appear to be ready to play the Badgers at all last week, the visitors making a total of just 10 field goals in the first half and missing their lone 3-point attempt over the 20-minute span. The second half saw the Bears make just eight field goals, preventing any chance of the team making it competitive. Allen Crabbe managed to come up with 25 points and seven rebounds, while Justin Cobbs tacked on 11 points, while being charged with seven of the unit's 23 turnovers. One of the top point producers in the country at this early stage of the season, Crabbe is pouring in 22.4 ppg on the strength of 52.5 percent accuracy from the field and 43.2 percent effort beyond the arc. As someone who is responsible for close to six rebounds per game, Crabbe is no stranger to physical play either, and has responded by connecting on all but five of his 40 free-throw attempts. Cobbs (18.7 ppg) is also a precise shooter from the floor (.589) and at the charity stripe (.891) as the pair accounts for more than half of the team's 72.0 ppg right now.


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Monday, May 17, 2010
Dystopia Month!
Yes, this post is about shame.
Book shame. I'll admit it. There's some books I haven't read. Books I should've read. I know, I know. Slacker.
But I tell myself it's common! Everyone steals Cable, right? I mean, everyone has books missing on their Should've Read list, right? Right?
And the worst ones are the ones that really surprise you. People that know you and the kind of books you read, the kind of people who are always utterly flabbergasted when you admit, no, I haven't read X! Or Y either!
Book shame.
For me, the two worst are 1984 and A Brave New World. I have not read them.
I hang my head. Yes, I, who has escaped two literature degrees, who has 32 years of classics and sci-fi and fantasy... I have not read the two great dystopic novels. My name is Ink, and I am a slacker.
But this shall not last! This is Dystopia Month here on the blog! I'm gonna read 'em and blog about the experience, about the sudden release from Shame. Say three hail mary's and take a deep breath.
And the neat thing is there are actually three great dystopic novels of the 20th Century! Name the third and win a prize! (Okay, there is no prize. This blog is really a sort of mini-dystopia, the kind that gets your hopes up and then shatters them. Take that, free-thinking rebels!)
The third one, of couse, is the first of the three, Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE, written in 1921. Ursula K. Le Guin calls it "the best single work of science fiction yet written." So I'm gonna start with that one and then move on to Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World (published in 1932), and then finish with George Orwell's 1984 (published in 1949).
Should be fun, and if anyone wants to read along with me, feel free! Share in the dystopic angst!
But, before I do, a couple questions: If you've read any of these, what are your thoughts on them? And what are your own shameful omissions, the books that everyone who knows you is surprised you haven't read? Come on, confess, you know you'll feel better.
31 comments:
- JustineDell said...
I haven't read a lot of books. Since I only became an avid reader less than a year ago (I wouldn't pick up a book to save my live before then) so....ahem...I have WAY too many books on my to be read list. I'll never get through them all before I die. LoL
- May 17, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- Mesmerix said...
I've read Brave New World, but not the other two. It's a decent book, a surprisingly short/quick read, and thought provoking. I found Huxley's focus on sexuality to be a little strange and overdone. I think it's a measure of the times though, as in the 1930's it would have been incredibly taboo, whereas now the birth control angle, for example, is commonplace. You'll see what I mean when you read it.
1984 has been on my "Should've Read" list for awhile and I'll get around to it eventually. I'll be curious to hear your feedback on the books.
- May 17, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- Ben Carroll said...
I've only read 1984, out of those. And that was so long ago I can't really bring a single thought on it to mind. Which probably means it should be on my 'Should Return To' list.
- May 17, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- mzmackay said...
Shall I say my three Hail Mary's now?
I have read 1984. I believe I read it as an older teenager. I remember being struck about the mirror/screen in every home. At this point in my life, I can't help but think our computer screens have become that mirror/screen.
Good luck.
- May 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
You just started reading fiction a little over a year ago? And you're already this good? Okay, I'm officially jealous. :)
- May 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Thanks for chipping in with thoughts on the books, everyone. It makes me excited to read, and that's good. One of the problems with such books, I think, is that even though I want to read them I'm in the habit of ignoring them. There's a sort of inertia to them, from having passed over them so many times. So I thought Dystopia Month would help me put the pedal to the metal. Momentum!
And I'm loving WE so far, so that's really encouraging too.
- May 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM
- Mira said...
Okay, this explains alot.
Your optimistic approach to life. Your easy-going demeanor. The fact that you're so nice.
You just hadn't read the basic primers on dystopia yet.
Thank goodness. I didn't want to mention it, but I've been worried about you. I'm relieved you'll be joining the rest of us cynical, tense, grumpy folks soon.
Don't fight it, Bryan. Once you realize there's no hope, you enter a peaceful, calm place. It's nice there.
Come. Join us.
- May 17, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Should I call you Big Sister...?
- May 17, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Mira said...
I would really, really, really, really like that.
- May 17, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Matthew Rush said...
I read Brave New World and 1984 in High School and LOVED them. However, that was a long time ago so I may have to read them again to catch up.
I have never heard of WE, but it sounds excellent so I will certainly have to check that out as well.
- May 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
WE is originally written in Russian, so you have to get it in translation. Mine is by Natasha Randall and seems great. From what I've read so far, I'd really recommend it.
- May 17, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
If you're my sister I'll have to give you rugburns or something, though.
- May 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
I've read both and am an official fangirl of Ursula, so yeah, you could say I'm versed in dystopias. However, they belong to the category of "stuff I read so long ago I barely remember I read them" so I should probably re-read. But my contemporary TBR list is so long, I can hardly imagine, yanno, reading for FUN (yes, dystopians are fun for me. Wierd. I know.)
I haven't heard of WE, though. Might have to break down and do that. Or just wait for your review! :)
- May 17, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- Tahereh said...
we cant be friends until you read 1984 is ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT YUP.
- May 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Tahereh said...
oh, WE is also pretty awesome, but i think Orwell takes the cake.
- May 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Mira said...
I'm your Big Sister, so guess who will be giving the rug burns?
Well, not me. Not subtle enough. I'm more in favor of torturing you by telling you you're adopted.
- May 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Vicki said...
I finally read 1984 last summer, and really enjoyed it. It sucks you in, gets you hooked, then spits you out...but you still end up loving it for all its trouble. Haven't read the other two you mentioned, though.
On my bookshelf of Books I REALLY Need to Read are The Lord of the Rings books. I've read The Hobbit and Fellowship, but only got through the first half of Two Towers before I fell out. I dunno. Frodo, Sam, and Gollum never enticed me. I'll get to them eventually, I'm sure, but for now I'll stick with library books.
- May 17, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Lol, Susan. I think, um, the book will probably be a bit better than my review.
- May 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Soon! Soon, it shall be done, oh great and almost bestie of friends! I'm like a friend in waiting. And I look terrible in a dress, so I'll never overshadow you. I mean, what more could you want in an almost friend?
- May 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Show me the paperwork.
- May 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Faramir and Shelob are in the Two Towers! The end of Two Towers is great, if you can get there. Good middle book ending. You know, if you like the Empire Strikes Back sort of middle ending. :)
- May 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
BTW, I like that you have come out from behind the Snoopy. :)
And for those that like their dystopias in the YA flavor:
The League of Extraordinary Writers
- May 17, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Yeah, now that I do my blogging and writing from home I actually have access to pictures! Only took me five months to remember. Snoopy and I had a good run. He's the best failed writer ever. :) Nobody got more kickass rejections than Snoopy.
But since I do actually have my own face I figured it was time to use it. :)
- May 17, 2010 at 5:57 PM
- GhostFolk.com said...
Skip them both if you've already read STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
Only kidding. :-)
My shame book is LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS.
I've opened that book two dozen times, read the beginning, jumped into various parts and read them, but I cannot beginning-to-end that book!
And then there's the stuff you re-read instead of reading something you haven't read yet. Does this happen to you?
I had to hide by beat-up pb copies of Itala Calvino and Barry Hannah, because I will so often set down a book I'm reading to get a short fix from my favs. And then... well, they're very very captivating.
- May 17, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- GhostFolk.com said...
CORRECTION: Typo. It's Italo Calvino, of course.
- May 17, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Oooh, I love Calvino. Though, srangely, my favourite book of his is his first, and it's the only one that's written in the realistic vein. I love his strangeness, too, but that first book is great.
I haven't read Stranger in a Strange Land, though! Shit. It'll have to go on my list.
- May 17, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Deb Salisbury said...
Oh, yes - read Stranger in a Strange Land! I must have read it 30 years ago (time for a reread!) but it was amazing.
I have read 1984 - I found it brilliant but depressing. I'm not fond of dystopia. I've avoided Brave New World, and hadn't heard of We.
I keep telling myself I should read Twilight so I'll know what the buzz is about, but I can't force myself to face the angst.
- May 17, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- JustineDell said...
I liked the Snoppy pic. ;-) It's nice to see the real you too, though.
- May 18, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Mira said...
There is no paperwork. A man in a dark cloak brought you in the middle of the night, and made me promise not to tell. That's why mom and dad don't know you're adopted either.
Btw, as an aside, you may want to start reassuring each of your children that they are not adopted. Pre-emptive preparation.
- May 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
Nah, the kids look too much like us. They might just wish they were adopted!
- May 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Mira said...
Oh stop that. You're a cutie.
I like the books teetering on the top of the closet in your new picture. Seems apt. :)
- May 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM


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Eight students have been chosen as the outstanding graduates of their schools and were recognized during Palm Beach Atlantic University's fall 2013 Honors Day ceremony on Thursday.
|Palm Beach Atlantic University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Joseph Kloba (center) congratulates four of the fall 2013 Outstanding Graduates: (from left) Kelsey Satalino, Joseph Lubben, Caitlyn Girardi and Melanie Kafka. Not pictured are Stefano Bucciol, Catherine Drensek, Tehila-Grace Wilson and Linda Rose.
The honorees were English major Kelsey Satalino of West Palm Beach, outstanding graduate in the School of Arts and Sciences; management major Stefano Bucciol of Caracas, Venezuela, outstanding graduate in the Rinker School of Business; cinema-television major Catherine Drensek of Huntsville, Ala., outstanding graduate in the School of Communication and Media; elementary education major Tehila-Grace Wilson of Chesapeake, Va., outstanding graduate in the School of Education and Behavioral Studies; organizational management major Melanie Kafka of Wellington, outstanding graduate in the MacArthur School of Leadership; English and biblical studies double-major Caitlyn Girardi of Syosset, N.Y., outstanding graduate in the School of Ministry; music composition major Joseph Lubben of West Palm Beach, outstanding graduate in the School of Music and Fine Arts; and organizational management major Linda Rose of Orlando, outstanding graduate for the Orlando campus.
To be eligible for an Outstanding Graduate Award, the student must have a minimum 3.5 GPA based on 60 credits or more earned at PBA.
In addition, two students were honored by their departments: Satalino received the English Department award from the School of Arts and Sciences, and Joel Wesselius received the International Business award from the Rinker School of Business.
They, along with other graduates, will receive their degrees in a 2 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach. Former U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri John Ashcroft will be the featured speaker.


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Bloody, sexed-up sequel lacks predecessor's camp appeal.
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Parents need to know that Piranha 3DD is a sequel to 2010's surprisingly successful (and entertaining, in a very over-the-top way) Piranha 3D, which was itself a remake of a 1978 movie. While this one unfortunately lacks whatever made the previous movie work, it's just as packed with strong violence, including lots of blood, severed limbs, and even a severed penis. It also features heavy nudity, sexual innuendo, and some sex. Language is also very strong, with many uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as beer drinking and pot smoking. Older teens may be drawn to the movie for the promise of nudity implied in the title -- and it's available on demand. Parents, beware.
Messages: Greed, corruption, and exploitation are punished in terrible ways, while good characters survive.
Role models: The female lead is an outspoken, fairly strong character, although in several scenes she requires rescuing by men.
Violence: Many scenes of bloody mayhem, with lots of scary piranha attacks and many gallons of blood, mostly shown swirling around in water. Viewers see severed limbs and heads, as well as bloody stumps and bloody skeletons, and even a bloody, severed penis. In a very disturbing scene, a piranha is shown sticking out of a fat man's naked bottom. One of the piranhas' victims is a young boy.
Sex: Many topless women are shown, mostly swimming or lounging around a pool. In one shot, a piranha attacks a topless woman's chest. There's a sex scene between a young man and a young woman, though very little is shown. The scene is fairly intense but is interrupted by a piranha attack. A man is shown pleasuring himself, involving a water jet, in a swimming pool (nothing explicit shown). Also heavy innuendo, flirting, foreplay, suggestive dancing, and gratuitous bikini shots.
Language: Language is strong but not constant, and includes several uses of "f--k" and "s--t," plus "p---y," "damn," "oh my God," "d--k," "hell," "vagina," "penis," "ass," "idiot," and "moron."
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drinking, drugs and smoking: The young people in the movie -- who are presumably of legal drinking age -- are shown drinking beer and smoking pot in a few early scenes. A character takes a puff from a joint in a later scene as well (before using it to ignite an explosive).
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Mark Mayonnaise, Nov 13, 2012.
any hotties?
next time make an appointment, like white people do
Pic of the carpet and/or tile plz.
You should tell them that you are Chriza from Dawg's Saloon. I'm sure they will send you to the front of the line.
"I won Most Entertaining 2012!"
What is the nature of this DMV visit?
i need an inspection sticker for my car
I'm going with super low pile brown or burgundy carpet.
wrong account
last time I was there for plate renewal, I was in and out within 5 minutes.
they used to have automated kiosks where you could get a sticker for your plate, but they've all been shut down due to budget constraints
Getting my license renewed
Can't you do that shit online?
thats a good story
Plz post the new license pic.
They let you sit in line at your DMV? I have to stand! Spoiled Pacific North Westerns!
I dunno
But I'm #447 and they're at 414
the price for a plate sticker went up by $7 this year, and is increasing by another $7 next year.
be thankful you don't have to worry about that, HAL


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Stalemate at Inverness
Inverness dropped a place to third in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and Dundee United moved up to eighth after a goalless draw.
The teams, who had shared 12 goals in their last two matches, cancelled each other out as the hosts squandered the chance to move clear in second place.
Motherwell leapfrogged the Highlanders with their 2-1 win at home to leaders Celtic, while United moved above Aberdeen to within one point of the top six.
Gary Warren was suspended for Caley Thistle. The central defender, who netted twice in the 3-2 win at Hearts on Saturday, was replaced by Josh Meekings - who had recovered from a back injury.
It was the only change for the hosts, while the visitors made two alterations to the side which drew 2-2 at home to Hibernian on Sunday. Attacker Michael Gardyne and defender Barry Douglas came in for Richie Ryan and Stuart Armstrong.
Owain Tudur Jones was the first to threaten when his header from an Aaron Doran corner flashed past the post.
United responded with Jon Daly and Johnny Russell combining for the latter to shoot wide.
Daly had a golden opportunity midway through the first half but he headed Willo Flood's cross wide from close range.
At the opposite end Billy McKay forced the first meaningful save from Radoslaw Cierzniak. The Northern Irishman's header from the edge of the box came from another Doran cross.
Andrew Shinnie might have made the breakthrough in the final minute of the half but his volley from the edge of the area was turned wide by Cierzniak.
United substitute Armstrong tested Inverness goalkeeper Ryan Esson with a shot from distance at the start of the second half - but the stopper was equal to it.
Daly headed over a Flood free-kick from six yards just before the hour, then Andrew Shinnie's low shot from a Doran cross was saved well by Cierzniak as the end-to-end battle continued.
Armstrong drilled a low angled shot wide, before John Rankin had his shot blocked and Armstrong fired the rebound over the target.
Cierzniak denied Andrew Shinnie once more when the Scotland international pounced on a Doran cross, but his header was saved comfortably.
Douglas sent a 25-yard free-kick wide from a central position midway through the second half.
Esson excelled 12 minutes from time with a smart save. Rankin's shot from the edge of the area was deflected off Daly en route to goal - but the stopper reacted smartly to grasp the ball on the line.
Caley Thistle club captain Richie Foran replaced McKay to make his return from a knee injury, which had him sidelined for the last four weeks, with nine minutes to go.
The Irishman forced a late save from Cierzniak when he connected with a David Raven cross.
Caley Thistle weathered a stoppage time onslaught to secure a share of the spoils.
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Atletico beats Real Madrid to win Copa del Rey
Cristiano Ronaldo, coach Jose Mourinho ejected
The Copa del Rey trophy was supposed to be coach Jose Mourinho's parting gift for Real Madrid, or at least a consolation prize after a season that will be remembered for his abrasive antics and his team's failure to win silverware.
Instead, Atletico Madrid ended a 14-year winless run against its city rival by taking the title on Friday, coming from behind for a cathartic 2-1 win in extra time after Mourinho and his star forward Cristiano Ronaldo were sent off.
Brazilian defender Miranda headed in Jorge "Koke" Resurrecion's cross in the eighth minute of extra time to give Atletico its 10th Copa del Rey title and first since 1996.
"This is for our fans that have suffered for 14 years," Atletico's captain Gabi Fernandez said moments before he received the trophy from Spain's King Juan Carlos. "This team worked hard for this and deserved it."
Ronaldo appeared to have put Madrid on its way to yet another victory over its crosstown rivals when he headed in a goal in the 14th minute. But Atletico refused to fold and Radamel Falcao set up Diego Costa to level 10 minutes before halftime.
Mourinho was sent off for protesting a decision in the 76th. Likely heading back to England in the off-season, he will finish his last campaign in Madrid without a title after it lost the Spanish league to Barcelona and bowed out of the Champions League semifinals.
"This is my worst season. I have never not won an important title. You can say I failed this season," Mourinho said. "With one final, a semifinal, a second-place finish, and a Spanish Supercup, for many other coaches it would have been a good season. For me it's the worst."
Mourinho repeated that he would decide his future with club president Florentino Perez after the season ends in early June, although there is strong expectation he will return to former club Chelsea.
Red card for Ronaldo
The final was a vibrant match but not without its ugly side.
Ronaldo received a straight red card for kicking Gabi in the face in the 114th, setting off a sideline scuffle between the benches.
Atletico goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was struck in the head by an object thrown from the Santiago Bernabeu stands shortly afterward.
Atletico also ended the match with 10 men when Gabi was sent off seconds before the final whistle for a second yellow card. But that came too late to prevent a victory that even the coach acknowledged was a lucky one, with Madrid's shots repeatedly hitting the frame of the goal.
"We had the good fortune that a champion needs," said Atletico coach Diego Simeone, who added the cup to the Europa League title won last year. "What these players have done for the past year and a half is amazing. I don't have words for it."
Following years of frustration and accumulated doubt after failing to beat Madrid in 25 games since 1999, Atletico had to overcome an opening goal by Ronaldo.
Ronaldo, who scored the extra-time winner that beat Barcelona and gave Madrid the 2011 Copa title, looked set to play the starring role once again when he rose over a defender to head in Luka Modric's corner and net his 55th goal of the season.
But the Portugal forward let the emotion of the game's final minutes get the best of him, hurting his side when he left it a man down just when it most needed his help.
Mourinho spent the game in the dugout after being jeered before the match by both sets of fans, with the home supporters upset at his dropping of iconic goalkeeper Iker Casillas and supposed desire to return to England.
When he did emerge, he didn't last long as the referee dismissed him for vehemently protesting a foul.
Atletico didn't panic
Atletico held firm after Ronaldo's opener and were rewarded with an equalizer. Falcao held off Raul Albiol's tackle, spun with the ball, and placed a perfectly weighted pass for Diego Costa to run clear and drive a left-footed strike under 'keeper Diego Lopez.
"Incredible," Falcao said, on the point of tears. "We are so happy for this win. We have to enjoy this."
Madrid came alive after Atletico equalized, and Mesut Ozil volleyed a long strike off the right post a minute from halftime.
The tension increased in the second half both in the stands and on the pitch, as Madrid began to tilt the action toward Atletico's area and soon had two golden chances in the 61st when Karim Benzema fired a loose ball off the upright. Ozil then pounced on the rebound and with Courtois off line seemed sure to score, but defender Juanfran Torres blocked his shot on the goalline.
In the 68th it was Ronaldo's turn to curse the goal frame when he fooled the defensive wall by slotting his free kick at the edge of the box under Mario Suarez as he jumped, only to see it crash off the post.
"It isn't normal to hit the post three times," said Mourinho. "You don't have to be an expert to think that the result wasn't fair, that Atletico isn't the just winner. But in football all that is forgotten, the posts, the referee, and Atletico goes down the winner."
With Mourinho gone, Madrid assistant Aitor Karanka made all three changes at the start of extra time. But even though Madrid had the fresher legs, it was Atletico that surged back in front for good.
Lopez saved Diego Costa's back-to-back tries in the 95th, but he couldn't stop Miranda from meeting an out-swinging cross to score at the near post by nodding the ball under the goalkeeper and into the net to send the fans clad in red and white into ecstasy.
Madrid wasn't done and only Courtois' goalkeeping protected its lead with stops to deny Gonzalo Higuain in the 104th and then Ozil in four minutes into the second added period when he stretched to deflect his close-range shot over the bar.


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Python Programming on Win32
Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Enhancing the DocumentTemplate
Although MFC and PythonWin support multiple document templates, there's a slight complication that isn't immediately obvious. When MFC is asked to open a document file, it asks each registered
DocumentTemplate in turn if it can handle this document type. The default implementation for
DocumentTemplates is to report that it "can possibly open this document." Thus, when you're asked to open a Scribble document, one of the other
DocumentTemplate objects (e.g., the Python editor template) may be asked to handle it, rather than your
ScribbleTemplate. This wouldn't be a problem if this application handled only one document template, but since PythonWin already has some of its own, it could be a problem.
Therefore, it's necessary to modify the
DocumentTemplate so that when asked, it answers "I can definitely open this document." MFC then directs the open request to the template.
You provide this functionality by overriding the MFC method
MatchDocType(). It's necessary for this function to first check if a document of that name is already open; this prevents users from opening the document multiple times. The document template code now looks like:
class ScribbleTemplate(pywin.mfc.docview.DocTemplate):
def MatchDocType(self, fileName, fileType):
doc = self.FindOpenDocument(fileName)
if doc: return doc
ext = string.lower(os.path.splitext(fileName)[1])
if ext =='.psd':
return win32ui.CDocTemplate_Confidence_yesAttemptNative
return win32ui.CDocTemplate_Confidence_noAttempt
As you can see, you check the extension of the filename, and if it matches, tell MFC that the document is indeed yours. If the extension doesn't match, tell MFC you can't open the file.
Enhancing the Document
As mentioned previously, this
ScribbleDocument object is responsible only for working with the document data, not for interacting with the user. This makes the
ScribbleDocument quite simple. The first step is to add some public methods for working with the strokes. These functions look like:
class ScribbleDocument(pywin.mfc.docview.Document):
def AddStroke(self, start, end, fromView):
self.strokes.append((start, end))
self.UpdateAllViews( fromView, None )
def GetStrokes(self):
return self.strokes
The first function appends the new stroke to the list of strokes. It also sets the document's "modified flag." This flag is used by MFC to automatically prompt the user to save the document as the program exits. It also automatically enables the File/Save option for the document.
The last thing the document must do is to load and save the data from a file. MFC itself handles displaying of the Save As, etc., dialogs, and calls Document functions to perform the actual save. The function names are
OnOpenDocument() and
OnSaveDocument() respectively.
As the strokes are a simple list, you can use the Python
pickle module. The functions become quite easy:
def OnOpenDocument(self, filename):
file = open(filename, "rb")
self.strokes = pickle.load(file)
return 1
def OnSaveDocument(self, filename):
file = open(filename, "wb")
pickle.dump(self.strokes, file)
return 1
OnOpenDocument() loads the strokes from the named file. In addition, it places the filename to the most recently used (MRU) list.
OnSaveDocument() dumps the strokes to the named file, updates the document status to indicate it's no longer modified, and adds the file to the MRU list. And that is all you need to make your document fully functional.
Defining the View
View object is the most complex object in the sample. The
View is responsible for all interactions with the user, which means the
View must collect the strokes as the user draws them, and also draw the entire list of strokes whenever the window requires repainting.
The collection of the strokes is the most complex part. To collect effectively, you must trap the user pressing the mouse button in the window. Once this occurs, enter a drawing mode, and as the mouse is moved, draw a line to the current position. When the user releases the mouse button, they have completed the stroke, so add the stroke to the document. The key steps to coax this behavior are:
- The
Viewmust hook the relevant mouse messages: in this case, the
LBUTTONUP, and
- When a
LBUTTONDOWNmessage is received, remember the start position and enter a drawing mode. Also capture the mouse, to ensure that you get all future mouse messages, even when the mouse leaves the window.
- If a
MOUSEMOVEmessage occurs when you are in drawing mode, draw a line from the remembered start position to the current mouse position. In addition, erase the previous line drawn by this process. This gives a "rubber band" effect as you move the mouse.
- When a
LBUTTONUPmessage is received, notify the document of the new, completed stroke, release the mouse capture, and leave drawing mode.
After adding this logic to the sample, it now looks like:
class ScribbleView(pywin.mfc.docview.ScrollView):
def OnInitialUpdate(self):
self.SetScrollSizes(win32con.MM_TEXT, (0, 0))
self.bDrawing = 0
def OnLButtonDown(self, params):
assert not self.bDrawing, "Button down message while still drawing"
startPos = params[5]
# Convert the startpos to Client coordinates.
self.startPos = self.ScreenToClient(startPos)
self.lastPos = self.startPos
# Capture all future mouse movement.
self.bDrawing = 1
def OnLButtonUp(self, params):
assert self.bDrawing, "Button up message, but not drawing!"
endPos = params[5]
endPos = self.ScreenToClient(endPos)
self.bDrawing = 0
# And add the stroke to the document.
self.GetDocument().AddStroke( self.startPos, endPos, self )
def OnMouseMove(self, params):
# If Im not drawing at the moment, I don't care
if not self.bDrawing:
pos = params[5]
dc = self.GetDC()
# Setup for an inverting draw operation.
# "undraw" the old line
# Now draw the new position
self.lastPos = self.ScreenToClient(pos)
Most of this code should be quite obvious. It's worth mentioning that you tell Windows to draw the line using a
NOT mode. This mode is handy; if you draw the same line twice, the second draw erases the first. Thus, to erase a line you drew previously, all you need is to draw the same line again.


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SEO experts too... don't forget about them.
They seriously can't set up a local network so they can skype/email/whatever between stations at at their computer lab? Run blog software that is served locally so they can try creating content and replying? Learn how to use FTP, Gopher, irc, etc.
Maybe they can't do Facebook, but can't they learn everything else this way?
No, I think most people want to see prisoners rehabilitated, though this is hard to follow through on when they are released into the same economic and cultural mess that got them into trouble in the first place.
What I think people don't want is to see prisoners be provided things like cable TVs with their tax money, when they can't even afford such a luxury themselves.
Then there are private prisons, which don't want to see prisoners rehabilitated at all because that takes away a "resource" from their indus
What I think people don't want is to see prisoners be provided things like cable TVs with their tax money
Cable TV keeps prisoners docile and distracted. Distracted and docile prisoners are much easier to guard, and cause far less problems.
I would bet that providing them Cable TV actually saves the prison, and therefore the taxpayer, money over the long run (assuming it's not a private prison).
Learn how to use FTP, Gopher, irc, etc.
Have you just come out of prison after twenty years?
The tricky part about the future forward program is that many of its participants have never used a computer
This was not a problem in dotcom bubble 1.0, I'm not thinking it'll be a problem in dotcom bubble 2.0.
I have never understood why prisoners should be forbidden from using an *offline* computer. Okay, so maybe they're blocked from the internet--but couldn't they at least learn the stuff they could do offline? Not even letting older prisoners understand how a modern computer even WORKS puts them so far behind the times that it's pretty unlikely they'll ever catch up.
Isn't that part of the punishment/revenge we want to inflict on those in prison? Never being able to function in society again, so they reoffend and stay the hell out of the way of the good, righteous, god-fearing folk.
3) Practical Technology Training Provide basic computer training in the critical software tools that are utilized in today's business sector. Access to the internet is NOT required for this training.
The headline and blog entry are wrong.
You forgot that the US prison system is privatized with 48 states signing a contract that they will make sure all prisons at at least 90% full.
In the past, penology 101 was about rehabilitating, where the inmate had a chance at a job once out. Then it was the incapacitation aspect, where a crook wasn't on the streets. Finally the deterrence aspect of "oh shit, if I do this, I'll end up behind bars."
Now, the goal is simple: The goal is to warehouse every warm body put in the system for the rest of their l
48 states signing a contract that they will make sure all prisons at at least 90% full.
Can you cite / link to that contract?
This [huffingtonpost.com] is probably among the most reputable links to be found.
Some company making an offer is not the same as states signing a contract. Typical FUD from HuffPost (and you should never refer to them as "reputable", they're not).
No, only Fox News is reputable. Eveyone else is just left wing propaganda.
the vast majority of cases never make it to jury, so there. =P
citation please. and all of them at least have the option to have trial. maybe the ones that plea out do so because they commit the crime but they don't want as serve as long of a term as they would probably get if they go to trial.
I have never understood why prisoners should be forbidden from using an *offline* computer.
Actually, they're not, at least in California. I personally know several inmates who are taking college courses "behind bars." The computers aren't Internet-connected, and the instructor collects the flash drives they store their work on between classes, but they have access to computers for educational purposes. Some inmate clerks also have access to computers (non-networked) for typing and other clerical tasks.
In the federal system, they're even experimenting with the very limited and locked down TRULINCS [bop.gov] email system for inmates...
What's not accurate is the summary's claim that "prison regulations forbid any contact with the outside world." Inmates routinely contact the outside world through telephone calls, letters, and contact and/or non-contact (and in California and New York, for most inmates, the possibility of "family" a/k/a "trailer" a/k/a/ "conjugal") visits...
On a related topic, anyone remember the Wired article on Roy Wahlberg [wired.com]? "Roy Wahlberg hacked a man to death, then hacked his way into a million-dollar software business behind bars."
helped five inmates learn
5. Five. 1 2 3 4 5. That would be "five". Given any arbitrary selection criteria, the membership count of the set of prisoners X in that selection criteria set are the natural numbers from 0 to 5 inclusive. Come on
many of its participants have never used a computer
Why the vagueness? OK we're operating from five. Remember paper logic puzzles? I used to turn them into prolog statements and let the solver solve them. This was back when a XT with turbo prolog was cutting edge. But I digress. OK its
Thats how I figured out exactly 4 inmates have never used a computer.
Let me add that "many" simply means the greater part of...
It does not mean any such thing, except possibly in your imagination. "Many" means:
1: consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number
2: being one of a large but indefinite number
So I'm inclined to judge the rest of your post as being of equally dubious value.
Hmm so did he have "many" or "several" dubious statements in his post. I'm thinking exactly three, which would imply the word "several"
That pretty much describes behavior on the Internet to me.
Those folks should have no problems on the outside.
The incentives of the system reward high occupancy. If there were more funding for wardens and prisons who had lower recidivism rates then there'd be less of a clamour for tougher sentencing laws funded by the prison industrial complex, America wouldn't have such an obscenely high incarceration rate, and there'd be a lot less crime committed by inmates after release since there would have been more investment in rehabilitation.
That and the fact that it rarely works, unless by "rehabilitation" you mean "execution" which is 100% effective and which I would recommend for all armed robbers, con men and wealthy people who double-park.
That and the fact that it rarely works, unless by "rehabilitation" you mean "execution" which is 100% effective and which I would recommend for all armed robbers, con men and wealthy people who double-park.
Oh really? And how, pray tell, does executing predominantly black people, many of whom may be innocent, prevent crime?
Well, if we are limiting the conversations explicitly to the recidivism rates, it appears to be about 60% in the US and 50% in the UK. Let's assume it is 50%.on average for the whole. Wikipedia lists the recidivism rates for burglary to be about 70% which would include armed robbery and 74% for larcenist which would include con men but lets drop the number for argument's sake.
From that, we can assume that about 50 out of every 100 people imprisoned for armed robbery and or larceny, regardless of being black
So on the face alone, executing people convicted of armed robbery would reduce armed robbery crime rates about 25% without regard to race that you injected.
Once you start executing people for armed robbery, you end up doing it for stealing a loaf of bread too. As a result, the murder rate goes up, as people adopt the "might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb" attitude, and don't have any scruples about killing bystanders, witnesses, etc.
The race point is that if you have a disproportionate number of black men in prison, you will end up with a disproportionate number of black men being executed, regardless of whether they are sentenced equally.
I'm not advocating killing people for armed robbery. I'm just showing it is only a matter of math because there are repeat offenders who offend after being released.
The race issue might very well reflect a problem with enforcement of laws and sentencing bias, but it really isn't an issue in this hypothetical situation. The disproportionate amount of blacks or minorities populating the prisons does not necessarily reflect the conviction rates of non blacks who might get off with lesser sentences. Remember. t
course a high percentage of this problem is in for a petty crime involving a plant.
Which is just stupid. Plain and simple.
People just are clueless about high tech. High tech is not rampant with entrepreneurs. The vast majority of high tech people are workers, not the people who bet their life savings and family on a high risk roll of dice. Entrepreneurs are not everywhere you look here, despite a recent radio call in show that seemed to imply that was the "culture" here. Startups are a moronic thing to expect freed convicts to be involved with, they don't have any equity to put on the craps table to start anything, and whe
Entrepreneurs are not everywhere you look here, despite a recent radio call in show that seemed to imply that was the "culture" here.
An entrepreneur is just a normal person without the imagination to see beyond making money.
Making money is not that difficult if you don't do anything else in your life except work.
This is what we were missing -- violent criminals in position of control over other people!
Can we, please, have LESS "entrepreneurs"?
Let me guess: They're in for computer crimes?
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It's summertime and we all care about our tan lines, right ladies? This tank, with built in shelf to hold your girls in place, is pretty dang comfortable. I have yet to test the shelf on a mountain bike ride, but I would assume if you are more than a large "B cup" you will want to wear a sports bra under. One of the best features of this tank are the two pockets (one zipper and one elastic) on the small of your back.
ZOIC Women's Aura Shorts with Liner $79
The Aura short feels like a mountain bike short to me. Elastic across the backside, on the inner and outer (medial and lateral the Dr. E has to add) leg and adjustable velcro closure on the hips for a secure fit. These shorts will stay in place on your next uphill climb or downhill adrenaline rush. Time will only tell how the rear will hold up against dirt and sand on the saddle. As mentioned in the Posh short, I won't be using the liner for long rides but it will work for a commute or your first mountain bike rides.
Initial Thoughts
Overall, most of these pieces have had one or two rides on them so I'm not prepared to talk too much about the fit or long term wear. I can say that they all look better in person than on ZOIC's website. The materials feel nice on your skin and the attention to detail on stitching, accents and functional placement of things like zippers/mesh airflow pockets and such are pretty darn good for the price tags!
Look for a full review in a month or so, until then check out ZOIC's women's collection online.
Disclaimer: These products were provided at no charge for review. I wasn't paid or bribed for my opinion.


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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A statement from the family of Oscar Pistorius and his management says they dispute the claim that he murdered his girlfriend "in the strongest terms."
The statement was issued Friday after the double-amputee Olympian wept in court when prosecutors said they would pursue a charge of premeditated murder against him for the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
The statement, issued from London, said: "The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms." It also said that Pistorius "would like to send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva."
Pistorius will be held in a police station in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, until Tuesday, when he appears again for a bail hearing.