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The purpose of this award is to recognize youth who excel at giving back to their communities and to inspire more youth to service. This award program which is in its fifth year, offers a $5,000 college scholarship and is open to all secondary and undergraduate college students in Utah, who are American citizens. Funding for the program is provided by Chase bank and Xmission internet services. Application packets have been mailed to scholarship counselors and service club leaders throughout the State. The application and guidlines can be found online at www.youthlinc.org. Deadline for application is March 7, 2009.
Students who believe TV dramas such as "Law and Order," are an accurate depiction of how the courts operate can judge for themselves as part of the fourth annual Judge for a Day program offered by the Utah State Courts on May 1. Schools are asked to submit an application form by March 6 to the Utah State Court's public information officer, Nancy Volmer, at firstname.lastname@example.com. An application form for Law Day is available on the court's Web site at www.utcourts.gov (http://www.utcourts.gov/ ).
The American Legion Spring Convention will be held March 28 at the Huntignton Senior Center at 11 a.m. National Auxiliary President Desiree will be the special guest speaker. This convention is for all members. A luncheon will be served at a cost of $8. RSVP to Carolyn Randall at P.O. Box 164, Elmo, UT 84521 or Jenny Olson at P.O. Box 1354, Huntington, UT 84528.
There will be a two day baseball camp at the Huntington Complex from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on March 27, and from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 28. The cost for the camp is $65 or if you can only attend one day the cost is $35. If you would like your child to have some one-on-one time with an instructor, (which will start right after the camp) the cost is $25 for a half hour. They can learn hitting, catching, pitching, infielding or outfielding. Boys and girls age 8 and up are encouraged to attend. Lunch will be provided. Contact Shaun or Kris Bell, 748-2906 or 749-2239.
For information about Huntington Little League baseball sign-ups, contact 687-2747.
It is now time to sign up your team for this years Emery County Relay for Life Cancer walk. It will take place on June 12-13 at the Emery High School. Our next meeting will be held on March 26. We will later post where the meeting will be held. If you sign up your team by the March 15 the registration fee will be $50. After this date, the registration will be $100 for a team. To sign up your team contact Judi Bishop at 653-2221.
A youth dance will be held in Ferron at the fairgrounds building on March 21 from 7-10 p.m. It is for youth ages 12-18 and a student ID is required. Admission is $2 and there will be free pop. DJ is Willie Frisbie.
Come and join the youth swim team. All youth up to 18 years old are welcome, but should be able to swim one length of the pool. All abilities are welcome, great practice if you're interested in the high school swim team. Practices will be Saturdays until school is out and then for a few weeks during the summer. First practice is March 14. Registration is March 11 at Emery Recreation Center from 4-6 p.m. Registration is $30. Online registration can be done at www.emerycounty.com/rec. For more information contact Tammy Oliverson at 435-381-5393.
Sign ups for Emery County girls softball will be held: in Elmo, March 10 from 6-8 p.m. at town hall; in Cleveland on March 10-11 from 4-6 p.m. at town hall; in Huntington on March 11 from 5-7:30 p.m. at town hall; Castle Dale on March 10 from 4-6 p.m. at Emery Recreation Center; Orangeville on March 11 from 4-6 p.m. at Cottonwood Elementary; and in Ferron on March 11 from 4-6 p.m. at city hall. The cost is $35 and for more information contact Cassie Lake at 749-0682.
March 10 and 12 from 4-6 p.m. Cleveland and Elmo-Old Cleveland Town Hall; Huntington-Huntington Elementary; Castle Dale-Recreation Center; Orangeville-Orangeville Library; Ferron-City Hall. At large sign up in Castle Dale at the Recreation Center; major (birthdates May 1, 1996-April 30, 1998) and minor (birthdates May 1, 1998-April 30, 2000) sign up cost -$45. Rookie (birthdates May 1, 2000-April 30, 2002) sign up cost-$35.00. Play begins March 31.
Millsite Golf Course will open for the season on March 14. For more information call 384-2887.
Benjamin and Sharlene Heward have created "Humanitarian Guyana" to help the many thousands in need in Guyana, South America. They need to raise an additional $10,000 for the Humanitarian Rescue Trip scheduled for June 2009. Charitable donations represent the primary source of funding for the organization. Mail donations to: P.O. Box 1390, Orem, UT 84059-1390 or donate at any Mountain America Credit Union, into the "Humanitarian Guyana" account.
A newly established AA meeting will be held every Monday night from 7-8 p.m. at the Huntington Senior Center, 176 West 100 North.
Desert Edge Christian Chapel in Huntington is hosting a new website, www.desertedgecc.com. Information about services, current events, comments, prayer requests, sermons and Bible studies times are available on line.
Everyone is welcome to meet with the Senator and question him about what is going on in Washington, D.C. March 7 at 9 a.m. at Barnes Grill, in Castle Dale. RSVP by March 5, to 381-5411 or 748-2488.
Evening adult art classes with Michael Royall, Emery High art teacher. Painting and ceramics classes will begin March 10 for ceramics and March 11 for painting. Classes meet weekly for two hours: 7-9 p.m. and will last for eight weeks. Sign up for one or both. Pre-pay tuition at Emery High School office 435-381-2689. $80 for each class (materials are included.) Tuition must be paid before the start of class. Bring your creativity and have some fun. Hurry class sizes are limited.
The Emery County Community Theatre presents the musical "Nunsense", a musical comedy by Dan Goggin. This hilarious play is sure to bring delight to the teen and older audience. It will be presented March 12, 13, and 14 at 7 p.m. at the Emery High School auditorium. There will also be a matinee performance on March 14 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person. Don't miss it.
A St. Patricks Day dance featuring "Music of the Heart" will be held on March 13 from 7-9:30 p.m. at the Price Senior Citizens Center. The public of all ages is welcome. There will be refreshments and door prizes. Donations are suggested. For more information contact Annette at 637-0161.
The tournament will be held March 21 at 9 a.m. at the Emery County Recreation Building, 75 South 400 East, Castle Dale. Get your teams together and lets see who will be crowned Emery County Champions. Register at the Emery County Recreation building before March 13. Teams must have six (or more) persons and can be made up of school, business, or family teams. Teams will be bracketed based on levels of players. The entry fee is $5 per person.
Come listen to Dennis Worwood from the Utah State Extension Service at the Ferron Library March 25 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. He will be discussing small family gardens. Now is the time to start preparing for the growing season. Stop by the library and see what Dennis has to say or ask a question or two.
Volunteers of America, Retired Senior Volunteers and the Foster Grandparent Volunteers are sponsoring another walk for seniors in our county. The kick-off party for West Emery County will be March 17-18 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the RSVP office in Castle Dale. For Green River, the kick-off party will be March 24 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:30-3 p.m. at the Community Center in the Senior Center. If you don't have a pedometer, they will be available at the kick-off parties. It is 5, 548 miles to Moscow. For more information call Betty or Gerry at 381-2765 or 609-1254 or visit the RSVP office at 52 West Main, Castle Dale.
Utah Cowboys representing all 29 counties in the State will be honored on July 2 during the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo. The nominee shall have made an outstanding contribution to the western heritage lifestyle and to the preservation of Utah's western and cowboy culture for future generations. Email for more information. firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Emery County Republican Convention will be held April 14 at 7 p.m. in room 207 at the Old Courthouse in Castle Dale.
This years event, dubbed "High Five" will be held May 23 (Memorial Day weekend). This event is a demonstration of the UTMA's committment to good citizenship and responsible behavior. In addition to clean-up work we will be promoting safety and family-oriented recreational OHV activities. The trail rides at the end of the day will be educational as well as fun. They are welcoming 70+ OHV clubs and associations in Utah to join us and we're presenting this event in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Managment and the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
Do you have a friend or a loved one who is serving in the military in a combat zone? If so, Operation Home Support would like to add their names to their list. Once on the list, the ladies of Operation Home Support take it upon themselves to send these soldiers care packages and letters to let them know they are appreciated and loved. So if you have someone in mind, or know of someone who is serving in a combat zone in any branch of the military, contact Jan Hess or Dixie Swasey to add their name to the list. Thank you for all of your help and support. American Legion Auxilary Unit 42 Jan Hess 435-384-2753 or Dixie Swasey 435-384-3172.
A New Orleans doctor is looking for veterans of either the Iraq war or the war in Afghanistan who have suffered traumatic brain injury or post traumatic stress disorder to participate in a free pilot trial of treatment that so far has had 100 percent beneficial results. Veterans who qualify will be flown to the clinic (and home later) free, and sponsors are making lodging, meals and transportation available at vastly reduced rates. Interested veterans are asked to call Dr. Harch's office in New Orleans for an interview at (504) 309-4948.
A class which teaches self sufficiency and using home food storage is being taught at the Courthouse in Castle Dale on March 6 at noon. Everyone is welcome to attend and bring a pot luck dish.


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LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has undertaken a sweeping reshuffle of cabinet-level posts ahead of next year's general election.
In one of the most high-profile changes to his government, Cameron named current defense secretary Philip Hammond to the post of foreign secretary, replacing his longtime political ally and friend William Hague.
Under Britain's parliamentary system the prime minister is permitted to periodically rotate key cabinet posts. Sometimes this is undertaken to reward or punish especially loyal or under-performing members of the cabinet. At other times it can signal a dramatic shift in strategy.
As part of the shakeup William Hague has been moved to the role of Leader of the Commons, a position that is lower in profile but that is charged broadly with organizing the business of government.
Michael Gove, a controversial education secretary, has been named Chief Whip, a political-policing-type role tasked with making sure party members stay on message and vote in line with the leadership.
Cameron said Tuesday that Gove would play a key role shaping his drive for re-election.
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A group of scientists, engineers, medical and legal professionals, as well as theologians, under the guidance of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios who address concerns brought up through science and technology.
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, Chairman
V. Rev. Fr. Nathanael Symeonides, Director
Prof. Gayle Woloschak
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As scientific and technological changes occur in our societies today at high speed and with penetrating power, our everyday life is profoundly affected by them. Because such developments are novel and because they have the capacity to affect fundamental questions, such as those related to the beginning and end of life, human reproduction, the way we receive and process information, the structure of the society, and our present and future existence in the physical environment, critical legal, ethical and moral questions emerge that often puzzle the common citizen as well as the societal leadership. Many of these issues have become hot and contested questions on the political arena but have also entered the consciousness of religious leaders. Such issues are specifically concerned with the possible impact these developments might have on theological teachings and moral positions and practices that have been accepted and observed for centuries or even millennia.
Based on the above observations, a need was perceived for the clergy and lay leadership to be better informed on scientific and technological issues, and for the laity who are engaged in science and technology to understand the broader implications (ethical, sociological, and religious) of science and technology and the concerns that are generated by rapid advances and radical changes.
To address these needs among both clergy and laity, the Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on Science and Technology (AACST) was formed in 2001 by a group of scientists, engineers, medical and legal professionals, as well as theologians, under the guidance of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, and with the approval of the Holy Eparchial Synod and the Archdiocesan Council. The membership of the Committee is based on the following set of criteria: (i) wide professional recognition and excellence in the respective fields of endeavor; (ii) proven, active involvement in the life of the Church and a substantive knowledge of Orthodox theology; and (iii) willingness to devote energy and time to the task. The Committee membership is a "living" list and, therefore, continues to be enriched with new members as more persons who fulfill these criteria are nominated and appointed. The work of the Committee has been organized in three Subcommittees as follows:
- Subcommittee on Bioethics and Medical Issues;Coordinator: Prof. Gayle Woloschak
- Subcommittee on Energy, Environment, and Economics;Coordinator: Dr. Achilles G. Adamantiades; and
- Subcommittee on Physical Sciences and Advanced Technologies; Coordinator: Dr. Nikolaos Paschalidis.
The Committee has been working through local meetings, ad hoc consultations, conferences, and exchanges of electronic mail. The Committee made presentations at all Clergy-Laity Congresses since the year 2002, as follows: the 36th, in Los Angeles (summer of 2002); the 37th, in New York City (summer of 2004); the 38th in Nashville, Tennessee (summer of 2006); and the 39th in Washington, D.C. (summer of 2008). In this last Clergy-Laity Congress, the Committee organized a special session on "The Ethics of Global Climate Change" with representatives from the United Nations, the U.S. Government, the academic world, and the theological field. The session was co-chaired by the NGO Representative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to the United Nations.
The papers presented in the above Congresses as well as additional publications and papers can be found at the Committee's web site, accessible at www.aacst.goarch.org.
According to its official terms of reference, the AACST serves in an advisory capacity to the Archbishop, the Synod, and the clergy and lay leadership of the Archdiocese. The Committee works also toward the preparation of resource material that will assist the pastoral and educational ministry of the Church. The Committee interacts with similar committees of the Orthodox Church, including the Social and Moral Issues Committee (SMIC) of SCOBA, and other Christian denominations.
Articles and Papers:
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Science Behind Human Biotechnologies Andrea L. Kalfoglou, Ph.D. Chair Bioethics Subcommittee Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on Science and Technology
Alleviating World Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals By Evangelos A. Calamitsis, Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, Presented at the 38th Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Nashville, Tennessee, July 19, 2006
Globilization: Challenges, Concerns, and Respones Prepared by Michael G. Papaioannou, IMF, Alex Mourmouras, IMF, Evangelos A. Calamitsis, IMF, Ret., and Achilles G. Adamantiades, George Washington University and World Bank, Ret. for the Archdiocesan Committee on Science and Technology
The Greenhouse Effect and the Threat of Climate Change by Achilles G. Adamantiades, GWU and World Bank (Ret.)


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France 1848 – French Polynesia 1903
Yellow haystacks (The golden harvest)
[Les meules jaunes (La moisson blonde)] 1889
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of Mrs Huc de Monfreid 1951
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A rich and vibrant yellow dominates this rural landscape in which two women work at a large haystack. The women are dressed in the traditional black and white costume of the Breton region in north-west France. One stands on a ladder to help her access the haystack while the other works on a lower level. On the left edge of the painting the trunk of a large tree projects upwards into the sky. Nearby, another haystack and some buildings are discernible amongst the trees.
Paul Gauguin developed this composition by overlaying shapes of different colours and textures. Notice how the vertical, matt brushstrokes create the texture of the dry straw in contrast to the rounded grey, brown and purple shapes that form the dry stone wall. These curved shapes are also found in the grassy mounds to the left. Gauguin adds other elements of interest such as the ladder leaning against the tree and a quirky hen and cat sitting near the women. A tree with flaming red foliage draws our attention to the top right corner.
This work was painted during Gauguin's third visit to Brittany, when he sought a quieter lifestyle in the small fishing village of Le Pouldu. Gauguin was able to experience the rustic lifestyle of the local people and live cheaply. In this painting the lush summer grass and golden hay captures the life giving force of the sun. The artist delights in the harmonious co-existence of human, animal and vegetable life in this rural region.
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Long time no see Giants in Anaheim (lineups)June 18th, 2012, 5:58 pm by MARCIA C. SMITH/THE REGISTER
The San Francisco Giants on Monday return to Angel Stadium for the first time since Oct. 27, 2002, which was the Angels' 4-1 victory in Game 7 of the World Series.
Manager Mike Scioscia and first base coach Alfredo Griffin are the only Angels holdovers from that championship season.
"It was a great series but there's a lot of mileage from 2002 to now," Scioscia said before Monday night's interleague series opener. "I don't know if there are many comparisons you can draw. Different uniforms, different team, different everything."
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NEW YORK — A 23-year-old man charged with killing and dismembering his mother appeared in court Thursday dressed in a garbage bag, and said he'd done nothing wrong.
Bahsid McLean was charged with murder, hindering prosecution and criminal possession of a weapon. According to a criminal complaint, he stabbed Tanya Byrd and then cut up her body with help from another man.
Byrd, a 45-year-old home health aide, was last seen alive Monday. Her remains were stuffed in four plastic garbage bags and scattered along four blocks, police said.
"I didn't do anything wrong," McLean said during court.
McLean's attorney for arraignment, Jerry Iannece, said his client wore the bizarre covering because he had been urinating on himself. His shorts he had been wearing were soaked through, so court personnel gave him the trash bag to wear, Iannece said.
Iannece said his client was off his medication, but didn't say what type. McLean was held without bail, was placed on suicide watch in protective custody and was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
"Everybody's innocent until proven guilty," Iannece said. "Obviously this is a troubling case, but we will investigate and defend it thoroughly."
Medical examiners determined that Byrd died from a stab wound to the neck and officially ruled her death a homicide in the chilling case, which came to light when a neighbor's dog sniffed out one of the bags early Tuesday on a Bronx street.
The dog found the first bag — a heavy-duty plastic garbage bag stuffed in a duffel bag, with the woman's bloodied leg inside — in a trash pile in the Melrose neighborhood.
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Byrd's family said she had wanted her son out of the house, and there was speculation that he had been abusing her other child, authorities said.
The young man had several arrests, including one for assaulting two police officers in Brooklyn in 2010. His father, James, told the Daily News that he did destructive things. "He set fires. Nobody could control him."
McLean and an acquaintance, William Harris, 26, were first arrested on charges of unlawfully dissecting a human body and hindering prosecution. Each man initially implicated the other the killing, authorities said.
A blade was discovered in the apartment McLean shared with his mother, and a saw was found in Harris' home, authorities said.
The murder charge was later added for McLean.
Harris was arraigned on charges that include hindering prosecution. There was no immediate information on his attorney.


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It's no secret that young voters helped President Obama get to office during the 2008 elections – so it would make sense that the 2012 presidential hopefuls would be doing their best to woo those younger constituents. The most logical way to do this would be through technology – what with the Twitter and the Facebooking and the fact that at least 52% of adults age 18-29 own a smartphone (according to a Pew report in June 2011). But as it turns out, not a single candidate has a decent mobile site. From PCWorld:
Despite pronouncements that they are pro-technology, all of the U.S. presidential candidates have made fairly feeble attempts at building mobile campaign websites.
"It's appalling how poorly their mobile websites work," said Joshua Bixby, who has analyzed desktop and mobile websites of the Republican frontrunners and President Obama. Bixby is president of Strangeloop, a Canadian Web software company that has no connection to any of the campaigns.
In a blog post in which he shared his most recent findings about candidates' websites, Bixby says he encountered slow site load times — some took several minutes on smartphones — and basic functionality problems. Computerworld performed several of the same informal tests as Bixby did, and in some cases found even poorer performance than he did. …
"None of the candidates' sites rose to the challenge of designing for mobile devices," Bixby wrote in his blog. One key ingredient of a good mobile website is that it should offer the ability to link to the full desktop site, not just provide a view of a stripped-down mobile version, Bixby added in an interview. He said surveys have shown that at least one-third of mobile users strongly favor access to a full site from a mobile device. …
Bixby also found that the candidates' websites loaded more slowly on desktop computers than many commercial websites did. But the load times on mobile devices were even slower, sometimes several minutes, he found.
Over a Wi-Fi connection, an iPhone loaded all of the candidates' sites in 10 to 20 seconds, according to Bixby. And he said that load times "ranged from slow to unbearable" on an Android phone connected to a Rogers 3G network in Canada. He noted that Romney's site loaded in 21 seconds on an Android phone via a 3G network, but the home screen failed to size properly in the browser, cutting off the candidate's name at "Romn." Bixby said it took several minutes to load the other candidates' sites on Android devices with 3G connections.
However, in Computerworld tests using an iPhone over a Verizon Wireless 3G network in Virginia, both Obama's and Romney's sites consistently loaded in less than three seconds. …
Bixby joined a number of independent analysts in urging the candidates to devote more of their campaign war chests to their mobile websites, given the explosive growth in mobile devices and the level of social interaction they support.
"Given the millions of dollars being spent on campaigns, mobile should be a higher priority," Bixby said.
Read about all of Bixby's and ComputerWorld's findings at PCWorld >>>


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Whether it's Jan. 7, Feb. 6 or any point in between – or any point during any calendar year – you'll find the SEC leading the way for the entire FBS. Get used to it… if you haven't already.
The story remained the same on national signing day, when teams like Alabama, Mississippi and Florida dominated the headlines while other conferences stood in the shadows. And just how important is a top-rated class? As Jon Solomon of The Birmingham News notes, nine of the last 11 teams to be ranked No. 1 in Rivals.com's recruiting rankings played for a national championship within three years, and eight won the title.
So there's something to be said for the SEC's dominance on national signing day. So now that the dust has cleared, how did the conferences fare on Wednesday? The SEC came in first, but where did the rest of the FBS fall? Here's how each league ranked using the composite ranking from 247Sports.com:
RECAP: The winner and losers on national signing day
(Notes: Average conference score is the total ranking of each team divided by the number of teams in the league. Rankings reflect where teams will play in 2013. 247Sports.com lists 127 teams in its rankings, including Charlotte and Old Dominion, two teams that will not join Conference USA as full-fledged football members until 2015.)
-Top three teams: Alabama (No. 1), Florida (No. 4), Mississippi (No. 6).
-Bottom three teams: Vanderbilt (No. 30), Kentucky (No. 36), Missouri (No. 39)
2. Big Ten: 37.3
-Top three teams: Ohio State (No. 2), Michigan (No. 5), Nebraska (No. 23).\
-Bottom three teams: Iowa (No. 55), Purdue (No. 62), Minnesota (No. 65).
3. Big 12: 37.5
-Top three teams: Oklahoma (No. 15), Texas (No. 16), Baylor (No. 27).
-Bottom three teams: Kansas (No. 50), Kansas State (No. 53), Iowa State (No. 61).
4. Pac-12: 39.0
-Top three teams: UCLA (No. 9), USC (No. 14), Washington (No. 18).
-Bottom three teams: Washington State (No. 56), Stanford (No. 63), Colorado (No. 67).
-Top three teams: Florida State (No. 8), Clemson (No. 13), Miami (No. 17)
-Bottom three teams: Syracuse (No. 77), Georgia Tech (No. 79), Boston College (No. 91).
6. Big East: 64.6
-Top three teams: Louisville (No. 42), Rutgers (No. 47), South Florida (No. 54).
-Bottom three teams: UCF (No. 80), Temple (No. 81), Memphis (No. 87).
7. Conference USA: 91.1
-Top three teams: Marshall (No. 48), ECU (No. 74), Tulsa (No. 78).
-Bottom three teams: FIU (No. 112), North Texas (No. 115), UTEP (No. 118).
8. Mountain West: 92.0
-Top three teams: Boise State (No. 57), San Diego State (No. 72), Fresno State (No. 76).
-Bottom three teams: Utah State (No. 107), Wyoming (No. 111), San Jose State (No. 120).
ALEX COLLINS: Recruit to sign with Arkansas 24 hours after strange drama
9. Independent: 93.2
-Top three teams: Notre Dame (No. 3), BYU (No. 65), Navy (No. 117).
-Bottom three teams: Idaho (No. 122), Army (No. 126), New Mexico State (No. 127).
10. Sun Belt: 98.6
-Top three teams: Louisiana-Lafayette (No. 66), Western Kentucky (No. 89), Texas State (No. 92).
-Bottom three teams: Arkansas State (No. 99), Georgia State (No. 124), Louisiana-Monroe (No. 125).
11. Mid-American Conference: 104.9
-Top three teams: Toledo (No. 71), Bowling Green (No. 75), Central Michigan (No. 100).
-Bottom three teams: Kent State (No. 116), Northern Illinois (No. 121), Buffalo (No. 123).
PHOTOS: The bizarre fashion of national signing day


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Anne Heche looks good.
Did Rose cut her hair?ReplyCancel
Hey, Rose! JANE W did it frist! And better!!!ReplyCancel
Kristen Bell looks like that scene in Shrek where Donkey tells him he needs a breath mint.ReplyCancel
Patricia looks a bit matronly.
Hailee looks a lot older than Elle and I dont think she is.
Roses daily random pic. v
I don't even recognize Anne Heche. Too many fillers?ReplyCancel
Patricia Arquette: That dress – I have no words.
Anne heche looks good.
Rose McGowan looks like Michael Jackson.
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Rose and Minnie, oh dear!ReplyCancel
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Was Patricia in western Pennsylvania recently? The Pennsic Wars (big SCA/medievalist recreation event) wrapped up last weekend, and it looks as if she made off with someone's 10th century garb…hmm, wonder if I should ask my friends to check and see if any of them are missing a tunic?ReplyCancel
I thought Patricia was Suzanne Somers.
Rose McGowan looks horrid.ReplyCancel
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Flat with a view over Tagus River
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Площадь50 м²
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The apartment has one room with a very comfortable double bed where you are going to have very relaxing nights, two dressers for you to store all your clothes and a window with a beautiful view.
The living room has a leather sofa, a dining area with a glass table and chairs, a pouf and a TV.
The kitchen is fully equipped with all the things you need to prepare your meals, making your stay easier and perfect and a washing machine. The bathroom has a shower and a window.
Internet and cable TV available.
Students and artists of all types get together in this area to let their hair down at night. The Bairro Alto is the epicenter of the city's alternative scene and its 20 minutes walk from the apartment.
But it's not all about nightlife. The day is the perfect time to check out the views from the Mirador (Bellvedere) da Graça and Nossa Senhora do Monte or have a glass of port at some of new trendy bistros around.
Enjoy your stay! Hope to see you soon!
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Hello Pedro,
We had a very nice time in Lisbon ,liked the apartment and hope to come back.
See you and greetings from Holland!
Silvana and Jaideep
Everything you need (groceries, restaurants, metro) is nearby within a 5 min. walk. Comfortable bed, kitchen is narrow but well equipped. All in all a lovely apartment, we had a wonderful in Lisboa thanks to Pedro!
Pedro is a super nice host who was very patient with our delay due to the flight company on our day of arrival.
We spent a nice week in Lisbon in Pedro's flat which is really nicely situated near the city centre you can reach on foot.
We had a lovely time in lisbon. Pedro is very nice and the apartment was awesome, especially the view over the river tejo was amazing. Plus, being located in the old district alfama was very pleasant and picturesque.
Pedro is a super nice and uncomplicated host who was very patient with our delay due to the flight company on our day of arrival.
The flat itself is really nice, very good located and the view from the sleeping room over the river Tiejo and parts of the city is simply unbeatable!
We would come back there anytime again!
We had a great time in Lisbon and in Pedro's flat. He's a great host, we had eveything we needed. The flat turned out to be much bigger than we thought it would be, and it is really nicely situated near the city centre which you can reach on foot. We rented a car and were afraid about finding a parking lot, but there is always a free parking space in front of Pedro's building, which is somewhat miraculous for that part of the city. We warmly reccommend staying in this cosy flat!
We enjoyed our stay in Lisboa very much. The apartement is perfectly located close to the best places of Alfama and Baixa, you can reach them in short time by feet. The view from the sleepingroom is awesome, the neighborhood is quiet during the night. In the apartment you will find everything you need. You will surely feel home. The communication was uncomlicated !
Thank you very much Pedro- hope to see you again!
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There was a time not long ago when a building such as TEN Arquitectos' new business school for Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., might have gotten by on its crisp good looks and structural exhibitionism alone. As a taste for such things took hold overseas in years past—and as an architecture of seductively picturesque risk increasingly became the norm—aesthetically and fiscally conservative America lagged very far behind.
We were deprived then, as the late Herbert Muschamp often noted, of examples of this nascent architecture of "desire." It followed that desirous critics were often moved to give a pass to the few projects in that contemporary mode that did get built here: A delight in a building's boldness and apparent novelty trumped any concerns about the means deployed and sacrifices made to realize the desired effects.
Thankfully, that time has passed: We've all seen this stuff before.
So let's ignore for the moment the wide, bent, road-spanning bridge of Enrique Norten's business school building; the 10 cheekily canted columns that hold the top floor in place 60 feet in the air as it travels between anchoring wings; the frank baring of its photo-white bones through glass walls where the building faces the exurban satellite campus for which it serves as icon and gate; the racy texturing of the opaque skin and the resulting near-total blindness of the building where it faces away.
Let's ignore every camera-friendly move that, before we became inured through overexposure, might have made us say "Wow" or "Cool" or even "Gee whiz! I want that"—noting, however, that the greatest pressure on a design to incorporate such features is, very often, the mercantile drive to elicit those exact feelings of transient awe and desire. First from clients, to secure the buy-in; then from donors, to secure the funds; later to aid in capturing the attention of harried editors and impressionable writers; eventually, perhaps, to dazzle colleagues; and, always, to arrest the consuming gaze of civilians—future clients!—as they flip through a magazine like this one.
By that standard, this is a job well done. And as such it is typical of the work of Norten's firm, which thoughtfully uses novel forms and suites of effects. "We didn't want another box in the landscape," says Norten, Hon. FAIA, of a landscape for which his firm began preparing the master plan in 2009. And he didn't give his clients a box, outside, or in. To the architects' great credit, the interior spaces of the building are in fact very cool.
And functionally so. The trend among contemporary business schools is to give precedence to spaces for collaborative work. Here, those "non-programmed" spaces, as Norten calls them, generate the logic of the whole. A series of open lounges and labs, and a stack of conference rooms enclosed by fogged glass, inhabit a tall, narrow zone just behind the fully glazed, amply fritted, campus-facing wall of the main wing. Then—across a light-giving slot—offices and small classrooms are hung in a second discrete volume, the exposed surfaces of which are wrapped in shiny black-plastic sheets studded with little pyramids. That funky material also marks one side of the main corridor in an abutting third zone, where elevators, plumbing, larger classrooms, and the school's enormous main auditorium find their home, backing up to the building's great, blind wall facing the outside world.
It's a smart organization of space, and one that is readily apparent coming in the front door, past the sitting area and greeting desk, where the gently sloped main stair—designed, and used, for gathering—takes you up two levels to nearly meet the ceiling in an intelligently, even lovingly, compressed lounge area. It's the first of so many examples, from the airy platforms opening off the suspended stairs that knit the "non-programmed" zones together so well, to the more formal resting nooks, with their carved Corian benches, that are to be found outside the smaller classrooms within the carefully scaled, black-wrapped middle zone.
"We were always trying to find little opportunities for people to just sit and be there," Norten says. And in that he and his team have succeeded; the building is alive inside, and the students are taking the architects' cues and running with them.
There is always a "but" in this sort of building, where glamour has a voice in the process of design, where the production of desire, the ensorcelling of clients or donors or press, however useful in the early stages of a project, is given shape and made permanent in the construction itself. Now we return to the big move: that big bridge up there on its big, beautiful columns. From the road, approaching, and especially when rounding the traffic circle as one prepares to take the turn in, and under, and through, that feature of the building does an excellent job of signposting the campus—as it was intended to do, serving here the broader purposes of TEN Arquitectos' master plan.
But having carved that space out of the larger mass to give the building such an eye-catching roadside presence, there must also have been an incredible pressure to use that portico to aggrandize the pedestrian entrance—placing it there even if parking is elsewhere and not easily reached, and even if students will approach the building from the opposite direction (toward the glazed elevations that face the center of campus).
So we have here really two buildings, interpenetrating: A grandiose one, its forms derived in part by the need to impress through images, generating an architecture that has mostly served its purpose before the groundbreaking. And living under the same roof—gaining little benefit from the drama outside—a neat, bright, smart series of accommodating spaces. It is a building that seems well-tempered to the needs of its users, apart from the nagging suspicion that, after paying the price charged for an architecture of desire, they will be inclined to sneak in through the back door.
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Client Rutgers University
Architect TEN Arquitectos, New York and Mexico City—Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA (principal-in-charge); James Carse (project manager); Barbara Wilks, FAIA, Andrea Steele, AIA, Erik Martinez, Joe Murray, Shary Tawil, Wook Kang, Vahid Musah, Erik Lang, AIA, Melany Wimpee, Julian Palacio, AIA, Jae Hun Hor, Ricardo Umansky, David Maestres, Assoc. AIA, Christian Ayala (project team)
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Remarks by Achim Steiner at the Opening Session of the Tunza International Children and Youth Conference
Bandung, 27 September 2011-His Excellency Professor Dr. Budiono, Vice-President of Indonesia
Professor Dr Gusti Muhammed Hatta, Minister of the Environment of Indonesia
Professor Armida Alisjahbana, Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia
Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar, Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection of Indonesia,
Ahmed Heryawan, Governor of Java
Members of the UN family including Vincent Jugault, Senior Environment and Decent Work Specialist with the International Labour Organization and a key partner in UNEP's Green Economy initiative,
Yann Arthus-Betrand, internationally-renowned photographer and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador.
Boys and girls, youth, mums and dads,
Many of you are, unlike me, far too young to remember the Rio Earth Summit of 1992-indeed many of you were probably-almost certainly-yet to be born.
But in so many ways what happened nearly 20 years ago has brought us all together here today in this wonderful City Forest of Bandung, Java.
For in 1992 the leaders of the world, civil society, businessmen and woman, youth leaders and children just like you and from across the globe came together with a sense of purpose, a vision and some really smart ideas to make this a better world.
They forged something called Agenda 21-think global, act local.
They established some of these big treaties on issues ranging from global warming to the concern over biodiversity-the loss of animals, plants and other living things.
They basically gave substance to what we call sustainable development-the glue that binds this meeting, the issue that has brought us together and the hope for this and future generations.
Next year in the same city in Brazil, world leaders, civil society, business men and woman, youth leaders and children will come together again-20 year after the Earth Summit-for Rio+20.
Because everyone who met in 1992 was wrong or they failed? No.
But because the size of the problem we are facing just keeps getting bigger-bigger perhaps than a previous generation ever imagined.
And because the world has changed in ways that in 1992 were unimaginable-or at best merely glimpsed.
Sometime on or around the 31st of October a baby will be born that will put the global human population at seven billion-in 1992 there were around 5.5 billion people.
It is not so much the numbers as the way in which we are consuming-the way in which we are gobbling up our fish and our forests in ways that could mean by 2050, in the life time of many young people in this room, the world could triple its consumption.
Next month UNEP will release a small booklet of what we call indicators as part of our flagship Global Environmental Outlook series.
Some of the areas it is likely to spotlight.
And there are lots of other trends.
Land degradation now affects perhaps a quarter of the Earth's surface to varying extents, and has been growing by maybe around one per cent a year since the 1980s
Populations of fish and freshwater vertebrates have declined on average by nearly 50 per cent since 1987 as compared with an around 30 per cent decline for terrestrial and marine species.
But some indicators have moved in a more positive direction.
The high flying ozone layer, which protects us all from deadly ultra violet rays, is recovering as a result of the cutting of the substances or gases that were killing it.
So how do we manage up the positives and manage down the negative developments.
How do we take the extraordinary transitions happening in your schools, homes, communities and countries and scale them up, accelerate them into what we at UNEP call a Green Economy.
How do we trigger growth and development in a way that delivers decent green jobs that will allow you to reach your potential without seven billion people, rising to over nine billion by 2050, pushing the planet beyond key thresholds and limits-
Because with 1.3 billion people unemployed or underemployed and half a billion young people joining the workforce looking for employment in less than ten years, we need economic development everywhere.
That is the challenge for Rio+20 and that is the challenge for you young people here this week.
Because what you decide, and what you put in the Bandung Declaration at the end of your meeting here, is your input to a global effort currently underway.
On November 1, at the UN's headquarters in New York, governments, businessmen and woman, civil society and others will express what they want from this Rio+20 meeting.
That input would be incomplete and would fall short if the next generation of leaders-that's you and you-do not deliver a clear and concrete view of what you want and hope for next June in Rio.
20 years may seem a lifetime away-I can tell you as an adult it only seems like yesterday.
The world cannot wait another 20 years for a meaningful and game-changing response to the changes now emerging on planet Earth-it has to be now.
Thank you for coming to the UNEP Tunza International Children and Youth Conference-enjoy this week in this wonderful city and country.
Thanks too to our remarkable hosts who have themselves set out on an exciting journey to discover new ways of managing their forests to delivering youth employment within a Green Economy.
Yesterday the world lost one of the iconic figures of the environmental movement, Wangari Maathai.
If you did not know her, then let me simply say that as initially a Kenyan and then a global campaigner, Wangari understood the inescapable and increasingly relevant link between environmental sustainability and peace-and in doing so won the Noble Peace Prize in 2004.
In 1992, the year of the Earth Summit she was brutally attacked by riot police along with other women trying to defend her country's forests-a measure of her courage.
That same year a young 12 year-old girl called Severn Suzuki also showed courage when she stood up for the environment.
She delivered a speech to the Earth Summit that humbled and silenced the world and has become a legend on YouTube.
In an interview on UNEP's web site which you can read Severn, now a mum and aged 32 years-old, sent a message to this meeting here in Bandung that I want to share.
"I think (the speech) it's still so popular because it speaks to the need for - and the power of - the voice of youth. Adults need to be reminded of the consequences of their actions, even though they have multiple interests and ulterior motives".
"Young people see things for what they are and call their elders on their actions. Youth don't know what isn't possible," she said.
That is as true today as it was in 1992
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Scam Artists Replace iPad 2s with Blocks of Clay in Canada, Return Them for Full Refunds
Tiffany Kaiser
January 18, 2012 11:09 AM
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Clay iPads
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Stores like Walmart, Best Buy, Future Shop and London Drugs have all had cases where clay replaced iPad 2's during returns
Customers shopping for iPad 2's in certain Canadian stores are finding blocks of clay in their brand new boxes instead of Apple's popular iOS tablet.
Apple's iPad 2, which was released in March 2011, is a well sought-after item in the tablet market. No other tablets have been able to touch its popularity, whether it be Android-based, BlackBerry's PlayBook, HP's TouchPad, etc. In fact, iPads accounted for
97.2 percent of U.S. tablet traffic
in August 2011.
Now, scam artists are taking advantage of the tablet's popularity by purchasing an iPad 2 from stores with cash, replacing the tablet with a block of clay, and returning it to the store for a full refund. The
fraudulent iPad 2's
are then placed back on the shelves for other unsuspecting customers to buy.
Stores like Walmart, Best Buy, Future Shop and London Drugs have all had cases where clay replaced iPad 2's during returns. According to
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, Best Buy and Future Shop had as many as 10 fake clay models resold to customers in their Metro Vancouver stores. London Drugs had four cases of clay models being resold while Walmart said it was investigating less than 10 cases.
Dayna Chabot was one of the unsuspecting customers who purchased a "clay" 32 GB iPad 2 at Walmart on January 5. She purchased it at the Langley store, south of Vancouver.
"It was all sealed properly and everything," said Chabot. "It was the shape of an iPad. They even had a piece of clay where the charger went and everything. Like,
they knew what they were doing
. I understood that it could have easily been us that did it and went back. But they were really good about it at Walmart. They were all just kind of baffled."
In response, Future Shop, Best Buy and London Drugs said they are all changing their return policies. The iPad 2 boxes will be opened right in front of the customers returning them to make sure the correct components are inside before offering a refund or putting the boxes back on the shelves.
Walmart, however, said it is not changing its return policy at this time. It called the scams "upsetting" and said it contacted the local police to investigate, but
CTV News
said local police knew nothing about the clay iPad 2s.
"It's really sad that people stoop to these low levels to take advantage of really hot sellers," said Elliott Chun, Future Shop spokesperson. "As you probably know, tablets were the number one touted gift items for the holidays this year."
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The Brumbies will tackle the Bulls in Pretoria next week after holding off the Cheetahs by a 15-13 margin in Canberra on Sunday.
The Brumbies will take on the Bulls in Pretoria next week after a conversion miss saw them edge the Cheetahs by a 15-13 margin in Canberra on Sunday.
It couldn't have been closer as Riaan Smit's last minute touchline conversion attempt from Rayno Benjamin's try bounced back off the post and with it went the Cheetahs' dreams of a semi-final.
Instead, it will be a Bulls versus Brumbies clash at Loftus Versfeld after what was a gripping 80 minutes that was up at Test match intensity.
The Brumbies began the contest in sprightly fashion and it was clear which team had not played since July 6, with the Cheetahs struggling to get up to pace in the early sparring. In fact the visitors came close to losing a man in the first minute when the powerful number eight, Philip van der Walt, went down with a knee issue.
He, like the Cheetahs, recovered to compete in an evenly matched first-half, with both teams showing plenty with and without the ball.
Christian Lealiifano had put the hosts ahead on three minutes when George Smith had the ball pinched illegally in contact by prop Coenie Oosthuizen. However, the centre would go on to have an off-colour first-half from the tee as did opposing kicker Smit, who missed an effort on ten minutes.
What followed was continued Brumbies ball but such is the threat of this ever improving Cheetahs outfit that they scored with their first attacking opportunity. It came from Jesse Mogg putting the ball out on the full and from the line-out, Raymond Rhule broke through before finding Johann Sadie. Sadie's finish wide on the right led to Smit missing the extra two points so it was now 3-5 in what was already an absorbing play-off quarter-final.
Lealiifano would join Smit in having trouble in the swirling wind as he was off-target from the tee on 20 minutes, wayward from 40 out and he would miss again three minutes later after Lappies Labuschagne was adjudged to be offside at a line-out. The growing feeling was one of them would rue their misses and that proved to be the case at full-time.
The Brumbies centre would stop his personal rot before the half-hour when Sadie was offside close to his own line, pushing the hosts ahead by one point. And despite the Cheetahs throwing the kitchen sink at their hosts before the Brumbies hit back late on.
6-5 was how things stayed going into the break.
The Cheetahs would retake the lead on 45 minutes when Heinrich Brussow's excellent work at the breakdown allowed Smit to send over three points. However, Smith would be penalised soon after at the ruck so their lead was short-lived as Nic White made it 9-8.
A scrum offence would take the scores up to 12-8 thanks to Lealiifano's effort from the tee and when the Wallaby made it a seven-point ball game with twelve minutes remaining, it suddenly became now or never for the Cheetahs as the tension became palpable.
The South Africans had ample opportunities to win the game – declining shots at goal to instead go for levelling matters first – and it looked to have paid off when replacement Benjamin crossed on the left touchline following a concerted period of pressure.
However, Smit's kick struck the post to spark mass celebrations in the home camp as they head to Pretoria, with the Cheetahs flying back to the Republic with their tournament over.
The scorers:
For Brumbies:
Pen: Lealiifano 4, White
For Cheetahs:
Tries: Sadie, Benjamin
Pen: Smit
Brumbies: 15 Jesse Mogg, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Christian Lealiifano, 11 Clyde Rathbone, 10 Matt Toomua, 9 Nic White, 8 Ben Mowen (c), 7 George Smith, 6 Peter Kimlin, 5 Sam Carter, 4 Scott Fardy, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Scott Sio.
Replacements: 16 Siliva Siliva, 17 Ruan Smith, 18 Fotu Auelua, 19 Colby Faingaa, 20 Ian Prior, 21 Andrew Smith, 22 Joe Tomane.
Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Willie le Roux, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Robert Ebersohn, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Riaan Smit, 9 Piet van Zyl, 8 Philip van der Walt, 7 Lappies Labuschagne, 6 Heinrich Brussow, 5 Ligtoring Landman, 4 Lood de Jager, 3 Lourens Adriaanse, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 Ryno Barnes, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Waltie Vermeulen, 19 Boom Prinsloo, 20 Sarel Pretorius, 21 Elgar Watts, 22 Rayno Benjamin.
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Rohan Hoffmann (Australia), James Leckie (Australia)
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By MIKE SAWYER, exec. directorI Will Never Use Tobacco, Inc.Birmingham, Ala.
I am a graduate of a Christian seminary in Kentucky, and have never entered a Latter-day Saints church building. However, I continue to praise The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints for their discipline in preventing tobacco addiction, thus circumventing the pain and suffering of those who might take the "Tobacco Road: Dead End for Life."
If you check the tobacco-related deaths for the United States as recorded by the Centers for Disease Control, you will discover that Utah continues to be the lowest in all areas of tobacco-related matters.
A relative of mine was awarded work on the construction of a Mormon church in southeast Alabama many years ago and had to sign a contract for "no tobacco usage" on the job site.
Ironically, I was asked to leave two United Methodist churches in the tobacco farming state of Kentucky in 1989, for preaching "tobacco kills" sermons.
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The annual tradition of 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" — the iconic 1982 movie about Ralphie and his Chicago family — begins Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. on WTBS. It has a spot in our family tradition because my oldest son Howie was nicknamed Ralphie by my wonderful neighbors — the Wood family.
Howie, born in 1986, loved the movie. He's on the road today — coming home from Virginia, so he is on my mind. When he had to get glasses in 1989 as a tot, red was the only selection he would consider for eyewear "because they looked like Ralphie's." Howie had some severe eye-crossing that was later corrected by surgery, but he managed those glasses and sports glasses like a trooper. This picture of him with my daughter, Kelly, still hangs on our refrigerator. My youngest son, Ryan, is not in this picture because he wasn't born yet.
CBS Sunday Morning had a great piece on "A Christmas Story" this morning. Here's the link. The tale written by Jean Shepherd, is a part of Americana. Terrific 41-year-old Peter Billingsley — who played Ralphie — has produced it as a Broadway musical. Here are some fun facts about the movie:
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- It was added to the Library of Congress this year.
- The original home in Cleveland sold on eBay in 2004 for $150,000 to Brian Jones who restored it to as a museum complete with props from the film. Read more here. He even gets into the cupboard under the sink.
- Jean Shepherd voiced and wrote two sequels, says Mentalfloss.com: a 1988 TV movie, "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" with a 14-year-old Ralphie, played by Jerry O'Connell and My Summer Story, or "It Runs in the Family," a 1994 flick starring Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay, as Ralphie.
- More from Mentalfloss.com: Jack Nicholson was supposedly interested in playing Ralphie's dad. The late Darren McGavin got the nod. I cannot imagine Nicholson in the role.
- You can buy the leg lamp in dozens of different sizes. Homeowners on West Gore Road and Clinton Street in Millcreek have one prominently displayed in their window.
- Jean Shepherd's crazy stories first appeared in Playboy magazine.
The WTBS tradition of 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" dates back to 1997. I wrap presents to it every year. Here's to all the Raphies out there.
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The Secret World's site has been updated with a new developer blog detailing big changes coming with the arrival of Issue 4: Big Trouble in the Big Apple. Penned by Rasmus Harr, Senior PvP Designer, the blog is packed with information about how Funcom will alter PvP in several ways including overhauling rewards and boosting the underdog.
When a society has not gained a significant amount of rewards in Fusang for a while, the Council of Venice steps in to support it by unlocking a new PvP mission called The Underdogs. If your society manages to complete it, it gets a very powerful Custodian on its side. This Custodian patrols around Fusang, and helps fight enemy players and NPCs, and has a heal aura around it that benefits players on its side.
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I did a PvP run on TestLive with the devs on Friday and it was a blast.
Originally posted by Dahkot72
Agree with the other posters , and while this wasn't my only problem with Fusang ( it's still entirely too much a pve circle with some pvp mixed in ) , how do "professional" developers not have something like this in initially ?
This was easily something that was known to be a problem even pre launch and pointed out multiple times yet months later something finally implemented about it.
I just don't get how devs miss such glaring emblems.
I wouldn't be so harsh. Everyone is a genious when spouting nonsense on the forums but in reality if you were the one in charge you would probably have screwed something up as well. Everything is obvious when it has already happened....
Originally posted by Dahkot72
Problems not emblems , and its not just Funcom either , it's almost every mmorpg dev nowadays that has major issues and obvious ones pointed out pre launch that are ignored until its too late.
It's called limited resources. Any project manager will tell management they get to pick two of three things: scope, money or time -- you never get all three. The ones that gets picked most often are money and time.
Originally posted by Dahkot72
No Kuppa - that specific problem of Fusang WAS pointed out many times in closed and open beta - didn't take a genius to foresee it
They should have had this in at launch.
That's nice. They addressed the issues and didn't ignore the feedback. Again, resources and time; we're living in the real business world here.
Originally posted by Dahkot72
Again , this problem should have been evident at the whiteboard session that thought of Fusang.
Easy to see should have been on from beginning. No fanboy defender of funcoms track record of launching very incomplete can say this was something they shouldn't have known.
They shouldn't have written line one code for Fusang without having this to start with.
And it's just one example of their rushed half assed effort ruining a possibly very good game.
Their failed sales by their own admission numbers wise should be an example of how rushing and launching incomplete will always fail.
So they either are imcompetent devs if they truly didn't see this issue from day one of thinking of Fusang , or a company that cannot learn from many previous market examples of a rushed launch leads to ultimate failure.
Either way shows why Funcom is circling the drain in financial terms.
All I'll say is that hindsight is 20-20 and that it's awfully easy to criticize as an armchair developer.
It's a good step in the right direction. My biggest issue was that the types of battleground maps TSW has, enforces one type of play which limits what type of builds that are viable.
This a issue that is unique to TSW more so than other games due to the millions of build combonations availible through the Ability Wheel. I've never been a "give us more maps" type of guy, but TSW screams for more dynamic playfields.
At the pace Funcom is turning out content, I have no doubts that my concerns will be addressed.
side note - I'd love to see a player driven battleground creator, since It doesn't look like I will be getting my PvP server
So, carping and woulda-coulda-shoulda comments aside, some discussion on how PVP in 1.4 is playing out now on Testlive:
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So, carping and would-coulda-shoulda comments aside, some discussion on how PVP in 1.4 is playing out now on Testlive: http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=60920 http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=61147
great feedback.
To those whining on how this should have been implemented earlier - that was not exactly the priority.
They did listen to people and they have been patching the game and changing stuff with every update, so its only normal that they first got game stable, then fixed out the most glaring bugs in already existing content, added mroe content and then focused on revamping on what did not work in the original content. They still listened.
They were very straight up before launch that TSW is a PvE themepark game with PvP elements. However, they may have found that the PvP players are significant enough in the player base to give them some love.
Originally posted by feena750
These are the PVP changes they need, but why did it take so long to implement them. PVP already pushed a lot of people away. We will see if they come back.
ALl of these changes they are making to TSW just confirm what alot of us said in beta: the game isnt very good.....At least they are trying to make it a better game but is it too late??...I know I have no interest in ever trying this game again and Im sure there are others also.
Originally posted by feena750
These are the PVP changes they need, but why did it take so long to implement them. PVP already pushed a lot of people away. We will see if they come back.
Its because pvp was aftertought and most pppl in TSW didint really care about it.
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Oh I like the combat too. Never got the combat moaners its near enough the same as gw2 combat.
They both use limited skill action bars. All give you that. Otherwise did you have your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears when you played? TSW combat animation is lacking. Its response time is lacking. Combat sounds are lacking.


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