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Tupelo School Board meeting has begun at the Hancock Center. All five board members are present.
Interim Supt. David Meadows is handing out a packet with changes to the agenda. He is asking for the board to allow Jeffrey Norwood to start immediately as graduation coach and for incoming assistant superintendent Matthew Dillon to be added as a consultant before officially starting on July 1.
He is also asking for the board to consider a change in administartive organization.
He said that the state has affirmed there will not be any changes to the MAEP salary structure for teachers. Meadows is asking the board to consider its pay scales, which will allow the district to produce teacher contracts as quickly as possible.
The board will not vote on any items at this meeting, but will do so during its evening meeting, at 5 p.m. today at Lawndale Elementary. It will hear presentations about the agenda.
12:19 p.m.
Board members Eddie Prather and Beth Stone are making a presentation about their trip to the National School Board Association's annual conference.
Prather said that school districts across the country are having concerns getting information out about Common Core curriculum. He also attended a session about boards and superintendents setting goals. At the session, they said that the important thing is to remain focused on student achievement. They also said that it is important to be transparent and not have a hidden agenda.
Prather also attended a session on improving board performance through self evaluation. He said it is important that the board hold itself accountable.
Prather said that Tupelo is doing some things to communicate the change to Common Core but that it should also look at other things it can do.
He attended a session about transitions to a new superintendent. Prather said it is important to create opportunities for successful and that the board and superintendent need to be on the same page.
Stone said that she and Prather attended seperate smaller sessions and met up for the general sessisons. One of her sessions was about strategic planning, it was led by a school district from Milwaukee. They talked about the theme of continuous improvement from day to day.
She said that the district sends a document to its stakeholders at the begining of each year outlining its strategic plan along seven different strands. Throughout the year, it studies and assesses the data it has and looks for ways to improve. The following year, the district provides a report from each of those strands with key results from the previous school year. It also had board learning sessions. They discussed things they wanted more information about and that they wanted to learn more about. They took onsite visits to see things in action.
Stone also went to a session on professional development that stressed importance of continuous improvement — every day there should be some type of continual improvement that you could call "professional development."
She went to a session on one-to-one laptop program and ways to continuously improve it. One of the common sessions was on the Kahn Academy, an online program that particularly works with math and science. It is a free online site, and Stone said that if parents know about it, they can use it to give their children extra help. Stone said they can be very useful over the summer, perhaps churches can provide access.
Prather talked about boards looking at their policies in response to the incident in Florida where there was a shooting at a school board meeting a couple of years ago.
12:40 p.m.
Dale Warriner will make a presentation with a synopsis of the district's federal programs responsibilities.
Warriner: We prepare applications with input from stakeholders and present to the school board and for approval at the state level. We bring ammendments throughout the year, hopefully for increased funding.
12:44 p.m.
Mary Ann Plasencia will make a presentation on the "Conucils of Excellence."
"I've think we've just put more bones to this framework. We are open to suggestions. We are jsut at the starting phase of this."
Goal is to start the first council at the high school. Goal is to offer a structured way to gather information from stakeholders to improve student achievement.
Hope is that this is another vehicle, a meaningful vehcile for 2-way disucssions with the community.
Hope to do some preparatory work during the summer and launch in the fall. Still have gaps to work though.
The process will be supported through an outsie facilitator, who was not yet selected.
"We thought it would be helpful to have someone who is neutral and who is experienced in this type of conversation."
Idea is for council to identify two or three issues. May need personnel to gather data.
"Whatever we need to do so that subgroup can make whatever recomendations to remove whatever barrier that is to learnig."
Would then make recommendations to the larger group, to the district and to the board.
Suggesting between 12 and 20 members. At the high school, would involve faculty Senate, representation of parents from all grades, student members, representatives from the district, business community, faith community and alumni community.
They would hope for a two-year commitment.
Plasencia said that during the long-range planning committee there was a similar commitment. The hope is that members would take it serriously and would be take attendance serriously.
"We want to make this as simple as possible in terms of what is driving that counicl and we hope members of the council would focus on three questions."
what needs the most attention at this school? What could it look likfe? How do we sustain it."
Said it would be helpful for converation to stay confidential and for the issues raised to be ones that are universal in the school community. Said it is improtant to stay in line with strategic plan.
Would like to have a facilitator sometime in June to launch this and give it more structure. Would then like to identify members to serve. One way is to allow community members to appyly, to volunteer and go though an application progess. (Said other districts have done that).
Hope to launch the council some time before school starts and start making some recommendations by the falll and to have some solutions during the winter.
Plasencia said her hope is that this beocmes a permanet vehicle at our schools, that we consider this a best practice to continue two-way dialogue.
Meadows: "I didnt feel like we should rush into this. We should very intentionally design and systemically lay it out and gather input at we go."
Prather: Board meetings are bound by law to conduct business. FOr the community and stakeholders to provide input and share ideas, this would give us an outlet to do that.
He asks that they look at the legal issues of what the board can and can't do.
"One thing that would really effect us is if the council comes up with a suggstion that we can't do."
Stone suggests staggered terms for when people rotate off the council so you don't lose an entire group at once.
12:58 p.m.
Pam Traylor will present the student transfer report. Approval of admission of six non-resident (tuition) students and of several students transfering to different schools.
1:01 p.m.
Jim Turner is presenting the personnel report. Includes the hiring of two personnel for 12-13 school year, a new position, four retirements, 11 resignations, etc.
For 12-13 school year, there are 28 forcasted vacant positions for licensed staff and 6 non-licensed staff positions.
Meadows is now speaking about the graduation coach position. He said that as Ms.
"It seems almost impossible that a year has passed last April and May. I know now several things that I did not know earlier. One of the most positive things I can report on….Do y'all recall I almost casually mentiond that we started taking a look at Tupelo High School to see how many of our students were enrolled in classes to meet the right number of Carnegie Units." Found 100 students whose schedules were changed.
Meadows said the talk about there being 100 THS students who would graduate were untrue rumors.
Meadows said they found 71 people who were in jeopardy of not passing because of failure to pass state tests. Foucused on setting up a tutoring program. "I wish I could say all 71 passed one or four different tests. That didn't happen, but 41 did." Some had to pass all four tests and did.
"Thanks to those retired teachers and others who worked, regular classroom teachers gave thier time freely, it has been a joint effort."
Among those young people who will walk across the stage will be four people who left last year with a certificate of completition. On May 18, they will be given a Tupelo High diploma. They also have one or more people who have been out for at least two school years who will walk across the stage. They have 36 others who have passed the state tests.
If board approves Norwood to start now, he would work 55 days at his daily rate (until his current official start date of July 1). It will cost the district about $13,000. Said the he and new superintendent Gearl Loden know of at least 30 studnets who need that help now. They also need to work with students in the extended school program this summer.
Meadows said they will also be looking at High School Advancement Academy. 17 of the 24 students at the School Aged Mothers program will graduate. At HSAA, of the original students, 26 or 27 of them will graduate this year.
"I see the graduation coach, we need to get him in harness, so that we get that 100 percent," Meadows said. "While we can talk about graduation rate, what I am telling you about is the young people who will be walking across the state on May 18 who would not have….I literally had chills go through me when I learned about those young people who would not have graduated and they came back in."
1:14 p.m.
Meadows asks the board to allow Dr. Matthew Dillon to come in immediately as a consultant at his daily rate of $540.
"We need help immediately," he said. "We are on academic watch…We are asking you to allow Dr. Dillon to come on and work as many days as he can, maybe 10 or so in May and a few more in June."
Loden said he will have fewer than 10 days in Mday because he is finishing at Pearl.
Prather asks about how many days they are expecting in June so they will know for the budget. He asks if Loden can provide that information during the next board meeting.
Meadows said they found money in the budget for that. They will vote on it tonight.
1:18 p.m.
Meadows is talking about a first-reading of the abstinence education policy.
Last year, Haley Barbour signed into law HB999, which had specific requirements for abstinence education. Tupelo has had an abstinence education policy in place since at least February of 2000. Meadows said Tupelo's stretch was not in creating a new policy but in tweaking it.
There are two choices in the law: abstinence only or abstinence plus. Abstinence plus says you "must" teach all of the things in the law, while abstinence-only says you "may" teach these things. Meadows said that abstinence-only is the standard in Mississippi.
Meadows is recommending that the TPSD continue to adhere to state standard of abstinence education as standard of its sexual education policy. They will go with "abstinence-only" which says they "may" teach several of the points made in the law.
Meadows said the district has most of the requirements in its current policy but that it will tweak some of the points.
Meadows said the district has already been implementing it in 7th grade. It has been using a program called "Wait Time" that is taught by trained volunteers.
Meadows would recommend the district continue to designate seventh grade. This year, more than 95 percent of students participated in seveth grade, that means those students' parents opted-in.
The district also piloted it this year in health classes at Tupelo High School.
Meadows is recommedning abstienence only at grade 7 and is recommending "Wait Time" curriculum.
The law requires it to be an opt-in or opt-out program. Parents have to sign whether they want kids to participate or to sign that they do not want students to participate. In the event they do not have a signed form, he will recommend they do not put a child into the include group until they have contacted a parent or guardian.
This is the first reading of the policy. The board will not vote on it until May 22.
The district must send the policy, the identified curriuclum and the protocol to the state by July 1.
Meadows said that even if they choose the seventh graders, they can still continue to also offer it to the ninth graders.
Meadows said that Parkgate has trained a large group of volunteers.
Rob Hudson said that he did a five-day stint volunteering with it this year. He said there was a good turnout, that it was a surprisingly good experience and that the kids were receptive.
Hudson said that Parkgate's board also got good feedback about the ninth-grade curriculum.
Meadows said that parents would be free to come and read the curriculum.
1:30 p.m.
Meadows is discussing update for the responsible access and use policy. The policy must be tweaked to contain langauge now required by federal law.
1:31 p.m.
Dr. Fred Hill is presenting some changes needed to the extended school year and summer school policy.
Changes include:
Putting in correct dates and times, start of class and length of the day.
Also remove from 2008 draft, remove driver's education summer school schedule from that.
1:33 p.m.
Dale Warriner will present about the federal programs aplication. They always guarantee 85 percent of the previous year's allocation. For Title 1 and Title 2.
The budget will include funding ECEC with the 12 classrooms (same number as this yaer), support staff, class size reduction for first grade, parent involvement, professional development, technology, software, materials and supplies.
On ECEC, Warriner said application process is booming right now and that it has seemed to have taken hold.
Warriner said the district received an extra $229 in flow-through dollars for the Juvenile Detention Center.
1:38 p.m.
Warriner is presenting the application for the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program grant.
Warriner said they tell you to write the grant for $25,000 but last year the allocation was about $47,000.
Children in shelters receive after-school tutoring. It provides school supplies and certain technology.
Warriner said the district has 437 homeless students as of April. Homeless is defined by several criteria: the largest group is dobuled-up (living with another family because parents can't own their own home), also some living in hotels, on the streets at the Salvation Army Shelter.
"We have various types of situations," Warriner said.
1:41 p.m.
Warriner is presenting about Camp Possiblity, for homeless youth. Last year the camp was four weeks and allocation was decreased. They are now looking to offer it for two weeks. It has been coordinated to provide breakfast and lunch with the camp inbetween for homeless students. The lead teacher will be Pam McAllily. It will be at the middle school and will be an enrichment program.
Warriner inlcuded some details about what will be included in those weeks. There will be counselors and instructional types of counseling sessions. It will serve 40-50 students.
1:44 p.m.
Finance Director Linda Pannell will talk about a consideration to refinance the district's debt.
She said each year Jim Young looks at the district's debt to see if it can be refinanced. Last year, it couldn't. This year, there are debts that may be able to be refinanced. The board's resolution would allow him to go to banks and see how much the district could save.
An estimate would be $289,000 to $300,000 between now and the 2016-17 school year. That is about $42,000 to $50,000 each year, Pannell said, noting that it is about a teacher's salary.
1:47 p.m.
David Meadows will present an administrative/ organizational chart. The board has two policies that cover this now.
Meadows included both policies and quoted out of policy CC. It says the supt. is authorized to reorganize the lines of auhtority.
Under policy CCB, Meadows said it notes that lines of authority not restrict the cooperative working together of all individuals at all levels. Meadows said that Loden is working to create a cooperative team effort.
Meadows is recommending that the board approves the elimination of the deputy superintendent position from the organizational chart. It would move Diana Ezell in a lateral move into assistant superintendent.
It would allow Loden to reorganize with three assistant superintendents.
Meadows: "With the two assistant superintendents we currently have, I often can't tell where one ends and the other begins. It is a matter of being a team and doing what we need to do to support students and support teachers in an efficient and effective manner."
Loden said that this is the first step in reorganization. He will have new job descriptions in June. He looked at what 12 other districts have done.
Meadows said that for Ezell it would simply be a lateral move and would not effect pay.
Prather said that if the district wishes to eliminate the Chief Operating Officer position, which is currently vacant, it would need to adopt a new organizational chart anyway.
1:53 p.m.
Board is discussing salary scale. Meadows said he always feels it is important to get teaching contracts to teachers before they leave for the summer.
Meadows said the district built itself a schedule that if the board approves, they will begin tomorrow calculating and printing contracts so they can put them in teachers' hands on Wednesday, May 16.Teachers will have 30 days once they get contracts in their hands.
The instructional staff salary guide will not change. The board approved a $100 increase to the local supplement last year. The district is at 55 mils on operation, meaning it can not go higher on that in tax collection. In local contribution, that amount will cost two teacher units, a little over $81,000. Thus, Meadows said at this time, he would not recommend, at this time, increasing the local supplement this year.
If the district approved it, the only way they could reduce it is to reduce the number of working days. Tupelo is currently at 189 days for teachers, two above the state minimum. Meadows said he doesn't want the district to be at the minimum.
Meadows also included the supplementary pay plan and said he would not recommend increasing those supplements. He said that the board and Dr. Loden could visit chaning that at another time.
Meadows said that if the board wants to increase the supplements, those contracts could always be ammended with that.
Meadows said that Tupelo's salary scale for a beginning teacher with a bachelor's degree is about $34,000, while for the state it is $30,900. "Isn't that a wonderful thing for the Tupelo Public School District?" Meadows said. "That is what prior boards and you have done for the Tupelo Public School District. That is what makes Tupelo a special place to work."
The board meeting is adjourned until its 5 p.m. meeting at Lawndale. It will vote during that meeting.


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Conclusion: The Gap Gobbler
The bird seemed determined to stay put, so we took the game to him.
Hook remained behind and continued calling, and Miller and I crawled toward the knoll. If we got there without being seen, we'd be in great shape.
Unfortunately, turkeys being turkeys, things got interesting. As we crawled toward the rise, the gobbler finally broke and headed toward Hook. In fact, we almost crossed paths in the field, and only the tall CRP grass kept us hidden.
Within seconds, the bird was past us and marching toward our previous position. I swung around, aimed my shotgun at a small gap in the grass and prayed. When that light-bulb head emerged, I fired and saved the hunt from disaster.
"Well, maybe we should have stayed put," I said to Miller.
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Thank you for your excellent post.
Last saturday I got out a map and began looking for access to water, then went out to see what a few areas were like (without my rod and reel). Sunday I went back to one, the area just below the dam at Blackstone Gorge, with rod and reel in hand. Started with drys and didn't catch anything and, after about 30 minutes, switched to wet flys and caught the first on the third cast. Although they weren't "glowing", the area did have an odd smell to it.
I guess it will just take some time in exploration to find these nearby spots. If anyone else can offer any suggestions, I'm certainly open to them. Thanks again!
I live in Franklin, MA and as far as rivers and streams in the area they are somewhat few and far between. Most streams in our area are only stocked in the spring, so by the time the fall rolls around the fish are long gone. If you are looking for a few spots in the springtime, there is the Charles River in Medway, Eagle Brook in Wrentham, Peter's River in Bellingham, and many others if you go to.
you can get a list of all of the waters stocked in your area. Then just get a Delorme atlas and start prospecting. Good Luck.
Blackstone River
This is my first season flyfishing. So far I have fished in Vermont, Maine and the Swift River just below Quabbin. I am now looking for a few spots close to home to go to for those times when you just want to be on the water without an hour or more drive. I live in Bellingham MA (just north of Woonsocket RI) and the Blackstone River is only about 20 minutes away. I seldom hear anything about the Blackstone, so I am assuming it may not be a "great" river. But, are there any spots on the Blackstone that anyone can recommend that might serve my purpose? Specifics would be appreciated.
Are there any other nearby brooks or streams one can recommend?
I quess you can say I am trying to locate my "home waters". Your help will be most appreciated.
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Installed and Activated. Showed that my HDD also had SMART on.
But it does not show Lifetime Writes, so how does this Trim Really help me O.o beside Cleaning up.
I was told KINGSTON SVP100S296G Had a build in trim alike system on the SSD ???
How different is this over the one on SSD ?
Medium Type: Solid State
TRIM Support: Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
This is extremely irresponsible and wrong information to be writing on this site. You NEVER use third party software to "trick" an SSD into using TRIM. DO NOT DO THIS. Instead of giving this horribly irresponsible advice, you should tell your readers to consult the manufacturer of the SSD controller or the manufacturer of the drive itself on whether or not you should use this third party software. I have an OWC drive and they explicitly state that you do not need to use any software to enable TRIM because their controller has really good garbage collection algorithms already, and as such they do not support using this or any other tool. I cannot believe that you wrote such a terrible article and gave such terrible advice. NEVER "fool" any kind of data drive into doing ANYTHING without the manufacturers blessing. That's a sure fire way to lose data and void a warranty. I suggest this article either be severely amended to add factual information and sufficient warnings, or be deleted altogether.
SSD's are incredibly different from chipset to chipset, stop thinking like it's one size fits all.
/from someone using SSDs for about 6-7 years now.
You can also enable TRIM for non-Apple SSD's without having to download any software, just some Terminal commands. Worked for me...
"If you bought a solid state drive yourself and installed it on your Mac, then you should enable TRIM."
"But, if you bought your own solid state drive and you install it yourself, then TRIM will not be enabled. This can be dangerous."
"This is an extremely important tool for Mac users who have installed a solid state drive and I cannot stress this enough. You need TRIM."
All of those statements are completely false. You DO NOT NEED TRIM on almost every drive made in the last 18-24 months. It's simply untrue to say that if you bought an SSD yourself, that you need TRIM, it's dangerous not to have it enabled through some software a dude wrote and put on the internet, or it will fail spectacularly within a few months. There isn't a non-TRIM enabled SSD or one without good Garbage Collection anywhere in the market. You simply cannot get an SSD that doesn't have either one or both of those things. Adding this into OS X to force TRIM on your drive is a good way to void a warranty and the author says absolutely nothing about this. Go ahead and contact Oskar Groth when your drive dies and see if he'll honor your warranty. I guarantee you that if your drive fails and the vendor finds out you used third party software from some dude that lives in Sweden to force the drive into doing something, they will void your warranty and tell you to go pound sand.
If you want to follow this advice, go right ahead. I just hope that the writers irresponsibility and your ignorance help you pay for a new drive when the manufacturer voids your warranty for using some software you found on the internet. My advice is to take 15 minutes and contact/call the people who made your drive and find out what they recommend and what they support. Reading some blog post by an ignorant writer, on a website that has had a long history of hiring more ignorant and irrelevant writers, and blindly following the advice built on fear mongering is a really dumb thing to do. Especially with a component that isn't cheap and isn't readily available in large quantities. Go right ahead though, enable this software. What could go wrong right?
This is kind of funny. I stopped reading this site regularly a few months ago because the numerous blatant technical errors and inaccuracies that plagued Anthony Bouchard's articles made it so frustrating to read.
I feel like a groundhog who just came out to see his shadow...
Might I suggest you read my other comments on this story. If you can muster some sort of reading comprehension from somewhere you'll see why this article is FULL of incorrect and dangerous assumptions about SSDs and the advice given is horrible. There are multiple statements that are completely and utterly wrong. Maybe if you read more than the first few sentences and the headline you'd know this. But obviously you didn't and decided to call me out as a troll while being one yourself.
The problem with this article is that it passes off opinion as fact. What's written here isn't even based off fact, it's based off interpretation and gives no reliable or complete information to support the opinion stated. This article is wrong almost all the way through and the advice and information should be ignored and not trusted respectively.
[QUOTE=KartRacer;6366974]According to OWC, it can in fact damage your drive. But I'll be sure and listen to you and the writer because you obviously know more about their hardware than they do.
Actually, no. You do not use third party drivers to enable TRIM. Unless you have the blessing of the manufacturer or like to use unverified software off the internet without a sliver of a chance of getting support from the dude who wrote it. Which you won't get any and it's extremely irresponsible to recommend using this without any disclaimer or warning. The writer DOES NOT explain any of this in the article.
Rhetoric? Lesson learned from marriage..."You're right"Ahhh, peace at last....
This piece sounds like it was written by a 10-th grader, with an equal knowledge of computers and the subject. There is absolutely nothing in this column that leaves you more informed after you read it. You guys need to find someone who knows what they're writing about and spend more money on hiring them.
[QUOTE=KartRacer;6367429]I'm sorry, you're going to have to provide a citation for this claim. From what articles are written on SSD controllers at AnandTech.com and Anand Lal Shimpi doing extensive testing with manufacturers, it would seem you are completely wrong. He has reproduced errors and worked directly with a number of them to fix those errors. I trust AnandTech, I don't trust you and certainly not the sloppy, presumptuous, incorrect, and ignorant information in this article.
The Anandtech article does mention that TRIM is generally not recommended on SSD's with Sandforce controllers but doesn't have anything bad to say about the Enabler. FWIW


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No need in apologizing to me as long as we can ALL keep it above board.
Peace out,
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
You have made some excellent points in your posts. While there are so many unanswered questions, I am focusing on these two.
1. Congress has asked, but has not been told, how many survivors, where they are, or who they are. It is obvious that the Secretary of State and the White House do not want them interviewed. We can only speculate as to what the survivors might be able to tell. My questions would be ... who was at the safe house and what was it being used for? Why was the ambassador at Benghazi ?
2. 4 months later and only 1 person was apprehended (in Tunisia) and he was let go by the Tunisians.
1/27/13 I changed my avatar. Now I am using a photo of Don with our Flyway's Long Tall Sally.
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I did not imply an insult to your intelligence. Merely a challenge to your first hand experience in situations such as Bengahzi.
BTW nothing in regards to Bengahzi has been well documented. Hence my comment with regards to relying on information gleaned from the internet. JD
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
As for getting facts from the Internet ... fewer and fewer people read news in print anymore. Broadcast news, newsprint, and internet are the way most of us get most of our news information. It can take sifting through it to find what things are unsubstantiated.
I am still wondering where the other survivors of Benghazi are ... the two former SEALS were not the only ones at the CIA annex. There were Libyan militia who were supposed to be protecting the ambassador's compound.
JD, do you really believe that there was no incompetence and/or cover-up in this whole affair? Now, Hillary and the administration are saying that AQ and/or related groups are far from "defeated" ... yet they didn't know this on Sept. 11? If that is true, then the intelligence network is really pretty bad. Personally, I think they did know, but didn't want to interfere with the campaign that was trumpeting that AQ was in retreat.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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2. Nothing has been well documented because your political heroes choose to give the American people the Proverbial Middle Finger. (See Hillary Clinton's clot impudent "testimony" before Senate and Congress)
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Documentation:This happens to be from Townhall today, but the father of one of the former SEALs attested to it publicly, as I recall.But just to be clear, Clinton lied and is still lying.
When asked about the claim that the attack was sparked by a protest over a video, she responded, "I did not say ... that it was about the video for Libya."
That's simply untrue. When she stood by the caskets of the four Americans killed in Libya, she directly blamed an "awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with." Afterward, she reportedly told the father of Tyrone Woods, the former Navy SEAL who was killed in the attack, "We will make sure the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted." Why tell the man that if the video had nothing to do with it?
Wouldn't this, alone, be considered perjury in front of the Congressional Committee?
It's been a while since I have viewed the ad she did for ME distribution about the insulting video story, so I don't remember if the wording artfully avoided direct mention of Benghazi ... but she certainly did apologize for the video. It might have been carefully worded to appear to refer only to the attack on the embassy in Egypt. That ad was aired after they had ample time to determine that the video was not the cause of the Benghazi event.
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Thanks JPak! Any figures you need that i could keep my eyes open for??? I only have the one wal-mart, but i mean, i'm quick when new figures pop up on sites and stuff.
Cheap, but hey, i can help when i can.
Edit: Amazon has Gandalf back up for sale. Yeah, good thing that their automatic e-mail thing DIDN'T tell me they were back in stock. Stupid amazon! Thanks Jpak!! Still, lemme know if i can help you!


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By Adam Gore/LetsGoICC.com
FULTON – Itawama Community College head football coach Jon Williams announced sophomore Terrell Pinson (Tupelo) and freshman Ronald Carswell (Macon, GA) signed National Letters of Intent to play football for West Virginia University.
"This is a big day for our program," said Williams. "It's the first of five or six guys that are planning to sign during the early signing period and having a pair of quality guys signing with a program like West Virginia speaks volumes for where our football program is headed."
Pinson, a 6'3 defensive back, recorded 36 tackles (25 solo), one tackle for a loss of three yards, one fumble recovery, a team-high four interceptions returned for a total of 34 yards with five pass break ups, one blocked kick and caught a two-point conversion pass.
"I'm glad to have the opportunity to go to West Virginia," said Pinson. "I'm looking forward to becoming a Mountaineer, but I couldn't have done it without the coaches and everyone at ICC helping me along the way."
"Terrell really seized the opportunity here on the junior college level to enhance his playing ability and talents to be able to take them to the Big 12," said Williams. "West Virginia is getting a jewel because there isn't a lot of 6'3 safeties running around on the field. I know he is happy to be part of their family and are certainly happy to have had him as part of ours."
Carswell, a 6'0 wide receiver, had a team-high 44 catches for 429 yards (47.7 yards per game; 9.8 yards per catch) and one touchdown while rushing for 22 yards on seven carries. He returned 12 kickoffs for 282 yards (23.5 yards per return) and eight punts for 34 yards.
"I'm really thankful for this opportunity and really appreciate everything everyone at ICC did to help me have this opportunity," said Carswell. "I learned a lot about football and how to handle myself away from the game and in the classroom to be able to reach my full potential."
"Ronald did a tremendous job and was a great possession receiver for us this season," Williams commented. "He'll be a three-for-three guy at West Virginia and I know they are excited about having him for the next three years and I know he'll do great things for them."
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Is it possible for Netbooks (with atom processor at least) to run multiple VM ? i feel that is a safe way to analyze malwares as i can have a cheap netbook just for that purpose.
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This will be my first trip with a full truck. I am going for three day to a trial in Oregon and would like to know about how much water should I bring.
All my trips in the passed have been with only 3 dog, is their anything that would be needed out of the ordinarily when adding 4 more.
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When you've strolled around the City of Love visiting icons like the Lourve, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and eaten more than your share of fresh baguettes and gooey cheese, here are five off-the-beaten-track things to write home about.
For unique Parisian souvenirs, walk along the banks of the Seine and browse in the little green kiosks. These bouquinistes (used book sellers) have been plying their trade along this three-kilometre stretch of the river for about 300 years. You'll find paintings, posters and antique books collected from flea markets around the region - and they're happy to bargain on the price.
Palais Garnier, the grand opera house, is a spectacular building and worth taking a guided tour through even if you don't see a show. It was built in 1875 and is the fictional home of Erik of The Phantom of the Opera. When it opened there was more gas lighting in here than in the whole of Paris so people flocked to be seen in their finery. But nothing could have been finer than the third floor gallery covered in gold leaf and Chagall paintings.
Take a 2CV tour around the city with 4 Roues sous 1 Parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella), but prepared to be photographed as much as those famous sights.
These Citroens with open tops are driven by beret-wearing local guides and a 90-minute tour is a great way to get your bearings of Paris without all the walking.
Take a two-hour boat ride along leafy St Martin's Canal, through bohemian neighbourhoods from Paris Marina Arsenal to Parc de la Villette. This 4.5km canal was built under Napoleon and was nearly covered in when it fell into disrepair. You'll plunge into darkness as you quietly ease underground while Edith Piaf plays on the sound system, then through a series of locks and draw bridges while locals stop to watch.
Dine at Café de l'Homme in the Musée de l'Homme, 17 Place du Trocadero. This boasts one the best views of the Eiffel Tower in the city, looking across the Seine and is not crowded with tourists because it's hidden in the museum. It's due to reopen soon after being closed all year, so revisit their site when you head over and grab a table on the terrace to watch the sun go down and the Tower light up.
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Teamwise, Yards Per Pass Attempt Differential is my favorite. It's the so-called Killer Stat developed by the late Bud Goode. The new arrogant jerks like Aaron Schatz try to denounce it but for betting purposes I can tell you YPPA Differential is far superior to anything they have come up with. I've run countless Monte Carlo simulations. I think I mentioned about a month ago that Carolina was the most underrated team in the league. They had a very good YPPA Differential but a poor record. The Panthers logically rebounded to the mean by winning and covering their last four games.
Passer Rating Differential is another one. I remain more loyal to YPPA Differential simply because I've used it longer and know more about it. Last year the guys who tout Passer Rating Differential at coldhardfootballfacts.com got extremely cocky and basically announced that the Giants had no chance against the Packers, or in the playoffs period. I emailed them to be careful. This is a strange era. The regular season results still adhere to the old statistical and situational trends but the playoffs are more flimsy. Frankly, the results are weird and often unexplainable. I'm glad my simple system still works, taking any team with at least a half yard edge in YPPA Differential over its opponent. I have all four favorites this week -- Green Bay, Houston, Seattle, Baltimore. The Packers have the largest edge while Houston barely qualifies as exactly a half yard above the Bengals.
BTW, New England is surprisingly poor in the differential stats this year. In fact, barely above average.
Yards Per Attempt is the long term standard for quarterbacks. It will never lead you too far astray. The teams that gave big money and extended contracts to Sanchez and Fitzpatrick obviously didn't pay attention. Very infrequently there's a puzzling example like Tony Romo. He's in the top 6 or 8 all time in yards per attempt but obviously his results in big games don't align with that. When you hears fans belittle Romo but coaches and league analysts praise him or allow benefit of a doubt, it's because the NFL types are very much aware of Romo's excellence in getting the ball downfield.


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Battery technology has become a hot topic in the green movement because of the last decade's developments to make batteries more environmentally friendly. Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are widely used in both consumer and defense applications, such as cellular telephones and notebook computers; they also store energy needed to run power tools, medical equipment and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
They are considered safer, less expensive and more environmentally friendly than most other rechargeable batteries. Research programs are developing new and less costly versions of rechargeable lithium batteries for use in electric and hybrid vehicles. Lithium batteries offer both high energy-storage capacity and an environmentally benign alternative to the harmful lead used in conventional batteries.


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I would love to do a family cookbook, made totally beautiful with my digital scrapbooking supplies. I want something half-sheet sized (8.5x5.5)and spiral- or comb-bound. I would want 4 copies, one for me and one for each of my three children. Something about 100 pages, with some blank sheets at the end for adding in more of our own recipes later. Where can I get this printed, and what kind of cost am I looking at? With double-sided color printing, is this going to cost me a fortune?
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For the third time in his career, Hope College women's basketball coach Brian Morehouse has been named the Michigan women's college coach of the year by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM).
The association consists of 4,000 coaches of Michigan basketball programs at all levels.
Morehouse, who has guided the Hope program since 1996, was also honored in the 2001-02 and 2007-08 seasons.
Overcoming the challenges of player injuries that dramatically impacted the makeup of the team, the 2011-12 Flying Dutch posted a 22-5 record finishing second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
In 16 seasons under Morehouse the Flying Dutch have won 20-or-more games 14 consecutive seasons, claimed 10 MIAA titles, made 11 appearances in the NCAA Division III tournament and were national champions in 2006. Ranked the second winningest coach in Division III, he has a record of 397-68.
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Bill Daniel doesn't call the landlord when there's a hole in the roof. He just turns the damn house into a boat.
Filmmaker, collector, survivalist, and Texan, Bill Daniel has made a career out of the art of repurposing. His photography and collected ephemera represent a lifetime tracing fading graffiti, forgotten referents, and failing abodes. Though his work isn't limited to archived moments of marginal music from the Reagan era, a punk ethos haunts his investigations like a neck tattoo on a bank teller. In "Ground Score" he approaches his subject — the deterioration and resistance of the American South — with an unsentimental eye and marginal focus.
Thematically, Daniel deals in four settings: the collapsing Southern city, its teeming subculture, the offshore domain, and riding freight. Through black-and-white 8-by-10-inch print photographs and often-photocopied bricolage, Daniel's work so tirelessly plots the coordinates of a radical and itinerant life in the South that the final product becomes a city of its own. And compared to some of the places he's lived, this city — although conceptual — is presented as much more inhabitable.
If a single photograph of the charred structure of a former BP service station is a footnote, a series of them ("Dead Gas Stations of the Permian Basin 1-4") conjures a sort of battlefield. In another photograph ("Concealed, TX, 1996"), the message "Concealed Handgun Course Sept. 16th @ Aledo Comm Center 613-1273" is spray-painted on the walls of a tiny shack in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. In the "Sausalito Houseboat 2002" series, a harbored vessel attests to the Bill Daniel the raft-punk, another of his many paths off the grid.
Beyond the photos, much of what comprises the "Ground Score" installation appears to be fodder for a personal scrapbook. A lyric sheet of songs by an un-Google-ably obscure Texas band. A not-for-sale photograph of a telephone pole whereupon so many fliers were posted that its decorous stripes of old staples are treated as subject rather than frame. An egg-crate foam mounted on the wall contains the shape of such a familiar tarnish that it's understood as a makeshift mattress. On occasion, the tone shifts from survivalist to existentialist to apocalyptic, where the material world may be crumbling and vulnerable. In one instance, a piece of particularly vociferous religious propaganda advocating messianic mass suicide is juxtaposed against a Critical Mass pamphlet prophesying a bicycling spike after the next Katrina hits. An interactive installation piece is a "trading blanket," a marketplace of pocket offal (think business cards, a Cinnamon Brach's, a crushed half-pack of gum) heralded by a sign declaring "your money is no good here."
If Daniel's collection starts to seem like a slapdash paean to the joys of disorder, consider the alternative. The American steel, steam, and oil cities he has lived and worked in are becoming increasingly abandoned and destitute. "Ground Score" doesn't so much celebrate a punk lifestyle as simply present what he finds, in working order, a major contrast to the mainstream landscape. Indeed, the only actual activity to be found in "Ground Score" happens in dimly lit basements of thrashing youth — everything else is a monument of disutility, failure, or escape. In an American homeland full of leaks, Daniel is right to go underground.
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Shane, If you are knowegable about a Garmin replacement to the TT pro control transmitters, why doesn't the customer service reps know also? They are the first point of contact with the customers. Also apparently the major retailers don't know what's going on either.
Sounds like a communication issue to me.


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I just bought myself a new bike!
It's a fully built-up geared On-One Inbred (photo). All Shimano Deore and On-one/Planet-X components. Quite a bargain, too, as they're selling off a load from a cancelled order; £525, reduced from £899!
Photos (garden and muddy) when it arrives...
Update: According to the On-One website, they're in stock tomorrow, not Friday as Brant originally thought, so my new bike could arrive even earlier than I expected. I'm currently making important decisions, like whether to use cable ties or electrical tape to tidy up the cable outers along the top tube, and which colour ties or tape to go for.
Oh, can anyone tell if it's presta or schraeder valves in the picture? I need lots of spare tubes - I got two flats on one short ride the other day.
Update 2: I got worried yesterday when Brant from On-One phoned, but it was just because they thought my credit card details had been lost when their secure server died. They recovered them.
The bikes are due at On-One's Doncaster (DN6) warehouse this morning and will be getting dispatched this afternoon. I could have my bike tomorrow (depending on whether anyone's in and what the courier does if no one's in)!
Thursday, October 14, 2004
New bike!
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- Andrew Urquhart said...
Very nice, very nice indeed.
- 12:00 pm, October 15, 2004
- Andrew Urquhart said...
I can't tell from the picture what the valves are - they look slightly bulbous for some reason. Presta valves are usually thinner than Schraeders, often longer too. As for punctures, either get armoured tyres (I can ride over thorns with mine - not had a puncture yet) or something like a Panaracer Flataway (not tried it)
- 1:56 pm, October 21, 2004
- Mike said...
The valves are "Woods" valves. They're presta-like, but don't like presta pumps, except for the screw on kind. I'm buying new inner tubes this afternoon. I'm thinking of 'slime' tubes to get aroung the Darlo thorns.
- 11:59 am, October 26, 2004
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It's Showtime May 21st Preview: Hesdy Gerges vs. Chris Knowles
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In the main event of the evening, top 5 heavyweight Hesdy Gerges takes on Englishman Chris Knowles.
Hesdy Gerges has once again had training for a fight interrupted with his legal issues. He was extradited to Belgium for questioning for suspicion of being part of a cocaine trafficking ring. Gerges was also arrested a week before his fight with Daniel Ghita, one of the top heavyweights in the world and still managed to come back out of prison and get the win. This time Gerges comes out of prison for another challenge, although not quite of the same stature as Daniel Ghita.
Chris Knowles is one of the top heavyweight fighters in England. Despite his weight, he's quite agile for someone his size and can throw a plethora of techniques that we're used to seeing from guys fighting at -70kg. Knowles and Gerges were originally supposed to fight at It's Showtime's Christmas event on December 18. Unfortunately, Knowles could not make it to the fight due to heavy snowfall. The fight is back on now and Knowles is hoping he can give Hesdy Gerges the Christmas present of a loss that he was unable to last time.
Gerges has proven himself against top competition. Knowles, not so much. Knowles has fought a lot of guys from the British scene who have no business being in the ring with him. Gerges is a huge step up in competition - and one that I think Knowles is not ready for. While Knowles is a tough guy, Gerges will probably end up being too much for him.
I think a telling fight about Knowles would be his fight with Gokhan Saki from 2008. Saki low kicked him to death and eventually stopped him in the third round. I see a similar finish for Gerges here, probably a bit quicker. Once Gerges gets started on his low kicks, it's very hard to stop him. At times Gerges even gave Semmy Schilt trouble with his low kicks. Knowles would like to come forward and tee off but against the taller fighter in Gerges, he'll have to walk through some low kicks and counter punches that are without a doubt going to slow him down.
I think Gerges will be too much for Knowles here, chopping Knowles down with low kicks en route to a stoppage in the second or third round.


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Most spiritual paths begin by recognizing the transiency of human life. Medieval Christians honored this in the mystery play of�Everyman. Don Juan, the Yaqui sorcerer, taught that the enlightened warrior walks with death at his shoulder. To confront and accept the inevitability of our dying releases us from attachments and frees us to live boldly. An initial meditation on the Buddhist path involves reflection on the twofold fact that: "death is certain" and "the time of death is uncertain." In our world today, nuclear weaponry, serving in a sense as a spiritual teacher, does that meditation for us, for it tells us that we can die together at any moment, without warning. When we allow the reality of that possibility to become conscious, it is painful, but it also jolts us awake to life's vividness, its miraculous quality, heightening our awareness of the beauty and uniqueness of each object, and each being.
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Look at the person you encounter (stranger or friend). Let the realization arise in you that this person lives on an endangered planet. He or she may die in a nuclear war; or from the poisons spreading through our world. Observe that face, unique, vulnerable...Those eyes still can see; they are not empty sockets...the skin is still intact...Become aware of your desire that this person be spared such suffering and horror, feel the strength of that desire...keep breathing...Also let the possibility arise in your consciousness that this may be the person you happen to be with when you die...that face the last you see...that hand the last you touch...it might reach out to help you then, to comfort, to give water...Open to the feelings for this person that surface in you with the awareness of this possibility... Open to the levels of caring and connection it reveals in you.


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my processor is overeating
Last day in Beantown. Up early and into the office before 9. Whoever was here was probably here through the night. I know poor Luis was here very late. Last night, we went to dinner at El Pelon and then to see LOTR:ROTK: beautiful cinematography but felt very long. Afterward we went back to the office. I left and he stayed.
Short but hopefully informative interview over at OSNews.
Hacked on libgtop to make it capable of correctly parsing the 2.6 kernel's /proc/meminfo. Successfully made a patch, but not long after hadess clued me in to the fact I was working off an old code base. Worse, the problem was already fixed in CVS HEAD. Ugh. So he released 2.0.8. Need to get this into Fedora-devel, since it is now 2.6-based.
Playing with udev and its generation of D-BUS events. Pretty nifty.
More hacking on the kernel events layer. Now we can know when the processor is overeating and starving itself.
Firming up travel arrangements for FOSDEM. I am going to be talking on "The Linux Kernel and the Linux Desktop". Perfect, what with my new job and all. I look forward to good food and great beer in Brussels, too.
Couple nights ago took the T across the river. Saw MIT. It has been a few years since I was last in Cambridge. I missed it. Also saw the new office building. Sweet. Took some pictures, putting my new wide angle to the test. Got some good shots of Boston from across the river, but I was tripod-less and it was dark.
My good friend Chris invented a new character for our ever-evolving movie: A sparrow named Sammy who hates flying. This joins an animal who is unable to digest its own food, so it has to eat halfway digested food from other animals that it hunts. But it is a picky eater, so it has to make sure it is hunting an animal that is eating food it likes. We are totally insane, but that is just how I like it.
Flight in a couple hours back to sunny south Florida. Need to eat lunch, meet with Joe, and get some more hacking done before I summon the taxi. I'm out.


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Not at this point yet with my pup, But just trying to get ahead of game, and learn things in advance !
Been following Smartworks, and been reading Volume 1, and watching Puppy Program, and the OB video and seems he uses a constant stim. during collar condtioning !
I have also watched Fowl Dawgs 1, and have read other articles on E-Collar condtion, and some trainers, and owners use nicks instead (Sit "Nick" Sit) or (Here "Nick" Here) just courious which ya'll use, and which ya'll think is more effective, or is both ways have there place ?
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Some of you might remember Susana from the Repub Convention. I was impressed with her then. Is there something NOT to like about this Governor? Am I missing something?
She came into office thinking she had to face a $250 million deficit in the state budget, but the leaving Gov had been stonewalling. The deficit was actually $450 million, she discovered on the day after election. (about 8% of the total $5.6 billion state budget)
How did she handle that? She starting cutting expenses. Where did she start? With appointees! Those employees who are NOT in civil service jobs ... like the employees who report directly to the Gov. The previous Gov exited with 340 of them. Susana has cut that down to 212. She got rid of the two chefs at the Gov's residence. She sold the jet the previous Gov had purchased; as well as four other planes. She limited cabinet secretary positions to a salary of $125,000; and put a 2-year moratorium on the purchase of brand new cars. Meanwhile, she increased spending for education and Medicaid, with no new taxes ... and ended up with a surplus. And she did this with a Democratic house & senate.
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This is a call that Mike and I talked about making a year ago.Mike got this wood and told me about it and sent me pictures of the blank.I said that I would like a call out of the blank when it dried.Well a year goes by Mike and I talk all the time about turkey and turkey hunting and no mention of the call then I get a txt a week or so back and its a call turned.Mike tells me that that is my call.
The call is Malaysian Blackwood body with a Ivory mouth piece and cork lip stop.The reason I mention the lip stop is because Mike never did a cork one and being a PITA I asked for one.
I will say this with no resevation that this call is the easiest call I own and will out play any call that I own and I have some big name callmaker calls.If any one wants to hear this call message me and I will be glad to play it over the phone for you.


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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says he always has been and always will be the general manager in Dallas. The former Cowboys coach who won two Super Bowls in Dallas says Jones is full of it.
Jimmy Johnson, Jones's former college teammate who was hired by Jones to coach the Cowboys shortly after Jones bought the franchise in 1989, said on the Dan Patrick Show that Jones may claim he has always called the shots, but that the Super Bowl-winning teams of the 1990s were actually built by Johnson.
"That is completely a bunch of crock," Johnson said. "Jerry started putting all those titles on himself after I left. He didn't call himself general manager and president and all that stuff when I was there. He was just the owner. Because it was in my contract that I had total responsibility for all football decisions. It was in my contract, and he didn't allow anybody to have that in their contract after I left."
Johnson says that he takes more pride in what he did as the Cowboys' general manager than in what he did as the Cowboys' head coach.
"I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys," Johnson said. "My pride was collecting the talent and putting together the team that won the Super Bowls."
Those Jimmy Johnson teams were so good, they were able to win with Barry Switzer as the HC. Unbelievable.
Jimmy Johnson: Jerry Jones
Johnson drafted Jason Taylor, zach Thomas and more
Dallas is and has been irrelevant for 15 years
They had some misses but Johnson drafted Jason Taylor, zach Thomas and more
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I wonder if Jerry is reading this knowing it is the truth and is getting his checkbook ready to give some other coach that is currently out of a job total control of
football operations soon?
too bad he missed on all those RBs
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dewey wrote:Any news on how your buddy s doing Charlie?
The full extent of Jerry's injuries are not known. We are praying his disabilities will short term at best.
When more is known and then when he grants permission the gruesome details will most likely be made public. Jerry is dedicated to the cause of hunter safety and will no doubt use this incident to hopefully avoid future horrible accidents.
I have been wondering if MN has ever had any shootings other than self inflicted during their spring turkey hunts?
I can't remember any.
If that is the case perhaps WI should consider requiring a legal turkey to be bearded as is required in MN. This would require a hunter to slow down and clearly identify the target as legal before shooting.
Strange how life's paths work out sometimes. In this case 2 Minnesotans crossed the border and ended up meeting each other. What a horrible irony.


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For the past months I've been studying programming and I've finally learned how to code, but one thing that is confusing me is how to properly organize the design of a game project - code wise.
The game I'm building is a pretty standard commercial game. It has the basic components of a normal game: A world, characters and items interacting with each other and all of this is run by game manager. Basically you play as a hero in a world and do stuff. Fight, explore and interact.
Think of your standard adventure game that starts off with an intro, goes to the menu system, then gets into the game and back to the menu. Pretty much like 99% of any commercial game or otherwise serious game projects. Thats what I'm aiming at.
The problem is:
How do you properly code a commercial game architecture?
How do you organize it?
How do you make it not become unmaintainable spaghetti code?
What specific things to keep in mind when building this, codewise?
How you can help me:
a) Please tell how do you code your own game projects. What is your thought-process when designing the architecture?
b) Recommend books, blogs, tutorials, videos or anything else on how to organize a commercial video game.
c) Give hints and tips on do's/don'ts when building a game, codewise.
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Joost Hiltermann, a Middle East policy expert with the International Crisis Group, will present a talk titled "After the Surge: Whither Iraq … and the U.S.?" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The International Crisis Group is a nonprofit research organization that studies international conflict. As deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa, Hiltermann manages a team of analysts based throughout the region. He also has worked with Human Rights Watch and the Ramallah, West Bank-based human rights organization Al-Haq.
Hiltermann is the author of the new book "Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq and the Gassing of Halabja," which explores the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the Iraqi government's campaign against its Kurdish citizens.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is sponsoring the lecture.


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Gainesville police are searching for an armed woman they say robbed a Walmart on Friday afternoon.
The woman walked into the garden center at the store on Waldo Road, pointed the gun at the cashier and demanded large bills, said Gainesville Police spokesman Ben Tobias.
She fled with about $700 in cash and ran across Waldo Road heading west, Tobias said. Police set up a perimeter and began searching with K-9 units, but were unable to locate her.
After fleeing the store, the woman removed all of her outer clothing. "Best guess is that she had another outfit on under the one that was discarded," Tobias said.
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What Exactly Is Going on With K-1? Fight for Japan and K-1 Tournament Updates
- Written by Dave Walsh
I feel like I get asked this question a few times a day now, and I'm not sure that it is unwarranted. Over the past few months we have all but stopped talking about K-1, and for good reason. K-1 has been anything but active, outside of Tanikawa putting pictures of cats on Twitter and telling people there will be a "press conference soon" and nothing happening. That has been the state of FEG over the course of 2011.
There have been enough rumors to choke a boa constrictor, but most of that is simply not worth getting worked up over or "reporting."
A few days ago, whatever is left of FEG held a press conference to make a big announcement. Many were excited, many spoke of secret meetings and last minute ideas, we yawned. When it comes to information coming out of Japan, you need to treat it as such; show me the money or it doesn't exist.
What was announced is that K-1, DREAM, DEEP, ZST, Pancrase, Jewels, Sustain (they promote Shooto), New Japan Kickboxing Federation, RISE, J-Network and KRUSH have decided to support the upcoming DREAM show to be held on May 29th under the guise of "Fight for Japan." That does not mean that it will be a giant co-promotional card, as you'll note a lot of those promotions are kickboxing-specific and DREAM is MMA. DREAM will hold the "DREAM Japan GP - 2011 Bantamweight Japan Tournament" on May 29th in the Saitama Super Hall Arena (the 7,000 seat hall behind the actual arena), more details on possible bouts from Nightmare of Battle.
The first week of May is when to expect a K-1 announcement, but right now it is expected there will be a June event, and that it'll either be MAX or -63kg, most likely -63kg Japan tournament. There should be "World" tournaments for MAX and -63kg and they plan to run events in China and Europe. It was confirmed that K-1 has no TV deal as of right now and they'll begin looking for one after they run events again.
Basically, don't expect too much from them, and until something is officially announced and we have a card, wait and see. [source]


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Once again, StillWill delivers with another top notch kickboxing highlight reel. You might remember his other amazing highlights of names such as Gokhan Saki and Melvin Manhoef. This time, the featured fighter is Tyrone Spong. Spong started out in the lower weight classes where he cleaned out the divisions and now he's all the way up to heavyweight where he's currently one of the top ranked fighters in the world. Check out the new amazing highlight below!


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I saw DareDevil today, and I'm glad we just happened to be at the first matinee because the theater was handing out a promo X2 poster and a set of 4 cards for DareDevil, aproximately 4" x 6" . . . they're very cool, the card is a decently thick stock with a description of each of the 4 main characters - beside the description is a super glossy pic of each character.
I'm posting a sample here, I just really like these cards. Now I need to find a few top loads to fit these.
Here's a shot of the lovely Elektra card: