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build a dynamic webapp in Yesod in just three days
This screenscast shows what I built. Scroll down for my Yesod braindump.
I've been astonished how quickly this went together. This is my first time using any sort of web framework, and I used a still unusual one, Yesod. It's my first time using Bootstrap too. It's also the first time I've done any AJAX programming!
Bootstrap was something I'd heard of and seen some suspiciously similar looking sites built with, but it was really a pleasant surprise. Being able to make things that work and look good on the web without struggling with CSS is such a nice change. For the first time, it makes the web feel like a UI toolkit to me.
As I've learned Yesod, I kept seeing problems the web framework solves that I either solved in an ad-hoc basis in Ikiwiki, or didn't realize were problems. In the former group are things like having a consistent way to store a URL to redirect to after an action (such as logging in) finishes, and generating urls programmatically in ways that avoid broken likes. In the latter group are things like exploiting types to guarantee mistakes can't be made. And also the abstraction of widgets, which combine html, css, and javascript, in a way that can be composed with other widgets.
Overall, I'm really enjoying Yesod, and it's making me productive in new ways.
I also see a lot of potential in Yesod to improve from where it is.
Probably the biggest improvement would be generating javascript from haskell code, so the type safety extends to the javascript side.
There have been many tries at doing this, the first one I'm really tempted to use is Fay. Rather than build a heavy haskell runtime on top of javascript, it essentially uses javascript as its runtime, and offloads type checking to GHC. This lets it generate javascript code that is short and often comprehensible enough to give insights into what the original haskell code does.
I'm betting this will be integrated into Yesod eventually. They have an active wiki page about it.
There's a WAI library for building local webapps with Yesod, but it was not suitable for my needs (for one thing, it lacks security; for another it kills the haskell program when the web page is closed); so I built my own webapp library. A problem with my current pace of development is that I'm building lots of reusable libraries, but I don't have the time to stabalize them and make them generally available. That one goes in the pile of 2k+ lines of such code.
Yesod needs a version of the Hamlet markup that can be edited by people who only understand html. That means it should allow closing tags, and tabs, and not have nasty whitespace gotchas. I think this would be easy to build, starting from Hamlet. It could be called "Hecate".. I don't have time right now.
The compile time error messages are often beyond atrocious. Seriously, I'm tempted to write a filter to filter out common patterns where there's one line about a syntax error in a Hamlet file sandwitched in between 150 lines of type error gobbly-gook and generated code.
Some really nice things could be done integrating Yesod with Bootstrap. Like the ability to build entire sites by just composing together Bootstrap components, with no need to write a single line of html or css. I'm very tempted to try to build this library.
webpage = bootstrap Dynamic $ do setTitle "FooCorp" login <- getLogin navbar [FixedTop] $ do brand "FooCorp" link AboutR link BlogR nav [PullRight] $ link . maybe LoginR ProfileR login div [ContainerFluid] $ content login where content Nothing = heroUnit $ do para $ "We're the FooCorp for you." button "Register Today" [Primary, Large] SignUpR carousel [ amazingFeatures , aboutFooCorp , pricing ] content (Just user) = do para $ "Welcome back " ++ name user ++ "!" showProfile user
ghc threaded runtime gotchas
That's a seemingly simple question I started asking various people two weeks ago. I didn't get many useful answers, but now I have experience doing it myself, and so here's a blog post brain dump.
I have been trying to convert git-annex to use GHC's threaded runtime, for
a variety of reasons. Naively adding the
-threaded option resulted in a
git-annex command that seemed to randomly freeze, but only sometimes
(and, infuriatingly, never when I straced it), and a test suite that froze
at a random point almost every time I ran it. Not a good result, and
lacking any knowledge about gotchas with using the threaded runtime, I was
at a loss for a long time (most of DebConf) about how to fix it.
I now know of at least three classes of problems that enabling the threaded runtime can turn up in programs that have been developed using the non-threaded runtime.
MissingH has some code similar to this, which works ok with the non-threaded runtime:
forkProcess $ do
debugM "about to run some command"
executeFile ...
In the above example,
debugM accesses a
MVar. Doing that after
forkProcess can result in a MVar deadlock, as it tries to access a MVar
value, that is, apparently, not accessible to the forked process.
(Bug report with test case)
So, using
System.Cmd.Utils from MissingH is asking for trouble.
I switched all my code to the newer and, apparently, threaded runtime
Even when not accessing a MVar after
forkProcess, it's very unsafe to
use. It's easy to miss the warning attached to forkProcess, when the code
seems to work. But with the threaded runtime, I've found that most
any call to
forkProcess will sometimes succeed, and sometimes freeze
the whole program. This might only happen around 1 time in 1000.
Then you'll find this warning and do a lot of head-scratching about what
it really means:
forkProcess comes with a giant warning: since any other running threads are not copied into the child process, it's easy to go wrong: e.g. by accessing some shared resource that was held by another thread in the parent.
The hangs I saw could be due to laziness issues deferring code to run
after the
forkProcess that you'd expect to have run before it ... or
who knows what else.
It's not clear to me that it's possible to use
forkProcess safely in
Haskell code. I think it's notable that
System.Process runs the whole
fork/exec in C code instead.
According to most of the documentation you'll find in eg, the Haskell wiki,
Real World Haskell, etc, the only difference between the
safe and
unsafe imports in the FFI is that
unsafe is faster, and shouldn't be
used for C code that calls back into Haskell code.
But the documentation is out of date. Actually, if you're using the FFI,
and the foreign function can block, you need to use
safe. When using
unsafe, a blocking foreign function can block all threads of the program.
In my case, I was using
kqueue to wait for changes to files, and this
indeed blocked my whole program when linked with
-threaded. Marking it
safe fixed this.
The details are well described in this paper: http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/conc-ffi.pdf
Somewhat surprisingly, this blocking only happens when using the threaded
runtime. If you're using the non-threaded runtime with
unsafe blocking
FFI functions, your other pseudo-threads won't be blocked. This is because
the non-threaded runtime has an SIGALARM timer that interrupts (most)
blocking system calls. This leads to other troubles of its own (like
needing to restart interrupted FFI functions, or blocking the other
pseudo-threads from running if the C code ignores SIGALARM), but that's
offtopic for this post.
Converting a large Haskell code base from the default, non-threaded runtime to the threaded runtime can be quite tricky. None of the problems are the sort of thing that Haskell helps to manage either. I will be developing new programs using the threaded runtime from the beginning from now on.
By the way, don't take this post to say that threading in Haskell sucks.
I've really been enjoying writing threaded Haskell code. The control
Haskell gives over isolation of state to threads, and the excellent and
wide-ranging suite of thread communications data types (
SampleVar, etc) have made developing a complex threaded
program something I feel comfortable doing for the first time, in any
I am become Joey, destroyer of drives
To add to the fun of being in Nicaragua, my laptop's solid state drive died the second day here. Seems this is the failure mode for a SSD, get a little slow, and then a switch flips and it stops accepting any writes, at all, becoming a read-only media. Never was there an indication of a problem in SMART etc.
Did you know that Nicaragua has neither names for most roads, nor addresses? Rather than trying to shoehorn the directions to my hotel into the address fields of Amazon.com, I shipped the replacement SSD to home, and thought I'd limp along.
I destroyed my second drive one hour after getting it working. A borrowed USB flash drive, which seems to have melted under the unusual load while I was away at lunch. Perhaps putting an ext3 filesystem on it was a very bad idea, although I have successfully run other USB flash drives that way for years. Perhaps it was a cheap drive that only pretended to hold 32 gb.
For several days I happily used the third drive, a USB hard drive, as my temporary root filesystem. Until I destroyed it by knocking it off my bed.
Now my netbook is running from a Debian Live USB key, with a second USB key for my customisations. So far I have not managed to destroy these, but there's still a day left in my trip..
debian-cd work at DebCamp
I've been working the past two days on debian-cd, which was the main thing (besides git-annex assistant) I planned to work on at DebCamp.
Yesterday, Steve McIntyre and I cleaned up some cruft in debian-cd's package lists. This freed somewhere in the area of 30 mb. I also took a grep through d-i and made sure the CDs include packages that d-i can optionally install in some situations.
Today, I investigated how Recommends are ordered on the CD, and concluded it's as close to optimal as can be easily achieved. So was not able to save space there, but I did find a way to reorganize the desktop task that avoids needing to include a lot of printing stuff and some other stuff on the first CD. While that helped some, it still didn't get either Gnome or Kde to entirely fit, so getting there will probably involve rebuilding 100 or so packages with xz, if someone decides to do that.
So it's stil TBD whether Gnome or Kde will fit on a single CD in Debian wheezy. At this point I think most of us are getting tired of fighting this increasingly losing battle every release, and so other options like only having a desktop DVD are looking more appealing, as they solve the problem long-term. This would also free up the first CD for other interesting use cases, perhaps xfce, or perhaps a CD targeted at server users, and/or containing high-popularity non-desktop packages.
git-annex-assistant milestone
I reached a nice milestone on my git-annex assistant in my first day's work at DebCamp in Nicaragua. Here's a screencast demoing it.
git-annex-assistant.ogg (12 MB)
By the way, the weather, food, and people here are all excellent.
notes for a caretaker
I recently had the sort of weird experience of a recent blog post being on the top of Hacker News and there being a fair amount of interest in the details of my wacky living situation.
I could write a detailed post explaining everything, but that'd be boring .. instead I'll tease the stalkers with more oblique references to it. So here's my notes for a caretaker who will be here while I'm away at DebConf.
Please make yourself at home!
AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA. You may
have to enter this information manually.) Slow is normal.
trying obnam
Obnam 1.0 was released during several months when I had no well-connected server to use for backups. Yesterday I installed a terabyte disk in a basement with a fiber optic network connection, so my backupless time is over.
Now, granted, I have a very multi-layered approach to backups; all my data is stored in git, most of it with dozens of copies automatically maintained, and with archival data managed by git-annex. But I still like to have a "real" backup system underneath, to catch anything else. And to back up those parts of my user's data that I have not given them tools to put into git yet...
My backup server is not my basement, so I need to securely encrypt
the backups stored there. Encrypting your offsite backups is such a good
idea that I've always been surprised at the paucity of tools to do it. I
got by with
duplicity for years, but it's increasingly creaky, and the
few times I've needed to restore, it's been a terrific pain. So I'm excited
to be trying Obnam today.
So far I quite like it. The only real problem is that it can be slow, when there's a transatlantic link between the client and the server. Each file backed up requires several TCP round-trips, and the latency kills the bandwidth. Large files are still sent fast, and obnam uses little resources on either the client or server while running. And this mostly only affects the initial, full backup.
But the encryption and ease of use more than make up for this. The real
killer feature with Obnam's encryption isn't that it's industry-standard
encryption with gpg, that can be trivially enabled with a single option
--encrypt-with=DEADBEEF). No, the great thing about it is its key
I generate a new gpg key for each system I back up. This prevents systems reading each other's backups. But that means you have to backup the backup keys.. or when a system is lost, the backup would be inaccessible.
With Obnam, I can instead just grant my personal gpg key access to
the repository:
obnam add-key --keyid 2512E3C7. Now both the machine's
key and my gpg key can access the data. Great system; can't revoke access,
but otherwise perfect. I liked this so much I stole the design and used
it in git-annex too. :)
I'm also pleased I can lock down
.ssh/authorized_keys on my backup
server, to prevent clients running arbitrary commands. Duplicity runs
ad-hoc commands over ssh, which defeated me from ever locking it down.
Obnam can be easily locked down, like this:
This could still be improved, since clients can still read the whole filesystem with sftp. I'd like to have something like git-annex's git-annex-shell, which can limit access to only a specific repository. Hmm, if Obnam had its own server-side program like this, it could stream backup data to it using a protocol that avoids the roundtrips needed by the SFTP protocol, and fix the latency issue too. Lars, I know you've been looking for a Haskell starter project ... perhaps this is it? :)
I work for The Internet now
I have an interesting problem: How do I shoehorn "hired by The Internet for a full year to work on Free Software" into my resume?
Yes, the git-annex Kickstarter went well. :) I had asked for enough to get by for three months. Multiple people thought I should instead work on it for a full year and really do the idea justice. Jason Scott was especially enthusiastic about this idea. So I added new goals and eventually it got there.
Don Marti thinks the success of my Kickstarter validates crowdfunding for Free Software. Hard to say; this is not the first Free Software to be funded on Kickstarter. Remember Diaspora?
Here's what I think worked to make this a success:
I have a pretty good reach with this blog. I reached my original goal in the first 24 hours, and during that time, probably 75% of contributions were from people I know, people who use git-annex already, or people who probably read this blog. Oh, and these contributors were amazingly generous.
I had a small, realistic, easily acheivable goal. This ensured my project was quickly visible in "successful projects" on Kickstarter, and stayed visible. If I had asked for a year up front, I might not have fared as well. It also led to my project being a "Staff Pick" for a week on Kickstarter, which exposed it to a much wider audience. In the end, nearly half my funding came from people who stumbled over the project on Kickstarter.
The git-annex assistant is an easy idea to grasp, at varying levels of technical expertise. It can be explained by analogy to DropBox, or as something on top of git, or as an approach to avoid to cloud vendor lockin. Most of my previous work would be much harder to explain to a broad audience in a Kickstarter. But this still appeals to very technical audiences too. I hit a sweet spot here.
I'm enhancing software I've already written. This made my Kickstarter a lot less vaporware than some other software projects on Kickstarter. I even had a branch in git where I'd made sure I could pull off the basic idea of tying git-annex and inotify together.
I put in a lot of time on the Kickstarter side. My 3 minute video, amuaturish as it is, took 3 solid days work to put together. (And 14 thousand people watched it... eep!) I added new and better rewards, posted fairly frequent updates, answered numerous questions, etc.
I managed to have at least some Kickstarter rewards that are connected to the project is relevant ways. This is a hard part of Kickstarter for Free Software; just giving backers a copy of the software is not an incentive for most of them. A credits file mention pulled in a massive 50% of all backers, but they were mostly causual backers. On the other end, 30% of funds came from USB keychains, which will be a high-quality reward and has a real use case with git-annex.
The surprising, but gratifying part of the rewards was that 30% of funds came from rewards that were essentially "participate in this free software project" -- ie, "help set my goals" and "beta tester". It's cool to see people see real value in participating in Free Software.
I was flexible when users asked for more. I only hope I can deliver on the Android port. Its gonna be a real challange. I even eventually agreed to spend a month trying to port it to Windows. (I refused to develop an IOS port even though it could have probably increased my funding; Steve's controlling ghost and I don't get along.)
It seemed to help the slope of the graph when I started actually working on the project, while the Kickstarter was still ongoing. I'd reached my original goal, so why not?
I've already put two weeks work into developing the git-annex assistant.
I'm blogging about my progress every day on its
development blog.
The first new feature, a
git annex watch command that automatically
commits changes to git, will be in the next release of git-annex.
I can already tell this is going to be a year of hard work, difficult problems, and great results. Thank you for helping make it happen.
going to DebConf 12
Nicaragua here I come! I plan to be at DebCamp for a few days too, taking advantage of some time on internet-better-than-dialup to work on fixing the tasks on the CDs. Also will be available for one-on-one sessions on debhelper, debconf, debian-installer development, pristine-tar, or git-annex. Give me a yell if you'd like to spend some time learning about any of these.
Also, my git-annex Kickstarter ends in 3 days. It has reached heights that will fund me, at a modest rate, for a full year of development!
(I'm also about to start renting my house for the first time. Whee!)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Who What Where
Posted 07 January 2007 - 01:13 PM
I'm Edhish, mom of 4 year old Charline & 2 year old Marcel
What do you love most?
Scrapping, Cooking, Baking & Shopping
Where do you live?
Halmstad - Sweden
Posted 09 January 2007 - 05:03 PM
My name is Rose Ann. I am a brand new mother of a beautiful baby girl named Glory.
I love my baby, my family, my students, travelling, eating, cooking, learning languages and I am beginning to love digital scrapbooking.
I live in Augusta, Georgia in the U.S.
Posted 11 January 2007 - 05:36 PM
I love my family, scrapping, Scrap Girls, crafts, music, movies and travelling and work (I work with developmentally disabled adults)
I live in Smiths Falls, Ontario Canada.
Parker (May 30th 2006) and Abbygale (Sept 25 2007)
#34 cathyok
Posted 23 January 2007 - 08:29 AM
I love my Lord, my family, my home in the semi-country (still in a subdivision), Mexican food, reading and quilting.
Oklahoma (past 11 yrs), Texan by birth, but also lived in Florida for a couple of years.
Other interesting trivia: In these almost 31 yrs, we have moved 10 times, and have bought (and paid for!) 13 vehicles!
Love this one!
Posted 28 January 2007 - 11:36 PM
Who are you? I'm Beth Santos-Gugol, married to Archie for 5 years. We have a 2 years old lil girl named "Rein"
What do you love most? Photography and Scrapbooking
Where do you live? Currenly living in Tokyo, Japan but originally from Manila, Philippines
Great to know you ladies
Please visit:
Corina Nielsen and Kylie Clark at FPD
Fee Jardine at SSD
Funky Playground Designs Site CT
Kay Miller-Kay Miller Designs
Paint the Moon (Annie Manning) at Oscraps
Posted 01 February 2007 - 03:51 PM
I love my family. I love staying at home, being a mom. I love to scrapbook, read, eat chocolate, sing, and conduct music.
I live in Utah, near Salt Lake City, but I grew up on the Navajo Indian Reservation (four courners area-my parents were teachers), and I miss the red rocks and the big open blue sky. I would still consider myself a rez-girl...
My gallery
Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:08 PM
I love my family, dogs, all things creative, reading, horror movies,video games, and having my morning tea while reading my ScrapGirls newsletter.
I live in Mukilteo, WA, a town north of Seattle. Looking for someplace else to retire to in 7 years or so.
Posted 01 February 2007 - 07:35 PM
What do you love most? My immediate and extended family, Im so very lucky and blessed to have them all in my life. Scrapbooking!!! Gardening and my pets.
Where do you live? Rosebud (yes the town really is called that, LOL), Victoria Australia (about an hour from Melbourne)
Posted 02 February 2007 - 06:14 PM
This is my first post, so please bear with me.
I love my family, travel, chocolate - well, they're probably highest on the list.
I live in Townsville, which is in tropical northern Australia.
"It's impossible to lose your footing on your knees."
#40 TraciG
Posted 02 February 2007 - 10:29 PM
This is my first post, so I hope I am doing this right.
I am Traci. I have been married for almost 18 years, and have 2 children, an 11 year old daughter, and 7 year old son
I love my family, reading, scrapping, and my dogs( a collie and a papillon puppy)
I live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
#41 DarleneH
Posted 05 February 2007 - 01:01 AM
Things I love: God, my family, digi-scrapping, traveling, and being blessed enough to be a stay-at-home mom. I also love having the teens in my kids' youth group hanging out at my house all the time - love my busy, noisy household!
We live in Sacramento, California.
Posted 05 February 2007 - 01:14 AM
I love scrapbooking, playing card/board games, reading, and teaching.
I live in CA.
Posted 05 February 2007 - 07:17 AM
I'm Rebecca (or Becca, for short). I'm a stay at home mom of three. A son who's 7, and two daughters who are 3 and almost 1.
What do you love most?
Messing around on the computer, online chatting, baking, reading, playing with the kids, spending quiet time with the hubby
Where do you live?
Central Pennsylvania, where it's bitterly COLD today
Posted 05 February 2007 - 07:45 AM
My hobbies are scrapbooking, photography, surfin' the 'net, cooking, gardening and of course just playing with my boys - they are the love of my life.
I live on Long Island, NY (formerly a Queens - NYC girl!)
Check out my albums here and my blog here

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True happiness is when you smile when no one is looking
Posted 11 February 2007 - 10:05 PM
I love many things, including teaching, playing flute, reading, and of course scrapping!
I reside in southwestern Oklahoma, but am originally from northwestern Kansas.
These are my favorite kinds of posts -- it is so fascinating to find out about everyone!
Posted 15 February 2007 - 09:11 PM
- I'm Monika, wife to Paul. (No kids yet...just passed the 1st yr anniversary in October)
- I love being creative! I'm better at words than with pictures, but I'm trying to learn. I think my designer sister and photographer brother got the lion's share of the visual arts genes (you should see their work!). I write children's stories (chapter books and up). I love reading. And I like anything with dark chocolate and garlic...but not together. I like playing my flute, but not as much as when I was in high school and had a band to play with. Scrapbooking is my newly rebirthed hobby and procrastination!
- I am currently in Hawaii, on the Big Island, working on an "around the world" children's book project with the first missionary to ever go to every single country in the world. It's fascinating. Otherwise, I'm from Madison, Wisconsin. This year, I'm also traveling around the world with DH. We might decide to be from somewhere else after that!
Posted 15 February 2007 - 10:31 PM
I am Launa, wife of 13 years to Steven, Mother to Kendra (12), Lena (8), Twins Cara & Mia (3)
I love staying at home with my kids, homeschooling , my church family, The Lord, and of course Scrap Girls!
I live in Alabama
Posted 20 February 2007 - 04:42 PM
I love digiscrapping, reading, cross-stitch, photography (of the kids of course), playing on the internet, and being mom and wife.
I live in central Pennsylvania.
Posted 27 February 2007 - 07:01 PM
I have a daughter, 10, two kittens, and a puppy. They all keep me busy with the camera!
I live in San Diego, CA.
My Gallery
Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:11 PM
i'm wulan, a working mum, wife to hendri and ibu (mum) to naflah, 4 and rubina, 1.
loves my family, music, good food, watching movies, soft sprinkles of rain, traveling and so many things life has to offer! digiscrapping is my new hobby and so glad that i found ScrapGirl community!
has been living in indonesia all my life, except those 2 years when i was studying in sydney, australia.
this thread is great! thanks, Teresa!
my gallery
my FS
Posted 28 February 2007 - 09:52 PM
I am Jo, a part-time WOHM mum to dd aged 9 (in 22 days time), and ds 6 this past December, Wife to 1 car loving dh and very new to the messageboard
I love most: my family, my friends, my life (at least trying to) and 'drum roll please'... digiscrapping, of course!! LOL
I am South African born but have lived the last 13 years in gorgeous Melbourne Australia
#52 mommy2twins2
Posted 01 March 2007 - 09:06 AM
I love to sew, scrap, and hobbies too numerous to mention
I love in PA. but moved here from Wyoming just 4 years ago, and was only there for a year from CA.
Hope to figure out this digital scrapping thing. I use graphics mostly for crafting at this point
Posted 01 March 2007 - 04:17 PM
I love pretty much all crafty and domestic type activities (except taking out the trash )
I live in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted 01 March 2007 - 05:52 PM
I love creating anything crafty/artsy whether on the computer or non computer. Love spending time with my family. Love trips to the mountains, lakes, or even Mexico. Love my new laptop. Love how photogenic my kiddos are. Love reading. Love my hubby, kids, pets, and scrapgirls.
I live near Salt Lake City, Utah.
Posted 03 March 2007 - 12:40 AM
Angie aka Ang
What do you love most?
My three sons, my hottie hubby, blogging, scrapbooking (traditional and more recently digi), Reality TV, Sudoku
Where do you live?
Northern California. Sacramento area.
Posted 03 March 2007 - 12:48 AM
I´m Trish, mom of Nicholas & Ty and married to Joe.
What do you love most?
My favorite thing is to have a house full of family and friends, enjoying each others company and sharing lots of laughs.
Where do you live?
We are from Washington state.
Posted 03 March 2007 - 08:12 AM
i LOVE my baby boy, learning new creative hobbies (ie digi scrapping!), and...Dane Cook! haha (i really do!)
i live in Canada...Ottawa, Ontario to be exact.
btw...i LOVE all the smileys!!
Posted 03 March 2007 - 10:44 PM
Hello! I'm shawna(newbie). I'm 33 and married to my dh Kevin for 13yrs. We have 5 children together ages 1,2,5,9,and 11.
What do you love most?
My family, being a stay at home mom, reading, making cakes, and I'm learning digiscrapping!
Where do you live?
Oktaha, Oklahoma
#59 hhugginsgirl
Posted 07 March 2007 - 04:54 PM
I love Scrapbooking, photography, reading and quilting.
I live in Oregon
Posted 08 March 2007 - 11:51 AM
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One bank, Commerce Bank of Arizona, saw its rating drop from 5 stars, or "superior," to 4 stars, or "excellent."
Bauer, a Florida-based firm, rates financial institutions on a scale from 0 to 5 stars using quarterly reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The firm examines ratios of capital to risk-weighted assets, along with other factors.
In a statewide comparison of banks, Arizona had the second-highest percentage, 38.9, of troubled and problematic banks, according to Bauer. Only Florida, with 40.3 percent of its banks ranked troubled or problematic, was higher.
Randall Yenerich, the president and CEO of Commerce Bank, said most of the state's troubled banks are in the Phoenix area. While their financial problems stem from a variety of factors, a lot of it has to do with real estate loans that went bad when the market crashed.
"The primary problems were in the land development loans and the construction loans for either retail or commercial," Yenerich said.
Local banks have fared better during the downturn in the real-estate market because Tucson didn't see as much rapid growth as Phoenix. And the large developments here weren't usually funded by Southern Arizona banks.
As for Commerce Bank losing one star in its rating, Yenerich said it could have come from the purchase of Mesa's Towne Bank from the FDIC last year and because of costs incurred from opening an office in Scottsdale.
At the end of the second quarter, Commerce Bank had $269 million in assets, showed a loss of $408,000 for the quarter and had 7 percent nonperforming assets, according to Bauer.
Nonperforming assets include delinquent loans and repossessed real estate.
Bank of Tucson, which recently merged with Southern Arizona Community Bank, kept its "good" rating of 3 1/2 stars. It had $288 million in assets, a quarterly income of $148,000, and 1.8 percent of its assets nonperforming.
National Bank of Arizona - which showed $4.4 billion in assets, a quarterly income of $8.5 million and 4.2 percent nonperforming assets - kept its "adequate" rating of 3 stars.
The largest credit unions based in Tucson didn't see changes in their Bauer ratings. Vantage West retained a rating of 4 stars, or "excellent."
Hughes Federal and Pima Federal both kept their ratings of 5 stars, which is Bauer's highest.
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I'm freaking tired, and i miss REAL football!!!
I also miss talking about football....talking with you guys about other stuff SUCKS!!! =P
If I'm taking a lady out to dinner and spending about 2 days worth of my money, I expect to enter her clam bar right after.
Having said that the problems with violence in this country are not caused by the availability of guns. Its caused by the degradation of our society and the crappy job today's parents are doing.
A short but concise Morehead rant.
And BTW, southern poeple are some of the finest, most selfless folks on earth. Just because there are a few nutjobs doesn't change that.


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Family: Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies view all from this family
Dimensions 1 7/8-2 1/2" (48-64 mm).
Endangered Status The Oregon Silverspot, a subspecies of the Zerene Fritillary, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as threatened in California, Oregon, and Washington. This butterfly has declined as its salt-spray meadow habitat has been lost to development or overgrown by forest. In its natural state this habitat is maintained by periodic fires. Fire suppression practices have prevented these fires, allowing forests to encroach and overtake the meadows. Recovery plans call for maintaining critical habitat in the six localities where this butterfly is still found, and for introducing captive-bred individuals to help boost populations.
Habitat Shorelines & salt marshes, Meadows & fields.
Range California, Northwest.


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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT SUMMER Has rufous on back and bold streaking on crown, neck, and chest; markings are arrowheaded on breast and flanks. Underparts are otherwise white. ADULT winter Grayish above and white below. JUVENILE Has rufous, dark-centered back feathers with pale margins, some of which align to create a white "V." Dark reddish brown crown and ear coverts contrast with otherwise pale face and long, pale supercilium.
Dimensions Length: 7 1/2" (19 cm)
Habitat Common Arctic breeder that favors wet tundra. A long-distance migrant that migrates across plains in spring, and mainly down Atlantic seaboard in fall before flying directly to South America. Staging birds can be found on estuaries and around drying margins of freshwater pools near coasts. Adults migrate before juveniles in fall. Winters in southern South America.
Observation Tips Unless you visit its Arctic breeding grounds in spring, easiest to observe in fall on East Coast, mainly Aug-Oct.
Range Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Great Lakes, Southwest, New England, Western Canada, Texas, Southeast, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada
Voice A thin tseet call.
Discussion Plump-bodied shorebird with a rather elongated-looking "tail-end," the effect created by its long wings (primaries project well beyond tail at rest); this characteristic is shared by the superficially similar Baird's Sandpiper. Its diagnostic white rump (upper tail coverts) is obvious only in flight. The slightly downcurved bill is mainly dark, but has an orange base to the lower mandible, another good feature for identification although close views are needed to appreciate it.


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Before we meet today's author, I want to wish you all a fantastic, blessed Thanksgiving holiday. God is with us through the good and bad, and we have so much to be thankful for. I hope you're all spending the day with family, friends, and lots of goodies.
Now, I'd like to announce that the winner of the drawing for Two Tickets to the Christmas Ball, by Donita K. Paul, is:
bousmama@ . . .
Congratulations! I'll contact you today for your snail mail address, and we'll get your book to you right away. I encourage readers to keep commenting and/or subscribe at right in order to participate in future book give-aways! Readers, please make note of change in comment requirement, below!
Now let's meet novelist Charlene Ann Baumbich, author of Divine Appointments (Waterbrook Press, September 2010). Tell us about yourself, Charlene.
Whether I'm writing, reading, speaking, or listening, I am readied to learn from a good story--yes, even when it comes out of my own mouth or pen. (And I am fascinating!)
I often preach to myself. (Don't you?) I fully believe that if we could just remember what we know, we would be brilliant. Thus, I tell stories to remind us that laughter is a wonderful grace, and tears help us heal. I tell stories to help remind us that we are more alike than different, and that we really do need each other. We all mess up; we are each capable of brilliant moments, sometimes when we least expect them.
The best part is that no matter what, God is there to love us through every nanosecond. Whether you're tuning into me live or in print, fasten your seatbelt. I promise you a wild, fun, provocative, heart-warming ride.
Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
-- After raising two rascally boys, I'm now Grannie B to two rascally girls. I wouldn't wish them any other way.
-- I make good chili.
-- Right this moment, my office is too messy, even for me, and that's saying something.
-- I love accessories. When I can't decide which necklace to wear, I wear them all. If I can't decide about earrings, sometimes I wear four different ones. (Double pierced ears.)
-- I love watching stock car racing on a dirt track. You can keep your NASCAR. Give me the rumble and a short track, and let the mud wads fly.
You're right in style with your jewelry mishmash, Charlene! That's what all the hot stars and models are wearing these days. You sound like a walking Christmas tree with all the trimmings!
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Divine Appointments.
Prepared to perform her seamless slash-and-burn corporate "rightsizing," buttoned-up Josie Victor Brooks signs a one-year contract with Chicagoland's Diamond Mutual. She soon discovers she's plopped herself into the midst of a tight-knit group of coworkers and friends under the leadership of a "bleeding heart" boss.
Employee Marsha's writing her way through the anger phase of a husband who left her for a younger woman.
Barb, the most beloved employee and head of data entry, the first department scheduled to shrink, tries to hold everyone's head and heart up--until she learns she's on the target dismissal list too.
Lyle, boss man, feels everyone's pain as he struggles to come to grips with the reality of what needs to be done.
Toss these core characters into the rivers of soul searching, add good doses of laughter and a mysterious snowglobe, one that ignites a peculiar thirst in Josie, and you've find yourself in the midst of a topsy-turvy, uplifting story.
What is it about your lead character that will make your readers care about her?
Let's start here: Josie suffers with hot flashes. I feel her pain! Even though she is one tough woman (she stared me down until I wrote about her), she learns she doesn't know herself as well as she thinks. (Familiar?)
She was a military brat, moved often when she was young, and therefore learned not to allow herself to get attached to anyone. This self sufficiency serves her well--until it doesn't.
She had a complicated relationship with her parents.
She sometimes over thinks things. Ah, yes. So relatable.
Why will readers enjoy your novel?
After finding glimpses of themselves, they will come away with renewed hope and insights about their own lives here on planet earth, where we really do need each other. Oh, and a few good laughs!
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
Kristen Davis as Josie.
Tom Hanks as Lyle.
Joy Behar as Marsha.
And Susan Boyle as Barb.
If a publisher contracted you to write a fictional account of any one real person, who would you choose to write about?
Hm. Perhaps Paul Newman, so I could spend an entire book deadline staring straight into his dreamy blue eyes, following him wherever he goes, like onto the race track.
Choose an inanimate object to represent you. Explain what you have in common with that object.
A sparkly rock. I'm an earth person. Solid. Hard to crack. I would enjoy taking journeys in people's pockets.
What is the last book you read that you would recommend?
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. I found the writing style engaging, and the loose connections with the real Sitka Alaska--along with the whole intriguing concept and mystery--extremely entertaining. It's not the type of book I would usually pick up, but the owner of an independent book store hand sold me. I'm glad he did. GO INDIES!
Yes, Michael Chabon is a clever writer. Very sharp sense of humor.
What are you working on now?
Rewrites for my next novel, due to release Spring 2012. It is not currently titled, but is again with Waterbrook Press. A couple title possibilities: Our Lady of Dance, or Abundant Grace. I loved this story. LOVED IT! Such an uncommon friendship between two women with very different lives. It drew me in and held me captive, and gifted me with how important it is to stand strong in who God created us to be.
Where else can readers find you or your writing online?
I Tweet as @TwinkleChar
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Thank you, Charlene, for visiting with us and telling us about your novel. Readers, Charlene has offered to give a copy of her book to the winner of our drawing on Thursday, December 2. To enter, leave a comment below for Charlene specific to something she said in the interview. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
Be sure to check out my interview with Patricia Hickman below, and leave a comment under her interview to be entered in a drawing for a signed copy of her book. And please take a look at the blog about Sandi Rog's debut release and her current situation.
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Does anybody shoot one? Good and bad opinions!
Does anybody shoot one? Good and bad opinions!
I bought one last year to use waterfowl hunting. Before duck season I shot a lot of dove with it, then used it during the duck season. I really like the gun. It's dependable and shoots very well. My go to gun for years has been a Citori, but I find myself taking the Maxus most of the time now.
Thanks Buck...How about cleaning, I know gas guns can be a pain to clean.
I bought one right when they came out and it's been a great gun. I've shot numerous cases of shells through it each season from trap to dove to ducks/geese to spring snows and I've never had it not cycle. I've been wading in a slough and dropped the gun to the bottom, felt around with my wader feet to recover it, splashed it around a little bit to clear the chamber and loaded up to fire every time I pulled the trigger that day. Also layout blinds in the dusty fields or muddy spring snow goose season here, still has yet to skip a beat. I've even shot it in sub zero temps and its cycled as quickly as it did shooting low brass trap loads.
Cleaning it is pretty basic and minimal effort throughout the season. I basically do a wipe down with Break Free CLP throughout the year and a deep cleaning once a season in the summer so it rarely is the spring system in the butt stock removed (once a year). The only downfall of the gun is that for spring snows I can't shoot the extended magazine like I could on a traditional auto loader.
Cody's Gunslingin' Cosmonaut MH QAA (Shooter)
I bought a Maxus when they first came out and I love mine. I can't begin to tell you how many rounds mine has had shot through it and I have yet to have a problem with it. I am the worlds worst when it comes to caring for a gun, which should tell you how reliable they are. The few times I have cleaned it, it is very simple. Before I bought a Maxus, I had bought nothing but Beretta's for a long time, but this is my go to gun for everything now.
Brandon Edmondson
i also bought one last year right before duck season. shot a few doves shot some skeet and shot some ducks with it not a single problem yet shoots well
I have been shooting my Maxus for the last two duck seasons. It fits me well and I shoot it great (which is dang good for me!). I love it and the only thing they could improve on would be to bring out a 20ga!
My buddy loves his and no problems thus far........
I'm still a beretta guy.......
HR Winter Hill's Smokin Ruby "Ruby"
Blindfaith's Dream Trip "Stella"
Great gun. Shoots really soft. I could not be happier but I have always shot brownings.
I got one last year and love it. Its really takes about 3 mins to complete strip down and clean. Could ask for a better feeling gun and no problems yet either for me. picked mine up off gun broker for 1200 about 300 cheaper than anywhere else I found.


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Commencement events set for May 29-31
Several University activities for undergraduate and graduate degree candidates and their families are planned for Sunday through Tuesday, May 29-31:
- The Baccalaureate service will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29, in the University Chapel. Guests must be seated by 1:30 p.m. The speaker will be Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City.
- The Pan-African Graduation will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 29, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. Joshua Guild, an assistant professor of history and African American studies at Princeton, will deliver the keynote address.
- The Latino Graduation is set for 6 p.m. Sunday, May 29, on the Frist Campus Center South Lawn. Yvette Donado, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Educational Testing Service, will deliver the keynote address.
- The Class Day ceremony for seniors is set for 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, on Cannon Green. The speaker will be actress Brooke Shields, a 1987 Princeton alumna.
- The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, May 30, at Princeton Stadium. President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel will preside.
- The University's 264th Commencement ceremony is slated for 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 31, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Guests must be seated by 10:15 a.m. Tilghman will preside and address the graduates.
One graduation ceremony already has taken place: The 10th annual Lavender Graduation, sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Center, took place Saturday, May 7, in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. The ceremony celebrated the achievements of graduating undergraduate and graduate students and of faculty and staff who support the LGBT community. The event included an awards ceremony and remarks by graduating students. The Lavender Graduation was co-sponsored by the Fund for Reunion, Princeton's LGBT alumni group.
Those interested in attending the upcoming Pan-African Graduation should contact email@example.com by Friday, May 20. Anyone interested in attending the Latino Graduation should contact email@example.com by Friday, May 20. Both events are sponsored by the Fields Center. Admission to all other events is by ticket only.
Class Day will be simulcast in McCosh Hall, Rooms 10 and 50, and McCormick Hall, Room 101. No tickets will be required for the simulcast sites.
The Hooding ceremony is scheduled to be simulcast in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. If, due to rain, the event is held at McCarter Theatre, the Hooding ceremony is scheduled to be simulcast in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, and Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Commencement is planned to be simulcast in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. No tickets will be required at the simulcast site.
The Class Day, Hooding and Commencement ceremonies are scheduled to be broadcast live on TigerNet Channel 7 on campus and on Channel 27 on Princeton cable television. The events also are scheduled to be webcast live and archived online for later viewing on the WebMedia site. Streaming video of the events for iPhones also will be available on the WebMedia site.
A final determination about potential simulcast, online video archiving and broadcast for Baccalaureate has not been made.
Detailed information about the events, including parking instructions for members of the University community and guests, is available online.
Individuals attending the University's Commencement activities will have access to a mobile website -- http://m.princeton.edu/commencement -- that provides general information.
To ease traffic congestion, some University employees are being asked to park in alternate lots on Tuesday. In addition, employees who do not perform essential services for Commencement will be permitted to leave work at 2 p.m. Tuesday with supervisory approval.
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Conference focuses on human trafficking, Dec. 1
Posted November 29, 2006; 10:10 a.m.
Scholars, government officials, legal experts and activists will
discuss state and local government efforts to combat human trafficking
in a conference scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, in Dodds
Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The conference, titled "Marshaling Every Resource: State and Local Responses to Human Trafficking," is sponsored by Princeton's Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR) and the Vera Institute of Justice.
Speakers will include scholars from several universities as well as representatives from the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the New Jersey attorney general's office and nonprofit organizations such as Free the Slaves.
The conference is open to the public, but registration is required. A schedule of events and registration information is available on the PRIOR website.


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What are you talking about? You haven't even seen every episode this season...Mary.
What are you talking about? You haven't even seen every episode this season...Mary.
So, i'm about one season into the UK version of "The Office" and i must say it's a hoot. You can really see how the US version took some stuff from the UK and expanded on it. I will say that Gervais and his character of David Brent is FAAAAAAAAAR dirtier than Michael Scott and the overall show is a bit more vulgar and full of more sex talk then the US version. Not that it's bad,but i'm assuming that the BBC allows more stuff than NBC. In fact, David Brent really kinda creeps me out. I did my laugh my a-- off when he busted out the guitar. And I will say that the Tim/Dawn interaction is pretty solid, simply because i love both of those actors, especially Martin Freeman. Him and Krasinski could be seperated at birth: their facial expressions are so identical it's scary. And now, i'm not up to the second season and the "dancing" episode. hehehe
and side note: "The Office" this week is a rerun. So, spend your Thursday........probably watching the rerun.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
For those that have seen the newest episode you probably don't want to read this post.
Great episode tonight! A couple of observations: So Dwight and Angela are done? Intersting how we saw Roy the most dressed up ever and he walked out right after coming in (yes I know he saw Pam dancing with that dude). Why didn't Jim answer Pam's text? I've been drunk and I still had the presence of mind to check for calls/texts. What's up with Jim's bike and the basket? In "Email Surveillance" we see a mountain bike in Jim's bedroom, what happened to that? And finally Michael puckering up for Pam!
JJB- dude, apparently you've never been drunk enough, my friend. He didn't answer the text cos he didn't hear the phone cos ya know, its' a show and he was DRUNK.
No way Angela and Dwight are done; I just think she wasn't happy with Dwight and his participation in a religion her uptight a-- doesn't like. And when Michael was leaning in, I kept mumbling, "no no no no no no no." I did like Pam teaching him some rules in the car: "One more word and i'm pulling over." And it was good to see casual Pam out on the town!
and i was laughing hysterically when the two fellas were singing and drunky. Ed Helms and the inflatable bed: great stuff.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
Mine only buzzes a few times when I'm at work and then it stops.
JMG you can say that again about Andy, how great of an addition has that guy been ?
"It's a roomy twin."
"TUNA ! ! ! ! ! Are you kidding me?"
What about Ryan saying that he is saving to go on a trip and to buy an Xbox and not for a wife and kids!


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U-line Origins Series 24 Bottle 15" wide Triple Zone Built In Wine Cooler - Black
The built in U-line Origins Series 24 Bottle 15" wide Wine Cooler - Black (1115WCB-00) allows one to select the ideal temperature for red wine, white wine, sparkling wine or other beverages. Designed to impress and inspire anyone with an interest in wine, a U-Line Wine Cooler can provide cellar conditions for a small collection or offer additional storage for those with extensive collections. This unit features a easily accessible display shelf on the bottom of the unit that is perfect for highlighting specific varieties of your collection.
U-Line's unique triple temperature zone design adds versatility in storage, housing three different types of wine at their optimum serving temperatures or safely storing a single type of wine throughout the entire cabinet. Red wines are maintained at approximately 55°F in the top zone, white wines at approximately 50°F in the middle and sparkling wines at approximately 45°F in the bottom. U-Line's Touch Control Digital Technology allows you to set the middle zone temperature and see the temperature in all three zones.
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Convenient use:Full extension slide out wine racks with vinyl coating allow for easy access and prevent slippage of bottles
Triple zone temperatures:Top: Approximately 55°F (13°C) for red wines. Middle: Approximately 50°F (10°C) for white wines. Bottom: Approximately 45°F (7°C) for sparkling wines
- Model: 1115WCB-00U-line Origins Series 24 Bottle 15" wide Built In Wine Cooler - Black
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- Triple zone technology for better temperature controlSleek interior
- Features preset ranges with ideal temperature servingsSelf-closing Door Mechanism
- Ideal for varied wine selectionsCapacity up to 24 bottles
- Adjustable on/off interior lightAdditional dimensions: Depth without Door 20-5/8"
- Sabbath or "Black Out" FeatureGrille Height 3-1/8"
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Report: Samsung Now Charging Apple 20% More for iPhone Processors
Shane McGlaun
November 12, 2012 12:36 PM
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Samsung hikes up prices on Apple
The legal battles between Samsung and Apple have reached near legendary proportions. Apple won a major decision against Samsung in U.S. courts where the jury awarded Apple $1 billion in damages. Samsung is appealing that ruling and is even trying to get the case thrown out of court by alleging
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Apple lost a patent infringement suit against Samsung in Europe and was
forced to run apology ads in major publications
stating that Samsung did not copy the iPad.
Reports are now coming in that Samsung Electronics has recently raised the price it charges for mobile processors to Apple. Samsung supplies the processors for the popular Apple iPad and iPhone.
According to a source claiming to be familiar with negotiations between the companies, Samsung increased the price of processors it provides the Apple by 20%.
"Samsung Electronics recently asked Apple for a significant price raise in (the mobile processor known as) application processor," the person was quoted as saying in the report. "Apple first disapproved it, but finding no replacement supplier, it accepted the (increase.)"
Apple was, understandably, was unhappy with the price hike and initially refused to pay it. However, it came back and agreed to pay the additional costs when no alternative provider could be found.
The source also says that Apple buys all of its application processors from Samsung and purchased an estimated 130 million units last year. The source also estimates that Apple will purchase over 200 million application processors from Samsung this year.
One last tidbit the source noted was that Samsung has a long-term contract to provide the application processors to Apple that runs through 2014. Neither Apple nor Samsung have officially commented.
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When you're about to have a group video conference, how the room looks will make a huge impression on those viewing you. Private point-to-point video conferencing can sometimes be more casual if you know the other business associate well. But a group video conference for an important business deal has to show an impressive setting. That means gearing up the room with the best possible lighting.
While natural lighting might work in some cases, it's best to close all shades on surrounding windows. This prevents the sun from shining in unexpectedly and overpowering the lighting for the camera. Normal office lighting will keep your lighting consistent so those viewing can see you and your employees clearly at all times.
Consideration of Color on Clothing
With the acceptability of more casual clothing in some video conferences, it's still worth going with business casual to be safe. However, as part of the room setup, you have to pay more attention to the color of your clothes. Overly bright colors might not translate well on the camera. The same goes with camera contrast on deep black and white colors.
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This article was originally published in the July 1, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
A little-known provision in the crime bill now being negotiated by a House-Senate conference committee would greatly expand the number of prison cells available to house violent criminals, and it wouldn't be cost a dime. But it may be doomed unless Senator Ted Kennedy is willing to spend some political capital.
The provision is called the "safety valve" to reform that would allow federal judges to bypass mandatory sentencing when dealing with first-time non-violent drug offenders. And in a rare display of political smarts and courage, both houses of Congress would make the safety valve retroactive. According to the US Sentencing Commission, this means between 1600 and 5000 current federal inmates could qualify for release- thus freeing up those cells for criminals who are truly dangerous.
But the retroactive clause is in jeopardy. The Clinton administration, wary of being cast as pro-criminal, is working against it. Attorney General Janet Reno, once a staunch advocate of releasing first-time non-violent offenders, has quietly switched. And Senator Joseph Biden (D- Delaware), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is doing the White House's bidding.
"The Department of Justice has a problem with it," says a congressional source. "They're afraid of a Willie Horton ad that says, 'You let somebody out of prison.'"
Kennedy, who helped insert the safety valve in the crime bill, is the senior Democrat among the 19 senators and representatives who make up the conference committee. Unless he is willing to stand up to Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, the retroactive provision is not likely to survive. Thus far Kennedy has given little indication of how hard he'll fight for it, and it surely doesn't help that he has a touch re-election battle on his hands.
But there is a light at the end of the cell block. The emerging consensus on targeting prisons for violent offenders includes a growing number of conservatives and Republicans, including both of Kennedy's GOP opponents.
"Of course, it's counterproductive to jail these people on mandatories," Kennedy said in an interview with the Phoenix adding judges should be allowed to exercise their discretion as long as they follow federal guidelines.
The US Sentencing Commission establishes guidelines on sentencing for certain crimes. If a judge wishes to disregard the guidelines, she or he must put those reasons in writing. "I am strongly in favor of the sentencing guidelines," Kennedy says, "and I'm strongly opposed to mandatory minimums. We have undermined, in a very important way, the integrity of the guidelines by putting the wrong people in."
The safety valve is part of the massive crime bill being negotiated by the conferees. The Senate approved a $22 billion crime bill last November in a 96-to-four spasm of bipartisanship.
The Senate bill offered up plenty of macho for conservatives: 53 new death-penalty provisions (among them: capital punishment for murdering a federal poultry inspector); a three-strikes-and-you're-out law to lock up three-time felons for life without parole; funding for 100,000 new police officers; and $8 billion for more prison cells. Liberals got much of what they wanted, too: gun-control initiatives, expanded drug treatment, and a gaggle of prevention programs aimed at young people.
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25.OLB Khalil Mack, Buffalo 6'3" 248
http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings...014&genpos=OLB12/26/13 - CBSSPORTS.COM ALL-AMERICANS: FIRST-TEAM DEFENSE AS NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS: LB - Khalil Mack, Sr., Buffalo: Scouts don't mind investing high picks in relatively small school prospects as long they dominate at the lower level. With an FBS record 75 tackles for loss and 16 forced fumbles over his career, the MAC Defensive Player of the Year and Jack Lambert Linebacker of the Year recipient certainly established himself as a dominant presence. Athletic, instinctive and an explosive hitter, Mack may only need a strong showing against top competition at the Senior Bowl to assure a spot in the top half of the first round. - Rob Rang, NFLDraftScout.com
http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/p...ospect_id=5205Most of the country still has not heard about Mack's ascension to the top of the MAC, but they will soon learn about him when he is drafted very early in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Mack is a highly intelligent, athletic and instinctive player with almost no flaws in his game, whether he is defending the run or pass. Elite speed. Reads and reacts very quickly and can get up to speed rapidly to make plays. Seems to be one step ahead and one beat faster than every other defender. Experience all over the front seven and could feasibly play any LB spot in 4-3 or 3-4. Can take on blockers very well and dislodge himself through use of great use of hands. Rips and slides into open space well in traffic.
Versatile coverage abilities. Can man up or face up TEs with ease. Could go up against Jimmy Graham or Rob Gronkowski with equaled athleticism and strength. Still working on man coverage skills, which is one area he'll need improvement. Rushes the passer well and stays relentless when battling blockers one-on-one.
Works really hard in pursuit. Relentless on the backside of a play. Looks to get in the mix every play. Unreal range against the run. Quick and relatively agile. Foot speed is very good.
Mack projects as an early first round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.
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We would have no shot at Mack, but I have seen that dude play and practice being from the area and wow. What an animal. He will be good in the pros. Also I would not mind drafting Tre Mason if he is available later on.
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26.CB Justin Gilbert, Oklahoma St. 6'0" 199
http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/p...ospect_id=3445Gilbert has above-average height for a corner and displays nice fluidity in his lower half. Acknowledged his focus took a step back after a lackluster junior season and admitted he had something to prove as a senior.
Long arms. Above-average ability to turn and quickly locate the ball. Good instincts. Vulnerable to double moves given his aggressive, ball-hawking style of play. Quick to read and react. Not much wasted motion/steps when changing directions. Seems to prefer to play press and doesn't mind arm fighting downfield. Pretty straight line speed (4.5 40). Physical tackler. Sheds blocks with ease. Must improve discipline when setting the edge.
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Good job, DKphin.
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27.SS Ahmad Dixon, Baylor 6'0" 205
http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings...2014&genpos=SS01/01/14 - PLAYERS TO WATCH: Baylor S Ahmad Dixon is a lightning rod for controversy and a catalyst for the Bears. He was suspended for the first half of the Texas game after being ejected in the second half against TCU for targeting. Once he returned to the Texas game, the Bears went on a 17-0 surge that helped put away the Longhorns. But Dixon drew a celebration penalty that negated K.J. Morton's touchdown on an interception return. - The Sports Xchange
12/12/13 - 2013 ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-BIG 12 SECOND TEAM: Defensive back Ahmad Dixon, Baylor, 6-0, 205, Sr., Waco, Texas,...Dixon ranked 24th in the league in tackles per game (5.8). - Baylor football
Born and raised in Waco, Dixon had a roller coaster recruitment that included commitments to Texas and Tennessee before he finally decided to stay home and attend Baylor. He started two seasons at the team's nickel "Bear" position, which is a hybrid LB/S role, but moved to safety for his senior year in 2013.
Baylor is known for its explosive offensive attack, but the Bears have some playmakers on defense as well, most notably Dixon, who patrols the entire field.
Dixon might be the top SS prospect for the 2014 Draft. (11/14/13)
Strengths: Extremely fast downhill and loves to get his hands dirty in the run game, striking through his target with strong hands to finish. Dixon has an accurate first step with the quickness and range to play both sidelines with an alert, active mentality. Displays the feet and overall body coordination to hold up on an island if needed. Excellent size/speed athlete with the fluidity and natural speed to cover the entire field, making plays behind the line of scrimmage and in the deep half of the fieldWorks hard to shed blocks to make open-field stops and is a physical tackler. He is confident in coverage to jump routes and aggressively go after the ball.
Weaknesses: He still needs some technique and recognition work when it comes to coverage. Needs to consistently wrap up and not just hit his target with body shots.
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28.FS Nickoe Whitley, Mississippi State 6'0" 205
http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings...2014&genpos=FS12/11/13 - 2013 ALL-SEC SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DB - Nickoe Whitley, Mississippi State...Whitley made two of the biggest defensive plays for the Bulldogs all season with a pair of forced fumbles. He halted a potential game-winning drive by Arkansas and ended the Egg Bowl by jarring the ball away from Bo Wallace. He was tabbed the Dec. 2 Co-SEC Defensive Player of the Week following his Egg Bowl heroics. A native of Jackson, Miss., Whitley is the FBS active leader in career interceptions with 15 and owns 229 career tackles. - Mississippi State football
12/10/13 - 2013 ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-SEC HONORABLE MENTION: Nickoe Whitley, S, Mississippi St., 6-1, 205, Sr.,...Whitley made two of the biggest defensive plays for the Bulldogs all season with a pair of forced fumbles. He halted a potential game-winning drive by Arkansas and ended the Egg Bowl by jarring the ball away from Bo Wallace. He was tabbed the Dec. 2 Co-SEC Defensive Player of the Week following his Egg Bowl heroics. A native of Jackson, Miss., Whitley is the FBS active leader in career interceptions with 15 and owns 229 career tackles.
He also excelled against then No. 1 Alabama with two touchdowns-saving tackles, chasing down T.J. Yeldon at the MSU 28-yard line during the Crimson Tide's final drive of the opening half and breaking up a pass in the end zone on the Crimson Tide's first play of the fourth quarter. - Mississippi State football
• Despite injuries, managed to accumulate nearly four years of SEC starting experience.
• Very tough; tore his ACL in the third week of 2013 and somehow finished the year.
• Possesses a prototypical combination of height and bulk for an NFL free safety.
• Overall style of play may make him better suited to working in-the-box at the next level.
• Has lined up as a deep safety, in the slot, and as essentially a linebacker in college.
• Plays with a physical, aggressive, nasty on-field demeanor coaches may appreciate.
• Capable of lining up ballcarriers and making some big hits, has forced a few fumbles.
• Showcases soft hands; has recorded three or more interceptions in every season.
• Temperament and physicality appear well-suited to a special teams role in the pros.
• Torn ACL will likely prevent him from working out, create a medical question mark.
• Also ruptured his Achilles' in 2011, another cause for concern requiring investigation.
• Adequate range in deep coverage but doesn't have particularly impressive athleticism.
• Aggressiveness can frequently be exploited via play fakes and misdirection plays.
• Not exactly the type of patient free safety teams want as their last line of defense.
• For every big play he makes for his own team, he enables one or two from opponents.
• Also commits a few too many penalties, seemingly has trouble maintaining composure.
Whitley's size, physicality, and soft hands are characteristic of a quality safety, but despite having four years of starting experience under his belt, his aggressiveness and impatience can be exploited too easily to feel comfortable letting him see the field on defense without making some major strides. To compound matters, he tore his Achilles' in 2011 and ACL in 2013, with the latter injury potentially slowing a safety whose speed was already underwhelming to begin with. At this point, he is a defensive liability with serious health concerns.
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29.QB Blake Bortles, Central Florida 6'4" 230
http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/...e-Bortles.htmlBortles is a fourth-year junior and a two-year starter at UCF. Coming out of high school he was a three-star recruit who had offers from schools such as Purdue, Western Kentucky, and Colorado State. He has excellent size at about 6'4 – 230 to go along with good athleticism and play speed. At the Combine, he should run in the 4.7 area. He plays in a multi-offense and plays from both under center and in the spread. The Central Florida scheme is closer to a pro-style offense than many other college offenses. Bortles had good production this year, completing 259 of 382 passes for 3581 yards, 25 TDs, and nine interceptions. His completion percentage was just under 68%, but I don't put a lot of stock into that stat at the college level. I feel ball placement is a far better indicator of a college quarterback's accuracy because of how wide open many college receivers are.
When playing from under center, Bortles can set up fairly quickly. He has a good feel for pass rushers, but he will often run out of the pocket when he is pressured instead of stepping up into the pocket. He shows he can go through a progression and find the open receiver, but there are also times when he will stare down his primary receiver. While he can go through a progression, you seldom see him look off a receiver and come back to another. He flashes making some really good throws, showing good timing, and getting good zip on the ball. He also has a lot of throws where his timing is off and he doesn't set his feet. You see a lot of throws where he is not in proper balance. I feel his decision making is inconsistent. He is at his best against weaker opponents and when he isn't pressured, but in games like South Carolina, when the competition is very good, he can struggle and make poor decisions. His throwing motion and release quickness are adequate. When you watch enough tape, you can see that he will change his throwing motion at times. He doesn't have a really quick release. There are guys who make a decision, and the ball is out of their hand instantly. That isn't the case with Bortles, and it allows DBs to get a jump on the ball (see So. Carolina)
Bortles' best throws are on the shorter passes (15 yards and less). The further downfield he throws, the less accurate he becomes. His ability to throw the deep ball is average at best. Many of his longer plays, that I saw, were actually shorter passes with long runs after the catch. He has good arm strength, but he does not have a cannon. While he can throw a tight ball, he also throws a lot of balls that "flutter".
Bortles has good running skills. He is not going to remind anyone of "Johnny Football" with his run skills but they are good enough. While he is not elusive, he is strong and can find an open lane.
I am not going to deny that this player has talent, but I do feel that he would have been better served staying in college and developing his game. He is far from being ready to come into the NFL and play. There is too much inconsistency in his overall game. I question if he can become an eventual starter and win in the NFL. That doesn't mean he won't start for whoever drafts him, but as we all have seen the last five to six years, there have been MANY quarterbacks drafted with high hopes who haven't lived up to expectations. Right now, I would take Bridgewater, Manziel, McCarron, Derek Carr, David Fales and Brett Smith before I would take Bortles. I feel all of them are better passers and better prepared to play in the NFL.
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30.RB Marion Grice, Arizona St. 6'0" 205
http://firstroundgrade.com/2013/12/0...ion-grice-asu/Strengths: Vision, Patience, Hands, Ath Ability
Weaknesses: Pad level, long speed
Marion Grice possesses average overall size for the running back position…His build is on the slender side, but he carries his weight well and runs bigger than his measureables suggest…Grice is equally effective as an inside and outside runner, displaying the necessary patience to let his blocks develop in front of him…Possesses a natural feel as a runner, identifying the hole and cutback lanes quickly…Has good feet for the position. He takes efficient and effective steps and is quick enough to make a man miss for extra yardage…Grice has enough flexibility in his hips to change direction on an adequate level and presents with deceptive wiggle…Excels in the passing game, displaying good route running skills and natural, soft hands…He is a willing and adequate blocker in pass protection…Added value in the return game on kickoff, as he fields kicks cleanly and gets upfield in a hurry.
Grice needs to become more consistent running behind his pads/lowering his pads…At times he can be too patient and fails to take the yardage that is in front of him…Doesn't possess the long speed needed to be a consistent big play threat…Ended the season with a mysterious lower leg injury that has sidelined him for more than one game.
On the next level, Marion Grice projects as a 3-down back that will offer offenses versatility as a dual threat out of the backfield. His running style suggests success in the NFL, as he is a natural with the ball in his hands. He's not going to wow you with highlight reel runs, but much like Matt Forte of the Chicago Bears, Grice does the little things well at the running back position. His ability to allow his linemen to reach their assignment and react off of the block is a predictor for success in the pros. And while he's not flashy, he does have the necessary athleticism that will allow him to compete against NFL defenders. Grice is going to be one of the first running backs selected in May as a result of his running, receiving and return ability and will challenge for a big role as a rookie. It wouldn't surprise me if Grice is a starting running back in the NFL before his rookie season is completed.
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We do need much more small government leadership and a focus in government protective of liberty.
When did any of his co-workers move backward in civil service grade?
Not every federal worker over the last 30 years have been model employees.
Our whole system is like that. It is only possible because there is no real money. And because there is no real money, it is doomed to collapse eventually. And when it does, a 20% cut in pay will be the last of anyone's worries.
We can't stop the collapse. It is coming. We might can delay it indefinitely if we wised up, realized the pickle we were in, and started trying to back away from the ledge. But, as this sequester thing so aptly shows, no one even wants to acknowledge that there is a ledge, least of all those in charge.
He works for the Federal Aviation Administration and his job is exclusive to the government
Is he an air traffic controller?
What region? I'm a controller in Atlanta.
They need to be reminded of the damage the crap that the government did resulting in their jobs did to the working, private sector. You know things like wars all over the Middle East
did wonders for the private sector if you are in the right line of work six figure jobs tax free and blank check contracts.
Oh shit! I'll do my best to stay awake. No promises
Some yes some no. Love the blanket statements though.
My father is a Federal employee. He started with next to nothing in terms of salary almost 30 years ago. For nearly 30 years he worked his arse off and rose through the ranks. He wasn't an arse kisser, he didn't talk his way into promotions, he worked his way into them. Now he brings home six figures. Yeah...he didn't do it in the private sector, but how is what he did and what he went through any different from what an ordinary Joe does out there in a non-government job?
Two of the hardest working people ive ever met.
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Now that we've left the money on the nightstand and shown 2011 the door, it's time to prepare for 2012. January has always just been the month that you prepare for the rest of the year, a toe that you gently slide into the pool to prepare yourself for the shock of cold water. January is the appetizer of 2012, and the perfect launchpad to look ahead at what is to come.
Last year was a tumultuous one for the video game industry, filled with highs and lows. The end of the year saw a glutton's feast of gaming, with players gorging themselves on some of the best games that have been released in years. A few even set records. Activision execs are likely considering filling their new swimming pools with water flown in fresh from the top of the Himalayas. And why not? After Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 made enough money to cure death (at least slight cases of death), the industry seemed to be righting the ship.
Microsoft claimed that 2011 was the best year ever for the Xbox (in terms of beating the PS3 and Wii, not in total sales) and that there are now 66 million Xbox 360 consoles around the world. And despite sagging Wii sales, Nintendo did well with the 3DS this year — not counting that whole $80 price cut that brought shame unto the ancestors of Nintendo execs. Yet still, the NPD came out and rained on the industry's parade, claiming that sales in December 2011 were down 21 percent compared to December sales in 2010. For the year, sales were down 8 percent overall.
There were mitigating circumstances, though. The NPD doesn't take into account mobile and casual gaming, nor does it take into account online purchases — which exploded in 2011. It also ignores PC games. In a comparison of total game spending, the industry dropped just 2 percent, which isn't all that surprising considering all three of the major consoles are now well over five years old and a hardware sales decline was inevitable.
So turn those frowns upside down. Now that the economy is picking up again (politicians on TV said it was, so it must be true), entertainment spending in general should increase and the video game industry will be fine.
With that in mind, here is a glimpse at where a decent chunk of your money may be headed in the coming year, as we lay out our top 25 most anticipated games of 2012.
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The Darkness II (February 7, 2012; PC, PS3, Xbox 360; Digital Extremes, 2K Games)
One of the first major releases of the year is just a few scant weeks away. Although the sequel is now in the hands of a new developer, the game will once again put you in the custom-made Italian loafers of now-mob boss Jackie Estacado, as he is forced to rely on the Darkness once again to fight off a group that wants the power for itself. The sequel will feature a new quad-wielding mechanic, a revamped progression system, and an original story from a longtime writer of The Darkness comic series that the games are based on, Paul Jenkins.
Twisted Metal (February 14, 2012; PS3; Eat Sleep Play, SCEA)
One of the defining multiplayer games of a generation returns with a new look, but the same feel. Can nostalgia alone make a hit? Absolutely not, but it can bring attention to a game that deserves respec', yo. This game will be a hit or a miss based on how people react to the multiplayer aspect. Whether or not it can compete against the likes of Call of Battlefied and the like remains to be seen, but at the very least it should bring back some good memories of crushing your friends beneath the heel of your glory.
Syndicate (February 21; PC, PS3, 360; Starbreeze, EA)
Huzzah, an original game! Wait, what? It's based on a game from 1993? D'oh. Following in the footsteps of Hollywood, Starbreeze and EA have rebooted a franchise that has lain dormant for years (since 1996), but they bring it back with good reason. The tactical shooter gameplay of the first title is gone, replaced by the comforting (and increasingly overused) first-person shooter format. But the cool cyberpunk world where corporations have replaced the government is engrossing (and timely), so it returns. You play an operative for a major corporation, running missions ranging from infiltration to assassination. If this is handled right, Syndicate could be a new mega-franchise in the making.
Street Fighter X Tekken/Tekken X Street Fighter (SFXT March 6, 2012/TXSF TBA; PC, PS3, 360; SFXT–Capcom, Capcom /TXSF–Namco Bandai, Namco Bandai )
This is actually two games, sort of. Capcom and Namco Bandai came up with an interesting idea on how to compete head-to-head in a friendly way that will benefit both companies. And make them both a bunch of money. In the first game, the characters from Tekken will head into the Street Fighter world and receive Street Fighter-like looks, animations, and moves. Capcom's take on the fighting matchup, Street Fighter X Tekken will be released on March 6. Then later this year, Namco Bandai will how off its take on the matchup when it releases Tekken X Street Fighter. As you might expect by the name, the content will then switch to Tekken-style, and Ryu will lose his cell shading in favor of a more 3D look. Then get beat to a bloody pulp by Bryan Fury. Not that I'm taking sides.
Mass Effect 3 (March 6, 2012; PC, PS3, 360; BioWare, EA)
Gamers won't have to wait long for one of the biggest titles of the year when Mass Effect 3 hits this March. The game will be the end bookmark to a trilogy that culminates with a race of ancient mechanized aliens coming to wipe all organic life from the galaxy, especially Earth. The gameplay mechanics have been overhauled, and while the RPG elements are still present, there is more of a traditional third-person shooter feel than in the previous games. And, of course, you will still be able to hook up with alien and human hotties to your heart's content.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (March 20, 2012; PC, PS3, 360; Slant Six Games and Capcom, Capcom)
One of the original survival-horror franchises returns this March with a new take on the events that went down in Raccoon City during the classic Resident Evil 2. And while this may not be the full sequel that fans are hoping for (Resident Evil 6 is due in November), it should offer a bunch of zombie-bashing fan. There is also a major push on the multiplayer side of things, but the real fun will be in going back to Raccoon City and reliving the events from one of the best survival horror games on the PS One. Oh, and you can shoot Leon Kennedy too. Shoot him dead.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (May 22, 2012; PC, PS3, 360; Ubisoft Paris & Ubisoft Red Storm, Ubisoft)
For the last two years, this game has been on the best-of lists of most people who saw it at E3. Even two years ago the game looked amazing, and that was just an early build that needed a lot of polish. Well, the wait is finally (almost) over, and this summer we'll be able to get our hands on the next entry in the Tom Clancy franchise. No doubt, Clancy himself spent grueling hours, painstakingly encoding each line to make sure that it honored his name! Yeah, probably not, but Ubisoft has done a good job with Tom Clancy games, and Ghost Recon looks like it may be one of the best yet. The game will honor the previous Ghost Recon titles, but it will also feel like a totally new game. This is not just Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 3, but rather a slightly new take on a squad-based shooter.
Borderlands 2 (September 1—subject to change, 2012; PC, PS3, 360; Gearbox Software, 2K Games)
The original Borderlands was one of those games that had a slow burn to it. It produced decent launch-day sales, but it really began to pick up steam later on and became a breakout hit of 2009. A lot of that was due to word of mouth, not to mention a deep multiplayer experience that kept people playing it for a long time (odds are you can still find people online going at it). So the sequel has a bit of a spotlight on it, and will likely far outstrip the launch-day sales of the original. The unique multiplayer aspects just help the RPG-flavored FPS, and you should see even more online integration this time around. 2K and Gearbox have tentatively put the release as September 1, but that could change. In fact it could change itself all the way to 2013, but hopefully we will get our chance to play it this fall.
Resident Evil 6 (November 20, 2012; PC, PS3, Xbox 360; Capcom, Capcom)
Capcom has remained fairly tight-lipped when it comes to Resident Evil 6, but the publisher and developer has confirmed that it is on the way. After the world discovers that there have been some nasty things happening due to bioterrorists attacks, Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield team up to help stop a potentially worldwide epidemic. Beyond that, there isn't much know about the game. It is probably a fair assumption that you will run into some form of evil creatures, people that have been transformed into things that need to be shot in the face, and possibly at least one annoying girl that you have to escort to safety while she helplessly gets hit in the head with an axe (looking at you Resident Evil 4). More details will likely flood out soon.


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Holding Wages: "One Pay in the Hole" - The Maryland Guide to Wage Payment and Employment Standards
An employer may not keep any part of the wage of an employee, either by withholding an entire paycheck, part of a paycheck, or by way of incremental wage deductions from several paychecks, as security against some future or contingent occurrence. This practice amounts to a confiscation of pay and is a direct violation of the law requiring timely payment of earned wages.
[Note: This section concerns the indefinite holding of wages as security, not the short-term delay of pay for payroll processing purposes].