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Somehow I wonder if the "talent" that these banks want to "retain" have any talent except for the art of obfuscation.
Somehow I wonder if the "talent" that these banks want to "retain" have any talent except for the art of obfuscation.
"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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I can't speak for all of them, but I know that AIG clearly had parts that made money and a lot of it that had nothing to do with the mess AIG was in. I don't think you can paint every bank department with the same brush. You may have one area that is doing very well for you and that same area may be what you are counting on to pull your ass out of the fire so to speak and at the same time have another department that is costing you great amounts of money and IS the problem with the entire bank. Now do the people in the department that is making money (even if the over all bank is not making money) deserve to be compensated for the good/great work they have done? If you don't you may well lose the only good thing you have going for you. Now if you pay bonuses to those that are the problem that is another story, but I am not so sure that is happening and if it is then that is just foolish.
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What am I missing in this picture?
Didn't the banks say they needed government assistance to get out of their mess? Did I misunderstand that?
So, the government legislated mucho billions of dollars to help them out of their mess.
Yesterday, the news was reporting that many banks (Chase was one mentioned) are working out how to give the money back ... because they don't like the restrictions placed on the use of the funds, i.e. the limitations placed on corporate compensation.
If they are giving the money back, then I'm wondering how they figured out how to solve their mammouth, catastrophic problems in just a few months ... when just a few months ago they convinced everyone that the whole banking system was going to collapse unless bailed out by taxpayer funds.
Congress could have saved everyone a whole lot of time and paper if they had just included the limitations in their original work. Seems like if BHO could "demand" the resignation of GM's CEO, he could have sat down with the bank guys and said, "Look if we bankroll your mistakes, you are not going to use taxpayer money to pay more big bonuses." Could have laid out the conditions in advance & saved everyone a lot of grief.
Guess those talented guys the banks wanted to retain figured it out when their paychecks were at stake? Let's just hope their solution is not another just another temporary gimmick like the derivatives were.
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That is one reason I was against all the bailouts. However, these bailouts will pale in comparison to the bailout of many liberal states that voted for Obomo.
I think their plan is to completely meltdown the economy by overspending so that they can take complete control of everything they want control of. I predict before it is all said and done that Obomo will try and do away with Presidential term limits.
"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
So, what's next?
BHO promised to give these funds to banks so they could do mortgage modifications on those sub-prime mortgages & stave off the flood of foreclosures.
Then came those murmurings that the banks hadn't been lending out the money they had acquired. Could they have been planning early on to give the money back, i.e. as soon as they heard the public uproar about the bonus programs?
If they give the money back, what happens to those mortgages? If the borrowers lose their jobs, it will take "forebearances" to save them from foreclosure. (i.e., the bank foregoes a couple of months' of mortgage payments & tacks them onto the end of the term). However, with unemployment getting so high, how much forebearance could the banks sustain?
That $8000 tax credit for first-time buyers? I don't think it has stimulated buyers who otherwise would not have bought. The buyers, however, will put some of that $8000 back into the economy in terms of home improvements. Some of it may pay off credit card debt; & some into savings.
Actually, the first-tier of home buyers (the first-time buyers) is not very brisk. some of those buyers aren't going to benefit greatly from the tax credit. This then means that the sellers of those homes, who would be moving up to their next home cannot do so. Investors are doing okay picking up some properties at attractive prices.
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Christina Burnett, a graduate student in history, will discuss her experience as a Supreme Court clerk in a lecture titled "The Court and Its Culture: A Conversation" at noon Tuesday, Nov. 29, in 210 Dickinson Hall.
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In the last three years, she suffered the recurrence of her cancer, the loss of her parents, as well as the loss of her parents-in-law. She was born in Janesville on Jan. 29, 1957, the daughter of Merritt "Brownie" E. and Regena M. (McNally) Brown. She was the baby in the family and, like all of the Browns, was raised in the family home behind their father's place of employment at "Fire Station Number 1."
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Vacationing and family time were always very important to Colleen. As a family they enjoyed numerous camping trips around the country, two cruises, and once took their older son to Disney World when Nick was a youngster. In 2006, the family traveled to Ethiopia to adopt their second son, Tegegn (pn: Tah-GAIN). Cancer cut short her dreams of taking the boys to Disney World, Germany, and eventually returning to Tegegn's birthplace in Ethiopia.
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A Memorial Service will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at the Janesville Rotary Gardens with Rev. Michael Schuler of the First Unitarian Society of Madison officiating.
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In lieu of other expressions of sympathy, Colleen would want memorials to be made to Nick and Tegegn's College fund (Blackhawk Credit Union), the First Unitarian Society of Madison (www.FUSMadison.org), the Unitarian Fellowship of Rock County (www.UnitarianRockCounty.org), Wisconsin Lions Camp (www.WisconsinlionsCamp.com), or the international adoption agency of Children's Home Society and Family Services (www.CHSFS.org).


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R.W. Baird's William Power today reiterated an outperform rating on shares of Netflix (NFLX), and raised his price target to $505 from $470, after reviewing survey data for the company's streaming video users in the U.S. and the U.K. that showed "solid" and "strong" trends, respectively.
The survey of 1,000 residents in each country who subscribe to Netflix in the month of June found that in the U.S., the pattern was seasonally typical:
In our June U.S. survey, 32% of respondents told us that they were Netflix streaming subscribers vs. 28% at the end of March. However, on a quarterly average basis (see both charts below), Q2 gains appear to be more modest, with average penetration of our sample growing from 31% in Q1 to 32% in Q2. We believe this is more in line with typical seasonality and our 660,000 Q2 U.S. net add estimate. Overall, we view these results as a solid.
In the U.K., the company continued to notch gains despite heavy competition:
As of the end of June, according to our survey, U.K. penetration stood at 18%, implying total U.K. subscribers of ~4.5 million based on 25.7 million broadband-connected homes. Netflix launched the U.K. market in January 2012, implying that it took the company roughly two years to get to 2 million subscribers and only five months to add another 2.5 million, assuming our data is correct. Notably, the U.K. was one of NFLX's first European markets and is one of the most competitive OTT video markets, which may explain the shape of the adoption curve.
Power estimates Netflix will have added 660,000 streaming subscribers in the U.S. in Q2, on a net basis, and 1 million subscribers internationally. He sees the company reporting $1.33 billion in revenue in Q2, and $1.17 in EPS. that compares to the average estimate for $1.34 billion and $1.14.
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The Alabama game is going to show us a lot too. Tennessee has been stiffening up. If they give Alabama all they can handle, Alabama simply shouldn't be number one. However, I think it will be Alabamans day big
ducks win big over ucla. ucla not be a test for ducks, ucla is not nearly as good as utah! schaeffer logic: utah beat stanford, stanford beat ucla.
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Oregon 59-0 over Tennessee with four minutes in the fourth quarter.
Tennessee beats South Carolina
Florida struggles with Tennessee
South Carolina barely loses to Georgia when Georgia was healthy
Conclusion: The Ducks are one whole hell of lot better than any of the premier teams in the SEC. Alabama is yet to be seen.
Now I recognize that this is a little out there, but then why have polls? In great part, don't they do the same thing? Its not that I put much stock in polls---Alabama being number one is a prime example of the huge error in them. What minute--Alabama beat Georgia State
...and Miami pulls out another win to improve to 7-0.
Barely making it by their last two teams, (UNC & Wake)
Fl. St. is likely going to smash them next weekend.
Bama vs Tenn is getting ugly just out of the 1st quarter 21-0......
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SAUCIER – Steve Wilson is no stranger to golf's big stage.
The 43-year-old Ocean Springs resident won the MGA State Amateur Championship in 2007, captured the USGA Mid-Amateur Championship in 2008 and played in the Masters in 2009.
He takes a one-stroke lead over Eddie Brescher III into today's final round of the 98th annual State Am at Grand Bear. Four other players, including two-time defending champion Clay Homan, are in contention.
"I'm just going to play the same, one shot at a time and do the best I can," said Wilson, who's 8-under 208 after 54 holes.
Wilson, a former Gulf Coast Community College and Southern Miss player, started Saturday four shots behind Brescher, but went to the top of the leaderboard with a 5-under-par 67. His round included an eagle on No. 11 and five birdies.
"I hit the ball OK today and putted a little above average," a modest Wilson said. "I think it's going to take a 12-under to win it. Brescher's played solid."
Brescher, a native of Hammond, La., and golf coach at Millsaps College, entered the third round at 9-under and dropped it to a 10-under before three bogeys on the back sent him to 7-under 209.
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I've got dogs in the house and a wife too. Other than turning off the light when you leave a room, what other energy saving habits have you adopted? Or is it just about Huntinman and what he needs and wants?
You and I might not need the govt to help tell us, but others like the previous poster might. What is so often the dominant paradigm of the righties is "I got mine, don't f*** with it! I don't need nobody, nohow to tell me what to do. Well Bill, not everybody is as responsible as you and I.
Basta, JD
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we are having a ruff time with gmp (green moutain power) up here right now.
I'll type more later. thay are pushing hard the wind projects. getting permits for the number of endangered species the wind mills may kill per day.
at the same time just won a rule saying new homes with solar may only have solar units the size of 1/2 the expected power the home will need. now home owners may cover a roof and lawn and sell power back to gmp and the state makes them pay the same rate we all have to pay them for power. so gmp is pissed and made it so new homes can only make half of what they use. Old hippy on the news said it will simply drive more people totaly off grid. said gmp will loose hundreds/thousands of mini power generators providing to the grid.... stupid.
I'll type about the bats later this eve. gotta make a syrup jar run and take a snapshot for you all.
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I don't need or want the govt having any say in my toilet paper, light bulbs, guns, ammo, cell phone bill, or just about anything else they can turn into a goat roping.
Personal responsibility is just that... Those that don't have it should either learn it of suffer the consequences... Not be held by the hand by a bureaucrat.
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The comments about the energy grid are right on. We are very vulnerable right now to hackers on a huge level and solutions to keep it safe are not being worked on fast enough.
I have a 1100 cow dairy that out in a methane digester. MILLIONS of dollars. The power company is barely paying them and the state of Virginia is barely backing efforts for alternative energy. It's appalling! Here is a farm, trying to be proactive and it's been 1 step forward, 2 steps back. You should have seen the battle between the family, power company and Verizon when they were trying to get the two companies to COMMUNICATE to get all the lines set up for the grid.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
The whole solar panel tng above is outrageous too. I would be tempted to go off the grid too.
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Philippe Vergne
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The word "picnic" comes—though nothing is cast in bronze—from the French verb piquer ("pick" or "peck") is associated with the rhyming nique (things of little importance). Richard Prince's latest work, Untitled (Upstate), which made its premiere at the Walker, picks on and transcends things of little importance that populate the world. A full-sized basketball hoop and pole pierce the center of a beat-up old…
Trisha Brown Draws on Her Muse—on Paper and Onstage
Matt Peiken
Feb 2008
In the 1970s, Trisha Brown created notational drawings as road maps for her dancers. Today, one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance draws with abandon, largely as a personal, impulsive expression unto itself. That is, of course, when she can muster the time. If she isn't steering the vaunted dance company bearing her name, Brown is choreographing opera productions-her next one, she says, will…
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Matt Peiken
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JoAnn Verburg holds two St. Paul zip codes—one for the apartment she shares with her husband, poet Jim Moore, and one for her studio, just south of the Wabasha Street bridge. But Verburg's photography has always had a trajectory far beyond the Twin Cities. Many subjects of the portraits, landscapes, and still lifes that elevated her name in fine-art circles are East Coast artists and friends, Italian…
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Rachel Hooper
Jul 2007
In 1942, artist John Graham organized an exhibition in New York that was in many ways the precursor to Picasso and American Art. Just as the Walker's show pairs works by important American artists with the Picasso pieces that inspired them, Graham's juxtaposed paintings by New York artists of the day with those by their Parisian contemporaries. A few works by Picasso were shipped across the…
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Feb 2007
Kara Walker's purposefully provocative and seductively graphic work is difficult. It confounds, and sometimes offends. In addressing the concerns of some viewers, I've tried to convey that part of our mission as a cultural institution is to represent many different value systems, to give space, alongside more familiar or palatable expressions, to the unfamiliar, the invisible, the unspeakable, and the…
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Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965) is known for employing potent visual symbols to reveal sly musings on the history of racial identity in America. She gained attention in the 1990s with paintings that initially appeared abstract and minimal, with a subtle palette and geometry. The delicate grids were formed by sheets of penmanship exercises adhered to the canvas, onto which the artist rendered…
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Paul Schmelzer
Sep 2006
Senior registration technician Dave Bartley bristles, just a little, when he sees people ignoring the bold geometric patterns that illuminate the walls of Gallery 8 Café by Wolfgang Puck. And pity the hapless soul who, not realizing the mural is an artwork in the Walker collection, leans against the gold, red, and blue wall while Bartley's in the room. It's not that he's overly sensitive to the…
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Aug 2006
Linoleum, masks, and punchlines: the everyday materials and themes in the work on view in Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian live up to the exhibition's title, but the interplay between elements in each work—and between works by other artists—makes this installation of new art by Jay Heikes, Adam Helms, and Rodney McMillian anything but common. In a four-way e-mail exchange, exhibition curator…
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Ralph Rugoff
Aug 2006
Like the work of a growing number of contemporary artists, Cameron Jamie's art at times seems to overlap with the concerns and methodologies of visual anthropology. A number of his major projects, after all, have documented the rites, rituals, and artifacts of specific subcultures in Europe as well as in North America. In at least some of these works, Jamie appears to assume the role of an amateur…


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Warren Haynes Discusses His Grateful Dead Tribute Show and Gov't Mule's Star-Studded New Album, 'Shout!'
As a guitarist, do you still feel like you have something to prove? Does being so well established give you license to not burn on a song?
I think on this album you probably get more different angles of my guitar playing, which is just a reflection of the diversity of the songs and what they demand of the guitar player. I've never believed in forcing myself on the song. There has to be a balance between respecting the song and inflicting your personality upon it.
Danny Louis played the [guitar] solo on "Funny Little Tragedy," because what he played was more appropriate than anything I would have come up with, because his style is more aligned with that genre. We recorded that live, and his solo is off the cuff. I'm playing a PRS baritone guitar on the left side, and Danny's playing a Strat on the right side. I caught him off guard by looking at him and saying, "Danny Louis," and having him solo.
Is there more baritone guitar on this album than on your previous releases?
Yes. It's also the primary guitar on "No Reward" and "Scared to Live." The funny thing is, after we finished these sessions, we flew down to Little Rock for a festival and Staind were on the bill. We were on the same flight back and I ended up sitting next to the guitarist, Mike Mushok. We started talking shop and I told him about this, and he goes, "That's my signature guitar!" I only knew it was a PRS baritone. Small world.
What else did you play?
"World Boss" is an Epiphone solidbody that was hanging in the studio that I tuned down a half step. "Forsaken Savior" is my 1961 335 with a capo on the second fret. "Done Got Wise" is the most interesting song. I wrote it with a guitar tuned to an E7 tuning that I discovered by mistake. I was trying to tune to an open E and had not yet tuned the D string to an E. I started playing and it sounded really cool. Jorgen was sitting across from me and I started playing a bunch of slide chordal ideas in this crazy tuning, and it sounded really cool. So for the recording, I tuned an Epiphone 12-string to E7.
It's very bizarre and has a very Zeppelin-y sound, but to the best of my knowledge [Jimmy] Page never used that—nor did anyone else that I'm aware of. As a result, I had to overdub the solo. It would have been impossible to improvise a solo in that tuning. It made it fun to play a solo. I had to listen really closely because the dominant seven in every chord had its own melodic slant I had to work around. It was a cool challenge. Other than that, there's a lot of my signature Les Paul on the record.
Yet your guitar sound is different.
Most of the guitar sounds are my 1969 100-watt Marshall "Plexi" that I haven't used in a long, long time. We basically set up a cool clean sound with it and a cool dirty sound. We still used my Diaz for some of the more Fendery-sounding stuff and a Super Reverb in a couple of places.
I usually go in with a bunch of amps, run them all together, mic them and decide what's working and what isn't so we can audition them as we're going song for song. This array usually includes a small amp like a Fender Pro Jr. or a Gibson Skylark, sometimes at my feet like a monitor. The 4x12 cab is usually in another room, but on the stuff where I'm getting feedback and playing long solos live on the track, I had it in the room behind me, and it was so loud I had to keep cranking the headphones up to get the band up above the Marshall. You need to have the feedback on your back if you're going to manipulate it.
It's rather amazing that you play most of your solos live on the rhythm tracks.
Every time we do a record I think, Next time I will overdub more so I can experiment more. But I always end up keeping the solos that I play with the band, because that's ultimately what I prefer: the interplay among all of us. As much as I love the challenge of playing differently, the collective improv thing always seems to win out.
I did overdub a few solos, but the chemistry that I have with Matt, Jorgen and Danny is based on collective call and response. We're all listening in a way that's very jazz-like, and all four of us are always basing what we play on what someone else plays, so every take and live performance of a song will be different. We take that approach even with some of the simpler chord structures because I just find it more satisfying than everyone finding a part and sticking to it. The music I grew up loving was played that way, and it didn't begin to change until the mid Seventies, which I think was to its detriment, because there was so much beautiful music made by taking that everyone-listening-to-everyone approach.
It's been four years since the last Gov't Mule album. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Do you think that all factored into this album sounding quite different from anything you've done?
A lot of factors played into the final result. We allowed ourselves to take a hiatus, and that year off helped us gain some perspective, look back on everything we've done and figure out what kind of record we wanted to make. This is our most diverse record, and I don't think we could have done it 10 years ago.
Each song we brought to the table had it its own personality; it sounded like Gov't Mule but didn't sound like anything we had ever done, which helped the overall flow and kept the process moving forward. Next year we are celebrating our 20th anniversary, so I think it's appropriate to shine a light on as many influences as possible and how much we've grown over the years. It took this long to have a license to release something this diverse.
Why did it take so long?
If this was our first or second album, it might be construed as too wide of a turn, but I think it makes perfect sense given the whole trajectory of the band. A lot of artists don't take the risk of spreading themselves too thin because they're worried that their audience won't be accepting. With Gov't Mule and myself, people knew from the start to expect the unexpected. And I think each record we've done has gone a little farther down that path.
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|As the Enterprise approaches the planet Pollux IV a gigantic glowing green hand appears in space before the ship. Attempts to evade it are futile, and the hand grabs hold of them. The image of a man appears on the screen, claiming the Enterprise crew as his "beloved children" and congratulating them on their bold venture into space - a venture which is now over. He is dressed in ancient Greek style and reels off the names of various mythological figures such as Agamemnon, Hector and Odysseus. When Kirk repeatedly demands to have his ship released the being threatens to "close my hand" and destroy the Enterprise. Suddenly the force field holding them exerts a terrible pressure on the hull, threatening to destroy it.
Under this threat Kirk agrees to beam down to Pollux IV with some officers. He takes along McCoy, Scotty, Chekov and Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, an officer trained in archology, anthopology and this history of ancient civilizations.
On the surface they meet the being, who claims to be the god Apollo. McCoy's scans show him to be a simple humanoid, though not quite Human. Apollo claims he and his kind lived amongst Humans in the distant past, coming to be worshipped by the natives for their power and sophistication. He wishes to recreate that situation, with the Enterprise crew living simple lives and worshiping him. He demonstrates his power by fusing their weapons and firing a lightning bolt which injures Scotty.
The crew work on the problem from both ends; on the surface Kirk and the others try to work out who and what Apollo is, exactly, and what weaknesses he may have. Meanwhile in orbit Spock analyses the forcefield holding the ship and probes for weaknesses in it.
Apollo develops a liking for Lieutenant Palamas, and takes her away for a private discussion. It becomes clear that he is attracted to her, and to some extent she returns this attraction. She finds that the "gods" departed Earth because their worshipers turned away from them. Although immortal the group was left hopeless and forlorn without purpose in their lives. One by one the others "spread themselves on the wind", gradually becoming "thinner and thinner... until only the wind remained." Apollo is the last remaining one of his kind, and determined to recreate his glory days of godhood.
Back with the Enterprise officers, they have located a power source in the vicinity and speculate that it seems to feed into Apollo somehow - he has an extra organ in his chest that McCoy cannot make sense of, which may allow him to gather and utilise this energy source somehow. Chekov notes that Apollo often looks tired or pained when he leaves, and they speculate that he has a limited ability to expend energy. It is thus possible that they can provoke him into exhausting himself.
On the Enterprise, Spock proposes to penetrate the forcefield in a few selected areas by generating M-rays on discrete wavelengths. This, he hopes, will allow the ship to then act further against Apollo.
When Apollo next appears Kirk and his officers attempt to goad and provoke him into attacking them, thus weakening himself. Lieutenant Palamas, not knowing the plan, urges mercy and compassion on Apollo, and he relents and departs. Kirk has a talk with her and explains that even if she has some feelings for Apollo, her duty is to her fellow Humans and requires her to act against him. He essentially orders her to spurn Apollo's advances in the most cruel and painful way possible, reasoning that if he thrives on adulation and worship then such an approach may weaken him.
Spock gets sensor readings through the field and is able to determined that the energy source is the Greek-style temple the officers are at. Kirk orders him to be ready to fire on the temple. Meanwhile Lieutenant Palamas spurns Apollo as ordered, laughing at his suggestion that she could possible have loved him and describing him as merely an interesting study project for her work. Combined with the rejection of the other officers Apollo is suitably weakened, and Spock fires a sustained phaser barrage at the temple as the officers take cover. Apollo attempts to fight back, but although his energy blasts rock the Enterprise the ship proves equal to the task, and the temple is reduced to a burned out ruin and Apollo defeated.
A tearful Apollo practically begs Kirk for worship, but Kirk demurs. With no other choice, Apollo "spreads" himself out into nothingness, effectively ending his life. A victorious but saddened Kirk wonders if it wouldn't have harmed them to have given Apollo at least some small part of what he needed, and they depart.
|The Trouble With Tribbles
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|The Enterprise is in the vicinity of Sherman's Planet, a world claimed by both the Federation and the Klingon Empire, when they pick up a Code One Emergency from the nearby Deep Space Station K-7. The code is reserved only for the most dire disasters, so Kirk takes the ship in expecting the worst. On arrival, though, he finds the station apparently peaceful and untroubled. The commander of the station, a Mr. Lurry, asks Kirk to come over to the station to talk. On arrival, a furious Kirk finds the Federation Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Nilz Baris, in Lurry's office with his assistant Arne Darvin.
Baris admits that he ordered the emergency code because the station is currently holding a large stock of Quadrotriticale, a genetically engineered grain to be used on Sherman's Planet. He is worried that the Klingons will attempt to sabotage the grain, as this would seriously hamper the Federation's attempts to develop the planet - and under the terms of the Organian peace treaty, the planet will belong to whomever can best use it. Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the use of the emergency code for what he sees as such a trivial reason, but is forced to concede that Baris has the authority to issue it and to order Kirk to provide security. He reluctantly assigns two guards to the storage compartments and returns to the ship.
As the Enterprise orbits the station a Klingon cruiser arrives, prompting Kirk to go to battle stations. However the ship's commander beams over to the station and merely requests shore leave for his crew there; under the treaty Mr, Lurry must agree, but Kirk is deeply suspicious of the Klingon Captain, Koloth, and places limits on the number of crew who can come aboard at any given time. He also informs Koloth that he will assign a security guard to follow each and every Klingon on the station. Baris is extremely unhappy with this development, and wastes no time in venting his anger on an increasingly frustrated Kirk.
On K-7 Uhura and Chekov are enjoying some time in the station bar where an independent trader named Cyrano Jones is trying to sell his wares. These include a Tribble - a small creature which looks like a spherical ball of fur with no visible limbs or features. Tribbles emit a soft purring sound when stroked, and Uhura finds it adorable. Jones gives her one as a free sample and agrees a deal with the bar owner to supply some more.
Uhura's tribble quickly reproduces, giving birth to a whole litter of small Tribbles which she distributes them to the crew as gifts. The Tribbles in the bar also reproduce, making it impossible for Jones to sell more. He tries to sell them to the Klingons, but the Tribbles react to proximity to a Klingon with a distressed shrieking sound - and the Klingons seem to like Tribbles no better than the Tribbles like them.
The Klingons begin needling Enterprise personnel in the bar about what a terrible person Kirk is. Scotty, as the senior officer present, restrains Chekov from starting a fight - but when the Klingons begin to mock the Enterprise Scotty himself throws the first punch and a large bar brawl breaks out. Kirk logs the incident as a 'small disturbance' and confines Scotty to his quarters, which delights the Engineer as he will have time to read up on his technical journals.
Meanwhile the Tribbles are reproducing at a fantastic rate, every one of them giving birth to large litters of offspring every twelve hours. Soon thousands of them are overrunning the ship, and much to Kirk's annoyance there seems to be no way to stop them. When he tries to order a meal he finds that the Tribbles have gotten into all the ship's machinery, including the food system, and are consuming their supplies rapidly. Spock notes that the Quadrotriticale is being stored under similar conditions on K-7, which is also being overrun by the furry menace.
Kirk beams to K-7 and hurries to the storage compartments to check on the grain - only to find that the compartments are stuffed with almost two million Tribbles who have eaten all the grain in the process of reproducing. However, a scan reveals that many of the Tribbles are dead, and the rest are rapidly dying - victims of the grain, which had been poisoned.
A furious Baris blames Kirk for the fiasco, threatening to have his career in ruins. Koloth also demands an apology for the brawl, which he blames purely on Kirk's men. Koloth also demands the removal of the Tribbles which are crowding the room, as he suffers from the same dislike of them as other Klingons. As Kirk moves to take them away he passes Baris's aide, Arne Darvin - and the Tribbles shriek as soon as they get close to him. A quick examination by McCoy shows that Darvin is a Klingon, a spy working to sabotage the Sherman's Planet project - it was he who poisoned the grain with a virus which prevented the food being absorbed into the body.
With his own aide shown to be the cause of all the trouble Baris's threats against Kirk are rendered moot, and with the Klingons shown to be behind the sabotage Kirk is able to brush off Koloth's complaints and order him out of Federation space. A new shipment of grain is ordered for Sherman's Planet, which now should fall quite easily under Federation control. Kirk orders Cyrano Jones to clear up all the Tribbles on the station, a task Spock estimates will take him 17.9 years - his alternative being to be charged with disrupting a space station, a crime which carries a 20 year sentence.
A victorious Kirk returns to the Enterprise to find it wholly Tribble free. After some prevaricating, his officers admit to the method they used - they beamed the entire population of Tribbles into the engine room of the Klingon ship just before it went to warp. Where, as Scotty puts it, 'they'll be no Tribble at all'. Imagining the chaos that must be going on aboard the Klingon ship, the officers share a laugh as the episode ends.
|And the Children Shall Lead
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|Investigating a remote outpost, the Enterprise finds a a group of children alive among the dead bodies of their parents. As the ship leaves it becomes clear that there is more to the children than meets the eye.
|The Empath
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|The Enterprise arrives at the star Minaria, due to go nova in a short time, to evacuate a Federation research outpost which has been monitoring the system. On arrival Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to find the facility deserted. They choose to remain on the planet when a giant solar flare forces the Enterprise to leave the system for several days, confident that the atmosphere will protect them from any radiation. No sooner has the ship left than the landing party is beamed to a chamber deep underground where they encounter Gem, a mysterious alien woman with empathic powers but no language capability. A pair of aliens called Vians appear and explain that they are testing Gem to see if her species is worth of salvaging from the effects of the nova. Gem is capable of using her mental abilities to absorb the pain and injuries of others into herself; the Vians intend to torture the Enterprise officers in order to find out whether Gem will cure them despite the suffering it will cause her. If she is ultimately willing to sacrifice herself for others, the Vians will take this as a sign that her life is worth saving.
The Vians put the Enterprise officers through a series of ordeals, with the three practically fighting amongst themselves to be the one who will be tortured in place of their friends. Ultimately Gem does indeed take all of their suffering upon herself, ending her own life. Declaring themselves satisfied, the Vians return the Enterprise officers to their ship and the Enterprise continues on its way.
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Tour DeFleur 5K Run to be held at Binghamton University
Lace up your sneakers for the fourth annual Tour DeFleur 5K Run to be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 17, on the Binghamton University campus. Registration begins at 10 a.m. in lot E-1 located behind the East Gym tennis courts.
The race will follow the Binghamton Varsity Cross Country course concluding with an awards presentation. Prizes will be given to the top three male and female finishers, as well as the best in each age category.
A 100-yard dash Kids Fun Run will start at 11:45 a.m. and various student performance groups will be on hand for entertainment, as well as a variety of activities and free snacks.
Runners and walkers can sign up in the East Gym Membership Services Office, Room #139. The pre-registration fee is $10.00 and day of race registration is $15, which includes post-race refreshments. A $2 discount will be offered to registrants that have a valid University ID card. The first 100 registrants will receive a t-shirt.
Tour DeFleur is sponsored by Sodexo, Campus Recreation, and the Eating Awareness Committee. All proceeds will be donated to the Binghamton University Eating Awareness Committee for educational programming and resources.
For more information contact firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://campusrecreation.binghamton.edu/TourDeFleur.html


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I ran across this near the head of Pistol Canyon a couple years ago when Roger and I were hiking/camping/exploring up on Peter's Mesa.
I should have placed something there to give some perspective, but if I recall it was in the 2-3 foot diameter range and there were no other depressions or anything similar near it.
I figure it's quite likely one or more of you have come across this same feature in your time exploring out there, so I was hoping someone could help me figure out whether this is just one of those natural features, or if it's something man made - and if so, what would it have been? I'll re-size the photo tonight so it's easier to see.
I'm going to follow this up with some other photos from that trip as well, but it might take a few more days.


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Inside Hurricane Sandy: The Daily Beast Reports
Screwed in Red Hook
by Eliza Shapiro
Five feet of seawater tore through the streets of the low-lying Brooklyn neighborhood Monday night. While the owner of one flooded bar is pledging to stay open, a teary billiards-hall proprietor says she's ruined. Eliza Shapiro reports.
Manhattanites Assess the Damage
by Matthew DeLuca
A brilliant explosion, and then darkness: the morning after the Frankenstorm, Matthew DeLuca reports on the scene in lower Manhattan.
A Trickle Of Evacuees At Brooklyn Shelter
by Michael Keller
Just 75 evacuees had arrived at a shelter in Red Hook as of Tuesday morning, but the number could rise.
NYU Hospital Evacuated
by Abby Haglage
Pouring rain, vicious wind, and a roaring line of ambulances aren't ideal conditions for newborns. But despite Hurricane Sandy, they still came—and then were evacuated. Abby Haglage reports from NYU's Tisch Hospital.
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Havoc in Alphabet City
by Lizzie Crocker
The powerful storm battered the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, submerging police cars and blocking the sewage system with debris as wary residents watched for possible looters.
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Stuy Town Dark, Flooded
by Matt DeLuca
Residents of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town try to carry on as usual, walking dogs, going out for smokes, and checking the street in the face of a power outage and high water wrought by the superstorm.
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Waiting for Sandy's Worst
by Michael Daly
With bridges closed, transportation suspended, and power out for many, New York hunkered down Monday evening. Michael Daly reports on the damaging high tide—and the reports of building collapses.
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Who's on the D.C. Streets?
by Lauren Ashburn
The nation's capital is deserted as Hurricane Sandy strikes. Lauren Ashburn talks to a few of the hardy souls, from tourists to construction workers to a pizzeria manager, who braved the torrential rains.
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Manhattan Battens Down (Sorta)
By Matt DeLuca
Some New Yorkers seek shelter while others blithely brave the wind and rain—and ignore police tape—to get in one more jog or stroll, or just a keepsake photo of the rising tide, Matthew DeLuca reports.
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Brooklyn: Let's Get Drunk!
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Ignoring warnings to hunker down, determined New Yorkers go about their business—and hit the bars. Eliza Shapiro reports from the scene.
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Alternate name: Blue Oak, Mossycup Oak, Burr Oak
Family: Fagaceae, Beech view all from this family
Description Burr oak is a large, deciduous tree with a very wide, open crown. Usually wider than tall, the tree can exceed 100 ft. in height and width. The massive trunk supports heavy, horizontal limbs and rough, deep-ridged bark. Catkins appear just before or with the appearance of new leaves. Large-lobed leaves are glossy-green above, silvery below and turn brown in fall.
Habitat Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Grasslands & prairies, Watersides (fresh), Fields.
Range Southeast, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Texas, Great Lakes, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Plains, New England.
Comments Drought-resistant, long-lived and reasonably fast-growing for an oak. Tolerates limey soils better than other oaks. Susceptible to oak wilt and a number of other problems. Sensitive to root zone disturbance caused by construction.
Exposure Preference Sun.
Native Distribution Nova Scotia to s. Saskatchewan & s.e. Montana, s. to Alabama & Texas
Site Preference Prairies; open woods; sandy ridges; stream edges
Soil Preference Various soils & moisture conditions. pH 4.6-8.
Wildlife Value Attracts songbirds, ground birds and mammals.


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We have something very exciting to announce! Along with the Viewers Choice Awards, we are having a fund raising drive. Now unlike other boring whining fundraisers that other sites may have, this one will (hopefully) be fun, exciting, and short.
AnimeMusicVideos.org receives the vast majority of its funding through donations. The site usually has two or three months of cash reserve on hand from regular monthly donations. If we accumulate more than that, we upgrade our equipment. If we have less than that, we chill out and wait for it to build back up.
Right now, however, we are hovering around the one-month reserve amount on hand. This doesn't mean that the Org is going away. It just means that our usual "please donate" message needs a little awareness boost. With our recent hardware upgrade (Derobert has done an AWESOME job of getting that done for us, THANK YOU!!!) taking us from "totally filled up" to "we've got acres of free space for new videos", we now have the perfect donation incentive.
The Contest
Our server upgrade has left us with a stack of old, unused, but perfectly functional hard drives. What better for us to do with them than to give them away! And not just "give them away" but give them away filled with the best AMVs ever!!
Right now, we have two sizes of drives capable of holding around 3250 videos or 5000 videos each. (Just think how long it would take you to download that many videos!) Each hard drive will be filled to capacity with the best AMVs found here on AnimeMusicVideos.org ordered by star scale. To determine who gets the drives, we are going to hold two simultaneous contests each week until we either run out of drives or we reach our goal of the site's annual budget of $30,600, whichever comes first. Now for the gory details:
- 1. To enter the contest, you must be a valid member of AnimeMusicVideos.org.
2. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Members who wish to enter without a donation can send a mailed entry to the regular donation address. One entry per no-purchase mailed entry. Entries must contain the member's username and user ID number to be valid.
3. Members may also enter by donation.
- a. All eligibility determinations below will be based on the US dollar (meaning if you happen to donate in a non-US currency, it will be converted to US dollars before anything else happens below).
b. Each donator will receive 1 entry per US dollar received (meaning that if you donate $20, you receive 20 chances to win that week's hard drive).
5. On Sunday, a drawing will be held for the 3250 AMV hard drive with the eligible entries received the previous week.
- a. All valid entries will be pooled together and one winner will be chosen at random.
b. Once a winner has been chosen, the remaining entries will be discarded and will not be used for this portion of the contest in future drawings (meaning that the entries for week 1 will not be used in the week 2 contest and so on).
c. You may enter as many times each week as you like.
- a. The amount of the winning donation will not be known during that week's contest (thus making this similar to a "blind auction").
b. Donations for this prize are cumulative from week to week (meaning the amount donated from week 1 will be added to the amount donated week 2 to determine the winner of the week 2 contest; the contest for week 3 will sum the donation amounts of weeks 1, 2, and 3, and so on and so forth).
c. In the case of an exact tie in the winning donation amount, the member who donated first during this contest will be declared that week's winner.
d. The winner of the 5000 AMV hard drive will not be eligible for that week's 3250 AMV hard drive contest (meaning you can only win one hard drive that week).
8. Winners will be notified by email using the email address associated with their account and by forum post.
9. Prizes must be claimed within 14 calendar days of being notified.
- a. Winners must provide the name and mailing address of where they want their hard drive to be sent.
b. To avoid fraud, claim information must be provided to email@example.com using the winning member's listed email account (please be sure your account information is up to date).
c. AnimeMusicVideos.org will provide the hard drive, packaging, and shipping costs for the prize.
d. Any unclaimed prizes will be returned to the prize pool after 14 calendar days for future contests.
The contest will start Sunday, February 22, 2009, and will continue as long as needed. We currently have 12 of each kind of drive (24 drives total). If the contest ends early because we have reached our donation goal, remaining drives (if any) will be saved and used for future events. In addition to the contest, all donators will receive the usual site donator's benefits.
To further emphasize the importance of donations, Google ads will be removed for the duration of this contest. If the full budget amount is reached before the end of this contest, the ads will be removed for an entire year!
As an extra incentive to get the ball rolling, I (Phade) will personally match the first week's largest donation received up to $1000. That's right: if you donate a grand, I'll donate a grand (plus you're probably going to get a hard drive ).
AnimeMusicVideos.org has survived on donations for years and we plan on continuing this tradition. We hope this contest will be a big success, allowing us to be here for years to come!
Thanks again, good luck, and have fun!!
*** EDIT: *** Since we only have 8 working 160GB drives, we will end this contest on April 18. If you want in on it, your donation must be RECEIVED before April 19 gets to the United States, Eastern Time.


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Program OverviewAuthorized Farmers and Market ListsFarmers and Market ManagersWIC Local AgencyFMNP Training MaterialContacts
California WIC supports the consumption of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables and encourages shopping at community farmers markets. In addition to CalFresh EBT, there are three food benefit programs available at many farmers' markets. Two of the food benefit programs supported by WIC and the other is supported by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for seniors.
The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets to WIC families and seniors. Each eligible WIC family or senior receives $20 in checks each season to purchase fresh fruits, vegetables, and cut herbs from a WIC authorized farmer at WIC authorized market in California. All WIC authorized markets must be certified by CDFA as a Certified Farmers' Market.
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In October 2009, fruit and vegetables were added to the WIC food package for participants to purchase at authorized grocery stores. In May 2010 the first farmers' market was authorized to accept WIC fruit and vegetable checks. Since 2010, over 200 farmers and 35 markets have been authorized to accept the fruit and vegetable checks. For the list of authorized farmers and markets please go to the Authorized Farmer and Market Lists.
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As others have stated, it really depends on the situation. Some places it is useless,...and maybe even counterproductive,...to try to locate birds,....and in other places it is an absolute must to use locator calls and try to locate gobblers on the roost. Personally, if I am hunting a significantly large area that I am not familiar with, I will use locator calls to actively try to find birds before I start hunting. I don't consider that to be just important in my hunting strategy,...I consider it to be essential.
On large tracts of public land, in particular,...and especially out here in the west where turkeys are sometimes widely scattered across vast areas,...it is crucial to first find the birds before you start hunting them. Spending your first morning doing nothing but covering as much country as possible and using a good locator call,...especially in those first couple of hours at first light,...will often mean the difference between success and failure over the course of your hunt.
But even on small tracts where you can hear from one end to the other from one location, it is sometimes advisable to make a bird spit out a gobble earlier than he might on his own, so that you can approach the roost under the cover of darkness.


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Free basketball tickets offered for tsunami aid donation, Jan. 24
Posted January 14, 2005; 02:57 p.m.
The Department of Athletics, in conjunction with Princeton Tsunami Relief, is offering free tickets to the men's basketball game Monday, Jan. 24, against Haverford to raise funds for countries affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Fans who donate $10 or more will receive free tickets and a free snack at the concession stand at the game, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Jadwin Gym. For more information, contact Brie Galicinao.
Princeton Tsunami Relief, a coalition of student groups, also is collecting donations daily at the 100 level of the Frist Campus Center, residential college dining halls and eating clubs. Donations will benefit the International Rescue Committee and CARE USA, which are providing food, water-purification and medical supplies, shelter materials and other emergency supplies to the affected areas.
Princeton Tsunami Relief is sponsored by the South Asian Students Association, Global Issues Forum, Undergraduate Student Government, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, International Center, Inter-Club Council, Outdoor Action, Student Volunteers Council, Princeton UNICEF and Princeton Humanity Project. For more information about the fund-raising effort, contact Akanksha Hazari.


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I've got another little dilemma for you. I'm wondering what the best way is to implement this kind of level map for a game in C++ is. The map is supposed to be a regular 2D grid of. What I have is something similar to this:
enum TileType { // not an enum in the current code though but should be changed to one ... }; class LevelTile { private: TileType tileType; ... (various flags and settings in here) ... public: ... }; class LevelMap { private: ... std::vector< std::vector< LevelTile > > mapTiles; ... public: ... };
The trick part is representing the different types of tiles. Here, I have the tiles referred to by a type-field. But then we need a bunch of switch statements to give different tile behaviors based on different types of tiles. Would it be better to use multiple types of LevelTile (i.e. derived classes)? But then comes the questions of:
1. we need to then store an array of pointers,
2. we need to allocate on the heap with new (and that takes more time, doesn't it, than just updating a type field) if we want to change a tile
3. when changing a tile, we need to be able to preserve its flags, which means we need some kind of "copyFlags()" function or something in LevelTile that would need to be called when doing such a change and so would complicate setting one tile to that of another type, or have conversion code for each kind of tile
Though these may not be insurmountable problems (e.g. in issue 3, we could have some kind of "mutateTile()" function in LevelMap that wraps up that calling of copyFlags() etc.). But I'd like to be clear as to which way is the "preferred" way of doing this: multiple types of Tile or type-field.


text: Prenzlauer Berg is Berlin's premier café district, and the trendiest address in town. Scarred in the war and left untouched during communist rule, buildings have now been renovated and property values continue to rise. There are weekly street markets on Kollwitzplatz and Helmholtzplatz, and breweries in the Kulturbrauerei and Pfefferberg. The painter Max Liebermann is buried in the Jewish Cemetery.


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2nd Annual Wine Down the Summer
Date & Time
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 6:30pm
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Ring in the end of summer at Vickie and Tommy Baker's home on Sullivan's Island and enjoy cocktails and treats while taking in the views of Conch Creek. Buy travel items and home entertainment decor in the silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Camp Happy Days' programs for South Carolina children fighting cancer and donations are appreciated. Tickets include a full bar and heavy hor d'oeuvres. Home of Vickie and Tommy Baker, 3314 Jasper Blvd., Sullivan's Island. Friday, 6:30pm. $50. (834)571-4336, www.camphappydays.org


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Lisa Schlichtman began her tenure as editor Monday. She comes to the Pilot & Today after more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter, editor, owner and publisher in the communities of Cassville and Monett in southwest Missouri.
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