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But a few of my other friends have said I was too harsh on her and I shouldn't hold it against her just because she was late.
Chronically late people irritate me almost beyond description. And the reason is that the person (and their defenders) don't give one tiny darn about anyone else. They don't care that you are inconvenienced. They don't respect anyone (you) or anything (a concert's starting time). They see themselves as important and everyone and everything else as subject to them. They believe that their lateness should be honored because they want it. In short, they are IT, and the rest of the world can kiss their ...watches.
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Quote from: LV426 on February 08, 2013, 04:45:26 PMBut a few of my other friends have said I was too harsh on her and I shouldn't hold it against her just because she was late.Your friends are nitwits. Possibly also nincompoops, but it's hard to be sure with only this one example. But definitely nitwits.
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I'm not interested in capturing precise scenes and certainly don't regard myself as a painter of realism.
Before I begin painting I spend many hours developing the colour palette and I've finally found a family of colour that brings my work to life and I enjoy working with.
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The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), as part of its contract to improve the quality of institutional research in U.S. postsecondary education systems and hence, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), announces a new national graduate fellowship program funded by the National Center for Education statistics (NCES).
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As we close out this console generation, most sequels are
humming comfortably along by making minor adjustments to their base gameplay.
Not sports games. While some of the best performing games got by with minor
improvements, both Madden and NHL made wholesale changes to their franchise
modes to varying results. Who rose to the top of our list this year? Read on to
find out.
Best Career Mode: NBA 2K13
Bottom line: This is the best single-player experience
available to sports fans. By allowing users to gain Virtual Currency in any
game mode, Visual Concepts made it much easier to create an impactful player
out of the gate. Whether you set up in the post to dominate down low or hang
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AI is finally smart enough to use you properly when you're off the ball. Off
the court, however, is where this mode rises head and shoulders above the
competition. Whether you are boosting your ego in a post-game press conference,
sitting down with the GM to air your gripes about teammates, managing
endorsement deals, or tracking your followers on Twitter, MyCareer gives you a
taste of what it feels like to be a franchise player.
Best Franchise Mode: FIFA 13
To be the best, you have to beat the best. FIFA 13 achieved
this by going the extra mile, creating immersive storylines that make you feel
like your franchise is a living breathing entity. Unhappy players gripe
publicly when they don't get the playing time they think they deserve and even
demand transfers. The press notices when you make inquiries on the waiver wire,
which can upset your current player in that particular position. Broadcasters
are finally aware of the magnitude of big games and comment when you add new
players to your roster. Best of all, FIFA 13 allows you to couple your
professional managerial duties with an international assignment, which gives
you two rosters to tinker with.
Best Multiplayer: FIFA 13
Many sports games took strides forward in multiplayer in
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This year's installment brings the popular Seasons format to Ultimate Team and
Pro Clubs. Per fan requests, the Pro Clubs are split into Online Pro and Career
Pro to prevent boosting, and the new accomplishments give you more ways to
improve your player stats. Best of all, the network is stable.
Best Presentation: NBA 2K13
Though FIFA is catching up to Visual Concepts by adopting
the contextual commentary that takes into account when in the season the game
is taking place, player performance trends, and roster shake-ups, NBA 2K13 is
still the best in the business. The broadcast team of Kevin Harlan, Clark
Kellogg, and Steve Kerr has a fantastic rapport, and Visual Concepts designs
the running commentary so the trio can begin a discussion about a player,
interrupt it when something notable happens on the court, and return to the
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Deadline to Apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans in West Virginia is December 24
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ATLANTA, Nov. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding businesses in West Virginia that working capital loans are still available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations affected by the severe storms, flooding, mudslides and landslides between March 15 and March 31, 2012.
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Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) up to $2 million are available at 3 percent for private non-profit organizations of all sizes and 4 percent for small businesses, with terms up to
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Applicants may apply online using the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA's secure website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela.
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Deciding it won't just surrender your living room to Apple, Google, Netflix, Roku and a host of other set-top box makers, Microsoft is about to enter this market in a big way, possibly making an announcement at the CES show this week. According to The Seattle Times, the Redmond company will leverage its strong living room presence and combine it with the Windows brand in order to gain advantage over rival companies in this space:
Microsoft's going to make a splash in this market with a stripped-down version of Windows tailored for set-top boxes and connected TVs.
The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.
The boxes should be priced about $200, which is way more than the $99 Apple TV, and are described as having "a polished and familiar TV-program guide that makes it easy to blend and navigate both online and broadcast content."
Although your living room is already a crowded space where multiple set-top box vendors are vying for your attention without a clear leader in sight, some watchers think so-called connected TVs will make set-top boxes obsolete.
Connected TVs typically combine Internet functions with set-top box features to provide an all-in one entertainment solution. DisplaySearch estimates that connected TVs would reach 125 million shipments by 2014, a significant increase over just under 50 million devices shipped globally in 2010.
The upcoming CES will serve as a launchpad for next-generation connected TV sets. Google is absent from the show and the company warned its partners to pull Google TV products until the search giants refines its software that received much criticism, leaving the partners that backed and invested into the project dumb-founded.
Apple TV remains a hobby project despite Apple announcing one millionth sale in December just as rival set-top box from Roku was about to hit the same figure.
Let's not forget Netflix that accounts for 20 percent of peak Internet traffic in the US and is seriously contemplating worldwide roll-out in 2011.
Some analysts repeatedly said Apple would debut a connected TV product of its own in 2012. Other watchers warn that broadband Internet has its limits and cannot scale forever to accommodate data-hungry content like HD video channels.
Microsoft TV, however, could spoil both Google's and Apple's plans. If anything, Microsoft has the market power needed to make a splash and it's ability to negotiate premium content deals with Hollywood shouldn't be underestimated. In addition, they enjoy a lot of credibility in this space thanks to their successful Xbox 360 console.
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Secure-24, a Southfield, Mich.-based provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services, has added a new backup-as-a-service solution to its portfolio of services.
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WASHINGTON, October 13, 2006– The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has inducted 31 landscape architects to its Council of Fellows, a designation that acknowledges extraordinary work, leadership, knowledge, and service to the landscape architecture profession over a sustained period of time. It is one of the highest honors ASLA may confer upon a landscape architect. The new Fellows were formally inducted during the ASLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, October 7, 2006. Fellowship is indicated by use of the suffix "FASLA" after a member's name.
Fellows are nominated in one of four categories: works of landscape architecture; administrative work; knowledge; and service to the profession. This year, 21 chapters are represented, with the Maryland and Massachusetts Chapters each boasting three new Fellows.
The 31 members of the 2006 Class of Fellows include:
- Charles B. Adams, FASLA, Maryland State Highway Administration, Baltimore, Md.
- Leo Alvarez, FASLA, EDAW, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
- Charles M. Anderson, FASLA, Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, Seattle, Wash.
- William Lee Behnke, FASLA, Behnke Associates, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
- Thomas L. Berger, FASLA, The Berger Partnership, P.S., Seattle, Wash.
- Pamela Burton, FASLA, Pamela Burton & Company, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Ethan Carr, FASLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
- Susan Clopton Case, FASLA, Case & Associates, Madison, Miss.
- Sheila M. Condon, FASLA, Clark Condon Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas
- Chip Crawford, FASLA, The HOK Planning Group, St. Louis, Mo.
- Jon F. Crose, FASLA, RDG Planning & Design, Des Moines, Iowa
- Robert R. Grist, FASLA, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
- Conrad Hamerman, FASLA, Conrad Hamerman, Landscape Architect, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Tom Hazlett, FASLA, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
- Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco, Calif.
- Raymond Jungles, FASLA, Raymond Jungles, Inc., Miami, Fla.
- Kenneth Kay, FASLA, Ken Kay Associates, San Francisco, Calif.
- Steven D. Livingston, FASLA, City of Charleston Department of Parks, Charleston, S.C.
- Dennis C. McGlade, FASLA, Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Craig Meyer, FASLA, HOK Sport Venue Event, Kansas City, Mo.
- John H. Nicolaus, FASLA, The HLA Group, Landscape Architects & Planners, Inc., Sacramento, Calif.
- Pearse O'Doherty, FASLA, O'Doherty Group Landscape Architecture, P.C., Annapolis, Md.
- Cecelia Paine, FASLA, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
- Stephen P.C. Plunkard, FASLA, Dufrense-Henry, North Springfield, Vt.
- Mark William Rios, FASLA, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Scott Jon Rykiel, FASLA, Mahan Rykiel Association Inc., Baltimore, Md.
- Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA, Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc., Chicago, Ill.
- James K. Tiller, FASLA, J. K. Tiller Associates, Inc., Bluffton, S.C.
- Alan L. Ward, FASLA, Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass.
- Lee Weintraub, FASLA, Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture, LLC, Yonkers, N.Y.
- Lynn Wolff, FASLA, Copley Wolff Design Group, Inc., Boston, Mass.
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DIXON – A bit of the Antiques Roadshow is coming to Dixon Public Library.
Mark Moran, who has appeared on the popular PBS show, will do appraisals from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave.
Moran, of Iola, Wis., will appraise fine art, furniture, ceramics, glassware, vintage photographs, folk art, toys, metalware, clocks, and costume jewelry. He does not appraise coins, paper money, fine jewelry, musical instruments, Beanie Babies or weapons of any kind, including knives.
The cost is $15 per item. Proceeds, minus Moran's $400 in expenses, will benefit the library and will come to about $200 if all time slots are filled.
Moran also will make house calls; he charges $75 and will give the library 10 percent.
Sign up at the library before Oct. 21 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Payment by cash or check must be made at the time of registration.
The money likely will be used for building improvements, said Director Lynn Roe, who hopes to remodel the spot in the adult section where reference books used to be into an area for new books with chairs and laptop tables.
Go to dixonpubliclibrary.org or call 815-284-7261 for more information on the fundraiser; go mark-moran.blogspot.com for more on Moran.


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Olympic Gold medalist Bryan Clay featured in Hawai'i media campaign promoting college and career readinessUniversity of Hawaiʻi
HONOLULU, HAWAIʻI — www.p20hawaii.org — Hawaiʻi P-20 Partnerships for Education, a partnership between the Good Beginnings Alliance, Department of Education and University of Hawaiʻi System announced today that Hawaiʻi's own Bryan Clay will be featured in the 2009 media campaign promoting college and career readiness. Clay, a graduate of Castle High School and Azusa Pacific University, received a gold medal for the decathlon in the 2008 Olympics.
"Bryan Clay's remarkable accomplishments, his talent and drive make him the perfect role model for Hawaiʻi's teens," says Tammi Oyadomari-Chun, Hawaiʻi P-20's executive director. "Bryan has said that going to college influenced his life greatly, and he credits this experience as being a turning point which led him to his present achievement as ʻthe world's greatest athlete.'" Oyadomari-Chun added that Clay is contributing his time for this effort because of his strong belief in supporting post-secondary education for Hawaiʻi's youth.
The multi-media campaign featuring Clay is scheduled to start on January 1, 2009. The campaign is sponsored by GEAR UP Hawaiʻi and its partners, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The Learning Coalition, and the University of Hawaiʻi Federal Credit Union.
GEAR UP Hawaiʻi, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, is a federally funded program with the mission to significantly increase the number of students who are prepared to enter and succeed in college. The program provides information, resources and financial assistance for low-income students and those who are in traditionally underrepresented populations. For more information, visit our website at www.gearup.hawaii.edu.
Hawaiʻi P-20 Partnerships for education is a statewide partnership led by the Good Beginnings Alliance, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education and the University of Hawaiʻi System that is working to strengthen the education pipeline from early childhood through higher education so that all students achieve college and career success. Hawaiʻi P-20's partners share a sense of urgency about the need to improve Hawaiʻi's educational outcomes in an increasingly global economy, and have established a goal of 55% of Hawaiʻi's working age adults having a 2- or 4-year college degree by 2025. For more information, visit our website at www.p20hawaii.org.


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Ex-treasurer's case continued
The Hickory woman accused of stealing money from an elementary school organization had her case continued in court.
Holly Lafone Specht, 30, is charged with stealing money from the Webb A. Murray Elementary School's Parent Teacher Organization when she served as the organization's treasurer during the 2008-09 school year.
Specht was scheduled to appear in Catawba County Superior Court on Tuesday, but her attorney, Mark Killian, appeared in her place.
Specht's attorney requested the case be continued, so he could obtain evidence relating to the investigation from third parties.
The prosecution didn't object to the continuance, and Catawba County Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin scheduled Specht's next court appearance for March 7.
She is charged with embezzlement by a public official, obtaining property by false pretenses and four counts of forging endorsement.
Specht allegedly stole thousands of dollars from the Murray Elementary PTO while serving as treasurer. She also reportedly purchased personal items from Sam's Club while using the PTO's money and forged the PTO's signature on checks made out to cash.
Specht turned herself into authorities shortly after being indicted on the charges in April. She was released from jail on a $4,000 unsecured bond.


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We recently announced the winners of the OpenTable Diners' Choice award for the Top 50 Most Romantic Restaurants. Of the 50, a whopping 12 were Melting Pot restaurants, where fondue anchors the menus. Two other winners, La Fondue and Simply Fondue, are also, as you might have guessed by their names, fondue-friendly eateries. The Chicago Tribune's food blog, The Stew, picked up on our list's fromage factor and ran with it, while the clever folks over at Eater didn't want to give a shout out to these restaurants when they generously covered our list, saying, "[F]ondue hasn't been considered romantic since Three's Company went off the air." The fact remains, however, that many diners find fondue to be the perfect mood food for a romantic evening.
What exactly is it that makes love bloom over melted cheese and other cook-it-yourself delights? We weren't quite sure, so we reached out to our network of diners over Facebook and Twitter. Bulbul Gupta says, "Interactive food is always a great date dinner idea, interactive anything is very romantic — you learn to share early on and can easily feed each other with a one-foot distance without it getting overly mushy…perfect!" Diner Teresa Miller concurs, "The Melting Pot in Larkspur is VERY romantic. The location is in an old brick kiln with lots of low lighting. Cheese is comfort food, hence the reason why romance blooms when bellies are satisfied!" Jennifer Kaplan, also a fondue fan, says, "My husband and I do find it romantic. The lighting is low and the tables are reasonably secluded. We enjoy lingering over our dinner and find the food to be very good." Ryan Mathus tweets, "I find fondue/Melting Pot cool just because it's not your traditional meal and more hands on. It's all about us." Fellow tweep Jen Fairchild notes, rather poetically (or erotically?), "Fondue is steamy and hot and thick and creamy and good…just like love!"
Perhaps the best and not-at-all cheesy cheese story we heard comes from OpenTable diner Cara Couture of Charlotte, North Carolina. She writes, "My husband and I go to The Melting Pot any time we have reason to celebrate — graduation, anniversary, new job, a Friday night — but our favorite reason was to celebrate our engagement. In between the limo ride and the chartered plane trip around the city of Columbus, Ohio, my then-fiancé made dinner reservations at our favorite restaurant, The Melting Pot, where a bouquet of roses was at our regular table with a congratulations card signed by the restaurant staff. To this day, that remains the most romantic night of my life." Sigh. My husband's marriage proposal is looking more and more lame the more stories I hear like this one (a chartered plane?). But, I digress.
To find out if the people from The Melting Pot had any insights as to why their dining experience is so aphrodisiacal, we reached out to Chad Hornik, who owns several Melting Pot locations, including those in Richmond and Virginia Beach, which were included on our Top 50 Most Romantic Restaurants winners for 2010. Hornik says of his restaurants' romantic appeal, "Dining with fondue creates an aura of romance. It's a participation meal — you're cooking, helping, talking. Even if the conversation gets awkward, diners can talk about the food." Also, "The lighting is dim, and each table is designed to have its own intimate atmosphere. We even have curtains that block off some of our tables, and sometimes we have to knock before we enter!" The Melting Pot, though, is more than just cheese. Hornik adds, "The cheese is just the appetizer. It's a relaxed four-course dining experience, and the desserts…well, dipping strawberries into chocolate is pretty romantic."
Chad, you had me (and, most certainly, my chocoholic husband) at strawberries and chocolate. Perhaps a a trip to The Melting Pot will prompt a second proposal. And, yes, Curt, that means a second ring.


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Toledo's City Council has begun its annual process to prepare next year's city budget and it started last week.
On Jan. 7, the city council listened to budget reviews and requests from a handful of city departments and other individuals that are paid by the city. Most groups were quick with their presentation as they just reviewed their 2013-2014 budget and discussed their requests for next year.
Toledo Fire Chief Joe Boll started the night with a short presentation. Boll said the fire department had more calls during the past year, but he isn't requesting any more money as some funds increase, while others are decreasing.
"I think we can handle next year's budget with zero growth, meaning the same as last year," Boll said. "I'm pretty confident we can live with this budget. The wildcard in all of us this whether or not it's going to be another dry year. None of us can say if it's going to be dry or not."
Greg Johnson, Toledo ambulance director, followed Boll with a short presentation. He said he's dropping the repair and maintenance by $1,000 because the department purchased a new truck this year.
However, Johnson said he wanted to increase the operating supplies and materials by $2,000 and medical supplies by $3,000 because they had a 6 percent increase in calls this year.
Jenny Bledsoe, Toledo Library director, and Kathy Holtz, president of the library trustees, followed Boll at the meeting. Holtz did most of the talking for the library and she said the foundation is requesting a small increase for wages.
"We are requesting a 3 percent increase of the funds you gave us last year," Holtz said. "We'd like to give our staff a cost-of-living increase of 3 percent. We're asking for a little more for our director. Jenny (Bledsoe) has done a lot of training and taken a lot of responsibilities of becoming tech-savvy to assist all of the people who use the library. In return, it's helped us, because we don't have to pay tech support to come in as often and that's saved us a lot of money."
Holtz and Bledsoe also said they want to increase the wages of the library custodian. They said she isn't paid enough, in their opinion, and they don't want to lose her, because she does more than her seven hours of work per week, such as clean all of the library windows.
Near the end of their presentation, council member Terry Goodhart asked City Clerk Julie Wilkerson if the council needed to budget roof repairs for the library. Goodhart and Wilkerson said the roof should be evaluated for repairs.
City of Toledo Police Chief Bob Kendall talked to the city council about several issues during his presentation. Kendall said he has budgeted wage increases for some of his officers next year, because they will be moving up a step in the salary scale. He also said he'd like to request more money in the repair and maintenance fund.
"The reason being is I had so many problems with them this year," Kendall said. "I'm not going to budget for another car this year. I'm going to hold off and I think we can get by for another year with what we have."
However, Kendall said the department could decrease its funds that pay City Attorney Nancy Burk. The former police chief budgeted around $7,000 for those fees, but Kendall would like to cut that amount in half.
"We aren't using (Burk) as much," Kendall said. "Every time we take someone to jail, it's written on state charges, no city charges. That saves the city a bunch of money there. I want to cut that in half."
His final budget request was for the operations supplies fund. Kendall said the department needs a new copier/printer. He upgraded his computer to run on Windows 7, but the current copier/printer isn't compatible for Windows 7. However, Kendall said he wants to upgrade the other office computer to Windows 7, because it currently runs on Windows XP, an older system, and he'd like to buy a copier/printer that will work with Windows 7 and both computers.
"I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place," Kendall said. "We could lease one or buy one. If we buy one, it's about $3,500. But if we lease one, it's $99.66 a month, but it's for six years. If you lease one, it does come up lots of stuff, like parts, labor, service, toner, upgrade guarantees and other benefits. But it's for six years."
The city council briefly discussed the printer issue. The council is considering leasing one from the same company that the City of Toledo uses to see if it can get a cheaper deal.
Dwayne and Pam Wood, Director of Public Works Mark Zmolek and Wilkerson also talked about their budget with the council. The city council met again Monday night to further discuss budget requests.


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Pride combines bash scripts, zenity, ant, ImageMagick, and the Android tools to create a fast and simple POSIX alternative for Android development. It provides all the basic commands (clean, build, release, etc.) of other Android IDEs. But it is primarily a robust and simple injection framework. Injections from methods to clusters of activities are easily created from existing code and can then be injected into any project. Pride can also be used to batch build, load, or release multiple projects and can update class and resource files among projects that use the same objects or resources.
Release Notes: Pride now has Cluster, or activity group, injections. The first cluster is SetSubsetResult, which handles files of single-line data. Sets can be created, removed, imported, and exported. Subsets, or the lines of content, can be created, removed, or renamed. The Result activity is used to create the content lines. A bugfix was made to the PRAFileHandler class in getExtFileAs[Array/List].
Teddy is an easy-to-read, HTML-based, mostly logic-less DOM templating engine with support for both server-side and client-side templating. It uses new HTML-like <tags> for rudimentary templating logic and Teddy Roosevelt's facial hair for {variables}.
Release Notes: This patch provides a more useful error for when circular data models are passed to teddy. console.error is now used for npm test errors.
BitWrk is creating a marketplace where participants can buy or sell computing power like stocks in a stock exchange, using Bitcoin as currency. The client software can be integrated with existing, compute-intensive applications (e.g. rendering software), creating a big boost by harnessing the combined computing power of the BitWrk network. Sellers earn money by putting their hardware to work, offering an alternative to Bitcoin mining.
Release Notes: BitWrk now has a browser-based graphical user interface and a demo application. For those who would like to try BitWrk early, this is a good release.
Lithium is a lightweight library to be used along with jQuery. It takes care of software patterns like classical inheritance, observable (publisher-subscriber pattern), bind, namespace, IE8 JS 1.6,1.8 polyfills, and more, while jQuery takes care of the DOM.
Release Notes: This beta release includes an API for for data type detection, classical inheritance, publisher-subscriber patterns, scope and argument binding, simple string formatting, DOM construction, and browser detection.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: This release contains many improvements and bugfixes. The minimum supported PHP version is now 5.3, and the minimum MySQL version is 5.5.
CloEDIT is an HTML code editing tool. It allows you to edit files with a clear structural view, and change the organization of contents easily. It is best suited for working on HTML files that have existing design CSS, like Bootstrap 3.0 or Foundation 4 sites.
Release Notes: This release adds a "Quit" item in the main menu (Shortcut key: Ctrl-Q for Linux, CMD-Q for Mac).
"fgallery" is a static photo gallery generator with no frills that has a stylish, minimalist look. It shows your photos, and nothing else. There is no server-side processing, only static generation. The resulting gallery can be uploaded anywhere without additional requirements and works with any modern browser.
Release Notes: This release focuses on mobile browsers support, improving loading speed of large galleries over slow connections, and automatic thumbnail scaling on small screens, and adds swiping support.
OpenLaunch is a Web-based content management system that integrates a broad array of services into a single, fully-featured, elegantly designed Web site. The project aims to eliminte the difficulty of integrating multiple systems into a single Web site by implementing a blog, forum, Web pages, wiki, and (coming soon) E-Commerce and support tickets. It is built around the Torpedo Framework, an open MVC framework which includes support for controllers, forms, and a large number of other very useful utilities.
Release Notes: This is the first beta version of OpenLaunch. This release brings support for discussion forums and wikis into OpenLaunch-powered websites, along with the already implemented support for blogs, pages, etc.
Ajenti is a server administration panel for Linux and FreeBSD with refined frontend usability and support for various server software configuration and management.
Release Notes: HTTP now uses TCP_CORK/NOPUSH for improved transfer speed. File manager now refreshes when returning from a terminal file operation. Scripts have an edit button and display process output when complete. In the dashboard, widgets can be disabled one by one using permissions. Cron now hides users with UID of less than 500. Notepad can now be "chromed". Samba now uses pdbedit to change passwords. The dashboard now auto-refreshes.
Vendetta Online is a multi-platform 3D space-combat MMO for Windows, Mac, Linux/32 and Linux/64. The game permits players to interact in a vast online galaxy; fighting, trading, and mining their way to success. A "twitch" type real-time combat model makes true player skill the deciding factor instead of character advancement. Massive capital-ship battles shake the foundations of the major nations at war, while others struggle to push back the encroachment of the AI "Hives". A no-strings free trial is available.
Release Notes: Collision damage calculation now works more like the 2012 version, but retaining the improvements to threading, etc. Concussion Railguns can now be reloaded. Collisions of less than 50HP of damage are ignored. A new "Power Cell Blaster" is available at a Research station. The Xang Xi Self-Propelled Concussion Mine can now be reloaded. On Android, missing textures on improved ETC1 assets when the shaders are disabled were fixed. Graphics for Tegra4 and Adreno 320+ were improved. Auto-detection of Android-based consoles was improved.
The Cambridge Z88 Software project was created by and for the "die-hard" users of the Cambridge Z88, the iPad of the 80s. Its object is to streamline the operating system, OZ, and build new Z88 applications by replacing the built-in ROM with a larger device. It also includes a Z88 emulator and debugging environment.
Release Notes: The Z88 Assembler Workbench Tools were updated.
OZvm is principally a hardware emulation of the Cambridge Z88 portable computer, a Z80 CPU system with 4Mb addressable memory, a monochrome 640x64 LCD, and RS-232 serial port. It allows you to install any ROM or application card binary that also runs on a real Z88 portable. OZvm is also a versatile Z80 assembler debugging environment with a command line, screen activity recording, and Z80 instruction logging. It assists the developer in testing Z80 assembler programming of the Z88 operating system or 3rd party applications.
Release Notes: New "boz" and "bozd" debugger commands have been added to intercept execution of OZ system calls. F8, F9, and F10 were mapped to soft reset, hard reset, and double screen size functions. The OZ V4.4 ROM is also bundled as part of this release.
irked is an IRC client that runs as a daemon accepting notification requests as JSON objects presented to a listening socket. It is meant to be used by hook scripts in version-control repositories, allowing them to send commit notifications to project IRC channels. A hook script that works with git, hg, and svn is included in the distribution.
Release Notes: Unicode processing was fixed. It was broken when irclib was removed. Python traceback is now shown on higher debug levels.
taskrambler is a HTTP server that is intended to eventually be used as the user interface provider for a multi-user task management system inspired by taskwarrior. It delivers static assets to Web browsers and some dynamic interaction.
Release Notes: The UI/client has visually improved popups, reorganized JavaScript code, and a new "my account" menu entry and popup where users can see and modify their data. On the backend/server, users are now able to change their first name, surname, and email address after logging in. A generic router that converts request URIs into identifiers for dlsym and then calls the function was added. All post data is now URL decoded. The storage layer now allows the deletion of entries. There were also fixes and a lot more.
RackTables is a tool to manage tens of racks, hundreds of servers, and thousands of MAC and IP addresses. It will work with a single rack as well. It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an extensible dictionary.
Release Notes: This release accumulates many minor changes. Some bugs were fixed. Dictionary and SNMP support was provided for many new hardware models. Some performance problems were resolved. The UI was enhanced with a rack space range selector, better locations support, and a new WYSIWYG permissions editor.
Yersinia implements several attacks for the following protocols: Spanning Tree (STP), Cisco Discovery (CDP), Dynamic Host Configuration (DHCP), Hot Standby Router (HSRP), Dynamic Trunking (DTP), 802.1q, Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL), and VLAN Trunking (VTP). It helps the pen-tester in different tasks, such as becoming the root role in the Spanning Tree, creating virtual CDP neighbors, setting up rogue DHCP servers, becoming the active router in a HSRP scenario, enabling trunk, performing ARP spoofing over VLAN hopping, adding or deleting VLANs (via VTP), and more.
Release Notes: This release fixes an issue with network interfaces under Linux. It fixes a pcap_compile error. It has minor refactoring of interfaces.c.
Gcmc is a front-end language for generating G-code, SVG, and DXF for CNC mills, lathes, laser cutters, and other numerically controlled machines employing G-code, SVG, or DXF. The language is a context-free grammar created to overcome the archaic format of G-code programming, but can be used more generally for many targets. Gcmc aims to be more readable and understandable than G-code and enable programmatic designing. Gcmc makes extensive use of vector mathematics to support the 3D nature of CNC machining. It handles units as millimeters, mils (inch), degrees, and radians and performs automatic conversions where necessary.
Release Notes: This release adds command-line defines to set up variables from the command line. Documentation has been revamped, and a man page is now available. The syntax and function reference have been rewritten in HTML and include more detailed info. Also, package files are included for RPM and DEB packages and can be built from the tarball. Fixes include correction of relative mode, speed-up in execution using bsearch, and comparisons taking units properly into account.
etm is an acronym for Event and Task Manager. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store event, task, and other data items, a command line interface for viewing stored information in a variety of convenient ways, and a cross-platform, PyQt-based GUI for creating and modifying items as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by date, context, keyword, or project and can be filtered in various ways. A display of busy and free times is also supported, as is a ledger view of time spent that is suitable for client billing. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.
Release Notes: This release adds command line options to edit items or files, clone items, finish tasks and, if version control is installed, all changes are automatically committed. In the GUI, the tooltip for the now button now shows the number of past due items by category.
DKPro WSD provides UIMA components which encapsulate corpus readers, linguistic annotators, lexical semantic resources, WSD algorithms, and evaluation and reporting tools. You configure the components, or write new ones, and arrange them into a data processing pipeline. DKPro WSD is modular and flexible. Components which provide the same functionality can be freely swapped. You can easily run the same algorithm on different data sets, or test several different algorithms on the same data set.
Release Notes: New features include support for the IMS disambiguator, a new sense inventory wrapping the GermaNet Java API, and a new wrapper module for easy disambiguation of text strings. The WebCAGe reader now works with the official release of WebCAGe. The SemCor reader optionally writes Token, Lemma, and POS annotations. Readers of XML-based data sets can now optionally ignore the DTD. The cluster evaluator's output is more verbose and informative. There are also a few bugfixes and API changes.
Turbulence is a general BEEP server that provides many site administration features. Turbulence is built on top of the Vortex library and is extensible through modules and allows you to implement server side profiles that are used and combined later with other profiles through run time configuration. Turbulence is written to make it easy to develop and deploy BEEP profiles, allowing developers to provide a convenient configuration interface to site administrators and end users.
Release Notes: This release includes new WebSocket integrated support (mod-websocket) that allows running BEEP, BEEP over Websocket, and BEEP over secured WebSocket in a transparent manner to the profile developer. Several bugs were fixed and other new features were added.
SmartGit/Hg is a graphical user interface for Git and Mercurial which can work with SVN repositories. It supports cloning from common repository providers (e.g., GitHub, Assembla), assists Git newbies, and also offers the advanced, powerful Git features. It provides several tools to help create clean commits, for example by allowing the user to commit just parts of changes files and reordering and squashing unpushed commits. If you are using GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, SmartGit/Hg can work easily with pull requests (creation, resolving) and commit comments. SmartGit/Hg ships with a built-in SSH client, file comparer, and merge tool which are capable of syntax coloring for many languages.
Release Notes: This release adds a few minor improvements, e.g. token-based authentication for GitHub, Git-Flow does not require a remote anymore, and fixes for a couple of bugs.
The X Binary Package System (in short XBPS) is a binary package system designed and implemented from scratch. Its goal is to be fast, easy to use, bug-free, featureful, and portable as much as possible. There is a well documented API provided by the XBPS Library that is the basis for its frontends, to handle binary packages and repositories.
Release Notes: This release contains a long awaited feature: RSA signed repositories. Plus the standard set of bugfixes and miscellaneous performance improvements.
CloverETL Designer is a visual data transformations designer for the CloverETL framework. It can be used to create, edit, and deploy transformation graphs, which are then executed by the CloverETL tool. The designer has a form of Eclipse plugin.
Release Notes: This release fixes tracking info reporting on edges IDs, improves error reporting while reading CSV files and handling of response in HTTPConnector, and contains improvements in the graph editor.
CloverETL is Java-based tool/framework for data integration and creation of data transformations. It is component based and follows the concept of transformation graphs which consist of individual nodes/components performing simple (or complex) operations on data. Any transformation can be defined as a set of interconnected nodes through which data flows. CloverETL can be used as a standalone application or be embedded into a larger project.
Release Notes: This release fixes tracking info reporting on edges IDs, improves error reporting while reading CSV files and handling of response in HTTPConnector, and contains improvements in graph editor.
x509watch is a simple command line application that can be used to list soon expiring or already expired X.509 certificates, such as SSL certificates. All certificates are searched by default in the standard PKI directory, but any other directory can be specified as a parameter. Only Base64 encoded DER and PEM X.509 certificates are supported.
Release Notes: Works (again) around Y2K38 problems on systems with 32-bit Perl. Adds support for systemd timers alternatively to classical cron jobs. Excludes new Root Certificate Authority bundles "email-ca-bundle.pem", "objsign-ca-bundle.pem", and "tls-ca-bundle.pem" used by/for p11-kit, which are e.g. introduced with Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5.
A Java bytecode viewer and class modification library.
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2011: Rookie member of the team.
High School: Earned three letters in cross country at St. Christopher's ... also lettered twice in indoor track, outdoor track and squash ... served as a team captain for cross country as a senior ... earned All-Prep honors in cross country as a senior ... also named All-Prep in indoor track as a member of the 4x800m relay as a senior ... earned all-metro and all-state honors in the outdoor 4x800m relay as a junior.
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UK Manchester based metallers COLLIBUS have announced a Special London Show at The Black Heart (in Camden) On September 20th, Special Guest ORDER OF VOICES, With Support From SIRENS IN THE DELTA.
Comments the band's manager Mike Weatherley:
This gig is a 'post festival' party – COLLIBUS have played Download, Sonisphere, Graspop, Wacken and Bloodstock this summer – and although I say 'post festival', they are also playing Breakout on 27th September in Brighton. Plus they have supported the Winery Dogs in Germany. It's been quite a summer!
Get your tickets HERE.
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thank you for all your great work and we are glad to see you back
thank you for all your great work and we are glad to see you back
Thanks. I love this thread! Thanks for you time!!!!
well i hope this is okay with tboy26.
I love this page he made and i would like to post some other nice vids.
This is my first and all will have same pass as tboy26 vids
If tboy26 dont wan it , just deleted and i will never post again :P
NEW short vid from Spartacus
Is that guy wearing some kind of penis cock sock? It doesn't move naturally
P3T3R MAGNUSS0N - St0ckh0lm Ba$tad
YUVAL S3GAL - Matana M1Shamay1m
AL3SSANDR0 R0JA - R0manz0 Crim1nal3
nice adds pizdolin! Why the cap letters and numbers tho? lol
JUL1AN SANDS RUP3RT GRAV3S and SIM0N CALL0W - A R00m With A View
H3NRIK RAFA3LSON - Sykt lykk3lig
CARST3N BJ0RNLUND - F0rbryd3lsen II
Since this is a NUDE MALE CELEBRITIES VIDEO CLIPS thread, I dont think tboy wouldnt mind. Plus, they're a great addition to this collection. Thanks pizdolin!
I was wondering if you could please post a clip from the movie Cat Chaser.
It says it is a private video, who knows the password?
can you at least go to the first page and check it out, or is it too much?
^ ah, I see that the mod has updated the number.
I think Tboy did mind.
Chris Messina in 28 Hotel Rooms:
Cameron Monaghan & Noel Fisher in Shameless:
Woot! Tboy is back!
Tboy, if I remember correctly, in Dustin Hoffman's movie Papillon, there is a scene where hundreds of prisoners are lined up in a large open area totally naked. Can you post that scene?
I'll check it out! Thanks for the tip. Also, for all those concerned, the password is still 5742.
Thanks for the latests postings, tboy26. This is my favorite thread.
TBOY Thank you very very much SOOOOOOO many hot vids
Ruberts Evans sons and lovers? please.
can you find the clip of Javier Bardem in El detective y la muerte. Like a god coming out of the sea *_*
Javier Bardem in El detective y la muerte:
Terrence Howard & 50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Tryin':
Any chance you can get Tyler Johnston from Less than Kind. Specifically from the episode Fatso Loves Lesbo?
Willem Defoe in Antichrist:
Zac Efron in The Paperboy:
Yhank you, tboy!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the new posts!
Great work and it doesn't get much better than Zac, soaking wet in whie briefs
Tyler Johnston in Less Than Kind:
Thanks, Tboy!
Thank you!
Thanks tboy26! Long time, no see.
Do you have the nude scenes of hunky Benjamin Arthur from the same Less Than Kind series? I'd greatly appreciate it. I can't find them anywhere.
sapien if there is anything SPECIFIC that I can find, tell me what episode and I will do my best to help but I do need specific episodes to help.
TBoy26, hate to push it but do you happen to have access to the 12th episode in the 3rd season? Tyler Johnston has a butt shot and a shirtless scene in it.
Thanks man!
Tboy so glad you are back...boy have I missed your videos. I was wondering if you could get the uncensored dtla episode 7. I have wanted to see Evan Gomez's full frontal nude scene since the series started. Thank you so much for all the hard work you do>
You are my last hope for the above request...please say you can find it.
Ok, new to this intriguing thread, but I have to confess to immeasurable stupidity. I've seen all the back and forth about passwords, clicking on arrows, etc..., but I'm still totally lost. In almost every posting, all I see is a title of who is supposedly shown and from what movie/show the clip comes. NOTHING ELSE. Just open, blank white space down to the next posting. There is nothing to click on or enter a password to, no lock, no white space beneath a lock. Nothing. I'm clearly stupid or high, but what on earth am I missing here? Thanks in advance for any help..., and for the clips posted.
Nevermind!!! I was trying to do this utilizing a mobile device when I was having the problems. I just now tried from my desktop and everything works fine. Obviously, I need to update something on the other device, but at least now I can get to the clips. Thanks for the great thread.


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NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. The MSL is five times heavier than the rovers currently on Mars and has twice as many scientific instruments. It will take nine months for the spacecraft to reach the Red Planet, and there's plenty of things for it to do before then.
Cruising To Mars: The Rover's Tasks
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scratch removal and buffing process that worked for me
I just recently purchased a 2006 X15. It was in good shape being garage kept, but it had some light scratches and did not have a great shine to it. I researched a lot and finally did all the work this past weekend. The result was amazing. I know that the proof is in the pictures and I will post some soon. I did take pictures when I finished, but it was almost dark at the time and the pictures came out terrible in the low light. Just thought others may be interested in the materials and steps that I went through. Disclaimer: this worked for me, for others, mileage may vary.
1) I started off wet sanding the worst scratches with 1200 grit, then followed that with 2000 grit. (use top quality wet sandpaper from NAPA or another specialized auto paint supplier)
2) I wet sanded very light scratches with only the 2000 grit sandpaper
3) I then used 3M-06044 imperial compound with a 3M-05719 100% wool pad over the whole boat to buff out the sanding marks. This stuff worked great. Probably didn't need to do the whole boat with the imperial compound, but with an 8"' pad, it doesn't take very long.
4) I then used 3M-05928 Finesse-it with a 3M-05711 blended wool pad over the whole boat. played around with the Finesse-it and it actually would take 90% of the 2000 grit sand marks out by itself. The boat really popped after this step.
5) I followed this up with 3M-09030 Ultra performance paste wax, that I applied by hand (because it was paste). I used this on my old boat, but I am really not sure how I like it. I let it sit on the boat for about 1-1/2 hours and it was a b*tch to get off. The next time I think that I will try the 3M-09027 liquid wax and use a pad to apply the wax. I had bought a 3M-05713 blended polishing pad that could work for applying the wax. I have always used foam pads to apply wax to my cars, not sure how well the fluffy pad would work.
I bought a brand new Dewalt DWP849X to do the boat. This is my first Dewalt tool and this thing was rock solid. It is specially designed for polishing and it comes with the correct Velcro backup pad that works with the 3M pads that I list above. That saved me $50 since I didn't have to buy the 3M back up pad. I bought all my supplies from Amazon except for the sandpaper. Total time was about 5 hours, but a lot of that time was experimentation. Pretty nerve racking sanding the gelcoat for the first time on the most expensive item I ever bought, besides my house. So, I went pretty slow and cautiously at the beginning.
I also found this sheet on the 3M website that lists most all their marine products. The chart labeled "Buffing Pad Characteristics" was very helpful on selecting my pads.
We need pics!
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2008 X-45 Canadian Blue Metal Flake/Silver Metal Flake, MCX, OJ 5 Blade
I am in the same position. My boat doesn't have any oxidization, but doesn't really have a great shine. There are a few deeper scratches, but mostly light ones. I don't know if I'm ready to take sandpaper to it quite yet, but would really like to get that "new" boat shine back. As mentioned earlier, please post pics if possible.
ctad - Don't let the sanding scare you. If you use the pads and compounds that I list, it will take the sanding scratches right out. I was a little nervous myself, but it worked great. Start out with 2000, buff it and see what I mean. After a while, you will feel more comfortable going down to 1200 grit.
I had a couple of deep scratches on my gelcoat. They weren't through the gelcoat, but for me to get them out I would have needed to sand them deep. It would have left a concave spot in the gelcoat. On those, I used the 1200 grit sandpaper folded into a V shape. This way I got all the scuff marks out and rounded the bottom of the scratch. Then the buffing pad could get down in there and smooth everything back up. The scratch is now the same color and shine as the rest of the gelcoat, which makes it much less noticeable.
I definitely will post some pics. I have the boat in storage a few miles from the house. I am going to get it this weekend to do the dreaded winterization. Supposed to be a nice weekend, so hopefully, I can get some good pics.
I finally got some pictures today with the sun shining. The one picture of the rear was where the previous owner had about an 8 inch long scratch from a wakeboard. This was the one really deep scratch that I had.
If you use 3m Super Duty Compound on a wool pad there is no need to wet sand with anything finer than 1000 grit. It will remove 1000 grit scratches and finishes out somewhat finer than 2000 grit. Follow up with some polishing compound.
1997 Prostar 190, TBI 350, 1:1, OJ XMP 13 x 11.5, Stargazer, Hot Shower, Heated Drivers Seat, Reuben/Mountain Rock/Nite Navy
Awesome job, looks great. Bet you can't wait for spring! Winterized here in CO as well, and already jonesin' to get back on the water. Every year seems I want to hang on to summer a little longer.
The 3M Imperial compound that I used claims to take out 800 grit scratches. I just wanted to play it safe. Plus, I didn't have a lot scratches to sand by hand.
What pad did you use with the imperial compound?
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3M-05719 is the pad that I used for the Imperial.
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Flagler County School Board Member John Fischer, whose wife is accused of leaving the scene of a fatal accident, told prosecutors that he does not remember calling Sheriff Don Fleming the morning after the crash, which conflicts with Fleming's statement that he received a call from John Fischer about 11 1/2 hours after the accident.
PALM COAST — Flagler County School Board Member John Fischer, whose wife is accused of leaving the scene of a fatal accident, told prosecutors he does not remember calling Sheriff Don Fleming the morning after the crash, which conflicts with Fleming's statement that he received a call from John Fischer about 11 1/2 hours after the accident.
John Fischer made the statement during an audio-recorded interview with prosecutors investigating the accident that left a Palm Coast woman dead last year and contributed to Fleming's defeat in November as the sheriff tried to win a third term in office. John Fischer also said in the recording that his wife, Jamesine Fischer, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol the night of the crash.
He also said that he had never seen his wife shop at a Kangaroo Express store near the site of the crash. Clerks there had previously said Jamesine Fischer would sometimes buy a couple of small bottles of wine and sit in her car in the parking lot talking on her cell phone. The clerks did not say they saw her drinking the wine and the clerk on duty said she did not remember seeing her the night of the accident.
Jamesine Fischer is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving the death of 76-year-old Francoise Pecqueur of Palm Coast. Jamesine Fischer, 56, is free on $30,000 bail. A pretrial hearing is set for Jan. 9.
Jamesine Fischer was driving her PT Cruiser about 6 p.m. Nov. 10 when it struck Pecqueur as she walked her dog along Columbia Lane near Colechester Lane in Palm Coast, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The 76-year-old Pecqueur died two days later.
Another motorist called 9-1-1 and the situation was handled as a medical call. Deputies did not respond for about six hours.
Fischer made the statements during questioning on April 25 by Assistant State Attorneys Russ Bausch and Laura Moody of the 18th Judicial Circuit, which is prosecuting the case after 7th Judicial Circuit officials asked that it be reassigned because Fleming is a witness. The Fischer recording came to light after prosecutors determined earlier this month that Fleming did not break any laws in communicating with John Fischer but his conflicting and inaccurate account about phone calls had fueled public speculation of wrongdoing.
When and how often Fleming and John Fischer talked after the accident created controversy, particularly after Fleming first said he talked to John Fischer on the night of the accident, Nov. 10, as the sheriff drove to dinner in Ormond Beach. Then Fleming said he had been confused and actually did not speak to Fischer until about 5:30 a.m. Nov. 11.
John Fischer said he and Fleming were friends who had known each other since they both lived in New Jersey. He said they don't belong to any organizations together other than the Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus.
John Fischer provided prosecutors with Fleming's cell and home phone numbers and his number at the Sheriff's Office.
"You did not place a phone call to any of those numbers the evening of November 10?" Bausch asked.
"No sir, I did not," John Fischer said.
Bausch then questioned him about the next morning.
"Now, do you recall speaking with the sheriff the following morning, say, about 5:30 in the morning?" Bausch asked.
"Do I recall? No, I do not," John Fischer said.
Fischer goes on to say that he would not dispute it if records showed he made such a call. But no records show a call between Fleming and John Fischer that morning. However, Fleming has said he received the call on his landline, the records of which likely would not show a local call.
And Fischer said he doesn't recall putting his wife on the phone when he called the Sheriff's Office shortly after 5:30 a.m. Nov. 11 to report the accident. An audio recording shows that John Fischer did put his wife on the phone.
"Do you recall that you began to speak with them a little bit and then you put your wife on the phone?" Bausch asked.
"I don't recall putting her on and she doesn't recall being on," John Fischer said. "Again, if it's on the recording, then we are not questioning that. If that's what it is. We do not recall. And again, that was the morning after."
In that phone call, Jamesine Fischer said she heard a "thud" and thought she had hit a dog. Then she said she got out of her car and saw the woman lying there but believed she had fallen. She said she didn't realize until afterward when she saw damage to her windshield that she might have hit her.
Later in the interview, Assistant State Attorney Laura Moody asked John Fischer about when they reported the accident.
"So, the first time that you recall you or your wife making contact with law enforcement about the accident is Nov. 11 about 5:30 in the morning?" Moody asked.
"That is correct," John Fischer said.
John Fischer told prosecutors that he had a busy day on Nov. 10, 2011 and did not arrive home until between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.. Bausch asked him about his wife's condition at that time, a question Bausch had already asked when the recorder wasn't running.
"I specifically had asked you about whether or not she appeared to be under the influence of anything, either drugs or alcohol, and what was your response to that question?" Bausch said.
"No sir, she was not," John Fischer said.
John Fischer said that his wife takes medication but "not very often." He said that she has had neck surgery twice and lower back surgery once and that "they" wanted to perform surgery on her neck again as well as both feet. He said she had had a seizure 20 years ago.
"Does your wife consume alcohol?" Bausch asked.
"Not that I'm aware of," John Fischer said. "No sir."
John Fischer said it had been four years, and probably longer, since he had last seen his wife drink alcohol.
"Have you ever seeing her consume alcohol?" Bausch said.
"Not for quite a long time, no sir," John Fischer said.


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Chelsea are reportedly looking to add some further Brazilian flair to the Stamford Bridge squad and will bid for Bernard Anício Caldeira Duarte.
Better known as Bernard, the 20-year-old plays for Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro and is being compared with current Chelsea star Oscar, according to The Express.
The report claims Roman Abramovich's officials are considering a bid for the attacking midfielder in the hope of beating rival European clubs to the signing of a highly-rated youngster.
New interim manager Rafael Benitez already has a raft of Brazilian internationals at his disposal, with Ramires, David Luiz and Lucas Piazon there along with Oscar.
Whether Chelsea need another diminutive attacking midfielder is another thing, but Bernard is able to play in wide positions as well as centrally and he has lighting pace.
Blues owner Abramovich spent a significant amount of money on playersd of Bernard's ilk in the summer, with the lieks of Oscar, Eden Hazard, Victor Moses and Marko Marin.
Bernard has spent the entirety of his career with Atletico Mineiro and made his senior international debut in Brazil's win over Argentina last week.
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As the accounting of the terrible impact of last week's massive earthquake off the coast of Japan and subsequent tsunami and aftershocks continues, we're starting to learn the impact on the video game business. Online servers have been temporarily suspended to conserve electricity (this includes the Final Fantasy servers as we reported this morning), games have been delayed due to disruption of distribution channels, and others delayed or even canceled most likely out of sensitivity for the scale of the personal tragedy caused by this national disaster.
Japanese gaming site andriasang has been following the situation and reports the following developments in a series of stories on the site:
- Konami suspends Metal Gear Online service to conserve energy: The official game site and twitter feed state that the service will be down to conserve power. When they will come back up is listed as TBD.
- Sony delays Motorstorm 3's Japanese release: Citing "various circumstances" the release date has been changed to TBA.
- Disaster Report 4 cancelled: While no reason was expressly given, publisher Irem issued an apology. Given that the game was based on escaping from a city devastated by an earthquake, the decision was likely made out of respect for the many families feeling the very real effects of the Tohoku quake.
- Microsoft delays products, cancels Kinect tour: Though not headed to the north-eastern part of the country, the Kinect experience tour was canceled, and Dragon Age Origins Awakening delayed due to distribution disruption.
- Yakuza of the End delayed: Sega changed the March 17 release date TBA also citing "various circumstances." In a blog post, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi confirmed that the delay was made in consideration of the earthquake.


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Deus Ex: Human Revolution producer David Anfossi has admitted that the boss sequences in the Eidos Montreal-developed title were a misstep, noting: "We knew that would be a weakness for the game."
Eidos Montreal outsourced the boss battles to crowd AI specialist Grip Entertainment; however, Anfossi says blame for the issues surrounding sequences should be put on Eidos Montreal alone.
"The problem was not the supplier, it was what we did with them," Anfossi told Edge at this week's Montreal International Game Summit "The boss fights were too much for the team to do internally in the time we had. We totally underestimated the effort to do that correctly. We had to work with an external supplier with that, but the design and everything is from the team at Eidos Montreal.
The producer went on say Eidos Montreal was forced to "make a compromise" in two ways: forcing the fights, which is "not the Deus Ex experience"; and not offering a "mix [of] solutions to tackle the boss fights," another ideal that goes against what Deus Ex is known for.
"It has been a nightmare, to be honest," Anfossi said. "We started from scratch. From recruitment to release date, it's been a nightmare."
Beyond that issue, which we stated was a hindrance to our overall enjoyable experience in the review for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Anfossi says he is proud of the what his team was able to achieve. "It took us two years to do it," he said. "At the end I'm very proud of that, the stealth, hacking, social and combat within the game--it's well done, I think. I'm very proud of that because it's difficult to do."
If he had to do it all again, Anfossi wouldn't remove the boss sequences from Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but he says the team would do them correctly. "I'm pretty sure that now we have the knowledge to do it correctly," he added.


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AN elderly woman has died after being knocked down while crossing the road near a hospital.
The 81-year-old was crossing Porterfield Road at the Western General Hospital at around 4pm yesterday.
She was treated at the scene but died from her injuries.
It is understood that the vehicle involved was a private hire taxi.
The driver of the vehicle is assisting police with the inquiry and officers are appealing for witnesses. An eyewitness to the incident said: "Unfortunately I came out of the Anne Ferguson building at the Western General Hospital with my grandfather, to see a woman trapped underneath a private hire taxi outside the building drop-off point.
"Staff rushed over from the minor injuries and receiving unit with a trolley followed by ambulance personnel who were around.
"Security staff cleared the area of vehicles as they cleared the way for the fire crews and police arriving."
A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said: "We are keen to speak with anyone who witnessed the collision, which happened close to the Anne Ferguson Building, Western General Hospital."
Anyone with any information is urged to contact Lothian and Borders Police on 0131 311 3131, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Latest figures, released by Lothian and Borders Police, showed that a total of nine adults and nine children were killed on the roads in the Lothians between April and September.
During the same period 165 adults sustained serious injuries, 97 of them in Edinburgh.
Two youngsters were also badly hurt in East Lothian and Midlothian and five in West Lothian.
Another 1048 adults suffered minor injuries over the period.
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The fair comparison would be to show the variations in the away uniforms over the years.
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Ty Cobb; Al Kaline and Harvey Kuenn; Magglio Ordonez
Gordie Howe; Steve Yzerman; Henrik Zetterberg
Bill Laimbeer; Allan Houston and Grant Hill; Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups
Tom Harmon; Jim Mandich; Tom Brady
UPDATE: someone said the "fair comparison" is the changes in Michigan's away uniforms over the years, as if 1) the Notre Dame game was not at home, 2) Michigan changed their away unis three times in a season, four if you count helmet numbers, back in the day 3) and looking stupid is acceptable as long as it's a road game. Here are the incredible changes in the last 40 years.
1971 MSU program; Jim Harbaugh; Mike Hart
Dave Brandon; Dave Brandon; Dave Brandon
Detroit Tigers away jerseys vs time:
You win.
This is a good place to look, too:
...and they use different Ds on their caps vs jerseys.
I like these jerseys, but having so many in one season does seem a bit much.
Uhm, sorry...think I had a flashback ....(I might have been in that audience with Houston and Hill...)....
But yeah, you're right. The home ones have been uniform till UTLs, but the roads have been changing almost annually since Nike became NIKE, and Adidas hasn't stopped. I'm not sure that a couple of blue stripes on the shoulders (and a tiny block M, that doesn't look bad) is any worse than yellow piping that became full on stripes up the sides. If you weren't completely freaking out about that, this doesn't seem any worse. It's not the bumblebee uniforms from MSU. THAT was really different. This...eh. Rather they only do one of these a season, rather than trying to milk it all in one year (because who knows what they'll be reduced to when they've used all these up). But was this a lot better?
(I mean, you can see the yellow stripes UP THE BACK!!)
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Ok, which of the three are the most alike?
Probably not the best choice to go with an off-brand, fake Woodson jersey.
Other than the sleeve and collar stripes (OH NO, SLEEVE STRIPES), it is basically the same.
Is Tom Brady iconic enough for you? (LITTLE BLOCK M's ON THE PANTS...NOOOOO)
I'm not sure that a couple of blue stripes on the shoulders (and a tiny block M, that doesn't look bad) is any worse than yellow piping that became full on stripes up the sides. If you weren't completely freaking out about that, this doesn't seem any worse.
I was pretty much freaking out about those too. I wish folks would stop using those as an example as in "these were OK, so the Sugar Bowl ones are OK too!" Those were not OK. Those were stupid-looking. And they were a template, which made them even worse. Having those was a mistake, not an excuse for having these.
You miss the point entirely, but your wish is my command.
For people saying they "like these," there is no "these." There is only a steady procession of dumb ideas, some of which are not quite as awful as the others. The point is when you have a good idea, you stick with it, because good ideas are rare and **branding is about consistency.**
Unless you're explicitly not about consistency, like Oregon. We are not Oregon, and trying to be Oregon hurts us. Dave Brandon knows how to direct mail old people about crap they don't want and how to sell crappy generic pizza. He evidently has no idea how to care care of an established, beloved brand.
Except the away jerseys aren't really an established or beloved brand, at least not nearly as much as the home jerseys.
I find this reasoning borderline nonsensical. A strong brand is about every single thing the brand touches. So we can do stuff to 30-40% of our teams uniforms because away unis aren't established as much? That is an argument for MOAR consistency not less. Do we play a lot of away games on TV, I can't remember?
The away jerseys have changed frequently over the years, and thus are not an established or beloved tradition, as Brian stated. The away jerseys matter, but it is unfair to liken them to our home jerseys or established classics like the Red Wings, Tigers, and our very own home jerseys.
But ok.
I think that most of us would be ok with SUBTLE changes to the away jerseys. Hell, I even like these jerseys, where the changes are not so subtle. The problem that many of us have is with wearing 6 jerseys in a season (Home, home piping, UTL, away, MSU and now these). We are not Oregon, nor should the winningest program in CFB want to become Oregon. This is Michigan, fergodsakes.
Again, changes to the away jerseys from time to time are fine. But, several changes in a season? Silly.
I would like to see us keep the home jerseys, settle on nice away jerseys (even these would be fine). Then, since anything less is unrealistic, wear one "special" jersey for an away game other than OSU - ND? MSU? Perhaps Nebraska or Wisco? Some road night game?
Then, for the bowl, go with the regular home or away, but add the patch like we have always done.
I don't get the uproar here. The change IS subtle. Two whole stripes, and they're blue. I rather like them, actually, more than any other away jersey they've had (especially the abomination they showed at MSU).
I get being upset about the number of changes so quickly. But that seems like a minor issue to me.
I say this with respect for your opinion, but you and I have different definitions of subtle. To me, subtle are things you might miss unless you're looking closely (eg., piping, or thin stripes at the edge of the sleeve.) Broad stripes on the top of the shoulder pad? No way to miss these, thus I consider them a significant jersey change (which I'll consider as long as 1) it's the away jersies, and 2) it happens exactly one time a year.)
Agree to disagree. It still looks subtle to me...we're looking at away unis that are largely solid white with maize pants, which is exactly what the jerseys have always been.
Adding a couple broad stripes isn't really all that different from, say, having the player's number on each shoulder in blue numbers (which has been done in the past). Since it's not a giant design change in my mind, it's subtle.
On the contrary, the MSU away jersey abomination was not subtle because there were bumblebee stripes, alternating in yellow and blue, which was basically the focal point of the jersey and pretty hard to miss even with a casual glance.
I would understand if Brandon & co decided to update the away uniform every ~two years if it was found necessary, for whatever reason, b/c it is not as established. But to have a different uniform basically every other game (remember, we have a grand total of 5 away games this year, counting the Sugar Bowl) is ridiculous.
It doesn't make it a uniform; it makes it a kid's playtime costume -- "today I'm a bumblebee!", "look, now I'm an airline pilot!"
Apart from the move to white pants in the the 1970's, the road uniforms haven't really had any significant changes until now. Most of the changes in the past have been fairly minor: stitching, piping, a block M on the sleeves, etc. From a purely subjective viewpoint though, putting big stripes on the shoulders is a radical change; not at all comparable to these other small details that have varied through the years. Ask someone not intimately familiar with the road uniforms to spot the differences in them between 1978 and 2010, and I'd bet they would be hard-pressed to find them. Then show them the Sugar Bowl uniforms with big stripes on the sleeves, and I'm sure they'd say they were completely different.
This is a dramatic change being passed off as a little tweaking. I suspect it's only going to get worse, considering that Brandon is only concerned with revenue streams.
I agree 100%. There is a common-sense factor to this. The away uniforms have been tweaked over time, sure. But - tweaked. Evolved. If we played "which one of these is not like the other" with fans of other teams and the progression of white jerseys from whenever to today, even taking into account the stupid-ass piping and RazorHorn stripes, these ones that are being passed off as "legacy" will stand out like sore thumbs.
The seniors picked the uniform actually. But Dave Brandon still sucks.
I appreciate the update, actually. I simply noticed that the UM string of uniforms was the only one with mixed representations of home and away. Leaving as an open question whether you think any of it is a good idea, the fair comparison issue is legit. If you wanted to make a point about home uni's being sacred, why include the aways for UM? If you wanted to make the point that all uni's should be sacred, why not include away uni's for the other teams?
As an aside, if I missed the point I apologize. Maybe you could have made the point explicit in the original post.
As much as I hate to say it, the more goofy jersey designs I see, the more ads I see in the concourses of Michigan Stadium, the more RAWK I hear, the more "Wolverine Dining/Lodging/etc. Club" ads I hear at Yost, the more I have to pay to even take a look at the inside of the stadium on a non-gameday...
Michigan is eroding into a soulless, corporate, just-like-everyone-else place. And I'm not OK with that. Dave Brandon may wrap everything in some kind of marketing justification that appeals to the lowest common denominator, but that doesn't make it right for Michigan.
Two jerseys, one pair of pants, one helmet (numbers are OK), that's it. This is Michigan, right?
You're right, Michigan has always been solely about having a limited number of uniforms.
EDIT: I agree that we shouldn't change uniforms every game. However, I feel that you are vastly exaggerating the extent of the "erosion", and that you are missing the bulk of what Michigan actually is, and what it stands for.
It's called symbolism, people. Michigan stands apart from other schools, and one way to symbolize that is by having an iconic, unchanging brand - something that other schools can't do. Anyone can bring out new alternate uniforms to sell more jerseys; the trick that other schools can't turn is selling jerseys because your uniforms are a true icon of the sport and because the same jersey has been worn by Tom Harmon, Gerald Ford, Anthony Carter, Jim Harbaugh, Desmond Howard, Charles Woodson, and Tom Brady.
And the same uniforms are still being worn by team 132. We have done some different things with the away uniforms this year, as well as with the uniforms worn for the first night game in Michigan Stadium history. So what? We are still Michigan, we still have Mott's Hospital, we still have the Mealer family, we still carry ourselves with integrity and respect.
Did anyone really prefer having our team go to the Sugar Bowl with mismatched away jerseys with piping on the sides?
It's called reality, people. Get with the Oregon style or get left in the dust.
is winning.
in a marketing, branding, corporate or anything else sense. He is 100% wrong from a marketing sense and clearly does not understand the concept of branding at all. Every successful brand in the world has competitive advantage based upon being unique, offering unique expoerience, or being perceived in a unique manner.
He should look to Coke, who has just pulled their "special" Christmas themed cans off of the shelf, because of complaints from their consumer base that they resembled other brands and were not iconic.
Michigan's brand is not solely about success on the field, that is only one of the comonents of it's power and appeal. It's consistency is in fact one of those components.
The Coke thing is currently being written up as Harvard Case Study as we speak, I'm sure. I spoke to some relatives this weekend about the white Coke debacle (they're all big Coke-heads) and a couple commented, "Well, it just goes to show no one can read anymore" and I pointed out, that's not it all. When you are a 100+ year brand like Coke, or UM football, people have a deep visceral connection with how the "brand" looks. The red of Coke and its script letters convey something without having even to think about it - virtually any consumer can just look at it and in an instant say, "That's Coke." They don't have to wonder, "Is that regular? Or is it Diet? Or something else?"
Michigan football, b/c of its long-term success on the field and unique (in D1-A) helmets paired with a fairly conservative uniform, has a similar broad appeal. Why Brandon would want to make someone glancing at a TV say, "Wait, is that Michigan or some other team -- Delaware maybe?" is beyond me. It dilutes the brand, all for a few bucks from M-Den.
Please someone create a Tony Montana montage with David Brandon to complete the (other kind of) white coke imagery.
and to think brandon wore one of those time-honored uniforms makes it infinitely more puzzling to me.
Maybe because I'm not opposed to permanently changing the away uniforms, or maybe because I like your comment and just want to ask, but what about Coke changing their Diet Coke cans? I agree that seeing Michigan changing their home uniforms is similar to Coke cans going white, but I would imagine that Diet Coke cans have changed plenty over the years, and there would be much less opposition to altering those cans. In short, I don't see our away uniforms providing that "deep visceral connection" to fans, and think Diet is a much better comparison.
I don't think it's great to have this alternate uniform stuff going on all season, but in terms of changing the away uniforms, I don't think it dilutes the brand.
is an off-shoot brand of the flagship, (or a cousin perhaps) it is most assuredely not the core brand, which is Coca Cola itself. The away uniforms are IMO a core "packaging" of the absolute core Michigan Brand, and should not be looked at as anything less than that. In fact I think in some ways the away uniforms are MORE important than the home (in terms of branding, not to us) because that is how people outside the core fan base (i.e. newcomers to the brand who we would like to influence--think recruits and others) are iften exposed to Michigan.
None of this is to say "no changes ever allowed ever." Leading brands do evolve over time--that is how they stay relevant to new generations. But evolution and 4 or 5 different versions of the uniform are not the same thing, at all.
Thanks for the response. It's interesting thinking about away uniforms as being on the same level as the home ones. I'm not sure I agree, but it's definitely something to think about.
To be clear, I don't support all these different versions. I just don't think it's the end of the world to change the away jersey on a permanent basis, as long as it's still recognizably Michigan: same everything but the jersey, white jersey with blue numbers and maybe some maize on it as well. I think this "throwback" would be an okay replacement, but I don't like it as a one-time thing.
[Mr. Calrissian's opinion is supported by Fielding H. Yost up in football's Valhalla.]
But was there equivalent snark when the yellow stripes came out on the Uniform? Or is it just reserved for things Brandon does? Because if the sky is falling when we get changes like this-
It kind of lowers the importance of when Brandon actually does something really stupid.
(Ohhh, they added a Sugar Bowl patch too...)
I snarked.
For the record, I snarked too. We had uniforms that were uniquely Michgan's, and then we got slammed with a stupid template. Why people call that OK and then say "because we did that, we can screw with the away uniforms all we want," I'll never know.
It's the away jersey. Who cares? It actually looks pretty good. OMGDAVEBRANDONLIKESMONEY. Give it a rest.
Except there is a 100% chance this would have happened if Michigan was the home team. The home/away distinction is one Brandon does not care about, obviously, and so people insisting that changing the uni for the fifth time in a single season is anything like what happened before is okay because it's just the away uniform is weird. Yeah, there are stripes and stuff that come and go.
This is a totally different thing. Okay, Michigan makes slight alterations to the away jersey every five years or so. Granted. That has nothing to do with this.
Team 132 is 10-2 with a BCS bowl to go, started playing Michigan defense again, and we have an elite recruiting class coming in to go with our now-apparently-elite coaching staff. Who gives a crap what they wear? The players are not your person-sized man dolls, and they like it. Little kids like it, too. Everybody else should be grown up enough to realize it doesn't matter beyond that, especially since the loyalties of actual fans are not dependent on what outfit the players are wearing.
I'll take an Alabama defense to go please.
That makes no sense. "Nobody's opinion matters except the players and little kids. The rest of you pound sand." As if, in the first place, "the players" are a homogenous, unanimously-thinking group of people that think as one and would, if they hated the uniforms, say so to the media.
little kids like mascots too.
But luckily we know NO ONE would dare attempt to fuck with that hallowed Michigan tradition.
You have no understanding at all about anything having to do with what makes Michigan unique. Call this into Valenti instead of here.
I'm not necessarioy defending being greatly upset over the unis, but I am defending against "nothing matters but the record." That is clueless.
Your ridiculous angst-ridden disgust for DB aside, I guarantee you that slight changes like this do not hinder our "brand". You show someone the winged helmet, I bet you they'll know who it is.