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I've had ex's like you, that I could never make cum - they were the only ones who knew the secret. It's good to hear one of you guys were fixable. I've never been able to determine if their 'problem' was physical (conditioning to their own jerking off methods), or psychological (unwilling to mentally let go completely).
"Raise shields! Raise Shields! How the F*** do I raise shields???"
I'm good with about 7 buttons. Up, Down, Left, Right, Jump, Shoot, Run. That's IT.
***Confession*** Even with Duke Nukem, Blood, or the Star Trek Elite Force, and Star Trek Armada games I've played, I could never get through them without the cheat codes and "God Mode" being on.
The problem with that is like it's trying to make a movie that's going to be loved by fans of a novel series and fans of a comic book series. The crowds are extremely different in terms of what they look for and have been for years, almost going back to the very beginning of gaming. As a general statement, the console market is more transient, plays many more games per month/year, goes through games faster, and favors ease of gameplay and intuitiveness, not having to invest too much time/thought, and basically just a fun, casual game. PC gamers tend to throw themselves more into a smaller number of games and try to play the hell out of them or get really good at them-- PC gamers playing a game like League of Legends, Dota, Counterstrike, World of Warcraft, Quake or Diablo II for YEARS on end is not at all uncommon. As a result they tend to value replayability, high at-release quality and bugtesting, good support over time with patching for any issues that may crop up and affect gameplay, etc.-- issues that have traditionally been moot for a console gamer by comparison, particularly if they are done with a given title in 2 weeks and move onto the next one.
I definitely grant you that some of the hostility is just immature tribalism. Go over to xboxnation and take a look at how they talk about PC-- you'd think we're all satan worshippers trying to enslave console gamers and create a gamer master race using eugenics. (You'd also think we all live in a basement.) But PC gamers do have some legitimate gripes-- basically, you're hard pressed to find a PC game that isn't, at this point in time, just a port TO the PC from the xbox rather than the other way around--- and the xbox is for all intents and purposes a 10 year old PC more or less. We don't get games anywhere near our potential, we get console UI's (huge blown up text that take up too much of the screen, enormous menus, everything aimed at assuming you're playing on a couch from 30 feet away from the TV) and control systems that assume you're using a controller and not a mouse and keyboard-- radial menus, etc. Additionally as console ports we're getting, by our standards, easier, simpler games with less thought, depth or complexity. You can see this very clearly in series that began as PC series and turned into multi-platform after xbox-- a frequent word you hear about the games that crossplatformed was they felt "dumbed down." Games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 would be examples, though at this point virtually everything made is cross-platform. We also get more rushed games with less replay and almost no support over time because support over time is virtually unexpected in the console market (since in the past you COULDN'T patch any game on a console system anyway) and we're getting ports of console games for the most part.
So long story short, no, I don't think someone is bad/dumb/whatever because of where they play games, but I do think the one size fits all glut of game development has stunted the quality of PC gaming in a very major way that has left PC gamers distinctly unhappy with the direction of game production. There's a lot of myths out there like "PC gaming is dying"-- it isn't true btw. Steam shows friggin enormous PC game sales, saying that PC gaming doesn't sell as well is a half truth-- the full truth would be "It doesn't sell as well as something we can sell on both PC and xbox at the same time." Unfortunately if you're making a game to do that, you're not really making a PC game anymore, because that generally won't fly in the console market.
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Developers aren't making games based on one person's specific conditions. They're making them for broad casual mass appeal. One size fits all. And that 'size' is "transient gamer who averages <2 weeks in a title, 90% of the time doesn't finish it, doesn't play for balance/competition, doesn't want to think too much, just wants to sit down in the living room and pew pew."I think this is an unfair generalization.
That may not be you but that IS who games are being made for. And not just for you but for everyone.
i hate hearing songs where you have the singer begging for some love or some ass. the most pathetic line, rhetoric or whatever that i can't stand hearing is "i can't eat without you". you damn right you can't eat without me because you can't cook. go and buy yourself a cookbook or get you some cooking lessons so you can survive on your own instead of living foot to mouth, asshole.
the thing that surprises me about this forum is that you guys actually read the posts. i'm like damn... i can't say anything without someone going "didn't you say this last night or last week?" you guys are good. i'm too lazy to cover my tracks. it's a good thing that you guys aren't using it to knock me down with them though like what marquez did to pacman last night.
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Sloppy has been outed as having not portrayed this persona in the past, and he hasn't ever offered anything substantially personal about himself (at least that anyone else can translate). People don't like being played or taken advantage of, as evident in the Andrerus thread.
If you walked into a gay bar and there was a guy sitting there with a paper bag/mask over his head I would bet you'd steer clear of him too. If he's not hurting anyone, WHAT is he doing? Collecting evidence? Who knows. It's just creepy.
Just saw geloge's photo!
He's HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
watching this iceman documentary right now, i'm cringing at how dude killed people for no reason. simply because they "pissed him off" by doing something that he didn't like. the thing that scares me is that i see an eerie similarity between myself and him on that aspect where i too want to hurt people if they simply get me mad even over petty things. he also sounds paranoid too. he thought the guys that he killed were out to get him too. luckily, i'm getting help to put the screws that aren't tied to tight into my head.
ohgod the PC vs. Console debate
Seriously though, congratulations on breaking down a sexual barrier
My Confession: Even after everything he's said and the blatant immaturity he's shown, I still wanna see Enchanted's nudes
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"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." -The Scarecrow, WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, to under-performing schools: DROP DEAD.
Make, for a man, a fire - and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man afire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying. - Terry Pratchett
If you think it's unfair, take it up with the people making your games. They do studies on the market (including how many hours/how many people finish an entire game after buying it) and design accordingly if they're after the biggest mainstream sales possible. You've heard people say anything from "games don't have good story anymore" or "games aren't really original anymore" or "games are too easy nowadays"? I'm sure you have and you'd be lying if you said you hadn't. If my explanation isn't the reason for that, what is the explanation?I understand why developers and publishers make games the way they do. My point still stands that it is not a fair generalization as much as it isn't fair to say PC gamers are bitter basement dwellers.
I don't see how complaining that aiming for the lowest common denominator has reduced the quality of the finished products is either unfair or controversial.
And btw yes anything you say about either side is a generalization because we're talking about multi-millions of people. That doesn't change the fact that there are some hardcoded differences in the purchasing and playing tendencies between the two groups. Heck there are whole GENRES you can't seriously get on console, like RTS, because of the limited control schema of any console system. Or as another example, I mentioned that PC games do not even get proper PC UI's anymore. We get hastily adapted over copy-pastes of the xbox UI, with everything relying on radial menus and enormous fonts and gigantic menus, frequently without even options to change any of this unless you turn to player-made mods. Do you think PC gamers were petitioning devs to make those changes?
Would it be an "unfair generalization" to say a serious RTS gamer has to be a PC gamer?
Note that I never claimed there is no difficult game on console. We're talking general trends. The general trend has been towards flashy, high graphics, close to zero depth and minimal time/effort investment to fully experience the game. For anyone who actually seeks out those "more than just a title of the month" games, that's a bad thing. Most of them are being made by very small dev houses like Frictional as one example, who literally were making plans to vacate their office and go bankrupt as they pushed the game out to market. They don't have the advertising or distribution power behind them that a company like EA does, so short of an explosion of word of mouth, these devs struggle to survive or succeed.
i'm playing dr. robotnik's bean machine from the sonic mega collection on the ps2 has my mind going back to 2008 for the wrong reasons when i got the game. around that time, i found myself getting into a brutal internal conflict with my sexuality around what was supposed to be a good holiday break from school. two new episodes of true life came on and i had a developed a crush on two guys from both of the shows. one was the porn star aaron james from the true life: i'm in the porn industry episode. he looked somewhat similar to a guy who was a frequent customer that i also developed a crush on at the time. he used to make me experience what i thought were panic attacks whenever he would stroll into my job. he used to come in with two of his friends. dude was hot and stunningly beautiful. i actually began to dislike dude to a great deal whenever i saw him because he was basically make me see the things in myself that i didn't want to deal with at the time. so although i was attracted to him, i would deny it hard as hell. i ran into him a couple of times outside my job too while he was with his friends. one time, i saw him walking outside a store in the mall and he was looking at me with the face. funny thing was that i was projecting my feelings towards him by saying to myself that i think he's gay and that he wanted me instead of it being the other way around.
but anyways, i had a crush on that guy, a crush on aaron james from tl:i'm in the porn industry and chaz from tl: i'm getting out of prison around that time period. i used to tell myself that i wasn't attracted to those guys and basically go through a war with myself. that was the worst feeling basically knowing that my heart, my mind and my feelings were saying that i was gay BUT i refused to believe it. looking back at it now, what was so hard about just saying that i had a crush on 3 guys around that time? the worst times where i was bothered by my sexuality was when i first realized that i might have been gay, back in the 10th grade, my last two semesters in community college and 2010 and last year. after last year, i couldn't deal with it anymore.
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I don't think he'd be anywhere without his mixers digitally enhancing him as so many singing "stars" are having done these days.
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The best way to describe my dad is this quote I heard from a female comedian (can't remember her name):
"My father is one of those people.....you ask him what the time is, he'll tell you how the clock was made."
- I think you know what it's like to be well. To be functioning pretty good, and to be able to smile and relax once in a while. That's not just a memory, it's a goal.
- You know that something is not right. Have you figured out what it is at the moment? Could you explain it to us or to a doctor? It sounds like you feel on edge, but any other symptoms that stand out?
- You know to give yourself a break - you've been through a couple of turbulent weeks emotionally so don't be hard on yourself if it takes a while to get past it.
- Consider staying home instead of visiting your parents if you know you can't handle your sister right now. Consider staying home even if you just suspect you can't handle her. It's not permanent. It would be easy enough to avoid her for now to give yourself the chance to improve your mental health. If you feel like seeing her in the springtime, you can always put up with her bullshit at Easter. Could you see your family separately on some other day from your sister?
- You know you can always put your own health ahead of a family reunion, and you don't have to force yourself into a bad place because you feel obliged.
In before CoD 17.
SAD officially in full effect. Not full-fledged depression (yet - knock wood), but had another lousy night last night. Staying up and reading or working on stuff works totally fine at getting through it, but once it's time to go to sleep, my brain starts rebelling. Time to drag out the Christmas lights.
I'm no Catholic but I confess that I rarely go into the Amateur Showcase forum.
It just seems so… I don't know… raw.
i confess to being paranoid about some posters in here. looking @ some of the pics and even the posting styles, those posters come off predatory to me. almost like "i'm watching you. as soon as i catch you by yourself or when you turn your back, i'm gonna get you." it's so weird. it's just weird talking to someone who you want to talk to or just be friends with but at the same time, you don't know what they're thinking. it's like keep one eye open and make sure you don't sleep on your stomach. you might get raped.
i'm not talking about myself alone. it's that it seems like everybody here has a target on their back with some posters just ready to shoot. there's folks that have met off here and got partnered up. posters that have fucked off here. you're being monitored. someone has their dick out just waiting for someone and it's like watching a shark attack.
speaking of words, english grammar correction and etc.
I HATE IT WHEN FOLKS SPELL THE WORD BOY AS BOI! for some reason, that spelling of the word irks me where i find myself getting irritable seeing the word. that's why i cringe whenever i see certain screennames ending with the word boi. that fucking word. the only person that gets a pass is big boi from outkast. only he can do that. everybody else, don't even think about it.
I'm not actually Malaysian. I'm just a very talented method actor from south Connecticut.
sometimes, i think i'm mentally retarded for real. strange enough, i have little to no confidence with myself at times when i have those negative thoughts about myself such as me truly being a dumbass. however, at times, i feel the exact opposite and i feel good. right now, i'm in one of those looking up at bottom of the world because i'm flying downward. yep, yep, life is a bitch and yet she's raping me over with a strap on with no lube again. waking up feeling violated.
and another thing too. i hate it whenever i go to a psych and they ask me "have you ever been physical, mentally or sexually abused?" it makes me cringe for some reason. i've never experienced either but the thought of being violated sexually makes me cringe. i've been physically assaulted by people when i was younger though not physically abused and that made me paranoid where i am ever so watchful to make sure nobody tries to assault me. never been mentally abused. but sexually, if that ever happened to me, i would be on a murderous rampage for real and i would do everything in my power to make sure the son of a bitch or bitch that raped me would get what they deserve.
I have to use "public use" computers on a regular basis at both my jobs, so I have to use QWERTY when I use those. I found that if I type by standing up, that's enough of a difference for my brain to recognize "I'm at a QWERTY keyboard" and I can type almost as fast on those.PS. I can use QWERTY in an emergency but I effin' hate it. It feels like taking a shower while wearing a parka.
but here's something. as far as i've gotten accepting that i'm gay, coming out to my family and working the courage to taking bigger steps such as coming out to my friends, facebook and other things that i haven't done yet, the homophobia emerges sometimes. i cringe at the thought that i'm attracted to guys or at the thought that there's guys outthere being attracted to guys. i'm getting there BUT i feel as i haven't broke through yet. being closeted, in denial and trying to convince myself that i'm straight really did a fucking number on me.
then i realize that one day i'm going to be out, be openly gay, start dating, fucking and etc. it's like i can see myself doing it BUT at the same time, i have a huge knot in my stomach because i'm terrified. coming out was one thing BUT actually putting my thoughts and feelings in concrete as in i'm actually doing it instead of fantasizing about it is something else. i accept that i'm gay BUT i just haven't been able to get myself live it yet. it sucks that i wasn't born in 2006 where the attitudes towards homosexuality would be changing for the better where it wasn't a bad thing to be gay. i'm slowly warming up to the idea of dating or even having anal sex or oral BUT it's like there's a long way to go. a long way to go. i would freak out if i find myself in bed with another guy and etc even if i had a crush on him. it would be like "i like you and all but i haven't been able to shake off the weirdness i feel that i'm in love with another guy".
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." -The Scarecrow, WIZARD OF OZ, 1939
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, to under-performing schools: DROP DEAD.
Make, for a man, a fire - and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man afire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying. - Terry Pratchett


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So the Braves, who traded Jordan Schafer and Brett Oberholtzer, Paul Clemens, and...somebody else to the Astros for a season and a half of Michael Bourn (before Scott Boras goes and sells his soul), have now claimed Jordan Schafer off waivers.
This means that there are 39 players on the 40-man roster in advance of the Rule 5 draft. The Astros are now in a position that other teams might make a run at the system in the December Rule 5 draft, so they'll need to protect some players to keep them from getting poached.
Oh, and, I'm pretty excited about not having the 26-year old (!) Schafer on the roster. He struck out 106 times in 360 PAs in 2012 on his way to a career-worst .591 OPS. The Astros were 27-55 when he started (they were 28-52 when he didn't. This is depressing, huh?), and in June he struck out 26 times in 23 games (80 PAs).
He just struck out too much, too often. Fare thee well, Jordan Schafer.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Schafer back to Barves
2 comments:
- shaggy rogers said...
not sad to see him go, just wish he would have been better being part of the bourn trade.
- November 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM
There were reasons the Braves felt the need to acquire a reliable CF like Bourn in the first place. Much like the Brett Wallace deal, Ed Wade apparently never learned to ask the question "Why is his current team willing to give him up when they have a need at his position" ?
- November 1, 2012 at 11:03 PM
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The Golden State Warriors will try to even things with the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night, but they'll have to do it without All-Star forward David Lee.
Lee left in the fourth quarter of Saturday's Game 1 loss due to a hip injury. The worst was confirmed after an MRI revealed a complete tear of his right hip flexor.
"It's a disappointing day for me, but I've been a leader on this team all season and I'm going to continue to be one," Lee said. "This series is definitely not over. I look forward to watching this team rally."
Losing Lee's production is a huge blow to the Warriors. He led the NBA with 56 double-doubles during the regular season and finished fifth in rebounding (11.2 rpg) and 15th in scoring (18.5 ppg).
Lee had 10 points and 14 rebounds when he was taken out of Game 1.
The Nuggets, the NBA's top scoring team, were led by the venerable Andre Miller, who took the game over in the second half. Miller scored 20 points in the final 24 minutes for a game-high 28.
Miller's biggest bucket was his last. After Golden State sharpshooter Steph Curry tied the game with a 3-pointer with 14.5 seconds remaining, Miller drove left, switched to his right and finished with a winning layup with 1.2 seconds left.
"I never hit a game-winning shot before," Miller said. "I don't think both teams wanted to go to overtime after that type of game. Both teams were tired and we were just happy to get that win."
Ty Lawson (12), Wilson Chandler (11), Evan Fournier (11) and Corey Brewer (10) scored in double figures for the Nuggets. Chandler grabbed 13 rebounds and Andre Iguodala added 10 boards.
The Warriors won the rebounding battle, 55-45, on Saturday, but that should change, not just because Lee will be on the sidelines.
Kenneth Faried will return to the Nuggets' lineup on Tuesday. He had been shelved for three games, including Game 1, with a sprained ankle, but stated he will be back for Game 2.
"You can't sit me out that long," Faried said. "I get frustrated. I get mad and start getting a hissy fit."
The Warriors will have to figure some things out in Lee's absence. Carl Landry could slide into the starting lineup and he's been solid all season. He scored 14 points in 23 minutes on Sunday.
Klay Thompson led the way for Golden State with 22 points on 10-for-19 shooting. Curry was next with 19 points, but he only shot 7-for-20 from the field.
"What I told my team was that nobody came in here thinking that we were going to sweep the Denver Nuggets," said head coach Mark Jackson. "You have to win four games to advance and you can't act like it's over, so take the blow and be ready to make adjustments and respond."
Game 3 is scheduled for Friday night at Oracle Arena in Oakland.


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Marketing students at Western New Mexico University are not waiting to receive their degrees to begin advertising their newfound expertise in Silver City.
Marketing professor Dr. Steve Walker and his students are paving the way for the newly introduced marketing degree program by partnering with several organizations in the community as promotions teams.
A year ago, Walker introduced his students to group initiative opportunities by developing business models for Corre Caminos, a public transportation company in Grant County; and BikeWorks, a non-profit community bicycle workshop. This spring, his students are partnering with BikeWorks for its annual Pedalista! event and with the WNMU Outdoor Program.
"One of the greatest criticisms I've heard from employers," Walker said, "is that we, in education, put out students who can pass tests or quote material, but not apply it. With this program, the students are actually doing the work they'll need later."
Walker came to WNMU one year ago to develop the first Marketing major degree here in the last 20 years. This coming fall, that goal will be accomplished, along with a revamped minor program.
"Working with BikeWorks has been great," said Kale Gahn, a Business Management major and marketing minor. "It isn't just a school project. I have real experience I can take wherever I go."
Gahn even said the experience has made her consider pursuing non-profit marketing as a career.
"It's really win-win-win," Walker said of his classes' participation in the community. "It helps the school, helps the students and helps the community."
Students promoting BikeWorks' annual Pedalista! event have spent this semester designing promotional materials, recruiting sponsors, donors and volunteers, and boosting the non-profit's presence on social media.
"The marketing stuff is something [BikeWorks Director] Dave and I aren't very good at and don't really enjoy," Josh Stretch said after a planning session with the team. "So it's great to have that time to do other things here. They have a lot of energy, enthusiasm and they're free."
Back on campus, Kathy Whiteman, Outdoor Program Director, has received help from her own group of marketing students.
The Outdoor Program promotes environmental literacy through outdoor activities like rock climbing, scuba diving and mountain biking. Through the program, equipment such as bikes, kayaks and backpacks can also be rented for student and community use.
The challenge for the two-year old program is not many people knowing about it.
"Their help has really been invaluable to me," Whiteman said, "because they are students themselves, so they obviously know what appeals to them."
Marketing students have focused on several fronts promoting the program, expanding its presence on social media, planning an exhibition of the program's rental center on campus, and designing a new logo.
The logo design falls perfectly in line with something Walker had planned from the beginning.
"The major I've developed is largely cross-disciplinary," Walker explained. "Marketing is perfect for bringing in several other majors, like art for graphic design."
The plan is for the marketing major to take 10 classes, or 30 credits, but Walker hopes some students will earn some ofthose credits in a different area of study to form a stronger major.
"Really," he said, "You can just create your own marketing degree."
Registration for the new marketing major is open. Pedalista! will be held at Gough Park from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.onSaturday, April 26.


text: Seems like a lot of guys love muscular men or thicker men. What about skinny guys? Do you find them attractive or not really? (see pictures attached to see the type of skinny I'm talking about). In my case I think I prefer thicker even though there are some skinny guys that I find really hot. My question comes because I am the thin guy in my relationship, and even though I've never had problems getting a guy's attention it does make me insecure sometimes especially because I have a very muscular brother and I'm just too lazy to get off my ass to go to the gym.


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Much like Red Sox fans who said, "now I can die and go to heaven (although that might be a bit presumptuous),'' after their team finally won the World Series, so too are Mets fans saying the same thing after Johan Santana's no-hitter Friday night.
You'll start reading stories about long-time Mets fans who missed the event, just like there will be those who saw history in their first game watching the team. It's all part of the fate when it comes to baseball. You just never know.
It does remind me of when I started covering the Yankees in 1998. I worked a month straight before my first day off – which turned out to be David Wells' perfect game.
It's all part of the maddening charm that is baseball.
R.A. Dickey said following Santana would be a tough act to follow, but a shutout isn't a bad way to do it. Dickey's gem yesterday is part of the fallout of the no-hitter:
* The Hall of Fame will be collecting items from the game for display in Cooperstown. Sadly, he won't be using it for a while, but a nice touch would be to show Mike Baxter's glove. We knew Baxter was injured selling out to make that spectacular catch, but he'll be gone at least six weeks. Ouch. Baxter's absence hurts the Mets on several levels in that he played good defense but was also a pinch-hitting savant.
* From the "It Can Only Happen To the Mets Department,'' reliever Ramon Ramirez strained a hamstring running in from the bullpen for the post-game celebration. He went from sitting for three hours to a full sprint, so it isn't all that hard to imagine.
* Manager Terry Collins is considering bumping up Chris Young's return date next weekend to give Santana extra rest. Wise move. Pitchers are a creature of habit, so it will be interesting to note if Santana changes his routine at all this week.
* Speaking of Collins, imagine the pressure he was under in deliberating keeping Santana in the game. The human part of him wanted to extend Santana so he'd get the no-hitter. Then, there was part of him that wanted to protect his pitcher. Coming off surgery, it was a gamble, one in which we might not know the outcome for awhile as it isn't always the next start in which the 134 pitch-count could come into play in a negative way. Here's hoping it never does.
Finally, a classy comment from Carlos Beltran, who had a extra-base hit taken away by a blown call from umpire Adrian Johnson, saying he was happy for Santana and was being rewarded for all his hard work in his rehab.


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Props to the UG for the find and MMAInterviews for this video, which asks several of the fighters from UFC on FOX 4, along with several other MMA stars, what Olympic event they would most likely compete in if they weren't mixed martial artists. The responses ranged from funny (Joe Lauzon's desire to try and make people give a shit about speed walking) to optimistic (5′ 8" Jamie Varner's chances as a high-jumper) to spot-on for their personality (Ryan Bader would "throw rocks" and lift weights, go figure).
And speaking of Olympics, are we the only ones who think water polo is receiving far too much coverage this year? We're sorry, but whatever asshole took a look at soccer and thought "You know what we should do with this sport? Slow it way, way down, limit the players mobility, and blow a whistle every three seconds" should be shot in the face, then dragged to a nearby park to make it look like a suicide. And yes, we know that person is probably dead already. Just go with it.
Anyway, it is with this inspiring little interview that we ask you taters to fill the blanks in for the following sentence:
If ______ were an Olympian instead of an MMA fighter, he/she would ______.


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Oral Communication Skills
Communication skills don't stop at writing, Bier said. Employers are looking for candidates who can verbalize their ideas effectively. "If you're architecting using a data center environment ... you can't just rely on the guy at Cisco to create the scope and pass it along. The scope of work is very important. In some cases, the person who's actually writing the scope of work is not the same person who's going to read that and deliver and implement that solution. So, there is some standard way of communicating the environment that you architect," he said. For example, Bier said, let's say you're a solution architect who proposes an idea to the CIO, who gives the green light to move forward on the project. "You have to be able to fully communicate that to the entire solution service delivery team in an effective manner, or they're going to implement and deliver a solution that isn't exactly what the IT principal on the other end was looking for."


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — The first 48 hours of the Sochi Olympics brought some of the most traditional of scenes.
Atop a mountain here Sunday, a young Austrian named Matthias Mayer blistered down a ski slope to win gold in the men's downhill, one of the Winter Games' long-standing glamour events. On Saturday in Sochi, amid an orange-wearing crowd that included his country's king and queen, Sven Kramer led a Dutch sweep in the 5,000 meters to add to the speedskating medal haul of the Netherlands, which has dominated the sport since the first Winter Games in 1924.
Meanwhile, over a peak and down a nearby slope from the downhill, the United States' second gold medalist of 2014 was asked to explain her sport, the slopestyle event in snowboarding, which is brand new to the Olympics this year. "It's like playing," Jamie Anderson said. "We're pretty much snowboarding on a playground up there."
Each Winter Games — and each introduction of a new sport — seems to bring another chance for Americans to pad their medal totals, and the divide between tradition and innovation, between customs and relevance, grows wider. It can scarcely go unnoticed through the first weekend in Sochi, where the International Olympic Committee has added 12 new events. And no country has taken more advantage of the sports expansion than the United States — highlighted by the inaugural slopestyle gold medals won by Anderson and Sage Kotsenburg, the only golds for Americans thus far.
Three of the four American medals the first weekend of the Games came in events that didn't exist four years ago.
"I think the president of the IOC should be Johnny Knoxville because basically this stuff is just 'Jackass' stuff that they invented and called Olympic sports," Bob Costas said on NBC said before the Games began, referring to the comedic daredevil known for, among other things, crashing into all manner of impediments.
The IOC, along with its broadcast and advertising partners, began seeking younger audiences with the introduction of short-track speedskating in 1992 and with snowboarding six years later. Eight of the 12 new events at these Games have their origins in extreme sports.
At the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, the United States won six golds and 13 medals overall, scant production from one of the world's largest sports-playing nations. Four years later, on home soil in Salt Lake City, those numbers rose to 10 golds and 34 total medals, a huge jump. That's because no other country did a better job of taking advantage of the newer sports. Fourteen of those medals came in sports that weren't on the Olympic program before 1992.
In the various disciplines of snowboarding, for instance, the Americans have led the medal count in every Olympics since the debut in 1998, taking 21 medals — nearly one-third of the 66 awarded — and nine of the 22 available golds. In 2010, when the United States won 37 medals in Vancouver — more than any other country — 15 came from snowboarding, freestyle skiing and short-track speedskating.
This is, in part, because the U.S. Olympic Committee has spent time analyzing where it can best put its resources, matching money with opportunity.
"We've been able to really customize and drill down where we can have the greatest impact," Alan Ashley, the USOC's chief of sport performance, said before the competition in Sochi began. "I'd like to try to get as many athletes opportunities as possible to become obviously Olympians, then become successful Olympians as well."
Only six sports have been contested in each of the 22 Winter Olympics, dating from 1924 — cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, ski jumping, Nordic combined (which combines cross-country skiing and ski jumping) and speedskating. Alpine skiing didn't debut until 1936.
The Sochi Games are only three days old, and the United States will be favored to win medals in Alpine skiing, bobsled, even cross-country. But the lasting images of Americans came from the obstacle-laden course at snowboarding's slopestyle venue, where even the competitors seemed to be surprised at the newfound attention, both to themselves and to their sport.
"I've never really thought about the Olympics until it got put in," said Bill Enos, the American slopestyle coach.
Mike Jankowski, the head coach of the U.S. freestyle skiing and snowboarding teams, was asked why in the world his country excels at such sports.
"I think a lot of it has to do with the mind-set, A lot of it has to do with how we grew up, where we grew up and just having sport in our life — whether it be soccer, baseball, football, something traditional or your skate park around the corner or the diving board with your friends, seeing how many flips you can do off it," Jankowski said. "It's pushing the limits a little bit and keeping it fun."


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Uptick in Inflation Could Pressure Fed
Consumer Prices Post Fastest Increase Since February 2013
A burst of higher inflation is fueling debate about whether the Federal Reserve should move sooner to reduce its support for the U.S. economy than currently anticipated.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in May from a month earlier, the most in more than a year, the Labor Department said. That reflected higher household costs for everything from groceries and gasoline to rent and medical care. Core prices, which strip out volatile food and energy costs, climbed 0.3%, the most since August 2011....


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The lights are on
It's a horrible game. If you want to make your Vita happy, buy Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Gravity Rush.
I have all three game and Gravity Rush is my favorite vita game. Cod Declassified is not great but Its just a fun shooter to play on the go
I want to get a Vita, and I wish the game was better, if it was I would probably own a Vita right now... But I have heard its Horrible! HaHa, so I think your better off with the other games you got.
I have seen the review and played it. It's not great... its really not like the one you play on the consoles. It's better if you buy it to kill time and when the price for it is really low.
I have heard that it's an ok game for what its on. Some people may think that it will be like all consoles but it's on a little 5 inch screen that right now has a lot of limitations to what it can all do. But if you want games to kill hours go with Ragnarok Odyssey, Uncharted, or Sly Cooper 4. They are really great. Ragnarok is a pain because it's a card baised system. You got to find the right types of cards to match your fighting style.


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Police activity reports
Compiled from selected police activity reports.
• Oct. 10: Police assisted a driver locked out of a vehicle on Washington Street. Entry was gained.
• Oct. 11: Police took a report on a non-injury crash involving two tractor trailer units in the Ohio Paperboard lot.
• Oct. 12: Police responded to a 9-1-1 hang-up call from a Yencer Street home. Kids were playing on the phone.
• Oct. 12: Police responded to an alarm from the ATM at Peoples Bank. It was a problem with the alarm.
• Oct. 12: A Yencer Street resident called about receiving an e-mail about laundering money. Party was advised.
• Oct. 12: Police checked out a report of suspicious vehicle on Elmwood Avenue.
• Oct. 13: Police were called about a verbal domestic dispute on Fairview Avenue. The parties were advised.
• Oct. 13: Police arrested a person wanted on a warrant at a Dorchester Drive home.
• Oct. 14. Police checked out a complaint of a person riding an ATV in the Hansbarger Avenue area. The rider was not located.
• Oct. 17: Police checked out a report of a suspicious vehicle at the Ace Hardware. Everything checked OK.
• Oct. 17: Police stoodby a disabled school bus on West Market Street until it was removed.
• Oct. 18: Police were called about an elderly man with Alzheimer's that is missing on his bicycle. Caller said he might be heading to Reynoldsburg. Police couldn't locate him and notified both Pickerington and Reynoldsburg police to watch for him.
• Oct. 18: Police were called to the high school football field about about threats between students. The suspect and two companions left before police arrived.
• Oct. 18: Police were called to a North Company Street about a civil dispute concerning a live will about ownership of a home. The complainant said she believes children of the property owner removed a note telling them not to be on the property and a metal bar. She added that a restraining order was issued to keep the children off the property. Police took a report.
• Oct. 19: Police were called about an unruly juvenile at the high school. The student was picked up by parents.
• Oct. 19: Police assisted a driver locked out of a vehicle at Liberty Union Elmentary School. Entry gained.
• Oct. 20: Police tried to locate some men in the Romulus Street area soliciting for a home improvement company.
• Oct. 20: Police checked on a 9-1-1 hang-up call for a South Main Street apartment. Juveniles were playing on the phone.
• Oct. 20: A Creekview Drive resident reported a call for her neighbor reporting that someone was inside her home using a flashlight to look around. Police told the complainant, who was enroute home, to wait for officerswhen she arrived there.
• Oct. 22: Police responded to a holdup alarm at FairfieldNational Bank. It was a false alarm.
Buckeye Lake
• Nov. 11: A Millersport man was cited for running a stop sign at Mill Dam Road and Ohio 79.
• Nov. 16: A Walnut Road woman asked for police assistance to turn off a smoke detector that would not stop sounding. Officerdiscovered a plastic lid on an active stove burner. The lid was burning, which set off the alarm.
• Nov. 16: A landlord doing an eviction found marijuana and paraphernalia on the property. The landlord turned the items over to police.
• Nov. 16: A Walnut Road woman reported her 14 year old daughter missing. The daughter was found safe at the woman's estranged husband's home.
• Nov. 16: Police assisted the Buckeye Lake Fire Department with locating an ill resident, who was located and transported to Licking Memorial Hospital. • Nov. 16: Police received complaint of a man who was intoxicated in public. The man said he was trying to findhis sister's house so he could sleep it off, but got lost. Police contacted the sister, who came for the intoxicated man.
• Nov. 17: A Rosebraugh Circle man said someone broke into a house he owns and uses for storage, and stole several items.
• Nov. 17: A Walnut Road woman turned over to police a set of keys, cigarettes, and a flashlight she found.
• Nov. 17: A Leroy Street man reported he was assaulted by his aunt, who then suffered a seizure. No charges were pressed.
• Nov. 17: A Dollar General employee reported two suspicious men who purchased panty hose and spoke as if they may be planning a robbery.
• Nov. 18: A Cliff Street man said someone stole two batteries from his porch.
• Nov. 19: A trucker reported that someone stole a trailer he was supposed to transport. The trailer contained 43,546 pounds of toothpaste. Police are looking for a suspect with a bright smile and fresh breath.


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No True ScotsmanComments
The idea that "Republican elected officials" may not care about deficits and small government but "American conservatives" do is indeed absurd:
One piece of pushback I got from some right-of-center folks to yesterday's post on how conservatives don't care about the deficit was to say that well maybe some Republican Party elected officials are bad on this, but the conservative movement is different. I think that's entirely false. President George H.W. Bush struck a bargain with congressional Democrats that reduced spending and decreased the deficit. Some Republican Party elected officials backed him. But conservatives were apoplectic. After all, the bill raised taxes. And conservatives care more about making taxes as low as possible than they do about reducing spending or reducing the deficit.
Another common way to make this fallacious argument is Jonah Goldberg's old line that because conservatives favor small government George W. Bush was really a liberal. The obvious problem is that a majority of actually existing modern conservatives have never favored "small government" per se. They may oppose government if it might in some way help poor people or protect people's civil rights, but that's a different thing; conservatives have never opposed using strong federal power to achieve conservative ends and help conservative interests. In addition, conservatives who support massive upper-class tax cuts can't be let off the hook for obvious political realities. Since Medicare isn't going anywhere and even Bush's politically DOA Social Security privatization scheme would have been much more expensive in the short term and required inevitable bailouts in the long term, big tax cuts mean big deficits and there's no evidence that they lead to smaller government. In addition to this is the obvious problem that among voters even people who favor "small government" in the abstract never support it in the particulars.


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It's Nicole, we are certain, but it's not Nicole as we have seen her before.
Reminiscent of her BMX Bandit days - when it comes to the big hair and unmistakable 80s styling that is - Nicole Kidman smoulders in front of Mario Testino's lens for the September issue of V Magazine, her modesty protected by nothing more than a peplum.
Topless, bottom bare, the tousle-haired actress screams 80s revival, working neon brights and oversized chunky hoop earrings for the fashion magazine and accompanying behind-the-scenes online video.
The 45-year-old mother-of-four looks anything but mumsy - the lens focused on her cleavage in one shot and on a hand wandering between her thighs, wearing nothing but a tangerine lace bra and knickers in another.
A pencil skirt featuring a comic acid face is as theatrical as her make-up and platinum hairdo. The shoot is neatly timed with the launch of forthcoming The Paperboy and the news that actress is to be honoured at the New York Film Festival.
The alabaster-skinned Sydney girl - who revealed that as a child she was not allowed into the sun between 10am and 3pm - suggested that the guise may be tapping into a side of her personality she'd more often like to explore.
"I would be more outlandish if I could," she told V magazine. "A lot of times you just don't get the chance."
The shoot channels the strong character of The Paperboy's nyphomaniac Charlotte, a role that saw Kidman urinating on Zac Efron.
"The peeing thing, I didn't think was that weird, because I was in character," she said. "That was for the jellyfish. And for me it said so much about Charlotte. One, she's protecting him. Two, she's tough as nails and no one else is going to pee on this guy. All of that made total sense to me. I just went for it and didn't overthink it."
But the Testino photos may also tap into the lesser-known, steamier side of the actress. "I probably had a strong sexuality as a child ... the hormones that are running through you at a really early age — they all started to surge because of the things I was reading."
It was those hormones that have informed some of her other work, too. She describes falling for film director Stephen Daldry — a move that saw her throw herself into filming The Hours as she split from Tom Cruise.
"If you're being completely drained in your personal life and you're never being nourished there, it's very hard to make it work," she revealed. "But sometimes, if you meet the right person who will mine it, and you're open to being mined, it can really work. Stephen was able to mine me. I was crazy in love with him, and so I was like, I'll do whatever, because I love you. I gave him every part of me that I could give him."
Kidman is now married to singer Keith Urban, while the ink is barely dry on Cruise's divorce papers, his split from actress Katie Holmes finalised on Tuesday.
The story Nicole Kidman bares all for V first appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald.


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A 40-year-old Seaford man is accused of stealing copper wire from a Bridgeville farm's irrigation system Thursday.
A 40-year-old Seaford man is accused of stealing copper wire from a Bridgeville farm's irrigation system Thursday.
Ronnie L. Rust Jr. was found with several spools of stolen wire and a small amount of cocaine during a traffic stop on Apple Tree Road, east of Bridgeville, sometime after 11:45 p.m., according to Delaware State Police spokesman Cpl. Gary Fournier.
Troopers first noticed Rust's green pick-up truck parked on the side of the road with a white rag hanging from the window, indicating that the vehicle had broken down, Fournier said.
The troopers reportedly became suspicious when they spotted the same truck leaving the area about 15 minutes later, particularly since several irrigation systems on Apple Tree Road have been the target of theft in recent months.
The troopers immediately spotted spools of copper wire in the bed of Rust's truck and took him into custody, Fournier said.
Rust was reportedly found to be in possession of about 0.2 grams of cocaine and heavy-duty cable cutters.
Troopers later were able to link the wire in his truck to an irrigation system owned by a 74-year-old Bridgeville man, Fournier said.
Rust is charged with two counts of theft over $1,500, possession of burglar tools, criminal mischief, criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and a trio of traffic-related offenses.
He is being held at the Sussex Correctional Institution on a $10,500 secured bond, Fournier said.


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Find out how being born in the wild has evolved over time, and how animals interacting with their young, wrestling with the feelings and dilemmas that come with raising a baby, can mirror our own experiences Sunday at 7 p.m. on Nature.
Ken Burns' The Civil War at 8:30 p.m. Sunday chronicles key battles in the war.
Anatomy of a Pandemic carefully examines the major issues surrounding the current H1N1 flu outbreak, and what the U.S. and other world governments should do to become better prepared to combat any widespread health emergency Monday at 8 p.m.
This encore Secrets of the Dead episode follows scientists who have been seeking to learn where the 1918 flu virus came from and what made it so deadly 9 p.m. Monday.
Highlighting the top performances from the LIVE 2008 Holiday Celebration at the Music Center of Los Angeles, L.A. Holiday Celebration 2009 reflects the cultural mosaic of Los Angeles as African, Asian, European and Latino performers join to express the joy of the season 10 p.m. Monday.
For the first time on television, Nova exposes the hidden world of high-tech, 21st-century eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA) 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Frontline presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity, exploring new evidence suggesting that Jesus' followers, because of their diversity and the differences in their cultures and languages, looked at and interpreted Jesus and his teachings in many different ways 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Get in the mood for the upcoming holiday season Tuesday at 10 p.m. on National Christmas Tree Lighting 2009.
Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell joins the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for a magnificent Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle celebration featuring some of the season's most beloved songs 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Great Performances at the Met at 8 p.m. Wednesday presents "Tosca." The Tosca opera tells the story of three people-a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police-caught in a net of love and politics Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Col. Buzz Aldrin discusses his scientific contributions to space exploration on Texas Monthly Talks 7 p.m. Thursday, which include docking and rendezvous technology for spacecraft, innovation in underwater training for astronauts, and a master plan for missions to Mars.
Discover how Austin's music venues and bands thrive in the new music model and why people travel across the globe to meet some of Lady Bird Lake's most treasured residents – Carp! on Downtown Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Jerusalem is arguably one of the most fascinating and complicated cities in the world. Stroll through the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam 8 p.m. Thursday on Jerusalem: Center of the World.
Indie rock stars, The Decemberists, showcase their latest album and its distinctive storytelling prog-pop on their Austin City Limits debut. Next, instrumental quartet, Explosions in the Sky, affirms its power as a live act with tunes from its newest disk Friday at 9 p.m.
Austin City Limits at 7 p.m. Saturday features Kings Of Leon and Roky Erickson. Nashville band of brothers Kings of Leon rocks the ACL studio in support of its latest record Because of the Times. Psychedelic innovator Roky Erickson demonstrates why he's a Texas rock & roll legend with songs from the length and breadth of his 40-year career.
Second Life is an online phenomenon – a virtual world that has millions of people around the globe living out their fantasy lives on the Internet. Ideal World illuminates this online community by utilizing video from the game, along with interviewing players and developers 10 p.m. Saturday.


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Street Beat 10/11/13
Monday, Sept. 30
Keep the peace. 31500 block of Table Rock Dr. Doug Damauri Blazie, 20, one of the two people involved in a dispute over mail, was arrested for outstanding warrants and held for $50,000 bail.
Patrol check. 2600 block of Glenneyre St. A woman who tracked a stolen iPad to this location left without the device, which was not recovered.
Tuesday, Oct. 1
Vegetation fire. 7:26 a.m. Monarch Crest, Laguna Niguel. Fire is backing down the hill below residences.
Grand theft. 600 block of S. Coast Hwy. 3:40 p.m. A stand up paddle was stolen yesterday from a hotel room.
Thursday, Oct. 3
Foot patrol. 200 block of Broadway St. 10:12 a.m. Alexander Anderson Harris, 64, was arrested for three outstanding warrants.
DUI. Glenneyre St. 11 a.m. Randall James Smith, 47, of Laguna Beach, was arrested for suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs after being observed driving on the wrong side of the street. Bail was set at $50,000, a fourth offense in 10 years.
Warrant arrest. 300 block of Broadway St. 12:56 p.m. Eli Richard Lopiccola, 41, was arrested for four outstanding warrants.
Fraud. 2600 Solana Way. 1:30 p.m. An unknown person obtained access fraudulently to an account.
Grand theft. 1000 block of N. Coast hwy. 5:32 p.m. A $7,000 Martin guitar was stolen.
Grand theft. 700 blcok of S. Coast Hwy. 6:21 p.m. A female suspect took a $600 custom made denim jacket with Navajo-style inserts from the front of the store.
Traffic collision. 600 block of Ramona Ave. 9:18 p.m. A 46-year-old Arizona visitor was arrested for DUI and held for $2500 bail after colliding with a wall.
Friday, Sept. 4
Traffic stop. 1300 block of N. Coast Hwy. 1:06 a.m. A 34-year-old Hawaii resident was arrested for DUI and held for $2500 bail.
Traffic stop. Cleo St. 2:13 a.m. A 24-year-old Mission Viejo woman was cited for DUI and held for $2500 bail.
Fraud stop. 1700 block of Laguna Canyon Rd. 9:44 a.m. On two separate occasions, an unknown suspect used fraudulent gift cards to buy about $200 in merchandise.
Traffic collision. 1400 block of Terrace Way. 3:57 p.m. A woman complained of head pain following a collision.
Saturday, Oct. 5
Traffic stop. 2300 Glenneyre St. 12:10 a.m. A 41-year-old Mission Viejo man was cited for DUI and held for $2500 bail.
Lifeguard rescue. Shaw's Cove. 9 a.m. Three victims total.
Lifeguard rescue. Picnic Beach. 10 a.m. A swimmer was rescued from a rip current.
Fraud. 200 block of Wave St. 4:26 p.m. About $1200 in merchandise has been purchased at several different locations using fraudulent checks with the victim's account number. Her purse was stolen three months earlier.
Traffic collision. 300 block of Cliff Dr. 6:42 p.m. A 61-year-old Cambria woman was cited for DUI following a two-car collision where no one was injured.
Sunday, Oct. 6
Burglary. 1200 block of N. Coast Hwy. 9:39 p.m. Nearly $15,000 in designer purses were purchased with fraudulent bank cards.
Traffic stop. 3200 block of Alta Laguna Blvd. 9:21 p.m. A 22-year-old Aliso Viejo man was cited for DUI and held for $2500 bail.
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A Wirt County High School student confesses to making a bomb threat.
The West Virginia State Police say while conducting interviews with students, they got the confession from a 16 year old female student. The student's name will not be released.
Criminal charges are pending and officials say it will be a felony.
The West Virginia State Police and The Wirt County Sheriff's Office are coordinating the case.
Students at Wirt County High School were evacuated to a nearby church as police and bomb sniffing dogs comb through the area making sure this wasn't a credible threat.
It all started Monday morning when the high school received a bomb threat causing an evacuation there and lockdowns at both Wirt County Primary Center and Wirt County Middle Schools.
"We had notification within our high school building and at that time we followed those protocols that we have as far as locking our building down, evacuating our students," says Wirt County Schools Superintendent, Daniel Metz.
Parents had the option to pick up their children and many did given the recent events in Connecticut.
"Just wanted to take her home, that way I know she's safe," parent Jerry Sharp says.
"Just cuz they're my kids. It just makes me nervous," Trisha, another parent adds.
Both school officials and parents say they're not completely surprised by the threat.
"It's just sad that people have to do this to upset our children and make life crazy as it is anyway," parent Kerry says.
"No it doesn't surprise me, but yes it does. Our students have never been prone to this type of activity so we are disappointed in that but that's the way our society is about now people like to see the panic and like to see other people be in pain," Metz says.
While in the next coming weeks, schools around the nation will begin to evaluate their emergency plans, officials in Wirt County say this lockdown and evacuation wasn't a drill but it was very organized and went smoothly.
"Within five minutes of receiving notification of a bomb issue, we put out to all our parents what was going on," Metz says.
Officials say there were no signs of explosive devices in any of the schools.
Students were allowed back into their classrooms at 2:30 and are to report to school on Tuesday.
State police say they're not providing any more details to the media on Monday. They also won't say if it was a credible threat and where or who the threat came from. We've placed calls into West Virginia State Police headquarters in Charleston for further comment and have yet to hear back from them.
The lockdown at Wirt County Schools has been lifted as police try to figure out who made a bomb threat to the high school.
School officials say the high school was cleared and students were allowed back into their classrooms at 2:30. Bus services are running as normal and students are to report back to school on Tuesday.
Latest details from Wirt County Emergency Service Director Bo Wriston.
Wirt County High School has been swept and verified clear by West Virginia State Police K-9 units, and students are being returned to the High School at this time.
Wirt County Schools are out of lockdown. Please contact the Wirt County Board of Education for additional information regarding after school sport and academic schedules for this evening.
Bus schedule will run as normal.
No further updates for this incident are expected.
UPDATE 12/17/2012 1:00pm
These details are from Wirt County Emergency Services Director Bo Wriston.
Wirt County Schools are still in lockdown. All students are SAFE! Wirt County High School students have been evacuated to the Elizabeth Baptist Fellowship Hall and are being fed lunch. Parents may sign out students from the Fellowship Hall as per normal protocols.
Wirt County Primary Center and Wirt County Middle School remain on lockdown. No threats have been made against these schools, and all students are SAFE! parents may sign out students at both schools per normal protocols.
Drug-detection canines are in route from Morgantown as these were the closest available dogs. As soon as the dogs arrive, sweep the school, and no explosives are detected, the school system is expected to return to normal operations.
Bus schedule will run as normally scheduled. No after-school activities have been cancelled at this time.
A secretary at the Wirt County Board of Education now says all schools in the county are on lockdown.
No other information is available at this time.
Stay tuned to WTAP News & TheNewsCenter.TV for the latest information as it becomes available.
Wirt county High School is on lockdown this afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.
The Wirt County Sheriff's Office is at the high school investigating the threat.
Wirt County OES confirms the school is on lockdown and all students have been evacuated and are safe.
No further details are available at this time.
Stay tuned to WTAP News for more on this story develops.


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FOXBOROUGH — Being a running back behind a quarterback such as Tom Brady is a little like being a backup singer for a major act like Taylor Swift. You might be a talented performer in your own right, but the audience is only fixated on the performance of the pop star they've paid to see.
Sharing a backfield with a megawatt pro football performer such as Brady, it isn't easy to stand out. Perhaps that's how Stevan Ridley quietly had one of the best seasons of any running back in Patriots history in 2012.
As a second-year runner, Ridley rushed for more yards than more celebrated backs Chris Johnson, Ray Rice, and Frank Gore, spearheading the Patriots' seventh-ranked rushing attack. His 1,263 yards were the fourth-most in franchise history and the most since Corey Dillon rushed for a franchise-record 1,635 in 2004, the last season the Patriots lifted the Lombardi Trophy.
With Brady and the passing game throwing up the "Pardon Our Appearance" sign as it remodels without Wes Welker and Aaron Hernandez and with two rookie wide receivers, Ridley should have a bigger voice in the Patriots' attack this season.
"It's a high-powered offense. When you're playing with one of the best at quarterback you're going to be overlooked," Ridley said. "For us, we just keep playing, we keep ballin' every week. Whether they respect us or not we're going to be there, and we're going to be solid at it. Our group is going to be strong. As a team we're going to be OK out of the backfield."
The idea of coach Bill Belichick declaring his team a ground-and-pound outfit, a la a certain bloviating New York Jets coach, is far-fetched as long as Brady's gilded right arm is attached to his body. But Ridley, who averaged 4.4 yards per carry last season, is what the team hasn't had in nearly a decade — a bona fide feature back to take some of the burden off Brady's shoulders.
A 2011 third-round pick, Ridley sounded more comfortable and confident as he spoke about the upcoming season following the Patriots' first official practice of training camp on Friday. He declared the running game, which will also feature fellow third-year back Shane Vereen, ready for a bigger role if that's what is required or requested.
"Shane is going to be my partner. That's the right-hand man," said Ridley. "We're making these strides together. Like I said, the first two years things were kind of moving fast, but now we're in our comfort zone. We've heard it all. We have to just go out there and be the players that we are. We can't try to do too much, and if the team is going to come to us a little bit more, then so be it. We've got to be those playmakers."
The NFL has increasingly become a passing affair, as quarterbacks fill the skies with passes and get showered with dollars.
The Patriots' passing attack is as potent as any in the league, but throwing their way to a title has proven difficult even with Brady ripping up defenses and record books.
The ability to run the ball in the biggest games against the best defenses is the next step in the evolution of the Patriots' offense. Along with finishing the never-ending rebuilding of the defense, a more balanced offense is crucial to restoring the Patriots' championship reign.
One common thread in the Patriots' last five playoffs losses is a failure to produce a single rush of 20 yards or more. The longest run is 17 yards by ex-Pat BenJarvus Green-Ellis in Super Bowl XLVI.
In the 28-13 AFC Championship game loss to the Ravens last January, the longest rush was a 9-yarder by Ridley.
If Ridley, 24, needed any motivation for this year, all he has to do is recall his last carry of that game, his last carry of the season.
Near the end of an 8-yard gain, Ridley lowered his head to take on noted Patriot antagonist Bernard Pollard. The resulting concussive blow caused Ridley to lose consciousness and his grip on the football. The Ravens turned the turnover into a touchdown and a 28-13 lead.
Dropping the ball remains one of the few caveats to counting on Ridley, who fumbled four other times during the regular season.
Fumbling problems also caused the Patriots to mothball him during the 2011 playoffs his rookie year.
Asking a running back about fumbles is like asking a skydiver about a parachute that doesn't open. It's best not to be thought of.
But Ridley can count better ball security among his goals for 2013, which include proving that the 1,200-yard season he referred to as a steppingstone wasn't a fluke.
"You can either improve from here or you can fall back," said Ridley. "I'm never satisfied. I'm hungry. I want to go out there and do it again and then better myself because that's what my coaches are expecting, that's what my teammates are expecting."
There is no running from the fact the Patriots offense is going to have a different look with Hernandez, cut in June after he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, no longer part of the plan.
The Patriots created quandaries for defenses with a two-tight end attack with Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski, who started camp on the physically unable to perform list following a back operation in June.
By necessity and to buy Brady time to get on the same page with a wide receiving corps that includes just two players who have caught a pass from him in a game that counts (Julian Edelman and Matthew Slater), the Patriots could shift the attack to another pair of players drafted in the same year at the same position — Ridley and Vereen.
Brady is always going to be the Patriots' headliner act, but he can't be a solo artist if the Patriots want this season to end on a high note.Christopher L. Gasper can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cgasper.


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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center announced on Friday, Sept. 10, that they are looking for people at high risk of contracting HIV to participate in a three-year, nationwide clinical trial intended to determine whether a combination of two potential HIV vaccines will stimulate an immune response against the virus.
Dr. Mamta Jain, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, will be principal investigator for the study locally. She said the trial is designed to determine whether the new combo-vaccine will reduce the HIV viral load of people who subsequently become infected with HIV, preventing the onset of AIDS. She said that the combo-vaccine is composed of man-made proteins found in HIV, not the virus itself, and stressed that participants could not contract HIV from the vaccine. She also said the combo vaccine is designed to produce T-cells and antibody responses against HIV, and that it has proven safe in animals and hundreds of human volunteers during previous clinical trials.
The trial, known as the HVTN 505 study, will include 1,350 volunteers nationally who will be assigned randomly to receive either the combo vaccine or a placebo. Researchers with the study locally are looking for 40-50 volunteers to participate through UT Southwestern. The next closest site where the trial is being conducted is the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic in Birmingham, about 650 miles from Dallas.
Investigators are looking for healthy, HIV-negative men between 18 and 45 who have sex with men, and transgender women who have sex with men. Participants will receive three shots of the combo vaccine or a placebo, plus a booster shot, within the first six months. They will then be asked to return every three months over the next three years for an HIV test, an interview and risk reduction counseling.
The study, funded by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, "may help us better understand why some people develop AIDS and others don't," Jain said. "If you could prevent people from getting sick with AIDS, that's a tremendous accomplishment."
For more information about the clinical trial, call 214-590-0610 or 214-590-0603, or go online to HopeTakesAction.org. Go online to UTSouthwestern.org/InfectiousDiseases for more information about UT Southwestern's clinical services for infectious diseases.


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protection racket
I saw no cost to add to "reserve" list.
I did.
There are no corporate trademarks on the reserved list. Companies that want to make sure their brands do not appear with a
.xxx extension are expected to pay between $200 and $650 to to make sure they are removed from the pool of available names.
The problem is that basically anytime a new TLD comes out everybody with a
Either just make it all first-come-first-serve, or get rid of all the TLDs, or enforce some criteria for actually registering on all but one TLDs.
ParisHilton.xxx may be blocked, but what about Paris-Hilton.xxx, Paris_Hilton.xxx, ParisXHilton.xxx, xxxParisHilton.xxx and WeWillAlwaysHaveParis.xxx?
that's called a subdomain dumbass...
i'm sure that hilton.xxx is long since reserved as well.
it's OK until she finds out and sues you for making money of her name
I don't just mean the reservations, but also the whole domain.
If I wanted to see porn of the Celebrity named Jane Doe, I wouldn't go
et cetera
I'd open Google and type in "Jane Doe Porn" and see which links look good.
If you're going to flood the xxx domain with useless garbage, then the whole concept of it is useless.
I think the idea is to force all porn sites across to the
I work in the industry and have followed this. The evil in the
First is the pure money grab, same as with
Then there is the provision that the registar has that they reserve the right to scan your site. That doesn't happen with any other domain but it does for the
But the final evil is why lots of politicians are in favor of it.
What is Playboy magazine? A porn mag OR a magazine with some pictures of nudity? The difference is important. The US has no clear anti-porn laws, instead it has laws that prohibit obscene material. What is obscene? That is a very good question and so far the courts have been unable to answer it.
Porn is legal in the US as long as no court can define it as being obscene. In olden days this explains nudist magazines and movies. By shooting it as a documentary on nudist live a movie could be sold that was just a skin flick. It is educational!
This has never gone totally away in the US although a lot of porn IS produced as purely porn the laws are still there and plenty of politicians would be willing to enforce them.
But how can you proof something is porn? How do you proof playboy.com is just obscenity? Well, a bloody big clue would be playboy.xxx Godwin be damned but it is a yellow star. Why do you think the yellow star was used on jews but not say a black star on blacks in America? Because there was no need to, you can tell a black person just by looking a them and therefor there was no risk of a black person going into a whites only store. The only way to enfore "gein juden" was to force them to wear an identifier.
If you force all porn on the
Will this happen? Some believe so, the same kind of people that defended Larry Flint. Not because they liked Hustler so much but because of this "joke".
An Arminain grandfather lies on his deathbed and calls his sons to him to depart some final wisdom, "Remember my sons, always defend the jews."
Why the jews the oldest son asks.
"Because once they are gone, we will be next".
The web as it exist now is a mess, porn, business, copyright infringement, press all mixed up with no easy way to tell which is which. But it makes it very hard for a group to silence a part of it. See the US problems with trying to filter porn in public libraries. Oops, it may contain sex but it is also free speech.
.XXX is a multi-layered beast. At first glance it seems just like a money grab until you realize that there is political support for it for over a decade from a certain quarter and they are NOT in it for they money. They got other motives and once they become evident it will be too late.
Remember this, when it was asked during a conference that IF as the registar said market forces would decide if it was a success or not that ANOTHER option for the registar who invested a LOT of money in this MIGHT use their political mussle to buy ADDITIONAL laws to FORCE purchase of
Google will do wonders for some more insights.
Clap. Clap. Nice soliloquy.
How in the world did you find out about our evil scheme to hold children hostage and force them to look at pornography websites? The possibility that a child could accidentally look at pornography was also part of our plan. Their entire lives will be obliterated from looking at pornography!
You do realize that the people stuffing your inbox with porn are not actually in charge of The Porn Industry, right? What you're saying is the equivalent of saying that [insert local minority here] deserves what they get because they steal things, bring down property values, etc.
I agree with most of your reasons why this is A Bad Thing, but I believe you are mistaken about the legal issue of pornography vs. obscenity. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled (even in recent years) that pornography is protected speech. As long as it isn't obscene pornography, it still enjoys First Amendment protection, and any laws against mere "pornography" that are still on the books are not enforceable. Although putting a
First they came for the lolicon manga.... [jaqrabbit.com]
But how can you proof something is porn? How do you proof playboy.com is just obscenity?
If you force all porn on the
Wait, if people already have trouble identifying porn sites, how will you be able to "force" porn sites to
If courts now can't agree on what is and is not porn, there is no way to force porn to the
Then again, I suppose I shouldn't have expected more from a person who compares the pron industry to the Jews.
Have you ever heard of an analogy? He was saying it was vaguely similar in one or more ways. That does not mean he was saying that it's as "bad" as what happened in the event that he's vaguely comparing it to. It simply means that it might be similar in one or more ways (like, for instance, the fact that no one will be able to stand up for you if you're the only one left).
What about:
- Artwork? Paintings? Photographs?
-- Would you count "The Birth of Venus" as pornography? She has got a bit showing.
- Nudism?
- Certain Prose?
Its simple, Graphic depictions of sex acts thats pornography. Soft porn/erotica obscured or suggestive sex acts.Why do people make something that is so simple so hard?
I totally agree. Now we just need to define 'graphic', 'depictions', 'sex', and 'acts'.
Ancient cultural heritage, or porn [wikipedia.org]?
They block 80 and 443 by default?! Those are standard HTTP and HTTPS. How on earth can you log into any website to fix that?
Only for a server though right? Unless you're planning on hosting your own server you won't need those open.
Inbound, to protect averagely uninterested users from accidentally exposing their routers configuration interface to the world.
(25 to prevent access to open relays on customers' computers, 135 and 139 to prevent access to unprotected SMB shares)
But that will not work unless we somehow can get global standard for what is porn.
Should the content be moved to
How about smaller groups or just personal preferences? With sites like this http://www.objectum-sexuality.org/ in the end you would have to move content containing people showing any skin what so ever or wearing clothes revealing any hints about body shape. You would also have to move content with animals, buildings, pla
I think the idea is to force all porn sites across to the
Sounds like a stupid idea to me. For what purpose? How could they possibly force every single porn website in existence (even unidentified ones) to use the
I doubt this is their idea at all.
it could become a feature of your ISP that all
For what? People who could probably be considered overprotective parents? If they want to "protect" their children from something I deem as harmless, then I think they should be the ones doing the work.
Not only that, but this kind of blocking
I can't imagine that ports 80 and 443 would be blocked by default.
If I wanted to see porn of the Celebrity named Jane Doe, I wouldn't go...
I know, right? I mean, Jane Doe is so hot. Her girl-on-girl and ATM are the best. Her brilliant schoolroom scene in the 2008, No Country for Old Milfs 2 is nothing short of a masterpiece.
She lost a lot of her cachet after Tiger Woods did her, however.
... and ATM are the best.
I love Automated Teller Machines.
Yes I know what it also stands for, but when I read that through the first time I was imagining a woman getting money from a bank and was wondering what is wrong with some people.
I still wonder now though.
Yes I know what [ATM] also stands for, but when I read that through the first time I was imagining a woman getting money from a bank and was wondering what is wrong with some people.
And then you found out what "ATM" porn actually was... and you *really* wondered what was wrong with some people. I hope....
Anyway, I'm sure there are women out there who certainly *would* get turned on if the amounts of money coming out of the ATM were enough.
What rules are applied to this domain? If (for example) someone registers something like universal.xxx, would Universal Studios be able to challenge the validity of this domain in the same way as if someone registered universal_studios.com?
Of course. Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy - UDRP.
Misspellings, typographical differences (hyphens), and that is not even taking into account domain names can contain numbers.
You can't buy them all. But the owners of the
I wonder if I can register a
I'm sure businesses will clamour to register the companyName.sucks domain to prevent competitors messing it up.
I could register an
Not that anyone would want to pay to see me, no, but sooner or later someone would buy my domain and pay me huge sums of money NOT to have to see me like that ever again!
No matter who you are or what you look like, you are someone's cup of tea. Internet porn has already proven this conclusively.
No matter who you are or what you look like, you are someone's cup of tea. Internet porn has already proven this conclusively.
Well, tbh, that is a rather disturbing idea.
So you are going to tease us all like this and not put out?
for shame.
With a nickname like "gaygirlie"...
I have to hope that rule 34 does not apply to us.
No matter who you are or what you look like, you are someone's cup of tea. Internet porn has already proven this conclusively.
Moving all porn sites to
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Step 3: beat whites until stiff.
(Black BDSM Cookbook, Meringues)
There, fixed that headline for you.
Well, that's what I get for not RTFA first. Celebrities don't have to pay, at least for now. Companies, however, do
There are no corporate trademarks on the reserved list. Companies that want to make sure their brands do not appear with a
Most of the people I know who deal in domain names feel that the new ICANN TLD policy is primarily about domain name extortion, rather than actually pro
Is it going to be "slashdot.xxx", or "xxx.slashdot.org" ?
Quickly! Someone please block this before it is too late!
I feel like there's a "thrust" joke in there somewhere.
Celebrities are already 'using' their names in a trademark fashion. Just because somebody tacks
Seriously, their a terrible idea and this shows why. We don't need to create problems like WhiteHouse.com vs.
The only TLDs that should exist might be those that are meaningful like edu, gov, org and mil. The rest are crap. Get rid of them.
Excuse 1: The USA is not the only country on the internet.
Oh wait, that actually torpedoed your entire post. Whoops.
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All eyes were on Lara Bingle as Perth designer Garth Cook unveiled his new collection behind The Terrace Hotel.
The model turned reality TV star flew into Perth the day before Cook's show and spent her time working out in Kings Park, checking out rock pools along the coast, hanging out with man-of-the-hour Garth Cook and dining with Eagles player Chris Masten and Billie & Rose store owners Pippa McAuliffe, Emmi Moore and Chris Simmons.
Such a handsome man! @garthcook Can't wait for your show this evening! LBx twitter.com/MsLaraBingle/s... — Lara Bingle (@MsLaraBingle) February 26, 2013
Cook unveiled his "VRH" Spring Summer 2013/2014 collection in a walkway nestled behind the Terrace, where Bingle stayed during her visit.
The collection, six looks split over 30 Chadwicks models, featured a mix of floaty pastels, gleaming faux crocodile skin, shimmering sheer dresses (albeit one that caused a nipple slip) and structured white shirts and shifts with sharp black collars.
All guests at the invitation-only show were invited to an after-party at the boutique hotel, including fashion illustrator Pippa McManus, designer Poppy Lissiman, boutique owner Zara Bryson, Perth Fashion Festival director Mariella Harvey-Hanrahan and footballers and partners; Sam and Natasha Butler, Andrew and Rayne Embley, Chris Masten and Emmi Moore, Will Schofield and Alex Leahy.
My Kitchen Rules contestant Andi Thomas made an apperance with her Billie & Rose co-workers and revealed she and partner Josh Maldenis had just discovered their baby, due later this year, is a boy.
Bingle was "in awe" with the sights during her Perth visit and posted pictures for her 175,000 Instagram followers describing the coastline as "magical" as she flew in, jumping in front of a Moreton Bay Fig at Kings Park with the caption "in awe of nature" and another at Mettams Pool with Pippa McAuliffe and Emmi Moore with the note "picturesque Perth".
Bingle, who announced last year she planned to launch her own lingerie line, donned labels Garth Cook, Josh Goot and Ksubi during her stay.


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Is Siberia becoming Chinese?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, more and more Chinese citizens have settled in Siberia, looking for new opportunities. France 24's reporters went to Blagoveshchensk, where one of the oldest Chinese communities in Russia is well-established, but where some Russians are very much uneasy with the Chinese presence.
The Siberian city of Blagoveshchensk is located over 8,000 kilometres from Moscow, but barely 800 metres from China. The two countries are only separated by the Amur river. In winter, when it freezes over, the Amur can be crossed on foot.
Until 1989, "Blago", as the locals call it, was a closed city, off-limits to foreigners. These days it symbolises the growing Chinese influence in Russia's Far East. Large parts of the economy have been taken over by the Chinese. Farmlands - abandoned former collective farms - are mostly run by Chinese migrants. Mixed marriages are common, and Chinese is the most popular foreign language, taught from school up to university.
The two communities live side by side in relative harmony, although some Russians are not so happy about this Chinese "invasion". Some find themselves shut out of the labour market due to competition from Chinese workers, who are paid considerably less. These Russian workers complain of a "yellow peril".
Despite these xenophobic remarks, the Russians in Blagoveshchensk need the Chinese. The locals here remember that not so long ago, Chinese products helped them to cope with the post-Soviet Union transition. These days, it's thanks to Chinese entrepreneurs - like those we interviewed in our report - that the Russian economy is continuing its modernisation.
For the Russian authorities, there's no question of turning their back on their big neighbour. Indeed, a new bridge will soon be built over the Amur to connect the two countries.


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Also, old credit cards a good for scaping dishes (Of course I know they must be destroyed!)
A woman with whom we had lunch on a ship had a great story. She lived in California. On her way to work, she used a corporate credit card to buy gas. This was fine with her employer. When she got to work she found a voice mail from the credit card company and immediately responded. At 7:30 did she purchase fuel from X service station in Y California? Yes, she did.At 8:00 did she purchase $2000 of goodies from Z shop in Tokyo? No, she most certainly did not. Sometimes, credit card companies do get things right. Neither she nor her employer were charged.
A long time ago, somebody stole a check from my checkbook at Costco. They wrote it for about $1300 worth of stuff, using a special business code that only an employee would know to use to get it OK'd without a manager's signature. The only reason we didn't get dinged for it was we had less than that in the account, and it bounced. When we disputed it (since I KNEW I'd only spent $150 that day, let alone we didn't have a business account), the bank talked to Costco and put it in their hands. We had to close the account and call everybody and tell them that we'd be writing them a new check, and why, and I don't know if Costco ever found out which employee did the deed and bought a lot of high end sports equipment on our check... We ended up not being out a penny, so that worked out well, aside from the huge nuisance of it all.
I had a purse stolen, oh, probably twelve years ago now. They took my checkbook and wrote a bunch of checks--KMart and Best Buy are the two I remember--for thousands.
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John Popper Will Join Bill Evans' Soulgrass at The Blue Note Tonight
John Popper of Blues Traveler, John Medeski and Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee will perform with Bill Evans' Soulgrass tonight during their residency shows at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. As previously reported, Popper was supposed to play with the group the other night, but had to back out because he was recovering from a recent gallbladder surgery. Evans broke the news to fans at Tuesdays gigs after telling a different funny story each show. During the first set, Evans said Popper was attacked by a bear in the woods and second set he mentioned that he was injured while trying to escape a shark during a recent scuba-diving trip.
Tonight's shows will mark the third night of Bill Evans' Soulgrass's six-night residency at the iconic venue. The group will be doing two performances each night during the run, which continues through Sunday night. Since Butch Trucks mentioned that Evans would be his pick as new member of The Allman Brothers Band, it is entirely possible that he will also sit in with the group at the Beacon in the coming days.


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- The flu is keeping many of us home from work or school, and it's also preventing a lot of people from donating blood.
After the holiday season, blood donation centers usually see a decrease in donors. With the recent flu outbreak, workers at Rock River Valley Blood Center (RRVBC) say more residents are calling to cancel their appointments.
Although January is national blood donation month, during a blood drive at SwedishAmerican Hospital, only 7 residents registered to give blood, compared to 42 donors who registered for the last drive in August. The RRVBC usually sees about 60 donors a day. Workers say that's slimming down since the flu outbreak. Since it's a virus, you can't catch it from donating blood, however Jennifer Bowman says a sick donor could still spread their germs.
"It's not necessarily that their blood products are bad, its just a requirement that you're feeling well and healthy because we don't want to, when you have the flu you're lacking energy, you're feeling worn down and donating blood might add to that for a couple of hours," says Jennifer Bowman with the RRVBC.
Bowman suggests you wait until you're free of all flu symptoms for at least 24 hours before donating blood.
If you're not sick and would like to donate, you can find a list of donor sites here.


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