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What did Romney offer the 'middle class'? I'll tell you what: He offered to avert financial collapse. To do something about the debt and deficit. To reform entitlements. To reform the tax code. To foster the conditions in which economic growth occurs. To help put people back to work. … That's not program enough for the 'middle class'? What does he have to do, enter each of their homes and bake them muffins? —Jay Nordlinger
It's time for the open season on Mitt Romney to end, according to writer Jay Nordlinger.
In a National Review piece published Wednesday, Nordlinger argued that Romney was one of the "brightest, most capable, most admirable men" to run for president, and post-election criticisms have turned him into something he's not.
The criticisms Nordlinger cites come not from Romney's political opponents, but rather from Nordlinger's "fellow conservatives."
"Instant revision and reviling is natural after a loss, I suppose," Nordlinger said. "But the number done on Romney has been galling, to me."
Romney came under fire after the election from many of the same people who had supported him throughout the race, including some who were talking about positioning themselves for a Romney Cabinet, former Romney adviser Dan Senor said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"I won't mention their names, but they're talking about Romney like he's Reagan," Senor said. "You know, 'The debate performances were the best debate performances of any Republican nominee in presidential history. This guy — he's iconic.' They know who they are. They were on television. I mean, it was unbelievable. It was five, six days later, (they were) absolutely eviscerating him."
During a post-election phone call with donors, Romney said that President Barack Obama won largely because his campaign gave "a lot of stuff" to groups that they hoped would vote for them in order to motivate them to go to the polls. The comments were lambasted by people like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Lindsey Graham and columnist George Will.
"I absolutely reject what he said," Jindal said. "We as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote. If we want people to like us, we have to like them first, and you don't start to like people by insulting them and saying their votes were bought."
"It's been well said that you have a political problem when the voters don't like you, but you've got a real problem when the voters think you don't like them," Will said. "Quit despising the American people."
Politico's Mike Allen quoted unnamed Republicans as saying Romney sounded bitter and backward-looking, and that Romney "just doesn't get it."
In December, Gingrich told the Huffington Post that he or Texas Gov. Rick Perry would have been better candidates, and that Romney was "isolated from human behavior" for his suggestion that some undocumented immigrants might self-deport.
A Talking Points Memo story from Nov. 18 suggested that, "if Mitt Romney has any friends left in the Republican Party, they're hiding."
In his National Review post, Nordlinger addressed these and other criticisms, saying that although Romney has been called "out of touch," "plutocratic," and uncaring about the middle class, he is instead democratic, and "classically, almost stereotypically, American."
"His proposals were designed to help millions of others enjoy some of the success that he and his family have enjoyed," Nordlinger wrote. "What did Romney offer the 'middle class'? I'll tell you what: He offered to avert financial collapse. To do something about the debt and deficit. To reform entitlements. To reform the tax code. To foster the conditions in which economic growth occurs. To help put people back to work. That's not program enough for the 'middle class'? What does he have to do, enter each of their homes and bake them muffins?"
Nordlinger praised Romney's philanthropic efforts, comparing the Romneys' donating 29 percent of their income to charity in 2011 — around $4 million — to Vice President Joe Biden's 2011 charitable donations of $5,540.
Nordlinger went on to say that although Romney had many faults — "and I have spilled my share of ink on those faults" — conservatives and Republicans should remember that politics and vote-getting is hard, and that in democracies, people don't always buy what you're selling, and they always get what they deserve.
"Hang on, Nordlinger, are you saying that Romney was better than the country?" the article said. "Yeah, I guess I am. Not being a politician, I have the luxury of not having to flatter The People. He was also better than most of us who sit, scribble and crab."
Truth about campaigns can go out the window after the fact, and sometimes almost instantly, Nordlinger concluded.
"It's only January," he wrote. "I remember Mitt Romney as a very good nominee, on balance — and a sterling man who would have made an excellent president, possibly a great one. Already, however, he has been turned into a plutocratic, out-of-touch stumblebum who never really had a chance and never should have been nominated."


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Cisco CEO John Chambers wants to make one thing clear: Competing against Cisco and its partners has been, and will always be, a losing battle.
"The message that we must give together to our competitors is, 'If you are going to compete against Cisco and its ecosystem, you are going to lose,'" Chambers told partners Tuesday at Cisco's 17th annual Partner Summit in Boston. "And history is littered with companies big and small that have learned this."
Admitting he would speak a lot less subtly about Cisco competitors at this year's Partner Summit than in years past, Chambers specifically called out rivals including Aruba Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, and their failed attempts at going toe-to-toe with Cisco.
[Related: Cisco Partner Summit Features Revved-Up VCE Effort]
"From five to 10 years ago, great companies like Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel-Ericsson -- they are a shadow of what they used to be," Chambers said.
Chambers also dismissed competitors including HP and Huawei as potential threats.
"Two years ago at this conference, we were all a bit worried, and especially the press, about HP beating us, and Huawei beating us, and Avaya [beating us]," Chambers said. "We've left them behind in market share, as well."
Chambers attributed Cisco's success to its ability to navigate market transitions and stay ahead of industry trends. Looking ahead, Chambers said he sees a number of new transitions Cisco and its partners must traverse to stay on top.
One of these transitions is the Internet of Everything, or the ability for previously unconnected objects -- including everything from cars to produce to healthcare devices -- to communicate with one another and the Internet. Chambers urged solution providers to think about the Internet of Everything as the fourth evolution of the Internet, following its introduction, the emergence of e-commerce and the rise of social media. He also urged partners to start investing in the Internet of Everything and evaluating the impact it will have on their own business and their customers'.
Mont Phelps, CEO of NWN Corp., a national Cisco partner headquartered in Waltham, Mass., said he was glad to see Chambers and Cisco focusing this year's Partner Summit on new industry trends and their impact on partners and customers, rather than just new Cisco products.
"The focus is shifting from [Cisco's] own technology and architectures to what it does for the customer," Phelps said." It's not what it is, but what it does, that's important."
Chambers also highlighted today's shift in IT consumption models as another transition Cisco and its channel partners need to navigate this year. Namely, Chambers said, as more and more organizations move to the cloud, Cisco and partners need to put a greater emphasis on providing hosted solutions and services. This transition, however, is an especially challenging one for solution providers, requiring them, in many cases, to transform their existing business models to accommodate a services-based sale.
"We are talking about a partner ecosystem that we have to navigate through very carefully, knowing that each move we make in services, or each move we make in Internet of Everything, we have to say, 'How do we do it together?' But trust that we are going to move through this transition," Chambers told the crowd.
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ANCHORAGE — A University of North Texas team is chasing Venus from Alaska and Hawaii during the planet's rare transit across the sun.
UNT astronomy program director Ron DiIulio and other enthusiasts are monitoring Tuesday's transit from Homer, south of Anchorage.
It's a modern-day twist on a 1769 expedition by British Capt. James Cook and others in three different locations who set out to document the transit and try to calculate the earth's distance from the sun, based on a formula devised decades earlier by astronomer Edmond Halley.
The UNT team is tracking the transit — not with grandfather clocks used in Cook's day, but with high-tech telescopes, atomic clocks and cameras including one equipped with a global positioning unit.
The endeavor is among scores of Venus events around the world.
From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won't be for another 105 years.
"If you can see the mole on Cindy Crawford's face, you can see Venus," Van Webster, a member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, told anyone who stopped by his telescope for a peek on Mount Hollywood.
For astronomers, the transit wasn't just a rare planetary spectacle. It was also one of those events they hoped would spark curiosity about the universe and our place in it.
Sul Ah Chim, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea, said he hoped people see life from a larger perspective, and "not get caught up in their small, everyday problems."
"When you think about it from the context of the universe, 105 years is a very short period of time and the Earth is only a small, pale blue spot," he said.
The transit was happening during a 6-hour, 40-minute span that began just after 6 p.m. EDT in the United States. What observers could see and for how long depended on their region's exposure to the sun during that exact window of time, and the weather.
Those in most areas of North and Central America saw the start of the transit until sunset, while those in western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and most of Europe could catch the transit's end once the sun came up.
Hawaii, Alaska, eastern Australia and eastern Asia including Japan, North and South Korea and eastern China get the whole show since the entire transit happens during daylight in those regions.
While astronomers used the latest technology to document the transit, American astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station was planning to take photos of the event and post them online.
Online streams with footage from telescopes around the world proved popular for NASA and other observatories. A NASA stream midway through the transit had nearly 2 million total views and was getting roughly 90,000 viewers at any given moment.
Meanwhile, terrestrial stargazers were warned to only look at the celestial event with a properly filtered telescope or cardboard eclipse glasses. If the sun is viewed directly, permanent eye damage could result. In Los Angeles, throngs jammed Mount Hollywood where the Griffith Observatory rolled out the red carpet for Venus. The last time the city witnessed a Venus transit was 130 years ago in 1882.
A 2004 transit was not visible from the western U.S.
Telescopes with special filters were set up next to the lawn and people took turns peering at the sun before and during the transit. Astronomers and volunteers lectured about the rarity of a Venus pass to anyone who would listen.
Minutes before Venus first touched the outer edge of the sun, Sousa's "Transit Of Venus March" blared through. The crowd turned their attention skyward. Jamie Jetton took the day off from work to bring her two nephews, 6 and 11, visiting from Arizona to the observatory. Sporting eclipse glasses, it took a little while before they spotted Venus.
"I'm still having fun. It's an experience. It's something we'll talk about for the rest of our lives," she said.
Bo Tan, a 32-year-old software engineer took a half day off from work and went with his co-workers to the observatory.
He admitted he wasn't an astronomy buff but could not miss this opportunity.
He pointed his eclipse glasses at the sun and steadied his Nikon camera behind it to snap pictures.
"It makes you feel like a small speck in the universe," he said.
In Mexico, at least 100 people lined up two hours early to view the event through telescopes or one of the 150 special viewing glasses on hand, officials said. Observation points were also set up at a dozen locations.
Venus, which is extremely hot, is one of Earth's two neighbors and is so close in size to our planet that scientists at times call them near-twins. During the transit, it will appear as a small dot.
This will be the seventh transit visible since German astronomer Johannes Kepler first predicted the phenomenon in the 17th century. Because of the shape and speed of Venus' orbit around the sun and its relationship to Earth's annual trip, transits occur in pairs separated by more than a century.
It's nowhere near as dramatic and awe-inspiring as a total solar eclipse, which sweeps a shadow across the Earth, but there will be six more of those this decade.
In Hawaii, hundreds of tourists and locals passed through an area of Waikiki Beach where the University of Hawaii set up eight telescopes and two large screens showing webcasts of the transit as seen from telescopes at volcanoes on other Hawaiian islands.
But minutes after Venus crossed into the sun's path, clouds rolled overhead and blocked the direct view.
"It's always the challenge of being in Hawaii — are you going to be able to see through the clouds," said Greg Mansker, 49, of Pearl City, as he stood in line at a telescope.
The intermittent clouds didn't stop people from looking up through filters, but it did drive some to crowd the screens instead.
Jenny Kim, 39, of Honolulu, said she told her 11-year-old son the planet's crossing would be the only time he'd get to see the transit in person.
"I don't know what the future will be, so I think this will be good for him," Kim said as she snapped photos of the webcast with her smartphone.
Astronomers also hosted viewings at Pearl Harbor and Ko Olina. In Maui, 20 couples renewed their vows during a ceremony tied to the transit at the Hyatt Regency Maui, a spokeswoman said.
Some observers at the University of Alaska, Anchorage gathered on a campus rooftop, peering at Venus through special filtered glasses and telescopes.
"It's not really spectacular when you're looking at it," Kellen Tyrrell, 13, said. "It's just the fact that I'm here seeing it. It's just so cool that I get to experience it."
NASA planned a watch party at its Goddard Visitor Center in Maryland with solar telescopes, "Hubble-quality" images from its Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission and expert commentary and presentations.
Most people don't tend to gaze at the sun for long periods of time because it's painful and people instinctively look away. But there's the temptation to stare at it during sky shows like solar eclipses or transits of Venus.
The eye has a lens and if you stare at the sun, it concentrates sunlight on the retina and can burn a hole through it. It's similar to when you hold a magnifying glass under the blazing sun and light a piece of paper on fire.
It can take several hours for people to notice problems with their eyes but, by that time, the damage is done and, in some cases, irreversible.
During the 1970 solar eclipse visible from the eastern U.S., 145 burns of the retina were reported, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Experts from Hong Kong's Space Museum and local astronomical groups were organizing a viewing Wednesday outside the museum's building on the Kowloon waterfront overlooking the southern Chinese city's famed Victoria Harbor.
On the East Coast of the United States, amateur astronomer Vince Sempronio was at a viewing hosted by Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Md., but clouds there — as in many other places — limited visibility of the spectacle. Many at the college viewing crowded around a laptop to watch the NASA webcast instead of the Venus move across the sun.
"I was here at the same spot eight years ago when we had the last transit and I was able to show people, using my telescope then. So I'm not too disappointed," Sempronio said. "If modern science and medicine helps, maybe I'll be around in a hundred and five years to see the next one. But I'm not crossing my fingers."
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Over the next three months, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to end affirmative action, whether to overturn part of one of the most important civil rights laws in our country's history (the Voting Rights Act) and whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to the same marriage benefits as heterosexual couples. In almost every term, the justices exercise veto power over fundamental policy questions such as abortion, gun control and freedom of speech and religion. There can be no denying the political and legal responsibility we place in these nine justices.
In 1803, the great Chief Justice John Marshall said in the landmark case of Marbury vs. Madison that we are a "government of laws and not of men."
Yet the nine justices of the high court hold their positions for life and exercise virtually unreviewable power. They and only they get to decide how long they stay on the court, and they can and often do time their retirements for strategic political reasons.
Last year, Justice Antonin Scalia admitted he would not like to retire during an Obama administration. He said: "Of course, I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I've tried to do for 25 years, 26 years, sure. I mean, I shouldn't have to tell you that. Unless you think I'm a fool." Justices on both the left and the right are cognizant of how their retirements affect the political makeup of the court. This kind of attitude suggests a government of men, not laws.


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1980: Monica intrudes on Lesley and Gail.
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1981: Lesley gets ticked off at Amy.
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1986: Mary has an emotional moment with Vince during Cass and Kathleen's wedding.
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PLANS for a John Lewis store at Sprucefield could be in jeopardy after the Environment Minister said the retail park should only be used for furniture and electrical goods.
The application for the John Lewis development, which includes 19 other retail units, has been stuck in the planning system for several years.
A public inquiry was expected to be held early this year, however, the project is likely to have been dealt a fatal blow after Environment minister Alex Attwood confirmed a new area plan will limit further development at Sprucefield to "bulky goods" like furniture.
He said he was committed to putting "Belfast first" in "difficult times".
"This is consistent with the revised Regional Development Strategy 2035 which aims to strengthen Belfast as the regional economic driver and the primary retail location in Northern Ireland," he added.
"My decision today will support that, as evidence indicates a high vacancy rate.
"I intend to take a precautionary approach to retailing.
"I also want to see Lisburn city centre and other town centres in the (Belfast) metropolitan area taking additional retail floorspace.
"Sprucefield will play a key role as a regional centre which will complement rather than compete with Belfast and existing city and town centres.
"That is why I have decided to restrict future retailing at Sprucefield to bulky goods only."
The DUP MP for Lagan Valley Jeffrey Donaldson said that he regretted the line the minister was taking.
He said that if the development did not go ahead at Sprucefield, it was likely that John Lewis would site their store in the Irish Republic.
"We need to get real here and this notion that the choice is between Belfast and Sprucefield is not right," he said.
"Talk to John Lewis, they want a large outlet in Northern Ireland, they want it in Sprucefield where there is a catchment area of two million people, Belfast hasn't got that.
"Their next choice for a location is Dublin, not Belfast."
Objectors have said the scale of the Sprucefield project would damage town centres, supporters have said it will bring jobs.
It is understood the new policy will effectively kill the chances of a John Lewis store on the site near the city of Lisburn.
The planned development at Sprucefield was said to have been one and a half times the size of the Castlecourt shopping centre in Belfast.
But fans of the popular retailer need not lose hope.
The developers behind the stalled Royal Exchange Scheme in Belfast are still hoping to persuade John Lewis into the city.
The latest Sprucefield plans are set to be considered by the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) in April.
It will consider if there are any obstacles to the resumption of a public inquiry and to discuss dates.
A planning application for the 500,000 sq ft development was first made in 2004.
Although it is most associated with the department store John Lewis, the application has been made by the developer Sprucefield Centre Ltd.
It is a joint venture between the Australian property firm Westfield and the local developer Snoddons.
John Lewis have committed to being the anchor tenant at the development.
The project has faced a series of legal challenges from some Lisburn traders who fear it could damage city-centre shopping.
Rival retail landlords have also opposed it.
Mr Attwood said on Friday that he wanted to stress that he was not "reopening the debate on any policy issues".
He also said he was not attempting to prejudice the outcome of the public inquiry in April.
"That planning application remains to be considered carefully following the PAC inquiry report," he added.
"All the relevant issues within the public inquiry report will be interrogated carefully before a final ministerial decision is made."
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donniebaseball23 writes: Nintendo 3DS just launched over the weekend, and many consumers are now getting acquainted with the device's glasses-free 3D visuals. And while the focus currently is on 3DS, the industry is anxiously awaiting Nintendo's next move in the console space, as the Wii continues to fade. Unlike Sony's push into stereoscopic 3D, however, a Wii 2 isn't likely to offer 3D gaming, according to Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime.


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at anytime in the next year plus.
I am really curious to see what people think about this.
at anytime in the next year plus.
I am really curious to see what people think about this.
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
40% was the number that came to mind for me.
It would be interesting to ask this again after a few months of the Castellini regime.
I think it's zero.
The hints (IMO) say that Dunn is just marking his time until he gets out of here. The time is past to save money by signing Dunn longterm. Thanks to incompetence by DanO and Bowden, at this point it probably does make the most sense to go year to year with Dunn. Why? Because we won't save any money (Dunn is going to demand expected market value, and I don't blame him).. Also, I doubt Dunn lets us buy out his any of free agent years.
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a little birdy told some of us that Dunn was rumored to be asking for a 3 year deal.Originally Posted by REDREAD
IIRC, that would mean he'd be a Red just as long as Kearns, assuming that Kearns isn't traded or signed to a LTC himself.
Get your nunchucks and the keys to your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun
IIRC, Adam officially has really said little about it. For the most part Cincy has not developed players worthy of recieving a long term commitmenta and they seem more than content to focus on 1 and 2 year deals at most.
I am beginning to believe thatwe won't see any of the 4 young guys(Dunn, Kearns, Pena and Lopez) here long term. We seem to be morphing into an eastern version of the KC Royals. I wish I would be proven wrong.
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was it a mockingbird?Originally Posted by pedro
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I chose 51-75%, I think it will happen but much of it depends on the departure of DanO. If he's gone before the season starts I think you'll see Dunn sign a new deal around the All-Star break after the new GM is in place and is settled in.
If they don't dump DanO until midseason, or the end of the year, the picture gets rather hazy and the odds reduce dramatically IMO.
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remember, Dunn did mention 3 year 22 mil earlier this offseason. FWIW, the rumor I heard was recent, as in yesterday.
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Today it's 0%.
Friday it may be as high as 50/50.
Makes all the routine posts.
I voted in the 26 to 50% one.
I am not convinced that once new ownership takes control that DanO will be let go. And if DanO stays the smart moves that the Reds could make get reduced to almost zero. DanO stays and we continue to
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Which is why I can't believe he isn't signed already. I would sign him to that in a second.Originally Posted by pedro
I voted 0-25% only because like REDREAD I think Dunn's just bidding his time so he can get out of here - but not for the same reasons. IMHO, he's got enough money, he probably wants to get back home to the Houston area and that home on the lake.
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I remember too. Dunn has never said he didn't like it here. Seem to recall a few years ago when the Reds were trying to ink a long term deal with another player; Dunn said "Wish they'd offer me a long term deal, I like it here". I think the new owners will get him signed.Originally Posted by pedro
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I have said numerous times on this site i think he is a short timer he certainly isn't going to tell fans he wants to play nearer home in Texas would you? I would move him for the best trade and move on i just do not think he wants to stay here. Good luck to Dunn whoever he goes with but i want to get something for him. And i sure do not want to see him at first the guy just isn't a defanse player regardless of the position.GO CINCY!!!!! PS. He would be a great DH for the Rangers.
Less then zero.
Not only is it now too late, but Dunn seems to me that he's not a Dan O scrappy type of player.
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The programs are real, even if the math may be phony.
History shows us that it's not biased in the slightest to assume that politicians will lie, cheat, and steal their way to riches. Giving them the benefit of the doubt is like Charlie Brown giving that field goal one more shot because maybe, just maybe, Lucy won't pull the ball this time.
Most Insightful Post Ever!
History shows us that
Blah blah blah. The parent was not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. And just FYI the whole football thing was an analogy for sex.
As for the article, I'll sum it up for everyone: "Y2K is coming to get youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! Hide the children!"
...And just FYI the whole football thing was an analogy for sex....
And anyway, Peter Griffin took care of that football thing once and for all.
You would think that if all politicians cared about was their own greed, they'd be far better off than they are now no?
History shows us that it's not biased in the slightest to assume that politicians will lie, cheat, and steal their way to riches.
What is biased is to assume that the non-elected civil servants who actually do the math will not attempt to do their jobs to the best of their ability. For example, the staff at the Congressional Budget Office who actually do the math do not directly report to any politician. Similarly, the civil service laws exist specifically to prevent someone from, say, being fired by NOAA for coming up with the "wrong" climate data, or fired from the SSA for coming up with the "wrong" Social Security budget projections.
So you're right to assume that politicians lie, cheat, and steal. But that doesn't mean that a GS-11 actuary working in the bowels of a government agency is lying in his reports.
Have you worked in "the trenches" in those sectors before.
(1) You may not be able to be fired for those reasons, but most employers can easily find other reasons to fire an employee. So there's still that fear. It doesn't happen
(2) Even if you aren't directly/indirectly reporting to a political figure, they still pull enough strings to make you worry, and they can still exert influence outside of the chain of command.
It's not a cut and dry situation. There are buffers, but none
Actually, banks, and such already ran into Y2K problems in the 70s when long term loans starting overflowing them. For them the Y2K scenario had many years to be fixed slowly (mostly a continuous updating thing - as things broke, they fixed it) so there was no big rush for them as they were experienced in such issues.
If there are any 2038 issues, the banks have already been ahead of the curve and seeing them in 2008. Hell, a good conspiracy theory....
time_t has also been 64 bit for a number of years now (you don't need a 64-bit system to deal with 64-bit numbers - it's just dealing with them is a lot slower as the compiler emits library calls to perform the arithmetic). So it's not a real problem even on embedded systems (ARM only added 64-bit support in the ARMv8 instruction set - and only in the high-end A (applications) profile processors - the lower end R (real-time) and M (microcontroller) profiles are still ARMv7 only).
However, even those compiled with 64-bit time_t aren't necessarily safe - you'd probably find most of them assume it's still a 32-bit quantity and end up storing it as such - ignoring the compiler warnings or casting to get rid of them. So even programs of today with 64-bit time_t's won't necessarily make it past 2038 either.
And if stuff like that is done, recompiling does diddly - the bug will still strike despite a 64-bit everything. Hell, someone may have decided during the conversio nto increase the timestamp size from 32 to 64 bit, but didn't realize someone squashed it down to 32-bit upstream.
you don't need a 64-bit system to deal with 64-bit numbers - it's just dealing with them is a lot slower as the compiler emits library calls to perform the arithmetic...
A lot slower? Nah. Negligble, at best. It'll be fine.
For them the Y2K scenario had many years to be fixed slowly (mostly a continuous updating thing - as things broke, they fixed it) so there was no big rush for them
There's a motorcycle shop in my town where all the receipts are dated "1913". And printed with tractor feed dot-matrix.
So not everybody's in a big hurry.
I've seen some relatively new systems using a 32-bit time, even some using the same API as Unix. It's relatively common in embedded systems. Many of them just go ahead and use signed 32-bit as there's no need to have internal times be compatible with external systems.
Ultimately I think the problem arises because of overusing time_t. Originally this was something you used to attach a time to a file in a file system, or a time in a log entry, etc. A time system on a file system with a limited range is not a problem. That media is not going to be active 40 years later. The file may last longer but in such cases presumably it's copied to new media with a different method of storing times. So not a problem for file systems to do this. The problem however is that this time system was expanded to be used for more general purpose times. And over time it's practically a de-facto standard to stick with time_t and its 1/1/1970 base date. People don't think about converting from system time into an external time when exporting data, they just assume time_t is valid everywhere. Programmers just use whatever time system they find in the system's libraries without worrying about whether it is an appropriate use or not.
Many application areas already have to avoid using time_t anyway and are used to converting between one time system to another. Astronomy, geneology, medical records, historical data, etc.
Actually, banks, and such already ran into Y2K problems in the 70s when long term loans starting overflowing them. For them the Y2K scenario had many years to be fixed slowly (mostly a continuous updating thing - as things broke, they fixed it) so there was no big rush for them as they were experienced in such issues.
It's times like this when I really, really miss VMS.
64-bit time ends on 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596
you think the programmers in that year will be happy with the mess you left them?
not really planning ahead now are you geniuses?
dear coders of year 292 billion: i'm sorry, we failed you
NetBSD has switched to a 64-bit time_t.
64bit time will solve it for anything that uses time from the system directly. Meaning all those perl and bash scripts that run so much stuff no one thinks about, from billing to transferring data between companies to scheduling your next vacation are going to be fine.
What will not be fine is crusty old compiled code that was 32bit. Hopefully they are just a recompile away from being fixed. Sadly that is likely not to be the case as generally corporations do not have that kind of foresight.
Compiling away isn't always that simple.
You'd be amazed how many people code depending on the fact that sizeof(long) == sizeof(int) == sizeof(void*) == sizeof(time_t) == 4 even when they don't need to and structures are often mapped directly onto binary data, either from disk or network.
I don't actually imagine that 2038 will be much of a problem - most of the issues that will be triggered by the above assumptions will occur between now and then and will be fixed as they occur.
Then 2038 will loom and there will be a big drive to fix everything (else), the magic time will occur and there will be little more than a whimper. Then everyone will complain about the hype about a non-existent problem.
I am quite looking forward to having the option of some lucrative consulting income in my early retirement should I decide I need it.
I am quite looking forward to having the option of some lucrative consulting income in my early retirement should I decide I need it.
Then my goal is to thwart your retirement plan. I will contract a low-wage programmer from a yet-to-be-determined developing country to write a piece of software that corrects the issue in any source code and recompiles it for you. I'll sell licenses for $1kUSD a pop, which by 2038 will only be enough to cover the cost of a McDonalds Synthetic Cheeseburger Paste from the Value Menu.
Remind me to tag you as "evil bastard" if I ever look at your profile, alright? Not only do you destroy a future old man's retirement scheme, but you turn my stomach with a future menu item. Evil.
If you have a 64 bit PC and OS, it should be little more than a recompile. This is why it's important to have the source.
If you have a 64 bit PC and OS, it should be little more than a recompile.
A number of comments have claimed this: recompile with 64-bit time_t and the problem goes away. Unfortunately, for many apps it's not quite as simple as that.
Certainly, for those apps which only deal with time information internally, and in a transient fashion, this will be sufficient to eliminate the problem.
However any program which persists UNIX timestamps in files, or sends UNIX timestamps as part of a networking protocol, or basically anything which sends the data structure outside the application is still going to require work on how to handle the migration.
What happens if your app is required to talk on the network? If there are few enough machines involved, then sure, you can upgrade all of them at once, but if it's a large or distributed operation, there needs to be a transition plan. How will older clients and newer clients interoperate?
If data is saved, how will the recompiled application interpret old files? Does it need a way to distinguish them? Can old data be automatically converted? Are there cases where old data may be compromised? (e.g. those 30 year mortgages probably have the wrong end-date stored...) How will we handle those cases?
What about situations where time information is used to prime other calculations - is it okay to affect those other calculations? Serial numbers, PRNGs, UUID generation, etc - the situation has to be assessed. Many cases might be fine, but you can't make a blanket statement for all cases, so each calculation must be vetted.
In the end, the result is that there is work to do. Much of it will be easy to fix, but the assessment still needs to be done.
If you have a 64 bit PC and OS, it should be little more than a recompile.
A number of comments have claimed this: recompile with 64-bit time_t and the problem goes away. Unfortunately, for many apps it's not quite as simple as that.
Certainly, for those apps which only deal with time information internally, and in a transient fashion, this will be sufficient to eliminate the problem.
However any program which persists UNIX timestamps in files, or sends UNIX timestamps as part of a networking protocol...
Oh, IPv6 should take care of that.
64-bit is taking over already everywhere. In 10-15 years, you will have a hard time finding a 32-bit computer.
The embedded world will still have a lot of 32-bit (as well as 16- and 8-bit) stuff for years to come.
That's where the big problem will be: not with the systems on your desk (or on your lap, or in your pocket), but rather with the hundreds of little CPUs that you don't see (and you may, or may not, be aware of).
The problem is not so much the OS, as you say most systems will be running 64-bit operating systems and even 32-bit operating systems will likely find a soloution (like was done for large file support). The problem is the applications which have the assumption of 32-bit unix time built in.
You might say "just recompile for 64-bit" but that assumes that
1: you have the source
2: the source is not full of assumptions that make rebuilding for 64-bit impractical
3: the source actually stores the time in variables of type time_t or long and not variables of type int or type int32_t.
4: the data files the program stores on-disk do not include timestamps in unix format in fixed size fields.
For what proportion of applications do you belive all four of those assmptions will hold.
At least 64 bit Linux has too. The only 32 bit installation I have (on a Raspberry Pi) has not.
Don't forget the Rpi doesn't even have a real time clock...
Yes, I know. A limitation found on quite a few other embedded systems. My intuition is that on something without real-time clock, this issue cannot be important.
Standing before the steam roller....
I understand, we need time to correct the issue, but...c'mon?!
Slow news day?
Also a timestamp, in addition to being referenced to 0 = somesuch date, also can be used with offsets. So add a signed integer "-60" to the timestamp signed integer to get a signed integer representing about a minute ago. Since you'll be spending a lot of time adding signed ints to a timestamp, you may as well make the thing a signed int, rather than having to screw up and debug a zillion crappy bug filled homemade implementations of "uint + int = uint". Most of the bugs are dealing with extreme values a
Do the math. If they used a 32-bit unsigned integer, the problem wouldn't happen until the year 2106.
We made this decision for our C library on our embedded 65816 processor used in industrial controllers. We had no reason to represent times before the controller was installed, so losing the sign wasn't an issue. But we thought that 2038 was within the possible useful life span of the controller. 2106, not so much.
I realize that many people thought that about hardware produced for the century turnover as well, so everything about the time range is internally documented well, but we didn't have any justifica
Ages before 1970?
Some applications need to represent times before 1970 (for example dates of birth*)
Some applications need to work with time differences.
Some applications use negative numbers to represent errors.
Unsigned 32-bit unix time values may be useful as a quick fix in some specific scenarios where a field in a data structure is fixed size, where it is accepted that the code processing that field will need to be updated and where it is known that dates before 1970 will not be needed but attempts to use them as a gene
I put in my time working on the Y2K fix. I'll be retired in 5 years, so let the kids of today fix this one. Hell, they need jobs.
Yep. We knew Y2K was coming. We tested stuff. We fixed stuff. We got double-time for being on-call instead of partying like it's 1999. And because of all of that, it went smoothly.
The same thing will happen here. All it needs is for management to put people on the tasks.
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
Actually we did, but it had nothing to do with integer overflow.
The global crysis!
I blame UNIX for that!
Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages.
Oh, that was what that was. Oh crap.
And here all along I've been blaming greedy mortgage brokers for suckering people into mortgages they couldn't afford and a insanely inflated real estate market.
Five years ago there was an economy-shattering real estate crash due to shady sub-prime mortgages. Coincidence or coverup?
Just kidding; of course it was a coincidence. But if you throw out statements like this, the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork. You could even say the moon landings were faked because the time on the computers of the day was kept in an 8-bit register, which rolled over during the Apollo 13 mission!
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
Maybe that's because accountant types seem to think that the only valid numerical inaccuracies are those manifested in base 10, so they tend to use their own weird decimal number types for financial calculations.
This could be worse than Y2K!
This could be worse than Y2K!
. . . and more lucrative, for retired C hackers who want to earn a few bucks . . .
The COBOL boys had their turn with Y2K. Next up, are the C-bies.
My uptime!
After all, we handily averted Y2K with decades to spare, and the internet has been migrated to IPv6 for the past ten years.
And the Mayan clock rollover didn't seem to cause any problems.
The Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] is much better than the Byte article. (Do people still read Byte? I don't remember seeing it since the 80's.)
One thing that seems a little different from Y2K is that this bug seems to be prevalent in a lot of embedded systems. To me that seems harder to test than a desktop system. On a desktop system, you can just set the time to Dec. 31, 2037, let it roll over, and test as much stuff as possible to see if it broke. You can't do that with a car or an airliner.
Why can't you do that with an airliner? Maybe a car, but a car that's still running in 25 years is quite an achievement anyway.
On an airliner? Just basic operational procedure would mean that updates for fixes are common (physical or software) to fix ANY potential problem after YEARS of testing on identical systems deployed in test labs.
There's almost certainly a copy of a Boeing's internals at Boeing where they've done exactly this (e.g. test Y2K rollover to make sure it doesn't affect flightplan or auto
I've actually seen some situations close to your example. Imagine 286 desktop machines running Netware 2.X for SAA. It was at a hospital and the only guy that knew anything about them had been dead for almost 6 years. Finally enough of them failed to impact connectivity to the mainframe.
They're probably talking about endless dependency stream style bugs.
For example. Say your shitty GPS rx curls up and dies with the 32 bit roll over. So it either stops sending fixes to the moving map or the moving map decides not to accept post-32-bit timestamps as part of the NMEA stream. Either way the position becomes static so the calculate airspeed drops to zero. Normally it would cross check against the two tubes, but those are clogged by ice today. So the autopilot shoves the stick far over beca
(Do people still read Byte? I don't remember seeing it since the 80's.)
Only in strings. We migrated to Words in the late '80s, then DWords in the '90s.
>> those phony programs politicians use to project government expenditures
That's Excel in most cases, I bet. As long as spreadsheets can handle up to 50 rows and numbers up to 3000 I suspect all will be as it is today.
So it will be someone else's problem.
"Imagine a mortgage amortization program projecting payments out into the future for a 30-year mortgage."
Well, that's a not-unreasonable example that almost certainly exists already, and seeing as we're only 25 years away - seems like the banks didn't really have any problems with that - at least, none they've advertised.
So the real question is: How big a problem is it really? Application software can trundle off and do what it likes and ignore the clocks it knows are wrong, and 64-bit time systems like a
I expect that financial calculations are using 64 bit or 128 bit integers, long-numbers or at the very least (may be illegal in some countries) double. The last still gives 56 bit integer precision when misused as an integer.
Cowboy Robot is yet another example of someone trying to use "facts" to create alarm, raise money, and achieve world government. If there were really a time problem in UNIX, and I don't believe it for a moment, it's not necessarily caused by human activity. I prefer sunspots. Yeah. Sunspots.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3356429&cid=42468505 [slashdot.org]
But thanks for pointing it out again. Don't forget to stock up on Spam and Treet.
Stop warning people! The Unix 32 bit Epoch cleanup is my retirement plan! I'll make a killing fixing legacy software when the kids out of school only know how to point and click through their GUI IDE's and don't know the difference between a short, an int, a long, and a long long... and time_t is completely foreign to them.
Not a problem since we'll all be running Windows 11 by then.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


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Country Legend George Jones Dead at Age 81
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Country music legend George Jones died Friday in Nashville, Tenn., after being hospitalized April 18 with a fever and high blood pressure. Jones was 81 years old.
Jones was one of the defining artists in country music history, bearing the influence of the genre's early pioneers Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell as he gained prominence in the mid-1950s.
Born in rural Saratoga, Texas on Sept. 12, 1931, Jones began singing on the streets as a child after the family moved to Beaumont, Texas. Following a stint in the Marines, Jones recorded his first top-five hit, "Why Baby Way," on the Texas-based Starday label in 1955. He then signed to Mercury Records and scored his first #1 hit in 1959 with "White Lightning." Jones' hits continued through the 1960s with country standards like "She Thinks I Still Care" and "The Race Is On."
Jones had weathered two failed marriages by the time he married Tammy Wynette in 1969. The couple scored hit duets with "We're Gonna Hold On," "Golden Ring" and "Two Story House," in the process earning the title of President and First Lady of Country Music. Jones and Wynette continued to record together well after their 1975 divorce, while Jones also continued racking up solo hits like "The Grand Tour" and "A Picture of Me (Without You)." Jones and Wynette reunited for an album and tour in 1995 and were on friendly terms when Wynette died in 1998.
In the late '70s and early '80s, Jones' alcohol and cocaine addiction led to multiple arrests and hospital stays. He also missed dozens of concerts, earning the nickname "No-Show Jones."
Despite his personal issues, in 1980 Jones released what is often hailed as one of the greatest songs in country music history: "He Stopped Loving Her Today." The ballad was a #1 hit and won Jones several CMA Awards, as well as a Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
Jones married wife Nancy Sepulveda in 1983, who's credited with getting Jones' personal and public lives back on track. He went on to win several more CMA Awards mostly thanks to collaborations with the likes of Brad Paisley, Patty Loveless, Garth Brooks and Buck Owens.
Following his 1992 induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Jones released his bestselling memoir, I Lived to Tell It All, in 1996.
Jones was seriously injured in a car accident 1999 while driving under the influence of alcohol. He released an album called Cold Hard Truth that same year that produced the CMA Awards-nominated single "Choices."
Jones was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in 2008.
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Arsenal are set to revive their interest in David Villa this summer, according to reports.
The Daily Mail claims Arsene Wenger will go back in for the 85-cap Spanish international at the end of the season, after missing out on the player in the final stages of the January transfer window.
Villa has struggled to make a major impact under Tito Vilanova at the Nou Camp, and the same paper claimed that the Gunners were ready to make a final swoop for the former Valencia star in the last days of the month.
A move failed to materialise however, and whilst Arsenal added one Spaniard in the shape of Malaga defender Nacho Monreal, they did not strengthen their attacking line.
That leaves Olivier Giroud to lead the line for the rest of the season at the Emirates Stadium, with Theo Walcott and Lukas Podolski also able to play through the middle if required.
However, the addition of Villa in the summer could be a major coup for the Gunners, and their transfer chances are likely to hinge on finishing in the Premier League's top four at the end of the season.
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No charges have yet been filed in the Route 12 crash near Lake Zurich that killed a 10-year-old boy and injured his twin brother and father, as Lake County officials work to piece together what happened.
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said in a news conference Tuesday it's too early to determine charges against any driver in the accident. He also said it is unclear if drugs were involved.
The surviving twin brother, Nicholas Shirey, is in critical condition at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. The boys' father, Scott P. Shirey, 49, was released from Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital on Tuesday.
Griffin Shirey, 10, of Island Lake, was killed when a large Ford pickup carrying roofing shingles struck the back seat portion of the Lincoln sedan where he was riding. The car was hit while making a left turn from southbound Route 12 onto Old McHenry Road at 5:41 p.m. Monday, officials said.
The violent impact tossed the truck, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, onto its side and into two other vehicles waiting at the traffic light, Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Christopher Thompson said.
The driver of the truck, Matthew Loiacano, 29, of unincorporated Antioch, was questioned by police and released Tuesday, Curran said. Curran said preliminary witness statements from the scene said the truck ran a red light prior to the accident.
"It's still too early in the investigation for charges to be filed," he said. "We will look at all the blood work and urine samples, determine speeds and review witness statements, then take it all to the state's attorney's office for charges when the investigation is complete."
Initially, Loiacano indicated some past drug use, sheriff's officials said Monday, that could have played a role in the accident. However, Curran backed off that statement Tuesday, saying "with 100 percent honesty, there is no indication at this point that drugs were involved in the accident."
Emergency crews rushed Griffin Shirey, his twin brother and their father to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Thompson said.
Griffin Shirey was pronounced dead at the hospital, while Nicholas Shirey was airlifted to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge in critical condition with internal injuries Monday.
Loiacano was taken to Centegra Hospital -- McHenry following the crash, Thompson said, along with a second occupant of the truck.
Loiacano submitted to blood and urine tests -- after some initial hesitation -- to determine if alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash, Thompson said.
He was taken to the Lake County Sheriff's Office early Tuesday and questioned about the crash. Curran said during the news conference that he had been released.
A third occupant of the truck, and three victims in two other vehicles involved in the crash, refused treatment at the scene.
The roadway was closed until about 10:30 p.m. while sheriff's officials investigated.
"I cannot imagine the unspeakable grief the Shirey family is undergoing at this moment," Curran said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them during this incredibly painful time."
Emergency crews from Lake Zurich, Barrington, Fox River Grove, Mundelein and Round Lake responded to the scene.
The intersection where the crash occurred is the same crossing where Lora Hunt plowed into a Lake Zurich motorcyclist while she was polishing her nails in May 2009.
Hunt was sentenced to 18 months behind bars while not working or traveling to her job after crashing into the motorcyclist who had stopped at a red light on Route 12 at Old McHenry Road.


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Federal Government Shutdown Does Not Impact Freddie Mac Operations
October 1, 2013
Freddie Mac will continue normal operations without interruption during the temporary federal government shutdown. Freddie Mac systems and business functions will be open as usual for all selling and servicing functions.
While Freddie Mac currently is in conservatorship and regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, we are not a government agency and are not funded through the Congressional appropriations process so a government shutdown will have no direct impact on us.
You may have borrowers who are impacted by the government shutdown and if so, they will be eligible for all our relief options stated in the Freddie Mac Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide).
If a loan is made to a government employee and the closing date is during the shutdown period, you do not need to obtain employment verification or re-verification prior to closing if a government office providing the verification is not able to do so as a result of the temporary shutdown. You are also not required to obtain employment verification or re-verification for such loans after the shutdown ends. This exception does not apply to income verification or any other requirements. We ask that you continue to be diligent in your underwriting practices as you remain bound by the representations and warranties as stated in the Guide.
If you have concerns about needing an executed IRS Form 4506-T, Request for Transcript of Tax Return, please note the following guidance:
- We only require IRS Form 4506-T to be signed by the borrower prior to closing. We do not require that 4506-T be processed by IRS prior to closing. However, we require that the actual 4506-T information is obtained as part of the Seller's in-house QC program.
- We require Servicers to have the Form 4506-T or 4506T-EZ, as applicable, processed by the IRS prior to evaluating a borrower for HAMP, a standard modification or other workout option if processing of these forms is required. In the event the Servicer is unable to obtain tax transcripts from the IRS through electronic processing of an executed Form 4506-T or 4506T-EZ, Servicers must obtain a copy of the tax return from the borrower, if required.
Servicers of Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Rural Housing Service (RHS) mortgages should look to the requirements issued by those government agencies during the temporary shutdown.
We will inform you immediately if there are changes to our business operations as a result of the temporary shutdown.
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Is there a GPA requirement to graduate with a Neuroscience Minor?
Yes. In accordance with the policy in the academic catalog, you must have a GPA of at least 2.000 in all of the courses that comprise the minor. In addition, in order to complete the minor a student needs to register for and complete a Bachelor's Essay in Neuroscience. Registration for that course requires permission of the Department Chair and you should inquire about additional requirements within your department.
If I am in BIOL351, can I change the call number to PSYC351 while I am taking the course or after I have completed the course?
No. Once the add/drop period is over, a student can no longer change the course designation on any cross-listed Neuroscience courses.
Can I double major in biology and psychology and still be a neuroscience minor?
The simple answer is yes. If you choose this path, you may count one of your minor courses towards your Biology degree (e.g. BIOL351) and one of your minor courses towards your Psychology degree (e.g. PSYC352). The rest of the courses required for the minor must be in addition to your required courses for each major. No additional courses may double count with your biology or psychology degree.
Can I have more than one minor?
Yes, although the College will only allow you to earn two different minors. The only stipulation is that no courses you take can count in more than one of the minors.
Do I have to do an independent study for the neuroscience minor?
An independent study is not required for completion of the neuroscience minor. The only requirement is that a student complete the year-long Bachelor's Essay in neuroscience. However, you might want to consider doing an independent study in the spring semester of your junior year to try out a lab before committing to a year-long project in your senior year. For more information and advice about the research requirement, look at our Bachelor's Essay guidelines.
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After a delay of more than a week, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition has finally been released for the iPad. The PC version came out on November 28, but the iPad version had been delayed because of a crash bug found by Apple.
The iPad version is available on the iTunes Store for $9.99. Beamdog president Trent Oster said via Twitter that this version is only for iOS 6 and that support for iPad1 and iOS 5.1 is still in the works.
That iPad price is cheaper than the $19.99 PC version bcause there is slightly less new content. The characters of Neera and Dorn are available as an in-app DLC purchase, as well as a voice pack. Oster said that the goal was to keep the cost low for of the iPad version, but to do that they needed to leave some new content as DLC.
An Android edition is planned, but no release date has been announced. If you missed the review, the game is definitely enhanced, and still a great experience that holds true to the original classic RPG.


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Only when they go to Applebees.
1. don't go to Applebees.
2. It was some girly drink, not going to hurt any kid.
"alcohol can be toxic" I'd better reduce my intake to 50 beers a day.
I'ts worse than that. Alcohol is a level 1 carcinogen, so it's in the same list as asbestos, plutonium and gamma rays.
Yes, but if he cuts back on the alcohol he could be suspectible to wasp larvae! Consider the risks carefully before you make your decision.
As for all those carcinogens, they are only dangerous when you consume them in California. Much safer to consume them here in Texas. And nothing keeps the bugs away better than asbestos, plutonium and gamma rays.
I'm concerned about your high Di-hydrogen Monoxide intake.
That was pretty good, cogno. Nicely played.
Fruit flies like a Bacardi.
Especially fermented fruit. Just don't drop it on someone's head, Galileo.
I thought alcohol was generated by yeast as a method of anaerobic respiration?
I don't know if these wasps can infect humans, but let's better not take any chances.
But, when I do I choose Dos Equis.
So that's why mosquitos don't bite you. I thought it was out of respect.
The crux of the hypothesis is that when there are no wasps around the fruit flies disperse evenly between fresh and fermented fruit but when wasps are around they congregate around the fermented fruit. The article hypothesizes that the reason is that the flies choose the fruit is that they know that wasps do not like alcohol. There is another possibility. That the flies do not like being around the wasps and the wasps do not like being around the alcohol. When a wasp approaches a fly it moves away. Since th
Now you told us all this, and we can't see it..
Please make some videos, OK? I wanna see that.
The larvae's parents have nothing to do with the larval use of alcohol.
Not true. It's the larvae don't have the choice here. They eat what's in front of them. The parent is the one that decides where to lay the eggs. If the parent detects wasps, she lays her eggs on the alcohol-laden fruit. If not, she doesn't.
and if the quote came from TFA, it's drivel too.
-1, Wrong because he didn't RTFA
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Who the heck are these people who would riot in the streets if they changed the original WoW character models? I mean, nostalgia is one thing, but have you ever looked at your character's hands? Or a Human male's face? Yikes.
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Ghost cat. Catamount. Puma. Painter.
Panther. Mountain lion. Cougar. The many
names given the nation's largest cat
convey the mystery surrounding this
solitary hunter. But the variety of names
also demonstrates the cougar's original
distribution across the North American
continent and from southern Canada to
the tip of South America.
Once the most widely distributed land
mammal in the Western Hemisphere,
cougars have been eliminated in most of
their native habitat. Only western cougars
still live in large enough numbers to
maintain breeding populations, and they
live on wild lands in the western United
States and Canada. Observations of
western cougars provide biologists with
information for the cats that once lived
east of the Mississippi.
Although generally presumed extinct in
the wild, eastern cougars remain
protected by the Endangered Species Act.
Eastern cougars historically ranged from
Michigan, southern Ontario, eastern
Canada and Maine south to South
Carolina and west across Tennessee. At
one time, they lived in every Eastern state
in a variety of habitats including coastal
marshes, mountains and forests.
The cougar's Latin name gives a clue to its
appearance; "concolor" means with one
color, and adult cougars' fur is a uniform
red-brown or gray-brown. Cougars have
long, slender bodies with very long tails
and broad, round heads with erect,
rounded ears. Adult cats average from
6 feet (females) to 8 feet (males) long,
including their tail. Males, at around 140
pounds, are larger than females at about
105 pounds. Cougars can swim, climb
trees and leap horizontally and vertically
equally well. Eastern cougars' primary
prey was white-tailed deer, but they also
hunted eastern elk (now extinct) and
porcupines and other smaller mammals.
Cougars usually do not chase down their
prey, but stalk and ambush; a cougar may
leap as far as 20 feet onto a deer's back
and can kill an animal with one bite to the
neck. One cougar consumes a deer every
week to 10 days, or more frequently if a
female is feeding cubs. Cougars have no
natural enemies, only humans.
Cougars are mostly lone animals, except
for mothers raising cubs and the time a
pair spends together while mating. Males
may occupy a range of more than 25
square miles and females between 5 and
20 square miles. Both females and males
defend home territories. Cougars begin
breeding at two or three years old and
breed once every two or three years.
Females initiate courtship, and produce a
litter of two to three kittens after a three-month
gestation. The kittens reach 10
pounds at eight weeks, and may weigh 30
to 45 pounds at six months. Females spend
18 to 24 months raising cubs to maturity.
Cougars live an average of eight years.
Early settlers perceived the cougar as a
danger to livestock and humans and a
competitor for wild game. With bounties
set by states, the eastern cougar was
hunted and trapped relentlessly until they
were extirpated throughout most of their
range. Cougars were gone from much of
the East by the late 1800s. At the same
time, much of their habitat was eliminated
through deforestation, which, along with
hunting, also reduced the population and
range of white-tailed deer. Although the
forests and the deer have returned in the
East in recent decades, conflicting land
uses, fragmented habitat, roads, diseases
and parasites from domestic animals, and
expanding human populations will likely
prevent cougars from returning to most of
their former range. Habitat able to
support small populations may still occur
in some of the larger undeveloped tracts
of forest in the East.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Eastern Cougar
Felis concolor couguar
Cougars in the Western Hemisphere
were originally classified into 32
subspecies. Recent genetic research
instead identifies six groups along
geographic locations, five of which are
in Central or South America. Some
scientists now claim that North
American cougars are genetically the
same. An isolated population, like the
Florida panther, can develop some
genetic differences through in-breeding.
The Florida panther is the
only breeding population of cougar
east of the Mississippi.
While confirmed cougars sightings have occurred recently in the wild in the East,
there is currently no physical evidence documenting the continued existence of a
population of wild eastern cougars. The cougars examined in the Northeast in the
past 70 years are likely released or escaped captives. Some cats had a South
American genetic profile. Some may be animals that dispersed into the region from
western populations. Confirmed cougar sightings have increased in the Midwest
and Great Lakes states in recent years. Some believe that a small residual
population of wild cougars persisted in the Canadian Maritime Provinces where
there has also been recent confirmed evidence of cougars.
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Found in the Jonesboro Daily Tribune, Arkansas, published 1922-12-27:
Mr. Walter E. Garrett, thirty-one years of age, of 79 West Peachtree Street, died early Thursday morning at a private sanitarium. He is survived by one brother, W. C. Garrett. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at... . Interment will be in the West View cemetery.
The above clipping was taken from the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga. The deceased was born and reared in Nettleton, and was the son of Rev. Isaac. and Mrs. Nansie E. Garrett. A letter received by the Tribune from Mrs. W. C. Garrett of 79 West Peachtree at Atlanta, Ga., states that an autopsy showed that Mr. Garrett died from an abscessed kidney caused from an injury received when he had some ribs fractured in an accident...four months since. Many people here and at Nettleton, remember the deceased and will regret to hear of his death. [Source]


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Monday, October 25, 2010
Oregon Duck Mascot Moving to Muscle Beach
"First, I dropped from a waist size of 106" to 32" after the first two games," said the Duck sometimes known as Puddles, though not to his face anymore. "But I didn't realize just how many damn push-ups I'd done this season and what the effect on my body was until I looked in the mirror on Saturday. Holy crap! I'm ripped! So I decided now is the time to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming Mr. Olympia."
The Duck never thought that dream could become a reality, especially after his weight had ballooned in early 90s during the lackluster Rich Brooks seasons. "We just weren't scoring. That and I loves me the Taco Bell," said the Duck as he showed off doing those one-handed Rocky push-ups. "Now, thanks to the number one offense in American, I can bench press just over 400 pounds. Put it this way - I'd like to see that Ohio Bobcat mascot try to pull that shit with me that he pulled on Ohio State's Brutus. I'd kick his punk ass all over the football field. And you can print that."
Though nothing is official yet, the Duck also said he's planning on a series of late-night fitness infomercials. "You think that P90X stuff gets you in shape? Ha! Trying doing push-ups after every score when Chip Kelly's offense plays New Mexico at home!"
8 comments:
- phil said...
The Duck walks into a ProForm fitness store and orders some weights. The clerk says, "will that be cash or check?" and the Duck says, "Just put it on my bill"
(thank you, i'll be here all week.....lucky you)
- October 25, 2010 12:32 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, Phil!!!
- October 25, 2010 12:40 PM
- MaryJo said...
As a Duck fan, in Eugene, I love the press. Minor detail, Oregon played New Mexico, not New Mexico State. I've never been to either but I'm sure fans and alumni of both schools care.
Is Michigan up for another home and home series? We'd love to have you back. Thanks
- October 25, 2010 4:55 PM
- Yost said...
Would love to go back to Eugene. Great atmosphere, great fans!
- October 25, 2010 7:30 PM
- Andy said...
Can you imagine the number of points Oregon would put up against our defense this year?
- October 25, 2010 8:09 PM
- Yost said...
Indeed, Andy.
- October 25, 2010 10:57 PM
- Yost said...
PS Thanks for the correction, MJ. Fixed.
- October 26, 2010 12:20 AM
- tonystewart99roy said...
Can I get a Woot Woot! Or should I say "Quack Quack!" The Ducks blew out the Trojans last night on USC's home turf! Two years straight beating up the once Mighty Trojans. Corso had it right again.....
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Sep 12, 2006
Farmingdale State sophomore middle blocker Cathryn McLean (Northport, NY/Northport) was named to the Skyline Player of the Week Honor Roll for women's volleyball on Monday, September 11th. McLean averaged 3.91 kills, 2.18 digs and 1.64 blocks over four games at the Old Westbury Panther Invitational, helping the Rams to the Tournament Championship and being named the Tournament MVP. McLean hit .321 as Farmingdale opened up the season 4-0.
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I wanted to get my backpack off when I commute. I believe this will work perfectly. I wanted to keep the streamline look of my bike, so this fits perfectly. Feels securely mounted.
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Perfect for every phase of biking.
Holds everything.
Have not found anything negative.
Best bag ever
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I use this trunk bag every day. I have been using trunk bags for 30 years as a commuter. I have never had such a good bag. The way it snaps in the versatility, its tightness to the bike, this all makes this the Cadillac of trunk bags. Other trunk bags flop around and need tie downs. Not this one. The panniers also are ready to use for clothing to and from work or even to carry a pie or some veggies home from the market. Worth every penny.
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This pannier easily attaches to and detaches from my Trek 520 back rack. With the press of a button, the pannier locks into place and seems to remain very stable while I ride. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the small side pockets, once unzipped, fold out into drop down side panniers literally doubling or tripling storage space. For me, I hope to become more "green" by riding to the grocery store and peddling food back home. The panniers are spacious. Realistically, the panniers earn a 4.5. I knocked a half point off because the side pouch zippers require some extra attention and care when zipping back up. The zippers could have been of heavier stock. Also, the center pannier sticks up a bit which requires a slightly higher leg kick to dismount. All in all, a great choice and yes I do recommend it, my friend.
love it
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so glad i upgraded worth the $170 i spent on rack and bag
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I keep it my bike all the time. I carry clothes to work. Stuff to the gym. Grocery shopping. Throw my purse in when I'm just riding. So far my only complaint is the zippers on the side bag could be longer to allow for easier access. I love that it's really small on the way to the store and expands quickly and easily to carry all my groceries home!
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Don't buy a matched set! (That's my opinion anyway, and it seems to be what many interior designers recommend too.) I bought all my furniture off CraigsList with the exception of the bed. Admittedly, it's still a work in progress but what I like, what I love actually, is that I have a home filled with unique items that all work beautifully together. Here's what I suggest. First, determine how you intend to use your bedroom. Do you want it to be serene, a place to sleep, perhaps read? Do you want to watch television in bed? Do you prefer an uncluttered look? Are there any particular pieces of furniture you despise (armoires, long dressers, etc.)? Do you have pets who will be sleeping with you? What color(s) would be your ideal choices? What types of furniture (design, color, style, etc.) do you favor? Here's where all those interior design magazines and blogs and websites come in very handy; they let you see so much that is out there and you can easily determine what works for you; if you can determine why something "works" for you, or does not, you are on your way to finding the right pieces. Second, look for individual pieces that fit the intention/theme of your bedroom. For example, I am making mine a seafoam green so I will have some blue-greens, teals and emerald greens in addition. I dislike matched sets of any furniture so I have two antique Duncan Phyfe tables I use as nightstands and a single two-drawer dresser with tall legs from the 1930s. They do not "match," and I love that. The bed, because it is so large and needs to make room for a lovely wing chair with ottoman, is off center, and so on. It works for me because I only read and sleep in there so I want peaceful, quiet, calm, an oasis for me. CL, garage sales, flea markets, maybe thrift stores. I'd certainly look online. There are any number of stores that have furniture regardless of your price range. Also, HGTV magazine is a wonderful DIY resource that often has stories of flea market finds of old stuff that is repurposed with some old-fashioned handwork. Best of luck with whatever you choose.
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BOSTON (AP) -- The Chicago Blackhawks shifted from flat to frenzied, then tied the Stanley Cup finals with a hard-fought overtime win over the Boston Bruins in a free-flowing Game 4.
Brent Seabrook's goal 9:51 into OT ended a wild Wednesday night of offense and short-lived leads, sending the Blackhawks back home to Chicago for Game 5 on Saturday all even instead of trailing 3-1.
It was a decided turnaround for Chicago after a listless performance Monday in a 2-0 loss that put the Bruins up 2-1 in the series.
"We definitely worked really hard at creating the chances that we did," said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, who had gone 10 games without a goal before he scored early in the second to put Chicago up 2-1. "The chances that we got, the goals that we scored, weren't turnover plays by them or just lucky bounces by us. They were goals that we were moving the puck around, we shot it, we got rebounds, we recovered the puck, we kept it moving around and finally scored a goal."
In short, whatever the Blackhawks were lacking in Game 3 was plentiful Wednesday.
The Blackhawks had six shots on goalie Tuukka Rask before the Bruins had any. Chicago also outhit the Bruins early and pounced on loose pucks when Rask left himself vulnerable by failing to control rebounds.
Rask had allowed just seven goals in seven games before the Blackhawks beat him six times on Wednesday. Although the Bruins rallied to tie it three times, the Blackhawks never trailed.
"It's exciting. Everybody worked so hard tonight. Everybody's worked so hard through the playoffs," Seabrook said. "We're all contributing. It doesn't matter if I score or anybody else scores, it's nice to get the win and move on to the next day."
The Blackhawks outshot the Bruins 47-33 and scored a power-play goal for the first time in the series, ending an 0-for-29 drought that started in the Western Conference finals against Los Angeles.
Chicago had just five goals in the series entering Game 4, and the teams had combined for just 12 before striking for 11 on Wednesday.
Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and Corey Crawford finished with 28 saves. Crawford certainly has played better, but he was backed by enough offense this time to overcome his mistakes.
All five of Boston's goals beat Crawford to the glove side, which the Bruins tested one final time in OT on a snap shot by Rich Peverley.
Peverley had scored against Crawford with a wrist shot in the first period to tie it 1-1.
Crawford juggled the puck slightly, but held on to it and forced a faceoff 9:32 into overtime.
"Corey has been great for us all year, all playoffs. He just moves forward," coach Joel Quenneville said. "Commend him. We got the win. You know, he'll be fine."
Just 19 seconds after stopping Peverley, Crawford was darting out of his crease to join his teammates as they piled on Seabrook after his slap shot from the right point got past Rask and hit the net inside the far post for the winner.
Rask faced only 28 shots Monday in Boston's shutout as the Bruins controlled play in all three periods. The Blackhawks established early in Game 4 that they had no intention of a repeat subpar performance, dominating the first seven minutes.
Chicago hit first and then hit back in every post-whistle scrum, and there were plenty of those as the Original Six clubs fought through regulation and into overtime for the third time in four games.
Chicago's win guarantees the series will return to Boston for Game 6 on Monday, when one of the teams will be one win away from claiming the Stanley Cup.
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State Senate Democrats have been scrambling to get enough votes to pass a bill to criminalize the "open carry" of unloaded handguns in public places.
AB 1934 by Assemblywoman Lori Saldana, D-San Diego, came up for a floor vote yesterday but fell short of the 21 votes it needed to pass, so it was put on call and brought back up several times through the day – falling one vote short at yesterday's end, but winning a unanimous vote to reconsider it today.
Adnan Shahab of Fremont, the Republican nominee for the 20th Assembly District seat and an open-carry activist, was in Sacramento watching the votes all day yesterday. He tells me that after yesterday's session ended, state Sen. Denise Ducheny, D-San Diego, acceded to pressure to change her vote from "nay" to "aye," setting the bill up for potential passage later today – possibly much later today, as the state Senate might tackle competing state budget proposals first.
As Shahab and other activists organize calls and faxes to Ducheny's office, other state Senators are feeling the heat well. Walter Stanley of Livermore, for example, yesterday was organizing "fax bombs" targeting the offices of state Senators Dean Florez, D-Shafter, and Gloria Negrete-McLeod, D-Chino, to try to convince them to vote against the bill.
The Assembly passed AB 1934 on a 46-30 vote June 1.
Gun-rights activists have seized upon open-carry laws in states across the nation as a means of expressing their political beliefs, acting individually or gathering to carry their weapons both as an exercise of constitutional rights and for self-protection. They say they're both protecting their rights under current law as well as advocating for changes so that more people can get permits to carry concealed weapons, something that's sharply limited under current law.
Advocates of Saldana's bill say open-carry practices should be banned for the sake of public safety, and to protect the safety and conserve the resources of police officers who must check to ensure the guns aren't loaded in accordance with state law.
UPDATE @ 6:18 P.M.: The bill was called just before 6 p.m. State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, acting as the bill's Senate floor manager, called it "a number one priority for the California Police Chiefs (Association)" and called open carry "a burden on public safety." The vote was 11 in favor, 10 opposed, with a lot of absentees; DeSaulnier put the bill back on call, so again we wait…
UPDATE @ 9:45 P.M.: Shahab posted this Facebook update a few minutes ago: "Senator DeSaulnier and Assemblymember DeLeon are now pressuring Ducheny to vote for AB 1934. Call Ducheny's office."
UPDATE @ 11:30 P.M.: The state Senate has passed AB 1934 on a 21-16 vote; Ducheny voted yes.