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Totally Bats 16(!) Team Big Ten Proposal
this is a sculpture called "Very Hungry God," so it goes here. the little boy is ND.
The old bats idea was for 14 teams and wouldn't have worked anyway. And with Big Ten expansion probably definitely happening now and probably definitely being the crazy XXL version, a 14 team Big Ten is so March. Give us 16 and give us the death of the Big East, even if it doesn't make any sense.
If this is happening, it's important that whatever form the Big Cthulhu takes makes as much sense as possible. Since the usual divisional stuff makes no sense and would see Michigan play opponents in the opposite division slightly more than once a decade, this requires thinking outside the chicken patties. So here's another crazy idea. The new bats idea: it's the World Cup, yo.
The New Bats Idea
So the problem with 16 is that it doesn't divide very well. You have two choices if you want to split teams up: eight or four. Thinking inside the chicken patties provides eight and all the stupid problems that go along with that. Four is interesting.
Divide the Big Ten into four groups of four based on last year's standings. (1-8-9-16, 2-7-10-15, etc.) Everyone plays each other.
|Michigan State
Top two teams in a group get put in an eight team division at the top; bottom two get put at the bottom. Point differential breaks ties. Everyone plays each other except for the teams that have already played.
|Division 1
|Division 2
|Michigan State
At the end of the year, the winner of the top division wins the conference.
(Variant: instead of lumping teams into eight team divisions on the second go-round, do another round of four team groups that split the top and bottom of the conference into approximately equal sets. Then do a third round of four team groups, two of which offer their winners a bid to the conference title game. The "contenders" groups consist of: the winner of both loser groups, the top two teams in each winners group, and the teams with the best conference records after that. This is probably too complicated.)
This makes a lot more sense to me than playing Penn State once a decade. You play a subsection of the conference based on how good you are. If you go from really bad to really good, as Penn State did in the middle of the decade, you don't get locked out of a championship game before the season starts.
There are a bunch of tricky issues, though: unbalanced home and away in the early section means getting through your group is partially dependent on home/road split. Getting stuck in the second division basically ends your conference championship hopes and that can happen with just one loss (see the PSU group above). And teams wouldn't know who they were playing, or even what their home/road split would look like, until midseason. Protected rivalries would be a thing of the past.
What about a…
Backwards Version!
Do the divisions first. Play seven games. At the end of the year create groups based on finish in the divisions.
|Contenders A
|Contenders B
|Div A #1
|Div B #1
|Div B #2
|Div A #2
|Div B #3
|Div A #3
|Div A #4
|Div B #4
(Other teams would get sorted into groups as well and play out the rest of the season; these matchups can take rivalries into account because if you're not playing for the conference title you might as well play someone you hate.)
Play the two games you haven't already; the games you have played count in the group standings. The winner of each group gets a bid to the conference title game. First tiebreaker is overall conference record. Variant: Play a tenth conference game and do a full round-robin in each subdivision. Teams seeded #1 and #2 get the extra home game. The variant provides everyone who makes the contenders groups a reasonable chance at winning them, but does guarantee one rematch per year. It also severely restricts nonconference opportunities.
This version is way more doable. Teams would be able to lock down ten of their 12 games before the season. The clawing for the fourth spot in a contenders group would keep most of the conference at least theoretically in the title hunt until deep into the season, but keeping the result from the earlier game and using overall conference record as tie breaker gives the top team in each division a big advantage. The extraneous games against the other conference would be sort of like playoff games. They wouldn't be random, unbalancing games with a distorting effect on the conference race. They would have purpose.
You want games to have purpose, don't you? You don't want them wandering around being all pointless, do you?
In Which I Pretend To Be Ives Galarcep
What do you think? Should Ricardo Clark have stayed in MLS?
I want more ideas. If a Big Cthulhu conference happens there should be so many different possibilities for the leadership to consider that they get very confused and actually pick one of them instead of defaulting to a divisional format that leaves everyone zo unsatisfied at the conclusion of a season (or the decade) when they drew the top two teams in the Bo division and the team that won your division drew Indiana and Northwestern and you haven't played Penn State since JoePa's age could be practically expressed without scientific notation.
So email me or post a diary or put it on the message board or pick this proposal apart—it's got its flaws—and we'll revisit this at a later date if this turns out to be something other than a game of chicken with the Big East and the Notre Dame administration.
Could you imagine that, by the way? The Big Ten waves its pointy stick at the Big East and manages to get them to boot Notre Dame and then ND ends up joining a 12-team Big Ten? Jim Delany would instantly be the most frighteningly Machiavellian person on the planet.
sounds practical and fun. I hope the bigwigs consider it.
I'm sure the conference would love the excitement and hype that would surely come with the final few games of the season.
All these fun proposals are a great time-waster and brain-teaser, but there is absolutely no chance of any of them happening. We all know this, even if we'd like to pretend otherwise -- it'll be a mega-conference with 2 divisions and lost rivalries and all the other negatives that Brian discussed.
I mean....how can we expect these people to think outside the box, when they're the same people about to jam a 96-team hoops tourney down our throats?
Best pictures to accompany a post since the Kittens in the aftermath of the Horror. Mad props, Brian, mad props.
Also, the Ives reference made me laugh out loud. What were you thinking, Ricardo?
Over/under on how many got the Ives reference without clicking on the link? 10? 15? I know we have some soccer people on here, but I'm not sure how many.
I have no opinion on Redcardo Clark.
If it is in regards to soccer then that would explain it. I am not a big fan. Soccer is like the sports version of tl;dr, in that the matches seem way to long and not enough action. I do watch the World Cup if that helps? I would watch a rochambeau tournament if it was USA vs another country.
I have to say that it has some good info, and the roundups are really helpful for the average soccer fan, who doesn't have hours to scour the internet for information. But the blog doesn't have the quality of articles and depth of reporting that this blog does. And, the end of each post is definitely something to mock.
I got the reference. I need reminders when to stop work and watch CL action.
I think Rico is likely out. Maybe if Edu's rehab at Rangers had gone badly........
But the "Redcardo" crack is uncalled for. Michael Bradley has to be the fave to get sent off. Not just on our team, but in the entire WC. I just hope that if he does get a red that he takes someone out with him. Someone good. Like say, Wayne Rooney.
Do you think he is on the outside looking in now, in terms of the WC roster?
I think that the only major flaw here is not knowing the entire schedule before the season. This makes it harder for the schools to sell tickets and know how much to charge based on how many home/away games there will be.
Marty Bodnar just had a brain aneurysm...
I like where this is going.
Instead, however, why don't we eliminate Notre Dame from the equation.
But, wait, GoBlueScott, that leaves 15 teams, and 15 is a very poor number to divide.
Yes, however now you could have three groups of five teams. Groups are based on the previous year's standards. That way you are guaranteed four games in your group.*
That leaves six teams (two from each group) on top after the first four games.
So what we have is five more games for each of the Top 6. (Now, maybe that sounds like a lot, but that's a total of nine games.) Home field is determined by record (even better, make it Premier League style with 3 points for a win, 1 point for an overtime loss, and no points for a loss.)
Here's where we have some fun. While the Top 6 are playing their games, the Bottom Nine are also locked in a mini-tournament with seeding. (This part gets tricky for scheduling, but people smarter than I am can figure it out I'm sure.)
At the end, you have this: Winner from Top Group vs. Winner from Bottom Group for Conference Championship. Say what you want, but it places THAT much more importance to win the Top Group to advance. None of this, "Well, we already beat them and now we have to play them again to win the conference?" nonsense.
*Alternative: Have the Group Stage be home and away, making it a total of eight games. Top team in each group play. Best record gets a bye, other two teams play for the right to go to the conference championship game.
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Group stage:
|Group 1
|Group 2
|Group 3
After the group stage:
|Top 6
|Bottom 9
So, this is what Michigan's schedule would look like.
|Out of Conference
|Miami (YTM)
|Notre Dame
|Group Stage
|at N'Western
|at Wisconsin
|Top Flight Stage
|at MSU
|at Pitt
|at Iowa
1.) Any scenario that has Northwestern in the title game makes me happy.
2.) Any scenario that has Northwestern in the title game makes everyone else change the channel.
3.) More generally, I'm afraid that having the bottom 9 winner in the championship would seem like an anticlimax most years.
Cinderella hater.
I see your point, but ... I don't know. I think it would be good. It's not unlike how professional sports are now -- or even most D-1 sports -- favoring teams getting hot at the right time.
So are most players' names
As a panty raid in a Spartan dorm.
Wait... what?
I don't think it's fair, particularly in college sports, to not allow teams just as even of a chance at a conference title based on a previous years result. If Michigan went undefeated next year (not saying they actually will) do they not deserve a chance at a MNC, or if they lose one game do they not get a chance at a conference championship? I just don't like it that teams are based upon a previous year's results when players are only there for 4-5 years.
I also think you are way over complicating things. I think college football needs to get away from that. People complain about the complexities of the BCS, and the way the Big 12 determines who goes to its championship game. We don't need that.
I don't mind the conference split up into 4 divisions, play your own division, one other division, and get one permanent rival (or if you already play them, some other big 10 team). This allows everyone to play every team at least once every three years. I actually also don't mind if these divisions are split up based on last year's results so that the best team plays the worst team, and whatever other two middle of the pack teams. That's fine because it gives every team an equal shot at winning at the end of the year. You could have groups like A: 1,8,9,16; B: 2,7,10,15; C: 3,6,11,14; D: 4,5,12,13. Group A plays Group A and Group D, Group B plays Group B and Group C… the only thing I don't like about his is not having permanent rivals. If Michigan and OSU don't play every year it would hurt the rivalry in my mind, and that goes for every rivalry in the rivalry rich big 10.
The biggest problem I have is with playing OSU twice a season. This cheapens both games and might accelerate my inevitable heart attack to some time in my 30s.
So how about, before the last game is played, if that matchup is in line to be one of the conference postseason games, then the game is just postponed until then. So if, for example, Iowa and Wisconsin(?) are set to play in the #2s game on November 13 but they're already playing on November 6, they just don't play the game on November 6.
I don't think Michigan fans have problems playing PSU, or Northwestern, or even MSU twice in one season. Just OSU. In some years, the race would be too close to call and you'd have to play the last game regardless. But at least it would happen less.
It doesn't seem so terrible to me. I hate to see re-matches in conference championship games. With two 8-team divisions, there would be just a 1/8th chance of a re-match (assuming that teams continue to play 8 conference games a year).
There would certainly be a way to arrange it so that traditional rivalries are preserved. I don't particularly care that there would be some teams that you face in the regular season only 2 years out of every 16. Actually, it would make the schedule more interesting.
Are you really in the same conference as a team that you play once a decade in any sense other than the technical one?
I do like some sort of merit-based scheduling (the seven division games + groups assigned based on standings in the first half sounds great), but if that's not possible, the best way to go is four four-team divisions, play everyone in your division and two of four from each of the others (with no more than two consecutive years without playing a particular team). Four division winners play a tournament for the title, seeded by overall record.
Any conference organization other than two 8-team divisions is even moreso, regardless of the inherent disadvantages.
Even 14 teams is nuts, so get off my lawn.
it is pure truth, IME
If you were going to do some division rotation mid-season, I would say play the 3 in your division. The top ranked teams stay in their division. The 2nd ranked ones rotate right one, the 3rd rotate right two, the 4th rotate right three. That makes for completely new divisions. Play all 3 again. Then place all of the 1s in the same division, etc. and have them play all 3.
That would be 9 games without a "championship game". Win your division early for seeding in the second round. Win in the second round for a to be in the championship division. The third round decides the conference champion and conference standings.
would essentially be 2 conferences. You play all the teams in your division and 1 team from the other division each year? So a team in the other division would only visit once every 16 years.
Seeing as how the 12th game has been such a cash cow for most schools to have an additional home game, I can't see to many schools being in favor of playing more then 8 conference games.
The conference championship game would be, in effect, the (unspoken) "first round" of the playoffs. Now they just need to add one more round before the bowl games, and you've got yourself a decent system for determining the National Champion.
I agree that they won't add a 9th conference game: too many mediocre teams would risk the loss of bowl eligibility.
Let's just have the NCAA open the season up to 14 regular season games. It's not quite the pro version with 16, but games would go on through December 15. This opens up the scheduling ability for a superconference of 14-18 teams. Preferably a 15 team round robin.
the three to four week break between games.
Drop it over the Big House.
Last team standing wins the conference.
Slight advantage to MSU, since their players are so accustomed to being behind bars.
Cage matches? Yeah, they work. How could they not work? If they didn't work, everybody would still be in the cage.
The best part of adopting any sort of pod/relegation/divisional system would be picturing all the people in Ohio fighting about who would play whom, and what the possibilities would be...because, obviously, they wouldn't be smart enough to figure it out. AMIRITE?
-- I barely understand this
--It is a valiant attempt at making sense of a 16 team conference
--and that this has no possible chance of coming true.
Now the question: should it be done? I don't think so. If I'm understanding this proposal, if you get sorted into the bottom division prior to the season, you have no possible chance of winning the B10 (16). That simply isn't fair given that large 1 year turnarounds are possible. And mixing up the divisions every year simply doesn't have the stability that most fans crave.
If we have to have a 16 team conference, which I don't want, I think you have to do the MLB thing and split into 2 divisions, ensure you play every team in your division and 1-2 from the other, and have a championship game.
Would this plan be applied across ALL SPORTS individually? This plan doesn't seem to consider the fact that there are other sports than football.
I'm not sure I like the thought of having different divisions/groupings/whatever for different sports, it really takes away from the rivalry aspect.
Either way it's all moot -- nothing this creative/interesting could possibly EVER happen in real life.
most of it boils down to scheduling outside of your immediate division. Let's say we go straight East/West 8 up/8 down, which I still think is inevitable. That means you're playing the same 7 divisional teams every year, for better or worse. How the remaining 5 are dispersed becomes the hot topic-- Let's take ourselves for instance. We usually go with ND and one mid to upper level BCS foe, followed by two cupcakes. How many of those four non-conference games (actually now 5) will the Big Ten reassign to the opposite division of the conference?
So let's say the conference makes every team play 2 opposite division schools, which leaves three non-cons to play. The next question is, are the non-conference games still up in the air, or will there be some sort of handling by the league to make sure Minnesota doesn't go three up with cupcakes while we're out playing ND, and PSU is playing Bama, and even the damn Buckeyes are playing Texas. Non-conference cash games will become MORE glaring than ever before because of the likely higher level of play in the conference itself. Maybe they'd go so far as to go three interdivisional games per schedule, but with only 2 non-conference games the temptation to load up on home Delaware State-ish slaughters will be greater than ever.
I don't know-- I think I just burned my chicken patties thinking about it.
I think your brain might be too awash with World Cup 2010 Fever with this proposal.
But, it is creative at least.
We've been arguing about the 12th team and further expansion since 1989. Jimminy Crickets, Big 10....just go out and do something already.
Great H.P.Lovecraft reference, Brian.
If we go to 16 teams I can't see them having a group stage/winner group scenario.
I'm of the mind that they would probably think that a 16 team conference is revolutionary enough for now and just split it down the middle 8 and 8.
Assuming the schools you've listed are indeed the 16 that would make up the MECHAMETALDEATH CONFERENCE OF DEATH (The MMDCD), I would think that we'd probably be screwed.
So assuming the schools are:
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Notre Dame
If the divisions were split 8 and 8, the dividing process would probably go something like this:
Division 1:
Ohio State
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Michigan and Michigan State would have to be together.
I would also think that M and OSU would have to be together.
With M and MSU in the same division I would think that because they are both major rivals of ND, that you have to put them in D1 also.
Purdue, ND, and Indiana are all in Indiana, and Purdue has a Rivalry with ND, and Indiana, so I figured all of the Indy teams should go together.
Then I thought, considering Illinois thinks that they have a rivalry with Michigan, that I would throw them, along with their rival Mizzou to round out the division.
Division 2:
Penn State
Because I knew one division would pretty much have to contain M, OSU, MSU, and ND, there was no way PSU was going into that same division.
This meant Pitt would also be in this division, and I figured that Rutgers, another team out East, would fit in as well.
Wisky and Minny can't be split up.
Iowa was too good to put in the other group, and they really don't have too many major rivalries in the Big Ten (not on the level of M-OSU, M-MSU, Wisky-Minny, PU-IU, M-ND, Ill-Mizz), so they go in this grouping.
Nebraska I can see becoming a rival for Iowa, and I really couldn't justify breaking up the Indiana trio to fit them in with Mizzou (I don't think they're rivals anyway?) in with the other group.
Northwestern is in this group for the same reason as Nebraska. No real rivals (Illinois, but meh) and couldn't justify breaking up the rivalries in the first group to fit them in.
I'm not sure how balanced these divisions are.
For basketball D1 looks beastly. MSU, OSU, Purdue are all good. ND and Mizzou are usually a tournament teams, and then you have M, Indiana, and Illinois, who have all been basketball powers in the past and could get their acts together in any given year.
For football, they look a little more balanced, with an edge to D1, due to more depth and the fact that M and ND have higher ceilings than the top teams in D2.
I think that you could swap out Illinois-Mizzou for some combo of Rutgers-Nebraska-Northwestern, to even out the divisions if they were too unbalanced, but this seems ok.
Regardless, I'm of the mindset that we will in all likelihood end up with OSU, ND, and MSU, which would be an extremely difficult division for basketball, and football.
Picking it apart:
The original proposal works, but there's no conference championship game, which is at the very earth's core of the reasons to expand. Instead of dividing into Top 8 and Bottom 8, take the results from the group play and divide again into 1-4-5-8-9-12-13-16 and 2-3-6-7-10-11-14-15, then play the conference championship game between the winner of the two divisions. This:
1) doesn't instantly relegate half the conference into nothingness after half the season, which is likely to end up mightily unfair to someone every year.
2) brings in the $$$ from the BTCG.
In the original scenario, thats:
1 Michigan
4 Penn State
5 Wisconsin
8 Missouri
9 Purdue
12 Minnesota
13 Northwestern
16 Indiana
2 Notre Dame
3 Ohio State
6 Iowa
7 Nebraska
10 Pittsburgh
11 Michigan State
14 Rutgers
15 Illinois
The problems with the whole thing, of course, are obvious: traditional rivalries are dead.
Also, as Bo and Woody and Hayden would roll over in their graves at this, the divisions should be named the Rodriguez, Zook, Tiller, and Walker divisions in honor of those who brought in the spread and/or SEC SPEED.
is that we've already blown past a most reasonable and useful scenario - at least for those in favor of a playoff. Eight 10-team conferences, full round-robin, 3 non-conference games, BCS style ranking system to manage in-conference ties for league champ and 8-team playoff seeding -- that's been my dream for 15 years.
That said, I think we're being myopic with our football-first discussion. I think this may have as much or more to do with basketball. Consider the size of the pending TV contract renegotiation (CBS and TBS bidding together vs. ESPN and the Mouse) and the number of future tournament teams (albeit disgusting). The impact to the TV market footprint (and talent accessibility) combined with the fact that nearly all of the schools mentioned may be taken seriously in basketball season (Syracuse, Pittsburgh, ND, Missouri - and I'm throwing in Louisville and Cincinnati as schools potentially not off the table) and we're talking premier basketball conference -- and a major share of the tournament coin every March.
What's wrong w/ 2 8 team divisions + 3 out of division conference games and 2 cupcakes?
You're not going to be playing anyone of merit for the 2 non-conference games and our big non-conference game is ND anyway so that's a non-issue. So we've got 7 in division games, 3 other division games and 2 non-conference (most likely cupcake) games.
If you get the short end of the "at home" stick for the in division you get 2 of the 3 non-division games at home (much like the Big 12 where you have 5 and 3 but always 4 home games). So - divisions (based on the presumed 16 team setup)
West - Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois, Notre Dame
East - Purdue, Indiana, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Pitt
Rotating groups is, no offense, for soccer and it just isn't going to fly here in the good ol' US of A (our soccer league doesn't even do it!)
Only in the case of a 16 team conference could I possible accept Rutgers as they are the weakest link in all of that.
It even respects most of the historic rivalries. You play the other division teams at least once in three years. That talk about once in ten years is fearmongering I tell you!
The other benefit is that this will force the other conferences to align in 16 team groups. With the Plus One concept, conference championship games would then be something like round one of real three round playoff, wooooo!
I simply pointed out that ND would be in the conference so it's not really an issue of missing out on our 1 guaranteed non-cupcake.
Also, who the heck doesn't have 2 cupcakes every year? Or maybe my definition is different than yours. Mine is non-BCS = "cupcake" There are always going to be exceptions (Utah) but we still had 2 cupcakes that year. Seriously, show me a team that didn't have 2 non-BCS schools on their schedule.
It doesn't improve anything? There's no excitement in winning your division and playing for the conference championship? No further clarity is provided by actually having a championship game vs just comparing records of teams that didn't play each other?
Basically, I don't see valid concern in any of the 4 points - 1) we don't do it, 2) void because we don't do 1, 3) EVERYONE has at least 2 cupcakes (read Non-BCS) and 4) if having a championship game isn't more clear than comparing records of two teams that didn't play each other then I don't know what clarity is.
Sorry about that, I was reading it the other way. I think we could talk people into 2, it might be a tough sell to a few schools but Delany could probably pull it off (if anyone can that is).
From 1996 to 1998 the WAC had 16 teams. Here's how they did it and it worked fine and it's simple and it solves all the issues.
You create four pods of four teams each. Pod Alpha, Pod Omega, Pod 2, and Pod 4. Pod Alpha is always in the "East Division" and Pod Omega is always in the "West Division". However, Pod 2 and Pod 4 switch divisions every two years.
The result of this is that each team has three permanent rivals in their pod which they play every season and they play every other team two on and two off. Example ho:
Pod Alpha: OSU, UM, MSU, ND
Pod Omega: Texas, TAMU, Iowa, Nebraska
Pod 2: Wisc, Minny, NW, Illinois
Pod 4: PSU, PITT, Indiana, Purdue
Year one and year two:
East Division: OSU, UM, MSU, ND, Wisc, Minny, NW, Illinois
West Division: Texas, TAMU, Iowa, Neb, PSU, PITT, Indiana, Purdue
Each team plays the seven teams in your division plus two teams from the diametrically opposite pod (ie. Alpha teams would play two Omega Teams).
Year three and year four:
East Division: OSU, UM, MSU, ND, PSU, PITT, Indiana, Purdue
West Division: Texas, TAMU, Iowa, Neb, Wisc, Minny, NW, Illinois
Each team would then play the other two teams from the diametrically opposite pod that they missed the previous two years. Thereby, you never go more than two years without playing everyone in the league.
That's confusing as fuck, but the general point I take away (which is something I've been thinking as well) is that with 16 teams, it's probably actually easier to avoid huge gaps in between playing different teams than with a 12 team league.
A bit confusing but not as much as changing divisions in the middle of the season or some other wacky promotion/relegation model that takes into account the previous year's record.
UM's sample Big 16 schedule for the first four years:
First two years: OSU, MSU, ND, Wisc, Minny, NW, ILL, TX, TAMU
Second two years: OSU, MSU, ND, PSU, PITT, Indiana, Purdue, Iowa, Nebraska
I can't believe I am agreeing with you (because of your avatar!), but it seems like an elegant solution in a 16 team conference. It respects the traditions of the conference without being rigidly bound to them, while permitting dynamic power shifts within the conference.
I think the small -- but well informed -- sample on this Board signals "short" the TBA games position in the OP. The idea is creative as hell, but logistically very challenging in the Big 10 where the conference season ends prior to Thanksgiving.


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I remember a few years back going to some churches in Malta which had a large selection of sarongs and wraps at the entrance for women to use - I wouldn't be surprised if the Vatican had the same thing
I went to the Vatican and they didn't care about my legs. They asked that I cover my shoulders and had wraps for sale at the door for less than $5 euros. I am sure that she wore a wrap.
Sharnita -Yes. No bare shoulders and no bare knees for either sex. And I know my parents said there wasn't anyone selling shawls by the door - the Vatican wouldn't let them on the property. They'd be at the edge of St. Peter's Square, probably.
Jennifer Aniston didn't do anything particularly wrong, from what we know. She dressed like nearly every other tourist to the Vatican/other churches in Italy in the summer. She had a cardigan *with her* so there's no need to even suppose she needed to buy an emergency shawl at the door of a church.Unless you actually seen photos of her *inside* the locations in question with her shoulders uncovered, I don't really understand why you'd leap to the conclusion that because there are photos of her in a tank top *on her way* to the locations, that she must have worn the exact same thing inside.My experience of waiting in line at the Vatican (and other tourist church locations) is that 90% of the women in line are dressed insufficiently, and as they get to the door they whip out a shawl, cardigan, etc.
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>Bringing the word 'apes' into any discussion about the development of life is sure to aggravate certain groups.
Good. Let them be mad. Let them rail against reality.
It's high time we stopped walking on eggs about this issue. There is this fallacy that each person's opinion about the universe is just as valid as another's. As if we have to be polite about them like we have to be polite about the pictures of their kids.
No. No we don't.
If you believe the universe was created in 4004 BC at 9am, you are a nut. There are no qualifiers to go with that. Not "you might be a nut" or "some people would disagree with you." No. You're a full-blown nutcase.
And yes, we are apes. Big naked apes. Deal with it.
I disagree.
We are actually big clothed apes.
I disagree.
We are actually big clothed apes.
Speak for yourself.
It's high time we stopped walking on eggs about this issue. There is this fallacy that each person's opinion about the universe is just as valid as another's.
That is now the reason I, and at least some others I know, walk on eggshells with such issues. One reason is to not drag other stuff into that crapstorm, as it doesn't help much to turn every biology topic, or even many non-biology topics, into the same tired old argument that has little to do with the particular subject at hand. The people who get into such arguments, especially when unprompted or off-topic, are not the type that are going to change their mind any time soon or find an epiphany in an inte
>If you don't care about teaching such people, you can ignore the second one.
I've tried to teach people. I've had a discussion on here that exemplified what happens.
I took someone at his word that he was serious about being a Young Earth Creationist, that he had a valid opinion, and that maybe I could convince him otherwise by appealing to his belief that God is All Powerful, and that, really, the literal biblical Creationism bullcrap is merely a limit by Man on what God can do, because "who the heck ar
We usually reserve the word "nuts" for people why have views outside the norm in their community.
For most of the creationists, their foolish views are absolutely inline with the local norms. These folks haven't gone off the rails on their own, they've been dragged along by a know-nothing movement that is rampant in America.
If you believe the universe was created in 4004 BC at 9am, you are a nut.
Equally nutty is anyone who states that they know for a fact that the universe is millions and billions of years old. Anything you think are "facts" regarding these events are just observations and conclusions of puny little human brains. "But we have scientific proof!", you say. Only as far as our understanding of things, only as far as our puny little human brains can comprehend.
I think big-bang creation of the universe is less likely than the FSM (blessed be his holiness) creating everything. Who are you
Then why create models of anything ever?
The scientific method works because the universe is consistent and not arbitrary. That you can create models and test them against reality. It's far better than Aristotle's gedankeneperiments on how things "should" work instead of investigating the reality.
For example, we know that light has a speed and that it's pretty consistent throughout the universe and that the physics concerning light tells us how far away things are. If a photon has been travelling
I've played with this as a thought exercise, and my favorite result is that the entire universe, along with given rules, etc. started from a single random seed and propagated out following those rules at high speed. Then, some 4000 years ago, God sat down and started the actual interesting part of things.
Alternatively, for the Sim[X], Dwarf Fortress, etc. players among us, the first few billion years were in the loading screen and the last few thousand years have been a part of active gameplay.
Not that I ac
While I "sort of" agree with you conclusions, I totally disagree with your certainty.
1) You can't prove the universe is logically consistent. That's an assumption.
2) You can't prove that the universe wasn't created one nano-second ago, with all evidence in situ.
3) You can't prove that this isn't a computer simulation.
Note that no valid estimate of the probability of any of the above is even possible. Where they are consi
Actually, I am. But only as a part of an ensemble of other theories. So if "Last Thursdayism" recommends a course of action that the perponderance of the ensemble recommend against, I don't perform the action.
Well, in a theoretic sense, that's what I'm arguing in favor of. As a computational short cut I use the model recommended by the Standard Model. But that doesn't imply certainty, what it implies that that most of the models recommend the same course of action as the Standard Model in most circumsta
But that is merely arguing for hypotheses that are untestable.
Science doesn't revolve around the untestable. We leave that to metaphysics and religion. Stuff we can't test, even mathematically, we can't do anything with, and testable things have gotten us where we are today in terms of scientific and technological advancement. Aristotle's penchant for thought experiments, trying to bend the Universe to how it *ought* to be, as opposed to how it *is* by direct or even indirect observation, held back scien
To rule out an idea because you can't test it is an indefeasible bias in favor of your current ideas, which also can't be tested WRT the differences in assumptions of the other "untestable" ideas.
One may argue that a certains set of ideas is more pragmatically useful than other ideas that are consistent with the observations, but that's not the same as arguing that they are true. We may be living in a computer simulation. It may be such a limited simulation that you are the only real entity. These can be
To rule out an idea because you can't test it is an indefeasible bias in favor of your current ideas
You're using that word wrongly....
But when one is trying to determine truth, one needs to work with the ensemble of all ideas consistent with current observations....and then add a large helping of uncertainty.
OK, so I'm being trolled.
Anything you think are "facts" regarding these events are just observations and conclusions of puny little human brains.
That is true of all facts, opinions and thoughts, and not just regarding those particular events. And yet, despite many people acknowledging the fallibility of human thought, they are able to move on and live practical lives applying those fallible facts.
If you believe the universe was created in 4004 BC at 9am, you are a nut. There are no qualifiers to go with that. Not "you might be a nut" or "some people would disagree with you." No. You're a full-blown nutcase.
What if you're brought up on a desert island and that's all you've ever been told? And you have no facilities or education to determine otherwise?
Not that I don't see your point. I'm just a hopeless pedant and feel it necessary to point out that there are qualifiers to go with that, and there are plenty of shades of grey from my example up to a well-educated but close-minded Christian fundamentalist.
Bringing the word 'apes' into any discussion about the development of life is sure to aggravate certain groups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdBZHBs0y0 [youtube.com]
yeah, but we're talking about microscopic robot apes here.. how cute is that?
Bring on the booster spice.
He who controls the spice, controls the formation of protein!
Think Larry Niven [wikipedia.org], not Frank Herbert
People like Sergey Brin are working on putting IC's into the human body, but this is the real future of melding man and machine.
How long before we as a race are more machine than man?
Not disagreeing, but I imagine people won't perceive these things as machines. It will be such a gradual adoption. Not many people think of glasses, hearing aids, hip implants, pace makers, etc. as being robot/machine like. Since people generally won't widely use anything until it is comfortable and offers more benefits than hindrances, these products will tend towards designs that are less noticeable. We probably will move towards being cyborgs, but no one will call it that, except for the rare introsp
OMG lol!! That animated video of this nano-machine working totally reminds me of myself when I'm drunk. I walk around trying to see how many beer cans I can stack on my head until they fall off!! I'm a macro-scale version of this thing!!
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Ugly spring product recalls by the CPSC
- May 3rd, 2012 (by Woodrow)
- In: Electrical, Other Improvements, The Bad, appliances, office, safety, tools
You know the old axiom: for want of a nail, a shoe was lost. In this case, for want of a nail, a working rubber gasket, a well-calculated electrical circuit and your tools and appliances can blow up in your face.
It's said that Darwinian laws cull the shabby from the durable. In the case of tools, appliances and furniture, the culling is assisted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The CPSC rounds up public complaints of product hazards and leans on manufacturers to gain recalls. Here are a few recent ones:
Give 'em the chair
Office Depot has agreed to recall 319,000 Brand Biella Leather Desk Chairs sold in the U.S. and Canada between January 2002 through December 2008. If the weld to the seat plate has yet to give way and send you flying, it just might. Check with Office Depot to see if your chair is potentially unsettling.
Not your biggest fan
The CPSC has encouraged Westinghouse to recall 7,000 ceiling fans (24, 30 and 42-inches) for fire and electric shock hazards. It was found that the two 60-watt bulbs in the fan light exceed limits and can cause overheating or failure. Check the CPSC's recall page for model numbers involved in the recall. (If you need moving air, open a few sliding windows.)
Cut to the chase
Just in time for summer: a fire-hazard recall of more than 20,000 Husqvarna grass and hedge trimmers with a faulty rubber fuel spacer. The units in question were sold at Lowes, Sears and Husqvarna stores from May 2011 until January 2012. Consumers are asked to call Husqvarna toll-free at (877) 257-6921 for recall details.
A word of appreciation
The CPSC says that faulty consumer tools, appliances, toys, furniture and other items cost the nation more than $900 billion a year. Big props to the CPSC and consumers that file reports on product incidents. You can report your experiences to Safe Products, the CPSC's reporting arm.


text: To be fair, Betterread wrote that in September, when Culpepper's implosion and Carson's ascension to stardom could have both been the product of a small sample size. Culpepper had a ton of performance data that would support the belief that his slow start was an anomoly, and Carson's performance was WAY beyond anyones wildest expectations. You must have been seriously PO'd at Betterread to dredge up an outdated six-month old post to try and make him look foolish.


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Jags up 7-0 on a controversial TD. If the Jags do win this game, this will be talked about.
Garrard was being tackled and as he was going down managed to get the ball off. Belicheck didn't get the challenge flag off in time.
I personally think it would be hilarious for the Pats to go 16-0 then lose their 1st playoff game.
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There's no way the Patriots lose this game.
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Go Jags!
Pats can't be stopped.
No kidding. They are just to good. Usually I root against teams like them but with them you just have to get behind them cause they are that good...and I want to see Mecury Morris' reaction after the SB of still how much better the '72 fins wee
26 of 28? holy cow.
Go Gators!
The protection Brady gets is insane. I've never seen anything like it. Their RT is a fifth round pick in his 1st or 2nd year.
Never seen the wonder boy Paul Alexander develop a player like that.
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For the Horde, I mean, FOR THE CHILDREN!
If you've taken care of children for any reasonable amount of time, you don't recognize a difference in those two words.
Well, at least I can't.
OMG is that good.
It's even more messed up when you consider that children necromorphs in Dead Space 2 are collectively called "The Pack". The Horde, The Pack, same fucking thing.
For the Horde, I mean, FOR THE CHILDREN!
So, for the Alliance, then.
For the Horde, I mean, FOR THE CHILDREN!
So, for the Alliance, then.
For the ward!
And some for Leeroy Jenkins...
I worked at an after-school program with 60 kids from grades K-5.
I think if we ever entered a serious war I would rush to the front lines. I no longer fear death, for I have seen all there is to be seen.
With shipping, which was almost as much as the server itself, I paid $243.50 for this showpiece.
Hmmm $100 or so to ship? Someone's padding that expense line. I would not flinch at $25 to $50 but this smells of those ebay auctions where its $0.01 for the product and $50 to ship.
we ship servers constantly (data center), average cost of actual shipping is around $125 within Canada/US, for a 1U system. They are heavy, require special packaging (2" solid foam surrounding the system to meet insurance requirements) and usually double boxed.
It's not a 1U, it's a much smaller blade that only weighs about 18lbs. And there isn't much insurance cost since it's non-functional, encased in lucite, and apparently only worth about $143 based on the auction prices. More like shipping an $143 piece of artwork to hang on the wall...
It is not encased in anything, they simply put a clear cover on it.
Others have pointed out that the $100 shipping is also from France to the US. I can't even ship 18 pounds of food from the US to Europe for under $100, so considering this is a breakable and insured server, that sounds like a great price to me.
I looked at the auctions when they originally occured
they were shipped INDIVIDUALLY from France, so the price ain't that bad
Now, WHY TF they weren't shipped to one point in the US (say Blizzard headquarters) and then individually shipped to buyers-- escapes me.
EU servers were probably shipped from France. US servers were shipped from LA.
Are we still using blades? They save physical space but they add complexity, cost, points of failure, and the heat they generate is the same (or worse) per performance, all concentrated in a tiny box with higher cooling demands. New Xeons and Opterons have buttloads of CPU cores and then you just visualize shit. Why mess with blades?
vmware still has issues with all the I/O going through the hypervisor. the blades have local storage for the OS
there are still applications like Cognos and others that say that if you run them in vmware then use a separate physical server due to the I/O demands and the fact that you have to specially code around the oversubscribing feature of vmware
vmware still has issues with all the I/O going through the hypervisor. the blades have local storage for the OS
HP absolutely promised us and our customer that there is no I/O issues using their vmWare server-solution, compared to bare-metal.....not that I believed them.
VMware could handle hundreds of thousands of IOPS into a single host years ago. Pretty sure it's over a million now.
Outside of exceptionally unusual corner cases, if your storage system can handle it, VMware is not going to be a bottleneck.
Yet blades from major vendors are cheaper than their 1U servers. Your theory doesn't carry through to real-life.
Um, where do you think those Xeons and Opterons are installed? In individual towers? 1U servers are basically the same as blades except you have a lot more smaller redundant parts (power supplies, fans, etc...).
Plus, you are griping about hardware that has been retired.
1U servers are basically not the same as blades, lol.
Are we still using blades?
Hipster IT admins, ASSEMBLE!
"Blades are so mainstream. People in the know use a CPU with buttloads of cores. I'd tell you what brand, but it wouldn't matter, you've never heard of it."
"Sure, 10-speeds save physical space, but they add complexity, cost, points of failure, and the heat they generate is the same. That's why I prefer fixies."
"Why mess with blades? You can't even put a bird on them. [youtube.com]"
"Blades are so mainstream. People in the know use a CPU with buttloads of cores. I'd tell you what brand, but it wouldn't matter, you've never heard of it."
You sir are my hero.
Blades are all about density. If I can squeeze 10 dual-host blades in a 7U enclosure, that's 13U saved vs 20 1U servers. Add the fact that many modern blade enclosures integrate modular switches, and you can squeeze 120 hosts per rack, instead of just 38-40. The hardware cost difference is negligible, since you're buying one set of redundant power supplies to power all 10 blades. The enclosure itself is costly, but the blades aren't much pricier than a comparable server board.
If you're deploying lots of them like Blizzard, choosing blades means you only need 1/3rd of the floor space, 1/3rd the shipping cost, 1/3rd the installation labour, which represents a huge chunk of change when you're colocating at top-tier datacenters all around the world.
Blades may not make sense for everyone, but don't write them off just because your needs are satisfied by simpler solutions. Virtualization is a great tool that offers tremendous flexibility and reduced costs, but it is not a magic bullet to solve every problem. It excels at handling small jobs, and fails hard with large ones. For example, virtualization struggles with I/O heavy workloads, which are becoming increasingly important with the meteoric rise of data warehousing and distributed computing. Processors are the easiest part of the equation.
For example, virtualization struggles with I/O heavy workloads, which are becoming increasingly important with the meteoric rise of data warehousing and distributed computing.
And funnily enough, MMO games. When you've got tens of thousands of players buying/selling, looting, switching about items, leveling up, killing stuff, and updating statistics on just about everything they do, its no home fileserver anymore. IO was the prime issue that made the EVE Online in-game Marketplace rather unresponsive at times.
Blades are all about density.
Mostly only in the advertising blurb.
In real life, it's nearly impossible to find anywhere that you can achieve a higher density with blades than you could with 1U rackmounts (even when you're only talking about using fractions of a rack).
There are plenty of other good reasons to buy blades, but density is rarely one of them. With that said, Blizzard are probably one of the few companies who could put in enough custom infrastructure to handle the power and cooling requirements
Blades are all about density. If I can squeeze 10 dual-host blades in a 7U enclosure, that's 13U saved vs 20 1U servers.
Not sure what you mean by dual host, but you can get quad socket 1U servers at a very reasonable price. I've purchased a couple. The majority of space inside the box is taken up by either RAM slots or the CPUs themselves. There's also some space for disks and fans, auxhiliary motherboard stuff (networking, I/O, etc) and a powersupply. There was really very little space to spare. I'd be ve
Dual hosts refer to two separate boards stashed in the same enclosure (or on the same bracket). Some OEMs call these "twin boards". Take your quad socket server, slice it down the middle and that's basically what you get.
It all depends on your application. If you need the largest single host you can get, then sure the quad-socket solution is the way to go. If you're better served by multiple smaller hosts, the dual blades tend to reduce costs and maintenance since they share one power supply stack and a
Why mess with blades?
Because they're easier to manage, reduce complexity, require less infrastructure, are cheaper (once you've scaled past the break-even point, which depending on vendor can be up to an entire chassis full), have fewer points of failure, require less power and generate less heat per $METRIC and are exceptionally good for virtualisation.
Or to put it another way, pretty much everything you wrote up there is wrong. Outside of very specialist scenarios where you have the facilities in place t
It looks like any other blade, once you ignore the marketing decals put on it.
The point, though, is less about the (obsolete) hardware and more about the opportunity to own a 'piece of gaming history'.
You can look back at it, in your golden years and tell your grandchildren "I played on that server" and they can look back at you blankly and ask 'Wow.. did they use *actual* servers in those days? Weren't there any clouds?"
It's nostalgic and ephemeral, and not at all about the fact that it's basically some BL20p (or similar) which you could pull out of a dumpster behind most data cent
Your grandchildren will probably think clouds are quaint archaic tech too.
They'll eGiggle at each other over their psychic neural network.
Until they get brainjacked and used by a Syndicate or two for nefarious purposes.
You can look back at it, in your golden years and tell your grandchildren "I played on that server" and they can look back at you blankly and ask each other if it's time to check grandpa's meds again.
... ask 'Wow.. did they use *actual* servers in those days? Weren't there any clouds?".
Doesn't the cloud run on servers too? Just more them and more distributed.
Yeah? And a game winning baseball is just a baseball, and a famous player's jersey is just a piece of cheap clothing. It's just memorabilia.
Maybe the point is Blizzard realized that unlike most data-center junk, this was something people might be willing to pay more than used hardware costs for and they could do something good with the money they raised from selling it.
Did you complain about Penny Arcade's charity drives, too?
No, but I would have if someone had been all "wow look at this awesome stuff that had Penny Arcade data on it once!"
From the slide show/article it says the drives were removed before hand to prevent customer info from being leaked.
I'm wondering why these had hard drives with data on them at all. Wouldn't the data be on a SAN on the backend? Kind of defeats the purpose of a blade in the first place, seeing you want to be able to replace it quick if something goes wrong.
In fact, if there are using the local drives, they better be sure to remove the RAID controller, as these might have info left in the cache as they are b
the raid card is missing the ram
Can't speak for all RAID cards, but the ones I've worked have a certain amount of RAM soldered onto the card and a slot for additional RAM that's semi-optional (the last card I worked with required additional RAM to add another drive to the RAID 5, but was working fine with just the onboard RAM before that). So it may not be missing it so much as never having had it in the first place.
The article writer probably made assumptions.
More likely, the hard drives had basic 'get connected, and this is what you do' kind of code - all of the actual data would have been on DB servers.
Though, this could have been a DB node...
the security guy probably had a case of CYA and said to take out the drives and other parts, just in case
I get the feeling their backend design wasn't the best. For years they took their servers down every single week for a massive 6-8 hour maintenance period. This wasn't for updates, this was just regular. Patches took forEVER to happen. It clearly wasn't something like "Take things down, roll out new code, run checks, bring it online." Given that some things would only affect particular realms it was pretty clear they were doing things like running series of scripts and commands to upgrade things, and the process shad trouble in certain configurations and so on.
So it wouldn't surprise me if they did things like store data on the blades themselves and so on. I can't say for sure, since Blizzard has been secretive to the point of paranoia about how things work on the back end, but my experience with the game leads me to believe they did not have a particularly good backend setup.
Speaking AC here for obvious reasons.
The reasons Blizzard did this was simply to delete objects. That is pretty much it as the I/O was the bottleneck when you had 20k - 40k population on each server and every SQL check becomes precious. You cached commonly used things and by the time a week is used the ram is filled up.
Wow and SWTOR still do this for a scraping of objects every week.
Occasionally new code is released too. That is quick to update over the network when the realm is down when it is done cleaning its objects.
local storage allow you to cache many things locally. You surely, do not want to go through network for every single freaking I/O.
Character data would be stored in a database (in Blizzard's case, Oracle). The local drives on the blades would have game data and server executables, which would be even more valuable than character data to the right people (gray-sharders, botters, and other nefarious types).
From the slide show/article it says the drives were removed before hand to prevent customer info from being leaked.
I'm wondering why these had hard drives with data on them at all. Wouldn't the data be on a SAN on the backend? Kind of defeats the purpose of a blade in the first place, seeing you want to be able to replace it quick if something goes wrong.
In fact, if there are using the local drives, they better be sure to remove the RAID controller, as these might have info left in the cache as they are bat
The article writer doesn't mention the specs of the blade, isn't interested in knowing if it works and thinks its ugly?! He has no interest in server tech or playing wow. Why waste our time linking to this article?
Yeah, disappointing.
But then, without the disks, there is very little to say about how these machines were once configured and used within the data centres.
I hope that one day somebody from Blizzard will write a book about the development and deployment of the game, similar to Masters of Doom, in which this sort of information will be revealed. I, for one, would find it very interesting. Sure, as outsiders, we can take educated guesses about how you might build Warcraft, or a clone of it, but how much more interesting to know how it was (is) actually done! One day, perhaps it will not be so important to keep this secret.
Yeah, I'm a little upset I missed it. I figure of all places Slashdot would have an article on it, but looks like it didn't. That figures we can get 101 bitcoin stories, but miss this.
Before reselling them they had to clean the hard drives of all the lost hopes and dreams of previous players.
from TFA:"There may never be another game as popular as WoW, and even if there is, at the very least WoW will always be considered the first mega-successful MMORPG."
I'm surprised that no one has challenged this yet. I think WoW became more popular at it's high point, but I think Everquest paved the way for it, and was as popular at it is now. EQ certainly eclipsed the stuff like Ultima Online and Baldur's Gate that preceded it.
Everquest peaked at around 500k subscribers and hit the 100k milestone of people being logged in at once. I was logged in the night it happened.
sure, but saying everquest was as popular as wow is like saying that irc was(is) as popular as facebook. everquest had just a fraction of the impact as wow did and wow did it globally - sure they didn't invent the stuff, the amount of people who played it was just immense(however.. and here's a big however.. wow kinda sucks since it doesn't matter if there's 43242 million people on the planet playing it when you're limited in interactivity to only those playing on your realm which always was just a tiny fra
"Fun fact: As of 2010, the average number of hours spent playing WoW each week in America is 22.7"
Over 3 hours per day is average? No wonder I get my arse kicked in PvP.
I'm interested in knowing which realm it was for?
Was it a US or Oceanic server?
I'm just curious.
If you had even looked at the first picture, you'd see "Minahonda" etched below the World of Warcraft logo.
Couldn't click the link at work.
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Juana Kay Blake, age 70, died Thursday, July 11, 2013. She was born June 3, 1943, in Pratt, the daughter of Glenn W. and Jessie May (Miller) Miracle. She married Larry Blake on Nov. 25, 1960, in Cullison.
Juana and Larry moved to Pratt in 1997 coming from Borger, Texas. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Charles David (Lisa) Blake of Norco, Calif.; a daughter, Christi Lea (David) Warren III of Canyon, Texas; mother, Jessie Miracle, Pratt; a brother, Glenn "Skip" Miracle of Pratt; four sisters, Donna Pelley of Derby, Mary Anne Stratford of Pratt, Zillah Watson and Glenna Mae Morrison of New Mexico and seven grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father and a sister, Becky Lampe.
Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. with family receiving friends from 6-7 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at Larrison Mortuary, 300 Country Club Rd., Pratt. Funeral service will be held 10 a.m., Monday, July 15, at the mortuary, with the Rev. Ken Sheppard officiating. Burial will be in the Cairo Cemetery in Cairo, Kan.
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Idaho State University President Arthur Vailas celebrates his first year on the job at the end of the month. What has he learned so far?
ISU recently announced plans to expand its teaching and research space in the Treasure Valley. Will ISU be the home of a new medical school? What challenges and opportunities face this institution and its new leader?
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Cassidy will be playing Colleen Lively, a Dina Lohan-esque partying stage mom. Sloan will be playing Theodora Grant Haven, an heiress who always gets what she wants and is out for revenge. Sloan also stars in indie soap VENICE.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- The future of perennial Pro Bowl wide receiver Marvin Harrison was finally decided on Tuesday as the Indianapolis Colts held a news conference announcing his release.
"Marvin let us know his preference was to be released. Both (team owner) Jim Irsay and I felt very strongly that after Marvin's long and dedicated service to the Colts, we would, in this painful circumstance, be guided by Marvin's wishes," Colts president Bill Polian said.
"This is a sad day for the Colts. Marvin Harrison, in addition to being a certain Hall of Famer, has been a good friend, model professional and a loyal and dedicated teammate. His record-setting achievements brought about by immense talent, work ethic and dignified professional demeanor have thrilled Colts fans for a generation."
The Indianapolis Star reported on Monday the receiver's agent, Tom Condon, confirmed the club granted Harrison's wish to be released after he declined to restructure his contract.
But a later report from the same paper indicated there was still a possibility Harrison could remain with the Colts. Irsay stated Condon's presumption was "premature."
Harrison, the league's highest paid receiver, would have counted $13.4 million against the Colts' salary cap next season had his services been retained. Indy gained $6 million in cap space with the release.
A 13-year NFL veteran, Harrison's release ends one of the most successful quarterback-wide receiver tandems in league history. The former Syracuse star and Colts quarterback Peyton Manning own NFL records for most completions (971), yards (13,090) and touchdowns (110) since the two began playing together in 1998, the year Manning was taken No. 1 overall. Harrison was drafted by Indy with the 19th overall pick two years earlier.
"Marvin was a fine competitor, not just on Sunday afternoon, but on the practice field. He led by example. Rarely did he use words that he didn't have to," Colts head coach Jim Caldwell said.
Among his individual accomplishments in Indianapolis, Harrison owns franchise receiving records for receiving yards (14,580), touchdowns (128) and receptions (1,102). Those totals rank the 36-year-old second in NFL career receptions, fourth in receiving yardage and fifth in touchdown receptions.
His streak of 190 straight games with a reception is an NFL record to begin a career while his eight consecutive 10-plus touchdown reception seasons from 1999-2006 is also tops in NFL receiving lore. He accumulated 59, 100-plus receiving yardage performances, also a franchise mark and second-best among receivers all-time.
Harrison recorded 636 yards and five touchdowns on 60 catches in 15 games last season. He played in only five games in 2007 because of a knee injury.
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There's no hiding the fact that people are excited about 150-thousand square feet of outdoor gear. But, for those who live or work in that part of Reno--and Verdi--the excitement is coupled with some anxiety.
What's now Boomtown's big-rig parking lot off of Highway 80...will soon be transformed into what's regularly considered the "Disneyland" of hunting and fishing gear.
To the west of Cabela's future home are the homes of Verdi residents, people who treasure their small community.
"It's not going to be quiet anymore. It really isn't and that's the sad part. How could it be?" says Rose Myers, the Secretary to the Verdi Community Advisory Board.
Myers says the primary concern for most people in Verdi is the traffic that this store will bring to their quiet streets.
"Cabela's is huge. It's going to have a major impact on the community of Verdi."
On the flip side, Myers--and many other people in her area--have been buying gear from Cabela's catalogs for years and look forward to the opportunity purchase in person.
Right now, Cabela's has ten retail locations, most in the midwest or on the east coast. The store's management says Reno is an ideal location, as it should draw hunters and anglers from throughout the entire western states.
"They're going to be in 7th heaven. They're going to plan vacations here, I bet," says Myers.
That kind of traffic also means the potential for big business for Boomtown and other casinos in the area that have seen their revenues slide since the advent of Indian gaming.
"Boomtown and the region have been looking for ways to boost the local economy. Cabela's is great, it's not casino based and it'll help us and the entire Reno area," says Pat Bassney, Boomtown's Senior Marketing Director.
By some estimations, a Reno Cabela's could bring 700 to 800 thousand dollars a year to the area in tourism revenue alone.


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ISIS, or The Islamic State, seems to be a criminal gang that emerged out of the bloody civil war in Syria. They have been called an 'offshoot' of al Qaeda. President Obama contemptuously called them "the junior varsity"— which is treating them far too lightly. They seem to be a gang of thugs drawn together by blood lust and the freedom to kill everybody in sight in the name of Allah. Heady stuff.
Weapons bristling, they have roared at high speed across northern Iraq, executing those who oppose them in piles of corpses. Their fervor and mass executions have left much of the Iraqi army collapsing and leaving their weapons behind, which the thugs are delighted to appropriate. The videos politely blur the pictures of the piles of the dead, the beheaded, and the crucified as too much for delicate Western eyes to behold. They are beheading little children, sticking the heads on fenceposts. Barbarians, imagining they are part of Mohammed's army out of the year 630. Young boys are enlisted — what fun to be given an AK-47 when you are only nine years-old and get to shoot people, all in the name of Allah.
Thrilled with all of the military equipment they have captured, they haul howitzers behind their trucks and giant missiles that they may or may not know what to do with. But we've seen videos of them doing wheelies with U.S. made Abrams tanks.
They are Sunni, at least sort of, and any Shiia encountered are promptly executed, as are Kurds, Christians and Yezedi, which is a religion predating Mohammed. The women are sold as sex slaves to the lusty young fighters, or killed. All in the name of the new Islamic Caliphate.
Mr. Obama recites some of these depredations in a queerly apologetic fashion in a video filmed in the state dining room with no audience but the ubiquitous teleprompters; and his head moves from side to side as if he were addressing a vast audience. He is trapped. He has created his own legend that he was elected because of his opposition to the War in Iraq, which he called the Dumb War, his opposition to the hated Bush; and he is justified because he got us out of Iraq
Many of us believe that the only reason that ISIS exists is because Obama got us out far too abruptly with no status of forces agreement that would have allowed us to continue training the Iraqi army, who weren't prepared for such an onslaught. President Bush was reluctant to set a status of forces agreement in the last days of his presidency that would bind his successor. Mr. Bush had a video conference with Prime Minister Maliki every week, and called him often to maintain the relationship. Obama just wanted out, and made no attempt to smooth the way.
Obama's speech is odd. He over-explains why we must act, and over-explains why our actions must be limited — echoed again in Press Secretary Earnest's careful insistence that we will not put any "boots on the ground." He's been quite comfortable with ordering assassinations by drone strikes, but acting in defense of the Kurds who have been our allies, or saving the Yezedis who are facing genocide, is a step too far.
I know that many of you are rightly concerned about any American military action in Iraq, even limited strikes like these. I understand that. I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and that's what we've done. As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there's no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq. The only lasting solution is reconciliation among Iraqi communities and stronger Iraqi security forces.
I don't think we have ever had a president who has reminded us so frequently that he is the 'Commander in Chief,' as if he needed reminding himself. "Reconciliation among Iraqi communities?" That's the same failure to grasp the nature of the situation that he exhibited with Israel, almost ordering Prime Minister Netanyahu to accept a cease fire, completely missing the simple fact that as long as Hamas demands the elimination of the Israeli State and the death of all Jews, a cease fire isn't going to be all that effective. The video is here.
I think events are challenging Obama's closely held worldview, and he is, in some way, unable to cope with that.


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NASHVILLE, TN – With the third selection in the Major League phase of today's Rule 5 Draft, the Colorado Rockies selected left-handed pitcher Daniel Rosenbaum off the Triple-A Syracuse roster of the Washington Nationals. Rosenbaum is the first player the Rockies have selected in the Rule 5 Draft since they selected, and subsequently traded to Seattle, left-handed pitcher Luis E. Gonzalez in 2005 from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Rosenbaum, 25, spent the 2012 season at Double-A Harrisburg in the Nationals organization and was named to the Eastern League Mid-Season All-Star team. In 26 starts for Harrisburg in 2012, Rosenbaum went 8-10 with a 3.94 ERA (155.1 ip, 68 er), 39 walks and 99 strikeouts. Rosenbaum was originally selected by Washington in the 22nd round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Xavier University. In his four Minor League seasons, Rosenbaum is 26-24 with a 2.84 ERA (507.2 ip, 160 er), 141 walks and 387 strikeouts in 89 games/84 starts. Rosenbaum was rated the 23rd best prospect in the Nationals organization by Baseball America prior to the 2012 season.
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Sheriff: Jennifer Huston possibly spotted on ferry
The San Juan County undersheriff in Washington has confirmed that witnesses claimed to have seen a woman on Friday that matched the description of Jennifer Huston.
The 38-year-old Dundee mother of two has not been seen since July 24 after she gassed up her Lexus at a Circle K in Newberg.
Witnesses told the San Juan County sheriffs office they saw a woman matching Hustons description on the ferry from Anacortes Friday morning, the undersheriff said. The witnesses also described the green 1999 Lexus with a cracked window, but they did not make contact with her nor get a license plate number.
It is not confirmed the woman was Huston.
The Washington State Ferry office will review the surveillance tapes internally and let the San Juan County sheriff know if the vehicle matches the description.
No additional information will be available from the San Juan County Sheriffs Office about this matter until after they hear from the officials with the ferrys office.
Local search ends
The formal air and ground search Huston has officially ended.
On Saturday, 20 of Hustons family and friends passed out flyers and continued the ground search efforts.
Kallen Huston, Jennifers husband, addressed the media Friday afternoon.
We really need to find her car, he said then, adding there is a soccer ball-sized U-shaped crack in the window as an identifying mark on the 1999 Lexus SUV.
Jennifer, he said, making remarks directly to her, if you could see this or hear this, I love you. You have a ton of support from the community. If you can come home, please do. The boys need you. I need you. I love you.
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Michael Valentine Smith. Martian by mentality, human by heredity.
Its the only way to go, man.
after several generations you'd have a new species
For large values of several.
It would have been funny on my planet.
He is a native English speaker and he meant exactly what he said. Google him.
He also suggests the world will end in 2012 as supposedly predicted by the Mayans, and a lot of other very dubious stuff.
Like I said
This guy and his fake "Journal of Cosmology" is a lune. The joke is on slashdot for even putting this in the science category.
Those differences mean squat for a single life, but they might mean a lot even over a relatively small number generatio
Speciation will not occur under (presumed) regular interbreeding with the population back home.
For large values of several.
Not to mention a non-standard definition of "species." As I seem to recall, the biological definition of "species" simply involves whether or not a male and female can create a sexually viable offspring. Hence, donkeys and horses are different species, because mules (what you get when mating a horse and a donkey) are sterile, but different breeds of dogs (or cats or horses or whatever) aren't considered different species because they do create offspring which create offspring and so on (have your pets spa
after several generations you'd have a new species
For large values of several.
And only if the individuals less adapted to this environment are killed / not allowed to breed. If there is no natural selection and no artificial selection, apparition of a new species is very unlikely.
I guess I wouldn't mind being the progenitor of a new species...
also, it would get me out of my mom's basement, and most likely result in meeting girls?
Sucky part is, I guess they don't have fiber-interweb-tubes on Mars?
I guess I wouldn't mind being the progenitor of a new species... also, it would get me out of my mom's basement, and most likely result in meeting girls?
Don't count on it. [slashdot.org]
There are easier ways to get a girlfriend than going to Mars. And having a girlfriend isn't really worth losing the whole internet, your family, friends, etc.
Okay, it might seem like it for your first girlfriend, but you'll get over it.
You just need a big caching proxy.
Let's hope Google sets up a server park there soon. Although highly interactive ajaxy features still aren't going to work there.
TCP wouldn't work, but replacing it is damn straightforward[1]. With that done, even regular http would work, although it would suck due to needing several round trips for referenced CSS/images/subframes/whatnot. The latter is also quite obvious -- many of us could whip up a primitive but working proxy in an hour.
If bandwidth isn't a concern, it might be better to do a whole-site wget rip and send it in one go.
[1]. Nearly all complexity in TCP is due to handshaking, retransmissions and adjusting the window. With no handshaking possible and terabyte windows, you can throw most of that away. Adding generous Reed-Solomon codes over the whole message and possibly retransmitting just damaged blocks would be obvious goodies to add, but that's still nothing compared to the mess that current TCP is.
TCP is already being transparently recreated at the ends of the link in many satellite internet access systems. The TCP connection is transparently terminated at the uplink side, and re-created at the downlink. Over-the-air uses custom protocols geared towards high latency and dropouts.
That depends on the relative position of the two planets. At its closest it's about ten minutes, if I remember what I read about the rovers correctly. But at its farthest, when the planets are on opposite sides of the sun, it will be a LOT longer.
You're not going to be playing counter strike with anybody on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlaNet [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet [wikipedia.org]
With such conditions it seems possible the-thing-we-don't-speak-about will see some renaissance at some point.
With such conditions it seems possible the-thing-we-don't-speak-about will see some renaissance at some point.
AOL? Dear gods.
Not quite... quite the opposite, actually. The-thing-we-don't-speak-about was sort of brought down, after all, by AOL sponsored variety of September.
Doesn't help
Beware the sand!
Also, beware the Sandkings [wikipedia.org].
It's not like "submerged in water" isn't a decent enough approximation (and in fact used by space agencies, but to model different stuff). It's not like humans aren't imaginative, if there's a possibility of some action... (even easier: send slashdotters, we'll do anything) Progress of the pregnancy is another issue of course.
But you wouldn't have new species if there wasn't much of a selection. Not for the usual meaning of "several"
I knew a couple who really wanted to have kids. The woman had difficulty getting pregnant, and then she had some miscarriages. I was in tears when she told me about the experiences. Her husband is a very wealthy man from Altona, near Hamburg in Germany. The homes in Altona make Hollywood mansions look like a trailer park. She told me that she felt pressure to 'produce' a male heir.
So she took some 'fertility' pills, and a beautiful baby boy came out. But she developed breast cancer six months later
I wonder how strongly the fetus' position is dependent on gravity... in a lesser/near-zero gravity environment you might have a much higher percentage of breech births or other positional problems.
Sounds like a good job opportunity.
Why would anyone wonder about this? From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved), why should a child not be conceived in zero-G?
When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in. The female anatomy then helps transport the material to where it belongs, where several spermatozoa work together to crack the female egg shell.
This process is in no way a battle between the little guys to see which is the strongest but a joint effort and the female organism helps them along, too. So while conception might be a bit trickier due to the whole process being slower because of not enough contact with the female anatomy (and thus more time-consuming, possibly to the point where the spermatozoa die before doing their job), I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible.
From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved)...
When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in.
Wait, this is how you think sex works? The man orgasms, sex continues, then some time later, the female orgasms and becomes pregnant?!?
If pregnancy depended on the woman orgasming after the man, the accidental pregnancy rate would be close to zero
*rolls eyes* it's ONE possible scenario that is supposed to show that a possible way to impregnate a woman without gravity exists. That in turn means it can't be impossible.
And by the way, seeing as it happens often enough to have become a cliché, what's your beef with a scenario where a male has already ejaculated at the point the female orgasms?
Why would anyone wonder about this? From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved), why should a child not be conceived in zero-G?
Well, I think you are maybe going out on a limb with your assumptions about conception in zero-gee/micro-gravity being easy and a 'no brainer', I have no doubts at all about humans ability to 'adapt, and overcome' any obstacles to getting laid...anywhere, anytime, and under extreme conditions!
I think that exploration of human reproduction in other than 'on earth' environments is a worthy scientific pursuit, but with our current social/cultural/religious attitudes, well, there are bound to be problems...
The issue of illegal aliens will come up
Kurt Vonnegut would agree [pierretristam.com].
Why only semen? [wikipedia.org] (plus small initial stock of women, of course - especially in our system, it will be most likely more viable / sooner than artificial uteri and surrogate mother robots)
Numerically, it might very well be the main mode of human transportation between the colonies... (as you said, they will need genetic diversity) in deep hibernation / we can do it already! Embryos or their precursors.
Successful reproduction does not end at the insemination stage. While we still have a long way to go to understand the whole process, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the father is as important as the mother to a developing child, although in a different way.
The Journal of Cosmology has published a special issue...which touches all the bases. In a chapter titled Sex on Mars...
Are we sure we got the right "Cosmo" here?
"Get hot with our list of raunchy space cowboy positions!" - Story on pg 13
Virtually no human testing? Given the kind of person who gets into the astronaut corps, I seriously doubt that. There's probably been no official investigation into this done, but when you coop seven mixed-gender, highly intelligent, very curious, extremely goal-driven, competitive problem-solvers up in a small ship for the lengths of time a shuttle mission runs, I think we can pretty much guarantee there's been plenty of unofficial investigations conducted. And there's been IIRC several mixed-gender ISS crews, so ditto there.
I also suspect they've found the entire exercise to be awkward, exhausting (and not in the good way), inconvenient to arrange around all the monitoring that's done, difficult to keep private in those cramped quarters, and generally an awful lot of work for a lot less reward than you'd expect. But if anybody wants to go to Mars they're going to have to figure out how to deal with sex and how to make it reasonably convenient, because no crew's going to remain completely celibate that long.
I also suspect they've found the entire exercise to be awkward, exhausting (and not in the good way), inconvenient to arrange around all the monitoring that's done, difficult to keep private in those cramped quarters, and generally an awful lot of work for a lot less reward than you'd expect.
Most of those statements could be made about "The Mile High Club" and yet people do it just to say that they've done it.
There have been some amusing studies on quail and development in microgravity. It was hypothesized that gravity might be necessary for proper development. I haven't read any papers on it, but I've heard the embryos seemed pretty normal. Suggests that human embryos might develop normally too.
Not entirely surprising. Embryos and their mothers or eggs carrying them can be oriented any way with no obvious defects in development. I mean, I'm guessing not many pregnant women will want to stand on their heads
"Married couples are probably the best bet"
We're talking about a stress-filled, claustrophobic situation in which there would be no possibility of sex for months at a time, if not years. And space travel too.
Indeed, humans have Borg-like powers of genetic adaptation, so that several generations of living in an extraterrestrial habitat that has been technologically rendered as Earth-like as possible would cause them to spontaneously mutate to the point of sexual incompatibility with normal humans (the normal definition of separate species).
No the species would need a bit of help. Simply kill all the babies that weren't green with antennae and you'd have martian's in no time.
any difficulties associated with sexual intercourse in space may turn out to be an easily solved problem of docking and entry as human are notorious for inventing ways of having sex despite all manner of logistical impediments
Oh the insinuations are infinite!
I demand references on the testing that practically/literally did occur, that would justify your use of "virtually".
I volunteer to help NASA scientists with this study! Now they just need to shoot me in space and find me some sex partners, all in the name of science!
Several *thousand* generations. Evolution doesn't work that quick, unless Mars is made of Mutagen-x.
virtually no human testing
And how do they know?
The porn spoof "The Uranus Experiment" contains several zero-g sex scenes (using parabolic flight) so sex in zero-g must at least be physically possible
And after several generations, you'd have a new species,' he said."
We sure don't need that, we already have sensational slashdot editors completely lacking in the office of gravity. Fortunately it's 04:00 and I don't have the physical energy to hammer my brains out, though this troll caption gave me good incentive.
And after several generations, you'd have a new species,' he said."
Jebeeeesus etch crisis, I have to kick this cat again.
What's the difference between a nerd and a retard? One of them can tie a Windsor knot, but I forget which.
Maybe NASA should talk to the Russian about this I'm sure they've done a few experiments on this subject matter at some point
Where can we sign up?
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Dennis A. Walton, 65, of Waterloo, passed away on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at Parkview Nursing and Rehab Center in Waterloo of cancer. There will be no services, and burial will be at a later date at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Waterloo.
Dennis Alan Walton was born in Mason City, Iowa: the son of Grant and Evelyn (Juhl) Walton. He graduated from Waterloo East High School with the class of 1965. Dennis entered the United States Air Force and served during the Vietnam War. After discharge, he lived in Council Bluffs and worked for a funeral home and ambulance service. Dennis was an over the road trucker with Coca-Cola for 10 years. He met his future wife, Darlene Monroe and they later married October of 1980; she preceded him in death on April 13, 2012 . They made their home in Waterloo where he cooked at Porky's Red Carpet, they moved to Ackley where he operated Ackley Pizza and Steak. They later returned to Waterloo and ran the Opera House, Rumors Bar and Grill. Dennis then worked for Real Estate "R" Us and later as a handy man for the House Doctor until ill health forced his retirement. Together, Darlene and Dennis enjoyed fishing.
Dennis passed away on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at Parkview Nursing and Rehab Center at the age of 65. He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife Darlene and a daughter Kathy. Dennis is survived by a step-son Charles (Betty) Kutin of Marion; 2 step-daughters: Joyce (Rick) Kutin of Cedar Rapids and Phyllis Kutin of Los Angeles, California; a sister Diane Harn of Waterloo; 4 step-grandchildren; several step-great-grandchildren, several nieces & nephews.


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Manchester United have apologised unreservedly and launched an internal inquiry after its weekly newsletter published a Swastika-style club logo.
The United Uncovered email, which is issued to supporters every Friday, displays the controversial image alongside the heading of New Order - a phrase commonly associated with Nazism - above photographs of several younger Man United players.
The design provoked a severe backlash on social media website Twitter, to which Manchester United's Head of Media David Sternberg has responded with an apology, as well as a promise to investigate how the publication came to be approved for distribution.
Sternberg wrote on Twitter: "The creative is completely inappropriate; we apologise unreservedly and are taking appropriate internal action."
The incident comes at the end of a week which saw racist chanting by CSKA Moscow fans, directed at Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, overshadow a prominent extension to UEFA's 'Respect' campaign against discrimination of any kind.
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Language Learning & Technology journal ranks third nationallyUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: May 24, 2011
Language Learning & Technology, an online-refereed journal published by UH Mānoa's National Foreign Language Resource Center, ranks third nationally among education journals, according to the latest Thomson Reuters Journal Citations Report. The same report also ranks the journal third in the linguistics category.
When grouped with journals in education and educational research, Language Learning & Technology ranks number three out of 139 journals in impact in 2009, the last year for which the analysis is available. The journal, which is co-published by Michigan State University, reports research issues relating to technology and language education.
"These rankings put UH Mānoa in the company of the very best and most prestigious journals," said Robert Bley-Vroman, dean of the College of Languages Linguistics and Literature. "UH Mānoa is a world leader, especially in research in second language teaching and learning. This is a real coup for Hawai'i."
Journal rankings are important for scholars in the field who use such guidelines to decide where to publish in order to build their careers. The rankings are also important to promotion and tenure committees, as well as scholars who use the rankings to help advise students on which journals to read.
Language Learning & Technology is available online at http://llt.msu.edu/.


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The Jewish day is punctuated with reciting a variety of blessings (in Hebrew, brachot), acknowledging that our food and other pleasures come from God.
This course will primarily discuss the rules of reciting brachot over food -- both before eating, and after eating. It also covers blessings said on special occasions and when seeing natural phenomenon. You'll gain a foundation in the principles of brachot, and explore the philosophical underpinnings of the bracha concept. This 44-part course delivers it all in a thorough, step-by-step, user-friendly fashion.
This course will give you the confidence to handle a myriad of common situations:
Each class is available online, or as a user-friendly PDF version, so you can print out the material and study at your own pace -- anywhere, anytime.
For a self-check of understanding, each class has interactive online testing: 8 questions based on the written material. And all your test results are stored in your personal online account, so you can track your progress as you study the material.
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Grain Products
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