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Unexpected? Really? When the CEO of Diebold was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president"?
Real Clear Politics poll aggregation showed that Bush led Kerry going into the election in Ohio, and had led nationally since the September before the election - it would have been surprising if Kerry won. Exit polling can be and has been unreliable - that's why it's only used as an indicator and not on it's own (precinct turnout is usually more indicative of who's going to win).
Really, just let it go. Kerry just lost - sometimes that's all there is to it.
Really, just let it go. Kerry just lost - sometimes that's all there is to it.
Letting Bush-vs-Kerry go is easy. That's all done.
Saying "that's all there is to it" is total bullshit, though. How many other races were decided by the same machines in the 2004 elections? How many other elections were these machines used for? Did you check the exit polls for all of those too?
How do you feel about the next election, which is likely to be run based on identical policies, known to be vulnerable?
If you fi
Well, when the CEO of Diebold (the company making the voting machines), Walden O'Dell [wikipedia.org] is also doubling as a major Bush fundraiser and promising to "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President", is anyone really surprised that serious questions were raised about these e-voting machines--which were already controversial long before Wally O'Dell ever started fundraising?
Some things are still best done the old-fashioned way. And voting is one of them.
Here's what's really annoying about that particular quote: I can't find the full text of it, least not in 15 minutes of noodling around on Google. There are tons of references to that quote, plenty of references to the responses to the quote, but nothing at all which could put that quote into context. I'm not saying it's a case of misinterpretation... but I am saying that we don't have the facts. What we have is a great soundbite.
Then we have this FTA:
Spoonamore also swore that "...the architecture further confirms how this election was stolen. The computer system and SmarTech had the correct placement, connectivity, and computer experts necessary to change the election in any manner desired by the controllers of the SmarTech computers."
Which sums it up nicely. The filings show how it could have been stolen - but do not prove that it was stolen. It seems to me that the same can be said of any election using this equipment and architecture.
In spite of that, I agree with your statement. The old fashioned way seems to be the one that is most foolproof. While that process can obviously be hacked as well, it typically needs to be done on a machine by machine basis and is quite a bit more traceable.
Well, it's not like we have more important issues to discuss, such as the impending default, or... oh wait...
Maybe they will throw Bush into jail. So what? What's past is past, and having someone serve prison time won't help a bit. I mean, prison time is to punish someone for their deeds and hopefully teach them to not do it again.
Prison time also serves as a deterrent to prevent others from doing it.
I read through the article and all I found was information that it was possible to do so - but we at Slashdot ALL know that all electronic voting systems are heavily flawed. I didn't see any evidence in the article that voter fraud actually did occur, only that it was possible.
What IS mentioned is that an intermediate vote count was transferred to another server, but that just means that early vote totals were made available, not that fraudulent votes were cast.
What is with Slashdot and the craptacular headlines lately?
The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio's vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush's unexpected victory. Co
It says that they were set up to be a fallback authority with complete control to be able to modify votes in case the primary systems failed. Those who were responsible for overseeing the systems were sent home by agents of Blackwell, and during that time, control was sent to these fallback servers even though there was no evidence there had been any failed systems to spur it.
They could only steal votes if they were granted the failover scenario, and the architecture made it easy to do so should that have happened - so easy in fact that it appears evident that it was designed with this purpose in mind. Then, private contractors take control of things late in the evening of the election, transfer control to the fully-falsifiable system, then transfer control back, all without any evidence that there had been failures to trigger the transfer of control.
They had motive and opportunity, and the design of the system is such that any actual proof against tampering could be falsified without means of detection. You're right, it doesn't say "votes were tampered with," but the only remaining possible evidence would be a confession. The one man who began to disclose more details died in a mysterious plane crash shortly after.
Oh thank God, someone on Slashdot actually has some sens. All it takes is one quick visit to TFA to see that that news site is the most biased news outlet I have ever seen. Its literally more sensationalist than Fox News, just in the other direction. The people who wrote the article authored no less than 4 books like "Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election". The entire things takes "it might have been possible to hack the election" to "look! It was possible, so they did!" They don't say "reveals how it might have been hacked", which would be true, they say "was hacked", which they have absolutely no proof of whatsoever. Just suspicions, and their suspicions at that. And saying people died in "a suspicious plane crash"? Thats some nice inuendo right there. They are literally suggesting that Bush had a person killed for testifying against him. Over the top, much?
It's a liberal politial non-profit working on the side of the Democrats that mainly publishes liberal opinion pieces. They were rabidly anti-Bush during his term..
These are the people who claimed Karl Rove had been indicted over the Plame thing, and when told it was false continued to press the claim. Rove was never indicted.
Kerry's biggest problem in 2004 was not the voting machines in Ohio or Pennsylvania, but his inability to coherently and succinctly answer a simple question.
In 2004, a ham sandwich would have out-polled George W, but the Democrats nominated John Friggin Kerry. Vote tampering in Ohio does not excuse the Democrats for losing that election.
Vote tampering in Ohio does not excuse the Democrats for losing that election.
No, but a weak candidate doesn't excuse vote tampering either. No matter which way I vote, I'd like to know that it counted. I'd like to know that it's not being tampered with for profit, malice, or mischief.
Let's not forget how Bush became President in the first place. The Democrats nominated Al Gore in 2000. Everyone remembers how Florida results were within the margin of error for their stupid punch card ballots. But nobody seems to remember that Gore lost his own home state (Tennessee), which in my opinion should result in automatic disqualification. If your own state won't vote for you, go directly to epic fail.
Bush was one of the weakest candidates in modern times. In a way, he was similar to Nixon. Both were weak candidates who enjoyed the benefit of weaker opponents. Nixon defeated Humphrey in 1968 and McGovern in 1972; Bush defeated Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. Obama might fit into the same discussion, having defeated the Republican throwaway ticket of McCain/Palin in 2008. It remains to be seen if the Republicans can nominate a weak enough candidate to give Obama a second term.
As someone who lives in Tennessee, I don't really blame Gore for losing here in 2000. Gore's political ideas were far too progressive for this backwater hellhole. Mainly, he wasn't christian enough, in that he had respect for non-Christians, and in that he relied heavily on science for making decisions, rather than the bible. It really would have been wasted effort if he'd tried. I mean, the people here think that god punishes america with natural disasters because of abortions and gays.
By the time it comes down to actually voting for one of two "viable" candidates, the statist agenda is bound to be fulfilled. There are meaningful differences between Republican and Democrat, but on the whole they will both tend to do things that increase the role of federal government in our everyday lives and insidiously undermine our rights.
Give me a third party with the size and principles to actually change the course of government and I'll care more about what happens in the final round of elections.
There are no meaningful differences between Republicans and Democrats, unless you count their donors. It is, and has been for some time, a one-party system with the veil of "choice" pulled over the eyes of the voters. Both parties increase the power of the Federal government (against the constitution and the will of the people), and both parties want more of our money.
The only difference (if you can call it that) between the parties (besides the mascot) is their stance on "scary social problems" like gay marriage and abortion. Both of which have nothing to do with governing and the federal government, if it were Constitutionally sound and legal, would not be involved in either item at all. The Constitution makes clear what the federal government can do, yet we keep electing these asspiles who ignore it.
I wish there was enough outrage to give a third party support, but it appears the deck is stacked against any candidate that isn't an elephant or donkey.
Give me a third party with the size and principles..
Maybe someone should give you a pony too.
It's particularly disappointing that you want the size given to you. It sounds like you're saying you refuse to vote for real candidates (assuming someone else does the job of giving them to you), unless a bunch of other people vote for them first (of course, by then, it's too late and the candidate has lost, because you refused to vote along side them, since that candidate's victory had not already been assured).
Your attitude is why we can't escape the Democrats and Republicans. You are the problem that you're complaining about.
Imagine the world where Thomas Jefferson wrote:
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, we can only hope that someone gives those people what they want. King George is bad, and we humbly request him to appoint a new king. (We don't care who; that's not our problem.) If he refuses to do so, we will continue to recognize his authority but we'll be slightly irked.
You can hack mechanical voting machines
But the problem with electronic voting is that your hack can happen in seconds, and do far more damage than an army of corrupt vote counters and ballot stuffers and truck drivers who get lost while delivering paper ballots. Plus your attack vectors are orders of magnitude more numerous, because you're dealing with a more complex systems.
Democracy is about trust. Voting should not be a black box: votes in, sausage out. We on Slashdot are all technophiles: anything can b
This is America, damnit!
Why do it RIGHT when you can do it EASY.
Most of the accusations of voter fraud stem from one horrible shortcoming in American elections. Quite simply, it's a lack of transparency. If the election work was done out in the open for all to see, we wouldn't have so much fraud. But that's exactly why it's done in secret. Both sides WANT fraud. When things aren't going their way they want to have all sorts of leverage to shift the election to them. Ballot stuffing has a long and glorious tradition in this country. The Republicans are being accus
Voting intimidation is eliminated when you vote in your own home and you don't have to deal with crowded poll places. I don't understand why more states don't do this.
And now for the tangent, more and more we are seeing the evil republican label. Similarly, it is the socialist, Marxist liberals. Both labels are hyperbole. The two parties aren't all that different really, they agree on most things. The thing that kills me is people don't realize that to make it to congress, you must be at least millionaire. You want to know why the Bush tax cuts haven't expired? Why the democrats haven't beaten the republicans over the head with it? They don't want to see their own taxes go up, just like the republicans. They just have to talk a good game to continue to be elected.
It is only when their supporters really get pissed off that they do something, because they like their cushy job and free, government run health care.
As for claims of vote hacking, neither side really wants an investigation. Think about it, right now the US is seen is fat, lazy and stupid. Do you really want to add slow to that mix? While it would make a lot of us feel good, from the outside, if a former president is put in jail, what does it look like?
Probably something like, we're stupid, fat, lazy, slow and cannot properly investigate a crime. The last thing anyone on either side wants to do is suggest that our law enforcement is somehow inadequate, it would just invite others to exploit that. It is the same security theater as TSA, just on a different stage.
I wish more technical people would volunteer to work the polls, and could spread the word about the controls built into our voting process.
The first thing they'd learn is that votes are counted at the PRECINCT level. There's no "master server" in the sky where votes can be manipulated. The real votes are counted machine-by-machine, under the eye of volunteers who swear under oath that it has been operated properly. The machines print out a paper receipt of the tally, and that gets backed-up on hard disk and flash. The paper tape total is called into the Registrar. The paper records of the vote are certified by a local Board of Election, the machines are sealed, and the paper and flash media is typically also sealed and sequestered under a local Court.
The servers used at the state levels are merely there to REPORT the results of the counts made at each precinct. They are not the actual vote tally. If the database is wrong, the Board goes back to the paper trail and updates it with the correct tally.
Paper receipts at the voting machines are actually NOT a good idea, IMHO. Paper is a horrible medium for conducting an election: it can get lost, smeared, ripped, crumpled, folded, etc. There's a reason we don't run our accounting systems using ledger-books anymore, but instead use a computer. Those reasons apply double for voting. A computer-based tally is a dream to manage compared to the nightmare that is paper.
I would like to see better use of paper for making spot-certifications that a machine is operating properly, but I would never want to run a whole election using paper. The error rate of paper can run as high as 1-2%. The error rate of a computer tally is minuscule by comparison.
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The Detroit native, who returned to her hometown after living in New York City, is an accomplished flutist, songwriter, arranger and producer. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of North Texas — a virtual jazz of musicians such as Lou Marini, Nora Jones, and Stefan Karlsson — and a master's degree from the venerable Boston Conservatory.
Thomas will perform on flute with Anthony Lanni's Detroit Samba Project 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at Goldfish Tea, 117 W. Fourth Street, Royal Oak; and she'll also perform 6-9 p.m. Saturday, April 26, with the Pat Shanley Duo at Maple Theater Cafe, 4135 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield Township.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, enamored of her classical bent and rock sensibility, invited her on stage as a guest flutist at his 2003 State Theater concert. In 2009 Tracy received a Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Jazz vocalist and has been nominated for numerous others in recent years, including Outstanding Jazz Composer, Modern Jazz Band, R&B Composer, and R&B artist. Her two most recent CDs, "There and Back Again" and "Sound Truth" were both nominated for Detroit Music Awards.
"Sound Truth" was also distinguished as one of the "Top 10 of 2010" by the Metro Times' Brett Callwood.
Her music can be heard on the CD ROM, which accompanies "The Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3, she has done radio and television jingle work nationwide, performs on Alan Andrews' 1999 release "Cleaned and Pressed." She sings, writes for a variety of television and film projects and plays flute and writes/arranges for the Nighthawks Jazz Orchestra, a dectet featuring music by Michigan composers and arrangers.
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Baylee Stone scored 2 goals and had an assist as Chelmsford beat Lowell, 4-1, in a Division 1 North Sectional field hockey tournament first-round game.
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Annie Villaire and Sara Squeri scored 1 goal each to help spark the Lions' attack.
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Rachel Bossi, Kaleigh Hoffman and MaryLou Ryder chipped in with 1 assist apiece for Chelmsford (16-2-1).
Alanah Melanson made 3 saves in goal for the Lions.
Hillary Navanjo-Mejia scored Lowell's goal with an assist from Madison Alcorn.
Red Raider goalie Makara Ung had a spectacular game, finishing with 29 saves.
Chelmsford will play MVC rival Andover in a quarterfinal game Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at UMass Lowell.
Lincoln-Sudbury 2
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Lincoln-Sudbury scored the winning goal with five minutes left to play in this first-round matchup.
After falling behind, 1-0, Westford Academy evened the score when Erica Mattila tallied an unassisted goal 12 minutes into second half.
Allison Avery made 10 saves in goal for the Grey Ghosts (11-3-5).
Taylor Freud, Kathryn Walker, Allia Connolly and Anna Collins played well for Westford.
Division 2 Central
Littleton 3
Northbridge 0
Kim Lizotte continued her scoring streak by scoring first 41/2 minutes into the game and added a penalty stroke goal one minute later as the Tigers rolled.
Meaghann Ackerman scored the final goal of the game for Littleton (15-2-2).
Kristen Vilcans, Bridget Schofield and Sarah Lizotte added assists for the Tigers.
Liz Porell had her finest game of the season in Littleton's cage. She made a diving game-changing save en route to her 12th shutout of the season.
Playing strong were Tabitha Gruskowski and Hannah Montemagno.
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I'm making both my boys 10x8 tarps*, question I have is do I catcut them or leave them straight. I know I can do a shallow cat-cut but with only 4' per side coverage I don't want to take to much away. Or do I leave them straight and hope to find more sil and add a cat-cut strip on later?
Right now I have a 9'x8' sil (non-cat-cut) and a 12'x10' cat-cut tarp. So I really only need one more for all 3 of us. But I don't want to have them fight over who gets the old tarp.
*Note: This is the 14 yards of sil I got the other day, I want to make both boys tarps so by splitting what I have in half this is the size I came up with.


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The LaGrange County Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, March 13 at 6:30 pm in the genealogy room of the LaGrange County Public Library. There will be an informal presentation on how to organize your family information on paper - family group sheets and pedigree charts will be the focus. You are welcome to bring your family information with you so that volunteers can assist you. The public is invited, especially youth who are interested in a 4-H genealogy project. After the presentation you are welcome to browse the genealogy room collection.
For more information, please contact: LaGrange County Genealogist Barb Mulholland - email@example.com, phone (260) 854-4311 OR society president Dalonda Young - email@example.com, phone (260) 463-6384. More advanced programs will be offered in the future.
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2ndOctober, the day that is celebrated across the country as the birthday of the 'Father of the Nation' – Mahatma Gandhi.
"Bapu" as he was fondly known as, is respected and idolized not only in India, but across the world for his non-violent principles of protest and secular ways.
However his links with football and his usage of the game to benefit his community programs are less well known.
Infact he was a path-breaker of sorts, even in football, when in 1896, when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, still a young, relatively unknown lawyer in South Africa, was amongst a group of pre-dominantly Indian men, who helped form the Transvaal Indian Football Association. Peter Alegi, a professor of African history at Michigan State University, considers it "most likely the first organized football group on the continent that was not run by whites".
Based in South Africa, the lure of huge crowds that usually showed up for football matches in the country, were often pointed to as reasons for Gandhi's interest in the game, as he could then entice these people to join his social activism. He often distributed pamphlets for the same during such matches.
However, in an interview to FIFA.com in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Poobalan Govindasamy, president of the South African Indoor Football Association, gave some rare insight about how highly India's father of the nation held football in high regard and was a visionary of sorts.
South African Association of Hindu Football was formed with Gandhi's blessings...
"What fascinated Gandhi in particular was the notion he had of football's nobility," told Govindasamy to FIFA.com.
"At that time, the idea of team play was much stronger than the idea of individual 'star' players, and this is something that greatly appealed to him. He believed the game had an enormous potential to promote team work. Certainly he appreciated the game's usefulness in attracting large crowds, but it would be a mistake to think that football was only a communications platform for Gandhi. It was, I believe, much more. It was one of his great personal passions and one of the ways in which he was able to find spiritual peace," he continued.
Infact Govindasamy goes on to credit Mahatma Gandhi with helping introduce the present multi-culture structure of sports in South Africa. He stated, "His organisational skills and drive helped to lay the foundations for the non-racial sporting structures of today's South Africa, because it was Gandhi and his contemporaries who did more than anyone else at the time to involve non-whites, and particularly the country's Indian population, in structured sporting activities."
This was achieved in a systematic fashion, as after launching small associations like Transvaal Indian Football Association or the Klip River District Indian Football Association, before in 1903, the South African Association of Hindu Football was formed.
"This was all still a long way off from the unified country ideal of today's Rainbow Nation of course," acknowledges Govindasamy, "but it at least paved the way for the later creation of a national federation and leagues in which games could be played regardless of the players' skin colours."
Bapu's farms were used for football related activities...
Gandhi's involvement did not stop with associations, but he even helped establish three football clubs in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg, all of which were named Passive Resisters Soccer Club, as the lawyer turned activist realized that his passion for football, coupled with people's interest in the game could help his social agenda. He experimented with non-violent methods to help the marginalized non-white communities to achieve equal rights in the country suffering from apartheid.
While there is no evidence that "Bapu" ever donned his football gear to take on the pitch, but instances of his giving a speech to the teams or the crowd at half-time are often narrated. One of the fields often used for these games was located at the Phoenix settlement, which is now a heritage site, but the field created by Gandhi for the event is still very much there.
While the teams were not a part of any league, that had more to do with the fact that organized football was still in its infancy, with several countries, including South Africa, having no league structure.
The friendly matches though were still very lucrative, with the funds earned from such events being used to fund the families of those activists, who were arrested for their protests against local racists laws, prevalent in the country.
Eventually Mahatma Gandhi was convinced by Indian families to return to his motherland, and soon after his departure, the Passive Resisters Soccer Clubs wound up. Several Indian origin people did follow his lead though, with clubs like Moonlighters FC and Manning Rangers of Durban being formed by them.
Back In India – Mahatma Gandhi changes his views on sports
However once back in his homeland, Gandhi seems to have had a change of heart, as seen from excerpts of his autobiography "My Experiments With Truth" and from several letters that he wrote to fellow activists.
While he still maintained strong links with sports organizers back in South Africa, and helped the first ever side from South Africa, consisting mainly of people of Indian origin, "Christopher's Contingent", to arrange a tour to India, from November 1921 to March 1922. The team played 14 games in several regions of the country, with the father of the nation himself spending a sizable amount of time with the side, during their visit to Ahmedabad.
On the whole though, he felt that one should spend more time on the fields, working harder for the nation, than playing football, as can be seen from this piece he wrote (VOL. 14 : 26 DECEMBER, 1913 - 20 MAY, 1915, Page- 403) – "To me a sound body means one which bends itself to the spirit and is always a ready instrument at its service. Such bodies are not made, in my opinion, on the football field. They are made on cornfields and farms. I would urge you to think this over and you will find innumerable illustrations to prove my statement. Our colonial-born Indians are carried away with this football and cricket mania. These games may have their place under certain circumstances. But I feel sure that for us, who are just now so fallen, they have no room."
As can be seen, Gandhi felt that in a country in shambles under the rule of the British, sports, be it cricket or football, was a luxury that should be avoided.
Infact he goes on to ridicule the "princes" and "high society" residents for their love of sports, yet again condescending cricket and football. Mahatma Gandhi wrote, "What proportion of men of high intellectual caliber shall we find among those who regularly play cricket or from among the large number who play football? In India, what do we observe as regards (to) the mental development of the princes who give their time to sports? Again, how many of those with well-developed intellectual powers are sportsmen? Experience shows that highly intellectual men are seldom sportsmen as well."
Mahatma Gandhi - The most high profile admirer of the beautiful game?...
So it can be seen, that once Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, concerned by the social and economic condition of the country, he started regarding sports as a past time that his countrymen could not afford, as they continued with their struggle for freedom and prosperity.
In what might come as a double whammy to football lovers in the country, Mihir Bose in A Maidan View: The Magic of Indian Cricket, goes on to credit the father of the nation with the ascent of the "Gentleman's Game" over Football as the sport of choice in India. His decision to move away from Kolkata, the footballing hub of the country, to Western India, where the affluent Indians and Parsis in particular favoured cricket, had an impact of mammoth proportions.
So while there is a clear divide in Mahatma Gandhi's contribution to football, having promoted it in South Africa, and having been vehemently against it once back in India, what cannot be denied is that at a personal level he enjoyed football. Bapu felt it could bring unity amongst the masses, and hence can be called the most high profile and commonly unknown fan of the game in India.
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Yale senior defenseman Erin Duggan was named ECACHL Player of the Week for her work this past weekend on Yale's trip to Ohio State.
Duggan, the team captain, scored four of Yale's six goals in the two-game set, including a hat trick on Friday. She also had an assist that night on the game-tying goal with 22 seconds left in regulation. Her five-point weekend gives her nine points over her last six games, and the four goals move her into seventh all-time at Yale in that category (36). She also moved into fourth place all-time in points (92). The hat trick was her second of the season and the third by a Bulldogs this year (Jenna Spring had the other). Duggan is the second Yale player to earn ECACHL Player of the Week honors, following Sheila Zingler. Sarah Love has won ECACHL Goalie of the Week honors twice.
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What a *****
Jay Glazer reports last week JOhn Abrahma took two pain killing injections and it hurt so much he could still feel it. He just had one today and it feels better than last week. But, his status for the game remains to be seen.
What a *****
he has another tummy ache?
Pimple on his ass?
Abe's whole game is speed if he doesn't have it at 256 pounds what good does playing hurt do?? He has 122 sacks plus 4 pro bowls and 2 All Pro's.. Favre played with a injured arm did it do the team any good??
Looks like Abraham is out there today.
Abraham=Playoff bust.
Thankfully the Jets got rid of his sorry arse. He`s always hurt come crunch time. He doesn`t want to play in the playoff games because he isn`t making as much $ as he does in the regular season games. Why work for less? I hate that friggin jackoff.
well it`s true. Not many of the players in the league like playing in the playoffs. They earn more per regular season game and don`t like working extra games for a fraction of what they earn for a regular season game. Not sure who brought it up a few years ago, but there was a story about how players don`t really like playing the playoffs being paid less and risking injury. Abraham was one of those players. He always seems to be "injured" when crunchtime comes around. Hey, he`s proof if you really need to have any.


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Universe Today covered Mr Gingrich's comments from Florida:
By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the Moon and it will be American.
Love the moon base idea. I don't think it would have to be American, and I'm very curious about how the former Speaker plans to pay for it. The current president couldn't squeeze another $6B out of Congress for NASA. Does Mr Gingrich anticipate a Dem Congress willing to loosen up the purse strings?


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Yogi Parks Tout Environmental Education
June 2, 2011 by Justin Leighty - () Comments Off on Yogi Parks Tout Environmental Education
It takes a plastic six-pack holder 100 years to decompose in the natural environment. In the meantime, it poses a danger to wildlife. And what about a soda can? Eighty years. Even a seemly benign orange peel can take anywhere from 30 days to two years to decompose.
These statistics may sound trivial, but when children hear this information, they tend to act more responsibly and take better care of the environment.
Children across the country will have a chance to hear how they can be better stewards of the environment while camping at Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts, according to a news release.
Last year, the family campground chain became the first campground organization in the country to join Leave No Trace, a Boulder, Colo.-based non-profit organization that develops educational programs designed to help children and adults take better care of the environment.
"Our franchisees attended training sessions with Leave No Trace earlier this year, and many of them are now incorporating LNT's nature based educational programs into their weekend activity schedules," said Michele Wisher, director of marketing for Milford, Ohio-based Leisure Systems Inc., which franchises Jellystone Parks.
The Lake Monroe Jellystone Park in Bloomington, Ind., was one of the first to implement the program.
"It's been very popular," said Cheryl Smith, the park's general manager, adding that she has scheduled nature activity weekends periodically throughout the summer and fall.
Young children typically participate in age-appropriate discussions about the importance of recycling and taking care of the environment. "That's when they learn how long it takes for different things to decompose in the natural environment," Smith said, while classes in environmental ethics are offered to teenagers.
"In the environmental ethics class, teens learn about the erosion that takes place when they take shortcuts on hiking trails or the lasting damage that occurs when they carve their names in trees or leave trash behind," Smith said, adding, "The whole point of this effort is to raise awareness about things we can do to lessen our negative impact on our natural surroundings."
Other activities include crafts classes in which children make various crafts out of recycled materials, garden activities, in which children plant various trees and shrubs in the campground, and short educational videos, which parks can show before their regular nighttime movies.
Dana Gabriel, who co-owns the Jellystone Park in Swansea, S.C., said her park has already had Earth Day activities and plans to continue to offer additional nature activities based on the Leave No Trace curriculum. "We do as much education as we can with the kids," she said. "We tell them, 'If you pack it in, pack it out.' And we see that this helps produce tidier campers. They start to feel a synergy with the park and we'll even start to see kids out there picking up after each other."


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Confidence: Turners Ultimate Springboard
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With 10 minutes and 57 seconds left in the fourth quarter Saturday, thousands of Nebraska football fans stood up and raised both arms in the air after Jamal Turner caught a 5-yard slant pass from Taylor Martinez to give the Huskers their first lead over Penn State, 27-23.
Two former Husker receivers didn't signal touchdown, but they grinned like they just scratched the right numbers on a lottery ticket, celebrated on Nebraska's east sideline and explained what career touchdown No. 2 means for Jamal Turner after clutch catches in back-to-back, black-and-blue Big Ten barnburners.
"Confidence is the most important thing in the world for a football player and especially for a receiver," said Niles Paul, a second-year tight end for the Washington Redskins and a guest invited to be inside the ropes with the Husker team Saturday on a bye weekend. "Jamal got that first big touchdown catch out of the way last week at Michigan State, and now he has all the confidence in the world. That was Jamal's springboard. Now that he knows what he can do, just watch how many more big catches he'll have in the future."
Swift Sees Better Routes, More Production
Nate Swift isn't on an NFL roster, but he left Nebraska as the school's career receptions leader with 166 catches and ranked second in career receiving yards with 2,476, just three yards behind Johnny Rodgers. Swift agreed with Paul and said, in effect, that Jamal Turner has put his future in good hands – his own. "He's a pure athlete," Swift said. "There's never been any doubt about that from anyone. Confidence is preparation, and he expects great things."
After clutching a short Martinez pass in the final seconds in East Lansing and then holding onto another tight catch in the north end zone against the Nittany Lions, Turner will have even more pep in his step this week, in practice as well on Senior Day next Saturday when a bowl eligible Minnesota comes to town.
"Being a great receiver is all about running the right routes and knowing you can do it," Swift said. "When you get your confidence, it gets fun, and you can do amazing things."
Ability to Judge Himself through His Own Eyes
A more self-assured Jamal Turner will see things better, picture more precise routes and visualize making more winning catches. He no longer has to judge himself through someone else's eyes. He can judge himself through his own.
That's the beauty of Turner's confidence. Instead of the blur in his head from never seeing a college touchdown after making 63 in high school, he's painting a more vivid picture in his mind again – in high definition, no less.
In the mind's eye is the power of confidence, a bolder attitude and a more courageous mindset. From now on, instead of worrying about what he hasn't experienced, Jamal Turner will dial up what he's proven two weekends in a row – with the game on the line and pressure at its peak.
We all know you have to expect things of yourself before you can do them, and after spending so much time wondering if he could, Turner now knows better. He will no longer consent to doubt or question his ability to be a game-changer.
Big Question: Can Everything Come Up Roses?
He now plays a key role in a Nebraska cast that doesn't have to be asked "Can you feel it?" Jamal Turner feels it and with two regular-season games remaining, including the regular-season finale at Iowa City the day after Thanksgiving, he's expecting one more thing. He's expecting everything to come up roses, even if the season did have a thorny start.
Yes, Nebraska has now overcome four double-digit second-half deficits this season to win. Two were road games – at Northwestern and Michigan State. The other two were magic moments elevated by a determined roar inside Memorial Stadium – against Wisconsin and Penn State.
Last week, Turner told a Lincoln sportswriter that he felt like a new man after making that game-winning catch with a half dozen seconds left on the clock. He said he felt like a better player, and he envisioned everybody looking at him differently than they had all season.
Well, the best thing about building confidence is the big plays – and the swagger – that come with it. And the next best thing is seeing the voltage of confidence surging through the hearts of your teammates, such as:
Taylor Martinez once again thinking impossible is nothing.
Kyler Reed once again laying the long track getting Martinez/Turner to a short end zone.
Ameer Abdullah once again realizing he can stand in for Rex Burkhead.
Sean Fisher knowing he can hit the right spots one series after another.
Alonzo Whaley and David Santos showing what it takes to cause a fumble.
Imani Cross demonstrating how a No. 3 I-back can score two pivotal touchdowns.
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from again. He will be needed down the stretch.
Daimion Stafford finishing with eight tackles and creating two turnovers.
Brett Maher kicking three field goals and pinning the enemy behind the lines as a punter.
Ciante Evans achieving a career-high 10 tackles.
Will Compton matching those 10 tackles and recovering a fumble.
Baker Steinkuhler converting a heat-seeking missile into a quarterback sack.
An entire offensive team, defensive team and special teams knowing it's never over 'til it's over and understanding what their head coach keeps saying … once they can clean up some of their messes, there's no telling how good they might be … not next season, but today and tomorrow, stepping stones to Indianapolis and Pasadena.
What a program-changer that would be, and what a tribute that would be to a retiring athletic director who brought Bo back to Lincoln.
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Small wonder?
The Ixus 95 IS is very easy to operate, which is just as well, as Canon persists in supplying its cameras with just a printed, basic start-up guide – which barely progresses beyond switching on the camera – hiding the full instruction manual as a PDF on CD. Power on is swift, with the Ixus 95 IS ready to shoot within two seconds. Another thing you notice is that, despite its compact size, the camera is quite noisy during operation, especially when the auto-focus kicks in.
Various detection systems improve shooting and ease of use
The menu button reveals a tabbed navigation system. Here, you can adjust various set-up items including LCD brightness and a selection of camera settings, such as digital zoom and flash settings. One grumble is that the i-Contrast setting is on a second menu page, as it would be handy if this was easier to access.
The Function Set button takes you into the familiar Canon L-shaped menu with various icons for adjusting ISO, white balance, file size, colour effects, metering mode and drive mode. In terms of shooting modes, you can choose from 17 that include, auto, program AE, portrait, sunset and ISO 3200.
The LCD screen is a bit of a disappointment, especially if you're used to using cameras with 3in displays. It was also difficult to view in bright sunlight and so full marks to Canon for including an optical viewfinder. It's a bit on the small side, and you certainly don't get a 100 per cent field of view, but we found it very handy when using the Ixus 95 IS outdoors in bright conditions.
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so far it's found things that Google didn't and missed a whole load of Google-oriented spam sites
Until the spammers note that Bing's marketshare is big enough to set their sights on. It's the whole exploits are concentrated on the most popular software out there paradigm again.
I do like some aspects (video included) of this though. I find the shopping to be about as good as Google's, nothing special. Could definitely do without the noisy background, though. I crave simplicity!
"so far it's found things that Google didn't and missed a whole load of Google-oriented spam sites" Until the spammers note that Bing's marketshare is big enough to set their sights on. It's the whole exploits are concentrated on the most popular software out there paradigm again. Oh yes, I completely agree. It took a while for Google to become so spam-infested though, so hopefully we get a reasonable break in the meantime. I do like some aspects (video included) of this though. I find the shopping to be about as good as Google's, nothing special. Could definitely do without the noisy background, though. I crave simplicity! Indeed. Is actually the one thing putting me off making it my homepage, but I'm going to do it just to give things a try. Have been less satisfied with Google of late - not necessarily their fault as such, but there's so much targeting of them that's it's getting harder to sort wheat from chaff. Cheers, Ian
Maybe the best defense against the spammer is multiple successful search engines owned and operated by different companies. In other words, I don't like the idea of a Google monoculture any more than I like the Windows monoculture and the instant widespread success of malware that it enables. With spammers and others who want to "game" the search engines, it seems to me that the same principle applies.
Is actually the one thing putting me off making it my homepage
Add these to your adblock rules:
Bing has a calculator.
1 + 1: http://www.bing.com/search?q=1+%2B+1%0A&filt=all [bing.com]
2 * pi: http://www.bing.com/search?q=2+*+pi&go=&form=QBRE [bing.com]
2 miles in feet: http://www.bing.com/search?q=2+miles+in+feet&go=&form=QBRE [bing.com]
What's interesting, for me, about other search engines and their "usability" is the fact that my eyes are trained to parse google results. Google search results look official and informative. I can't use Yahoo or MSN (or Bing for this matter) because their search results look sterile.
I just tried Bing (Did Chandler approve of this?) and it does look like Google, with the exception of the left border as you state (and that weird mouseover line-with-a-dot on the right hand side)
Microsoft really did embrace
They look pretty similar to me. I know what you are talking about, but Bing does a pretty good job of mimicking Google.
I did the "cheeseburger" test on it - if on Google, I search for Cheeseburger and the first page of links are all people trying to get me to buy cheeseburgers, I know Google's evilling up the results. If on the other hand I get all kinds of cool interesting things about cheeseburgers, I know I'm getting the "truth."
The result sets look almost the same to me and the output is bland enough.
My take on it is this: If it defeats the SEO bullcrap that gums up the first 2-3 pages of most Google results, then I think it will be a useful tool to me.
SEO bullcrap= When I search for HP 4600 troubleshooting, I am not searching for:
"Tired of troubleshooting your old HP 4600? Come to CrazyJimbosPrinters.com and replace that HP 4600 and stop troubleshooting! HP HEWLETTPACKARD HP PRINTER 4600 4500 3500 2840 PRINTER LASERJET
I shouldn't have to make a "-$NOUN" string a mile long just to find pertinent information. If Bing cuts out some of this fat, then they have a new user.
I guess I'll just have to Google it.
Nope, this is a Microsoft product. You have to fucking Google it.
I wonder how Bing stands up against Google..
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png [flickr.com]
That's one reason why I never liked MSN Live and other MS search products. They're obviously very biased towards Microsoft products. Google, if anything, is biased towards open source & their other offerings like gmail, etc. but their search results aren't so blatantly biased that way. I purposely don't want to use a search engine run by a corporation with a wide range of products and services like MS because it's so easy for them to game the results to suit their needs. That's why I stick with Google for most of my searching and venture out to others like ask.com, yahoo.com, etc. when I want to try something different. Unless MS can demonstrate that their searches aren't biased towards their products & services then I'll continue to avoid using them.
To be fair, people are probably searching for Microsoft products a lot more on Microsoft's sites (proportionately). So an autocomplete text box could reasonably and accurately be Microsoft biased.
And then you get people who think Linux was made by Microsoft, just like there is people who think Microsoft owns Apple just because they had some shares a few decades ago.
This bias, built from MS's search seeing the world as highly MS-leaning from simply their own adherents using their products more, is somewhat self-defeating.
For popularity-driven ranks, the wider the audience and usage, the better the full audience will be able to make use of the statistics it employs. If MS's employees, contractors, proponents, vendors, etc are the primary users for the tool before a general web world, the stats will be be slanted towards MS's offerings, as you allude.
I would expect for a release as important as this to the MS portfolio, I would expect them to reset the statistics after the initial rollout, or even sub-sample the IP's, selecting for diversity, for the stats to fight bias. Without this, I can only wait until another set of "MS is just pushing more MS" posts across the blogosphere.
Then again, perhaps a healthy dose of bing-bombing (aka google-bombing) the site will re-skew it to those who fight such battles.
Ok, but, if you search the "Linux Windows" suggestion, the very first result is a very long, well cited, and fair comparison of linux v windows...
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.vs.Windows.html [michaelhorowitz.com]
It's also very funny that in the spanish version of bing, searching for some terms shows the Encarta search page for that term as the first real link (after the ads), and Wikipedia in second place.
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=microsoft+bing [justfuckinggoogleit.com]
* The reponse from a Bing search: "Bong" (like 'Ping' and 'Pong')
* A person who searches on Bing: A binger (or is 'banger' a better word?)
* When referring to Bing search results in the past tense, it's a "Bang", like "Ring" and "Rang". Or maybe it's "Bung", like "Ring" and "Rung".
Hm... I didn't mean to make rude comments about Bing, but the name kind of lends itself to some bad nicknames.
that said Bing.
just go Bing it!
Is that Chandler Bing or Bing Crosby?
Bing's OK. But it's nothing special. Even if it's technically superior in certain ways to Google--I can't tell so I'll leave that for the intellectuals to tease out--there's no particular reason to switch.
I have NEVER had a problem finding stuff on Google. Usually what I'm looking for appears in the first 10 hits. About 10% of the time, I need to rephrase my search, or add some "-" keywords to weed out some signal noise. But Google does the job, I'm used to it, and it seems to just keep getting better.
There is so much power hidden inside Google's engine--stock quotes, mathematical calculations, language translation, mapping, document conversion, caches of deleted pages, paid links that I actually find useful, typo correction--the list goes on and on and on!
What can Microsoft's search engine add to this stunningly rich resource that millions of us can't live without? What killer features does Microsoft give us? Some little tweaks here and there in the UI that may or may not make much difference. Some good ideas on supplemental information such as the "related searches" column on the left.
Sorry, Microsoft, but Bing looks like MSN Search that's been tweaked a little. If Google didn't exist, you might have a winner on your hands, but this is just another "me, too" search system that will survive only as a niche product, funded by profits from the MS Office and Windows divisions.
Any market penetration by Bing will probably come from super-glueing it to the Windows 7 desktop and Windows mobile handhelds, defaulting it on IE searching, and otherwise forcing it down customers' throats in whatever way they can, hoping a large enough population will be ignorant enough to just use the defaults. But now that "google" is a verb in the dictionary, Microsoft has its work cut out for it to hold and expand its little piece of the search market.
you wish it was google
take a look at this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png [flickr.com]
Add www.bing.com/fd/ls/* to your filters.
Or use NoScript. Searches just fine without JavaScript.
Clicking or hovering over a video is inane crap. Do the hard stuff please, it involves some rather advanced mathematics and shit load of computers, not flash/javascript.
Google are btw getting worse at finding the stuff I need, so there's an opening there.
I noticed that also.
Here are the first four "Search suggestions" for when I type "linux":
linux windows
linux microsoft
linux vista
Is this because Microsoft inserted itself into those search suggestions? Or is it because the majority of Bingers are using Microsoft products and thus the results are skewed ?
Hey, thanks.
I've always avoided Live search and its predecessors because they're fucking useless.
I was wondering if they'd made this new search engine less fucking useless. Obviously they haven't.
It's a shame they didn't learn anything with the Vista debacle -- it doesn't matter how much you spend on marketing if your product is shit. It's still shit, and unless you're selling to farmers who actually want to buy shit, you're not going to sell your shit to anyone.
What first impress me is the huge amount of ads in the search results. Searching for "sql server [bing.com]" I can only see two real results before having to scroll the page and is hard to distinguish the ads on the top of the page, from the real results.
not one, but TWO search boxes (the second simply to search within microsoft.com) which will probably frustrate and confuse as many users as it might help.
Yeah, because Google would never have a Microsoft search box within search results:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=microsoft&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&fp=2Inaafc1UxE [google.com]
Seriously, you can't fault them for duplicating the functionality of the well-established leader in search.
There's only one placement at the top of the page, one placement at the bottom, and a single text ad in the right column.
Compare to the Google search of the same term: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22sql+server%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&fp=2Inaafc1UxE [google.com]
Google has the one placement at the top of the page, virtually identical to Bing's. It has no placement at the bottom, given, but it has 8 placements in the right column.
So Bing's total placements: 3. Google's: 9.
Ok, seriously... what's with that 80 KiB background JPEG on the homepage?
Image search is actually nice, though I would put the filters at the top instead of the left. The results leave a bit to be desired (tried "portable mame cabinet", hoping to find something I looked at a few days ago - no luck there). Also, scrolling down loads more pictures automatically. No need to go to "page 2" for more results. That's actually nice. The size/weight info on hover is a nice touch too.
And aside from the expanded snippet feature (which is pretty clever) I don't see anything new or exciting. WTF?
I realized just now that if some other company had started up and created a new search engine called "Bing" I would probably find it really charming. But when Microsoft does it, it just seems like The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show. The human subconscious is a player-hater.
It may as well be Microsoft. Right now, Google has no real competition.
You know what would help competing against Google?
A good search engine.
Maybe Microsoft can take all that money they spend rebranding their useless shitty search engine every 2 years and build a good search engine? I don't care what they're calling MSN Messenger this week, it's a great product and I keep using it despite the constant name changes. Similarly, I don't care what they call Live Search or Bing or MSN Search or whatever they want to call it this week, it's shit and it's going to remain shit until
Apparently, Microsoft has acquired the domain bingsucks.com.
yep, google does the same for their domains aswell, aswell as lots of other companies.
I think that domain should be reserved for bing's rule 37 entry.
I also rather like the image results, I can't speak for the actual images themselves, but the way they're presented is so much nicer than Google with a convenient dynamic load as you continue scrolling down the page. Live search did this too.
Plus they find 1500 images for my site, five times as many as Google.
I Binged (Bung?) and found myself, which indicates that Bing works well
But it fails [bing.com] to answer this important question!
Notice how Google gets it right [google.com].
You just have to phrase it right [bing.com].
It seems it does other [bing.com] calculations [bing.com] too [bing.com].
...hear Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day exclaiming "BING!" every time they read the word?
Also, does anyone else ponder why Microsoft's product names are either really generic and boring, or totally cheesy and cringe-worthy?
I just had a look. Man what utter dogshit. It has pretty much copied Googles thinking on minimalist, but even fucked that up with a picture background. Morons.
To my mind, it's just a bad copy. And the name, man, which tard thought that up.
I really hope MSN stays were it is, insignificant. Only because it would be nice to see MS NOT win due to $$$ for once.
It doesn't merge results from a same website.
To learn more about Bing, type "bing search engine" into Google.
I tried Bing for about ten seconds and saw no immediate reason to switch from Google.
...and upon hovering over a video still, I get this:
Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: SmartPreviewNetStream was unable to invoke callback onMetaData. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onMetaData not found on SmartPreviewNetStream and there is no default value.
at SmartPreview()
at SmartPreview_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
I guess nobody at MS tested their results with the debug version of Flash Player?
Sounds like a feature to get you to stop using IE6 already, goddamn it!
It's a mistake - that's all. If you read the Google thread you linked to, you'd see that it happens because auto.search.msn.com handles "address bar search" and uses the "prov" parameter to decide where to send it. The new engine doesn't handle the "prov" parameter, which no doubt they'll fix. They're not intentionally hijacking anything. In fact, they're not even hijacking anything!
It's the Luxemburgish slang word for "jail". I kid you not, as I am Luxemburgish (genetically only half) myself.
Reminds me of the German school newspaper in my final school, that was called "Flapp" (pronounced "fluhpp")... which is Luxemburgish for "turd".
I'm eagerly awaiting Microsoft Flapp to come out too. ^^
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


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Last month marked a significant turn for Robert Kirkman's ("MARVEL ZOMBIES", "HAUNT") ubber popular zombie opus "THE WALKING DEAD" as Rick and his band of survivors finally made it to the fabled safety zone in Washington. But now that they are there and safe, one can only wonder how long it can last. Read on for the 5 page preview of the issue that drops tomorrow!
WRITTEN BY: Robert Kirkman
ILLUSTRATIONS AND COVERS BY: Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn
"Behind these walls everyone has their place; everyone has their job. There is no danger, there are no threats… everyone has hope. Will it last?"
Image Comics Continues Its Ongoing Zombie Soap Opera By Robert Kirkman, "THE WALKING DEAD" With Issue #70 Tomorrow! (MSRP-$2.99)


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It seems simple enough. The problem is that everywhere we look there's cheap, convenient and extremely unhealthy food. Because of this, the United States is battling an obesity epidemic, while at the same time starving for critical nutrients.
In 2004, the Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee reported that adults and children in the U.S. consume too little calcium, vitamins A, C and E, fiber, magnesium and potassium. And how do they recommend we get these critical nutrients? By avoiding processed foods in favor of foods that are as close to their natural state as possible. That means eating lots of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, fish, poultry and lean meats.


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DENVER, CO - JANUARY 12: Jacoby Jones #12 of the Baltimore Ravens returns a kick against the Denver Broncos during the AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on January 12, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. The Ravens won 38-35 in 2 overtimes. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
DENVER (AP) — Jacoby Jones, the hero of the Baltimore Ravens' playoff win at Denver eight months ago, sprained his right knee in the season opener against the Broncos on Thursday night.
Jones was injured in the second quarter and the Ravens said his return was doubtful.
Jones was about to field a punt when teammate Brynden Trawick ran into him at the Baltimore 15. Both stayed down for a minute before heading to the sideline.
Jones caught a 70-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco with 31 seconds left in regulation on Jan. 12 and the Ravens went on to win in double overtime.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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- As a baby, Spencer Elden was thrown into a pool for the cover photo of Nirvana's famous album
- Released in 1991, Nirvana's "Nevermind" launched grunge rock
- Elden, now 20, loves Nirvana music
As an infant 20 years ago, Spencer Elden was thrown into a pool in Southern California to be photographed, naked, underwater, appearing to reach for a dollar bill. The photo would become one of the most iconic images of 1990s music: Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover.
Released on September 24, 1991, "Nevermind" catapulted the band and its music to the top of the charts, with songs including "Smells Like Teen Spirit" giving birth to the Seattle-based grunge musical style.
On the 20th anniversary of the album's release, Elden, the now-20-year-old son of an artist, said in jest that now he suffers more tribulations than other famously photographed babies whose images are associated more with cuteness than grunge.
"When I am introduced, they introduce me as the Nirvana baby," said Elden.
And because he was sans diaper when the famous shot was taken, there are other questions.
"They usually poke fun at me asking me, 'Is it the same size?'"
"I always say, "It's changed, do you want to see it?'"
Elden, also an artist, said he never met Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, whose looks and demeanor epitomized the '90s Generation-X subculture, a group and a mindset chronicled in films such as "Slacker."
"Definitely, I like Nirvana a lot and there are no songs that I don't like -- they all have a special place for people," Elden said.
Elden said he is not swimming in cash as a result of his baby celebrity status. His father, artist Rick Elden, agreed in 1991 to work on the cover with fellow photographer Kirk Weddle. He received no royalties for the job.
"My dad was an artist rigging special effects for Hollywood," said Elden.
"They went to the local pool, threw me in the water and that was it. It was a friend-helping-a-friend kind of thing."
On Saturday, Elden said he celebrated the historic release of "Nevermind" with friends.
"We hung out ... and just listened to Nirvana music, drank beer and hung out. It was a good time," he said.


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James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus 187
Velcroman1 writes "No smartphones. No exploding pens. No ejector seats. No rocket-powered submarines. 'It's a brave new world,' gadget-maker Q tells James Bond in the new film Skyfall. The new film, released on the 50th anniversary of the storied franchise, presents a gadget-free Bond fighting with both brains and brawn against a high-tech villain with computer prowess Bill Gates would be envious of. What inspired such a villain? 'Stuxnet,' producer Michael G. Wilson said. 'There is a cyberwar that has been going on for some time, and we thought we'd bring that into the fore and let people see how it could be going on.'"


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2006 – A suicide car bomber killed two Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers and wounded 30 others around 2:50 p.m. yesterday west of Baghdad, Multinational Corps Iraq officials said. Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, announced in a briefing to Pentagon reporters today that one soldier is missing following that attack, but he gave no further details. Command officials said the soldier is officially listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown."
The explosion caused debris to be scattered into a concentrated troop area. The wounded soldiers were evacuated by helicopter to a military hospital. Of those injured, one was listed as very seriously injured, one seriously injured, 17 not seriously injured, and eleven were returned to duty, officials said.
In a separate incident later yesterday, a Multinational Division Baghdad soldier was killed around 9 p.m. when an improvised-explosive device exploded near his dismounted patrol northwest of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, one Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died today from enemy action in Anbar province.
Officials identified two soldiers who died supporting the global war on terror.
Army Capt. Matthew C. Mattingly, 30, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, died Sept. 13 in Mosul, Iraq, when he encountered enemy forces using small-arms fire during combat operations. Mattingly was assigned to 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Army Sgt. Jeremy E. DePottey, 26, of Ironwood, Mich., died Sept. 11 in Asadabad, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered in a single-vehicle accident. DePottey was assigned to 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Car Bomb Attack Leaves Two Soldiers Dead, 30 Wounded, One Missing
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I wonder how much of the misunderstandings of a deliberate nature come from the passive and gnarled nature of this conflict.
In contrast is Brazil, where affluence is not widespread, but rather concentrated among the tiny minority European-descended ownership class from which its only notable metal band Sepultura arose.
I wouldn't be surpirsed if many of the greatest metal bands (Burzum, Enslaved, Immortal) came from relatively well-to-do upbringings. I have no evidence, it's just an assumption. Here's why: if you have time to contemplate things like music, death, the occult, etc. it's because you don't have to worry about food, money, friends, shelter, etc. It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs, in essence. This is just a GENERAL thought, and again, I have no evidence.
I remember reading that Varg Vikernes' parents are both successful engineers, and his brother similarily pursued a respectable career (I think in engineering). In that light the whole black metal scene comes off as a whiny little brat; having never endured real hardships, they're glum and morose about nothing because of the ego-battle initiated by Euronymous, the ringleader of the whole Norsk BM circus. And then they throw away their well-to-do background by ending up in prison. Fail.
Speed metal seems to have been a mostly middle class thing, which shows that at least when it got bigger heavy metal reached a middle class audience. explains how the punk influences and liberal politics crept in.DM/BM was probably predominantly upper middle class. Kids rebelling against having nothing to challenge them or make life interesting. an underground tape trading/zine network needs constant cash to keep it going, enter rich mommy and daddy.
In America and Britain it has since become more predominantly middle class but this is due more to the shrinking of the working class in general rather than anything to do with metal.
Here we trod close to nature vs. nurture politics. The many great Scandinavian bands likely did well due to having a society of widespread affluence supporting their endeavors, true, yet at the root of this is people of Scandinavian decent who made such a society and some of the resulting metal excellence it produced for the world.In contrast is Brazil, where affluence is not widespread, but rather concentrated among the tiny minority European-descended ownership class from which its only notable metal band Sepultura arose.The overall pattern is that metal is an overwhelmingly native and colonial European-heritage phenomenon forged in both the tangible benefits and observable failures of modern Western society. The metal music phenomenon is like an antibody reaction in an otherwise strong organism that has but recently fallen very ill.


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The first day at the BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco produced quite a lot of news and buzz. Now that I have had some time to digest and think about what of all the things Research In Motion discussed, which single thing has the biggest impact for the company down the road? More on that in just a bit.
There were several things worth mentioning that were announced throughout the day. One that is worth a mention is the fact that App World downloads have reached 1.5 million downloads per day, a big achievement for sure. So here is a quick rundown of what was announced yesterday and what I think is the most notable.
BlackBerry WebWorks (aka Widgets)
BBM Social Platform
"The BlackBerry developer community has been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to integrate BlackBerry Messenger with their apps. BBM is a very popular service with over 28 million users and opening its real-time social connectivity to third party applications presents incredible opportunities," said Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Platform at Research In Motion. "Access to BBM services from within apps will revolutionize gaming, enhance multimedia experiences, and add a new dimension to location based applications."
Developers will be able to integrate various functions of the BBM service into their applications including chat capabilities, content sharing, and invitations. For example, users will be able to invite their BBM friends to join them in a game and then chat with one another while the game is being played.
BlackBerry Analytics Service
BlackBerry developers will be able to use the mobile analytics service to discover insights about how customers use their apps and to evolve their applications in ways that will drive loyalty, increase use, and potentially lead to new and more successful avenues for revenue and monetization.
"Feedback from our customers and development partners has always shaped our BlackBerry products and services, and so we understand the need for deep, rich and accurate analytics. We also know that access to such metrics is a top priority for BlackBerry developers as they try to make their applications stand out in an increasingly crowded market," said Curtis Sasaki, Vice President, Product Management at Research In Motion. "With just a few lines of code, developers can add Webtrends analytics and gain access to a very broad range of insightful measurements."
BlackBerry Advertising Service
The BlackBerry Advertising Service helps developers integrate advertising in their BlackBerry smartphone applications quickly and easily, while also allowing advertisers, agencies and brands to work with a broad selection of advertising networks.
"The BlackBerry Application Platform is providing a truly powerful foundation for our developer community. The BlackBerry Advertising Service offers developers a quick and easy way to integrate advertising in their applications. The service reduces the commercial and technical complexity of enabling ads within an application and offers developers a new avenue of monetization," said Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Platform at Research In Motion.
BlackBerry Theme Studio 6
BlackBerry Theme Studio v6.0 Beta 1, with an improved UI makes it easier for both new and current users to create themes. This version currently only works with the BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry 6 and is avaliable to download at BlackBerry - BlackBerry Theme Studio v6.0 beta.
BlackBerry PlayBook
The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIMs answer to the iPad, well kinda. The BlackBerry PlayBook is superior to the iPad all the way around. The hardware specs are just amazing take a look at what is packed in that shell.
- 7" LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
- BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
- 1 GHz dual-core processor
- Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
- Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
- Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
- HDMI video output
- Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
- Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
- Ultra thin and portable:
- Measures 5.1"x7.6"x0.4" (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
- Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
- Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
- RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.
All I can say is that's one sexy device and I am looking forward to getting one myself when that bad boy hits the street early next year. Even though this is a huge achievement for Research In Motion, this is not the biggest or best news to come out of the BlackBerry Developers Conference.
By far the single thing that clearly stands out from everything announced or shown yesterday is the new QNX based operating system that will be launching on the BlackBerry Playbook. I have talked about QNX before and mentioned how I think it will propel RIM with future devices.
Now imagine this, you take the PlayBook and everything that is inside currently, and shrink it down to a screen size of about 3.7 inches, then you throw in a 3G/4G radio. Then to create a kick *** operating system with a next generation UI, all based and powered by QNX. You then have yourself something that may resemble the next generation BlackBerry Storm. This next generation operating system is the future of RIM and for devices that follow the BlackBerry PlayBook. This is RIM's clear answer to iPhone and Android devices.
Who's excited to see what RIM will come up with in the near future?


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Is it permissible/advisable for my 16year old daughter to sleep over at her non muslim friends house (there will be no males present, only her friend and her friends mother)
Praise be to Allah.
It is not permissible for the Muslim to take a non-Muslim as a close friend, because Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya(friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimoon(polytheists and wrongdoers and unjust)"
[al-Maa'idah 5:51]
"O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their hearts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayat(proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand"
[Aal 'Imraan 3:118].
And there are other verses that forbid loving the disbelievers and taking them as confidantes and close friends.
Abu Dawood (4832) and at-Tirmidhi (2395) narrated from Abu Sa'eedthat the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: "Do not keep company with anyone but a believer and do not let anyone eat your food but one who is pious."
Classed as saheeh by Ibn Hibbaan; classed as hasan by al-Albaani inSaheeh Abi Dawood.
Friendship and keeping company leads to love and approval, and it is not permissible to show that towards the kaafir.
This does not mean that there should be a complete cutting off of ties between Muslims and non-Muslims; rather she can visit her socially and when she is sick, and give her gifts, without loving her or taking part in her festivals, and her intention in visiting her and giving her gifts should be to call her to Islam. This is what our Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) did. See question no. 23325
Based on that, you should explain to your daughter the guidelines on interacting with non-Muslims and help her to develop a feeling of pride in her religion and adhering to its commands, even if that goes against one's whims and desires. You should also discourage her from thinking of spending the night outside her home, because sleeping over in someone else's house is indicative of very close friendship, and we have stated above that it is not permissible for the Muslim to form such a close friendship with a non-Muslim. Perhaps she may be attracted to some of their ways and influenced by that withoutrealising. The negative consequences of mixing too much with people who are not religiously committed are many, so how about mixing with people who are not of the same religion?
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George Sherrill probably can't contain himself tonight as he ponders a new beginning in Los Angeles with a winning organization and a club in serious contention for a post-season berth this season.
Sherrill's thrilled to be out of Baltimore.
I'm not sure I feel the same excitement about today's deal.
I've never really been a huge Sherrill-as-the-closer fan because he puts too many men on base for my liking. That said, he was a gritty performer who succeeded more often than not. Jorge Julio, he wasn't.
The deal today, though is an on-going symbol of the O's current state of mind and that's what I'm having a hard time coming to grips with, I suppose.
Look around at the trading deadline and answer me this question: How many good teams are trading away their good players? And how many bad teams are trading away their good players?
You know the answer.
The "sellers" at the deadline are the franchises who are – generally speaking – going backwards. The "buyers" are the teams trying to win or at least moving in the general direction of winning.
Once again, the O's are deadline SELLERS, not buyers.
That bothers me.
They'll survive without Sherrill, obviously. I wonder, though, did the O's inquire about Cliff Lee before the Indians dealt him to the Phillies for a couple of decent prospects and some towels? Was there ever a consideration to approach the A's about Matt Holliday and use him as a DH and 4th outfielder? He has more ability in his hair gel than Felix Pie has in his body. I'm not saying those deals could have been made, because I don't know all the parameters and contract situations. I'm just asking if there was ever a thought from Andy MacPhail and the club to be buyers at the deadline — instead of sellers?
We won't know that answer because Andy's not allowed to talk to the media unless he's under the protective custody of the team's PR staff.
Selling off good players is what the Pirates do. And we all know they stink.
The Indians have moved two of the best left-handed pitchers in the game over the last 15 months and received little value in return. Don't look now, but the Tribe stinks too.
Who knows what lies ahead in the next day? Maybe someone will take Danys Baez in a pinch and maybe, just maybe, Aubrey Huff is in the last 24 hours of his O's career. I'd be OK with either of those guys packing their bags tomorrow.
For some reason, I'm just not high on the Sherrill deal.
And like I said, I'm not really that much of a Sherrill lover.
But on the whole, he has a lot more quality and value than Huff and/or Baez.
I was hoping we dump one of those guys — or, perhaps, maybe we find a team silly enough (besides us) to take Pie or even the struggling Luke Scott.
I wanted to be a seller by jettisoning the scrubs, not the good players.
Good teams acquire good players at the deadline.
Bad teams trade good players at the deadline.
There's no doubt which profile our O's fit.
Oh well, one MAJOR deal was struck today in Baltimore. Michael Oher signed with the Ravens last night and was in Westminster this afternoon.
And that reminds me: it's officially football season around here.


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David De Gea has been under constant scrutiny from the press since arrival in Manchester, with the media quick to pass judgement on the abilities of the Manchester United goalkeeper and speculate wildly over his future.
The Daily Mail reported last week that Atletico Madrid were even considering a loan move to recapture their former star, should Chelsea choose to recall the Belgian stopper Thibaut Courtois, with a deal to bring Asmir Begovic to Old Trafford increasingly likely.
De Gea has been the master of his own downfall at times, a strong display and some outstanding saves can soon be undone by a weak punch or unnecessary attempt to claim a ball he's never going to win, but he is learning and developing quickly under immense pressure.
However, United fans have rallied behind the Spaniard of late, and he is by no means alone in making the odd error; not in Europe, not in the Premier League, not even in Manchester.
This weekend saw a horror show from Manchester City as they all but conceded the title to their neighbours after a 3-1 defeat to Southampton.
Roberto Mancini admitted they stood only a "10% chance" after the loss on the south coast, which saw England number one Joe Hart at fault for one of the goals.
Last season Hart was immense as City won the league on goal difference. As much down to the number of goals conceded than those they scored, the City keeper looked unbeatable at times as he cemented himself as England's first choice.
This season has seen a stark contrast, as Mancini's men have looked altogether more unstable at the back, as they continue to switch between a three and four and man defence, despite boasting the league's best defensive record.
With the amount of possession they command the pressure is often off the defence but they appear to be struggling more through individual errors when under pressure, and Hart has been as big a culprit as anybody.
After failing to clear the ball leading to Jason Puncheon's opener, the former Shrewsbury player allowed Rickie Lambert's tame effort through his body for Steven Davis to stab home. These were the latest in a series of high profile errors that led to scathing criticism from Roberto Mancini as reported by The Sun.
"Joe has made too many mistakes. He has not been good enough. It was a really bad mistake from Joe.
"It was not good enough. It's not strange because he's done a few mistakes this year."
It should be noted that he has turned in some fantastic displays, especially earlier in the season to keep his side in games, but despite several errors that have cost his team points in the title race, Hart has failed to receive anywhere near the level of criticism in the wider press as that of United's young Spaniard, although United are sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League.
Although Hart is five years older than his United counterpart, they are both young talents who will no doubt make mistakes. But they should be allowed to do so without the press highlighting every error.
One thing we know for certain is that Hart is his own worst critic and will work through his problems on the training pitch to come back a better keeper for the experience; shouldn't De Gea be allowed to do the same?
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Hi all.
I'm having some issues when trying to purchase things online whilst using the
No Script add-on, Firefox and the Master card secure code process.
I have had problems when purchasing (or attempting to !) from a number of retailers
E.G. Moonpig, Hotel Chocolat, NHS prescriptions, local council & a few others.
I falls down whenever I get to the final step, when I enter my card details.
The site will attempt to contact Master card secure code (and my card provider).
The website, will have a think about it and then it will try to either open a pop-up
or a new script/frame. The website will then just sit there and either do nothing or
time out.
It's rather unlikely that they have all had similar issues each time I try and buy
Trouble shooting
I have tried using both Firefox and Chromium (each using No script or script safe).
And I've also tried using Firefox and No Script on Windows too.
All with the same result.
So I suspect that it's No Script causing the problems. However I have "allowed" scripts
to run on each site that I want to buy something from.
The next step is to completely disable No Script and try again.
However I'm annoyed that I've taken extra steps to try and protect myself when buying
things online. Only to have to disable them, in order to make a purchase.
I have filled in a few error reports and sent off a couple of emails to said websites
(I gave a really thorough run down of the problems and the troubleshooting steps that
I'd taken. I really made an effort for their IT guys).
I've heard nothing back from them at all ! It's been weeks now.
Interestingly, I've not had any trouble from Amazon at all for my purchases !
Does anyone else have similar problems whilst they are buying things from sites all over
the web ?
TAI for any help or advice.