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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Cloth Diapering Dad Interview
• What convinced you, other than your wife, that you should cloth diaper?
I was very open to giving them a try when you first mentioned buying some, but reading the environmental impact information about disposables that was included in our first order was eye-opening. That sealed the deal for me.
• Were you intimidated? Is there anything that still intimidates you?
I was definitely intimidated at first, but quickly figured out that bumGenius were my friends! They eased me into it. Prefolds still frighten me! (Side Note: wife not all that psyched about prefolds either!)
• Why do you prefer cloth diapers over disposables?
First and foremost they're soft and cozy and so cute on her! Seriously though, they're the responsible choice, environmentally.
• I think I know how you will answer this, but what's your favorite brand and why?
Hands down, bumGenius. Best combination of ease of use and functionality. They're easy to put on; there's nothing complicated about them. As far as functionality, they go a long time without leaking. A close second is Blueberry, but the snaps still get me sometimes! (Note from wife: despite his quick answer of bumGenius I've noticed that whenever he changes her diaper he almost always uses Blueberries! My theory? It's the cute patterns!)
• What would you tell a dad who's skeptical of cloth diapering?
It's much easier than anticipated, there really is no mess, wet diapers are no-brainers and cleaning poops is simple. As long as you have a good laundering wife (I'll take that as a compliment, I think?) there's not much mess. I will say clean-up is easy, especially with a sprayer. In my opinion it's so much better than a trash can full of smelly disposables.
• What's the best part about cloth diapering?
How happy it makes my wife! And using them as her "pants" in the summer. She just looks so cute!
• Do you find them harder, easier or the same to use as compared to disposables?
About the same from my end. You (meaning me) do more work with the laundry than with disposables, but as far as changing the baby they're the same.
• If you could design a new diaper what features would it have?
Oh, come on, I don't know!
Hey, you agreed to this! You have to give me something.
Okay, definitely velcro, a pocket diaper and it has to be soft inside like Blueberry.
• Would you do it all over again?
By Jennifer G. (and hubby Ben)
13 comments:
- Beccalynn said...
That's so funny! I did a cloth diaper interview with my husband and posted it over at The Cloth Diaper Blog a month or two ago! There's nothing like Daddy input!
- February 10, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- barbie said...
love it!
- February 10, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- Megan said...
I just met with a friend who said her husband is reluctant to try cloth. I'm going to share this post with her. Thanks.
- February 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM
I love this interview! It makes me want to sit down and do one with my DH to see what he says! I especially want to know about what features would be included in a cloth diaper he could design....
aboverubies15 at yahoo dot com
- February 10, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Laura W. said...
That's great that your husband is so supportive. Mine was the one who suggested we cloth diaper, and I was reluctant at first because he doesn't do the laundry (we agreed on this when I began staying home). However, if I really need him to, he'll do it. He also really likes the bumGenius diapers. I'll have to give Blueberry diapers a try!
- February 10, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Trailmixy said...
What kind of carrier is your husband wearing in the picture?
I loved the interview. (Thanks to your hubby for doing it! :) ) My husband has been on the same page as me since the beginning when it comes to cloth diapers. We have planned to cloth diaper since way before we even thought about having kids. We thought we'd be using the old school ones with pins, and were ok with that. Boy are we glad that we now know that there are much better products out there!
My husband said something the other day that I want to share. He said that he hates putting our daughter's clothes away becuase unless things obviously go together, he has no idea what clothes are part of an outfit. On the otherhand, he loves putting away the diapers...Pockets are easy to stuff, folding is just 1 fold for most things, and it is easy to figure out what kind of diaper/ cover/ liner goes where. No guessing! :)
- February 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- The Jacobsen Family! said...
I am definitely showing this to my husband. He seems on board so far, but I think mostly because I said that's what we're doing with this one. LOL! This may help him a bit. =) I'll also have to remember to pick up some bumGenius diapers for him! =)
- February 10, 2010 at 7:19 PM
- Mindy said...
I think I'll share this with my hubby, who is a little afraid of the whole thing.
- February 10, 2010 at 8:20 PM
- Melody said...
Supportive, cloth diapering dads are the best. I know I couldn't do it without my husband being on board!
- February 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Amanda said...
Cuteness! What a great idea. We should collect even more daddy interviews. My hubby would gladly share his love of cloth. :)
- February 11, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- Sheena said...
Love this...I am new to cloth daipering and initally hubby was kind of holding me back saying it was gross...I'm slowly getting him to see it differently. It's great to see things like this :)Thanks!
- February 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- Stacey Ho said...
My husband does the laundry and has come to love cloth too - but at first he thought I was crazy. He is so into the money savings now though (yea, the environmental thing too).
BUT, he HATEs velcro - it would be live nails on a chalkboard to him at night... so he made me switch entirely to fuzzi bunz - buy I wasn't complaining :)
- February 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM
This is great! After almost two years, my husband is still wondering why I do this! We're having a new baby in October, and our twins will be 2 1/2, and more than likely still in diapers! He doesn't really have any issues changing, but he's never really been "on board."
- February 13, 2010 at 8:26 AM


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Former East Carolina men's golf coach Howell 'Hal' Morrison lost his fight against cancer and passed away at Pitt County Memorial Hospital on Saturday. He was 78.
Visitation will be held Wednesday, July 18, at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 3-5 p.m. A memorial service will be held for Coach Morrison in Johnson City, Tenn., later this month.
His wife, Brandi, and his son Mark and daughter Connie survive him; his other son Robert preceded him in death. Three stepchildren and six grandchildren also survive him.
Morrison came to ECU in 1986 and made an immediate impact on the program. His team won back-to-back Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) titles in his first two years, and then claimed five consecutive conference championships from 1990-94. His teams claimed 13 tournament titles during his nine years as head coach.
Morrison directed the Pirates into the NCAA East Regional Championships in 1991 and helped Mike Teague earn an at-large bid as an individual to the 1992 East Regional.
He coached four individual CAA champions: Francis Vaughan (1989), John Maginnes (1991), Jeff Craig (1992) and Josh Dickinson (1994).
A 1988 inductee into the Golf Coaches of America Hall of Fame, Morrison began his coaching career at East Tennessee State in 1955 where he stayed for 25 years. After the ETSU program entered Division I competition in 1969 he led the Buccaneers to six NCAA appearances and earned a sixth-place finish in 1975.
Morrison was named Ohio Valley Conference Coach-of-the-Year 10 times and directed the paths of 15 All-Americans, including J.C. Sneed.
Inducted into the ETSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1976, Morrison became the Buccaneers' first All-American in football during his senior season of 1953. He also excelled as an athlete playing both baseball and basketball.
Morrison came to ECU following a three-year stint at Methodist College in Fayetteville.

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What you need to know about Florida today
Demand for STEM workers up in Florida
Demand for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) employees in Florida was up 15.2 percent year over year in January. STEM jobs pay higher than average wages, so new demand for this type of work indicates growth in the quality of jobs being created. More from the Jacksonville Business Journal, the Orlando Business Journal and STEM Florida.
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Scott is preparing to give his third state of the state address on Tuesday, and while the major theme — jobs — will still be the same, Scott has undergone a transformation. He's cozying up to teachers instead of antagonizing them, he's learned the art of compromise with the Legislature and he's even cooperating with the federal government to put the president's health care plan into place. More from the AP and the Times/Herald.
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Head's up if you own a business in Florida: bogus bills have been sent out in the mail recently that you don't need to pay. The letter that Cape Coral attorney Eric Feichthaler got in the mail Saturday looks legit. It's from a company called Compliance Services out of Tallahassee. The letter says it's an 'annual minutes requirement statement' and asks you to send back a $125 dollar check. Read more from WFTX and Florida's Division of Corporations.
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As the Common Core State Standards get put in place Florida, a key concern remains over whether the state's schools can handle the load that new computerized tests will place on them. Senate Education Committee chairman John Legg has filed legislation that would give the schools some security that they won't be pushed ahead of their readiness. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]
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Bracken Moor
Alexi Kaye Campbell's new play at the Tricycle is a powerful drama delivered in a 'notably well-acted' production
Alexi Kaye Campbell certainly keeps you guessing. Bracken Moor, co-produced by the Tricycle and Shared Experience, is perhaps the strangest, and certainly the most compelling, of his plays so far in combining a J B Priestley northern domestic scenario with a ghostly touch of The Turn of the Screw and Blithe Spirit.
The year is 1937: pit closures in Yorkshire, economic downturn, the rise of Hitler and George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier are all referenced as the middle-aged Averys, Geoffrey and Vanessa, with their 22 year-old son Terence, visit the gloomy Yorkshire home (designed by Tom Piper, spookily lit by Oliver Fenwick) of old friends Harold and Elizabeth Pritchard.
As they do so, Harold's chief collier (Antony Byrne) is producing a last-ditch plan to save the jobs of 140 miners at Ramshaw Drift, where the latest American machinery is due to be installed. The fate of the mine, it turns out, is dramatically linked to the death of the Pritchards' son, Edgar, ten years ago, in a disused shaft on Bracken Moor.
Terence, quiveringly well played by Joseph Timms, is both the conscience of the play - expressing the Orwellian arguments about the machines taking over, and the erosion of working class life in the community - and the spiritual touchstone of loss and tragedy.
Daniel Flynn's four-square industrialist and land-owner Harold is having none of Terence's nonsense, while Elizabeth, played with accumulating fervour and disintegrating sanity by Helen Schlesinger, is taken right back to the brink of her loss.
Kaye Campbell doesn't flinch as he boils up the melodrama and lays it on thick with a raging thunderstorm, an hysterical housemaid (Natalie Gavin) feeling resistance on the other side of a bedroom door and Terence possessed of a Biblical rant and a pantheistic passion after the fateful visit to the disused mine.
This all rather takes the shine off a happy weekend reunion, and Simon Shepherd and Sarah Woodward - he's an antiques dealer used to the loveliness in things, she's a busy socialite with "plans" for Elizabeth - register their disappointment in no uncertain terms.
But the bizarre and, literally, haunting developments take a more unexpected turn when Elizabeth is jolted into a new realisation about her marriage: her life finished when her son died; and when she looks in the mirror, only her husband's face stares back at her.
Shared Experience has made a speciality of plays where the metaphysical, and the afterlife, fuse in the historic present. While Kaye Campbell's play is palpably written to this order, its central political and social message, and the power of Polly Teale's notably well-acted production, maintains a high and satisfying level of achievement.


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For visual dreamers and creative types, visual composition is sometimes the most effective way to convey an idea. Note Anytime is a note-taking and sketching app to help lay out those ideas, making room for creativity and information. Created by "smart-paper" developer MetaMoJi, Note Anytime costs $9.99 and is available for iOS and Windows 8.
For this app, users can either write with their fingers or type text on various types and sizes of paper, choose pen color and thickness and add photos and graphics. A great feature about this app is that Note Anytime treats Adobe PDF documents like a form and allows users to fill in the blank fields. Also, Notes can be posted on various social media outlets, exported to Dropbox or forwarded via email. Tutorials are included to help new users navigate its somewhat unconventional UI. This is an app that will ultimately benefit and help students and businesspeople stay organized.


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#31 Offense
#3 Defense
And I'm not sure how to rank ST, but we're 25th in punting average, 25th in punt return average against us, 26th in punt returns, and 1st in KO returns against us thanks to the only kick being returned for -1 and a safety. Add in the penalties and we're probably average out close to being just as bad on ST as offense..
If we can make a small improvement on O and ST, we should be fine. The best part of hitting rock bottom is there's no where to go but up!!!!


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Good Work Agents!
From your reports it seems that "The Source" has led us to an incomprehensible file. In order to extrapolate any intelligence from this file, enter the location of it to the mainframe (http://mainframe.macheist.com) for analysis.
In the meantime have received another two more messages from "The Source". I couldn't make heads nor tails of it, but maybe one of you mavericks can figure it out. Here's the message:
The second enigmatic message came from a different point of origin, but was flagged because of it's similarity to another post-mission report.
Um das hier zu lösen ist dein Scharfsinn gefragt. Es ist eine knifflige Aufgabe… ein Paradoxon… ein Dilemma. Verwende die Walzen Drei, Eins und Zwei. Setze dann die Anfangspositionen auf M, I und A. Stelle schließlich das Steckerbrett so ein das O mit F, P mit Q, W mit S, E mit R und Z mit I tauscht. Viel Glück du Armleuchter…Finden die meisten verbindlich Simulator.
I have a sudden craving for schnitzel!
from Germany, Deutschland, Alemania
93 posts
basic translation:
use waltzes three, one and two. Then put the beginning positions to M, I and A. Then adjust the board so, that O exchanges with F, P with Q, W with S, E with R and Z with I.
The last phrase doesn't make any sense in German.
The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill.
from Norman, OK
50 posts
This is what I got from Google Translator.
"In order to solve this is your acumen asked. It is a tricky
Task ... a paradox ... a dilemma. Use the three rollers, one and
Two. Set the top positions at M, I and A. body
Finally, the plugboard so the O with F, P with Q, W and S, with E
R and Z with I exchanged. Good luck ... you candelabrum finding the most
authentic simulator."
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from Denial.
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There was a web site from one of the missions last year which was a simulation of the infamous Enigma device. It used rotors to encode letters into a coded message of formidable strength.
Now, where was the url for that? I don't remember...
EDIT: Actually, I remember that I think we were referred to this app, which is an Enigma simulator for OS X
Marathon Forever.
AppShelf: MacHeist 3 Loot
AppShelf: nanoBundle 1
Check Reciept Page for nanoBundle 2 AppShelf Files.
From the terms used (cylinders/"rings", "Steckerbrett") and the German, I'd say The Source is referring to the Enigma cypher machine. The last sentence is probably supposed to mean something like "use the most accurate simulator", since not all support the steckerbrett or changing cylinder order.
Trying to find one that will decrypt the chunk of text to something sane right now.
(Yay, first time I'm working on an ARG.)
. o O ( ORANGE! )
24 posts
Enigma simulator from last year: http://www.terrylong.org/
from Delaware, OH
47 posts
I'm lost...
Please visit www.familyradio.com for information concerning the END OF THE WORLD!
from Denial.
3,890 posts
Try the app here: http://www.xat.nl/enigma/
I think it's billed as being the most accurate simulator for the Mac.
Marathon Forever.
AppShelf: MacHeist 3 Loot
AppShelf: nanoBundle 1
Check Reciept Page for nanoBundle 2 AppShelf Files.
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guitardaddy, thats the maze right? the path spells that out...trying to figure out if that means anything.
The reference of the message spelled out in the maze is to the remote control in the photo: the sword of the television generation, i.e. move your mouse over the remote.
Why do people seem to think they have the right to not be offended?
from Sweden
219 posts
yes, this is not an eye trick either.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is tying it's shoes." - Mark Twain
from Sweden
219 posts
okay, i think this is a 3d image, need something to render it. check out truevision3d.com
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is tying it's shoes." - Mark Twain
from NC
29 posts
I posted the link to the image in the mainframe and now that blurry bluish/greenish file from the swords of television shows up there, but now i'm lost.
I got the same result. A quick look at the page source labels the div as "pieces" which means that probably each clue will lead to another piece of the problem.
A fool is one who does not understand the proportionate value of things.
Go BLUE!
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t ftp worm zapper the app get enigma txt
Enigma translation of source reads:
Out of interest, which simulator did you use at which settings? Couldn't for the heck of it get anything sensible out of the four I tried.
. o O ( ORANGE! )
from Los Angeles, CA
43 posts
That file links to wormzappertheapp. com /b5cabcde1533bd90d8551748bb583fba.tga
Go team orange!
Jake Mates Design
from Chicago
70 posts
entered the new text into the mainframe.macheist.com page and the image was added to the first one. looks like we're building up to something.
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I also got TFTPWORMZAPPERTHEAPPGETENIGMATXT. For reference, I used Terry Long's simulator from terrylong.org. In the preferences, I set the rotors to III, I, and I (but left the "ringstellung" on A for each, and the reflector as B. I set the wheels on the main board to M, I, and A. Then I brought up the Steckerbrett window and connected O to F, P to Q, and so on.
I'm trying to TFTP the enigma.txt file from "wormzappertheapp.com" but it's timing out. But I see others have already successfully retrieved the URL.
from Colorado Springs, CO
73 posts
Actually, to clarify sharky05- it isn't the exact same image. A similar pattern, different color. Wondering if these images will eventually connect? I'm new to Heists, so still trying to puzzle out how they work.
"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." ~Twain, Mark
I'm purple!
from NC
29 posts
after tftp-ing wormzappertheapp.com open the enigma.txt file and enter the link in the mainframe. You get another piece of the puzzle.
It's similar to the first, but different color and slightly different pattern.
A fool is one who does not understand the proportionate value of things.
Go BLUE!
from Bologna, Italy
47 posts
It seems a sort of puzzle, and we need 7 more pieces
ギアコモ ❦ http://www.jhack.it/blog
33 posts
Thanks for the website link... the tftp kept timing out on me. Boo.
from El Paso
103 posts
"In order to solve this is your acumen asked. It is a tricky task ... a paradox ... a dilemma. Use the three rollers, one and two. Set the top positions at M, I and A. body finally plugboard so the O with F, P with Q, W and S, E with R and Z with I exchanged. Good luck ... you candelabrum finding the most authentic simulator."
I mean, surely you've heard the expression 'don't count your chickens'? Well, APPLY IT!
▛▞▞▟ Proud Member of the BLUE Team™ ▙▚▚▜
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Translated the above code to:
adding spaces:
TFTP is Trivial File Transfer Protocol, a minimal implementation of FTP that is built into OSX that is used for file transfers (no directory listing or other niceties).
The last part of the translation is in the form of a command for TFTP that would retrieve a file "ENIGMA.TXT".
I don't know what worm zapper the app is (nothing on google) so I'm wondering if it's a server name.
I fired up terminal, launched TFTP and tried getting ENIGMA.TXT by connecting to wormzappertheapp.com with no luck. Tried both wormzappertheapp.macheist.com and just macheist.com with similar results.
I'm probably missing something obvious.
Any ideas?
from Dallas, Texas
5 posts
I'm confused... what am I suppose to be doing again?
from Fresh Blue State
27 posts
Markierte Drähte zeigen Verschlüsselungsschritte = "Marked wires encryption steps show"
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anyone got the enigma.txt file?
I tried but it said
"Transfer timed out."
3 posts
does anyone know anything about Secondlife...? i heard they have these things that change their shape when you use certain images... i looked it up... they are called "Sculpted Prims"
from Seattle
1 posts
Anyways, apparently I can't post the link, but the "enigma.txt" file contains the URL of the second colored image.
just change it to hxxp or something else or throw spaces in it. dawtcom, etc.
I am ALWAYS at full power.
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i am confused, nothing happens when i put anything in the mainframe


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The majority of the fish caught in the United States comes from the Bering Sea. Home to whales, seals, polar bears and underwater canyons teeming with life, the Bering Sea is one of our most productive ecosystems. Just like our national parks, we must protect ecosystems like the Bering Sea whose underwater canyons are larger than the Grand Canyon itself.
Fish depend on essential habitat for their survival. You have scientific evidence that fishing gear has destroyed the coral and sponge habitats in the Bering Sea Canyons. If destructive fishing practices continue in the Bering Sea Canyons we will lose more of the fragile and long-lived coral species that provide critical habitat in this vital ecosystem.
Besides providing deep-sea refuges and nursery areas for fish and marine life in the Bering Sea, Zhemchug and Pribilof Canyons are rare ocean features that fuel the Bering Sea food web through nutrient upwelling, seeding the Green Belt. Submarine canyons like these are found in only 4 percent of the world's oceans – and these are the largest anywhere. They are the "Grand Canyons" of the sea.
Protection of these unique canyons will play a critical role in sustaining our fisheries and will provide a buffer against the scientific uncertainty that is inherent in fishery science, and insure us against costly mistakes. Marine reserves are a powerful tool for ecosystem-based management and the conservation of ocean wildlife – they have consistently proven to increase the abundance, size, and diversity of fish.
We are not the first to ask you to conserve and protect these invaluable canyons. We urge you to act swiftly now to begin a process to identify measures to protect Zhemchug and Pribilof Canyons – a national treasure that belongs to all of us.
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Polar bears, fur seals, sea lions, walruses, whales and millions of sea birds make their home in the Bering Sea, and beneath the surface abundant life thrives in the Bering Sea Canyons– larger...
Polar bears, fur seals, sea lions, walruses, whales and millions of sea birds make their home in the Bering Sea, and beneath the surface abundant life thrives in the Bering Sea Canyons– larger than the Grand Canyon itself. The importance of this place reaches far beyond its borders as the majority of the fish caught in the United States come from the Bering Sea.
But this spectacular ecosystem is under attack and showing signs of collapse.
Large industrial fishing ships have already mined more than 150 billion pounds of fish from the Bering Sea — bulldozing over delicate deep sea corals and unique species of sponges in the process. The effect on the ecosystem has been devastating.
It's not too late to protect Alaska's Bering Sea. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is tasked with managing this national resource. We need protection for oceans worldwide, and we can start with protecting the health of the Bering Sea.
Greenpeace is leading a worldwide effort to set aside 40% of our oceans as marine reserves. A global network of ocean parks-like Yellowstones of the sea- will allow marine life to flourish and help restore the diversity that once characterized our waters.
Today, less than one percent of the world's oceans are set aside as marine reserves. If we don't do more to protect and manage our oceans they aren't going to survive. Nowhere is that more important than the Bering Sea and its amazing canyons.
Tell the NPFMC to protect the Bering Sea Canyons. We can't afford to lose them.


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Everybody does realize that Leake was the 5 last year....don't they?
Everybody does realize that Leake was the 5 last year....don't they?
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
Yea and he did just okay there. If that.
I was hoping even if chapman goes to the bullpen maybe he could be our innings eater. Relief pitcher. See how he does for 2-3-4 innings. He does well and continues to do well We have the option later in the season of starting him. That way it saves his innings. And gets him experience.
If Leake has another "off year" and Arroyo falls off from last year, then moving chapman to the pen will be second guessed for years to come. Jocketty needs to stick to his guns in this matter and not let opinions of Baker or Chapman dictate his decision.
Last edited by holster10; 03-21-2013 at 07:09 PM.
Ken Rosenthal is 100% dead-on about the situation. Dusty and Chapman both want him to close for mostly selfish, though different, reasons.
--Chapman doesn't want to put the time in to be a top starter when he's already a top closer.
--Baker doesn't have many years left and wants to win now, which he thinks he can do more quickly with Chapman in the pen.
The thing is, Chapman could very well be leaving a ton of money on the table. He'll top out in the low teens as a closer, when he could potentially be making $20+ as a starter.
Meanwhile, Chapman has the stuff to potentially develop into one of the premier starters in baseball. Maybe in the history of baseball. Too bad neither he nor the organization has the patience to find out.
You can't keep touting him as a starter every spring, only to move him to the pen when the season starts. I feel like this could be the last chance to make him a starter and the Reds are blowing it.
If true, this is an incredibly short-sighted decision. Chapman as a closer may make us better this year (I would actually debate that) which is clearly what Dusty wants. However, Walt and Bob need to look at this long term and realize that Chapman needs to be a starter to make this team the best it can be and get their money's worth. If he stays as a closer, that's a huge mistake for a team that hasn't made many recently.
in the end my opinion doesn't matter. here is the easiest way to look at this. at what point did chapman make a difference or matter in the postseason last year? the truth is he didn't make a difference or significant contribution. names that mattered from the postseason are bailey, arroyo and latos (the first game). common denominator? all are starting pitchers.
Last edited by holster10; 03-22-2013 at 09:55 AM.
I wouldnt wanna be in the front office making this decision...all spring ive been seeing articles about the Reds making a mistake by starting chapman (espn, BR, Yahoo, etc....even saw that one scout said its Joba Chamberlain 2.0) and the first thing i see on ESPN's page when this came out....the Reds are making a mistake moving him back to closing.....damned if they do, damned if they dont kinda thing....
one has to wonder what is going on and why the Reds are dragging their feet on this issue? something is definitely going on when I hear Baker, scouts, and media raving about Leake's performance this spring and yet he's getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
I think this team has planned for the future for several years with wise decisions being made along the way. We all know that a future is not guaranteed.
In my opinion, keeping Chapman in the bullpen is not a bad decision. If a bad decision was made, it was putting him there in the first place if they wanted to put him in the rotation in the future. Had they let him figure it out and had him starting all of last season, whether that be in AAA or with the Reds, they would know now without reservation if he was ready.
Back to the planning-for-the-future thought. The future is now. This team can win now. Chapman is a proven shutdown closer. Our bullpen from the 6th/7th innning on will dominate. Cueto, Latos, Bailey is a strong 1-3. Arroyo, Leake is not a bad 4-5. There are arms in the farm system that can develop.
I'm with Baker/Chapman form a thinking selfishly standpoint. It's been 23 years! I want Chapman doing what he's proven to be very good at doing. Is it short-sighted? Maybe. But 23 years has been long suffering.
agree. chapman is a great closer and looked awesome at times during the "regular" season but when did his performance matter in the postseason? It didn't.
His performance was critical in getting to the post season. Once you get there every series stands on it's own. Who could have predicted the Reds would lose Cueto? No one. Who could predict that the bats would've gone completely silent at the absolute wrong time? Roll of the dice. Who can accurately predict right now if Chapman would be a dominant starter? Few, if anyone. Who can verify if Chapman can be a dominant closer? Ask any manager, GM or batter he's faced.
Would I like Chapman to be a dominant ace? Absolutley. Right now he doesn't appear to be confident in that role and he seems to be as a closer.
Hey, it's all a roll of the dice anyway, right? I'm being a selfish fan...Ha. I want him where I know he's a beast.
nothing ventured. nothing gained.
If Angel Pagan doesn't step out of the box in the middle of Cueto's delivery, it's probably a different story.
I really hope Price and Baker have drilled it into his head to throw the damned ball the next time that happens, because with that delivery I can see it happening again.
And if Pagan does it again, he should get drilled.
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Mayor Michael Bell hopes Chinese investment will help revive his blue-collar city. He helped broker a deal to sell a chunk of Toledo's waterfront to Chinese investors. Host Michel Martin and Mayor Bell discuss investments with China and what he thinks President Obama and China President Xi Jinping can accomplish during their U.S. visit.


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ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading provider of pathway data mining & analysis solutions, today announced a license agreement with Entelos of Foster City, CA, a company specializing in predictive technologies, including toxicogenomics and PhysioLab(R) virtual human disease models. GeneGo will use Entelos' DrugMatrix(R) gene expression data to further develop GeneGo's Functional Descriptor predictive toxicology models.
"Access to a comprehensive, pharmacologically-diverse and fully annotated compendium of gene expression data is critical to developing high-performance predictive models," said Richard Brennan, Director of Toxicology at GeneGo. "This is one of the key goals of our MetaTox partnership. DrugMatrix is the largest toxicogenomic database available, and will allow us to apply the lessons we have learned from our participation in the Microarray Quality Control Consortium to expand our collection of biological pathway-based classifiers with toxicity models for a wide variety of adverse drug effects in key target tissues."
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The answer to the old musical question, "How much is that doggie in the window?" may be "more than before," come 2014.
The answer to the old musical question, "How much is that doggie in the window?" may be "more than before," come 2014.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution last week authorizing a study to look into the fee structure at the Department of Animal Care and Control.
Department officials requested the review through the county's Office of Management and Budget, said Scott Varner of the Office of Public Affairs for the commissioners.
"The Franklin County dog-license fees and shelter fees have not been reviewed for several years," Animal Care and Control Director Joe Rock said in a statement. "License and adoption fees were adjusted eight years ago in 2005. Boarding and impounding fees have not changed in the past 10 years.
"However, our costs to house, feed and care for all the dogs we impound each year continue to go up," he said. "That's why we have asked the Department of Management and Budget to do a cost analysis for us. Given our budgetary strains, this is the right time to evaluate these fees."
"It's been roughly eight years since we raised anything," Community Relations Director Susan M. Smith said in an interview.
The study will look at all fees for the department's various services, including adoption fees, impound charges, daily boarding costs and dog licensing, she said.
The analysis is to be concluded sometime in June, Smith said. Recommendations would be made to the board of commissioners at that time, followed by public hearings, she said.
"They're just kind of in the early stages of the process," she said.
If the fees are to be increased, the earliest the new charges could take effect under the Ohio Revised Code is 2014, she added.
The current adoption fee for a neutered or spayed dog is $117, which includes $12 for surgery, microchip implanting, collar and leash.
The fees for reclaiming an impounded dog are $18 for unaltered dogs, $6 for those that have been spayed or neutered.
The boarding fee for unaltered animals is $4.50 a day; it's $1.50 daily for altered dogs.
Dog licenses purchased within 30 days of obtaining the pet are $24 for unaltered animals, $12 for those that have been altered. After that time period, the cost goes up to $48 and $24, respectively.


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Online casino developer Net Entertainment has posted a 32.2 per cent increase in revenues and a 45.5 per cent increase in operating profit for the second quarter, driven by setup fees for new deployments and higher spending by players.
Net Entertainment said Friday that revenues for the second quarter climbed from €99.9m a year ago to €132.0m, with operating profit climbing from €27.2m to €39.6m on an improved operating margin of 30 per cent.
Profit after the tax for the period amounted to €36.7m, an increase of 46.2 per cent year-on-year, with earnings per share climbing from €0.64 a year ago to €0.93.
For the six month period ended June 30th, Net Entertainment's revenues amounted to €259.5m, a rise of 33 per cent, with operating profit and net profit up 49 per cent to €79.7m and €71.4m respectively.


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Jake "The Snake" Roberts appeared on In Your Head. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
What advice did he give to Steve Austin shortly before his career took off?
"Well, I knew that if they ever pushed him that he would wind up a babyface because again he was the same cut as I was as far as being a bad SOB and not doing stuff that was stupid. See, that's the thing that I drilled into him was don't go out there and do something that the fans will say, "Hey man that's BS", because if you do that you lose your credibility. Once you lose your credibility in the ring you might as well just be Joe Blow, and he never lost his credibility….That was the thing with Steve, I told Steve that when you do turn DON'T CHANGE WHO YOU ARE, because if you do you're a phony. One of the worst about that was Lex Luger…one week he was a badass, he'd walk to the ring snarling and giving everybody a rough look, and the next week he's a babyface and he's out giving high fives. You don't do that. Once you do that, you've told people you're a complete friggin' phony and you lose your credibility."
What was your biggest regret in your life or wrestling?
"Ever doing drugs the first time. Absolutely, because drugs are the biggest lie there ever was. You know, you start out doing them and it's all a good time and nobody's gettin' hurt and it's for fun. But then that monster turns on you and it becomes not only something you want to do, it's something you have to do. And that's when it sucks."
He also comments on working as a babyface for WWE, who else could perform the DDT well, which wrestler broke his sternum twice, whether any of his promos ever pre-scripted, and more. The interview is available here.


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The January 20th, 2012 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim including Angels continue to show interest in Francisco Cordero, Halos tried to sign Darvish when he was a teenager, a cautionary tale for Angel fans and much more…
The Story: The Angels continue to be linked to free agent reliever Francisco Cordero.
The Monkey Says: This rumor just won't go away, which troubles me deeply. I am convinced that Cordero is washed up. On the other hand, if no other teams show interest, at least they should be able to get Cordero for almost nothing, which makes his potential signing not all that bad. I'm just going to keep telling that to myself until I actually believe it.
The Story: Back when he was just a teenager, the Angels made him a lucrative offer to come to America.
The Monkey Says: As the article suggests, that was something of a no-no. It also is probably not as interesting as it sound because 29 other teams also probably tried to get him to skip the Japanese leagues.
The Story: A cautionary tale for Angel fans who have valuable collectibles.
The Monkey Says: See, this is why I keep all my Angels memorabilia in a storage locker that my wife doesn't know about. This is also why I am glad my wife doesn't read most of what I write on this blog. This might also be why I spend the weekend sleeping in the basement, should this be the rare occasion that my wife does read the blog.
The Story: Another day, another rotation ranking with the Angels coming in second.
The Monkey Says: Obviously, I have no real complaint about where the Halos rank. I cannot believe that the Rays aren't in the top five though, but at least he owns up to that omission.
The Story: It could be the end of the road for former Angel Vladimir Guerrero.
The Monkey Says: Sadly, it is probably time for Vlad to hang them up. He can't really play the field anymore and his power pretty much abandoned him last season. I kind of hope some team gives him a shot, but that is just because I hate to see a guy who was once as great as he was go out with a whimper like this.
The Story: Ranking the best and worst Angel uniforms of all-time.
The Monkey Says: Those early 1990's uniforms that were most underrated actually are pretty sweet when you look back on them. I think the only reason they are not remember more fondly is because they were the uniforms used in the Angels in the Outfield movie, making it kind of hard to take them seriously. The right call was made about the current uniforms being the best though. The red Angel uniforms are classy and timeless. I'd be perfectly fine if the Angels never, ever changed them again.
The Story: Nick Maronde checks in as the #6 prospect at Halos Heaven.
The Monkey Says: This is a huge relief for me because when Scotty and I did the MWAH/LAAI top prospect list, I was a little concerned about ranking Maronde #5. It just seems so high for a pitcher who was just drafted, but at least now other people are making the same bold statement about him, so we won't look so bad if this blows up in our face.


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Question: What types of exercises are best to prevent heart disease?
Answer: If you're thinking about preventing heart disease, the type of exercise is important. In general, aerobic exercise carries greater benefits than the isometric weight lifting type exercise, but both are good.
I, personally, recommend varying exercise. I like running, I like cycling, swimming is good, walking rapidly is good. So a varied type of exercise carries benefit, and I think that upper body as well as lower body exercise is good, so some of the aerobic exercises that you encounter in gyms will give you both upper body and lower body, and that's nice to do.
Some amount of weight lifting is not harmful, but it doesn't need to be a lot, and too much can be very difficult if you have high blood pressure, so primarily aerobic exercise, daily, look for opportunities to get at least half an hour of physical activity every day. Your heart will be better for it.
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@ZogG I can make those links work for you
Problem with indicators is I like the traffic light idea, but they are used for user status and message delivery status.
Maybe making them separate for user availability and message would be better. I'll try it now.
Edit: can someone make the original clock sending indicator?
Edit2: Here is the link to complete UI. It has my green dark theme bubbles, CepiPerez blue ones for light theme, Contacts selector, links are working, bubbles are resized (still a bit flimsy) and ZogG indicators for messages, also made squircle availabilty indicators.
Have fun.


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Between Mayor And Governor, Trace A Democratic Party Fault Line
Both New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are Democrats, but they've clashed on several issues. It may be evidence of a rift between populists and centrists within the Democratic Party.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel.
When it comes to the Democratic Party establishment, you can't get much more established than Andrew Cuomo. He is the second Cuomo to be governor of New York. He was once married to a Kennedy. But these days, Cuomo is sparring with the party's progressive wing personified by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Democrats all over are watching closely, as NPR's Joe Rose reports.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio swept into office this year with an unapologetically liberal agenda. At the top of the list: raising taxes to fund universal pre-kindergarten for all New York City kids. Here he is on MSNBC.
MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO: We have to get there. I propose a way to do it in a big, bold, consistent way.
ROSE: De Blasio wants to tax New Yorkers who earn more than half a million dollars a year to pay for his pre-K plan, but that idea is running into opposition in the state capitol. And the main obstacle, his fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO: We both want pre-K and the question was how do you pay for it.
ROSE: That was Cuomo on WNYC. Cuomo does not want to raise taxes on the wealthy. He plans to pay for universal pre-K out of the state's regular budget. In fact, Cuomo, who is running for reelection this year and may be planning a run for president, wants to see tax cuts instead.
CUOMO: Homeowners in the State of New York paid the highest property taxes in the United States of America in terms of absolute dollars, just what people pay.
ROSE: By all accounts, Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio our friends who known each other for 20 years. But their disagreements have flared up into a full-blown fight, complete with dueling press conferences, photo ops and rallies.
BLASIO: And we're going to bring it home for New York City, aren't we?
ROSE: Some see this as a preview of ideological debates that are looming inside the Democratic Party.
PETER BEINART: We are seeing a pendulum shift in which the terms our debate economically are shifting left.
ROSE: Peter Beinart teaches political science and journalism at the City University of New York. He says Cuomo is a moderate Democrat in the tradition of Bill Clinton, liberal on social issues but fiscally conservative. Beinart says progressive Democrats, like Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, are charting a different path.
BEINART: That it's both right and perhaps even politically smart for Democrats to be more open about redistributing wealth, given the changed political situation and the new realities of growing income inequality.
ROSE: There's evidence that rank-and-file Democrats may be receptive to this message. Gallup found that 23 percent of voters identified themselves as liberal in 2013, the highest number since the firm began measuring ideology more than 20 years ago. But among Democratic politicians, de Blasio and Warren look more like outliers. While the Republican Party has been steered to the right by the ascendance of the Tea Party, Democratic insiders insist the progressive wing doesn't wield that kind of power.
JEFF SHESOL: I don't see a schism in the Democratic Party. I see differences of opinion.
ROSE: Jeff Shesol is a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton. He thinks that what worked for a few Democrats in New York and Massachusetts, may not play so well in the rest of the country.
SHESOL: I'm not sure how instructive that is really for Democrats in red states or even in so-called purple states, like Colorado. I don't think that a Bill de Blasio strategy is going to be very helpful to a Mark Pryor in Arkansas, or any of the other red state Democratic senators who are facing tough elections.
ROSE: Shesol says Hillary Clinton, or whoever wins the Democratic nomination in 2016, would be well advised to run toward the middle.
Still, Peter Beinart thinks the progressive wing is already provoking debate about the direction of the party, which is likely to intensify as President Obama's second term winds down.
BEINART: You're going to see it on questions of civil liberties and national security. And I think you're going to see it on the question of how much you're willing to challenge Wall Street and corporations, to respond to economic inequality and poverty. So I think the Cuomo-de Blasio divide is something of a harbinger of things to come.
ROSE: As for the fight over universal pre-K in New York, the outlines of a deal are emerging that would fund universal pre-K without raising taxes. On its face that looks like a win for Governor Andrew Cuomo. But the state might not be having this debate at all without a push to the left from Bill de Blasio.
Joel Rose, NPR News, New York.
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Especially as this is going to be the thin end of the wedge. By putting a warning label on it and getting the population to accept that, it then legitimises their complaints and fears about computer games leading to restrictions and bans in the future.
Did you know that knives have been linked to murder? Next time you have a steak, you should perhaps just let your kids eat with their hands.
That's why our ancestor have invented chopsticks some 3000 years ago.
A quick [google.com] search [nih.gov] shows many articles on the subject. While I didn't read all of the, a quick look showed that many are observational, prompting the famous "causation != correlation" argument, but some are intervetional and show a causative link between video games and aggressive behavior.
What you'd need to show is that a "peaceful" population, when subject to "violent" video games, has a higher rate of people switching from "peaceful" to "violent" than a population that is not subject to "violent" video games.
Any reasonable study would need to eliminate the fact that people with violent tendencies already would probably choose to play a "violent" video game.
I personally fall into the camp that sees video games and other media not as a cause of violent behavior, but merely a catalyst: media
While I generally think the same as you (i.e. "...video games and other media not as a cause of violent behavior, but merely a catalyst"), some of the studies are not just correlational, but, like I mentioned in my OP, also experimental. For example [clark.edu]:
Two studies have examined the effect of video game violence on aggressive cognition. Calvert and Tan (1994) randomly assigned male and female undergraduates to a condition in which they either played or observed a violent virtual-reality game or to a no-game control condition. Postgame aggressive thoughts were assessed with a thought-listing procedure. Aggressive thoughts were highest for violent game players. Although this supports our GAAM* view of video game effects, we hesitate to claim strong support because it is possible that this effect resulted from the greater excitement or arousal engendered by playing the game, rather than the violent content of the game. More recently, Kirsh (1998) showed that 3rd- and 4th-grade children assigned to play a violent video game gave more hostile interpretations for a subsequent ambiguous provocation story than did children assigned to play a nonviolent game. This also supports GAAM.
* GAAM - General Affective Aggression Model
As I said earlier, it's easy to just continue on saying "correlation != causation", and other great-sounding slogans, but isn't it time we took a more level-headed look at the issue?
And no, I'm not part of the "thin
Experimental or not, it still doesn't explain why a large portion of video game players aren't actually violent. I mean, we're talking about correlation right now, correct? The group of people that become violent (or their violence is merely triggered) from playing a violent video game (or viewing violent media) appears to be abysmally small.
Not to mention that even if people start thinking violent thoughts because they played/viewed violent media, merely having violent thoughts isn't a reason to ban/censor
In another post I wrote:
Maybe if we took a random group of people, X percent will be violent. If we add video games, X+Y% will be violent. How large is this Y? I don't know, and I suspect it's not much (in comparison to X), but that doesn't mean Y is 0. Probably video games pushed those who have a borderline tendency towards violence, a bit over the border.
That seems, to me, a good explanation why only a subset of violent video game players become aggressive.
In your reply you shifted the argument from "do violent games promote aggressive behavior" to "why do they cause aggressive behavior and what is the magnitude of the phenomenon?". Those are important questions, and I agree with you that if the effect is small, there might not be a need for such drastic actions as TFA suggests. However, most people on this thread are still debating
And no, I'm not part of the "think of the children" group. I think parents should take care of their children, not the government. That doesn't mean parents shouldn't have all the relevant information at their disposal.
Why do you think that? I'm not illiberal but it seems to me that we need to enforce basic standards of parenting, and in fact we do, which is why there are laws against child neglect and abuse. So what I'm getting at is this; if these games are harmful to children, then parents who let their children play them clearly aren't doing their job.
some are intervetional and show a causative link between video games and aggressive behavior.
Let's accept that this is true, for sake of argument. Who is to say that the violence in the video games is the cause? I know that I personally can get aggressive shortly after playing a video game, but it's tied strongly to my sense of excitement or frustration. A violent video game where everything is a big joke (like Saints Row 2, for example), and almost nothing is terribly challenging or frustrating makes me feel far less aggressive than, say, a nonviolent game like Mario Kart. Competitive games in
Don't be a pedant. "there is a link" and "there is not a link" are considered opposites.
The poster did not say "inverse" or "reverse" or "opposite outcome".
Survey appreciated.
As I keep saying, if people just imitated what they see on the screen, then a chunk of those who grew up with PacMan would be popping pills in the dark to the sound of repetitive music... err... wait a minute
"Linked" is a very vague term. It does not imply causality. Of course, "aggressive" does not equal "criminal." So basically it is a warning that "Use of this product may be associated with behavior that is legal, but that some people don't approve of."
"The opposite" has not been shown in the kind of behavioral tests that this refers to. Of course, it is incontrovertible that as video games sales have increased, and as video game violence has become more realistic, the incidence of real-world violent crime h
Huge unemployment, wars still raging in Iraq/Afghanistan, debt at crippling levels, and people losing their homes at huge levels, great to see the important stuff like video games is being addressed.
Every time a politician brings this up, it just shows how out of touch (old?) they are. Hopefully this won't be too much of a problem in not too many years as people who grew up gaming end up in positions of power and see that it's just a pastime. Golfing/Tennis/few rounds at the bar. It's just so not worth spending any time over, and shows they probably shouldn't be holding any positions where their opinions matter if this is the best they can come up with on something todo.
I definitely agree....with so many other things that are important....including economic/social issues...this should be the least of everyone's worries.
wonder if this "joe" fella is influenced by
funny and ironic that his last name is phonetically similar to the Japanese word "" ("baka") which means stupid/idiot.....
I'm pretty sure in some native american dialect "Thompson" means "funny man in funny dress acts like a moron".
Congress can multitask.
Guess you slept through all of December, huh? There were a large number of members of Congress that refused to do anything until their single priority was dealt with.
Good luck with that.
The group of people that think video games are not just for children or that geeks are cool is a very limited one and the impression that it is a generally accepted feeling is an inaccuracy merely reinforced by our own ranks. Kind of like if you spend all your time swinging, you might start to think that swinging is something far more accepted by society than it really is, because -- of course -- you're around a subset that is into it all the time.
I remember a very specific incident with
Hmm, good points.
But even so, even if not gamers now, it's still been experienced far more than it used to be? People who used to play games when younger and then got bored, moved onto other stuff, didn't kill/maim anyone, isn't that also a valid argument that his type of stuff is pure bunk?
But I'd even argue that the amount of 'gamers' is bigger than people think. Maybe even themselves. Ok, they may not sit around and play WoW/CoD for 16 hours straight, but they might have a few sessions of Angry Birds
The Wii and iPhone games has already changed this. It is a matter of statistical fact that there are more female gamers now than male, and both sexes more games over 30 than under. It is only because the industri is so slow at adapting that you still see most games marketed at the old stereotypes.
Thank you!
This judgemental attitude is also specially true of anime, because our parents grew up on western cartoons, clearly aimed at juveniles, and they just do not know that there are more mature issues, lots of blood, killing, sex and all in today's anime because we wouldn't normally show it to them, and they ain't gonna see that on primetime TV. Anime is becoming a hit with kids in the US thanks to US networks' cementing it this past decade, and it will take very long before those kids realize that the
The group of people that think video games are not just for children or that geeks are cool is a very limited one and the impression that it is a generally accepted feeling is an inaccuracy merely reinforced by our own ranks. Kind of like if you spend all your time swinging, you might start to think that swinging is something far more accepted by society than it really is, because -- of course -- you're around a subset that is into it all the time.
On what are you basing this? Surely not personal experience.
I remember a very specific incident with a girl who is a good friend of mine.
While most gamers are adults and the average age of gamers is around 35 years old, most adults are not gamers.
Could you be more specific? Are you counting all adults? When you say "most" do you mean greater than 50%? What's a gamer exactly? What if a person plays Wii tennis? Do they not count?
If you're an adult - especially once you're out of your 20s, you are bordering on being a pathetic curiosity to the rest of the grown-ups around you, who see you as less responsible and less mature merely for what you spend your recreational time doing.
Maybe to the grownups around *you*. My boss perked up with interest when I talked about getting a Kinect, and he had been interested in a Wii a few years back. And I discover all the time that coworkers and clients are interested in games.
Imagine if you spent your childhood reading a lot of great books or maybe hiking and you said "I'll probably stop reading books and going on hikes when I'm 23".
And yet I can't he
So a new scare will come by.
See, the original scare of something that's turning children into delinquents was... comic books. Nowadays we'd probably laugh and say it causes at most keeping one's virginity, but in 1954 Fredric Wertham made a whole book out of and massaging dubious anecdotes and flawed logic into "proof" that kids imitate every all those antisocial acts from comic books. Some not even as much actually having anecdotes to show any link, but just reproducing gruesome comic-book panels out of co
This, in conjunction with the NASCAR rule (politicians must wear a suit with their corporate sponsors' logos on it)
Does he have shares in a games company
Actually, I have a political friend who has theorized the reason they keep going after video games is because there's not a strong video game lobby yet, and they want a piece of the industry's pie from lobbying. Sort of like a "You want us to stop going after video games? Lobby for it (with cash)" type of situation. I'd say that a dirty and corrupt motive, but given that we're talking about politicians... well, you know.
Honestly, politicians can introduce legislation all they want, doesn't mean it'll go anywhere. This guy's just flamebait. I'd be more concerned if the bill had like 20 or more co-sponsors. I'm not sure of the hurdles one has to jump through to get legislation to the floor but I doubt it's that many.
A large majority of the population at large, even people who would usually be considered 'normal', must be aggressive, then. There's few people that don't view violent material. But, then again, they're not aggressive or violent. Most of them are just 'normal' people, with very few who aren't. The average persons' mind is likely not so fragile as to be altered by mere entertainment, violent or not. If the average mind truly was that weak, society would likely have destroyed itself by now (well, there would
Many aspects of society are built around violence and aggression - especially sports. Sports is basically the main outlet that most people had up until recently to get this natural aggression out of their system. Knute Rockne (who won "one for the gipper") recognized this in the 20's as the Notre Dame football coach when people wanted to crack down on football and violent sports. I saw the film Knute Rockne, All American recently and was struck by this point in the film and its similarity to today's attitud
This guy's goin' from country to country to try and make the warnings on the packs BIGGA!! He wants to make the whole front of the pack the warning. It doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes CALLED warnings, we'd still buy 'em. You could have a black pack with a skull and crossbones, called TUMORS and smokers would be lined up around the block to buy 'em.
Fine. Put a warning on the games. It lets me know which ones are the good shit.
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Excessive warning labels may lead to a distrust of warning labels.
Excessive exposure to violent video games labels and other violent media labels has been linked to aggressive behaviour like impulsive buying of violent video games and other media.
WARNING: Excessive exposure to life has been linked to death.
I saw a study recently that showed Fox News viewers held significantly more incorrect beliefs about recent news than viewers of other channels, and that this effect scaled with the amount of viewing. Very neatly showed a causal effect. If it had been about a food additive and brain damage, we'd already have people screaming about a ban. Perhaps there should be a mandate that Fox carry a disclaimer at every ad break: "Studies show that watching Fox News results in you believing things that aren't true." The research is just as solid and incontrovertable as the research on violent video games.
I can see it now, you have the kids that are non-agressive and withdrawn suddenly being encouraged to play violent video games in the hopes their increased agression will be better than having them be withdrawn. Considering how poorly many children are raised, I can see this being done by parents who hear about this and want more outgoing children.
I think violent/aggressive games are an outlet for the natural violent/aggressive behavior that everyone has (some more than others of course). In other words, if you give a kid who is violent and aggressive toward others in real life violent video games, by taking out their aggression in the game perhaps they'll show less of it in real life. Kind of like how football players fit a certain stereotype - they're outgoing and aggressive both on and off the field.
I don't have any studies to back it up, but it s
Frankly, I see nothing wrong with rating systems for games like they have for movies and I would even support warning labels too... IF there is actually corroborating evidence of what the label claims. Show us multiple independent peer reviewed and verified studies and then, yeah, label to your heart's content.
In the meantime, focus on your country's astronomical debt/deficit and maybe think about ending those useless wars of yours (drugs, terrorism, etc).
ESRB = rating system for games like they have in movies.
It already exists and is in wide use. In fact, it's quite effective.
I'm a progressive liberal minded person but dumb shit like this makes Democrats look like fucking out of touch assholes.
We dont need a label on a videogame. It's not cancer... get the fuck over it. GET TO WORK ON UNIVERSAL MEDICARE FOR ALL ASSHOLE.
Do any major game companies not support ESRB? ESRP ratings already list why they are rated whatever they are rated in fact its not just for teen and up titles. As for adding a warning that video games lead to aggression is absurd, participation in sports can "lead to aggression" should football helmets have the warning too. Driving on the highway has been shown to cause aggression in some people, perhaps we need the warning on cars as well. Hell politicians tend to piss me off more often than not...perh
Perhaps this law should also apply to books. Books containing violence, homosexual behavior, etc should have similar warning labels. For example, "The Catcher in the Rye" has been linked to two famous political assassins, so perhaps readers should be informed. And The Bible would be X-rated if there was a book rating system at all.
Now that I think about it, perhaps ideas should be rated and labeled too. Ideas can be a poison, leading to violence. But how can we label ideas? Do we need to label people?
I'm totally OK with this. Just so long as they post the same notice on the Bible/Torah/Qu'ran/Insert religious script here. After all, so many wars/acts of terrorism have been done based on the words in these books (or their interpretations).
Also all sports games. Fights break out, even at little league games. So we'd better put warnings there.
Or we could grow up and stop using such cowardly words as 'linked' - anyone can 'link' any two random things without any evidence. For cigarettes there were causal studies and medical evidence of the effects before the warning labels went on. We should hold everything to the same standards - either anecdotal crap will suffice and we can 'link' any two things we choose, or we can have research done by psychologists/sociologist and actually prove things before we do this crap.
"Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior."
Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to reduced passive behavior and a greater likelihood of standing up for yourself and the rights of yourself and others.
E.g.: witnessing a terrorist act on an airplane has lead to a reduced likelihood of cowing to the demands of terrorists hijacking airplanes.
Wow, I read this, and it says nothing about actual content, only the rating that the ESRB gives a game. That means we're going to see violent video game warnings and labels on fucking GUITAR HERO and ROCK BAND games. What the fuck? Text of the bill:
To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(a) Regulation- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission shall promulgate regulations to require the warning label described in subsection (b) to be placed on the packaging of any video game that is rated T (Teen) or higher by the Electronics Software Ratings Board.
(b) Warning Label Content- The warning label required under a regulation issued under subsection (a) shall be placed in a clear and conspicuous location on the packaging of the applicable video game and shall state: `WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior.'.
(c) Video Game Defined- As used in this Act, the term `video game' means any product, whether distributed electronically or through a tangible device, consisting of data, programs, routines, instructions, applications, symbolic languages, or similar electronic information (collectively referred to as `software') that controls the operation of a computer or telecommunication device and that enables a user to interact with a computer controlled virtual environment for entertainment purposes.
Well, since the ESRB isn't a government organization, they could just remove the rating of "T" (or redefine it to be the highest rating) and make a new one to replace it..
Cars need giant warnings painted on the driver's side door about the dangers of driving. And there should be a huge penalty for painting over or removing the warning after you buy it. They kill a fuckload more people than "simulated violence" does.
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NTFS limits provoke scoffs, RAM purchases
Posted in Servers, 28th September 2010 12:41 GMT
Sysadmin blog Working with 60 million files pushes the boundaries of any storage. Windows underpins most of my storage and so the theoretical and practical limitations of NTFS and Distributed File System Replication (DFSR), and the difference between theoretical and practical limits on the number and size of files they handle, are important in my life.
The theoretical limit of NTFS is more than 4 billion files, but practical experience has taught me that beyond 4 million files on a single NTFS volume, the system starts to slow down. If you're low on RAM, you will notice performance degradation sooner, when you run out of room in RAM to cache the Master File Table (MFT). Pay attention to the size of your MFT: if you cannot fit your entire MFT into RAM, then accessing random files leads to increased access times.
The more files you have, the larger your MFT will be. Moreover, the more of those files you access on a regular basis, the more RAM you need to act as a cache. File fragmentation will also impact the size of your MFT. Heavily-fragmented files require more space to describe the locations in which files exist.
One million files broken into a (not unheard of) 4.5 million fragments equals 1Gb of MFT. The numbers I live by: for every million files on your server you should have a gigabyte of RAM plus at least 2Gb for the host operating system.
DFSR has completely different limitations. The maximum file size that it will replicate is 64Gb. It will replicate ten terabytes - but only handle eight million files per volume. In real life, after about 4 million files per replication set, DFSR also noticeably slows down. For any server running DFSR, you need the RAM as you have set aside using your MFT rule of thumb, plus half again. So for every million files you will have on your server running DFSR you need 1.5GB of RAM.
I have extracted these numbers from practical use, and your mileage may vary. I have a server with 60 million files, but less than a tenth of these files are accessed in any month. So, while I should have 96Gb of RAM to ensure optimal responsiveness, in day-to-day operations I squeak by with 8GB.
You notice the difference when the backups start running. Backups touch every file on the system. As the number of files increases, I am forced to add a more appropriate amount of RAM. The lag caused by the system being unable to load the MFT into RAM causes the backups to take longer than the after-hours backup period allows.
Breaking up my file storage into multiple partitions has also greatly increased the speed and responsiveness of this system. Neither NTFS nor DFSR like more than 4 million files per volume, and DFSR certainly won't replicate all 60 million files in a single replication group.
Of course, it is more complicated than the maths would suggest. Windows is capable of operating without loading the MFT into RAM. If you don't access a file frequently then there is no need for its record to be cached. Windows also caches frequently-used files in their entirety, while only caching the bits of the MFT that you actually use.
But I stick by my rule of thumb: one gig per million files, and one and a half for DFSR.


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SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A U.S. Senate committee approved funding to re-open the Thomson prison as a federal facility.
Sen. Dick Durbin is a member of the Appropriations Committee that approved $166 million Thursday to reactivate Thomson and two other prisons. The money will also buy 1,000 prison beds from private contractors and expand a program to reduce recidivism.
The state opened the northwestern Illinois prison in 2001 but never fully opened it because of budget problems. The federal government bought it for $165 million last fall.
Durbin and Rep. Cheri Bustos (BOO'-stohs) — both Illinois Democrats — say the plan is to spend $25 million in the fiscal year that ends in September for upgrades and renovation and $168 million next year for equipment and staffing.
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Dolores "Dorie" Mays, 72, of 23 Woodpile Drive, Westline, passed away Friday, March 23, 2012, at Hamot Medical Center in Erie. Born March 28, 1939, in DuBois, she was a daughter of Stanley and Mary Meholick Sunealitis. She was married to David Mays who preceded her in death.Surviving are three daughters, Christine (Daryl) Watson of Broomfield, Colo., Jessica (Vaughn Nystrom) Mays of Kane and Jolene (James Jr.) Hallock of Kushequa; two sons, David (Carol) Mays of Westline and Jeffrey Mays of Columbus, Ohio; four granddaughters, Allison Watson, Ashley Hallock, Samantha Stewart and Lindsey Mays; two grandsons, Nicholas Watson and Joshua Hallock; two great-granddaughters, Adrionna Peffer and Chesnea Stewart; two sisters, Nancy Royer of DuBois and Rosemarie Vaux; two brothers, Thomas Sunealitis of Lakeland, Fla. and Jerome Sunealitis of Brookville; a sister-in-law, Betty Sunealitis of Reynoldsville; and several nieces and nephews.Preceding her in death, besides her husband and parents, was a brother, Stanley "Sonny" Sunealitis.Dorie found true happiness in her family which she kept close to her heart through a large collection of photographs. The largest portion of her photographs includes her grandchildren who represent her finest work and greatest source of pride. She enjoyed living her life close to nature with a profound love of gardening and animals of all types. She will be honorably missed by her formidable adversary, the North American Black Bear, whom she victoriously stared down on various occasions as she ventured home from the Westline Inn where she served as a waitress for 45 years. Friends will be received at the Cummings Funeral Home, Inc. in Mt. Jewett 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today (Monday, March 26). A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Mt. Jewett with the Rev. Philip Pinczewski, pastor of St. Callistus Catholic Church, officiating. Burial will be at McKean Memorial Park.Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice.Online condolences can be expressed at www.cummingsfh.com.


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The Manchester boys' basketball team played the lone county game Friday, hosting North Miami. Putting eleven players in the scoring column the Squire depth was too much for the Warriors as Manchester cruised to a 70-39 home win.
North Miami would get their only lead of the night on the first shot of the game when Damon Gipson hit to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead. The North Miami lead was short lived when Chase Fierstos drained a three and was followed by a bucket from Claudell Dickantone to give the Squires a 5-2 lead. North Miami would hang with the Squires early as Alex Borse traded buckets with Braydon Sewell and Manchester led 10-8 when Fierstos banged home a three at the buzzer to give the Squires a 13-8 lead after one.
Borse and Colton Ferrand would score early in the second for North Miami and the Warriors were trailing just 15-12 when Claudell Dickantone went to work. Dickantone would hit three straight free throws and was followed by Lucas Schilling with a bucket before another Dickantone bucket finished a 7-0 run to put the Squires up 22-12. After a Keith Rouch bucket Dickantone's next two buckets would be from behind the arch to increase the lead to 28-15. Damon Gipson and Cameron Brandenburg would trade buckets and Manchester led 29-17 at the half.
Coming out of the locker room the Squires would erase any thoughts of a Warrior comeback. Clayton Petrie got things going with a three and was followed by Chase Fierstos draining a three and getting a bucket on an offensive rebound to boost the lead to 20 at 37-17. Keith Rouch would stop the Manchester run with a bucket before the Squires took off again. Claudell Dickantone and Clayton Petrie would trade back and forth for the next five buckets and were followed with buckets from David McAtee and Cameron Brandenburg to cap off a 15-0 run to open a commanding 52-19 lead. North Miami would out score Manchester 6-2 the last 1:26 as the Squires led 54-25 with a quarter to go.
Petrie again would start the quarter with a three as the Squires shuffled players in and out, with seven different players scoring in the quarter on their way to the 70-39 win. Keelan Norwood led the Squires in the quarter with 4 points.
Leading Manchester was Claudell Dickantone with 22 points. Clayton Petrie added 12, Chase Fierstos 11, Cameron Brandenburg 5, Braydon Sewell 4, David McAtee 4, Keelan Norwood 4, Phoenix Goad 2, Branden Scott 2, Lucas Schilling 2, Bailey Ness 2.
Keith Rouch led North Miami with 14 points. Alex Borse added 8, Evan Sumner 6, Damon Gipson 4, Dakota Ribble 4, Colton Ferrand 2, Jacob Stiver 1.
"Great team defense. Great team offense. It was a nice team effort on both sides of the ball," said Coach Thompson of his team.
Manchester won the junior varsity game 55-11.
Zach Hill and Bailey Ness led the Squires with 9 points each. Levi Hicks and Austin Brewer had 7 points each. David McAtee added 6, Matthew Pegg 5, Keelan Norwood 5, Braxtin Wilson 5, Janzin Cripe 2, Jake Schannep 2.
Jamison Slonaker led North Miami with 4 points. Shawndell Adaway added 3, Jeff Eckrote 2, Trevor Linn 1.


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1.03 patch and Survival mode, and today, because all of us here <3 all of
you over there sooo much for sticking with us all this time we have something
special for you!
Our resident media mogul, Xendrid, has whipped up another
sweet trailer for NMRiH, this time showcasing Flooded, Survival, and many more
new features! This is a trailer that is sure to make your heart flutter with
joy. Or maybe that's just the virus kicking in before you turn... Either way,
grab your shotgun, grab your Phalanx, and enjoy!
So here is a brief overview of a few of the new things
coming in 1.03, a full changelog will be included when the patch goes live.
1.03 at a glance:
New Gamemode: Survival
- A unique twist on the traditional wave-after-wave style of gameplay, with a little dash of King of the Hill for good measure!
2 New weapons: Mossberg 500A & Woodman's Hatchet
- A traditional civilian & law enforcement shotgun, and a leathal one-handed skull-splitter
New Player Character: "Jive"
- Our resident character artist CrazyMatt decided to have a little fun, and made quite the flamboyant badass to add to the survivor roster
New Map: nms_flooded
- Vince has worked on this map a few times in the last year or so, going through many versions. The end result is a tight, stylish, and atmospheric nightmare perfect for Survival! This is our premiere map to show off the core premise of the mode
Rerecorded Player Voice Commands
- The heart of a lion and the voice of an angel, our beloved Cleric has re-recorded the survivor voice commands with some real oomph and power. All that's missing is a little Fus Ro Dah!
Re-balanced weapon damages: based on player feedback
- You spoke, we listened. Maybe we didn't listen that well, but that's for you to tell us! We've re-balanced many melee weapons and firearms, but even after 1.03 goes live, we still want your feedback to help improve even more!
One-handed Melee: What to do with that free hand?
- How about holding to a flashlight while you swing that lead pipe around like a madman? That'd be pretty handy, wouldn't it?


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Who wants to be a grownup? Yeah, me neither. Just because you're not ten anymore doesn't mean you have to leave all your favorite toys behind. Today I'm showing you how to incorporate Legos into your look. It's kind of ridiculous, but that's kind of the point. It's difficult to take anything too seriously when you're wearing actual Legos, so you're just bound to have a good day.


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Trey Sumler finished with a game-high 26 points, including the game-winning jumper with 2 seconds left to rally Western Carolina past Wofford 57-56 Monday night.
Sumler went 4 of 7 from behind the arc, grabbed a team-high eight rebounds and recorded three steals for Western Carolina (10-15, 7-6 Southern Conference).
Down 50-43 with 7 minutes remaining, Tawaski King's jumper capped a 7-0 run for Western Carolina, tying the game at 50-all with 2:25 to play.
After Sumler's 3-pointer with less than 2 minutes to play put the Catamounts ahead 53-52, Karl Cochran answered with a jumper to put Wofford on top 54-53 with 59 seconds remaining.
Sumler responded with a layup to go on top 55-54 but Spencer Collins' jumper put Wofford ahead 56-55 with just 16 ticks left.
Sumler converted the game-winner on the Catamounts' ensuing possession.
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Montreal Canadiens general manager/head coach Bob Gainey confirmed today after his team practiced in Boston that defenseman Andrei Markov, out with an undisclosed injury, skated for the second straight day back in Montreal.
However, Gainey said Markov is "out" for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series between the Boston Bruins and the Habs scheduled for Saturday night at TD Banknorth Garden.
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Seascape, Japan, 1964, printed 1968
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28.5 x 43.2 cm (image); 51.8 x 58 cm (paper)
Inscribed verso: ".."; inscribed verso: "JAPANESE LANDSCAPE, 1964 [in a box]"; inscribed verso; "P364 [in a circle]"; inscribed verso: "Platinum-iridium / Print made 1968"; stamped verso; "Deacidified"; stamped and inscribed verso: "In addition to 10 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 3 may exist."; stamped and inscribed verso: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1964 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner"; signed and stamped verso: "Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer."
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Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "Irving Penn, A Career in Photography," November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)
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Nottinghamshire County Council say that new anti-fraud initiatives are helping to protect valuable public funds for use on frontline services.
'Protecting the Public Purse' is the Audit Commission's annual review of the county council's performance in detecting and preventing fraud.
The latest report, covering 2012/13, showed that three cases of fraud had been detected at Nottinghamshire County Council during the year, with a valuation of £10,900 - which represents just 0.002 per cent of the Council's £500M annual net budget.
Nottinghamshire County Council follows National Fraud Initiative guidelines when investigating potential fraud, including sharing information with other public bodies about an individual or organisation when appropriate.
Coun Keith Walker, chairman of the audit committee at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: "The County Council takes a zero-tolerance approach to fraud. All suspected fraudulent activity is investigated and action is taken to recover any public money lost - either directly or through the courts.
"There will always be a tiny minority of people who try to cheat the system, so it is essential we have rigorous systems in place to detect it and clamp down on it early.
"This is not a victimless crime. When people do cheat money from the public purse we are all potential victims, because it compromises the Council's ability to provide vital services to the public.
"With the financial constraints on local authorities getting tougher all the time, the need to tackle fraud and make our resources go further is more important than ever."
Nottinghamshire County Council would like to hear from anyone who suspects fraudulent activity is taking place affecting council services. This could include false claims for compensation, bogus businesses and misleading applications for social care support or school places.
If you suspect any individual or business of fraud, contact Nottinghamshire County Council's Internal Audit team on 0115 977 2226.