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The 10 counties in central West Alabama accounted for more than one out of every 10 state highway traffic fatalities in 2012. Preliminary figures for 2012 indicate that 514 people died in state highway accidents investigated by state troopers in 2012.
The 10 counties in central West Alabama accounted for more than one out of every 10 state highway traffic fatalities in 2012.
Preliminary figures for 2012 released last week by the Alabama Department of Transportation and the Alabama Department of Public Safety indicate that 514 people died in state highway accidents investigated by state troopers in 2012. Fifty-six of those fatalities occurred in The Tuscaloosa News' 10-county coverage area.
State officials said that in 59 percent, or 251 of the statewide fatalities investigated by state troopers, the victims were not wearing seat belts.
State troopers investigate traffic wrecks that occur on Alabama's rural, state, U.S. and interstate highways. Wrecks in cities are handled by local police and are not included in the preliminary figures.
Data from crashes investigated by local law enforcement won't be compiled until later this year, so the total number of fatalities, including the percentage not wearing seat belts is expected to climb even higher, state officials said.
The data on counties did not indicate if seat belts were worn.
In West Alabama, Tuscaloosa County had the most trooper-investigated fatalities with 24. Pickens County had seven fatalities followed by Marengo and Perry counties, both with six. Greene County had four; Bibb and Lamar counties both had three; and Fayette and Sumter counties both had one.
Preliminary state traffic crash data from January of this year, showed 36 people killed in traffic accidents investigated by state troopers. Of those, 29 victims were in vehicles where seat belts were available and 17 of them were not wearing seat belts, state officials
Over the past five years, an average of 60 percent of the victims of trooper-investigated fatalities in Alabama were not wearing seat belts, officials said.
"Too many people continue to die in crashes because they are not wearing seat belts," said a statement from John Cooper, state transportation director. "It's a proven fact that buckling up every time we get behind the wheel or ride as a passenger helps save lives. Buckling up in the front seat as well as the back seat can help improve your chances of surviving a crash."
Alabama law requires front-seat passengers and children between the ages of 6 and 15 to wear seat belts.
Children younger than 6 must be properly restrained in a federal motor vehicle safety standards-approved child safety seat.


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Seriously I dont know if this is too much to ask but can we please shut down registration? The amount of cardinal fan trolls has increased such massive amounts that for every 1 post from a Reds fan there seems to be 2 blatant trolling post in response.
I enjoy posting here. I enjoy not seeing eye to eye with random Red fans on issues involving the team, but when it comes to guys spamming new accounts and just trolling and derailing every thread or creating accounts to trying to troll as "Reds fans".
It's totally pointless for anyone to post in the Sun Deck right now. There is no discussion its trolling and derailing of every thread.
You guys please have to do something other than just banning people. I know you guys are trying but it's not working. There is a new troll every hour pissing every single good member you have in the Sun Deck off. I'm honestly pretty close to not even visiting the site due to this nonsense.

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April 28, 2006
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score | Photo Gallery
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Senior Ashley Linnenbank pitched a complete game, allowing nine hits and two earned runs in her final home start, as Yale topped Columbia 6-2 in the first game of an Ivy League doubleheader at Dewitt Family Field. Megan Enyeart had three hits, including her school-record 14th double of the season, and knocked in three runs for the Bulldogs. Columbia won the second game 5-2. The Lions scored three runs in the seventh inning to snap a 2-2 tie.
In the opener, Yale (28-20, 3-9 Ivy) had 12 hits, including two each from Christina Guerland, Katie Edwards and Meredith Parks.
The Bulldogs wasted little time getting on the board. Kyli Hanson led off the bottom of the first inning with a long home run to left field, her sixth of the season.
Yale added two more runs in the third. Guerland led off with a single to right and moved to second on Enyeart's infield single. Katie Edwards followed with an RBI double to left-centerfield, and Parks plated Enyeart with a single to center.
A two-out rally in the fourth resulted in two more runs. Guerland again got things started with a single. Aracelis Torres then doubled, and Enyeart followed with a two-run single.
Columbia (22-23-1, 4-6 Ivy) scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, but Enyeart's record-breaking double in sixth knocked in the final run of the game. Enyeart broke the record held set by Kristen Maturo in 1998.
Linnenbank struck out two and walked two to earn her fifth win of the season.
In the second game, Columbia scored twice in the second inning to grab the early lead.
Yale was held without a hit for the first four innings by Maiya Chard-Yaron. Parks broke up the no-hitter with a one-out single in the fifth.
Columbia threatened to add to its lead in the sixth, but centerfielder Kate Meserve threw out Lacie Nelson trying to score from second on Chard-Yaron's single to end the inning.
The momentum from Meserve's defensive play carried over into the bottom of the sixth inning when the Bulldogs scored twice to tie the score. With one out, Hanson walked. Guerland followed with an infield single. Both runners advanced on Torres's ground out. Enyeart was then intentionally walked to load the bases. The strategy backfired when Edwards delivered a two-run single to left. Edwards now has a team-high 30 RBI.
Nelson's two-run single in the top of the seventh capped the Lions three-run rally.
Courtney Blachford singled with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but Chard-Yaron retired the next hitter to end the game.
Senior Peggy Hunt, making her last start at home, pitched six innings for the Bulldogs but suffered the loss. She allowed only three earned runs.
Both Hunt and Linnenbank, this year's team captain, were honored in a pre-game ceremony.
The Bulldogs close out the season with a doubleheader at Brown on Saturday beginning at noon. A sweep would get Yale to the 30-win mark for only the fourth-time in the 28-year history of the program.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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A Word With My Teenaged Self
One of my friends posed this interesting question on Facebook the other day: If you could give your younger self two words of advice, what would they be? That got me thinking – because, baby, two words just wouldn't do it. I can think of a bunch of things I'd like to tell my teenage self – all good advice [...]Read more ›


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John F. "Jack" Cassidy of Cincinnati Bell is the first guest in the 2011 Distinguished Speaker Series
The series is presented by PNC Bank and hosted by Xavier"s Williams College of Business | January 7, 2011
John F. "Jack" Cassidy, President and CEO of Cincinnati Bell, Inc., is the first speaker in the Williams College of Business Distinguished Speakers Series for 2011. Cassidy is speaking at Xavier on Wednesday, Feb. 16, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Duff Banquet Hall located in Xavier's Cintas Center.
Cassidy's topic is "Discovering and Executing on Purpose." The series is presented by PNC Bank.
Xavier's Distinguished Speakers Series brings top-level business, academic and political leaders to campus to discuss world issues, introduce new ideas, generate discussion and further the educational mission of the Williams College of Business. Additionally, students, faculty, alumni and members of the business community have the opportunity to interact with the speaker at each event.
Attendance for this event is available only through table sponsorships of $2,000 each. Proceeds are used for student and faculty development. A limited number of single seats are available at $100 per seat. Registration is online only. The deadline for registrations is Feb. 2. For more information, please call 513-745-4272.
Ali Malekzadeh, dean of the Williams College of Business, said he's pleased to host Cassidy as a Distinguished Speaker.
"Jack Cassidy has a strong track record of entrepreneurship in leading Cincinnati Bell," he said. "He has transformed the company into a national leader in innovation in communication technology."
Cassidy oversees strategy and operations for a company that earns $1.3 billion a year in revenue. In 2008, Forbes magazine hailed him as "the most honest man in telecomm."
Outside the workplace, Cassidy spearheads a nationally-recognized tutoring program with Cincinnati's Taft Information Technology High School, which gives inner-city youth the education and training they need to be productive citizens. The effort was recently profiled on National Public Radio. Cassidy also serves on the boards of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Cincinnati Business Committee, the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Boomer Esiason Foundation.
Cassidy has been named "Cincinnatian of the Year" by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and "Man of the Year" by the Cincinnati Friars Club. This year, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Cincinnati's College of Business for his contributions to the university and the community.
Previous Distinguished Speakers include: Robert Castellini, chairman of Castellini Co. and Chief Executive Officer of the Cincinnati Reds, former Procter & Gamble President and CEO A.G. Lafley, E.W. Scripps President and CEO Kenneth Lowe, Ellyn McColgan, president of Fidelity Brokerage Company, Sara Mathew, president and COO of Dun & Bradstreet, and current Procter & Gamble president and CEO Bob McDonald.


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Way too much Howard, Harden for Blazers
A night after being embarrassed in a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, the Houston Rockets resolved things would be different Tuesday night at the Moda Center.
The game plan was simple. Work an inside-outside game with Dwight Howard and James Harden and play much better defense than in the 137-118 loss to the Clippers.
It worked to a "T." Howard and Harden combined for 62 points and the Rockets made it tough for the Trail Blazers at the other end in a 116-101 victory.
"We have to do that every night," said the 6-11 Howard, who made 10 of 13 shots from the field and 9 of 12 from the foul line in 38 brilliant minutes. "We had an inside-out attack that's tough for (opponents) to guard. When we have guys who are playing downhill --- James, Chandler (Parsons), Jeremy (Lin) -- and attacking the basket, it puts pressure on the defense. When we play inside-out like that, it make (the opponent) work."
The Rockets (4-1), playing their fourth game in five nights, shot .547 from the field, ruled the backboards 47-30 and won the points-in-the-paint battle 54-28.
"They're a good team," said Damian Lillard, who led Portland (2-2) with 22 points but was only 7 for 17 from the field and 4 for 7 from the line. "It was our job to make sure they had another night like (Monday) night, but a lot of the shots that didn't fall for them (Monday) night fell tonight."
Portland, which hadn't played since its 115-105 win over San Antonio here Saturday night, was sub-par in all three shooting departments, going .414 from the field, .323 from 3-point range and .655 from the foul line.
"We had a hard time getting shots to fall," said Lillard, who wound up with a mouse under his right eye courtesy of a Harden elbow. "When that happens, you have to do a better job defensively. (The Rockets) made some tough shots, but we also made some mistakes at times.
"It was just a bad rhythm night for us offensively, and we didn't play good enough defense to cover up for it."
Howard spent part of the night defending Aldridge, who finished 9 for 19 from the field and 3 for 5 from the line. The Blazers' All-Star forward had five rebounds in 36 minutes.
"LaMarcus came into the game shooting 53 percent," Howard said. "A lot of jump shots. I tried to do anything I could to make them tough shots. He hit some. That's what we were expecting.
"We have to clean up some of the pick-and-rolls, but we did a pretty good job with him and Lillard. Those guys are two terrific scorers. It was good to hold them down a little bit. When I came here last year (with the Lakers), Lillard had a big game. We did a great job controlling him tonight."
Portland had more trouble on the defensive end with the Rockets.
"They're a talented team," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "Give them credit for the way they played. Harden made tough shots and Howard finished around the basket and made his free throws.
"They're the type of team that puts points up quickly. We did a decent job of staying within striking distance. On a night we didn't shoot the ball well, it was difficult to catch them. We could never quite get over the hump."
Houston is on the short list of championship contenders this season primarily due to the presence of Howard and Harden.
"Dwight might be the best center, and without Kobe (Bryant), James is the best shooting guard in the league right now," said Portland's Nicolas Batum, who had 13 points, three rebounds, four assists and three steals in 37 minutes.
"They might be the best twosome on any team in the league," said the Blazers' Wesley Matthews, who scored 19 points.
Portland led by nine points early and held a 31-30 lead after one quarter. The Blazers trailed 55-50 at the half, then scored two points on 1-for-10 shooting in the first six minutes of the third quarter to fall behind 70-52. They fought back to within five points with eight minutes left, but could get no closer.
"We passed up a lot of shots in the third quarter," Matthews said. "Maybe we were a little too unselfish. Plays were made and we're supposed to shoot it. I know I turned down some. And we didn't make many stops at the other end."
The offense wasn't good, but defense is where the Blazers will focus after Tuesday's game, particularly in the interior.
"We defended the '3' pretty well (Houston was 6 for 22), but we have to do a better job protecting the rim," Stotts said.
"That's a good team, but we didn't play a good game, especially on defense," Batum said. "We have to correct some things."
"We have to take it more personal," Aldridge said. "We have to defend the pick-and-roll better. We have to be there earlier.
"We came back and made it a game, but there are no moral victories. Tonight was one of those games we didn't play well offensively, so we have to be better defensively. Our offense affected our defense tonight."
NOTES: Portland's next action is at home Friday night against Sacramento. Portland centers Robin Lopez and Meyers Leonard combined for six points and eight fouls in 32 minutes. The Blazers were without reserve center/forward Joel Freeland, who aggravated a hip injury in Saturday's win over San Antonio. That moved Leonard, who had played one minute in Portland's first three games, into a spot in the rotation. Leonard had six points, making 2 of 3 from the field and 2 of 2 from the line, and two rebounds in 14 minutes. "He competed," Stotts said. Portland reserves Mo Williams (4 for 12, eight points, seven assists) and Dorell Wright (3 for 8, eight points) struggled with their shots. Wright sank his first two shots, both 3s late in the first quarter, then went 1 for 6 the rest of the way. Houston won the battle in fast-break points 19-6.


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Concord Law School was the first, fully on-line school...and it caters to working people--the average student age is 43 years old.
We spoke with a woman from the school's first graduating class about the ups and downs of this new option.
The views from Sandusky Sheldon's back deck are beautiful...but there's not law school in sight. The closest being three hours away in Sacramento. When she heard about Concord's program, she jumped at the opportunity.
"That became my life for the next four years," says Sheldon.
The school curriculum and lessons are entirely on-line, complete with video lectures that you can play and pause at your leisure. Also, there's chat rooms with your professors and other students and standard quizzes, essays and exams.
"It's exactly the same requirements as a brick and mortar school."
Sheldon completed the program in four years for a total price tag of thirty thousand dollars...a significant savings over traditional schools.
Upon graduating at the end of 2002, she passed the California bar on her first try and began working as a court-appointed attorney in juvenile dependency cases for both Plumas and Lassen counties.
Looking back on her student years, she appreciates the program's flexibility.
"You can do it at your own rate. You can take your time, you just can't fall behind."
But she acknowledges it's not for everyone.
"You spend a great deal of time alone."
Still, for her, it was the best--and only feasible option--that allowed her to achieve her dream.
"It expands peoples' possibilities. I think that's the best thing about it. It allows people to do things they never would have done."
Sandusky also said she hasn't felt any stigma for her on-line degree and that it's been widely accepted by her colleagues.


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Pfft - I'm certain there's at least four Python eggs out there for it.
I'm sure there's a CPAN module for that.
Emacs has had these functions for *years*
If only you could remember the keyboard commands to use them though...
...for coding in Perl.
They don't give you a Purple Heart for shooting yourself in the foot.
They don't give you a Purple Heart for shooting yourself in the foot.
When did it become popular to hate on Perl on Slashdot? I thought Slashdot itself was written in Perl.
Because all Slashdot is these days is bitching about which programming languages suck the most.
Indeed. But you should get a Purple Heart if the jihadists abducted you and forced you to write Perl scripts for them! We are talking about some major trauma here...
That sounds like hacking to me.
and then have no work done while they find a new guy? also the commanding officer has say over if they want to press changes.
There's a metal for those wounded in combat, and Perl cuts psyches deeply indeed.
There's More Than One Way To Die... ummm, in Iraq.
Problem is purple hearts are not awarded for self-inflicted injuries.
I think you might classify this alongside "jumping on a grenade".
There's a metal for those wounded in combat
Usually it's lead. Though it might be cold steel.
It's hard to understand because..
a) most people probably have little understanding of military awards outside of hollywood and might be forgiven for thinking they are all given for combat
b) most managers, whether in the military or not, seem woefully clueless about the impact of cumbersome poorly designed systems and the payback on well designed ones (or well designed hacks running on top of the poor system) So that someone even noticed he was more productive, didn't freak out because he did something different, didn't freak out because the different thing involved "programming" *AND* gave him a medal... seems pretty remarkable.
So that someone even noticed he was more productive, didn't freak out because he did something different, didn't freak out because the different thing involved "programming" *AND* gave him a medal... seems pretty remarkable.
Companies like ORACLE or SAP live of this increased productivity of their customer companies. Increasing productivity is one of the major reasons for use of computers in business.
Sounds like they should give a medal to the guy who gave this guy a medal!
Now if we could just get our common staff accountant to that level of efficiency we'd be getting somewhere.
If you have been in the service it's not hard to understand at all. I received an Aerial Achievement Medal during Desert Storm. Some of the things that I did was to write a DOS Batch file that backed up our flight plans (routing etc. was coordinated with other units to prevent midair collisions), fixed a glitch in the Mission Planning software (ANGPLAN forever!), and prepared more mission packages than I can count. This helped our unit earn a Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (we did not miss a single refueling) Everybody has to do their job for a unit to perform at peak level.
I received a CO's commendation for writing a website. Felt rather silly. But I had to write the damn thing in classic ASP so I guess you could say the award was hard-earned.
Anything that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of our forces deserves recognition.
The Commendation Medal was originally only a service ribbon and was first awarded by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard in 1943. An Army Commendation Ribbon followed in 1945, and in 1949, the Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Commendation ribbons were renamed the "Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant." By 1960, the Commendation Ribbons had been authorized as full medals and were subsequently referred to as Commendation Medals.
For valorous actions in direct contact with an enemy, but of a lesser degree than required for the award of the Bronze Star Medal, a Commendation Medal with "V" Device or Combat "V" (Navy/Marine) is awarded.
The Army Commendation Medal is awarded to American and foreign military personnel in the grade of O-6 and below who have performed noteworthy service in any capacity with the United States Army. Qualifying service for the award of the medal can be for distinctive meritorious achievement and service, acts of courage involving no voluntary risk of life, or sustained meritorious performance of duty. Approval of the award must be made by an officer in the grade of Colonel (O-6) or higher.
Commendation Medal [wikipedia.org]
I thought pretty much the same thing, people routinely get recognized for this kind of stuff. Though a Commendation medal is probably a bit much for what he did, I'd think it would have only have rated a Command letter or a Group or Force Commander letter at best.
But award inflation had already set in when I was in during the 80's, and despite several attempts no one has ever been able to even slow it down more than temporarily.
All I did was float around the Big Pond (East coast) in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club DURING the Vietnam era.
I don't know why you call it the big pond, it's smaller than the one on the other side.
Still, you were maintaining a state of preparedness & covering the other flank in case the Frogs, Limeys or Krauts got up to something.
I wrote a nice database system to track inventory cards and print out cards that were pretty much identical to the forms our S-4 used back in the late 80s in the Marine Corps. It was much better than the system they had used - which relied on removing old cards, and filling out, by hand, all new cards every time a piece of equipment was checked out or checked in. It helped alot with leakage... and worse, with equipment that was supposedly checked out, but had actually been checked in (and the Marine would then have to incur replacement cost).
There were other things I worked on, but this one had a significant impact on our effectiveness as a logistics unit.
Your OIC/SNOIC might have recommended you for a NAM, Meritorious Mast, or a Certificate of Commendation.. But as they were lacking a streamlined computer system to for the processing of those things in the 80's, it was lost in a stack of paperwork, when some Lance Corporal in S1 became a short timer. The big green weenie strikes again!
Yeah, I got a couple of those during my time in. I did a few things to improve productivity and spent a lot of time teaching people how to use PCs (The amazing, Tempest-certified Z-248! Running Enable!). I think I had performed over 200 one-on-one classes in the ~3 years I was at that particular unit.
Tweaked the EDL-based print spooler we ran to get print from Camp Lejeune so we could store more than 65,535 lines of print (hmmmm maybe it was 255 lines)... that made it possible for the "night shift" person t
One of the criteria is "meritorious service."
Writing - on his own - a set of scripts that save that much time for his unit? Should certainly qualify.
Sounds like someone who embodies the Three Virtues [threevirtues.com] of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. Well done!
I'm always amazed at what non-programmers are impressed by. Code up some major application, and... Why doesn't it have this feature? Why does it have that workflow? What kind of colorblind dyslexic idiot designed this UI? But whip up a simple script to automate some repetitive, routine task and you're a genius!
Everywhere. And that's where 'Murica is, damn it.
"I'm always amazed at what non-programmers are impressed by. "
Mostly this is because you have a narrow view of your work and don't consider the needs of the people for whom you are actually producing that work.
Years ago I was the IT guy for a local government budget office.
After I stopped the servers from crashing any spending an hour rebuilding every day, and fixed the backup system so it actually backed up data, I had plenty of free time.
Instead of hiding in my office looking busy while playing MUDS/Nethack I took the time to sit with individual users, and quietly
They spent most of the day comparing two columns of numbers (one from mainframe, one from SQL) for equality.
After a quick VBA prototype, they ended up with simple daily reports of where the numbers didn't match, saving about 40 hours a day between the 20 analysts.
The key thing many IT guys miss, is taking the time to fully understand what the users actually need/want; but instead jump to conclusions that everyone wants what a programmer wants.
Sounds like someone who embodies the Three Virtues [threevirtues.com] of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. Well done!
I'm always amazed at what non-programmers are impressed by. Code up some major application, and... Why doesn't it have this feature? Why does it have that workflow? What kind of colorblind dyslexic idiot designed this UI? But whip up a simple script to automate some repetitive, routine task and you're a genius!
It wasn't what he did but the results he achieved that earned him a medal. He saw a problem, applied a fix an made life easier for himself and his unit. Just because it was a relatively simple coding effort is immaterial.
In addition, what is simple to one person isn't to another; it all depends on one's experience.
I'm always amazed at what non-programmers are impressed by. Code up some major application, and... Why doesn't it have this feature? Why does it have that workflow? What kind of colorblind dyslexic idiot designed this UI? But whip up a simple script to automate some repetitive, routine task and you're a genius!
It suggests that one of these things solved a real problem that the users actually had, while the other solved problems that the developers thought the users ought to have.
A simple solution that does something useful, now, is worth 100 elegant applications that will totally revolutionise your work once they're finished... provided you completely re-arrange your practices to match the software.
I was too lazy for that
More useful things have been invented out of an express desire to be lazy than I can even count.
The realization of "WTF am I doing this by hand when I can write a script" sparks so many cool things.
If he streamlined his job and got better results I don't see why he shouldn't get recognition.
I'm sure the military hasn't introduced the Perl Star or anything, so I'm sure they've worked within existing stuff to say "damn, son, that's some fine work".
More useful things have been invented out of an express desire to be lazy than I can even count.
Not so much a "desire to be lazy", but more about pre-empting laziness.
Laziness is like entropy; it's gonna happen.
Tedious manual processes are inherently error-prone. If everyone is conscientious and on-the-ball, things generally work, albeit less efficiently than we'd like. But that's not sustainable in the long term... eventually, people get into a groove and start getting sloppy.
Designing, writing, testing, and rolling out (usually against the inertia of an existing process) a program isn't lazy. It maybe allows the programmer to be lazy later, but in the short term actually a lot more up-front work. It's just a shedload more interesting that the actual work it's replacing, which is usually the main motivation for doing it at all.
I'm not saying the man was 'lazy'. Not at all.
But every time I've found I need to write a script like this, I've attributed it to being too lazy to want to repeat the process.
A few years ago we automated something -- because we'd just spent a few hours doing it on one server, and would have to repeat the process for a bunch of other servers, and that wasn't something any of us wanted to do again since it was a huge sequence of manual steps.
It's more of an investment in long-term laziness to make the proble
I assure you, I mean lazy in a very complimentary way here.
Oh, I understand what you mean. But calling it "lazy" is... well, lazy.
Programmers are generally not lazy people. They're willing to work pretty hard at stuff that matters or that they care about. They just don't like to waste their time, nor do they like to do poor work.
Tedious manual error-prone processes that could be done more efficiently and correctly by making a machine to do it are exactly the sorts of jobs programmers don't like to do.
Oh, I understand what you mean. But calling it "lazy" is... well, lazy.
Bah, laziness is the mother of invention.
The wheel being the prime example. Instead of schlepping stuff around, let the wheel do some of the work.
And, since I saw this link elsewhere in this thread
I avoided the military and so got no medals.
I didn't get shot either, so on balance I consider that a win.
I avoided the military and so got no medals. I didn't get shot either, so on balance I consider that a win.
There should be a new medal for this, clearly. The Army Avoidance Cross we can call it. I'm writing my Congressman...
I think having one of those would be a republican presidential candidate requirement.
It's the duct tape of languages. It's for kludgey hacks, and if you see someone using it, you look down on them; but when YOU need it, it's a goddamn miracle
The next time someone asks "What good is Perl anymore?" or "Who actually uses Perl?" or "Why use Perl?" you can point them to this article. Perl is perfect for this type of quick development.
Kinda. But he could just as easily have written it as a VB Script. More easily, actually, since he was working on windows and ended up having to write Excel VBA for it later anyway.
This right here is why we should be teaching basic programming or scripting in middle school. Show young students how to automate simple tasks and they'll apply it to nearly every field that exists."
And far too many of them will think they know what they are doing and screw things up.
Meritorius medal for streamlining things w/ perl, and a dishonorable discharge for doing *anything* with Excel.
And before the accusations fly, my statement stands no matter what spreadsheet program you replace "Excel" with. They aren't database tools and shouldn't be used as such.
Hussain invaded Kuwait on Sunday, my unit called Monday night and we deployed Tuesday. You go with what you have and make it work. I did backups to floppy disks because that is all we had, the backups were critical, and it worked.
May I respectfully disagree, on behalf of all the dead GIs who "went with what they had," in their case being non-armored HUMMVs and worthless body armor.
Read "Paths of Glory" for an earlier instance of the same Charlie Foxtrot.
With rare exception, it's far better to postpone action until properly prepared than to follow blind orders. I suspect Sun Tzu would agree.
I think we were talking about two different things. When I wrote my comment I was referring to your comment about the use of Excel for database functions. I think you read way too much into the comment as I was not referring to the examples that you cite or the environment. In fact, for the two examples you cite in your latest post, we agree. The process used by the military for getting software applications is as convoluted and inefficient as the one used for building construction. Viven was talking a
Perl Traumatic Stress Disorder
My thanks to this young man for his sacrifice, from a fellow perl hacker who's spent 15 years in the trenches...
The hard working guy? He is quite willing to keep on doing his work the hard way,spending his own time and effort instead of the computer's time.
It's us lazy guys that say "this is stupid, the computer can do this part". Then we write the code and let the software do the hard work, instead of us.
... during Military Funeral Honors as Perl is Dead -- dying in the line of duty.
This is nothing, I once got a Navy Achievement Medal (one step down from a Commendation medal) for setting up a mail alias on my own domain for my reserve unit to use for group communications, and for installing and updating anti-virus software on the unit's laptops. It all literally took me half an hour to complete.
I got a NAM for coding in 1987, and my (regular, active duty) job was to actually code.
Remember before criticizing the US Army, it's considered the best in the world, largely because of quartermaster capabilities.
The really well-known medals like Victoria Cross / Congressional Medal are not awarded for merely doing your job, but there are medals for all sorts of things.
Simply being in a combat zone, regardless of the actual task one is doing, is more dangerous and requires more courage than anything most people will do in their entire life, and merits recognition of a certain degree.
It is not for me to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. -- The Earl of Birkenhead


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Meet the Sandy Hook Truthers
The people creating this insidious conspiracy need help, but they might be so evil that they are beyond all help and hope. The number of videos promoting this sick lie are growing every day, and they are mostly from people who hate our president.
Yes, there really are Newtown truthers.
But in the crazy world of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, this one may be the worst yet. (Maybe you've already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunman's family and the LIBOR banking scandal and a related theory about the Aurora shooting and the "Dark Knight Rises.") Most of the theories are really pieces of a larger meta-theory: that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, perhaps by the Obama administration, designed to stir demand for gun control.
In the latest angle, theorists think they have found "absolute proof" of a conspiracy to defraud the American people. "You reported in December that this little girl had been killed," a reader emailed Salon in response to a story. "She has been found, and photographed with President Obama."
The girl in question is Emilie Parker, a 6-year-old who was shot multiple times and killed at Sandy Hook. But for conspiracy theorists, the tears her family shed at her funeral, the moving eulogy from Utah's governor, and the entire shooting spree are fake. Welcome to the world where Sandy Hook didn't really happen.
There are dozens of websites, blog posts and YouTube videos extolling the Emilie Parker hoax theory. If you Google her name, the very first result is a post mocking her father for crying at a press conference after the shooting. One popular video, which already has 134,000 views, was made by the producers of a popular 9/11 Truther film. "Just as the movie 'Operation Terror' shows the 9/11 attacks were a made-for-TV event, so too were the mass shootings … There can be no doubt that Sandy Hook was a staged event," the narrator intones. He goes on to say that the adults who participated in the media coverage of the shootings "should be prosecuted as accessories after the fact in a mass murder" — i.e., the parents whose children were murdered in the massacre should be thrown in prison.


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In a wide-ranging speech Wednesday that focused on recent bipartisan Capitol Hill accomplishments for veterans, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., summoned the spirit of a past Republican president and five-star Army general to offer hope for the nation's unemployment problem.
She drew on Dwight D. Eisenhower's vision in the 1950s about how massive public-works projects, despite their high federal cost, were the building blocks of economic growth and national security.
"These were very difficult economic times," Pelosi told thousands of veterans gathered in Milwaukee for the 92nd American Legion National Convention. "And in spite of that bad economy, he made the decision to build the Interstate Highway System. But where would the money come from? You'd hear this all the time. The president said we are going forward because it is a national-security issue to have the American people connected by an Interstate Highway System. Not only that, it created an enormous amount of jobs. Just think where the country would be if it had not invested in that infrastructure at that time. It was a very courageous move by a very courageous president."
Today, as the nation grapples with continued high unemployment, particularly for veterans, Pelosi says Ike's strategy can be deployed again to rebuild America's aging infrastructure, put people back to work and strengthen the nation as a whole."All who serve our country in uniform know that some of the reasons for going to war can be addressed by having a stronger America here. We promised them a future worthy of their sacrifice. That future must provide economic opportunity for them and their families as they make it in America, build our infrastructure, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, clean up our air, and make us technologically No. 1. The connection between our returning vets, job opportunities, preserving our industrial base, strengthening that base, building the infrastructure of America ... is the path I believe we must work together so that everyone can make it in America."
During her 30-minute presentation, Pelosi touched on a number of recent legislative accomplishments fueled by American Legion initiatives and support, including:
- Passage and implementation of a GI Bill for the 21st Century. "With The American Legion at our side, just as (it was) for the creation of the original GI Bill, we passed the Post 9/11 GI Bill," Pelosi said. "Together, we have restored the promise of a full four-year scholarship for our Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and have made it transferable to their spouses and children. Educating our nation's veterans is a cost of war, and it's a promise we make to our troops."
- Passage of advance appropriations for VA health-care facilities to ensure timely budgets at the facility level. "Advance appropriations is now the law of the land," said Pelosi, who was applauded after acknowledging that advance appropriations was the Legion's highest legislative priority in 2009, the year it passed.
- Passage of the largest one-year increase in VA funding in history, "which means tens of thousands of new doctors and nurses, new Vet Centers and outpatient clinics, 300,000 modest-income veterans receiving VA health care for the very first time," she explained.
- House approval of legislation to end the so-called "disabled veterans tax" or restriction against concurrent receipt of VA disability compensation and DoD retirement pay, even though they are different payments for different reasons from different budgets. "We're going to keep the pressure on the Senate until it becomes the law of the land," Pelosi said.
- Increased health-care services for veterans who live far from VA facilities and quadrupling of the travel reimbursement for those who have long distances to drive for their VA care.
- Passage of over $13 billion in funding to handle an expected wave of VA claims after three new diseases were added to the list of those presumed to have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange defoliant during the Vietnam War.
Pelosi said The American Legion has worked alongside Congress and helped set priorities that led to most of the recent accomplishments. "Together, we have made more progress over the last four years for our veterans, military and families than has been made since the passage of the original GI Bill in 1944. I am especially proud that the vast majority of our accomplishments were done with overwhelming bipartisan support. There should be no division between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to supporting those who have worn our nation's uniform."
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Is that Meatloaf has significant input into some of the software that went into that space craft. Say what you want about his music (its shit) but the guy has made many important contributions to both the Linux kernel and also more academic code as this. The guy deserves more credit!
First Brian May, now Meatloaf?
Is astrophysics mandatory for classic rock legends? What's next? Will Robert Plant drop his Aleister Crowley obsession in favor of studying the Pioneer anomaly?
Will Robert Plant drop his Aleister Crowley obsession in favor of studying the Pioneer anomaly?
That would be quite the unexplained deviation of trajectory for Mr. Plant. Whether he is unmanned or not is up for debate. Has he been doing any ED ads yet?
Crowley did write:
We place no reliance
on Virgin or pigeon,
our method is science
our aim is religion
Is Meat Loaf really a kernel hacker?
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Meatloaf has contributed some driver code, I think it was the winmodems, under at least two different pseudonyms. Of course, "Meatloaf" is itself a pseudonym!
Care to elaborate with more details? It's very cool if true (not that I'm all that doubting. Stranger things have been true. Actress and pinup LeMar worked on developing acoustically guided torpedoes in WWII).
Being a high-tech field and competitive field, musicians are always in the need of the cutting edge. Quite a few musicians have either directly or indirectly contributed to kernel or application code, either through paying for development or getting right down and coding it themselves. The Meatloaf code may or may not have been actually coded by him, though that is how people like to say it.
The other high-tech artist's field is movie production, and they contribute code as well.
...rocks !
No doubt! I mean I though those Hayabusa Smart cars were cool, but this is Awesome!
... here the only thing I could think of is the Hayabusa sportbike hah
The more we can do without sending humans to do it in person, the faster exploration will progress.
The more we can do without sending humans to do it in person, the longer it will take before we colonize other planets.
In my opinion eploration by itself has very little value unless we use the knowledge we gain. If we don't intend to put more humans in space I don't really see any big reason to put more robots in space.
We need to know more before sending humans because if a colony of humans dies determining the hundred reasons that colonizing that spot is impossible then it's as though you were simply gambling lives for your own amusement.
Really, unless the exploring humans luck into somewhere they can take off their helmets and gloves and physically interact with the environment, they might as well be here watching it on TV.
Really, unless the exploring humans luck into somewhere they can take off their helmets and gloves and physically interact with the environment, they might as well be here watching it on TV.
Gotta disagree with you there. Given the choice of walking on the moon in helmet and gloves or watching a robot crawl across the moon on T.V., I'd much rather be in the helmet and gloves actually on the moon. Even HD and 5.1 surround sound can't capture all the experience of actually being there.
Given the choice of walking on the moon in helmet and gloves or watching a robot crawl across the moon on T.V., I'd much rather be in the helmet and gloves actually on the moon. Even HD and 5.1 surround sound can't capture all the experience of actually being there.
True, but you aren't going there unless you are an astronaut. The choice is between one manned mission, where you get to watch a couple of people walk around and do some experiments, or 5-10 unmanned missions which achieve a lot more.
If the unmanned missions can analyse potential colony sites and deploy some infrastructure, manned missions can follow and you may eventually have a chance to live in an offworld site.
Yes, we know not to use automated machines in our wars on other planets now.
People tend to confuse "using the knowledge we gain" with "sending humans quickly".
That was fine in terrestrial exploration when men and ships were throwaways. There is a silly emotional need to lead with flesh when the technology we (absolutely) require (anyway) for humans to exploit their environment is not mature. Remote-manned tech, be it distant-manned on Earth or closely-manned onsite, is still remote-manned.
We are sending humans for their own amusement, not because they are useful to the process. At
With the exception of colonization, which is (in my estimation) 50 years of dedicated research away, you're right.
Sounds cool... how long before we can start mining the stuff?
It would be neat to be able to start hijacking mineral and ice asteroids into LEO and start figuring out how to process the material from them so we don't have to spend so much resources launching mass up from the Earth. I'd say this is probably a pretty important first step in commercializing the space industry, beyond simply ferrying satellites or creating space hotels. Plus it's compartively low risk (other than getting attacked by astrologer
History is against you. The 10 years (1962-1972) of manned space exploration has never been matched by unmanned probes. Partly this is capabilities, partly this is politics, but the experiment has been tried and the results are against you.
***History is against you. The 10 years (1962-1972) of manned space exploration has never been matched by unmanned probes.***
With the notable exception of the return of lunar material during the Apollo program, most important research has been done with unmanned devices -- Viking, Spirit, Hubble etc. In a sane environment, what Skylab 1973-1974 would have established was that there was very little need or use for humans in space -- at least in the 20th Century and probably well into the 21st as well. Inst
Australia IS a bigger target. Probably easier to hit.
They also have extensive experience with rocks. [about.com]
and ducking re-entering spacecraft [nytimes.com]
Yeah, but most of it you wouldn't want to hit.
Do they have a 'Wildfire' installation in Australia to study any space microbes that might be on the rock?
Does this mean no Taco Bell target? I want a chance at free food!
They used the fly-fly machine to bring sky hard-things to the big blue room's floor!
with the destruction of Tokyo by a giant lizard or mecha.
...by a giant lizard or mecha.
Nope. By the Shrike.
Anyone catch the doomsday paragraph at the end FTFA:
''If we're on a collision course with an asteroid we need to know if they are rock-solid or if they are piles of rubble,'' he said. ''That will help us predict how best to deal with them.''
...how many sinister space asteroid scares have we had in the past decade claiming utter calamity on the earth? I''m not claiming conspiracy theory on this one (so stay in your caves, trolls!) but it'll be cool to see what kind of composition and materials are uncovered on that thing; because it would be good to know. It's nice to get good, "rock" solid evidence to back up a lot of theories and guessed accuracies of our solar system that are mostly data interpreted facts and not visual or tangible.
Was that quote in reference to THIS asteroid? If you'll pardon the paraphrasing, i.e., "If we're on a collision course with this asteroid...", vs. "This experiment is a valuable technology and skillset to have, so if we find some as-yet unfound asteroid in the future with which we are on a collision course, we may repeat this process to find out its composition..." ? I read it as the latter, but I'm hardly a yardstick for understanding.
Oh, physical rocks. I thought at first this was about Acid Mothers Temple, the other Japanese Space Rock.
What if the asteroid contains a dangerous life form? Don't these people watch any sci-fi movies?
People say WE are a dangerous life form. So far, so good. We could be doing a LOT worse.
That's fine, it's welcome to have a go on a planet covered by dangerous life forms.
First thing I thought of was Scoop. [imdb.com] And not that icky new version [imdb.com] either. Saw that and cringed. Give me my frickin' lasers in the central core.
Me too. i met paula kelly backstage after her LA performance in "dont bother me i cant cope" when the director of andromeda strain visited her to discuss her upcoming role. the director and producer took me and my dad out for drinks (i was 11), and the producer ordered me a horses neck. saw robert wises oscar, and watched a bad movie at his malibu beach mansion movie theatre ("public eye", from the 70's). andromeda strain rocks, and not just cause im a frickin insider.
You have just doubled your achievements! Your list now read:
1. Rotary Washing Line
2. First spacecraft to bring asteroid material to Earth
Wait.. It was Japanese. Sorry. I guess it's still the rotary washing line for now
Don't they also hold the record of most different horrible ways to die by nature?
Unless there beer is sterno, then no.
Being able to acquire materials from space will be required. You can't explore space in a vacuum. LoL. Obama... to little to late.
They've been wandering around there lately.
Last time I heard, the japanese had lost contact with the spacecraft when it was near the asteroid after MAYBE taking samples. They had given up and declared the mission a failure. I must've missed something here.
Yes, you missed a lot. They recovered it and are getting back, after a real "Perils of Pauline" type adventure.
Not likely [theage.com.au].
The pair pictured aren't farmers, they're erosion enthusiasts.
There have been *so* many technical problems with this mission, such as failure of reaction wheels, loss of the rover during deployment, damage to the solar cells by a flare, loss of attitude and communications due to a fuel leak, and so on. The mission timeline [wikipedia.org] reads like "And then this broke, and we managed to fix it. And then this, and we fixed that. And
The engineers and scientists that are running the mission deserve a lot of credit for keeping this thing going despite the problems (the contractors that built it, not as much
You are correct. No one knows if there is anything to be returned. I myself would bet for at least a few micrograms, which would be enough to do some real science.
Tenacity is right. Space probe engineers are the sort of individuals who could coax a car into starting with no gasoline. Or engine.
The point of this endeavor was to determine if this a true asteroid or a planet-bomb sent by the Gamilons in their attempt to kill us.
If it's just an asteroid, no harm, no foul. But if it's a planet bomb, then we need to get the Argo ready to take off and begin its long journey to Iscandar even though Queen Starsha sent us plans for the wave motion engine but couldn't send us plans for the Cosmo DNA device.
Of course, maybe the LHC is really the first stage in the production of the wave motion gun and all o
I thought this was going to be an article about J-Pop. I guess "Space Rock" isn't really coming back in Japan.
There is no actual guarantee that there is a sample in the chamber (as the pellets misfired).
It's a remarkable achievement to get it back; let's hope that there is something inside.
The innovation minister, Kim Carr, said the spacecraft will land within the 130,000 square kilometre Woomera Prohibited Area,
Man, we need an innovation minister too! Finally a minister role that I can sympathize with!
Anyone know if there's (going to be) a documentary movie of some sort? I'd call it "The Little Engine that Could". Oh wait...
it's quite sad and telling that the only use for research the Australian 'innovation minister' finds is how to destroy something.
in this light, I wonder what they have against 'scientific whale hunting' by the Japanese...
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein


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As I looked at the scores of text messages on my cell phone Sunday evening, one at the very top hit me like a ton of lead.
As I looked at the scores of text messages on my cell phone Sunday evening, one at the very top hit me like a ton of lead. I simply sat there staring at the words. What flashed across the screen read like a terrible joke.
I wish it had been a joke.
Last Saturday, on the final night of the 37th annual Indian National Finals Rodeo, saddle bronc rider J.D. Jones stood atop the chutes at the South Point Hotel & Casino resort in Las Vegas, Nev. living the dream of every cowboy. There he stood, a professional on the national stage in fourth place in the overall standings and a championship buckle within his sights.
Below him stood another supreme athlete: A bronc named "Meat Head." A successful ride aboard the Wilson Rodeo Company product could vault Jones even higher amongst the best riders in the nation.
As he climbed the gate and lowered himself into the saddle, Jones approached the ride the same way he approached life — with determination and without fear.
No one could have ever imagined what would happen next. With the nod of his cowboy hat, Jones and Meat Head left the chutes for the final time in their lives.
According to a rodeo spokeswoman, during the ride Jones fell from the horse. His boot slipped through a stirrup on the dismount, which entangled his foot in the rigging and left him dangling from the horse. In a moment of frenzy, Meat Head lost his balance during his escape attempt and toppled onto Jones, leaving both competitors severely injured.
Jones, 25, a Goodman native and 2005 Neosho High School graduate, passed away from his injuries that night at a nearby hospital. Meat Head, suffering from a broken pelvis and internal bleeding, was humanely euthanized.
In the blink of an eye, they were both gone.
Jones' death, which came in his first time competing at the national finals, marked the first time in the 37 years of the event that a rider has died.
For folks like myself that had the fortune of knowing J.D. personally, our lives are forever better for it. For those that never met the young man, I wish you could have. You truly missed out.
The first time I met J.D. Jones was in Ag class at Neosho High School. He probably snagged my attention whilst in the middle of telling one of his gut-busting jokes or something. Whatever the conversation was, he caught my attention and drew me in quickly. He was loud. There was absolutely no way to miss him.
J.D. was the life of any room. He was one of the funniest, most likeable people I've ever met. To be clear, I probably would never want to meet the person that needed more than five minutes to decide they liked J.D. It's an often-used cliché, but he really would do anything he could for you.
He had it all. He was smart, a natural comedian, caring, and (he would love me for saying this) a handsome fellow. But he also had another side. The side he showed when he climbed aboard Meat Head. He was smart enough to understand the risks, but brave enough to show no fear. When he put his game face on it was go-time and nothing would stop him.
It came as no surprise to me to learn how popular he'd become in the rodeo world. J.D. took the profession, and lots of hearts, by the reigns and formed a family amongst his peers. He made a name for himself in the process, too — just like he'd done years ago in Lance Massey's Ag room.
When the accident happened Saturday night the family he'd made in rodeo quickly sprang to his side. Donations were reportedly taken on the spot to support his family. The Indian Nation Finals Rodeo has also set up a fund for his family. Donations can be made to: J.D. Jones Fund P.O. Box 508, Browning, MT 59417.
Rodeo officials quickly released a statement that read, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of J.D. at this difficult time. J.D. was a favorite of the rodeo because of his passion and respect of the sport and he died doing something he loved."
Indeed, J.D. loved the rodeo. He loved riding broncs. He loved the camaraderie throughout the sport.
He loved. He was loved.
He's going to be greatly missed.
This statement was released through one of the many Facebook posts dedicated to his memory by a woman identifying herself as a family member, "Thank you all very much. J.D. was my nephew and on behalf of my family we appreciate the outpouring of love, respect and prayers."
J.D. Jones lived his life the same way it ended. Nothing could get in his way. As he climbed aboard that fateful ride in fourth place he did what he'd always do. He put his game face on and went out a winner.


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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The State Court Administrator is seeking comments regarding proposed Minnesota standards for professional and nonprofessional parenting time supervisors.
Minn. Stat. § 518.175, subd. 1a(b), states that "[t]he state court administrator, in consultation with representatives of parents and other interested persons, shall develop standards to be met by persons who are responsible for supervising parenting time. Either parent may challenge the appropriateness of an individual chosen by the court to supervise parenting time."
Proposed Minnesota Standards for Professional and Nonprofessional Parenting Time Supervisors (PDF)
All comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, April 15. Please send all comments and questions to Judy Nord at firstname.lastname@example.com or 105 Minnesota Judicial Center, 25 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN, 55155.


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EA is planning a demo for Dead Space 3 which is set to arrive next month.
"Xbox 360 getting it a week early..." [insert Tidus' laugh here] I never realized that they were giving the 60 dollars we pay each year back like this. It's good to know... /s
especially when PS+ members also get early access to demos and betas unlike the regular folk. sometimes paying for something has its perks.
Paying to play online and getting early access to a multiplatform game's demo is now the same as paying solely to get free games and other promotions each month... Good to know. And just so you know, you completely changed my mind regarding this travesty. Can't wait for "1 week exclusive game trailers" to appear on Live also.
The 1st one bored the hell out of me. I wonder will I ever finish it.(had it since 2009)
Why would you even come onto an article about a game you don't like? Perhaps for people, including me, really enjoyed both Dead Space games and we want to try out a demo of this one to make sure the coop and open aspects of Dead Space 3 don't pull it too far away from what we loved in the first two? I'm not a COD fan, but you don't see me going in COD articles saying that COD bores me. It does, but the input isn't needed. OT: I really REALLY want this game to be good, Dead Space has been a franchise favourite completely out of the blue this gen for me, to see the franchise kill itself by going all Resi 6 on us right at the end of the generation would make me a sad panda.
couldn't agree with you more, I'm a bit skeptical about this co-op thing but hopeful for the best since this isn't capcom developing the game.
It may not be Capcom, but it is EA... which isn't a whole lot better at this point in the generation. They started meh... but then released Dead Space, Dantes Inferno etc and got quite good, now the past few years they've went Online Pass mad and started merging all of their games into one boring cover based shooter genre. I want "Dead Space 3", not "Army Of Mass Effect in Space 3" with almost identical gameplay and mechanics across all 3 games. Seperate franchises should do different things and that's something don't seem to understand that atm with their love for the $$$ invloved with the Genero-3rd person shooter sales.
Ah, Issac, It's been a while.
Signed up for the early access!
cautiously optimistic, I saw what co-op did to Resident Evil...
"Issac, never mind the pile of dismembered limbs, go in there and check it out." I can't wait....
'sign up' for a demo? What's the catch?
Not getting it early if you don't?
Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit!
Of course it's not for PC....
PC version will still be the best looking version and best playable version, however don't expect a demo.
Consoles are over 5 years old so it's a bit pointless comparing, a bit like comparing PS3 to PS2 or Xbox to Xbox 360! Pointless and dull!!
couldnt care less about this game dead space franchise is well overrated.
Bring it.
Whatever they put up should have a solo and coop mode of the same demo, that's the proper way to give the demo justice.
I hope this puts my fear about the game to rest.
Nice! I signed up for it
i would play the demo to see if its like the first game
Look at this coward disagreer. Show yourself you little sh!t! Anyway I sure as hell will be playing this demo before/if I preorder the game to see how much they screwed up the series. Hope I'm wrong. Dead Space 1 & 2 were fantastic, but this? Very skeptical. Hate the idea of the weapon bench, were they just lazy and couldn't come up with cool designs of weapons themselves? It's rediculous, kinda takes the fun outta finding a new weapon and trying it out on some necros, instead you find...parts.
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Interior decorator, Latriece Brooks is going to show a clever way to hang groups of artwork, whether it be paintings, photos, or crafted items, and it's foolproof! Brooks owns Brooks Interior. Author and quilter, Meryl Ann Butler is going to demonstrate some clever time savers for quilting, and they are all based on her 90-minute quilt technique. Sandy Grossman-Morris is the owner and designer of Sandy Grossman-Morris Design, and she's going to show how her company uses a Giclee process to reproduce images on canvas, which results in one that is vivid in color and water resistant.
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CHICAGO -- Cesar Ramos and two relievers combined to five-hit the Chicago White Sox in a 4-0 win by the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.
Ramos (1-1) gave up all five hits over five innings in his first scoreless start of the season. He started in place of Matt Moore, who had Tommy John surgery on Tuesday.
James Loney had three hits for the Rays, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Ryan Hanigan hit a two-run double to give the Rays a 2-0 lead in the second after Loney singled and Logan Forsythe walked.
Loney's single extended the Rays' lead to 3-0 in the third. Wil Myers scored after he doubled.
White Sox starter John Danks (2-1) struggled with his command and a high pitch count. He allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings. He struck out four, walked four and threw a career-high 123 pitches.
The White Sox threatened in the fifth, loading the bases with a walk, a single and another walk. Jose Abreu grounded out against Ramos to end the inning. Abreu hit a walk-off grand slam in the White Sox's 9-6 victory over the Rays on Friday.
Danks exited in the sixth after allowing a two-out, RBI triple to Desmond Jennings that made it 4-0. Danks has walked 17 and struck out 18 in 31 innings this season.
Ramos departed after he allowed a leadoff single in the sixth inning in his sixth career start. He walked two but didn't record a strikeout. Ramos has started three games this season after making four relief appearances. He allowed one run in five innings against the New York Yankees in his previous start.
Rays manager Joe Maddon was ejected in the bottom of the eighth for his first ejection of the season. Home plate umpire Tim Timmons ejected Maddon after he appeared to protest Timmons' check swing call on leadoff batter Adam Eaton. Timmons called a ball after Eaton checked his swing on a 2-2 count. Eaton grounded out.
The White Sox were shutout for just the second time this season. They were averaging 5.58 runs per game, second in the majors entering Saturday.
NOTES: Before the game, the White Sox placed 3B Conor Gillaspie on the 15-day disabled list due to a left hand contusion, retroactive to Tuesday. Gillaspie is batting .302 with 12 RBIs in 16 games. He said he has been battling the injury for 2-3 weeks and hopes to swing a bat within 5-6 days. Marcus Semien started at third base. ... The White Sox added RHP Hector Noesi to the roster after they claimed him off waivers from the Texas Rangers on Friday. He was 0-1 with a 14.21 ERA in 6 1-3 innings with the Rangers and Seattle Mariners. He threw 1 1-3 scoreless innings Saturday. ... Rays RHP Grant Balfour stressed he was frustrated with himself and was not directing anger at White Sox DH Paul Konerko when they exchanged words after Balfour walked Konerko in the ninth inning Friday. "It was competitive stuff coming out," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "I think Paul might have been watching the Blackhawks game." ... RHP Scott Carroll will make his major league debut for the White Sox on Sunday. He is 3-1 with a 1.57 ERA for Triple-A Charlotte. LHP David Price (3-1, 4.04) will start for the Rays.


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"I was a commuter [student] to a school of over 10,000 students where I was involved in a campus ministry outreach group and on its leadership team. I thought for sure that was where God wanted me.
While attending a spring break mission trip, God very clearly revealed to me that [I] was not where I needed to be and that I needed to check out OCU. My parents had been encouraging me to do so because they saw God working when I did not. When I returned from the trip, I told them I wanted to visit.
As soon as my parents and I drove onto campus I felt such a peace about me. As cliché as it sounds, I felt as though I was at home. No one was around, but it could have been (and was) God who put that peace in my heart. I had never felt so sure of the decision.
I kept my decision to myself and a few weeks later told my parents this was where I needed to be. I got in contact with Admissions and they provided me with all and any information I needed to be admitted into the school. I attended a Registration Day and have not looked back since.
My favorite thing about OCU is the amazing amount of community and a family-like atmosphere. Nearly everybody knows everybody since it is a smaller school. The field in front of Moore [Hall] is still my favorite place on campus. I love being outside no matter the weather, but on warm, sunny days it is my absolute favorite. It's just a wide open field where I can sit and do my homework or watch my fellow peers play Ultimate Frisbee, Powder-puff Football, and many other games."
Notes to those considering transferring to OCU:
"I would love for you all to come to OCU so I can meet you! I have truly and sincerely never felt more peaceful and secure away from home than I do here. I have wonderful friends who honestly love me, will hold me accountable, and provide me with prayer when spiritual healing needs to occur. I would hope you strongly consider this school. As it has made a difference in my life, I hope you have the same experience."


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Friday, February 18, 2011
Russian babes or Russian babies?
The answer is not straight!
If you are a guy, in your wonder years, then choice 1.
If you are a girl/woman who is old school, or if you are a man who's settled, then choice 2.
Exceptions galore!
Check out any fashion week, all the babes would be Russian or from the nearby CIS countries.
Even today, walk in the streets and you would find much more than average looking ladies everywhere.
Be it a simple grocery purchase, they come decked up like its a party!
Not without reason, have they gained acclaim around the globe for their beauty.
Maybe its the tough and inclement weather conditions that give them the good looking build.
Christiano Ronaldo's current flame is a Russian supermodel, Irina Shayk.
Well, she's the quintessential 'Oh-My-God' babe.
Now have a look at the guy with her
As much as i dislike deviating from the topic, I cannot help but comment on this idiotic looking guy.
He is the quintessential 'oh-WTF' guy.
I have seen a few of his interviews, he doesn't even know how to speak what we call 'basic'.
He talks like the cheesy guys in the bar who ogle at women. He looks like that too.
Absolute 'no-class' guy.
So why is Irina with him?
Ah... show me the money, honey!
Plus the fame of being a footballer's WAG apart from being a supermodel!!
Now choice 2:
I have started noticing them quite a lot on my recent trips to Russia.
Have been touring this place for a long time, but more recently, these sugary cuties have started catching my eye!
On my last visit a couple of weeks back, a small baby boy, maybe about a year or a couple of months over, was at the security check in counter of the airport.
This guy had his shoe fitted on his left hand, it was a fur lined shoe.
He had put his hand in the shoe and was running all over the place with his hand held high... that was his airplane.
Suddenly he came near me and I too did the same thing, put my hand in my shoe!
He was taken aback... something struck him... he had competition, he stopped and started looking at me like a deer lost in the headlights.
I showed him my airplane and told him that it was bigger than his plane.
Obviously he did not understand, but now he wanted my airplane.
He gave me his shoe and started tugging at mine!
His mom came over... smiled and took away his 'airplane'.. said.. 'isvinite' (excuse me)...
I smiled.. and said that she had a very beautiful baby! :)
The joy on her face was something to behold.
Today, I again encountered 2 more such cute babies on my way back to India.
One at Ekaterinburg airport... this time it was an infant dressed in black.
He had stuffed cheeks that drooped like a fruit laden tree branch.
He barely knew how to walk, but the terminal was spacious and there were not many people.
So his mother allowed him to take a walk.
He did, and how!!
He wowed all the people around, because he walked a couple of steps to whoever was sitting nearby, went to them and just hugged their legs like he knew them forever.
Then he looked at them, made some gurgling noise and moved a few steps again.. then the next person.. hug hug.. that's all he did!
I was no exception... he was moving in a circle.. he came to me and did the same.
I picked him up. His mom, probably a little worried seeing a non-white guy came across, but then when she saw my smiling face and the comfort that the child was showing, she too smiled :)
It was a lovely moment.
Take-2, Moscow airport :
Here, the story went a little further.. a girl, all of 3 or 4 years.
But the same Russian cuteness overflowing...
She was in pink, pink cap, pink top, pink pajamas, pink shoes.
I was sipping my Pepsi diet, she was a couple of feet from me. I said : Hey, pink panther!
She smiled... then moved a couple of steps forward, turned back and gave me the smile which made my day.
Then again moved a few steps and turned back to see if I was still looking.
I was..
and she was happy!
Then she ran to her dad who brought the luggage stowed on a trolley.
She started speaking to him, but every few seconds turned to see if I was paying attention.
I was beginning to enjoy this!
Very few things in the world give you joy like playing with children.. it might be a game or something like this.. where there is eye contact and you just go wow!
She started to feel a little uncomfortable in the heavy coat that she was wearing.
Now, she told her dad to take it off.. but for some reason he wasn't willing to.
She turned again to see.. I was still looking, then she sat on a seat and started taking it off herself.
Once she was off with her coat and cap, for some strange reason, she wanted to put in on the trolley which her dad did not allow her to do because the luggage was a little dirty and her coat would get dirty as well.
Then he made her sit on a seat and went to get something.
She sat for a couple of minutes till he was out of sight, then she just looked around.
She put her cap in the hand luggage area of the trolley and covered it with a cloth so that her dad wouldn't see.
Then there were a couple of suitcases piled one over the other.
She wanted to stuff her coat in between them so that her dad doesn't notice.
But the suitcase was too heavy for her to move.
She looked at me like a child who had got lost in a mall :( .. eyes that said, "Please, help me".
I just went to her place and put the coat on the suitcase, sensing that her dad wont like it, she pointed at the place between the 2 suitcases and gestured at me to push it in between... I looked at her and smiled.
Taken in by her innocence, I just did what she said.
She was so happy, her face was now grinning!! End to end.
This is such a crazy and small thing... but it brought so much joy to both of us...
Then it was time for me to board.
I said.. 'dasvidaniya'.. she said..'svidaniya'
I waited to see if her dad was in sight.. I did not make it obvious, but I waited till he came over, then I left.
When I was leaving, I saw her again... she was so happy that her dad hadn't yet noticed the cap and the coat which were on the trolley.
These incidents made the end to my otherwise trying trip, fantabulous.
My vote : choice 2.
4 comments:
- Tina said...
Hmmmm....and i know y u have been noticing cute babies wherever u go.... ;-) ;-)
- February 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- Akshay said...
Oh you know everything sweetie!!
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EdTechTalk: Special
Our Special South by SouthWest Correspondent: arvind grover!
March 12, 2007
arvind is down at South by SouthWest and we're going to be checking in with him daily to get conference recaps. Here's the first installment.
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Editor-in-chief Jennifer Wright and I were having a conversation about some trivial bullshit and then, for whatever reason, the phrase "French kiss" was used. It seemed to occur to us simultaneously that we had not heard this phrase since middle school and the idea of the French kiss had not been provocative, titillating, or reputation-obliterating in about as long.
Back in the day, right around fifth or sixth grade, Jane French kissing John on the blacktop was a matter of enormous scandal. Here are some stories of our own awakening recognition of sexual activity: let TheGloss (and a few of our B5 buddies) transport you back in time when standards of decency were astronomically high and everyone was appalled by all this risky, slutty behavior.


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Submission + - Google is pushing back on law enforcement requests for access to Gmail accounts (arstechnica.com)
Virtucon writes: Ars technica has an interesting article on how Google is handling requests from law enforcement for access to Gmail accounts. With the recent Petraeus scandal where no criminal conduct was found, it seems that they're re-enforcing their policies and standing up for their users.
"In order to compel us to produce content in Gmail we require an ECPA search warrant," said Chris Gaither, Google spokesperson. "If they come for registration information, that's one thing, but if they ask for content of email that's another thing."


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NTSB Finds Leak in Gas Main at Harlem Blast Site
Federal investigators say a gas main leak has been discovered near the site of last week's deadly New York City building explosion but it has not been identified as the cause of the blast.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday the 8-inch main on Park Avenue failed a pressure test. It said the leak was found at normal operating pressure using a tracer gas.
The leak was adjacent to 1646 Park Avenue, one of the buildings leveled by the blast that killed eight people.
NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said the agency would not issue any findings about the cause of the explosion until much further along in its investigation.
Authorities have said the blast erupted about 15 minutes after someone from a neighboring building reported smelling gas.
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Mrs Timberlake: Oscar one colour
Mrs Timberlake wore Chanel Haute Couture, pretty much right off the runway. And since Chanel dresses so few people, it was certainly some kind of statement – she doesn't have to wear Cavalli. Fine. But if I were Karl Lagerfeld, I'd reconsider for next time. Because she managed to make Chanel totally unremarkable. And I'm pretty sure that's against the law somewhere. She is, as Duana would say, all one colour. There's nothing interesting about the accessories. The hair is a shrug. And the makeup is a mistake. At least give me a bold lip or something, you know? Going "all natural" in an embroidered dress at the Oscars seems totally incongruous.
And pairing her with Jamie Foxx? Not a genius move.
Here's a man with CHARISMA. Anyone else doing that Chariots Of Fire thing? Lame. But he sold it. He made you go with it. He asked you to let him entertain you, and when you agreed, you both had fun. Which only highlighted how Mrs Timberlake just …isn't. And she spent so much time in her own head trying to come up with something to match him, she couldn't just appreciate him, which would have been an easy, relatable response. Instead, she stood there, visibly indecisive and therefore embarrassingly awkward. It's what happens when you want so much to be something more than what you are.
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Before You Ask
Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following:
- Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
- Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
- Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
- Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have learned from doing these things. We like answering questions for people who have demonstrated they can learn from the answers.
Use tactics like doing a Google search on the text of whatever error message you get (searching Google groups as well as Web pages). This might well take you straight to fix documentation or a mailing list thread answering your question. Even if it doesn't, saying I googled on the following phrase but didn't get anything that looked promising is a good thing to include in e-mail or news postings requesting help.
Prepare your question. Think it through. Hasty-sounding questions get hasty answers, or none at all. The more you do to demonstrate that having put thought and effort into solving your problem before seeking help, the more likely you are to actually get help.
Make it clear that you are able and willing to help in the process of developing the solution is very good. Would someone provide a pointer?, What is my example missing?, and What site should I have checked? are more likely to get answered than Please post the exact procedure I should use. because you're making it clear that you're truly willing to complete the process if someone can just point you in the right direction.
Use meaningful, specific subject headers
The thread title is your golden opportunity to attract qualified experts' attention in around 50 characters or fewer. Don't waste it on babble like Please help me (let alone PLEASE HELP ME!!!!; messages with subjects like that get discarded by reflex). Don't try to impress us with the depth of your anguish; use the space for a super-concise problem description instead.
One good convention for subject headers, used by many tech support organizations, is object - deviation. The object part specifies what thing or group of things is having a problem, and the deviation part describes the deviation from expected behavior.
HELP! Screen flickers!
WinXP, Windows Media Player 10, some videos cause the screen to flicker
The process of writing an object-deviation description will help you organize your thinking about the problem in more detail. What is affected? Just the video window or other graphics too? Is this specific to Windows Media Player? To version 10? What kind of videos to cause the flicker? So helping people who see the result can immediately understand what it is that you are having a problem with and the problem you are having, at a glance.
More generally, imagine looking at the index of an archive of questions, with just the thread titles showing. Make your thread titles reflect your question well enough that the next guy searching the archive with a question similar to yours will be able to follow the thread to an answer rather than posting the question again.
Don't ask new questions in reply to a thread about another problem, because it will only be seen by those who are watching this thread. So, unless you are sure you want to ask only the people currently active in the thread, start a new one.
Make it easy to reply
In Web forums, asking for a reply by e-mail is outright rude, unless you believe the information may be sensitive (and somebody will, for some unknown reason, let you but not the whole forum know it). If you want an e-mail copy when somebody replies in the thread, request that the forum sends it by subscribing to the thread, and select instant e-mail notification.
Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language
This especially goes out to native speakers using "youth speech" or other slangs that differ from "standard english". Many people from different parts of the world, or sometimes even older (and older here can mean just 10 years or so) people might have problems with that kind of language.
Expressing your question clearly and well is important. If you can't be bothered to do that, we can't be bothered to pay attention. Spend the extra effort to polish your language. It doesn't have to be stiff or formal but it has to be precise, refrain from slang speech or too much abbreviations ("u" instead of "you" and similar).
Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS; this is read as shouting and considered rude.
Be precise and informative about your problem
- Describe the symptoms of your problem or bug carefully and clearly.
- Describe the environment in which it occurs (machine, OS, application, version, whatever)
- Describe the research you did to try and understand the problem before you asked the question.
- Describe the diagnostic steps you took to try and pin down the problem yourself before you asked the question.
- Describe any possibly relevant recent changes in your computer or software configuration.
Do the best you can to anticipate the questions others will ask, and answer them in advance in your request for help.
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework
Some people who get that they shouldn't behave rudely or arrogantly, demanding an answer, retreat to the opposite extreme of grovelling. I know I'm just a pathetic newbie loser, but.... This is distracting and unhelpful. It's especially annoying when it's coupled with vagueness about the actual problem.
Describe your problem's symptoms in chronological order
The clues most useful in figuring out something that went wrong often lie in the events immediately prior. So, your account should describe precisely what you did, and what the machine did, leading up to the blowup.
Courtesy never hurts, and sometimes helps
Be courteous. Use Please and Thanks for your attention or Thanks for your consideration. Make it clear you appreciate the time people spend helping you for free.
Follow up with a brief note on the solution
Post a note after the problem has been solved in the thread; let them know how it came out and thank them again for their help.
Your followup doesn't have to be long and involved; a simple Howdy it was a failed network cable! Thanks, everyone. - Bill would be better than nothing. In fact, a short and sweet summary is better than a long dissertation unless the solution has real technical depth. Say what action solved the problem, but you need not replay the whole troubleshooting sequence.
For problems with some depth, it is appropriate to post a summary of the troubleshooting history. Describe your final problem statement. Describe what worked as a solution, and indicate avoidable blind alleys after that. The blind alleys should come after the correct solution and other summary material, rather than turning the follow-up into a detective story. Name the names of people who helped you; you'll make friends that way.
Besides being courteous and informative, this sort of followup will help others searching the archive of the forum to know exactly which solution helped you and thus may also help them.
Last, and not least, this sort of followup helps everybody who assisted feel a satisfying sense of closure about the problem. If you are not a techie yourself, trust us that this feeling is very important to the gurus and experts you tapped for help. Problem narratives that trail off into unresolved nothingness are frustrating things; techies itch to see them resolved. The goodwill that scratching that itch earns you will be very, very helpful to you next time you need to pose a question.
Among techies, this sort of good followup behavior is actually more important than conventional politeness. It's how you get a reputation for playing well with others, which can be a very valuable asset.
(taken from: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and edited to be more suitable for JUB)


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i recently had the opportunity of reading "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M.Montgomery. it's just brilliant. its all about a young orphan girl who has wild dreams and makes up for all her miseries and misfortunes by dreaming. she chances to be adopted by an old couple(quite accidental) of Green Gables.life takes quite a turn for her. the story describes the transformation of a talkative and innocent girl to a well matured and calm lady.
i have learnt much about life from this novel. it gives good tips on learning with disapointments, inadequacies and anxieties of life
i'm sure this review has not gone too far into the plot to reveal a lot. you could give it a reading


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Ever thought about launching your startup with some influencer star power? What exactly do "advisors" do (and not do)? It takes more than a pretty face to pin point a truly smart advisor partnership. The right fit requires on-brand positioning for both the advisor and the start up, which can be harder than it sounds. Once you find that fit, building a mutually beneficial relationship that aligns both party's interests is well worth the hustle it takes to make it happen. Find out how to stand apart from the pack that's courting your ideal high-profile partner. Also learn how equity deals can be structured in the most compelling way, and how to get that "in" to catch the star's attention.
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