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3,000 tickets available for Sunday Packers playoff game
Deadline extended to 4 p.m. Friday
As of about 4 p.m. Thursday, the Green Bay Packers said 3,000 tickets remain unsold for Sunday's NFC Wild Card game against San Francisco.
The NFL extended the Packers deadline to sell the remaining tickets to 4 p.m. Friday to avoid a possible blackout in local TV markets.
There were originally 40,000 available.
"You know, going to these cold Packers games is all about preparation. First off, all you need the hot chocolate cup. You need the electric socks," season ticket holder Tim Schultz said.
Schultz is a cold weather die-hard fan who is ready for this season's version of the Ice Bowl at Lambeau Field.
"I have a feeling about this weekend's game. It's going to be cold. San Francisco's not used to playing in the cold. It's going to be so much fun," Schultz said.
If there isn't a sellout, the only place fans will be able to watch the game is at Lambeau, so Tim's daughter, Karly Schultz, said she is glad she's going.
"I'm really surprised that people weren't jumping on the opportunity to get these tickets. But I have no doubt that we'll sell them all before tomorrow. I hope. Cross your fingers," Schultz said.
The Packers didn't offer refunds this time if the team didn't make it, perhaps hurting playoff ticket sales. The money would be held over and automatically applied to next season's invoice.
Ticket King's Jim Bryce thinks that's only part of the reason there are still tickets.
"A bigger thing, I think, was that when the deadline was, Dec. 6. People didn't think the Packers had a shot," Bryce said.
In addition, temperatures are expected to be frigid Sunday.
In 2012, the NFL relaxed the blackout rule by allowing teams to lift the blackout if at least 85 percent of tickets were sold. However, the league gave teams the flexibility to set their own blackout benchmark between 85 and 100 percent.
The Packers have a streak of 319 consecutive sellouts.
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- "Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She - er - got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about you staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch on it first. Honestly, the way she was yelling at me ... you'd think I'd said something terrible. Then I asked her how much longer she was going to keep it ..."
- —Oliver Wood[src]
Oliver Wood (born c.1975 or 1976) was the Keeper and Captain for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1987 to 1994, and was known for his determination and skill on the playing field, and his long lectures before practices. Oliver led the Gryffindor team to victory in the Quidditch Cup in his seventh year, and, after leaving school, joined Puddlemere United as a reserve player. In 1998, Oliver returned to Hogwarts to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts alongside his former school friends and teammates.
Hogwarts educationEdit
Early yearsEdit
Oliver Wood attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1987 to 1994. He joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Keeper[1] and during his first game, he took a Bludger to the head two minutes in, and woke up a week later in the hospital wing.[3]
Fifth yearEdit
- Fred Weasley: "We know Oliver's speech by heart. We were in the team last year."
- Oliver Wood: "Shut up, you two. This is the best team Gryffindor's had in years. We're going to win. I know it."
- — Fred Weasley and Oliver Wood[src]
In 1991, his fifth year, he became Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Despite assembling a good team, he was unable to find anyone skilled enough to play as Seeker for the team after the departure of Charlie Weasley in the previous year. However, his search was ended when his Head of House, Professor McGonagall, observed Harry Potter catch a Remembrall on a broomstick from a fifty foot dive. McGonagall claimed that it was a move that even Charlie Weasley couldn't have pulled off, convincing Oliver that Harry was indeed something special. He immediately saw that Harry's build was perfect for a Seeker, and impressed upon McGonagall the need for Harry to have a decent broom to fly.
Oliver gave Harry his first Quidditch lesson in private, immediately seeing that Harry was a natural flier on a broomstick. Wanting to use Harry as a secret weapon during the first match of the season against Slytherin, Oliver tried to keep his presence on the team under wraps. Despite his best efforts, however, word got out about Harry's presence, although his skill level was a secret from everyone outside the team.
Captaining the side against their rivals, Slytherin, in the first game of the season, Oliver was delighted when Harry captured the Golden Snitch in his first match winning the game for Gryffindor, However, the second game of the season, against Hufflepuff, gave Oliver cause for concern when he found out that Professor Snape would be refereeing the match in place of Madam Hooch. Fearing that Snape would not be fair to Gryffindor following their defeat of Slytherin, he urged Harry to catch the Snitch as soon as possible. When he caught it within five minutes, Oliver was overjoyed. If Gryffindor could beat Ravenclaw in the final match of the season, then they would surely capture the Quidditch Cup.
Shortly after, Gryffindor House lost one hundred and fifty house points due to the actions of three First Year students, including Harry Potter. Harry offered his resignation to Oliver, who declined it, his reasoning being that if they didn't win at Quidditch, they had no chance to recoup the lost points. Despite this, Oliver must have felt somewhat angry towards Harry, as, during team practice sessions, his angry teammates simply referred to him as "the Seeker".
The final match of the season against Ravenclaw was a disaster. Harry was in the Hospital Wing after facing Professor Quirrell and Lord Voldemort, and recovering the Philosopher's Stone. Forced to play with only six players, the Gryffindor team lost[1], and suffered its biggest defeat in three hundred years.[5]
Sixth yearEdit
- "It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to."
- —Oliver Wood[src]
Oliver spent the summer of 1992 devising an entirely new training schedule that included early morning practice sessions. He was determined to win the Cup, and his enthusiasm for regular training sessions knew no limits. He was annoyed, however, that his team didn't seem to be taking it as seriously as he was, but that may have been a result of getting them all up earlier than they expected on the day of their first training session. On the first Saturday back at school, he booked the Quidditch pitch to begin training earlier than the other teams. His plan was cut short by the arrival of the Slytherin team, who had been given permission to use the pitch by Professor Snape in order to train their new Seeker, Draco Malfoy.
Gryffindor won their first match of the season against Slytherin, but the unexplained attacks on Muggle-born students (later found to be caused by the reopening of the Chamber of Secrets and the freeing of a Basilisk) caused the rest of the year's Quidditch matches to be cancelled. When Minerva McGonagall announced good news, many students shouted "Dumbledore's back" or "The heir to the Chamber of Secrets has been caught". Wood instead showed his love for Quidditch by shouting "Quidditch matches are back on."[5]
Seventh yearEdit
- "This is our last chance - my last chance - to win the Quidditch Cup. I'll be leaving at the end of this year. I'll never get another shot at it."
- —Oliver Wood[src]
In his final year, Oliver Wood was especially desperate to win the Quidditch Cup. He knew that he indeed had the best team in the whole school, and he felt that the Cup would have been Gryffindor's for the past two years if events hadn't usually conspired against them. Training his team hard for the first match against Slytherin, he was shocked to find out that Slytherin had indeed managed to postpone the match owing to an injury to their Seeker, Draco Malfoy. Malfoy, injured by a Hippogriff during a Care of Magical Creatures lesson, was overplaying his injury to get out of playing the match during such extremely bad weather. Gryffindor were to then play Hufflepuff instead.
- "Oliver, calm down! We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously!"
- —Fred Weasley when Oliver remarked they were not taking the upcoming match seriously.[src]
During the match, Harry was overcome by Dementors who were attracted to the large gathering. He fell from his broom while chasing the Golden Snitch, and it was captured by the Hufflepuff Seeker , Cedric Diggory. When he realised what had happened, Cedric immediately offered Oliver a rematch, but Oliver declined it, knowing that Cedric had caught the Snitch fair and square, and assuring Harry that he didn't blame him for failing to catch the Snitch despite his previously impeccable record.
However, Oliver knew they still had a chance to win the Cup if they won their remaining matches and other results went their way. He urged Harry to buy a new broom since his had been destroyed by the Whomping Willow in the last match, and was also worried about the Dementors appearing again and affecting Harry. Harry assured him that Professor Lupin was teaching him to deal with Dementors, and that he had received a Firebolt broomstick for Christmas. Oliver was amazed, then disappointed to learn that Professor McGonagall had confiscated it to check for signs of tampering or sabotage, fearing that Sirius Black may have sent it to harm Harry. Oliver tried to appeal to McGonagall, telling her that having the Firebolt would greatly enhanced their chances of winning the Quidditch Cup. McGonagall, however, accused Oliver of placing victory over Harry's life. Finally, though, the Firebolt was given a clean bill of health, and returned to Harry, much to Oliver's joy.
In the run up to the second match of the season against Ravenclaw, Oliver upped the training sessions to five times a week, and monitored the status of the Ravenclaw Seeker, Cho Chang. Knowing that she had a lot of trouble with injuries, he hoped that she would not be fit to play, and was disappointed to learn that she was able to. During the match Oliver told Harry to stop being a gentleman and knock Cho off her broom if he had to.
Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw, and other results went their way, meaning that, in the final game of the season against Slytherin, if they could win by two hundred and ten points, they would win the Cup. Oliver took to constantly reminding Harry that he must not catch the Snitch unless they were ahead by sixty points at least, and ordering that Harry should be accompanied everywhere he went to prevent anyone from harming him before the game.
During the match against Slytherin, Oliver took two Bludgers to the stomach early in the game. Harry, though, managed to capture the Snitch when Gryffindor were ahead by at least sixty points, resulting in Gryffindor winning the Quidditch Cup. Oliver, overjoyed and ecstatic, lifted the Cup aloft, finally achieving his dream.[6]
Later lifeEdit
After leaving Hogwarts, Oliver became a Quidditch player for Puddlemere United's reserve team. In the summer of 1994, he attended the Quidditch World Cup, where he saw Harry and introduced him to his parents.[4]
- "Come on!"
- —Oliver in the Battle of Hogwarts.[src]
In 1998, Oliver returned to Hogwarts along with fellow former Gryffindor Quidditch players Angelina Johnson, Katie Bell, and Alicia Spinnet to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. During a lull in the battle, which was granted to them by Lord Voldemort as time to gather their dead, he assisted Neville Longbottom in carrying the dead bodies of Colin Creevey and others into the Great Hall.[7]
Physical appearanceEdit
Oliver was well built and burly, and had a commanding presence, especially to those in his team. He was known to get a maniacal look in his eyes when he was enthusing about Quidditch.[1]
Personality and traitsEdit
- "I think we'd better check with Puddlemere United whether Oliver Wood's been killed during a training session, because Angelina seems to be channelling his spirit."
- —Harry Potter[src]
Oliver Wood had ambition and drive, and was solidly focused and determined on creating the best Quidditch team in the school. He forced his players to train relentlessly, including early morning starts and all-weather training. Wood occasionally became maniacal when attempting to win. In 1992 he told Harry to "catch the Snitch or die trying" and in 1993, Fred and George Weasley implied that, Wood attempted to drown himself in the showers after a defeat. They also said in 1996 that "Wood might have done the Slytherins if he could have" after someone asked who would try to kill off a Quidditch team. He regularly scheduled three practice sessions a week, rising to five a week before an important match. His overriding ambition was to win the Quidditch cup before he graduated, which he finally achieved in 1994 .[1][5][6]
Despite this, Wood was remarkably humble concerning his own skill, putting the team's success down to the other members of the team. He would often be more concerned about his teammates than himself, like urging them to eat breakfast before a match, yet touching nothing himself. He was also extremely loyal to Gryffindor and saw the success of the Gryffindor team as Gryffindor House's success as a whole. He was also very fair and did not accept a replay after Harry fell off his broom against Cedric Diggory in 1993 since he knew that Diggory had caught the Snitch fairly, also assuring Harry that he didn't blame him for the loss as he respected that there had to be at least one game where Harry wouldn't win.[1][6]
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Oliver was explaining Quidditch to Harry Potter, he said that the team that catches the Snitch will win the game. This is wrong as in the World Cup in 1994 Viktor Krum caught the snitch, but Ireland won as they were ahead by more than 15 goals (150 points). However, he could have meant that the team would usually win the game due to the amount of points that the Snitch is worth.
- Oliver was portrayed by Sean Biggerstaff in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, although he did not match J.K. Rowling's description of Wood as "burly". Biggerstaff portrayed Wood as a Scot, although this is never mentioned in the books. An unnamed actor portrayed Oliver in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
- Though Oliver was not a member of Dumbledore's Army, having left Hogwarts two years before its formation, Wood fights with DA members in the Battle of Hogwarts. He was most likely alerted to the Battle of Hogwarts by former members of his Quidditch team who were members of Dumbledore's Army.
- Oliver did not know what basketball was. This suggests that he comes from a purely magical family.[1]
- Oliver once borrowed Quidditch Through the Ages from the Hogwarts Library and was due to return the book on 9 April.
The olive branch often is a symbol of peace. The olive tree's symbolism also includes a great harvest and long life. Wood is a place name (like Brooks or Field) and suggests ancestors who lived near or in a forest, or who were woodcutters. It is possible that Wood was meant to be the opposite of the name Flint, the name of the Slytherin Quidditch team captain and Wood's rival.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)[8]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Quidditch Through the Ages (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter:Quidditch World Cup
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- ↑ In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Oliver does not know what basketball is, implying he is from a Wizarding family. His parents also attended the Quidditch World cup in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Source file: File:GQT refPoA.PNG


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The jury in the rape and indecent assault trial of Coronation Street star William Roache has retired to consider its verdicts.
Roache, 81, who plays Ken Barlow in the ITV soap, is accused of using his fame and popularity to exploit five youngsters between the mid-60s and early 70s.
His trial at Preston Crown Court, now in its fourth week, has heard from five women who claim he sexually assaulted them when they were 16 or under, either at Granada Studios in Manchester, in his car or at properties he owned.
In denying all the offences, Roache said he did not even know any of his accusers and had never had a sexual interest in under-age girls.
The prosecution says the actor was "sticking to his script" in lying and if he was telling the truth, he was the victim of a "huge, distorted and perverse witch-hunt" .
Anne Whyte QC depicted Roache as a young man with "looks, fame and appetite" at the relevant time, which gave him the "motivation and the opportunity to behave improperly''.
She said his fame "put him out of reach" with his belief that none of the women would be brave enough to report him.
"Decades of silence" followed but times had changed now, she told the jury of eight women and four men.
Apart from two of the complainants who were sisters, there was no evidence to suggest any of the women who had come forward with similar allegations had known each other.
Louise Blackwell QC, defending, said the case against her client was "nonsense", with the trial haunted by the "spectre" of Jimmy Savile.
She went through each of the accounts of the complainants to point out "contradictions and inconsistencies".
Glowing testimonies about Roache's "caring" and "lovely" nature were given in evidence by three of his Coronation Street co-stars, including Anne Kirkbride, who plays his on-screen wife Deirdre.
Miss Blackwell said it was "nonsense" to assert that Roache departed from his usual character and behaviour to become a sexual "risk-taker" between the mid-60s and early 70s.
The barrister suggested to the jury that fair investigations did not take place into allegations of such nature against a celebrity in the "post-Savile crisis of conscience".
Roache, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, is accused of two counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault on various dates between 1965 and 1972.
He is said to have raped one of the complainants at his then bungalow in Lancashire when she was a virgin and raped her again in an adjoining cottage he owned.
Three of the indecent assaults were said to have taken place inside Granada Studios - in the gents toilets, the ladies toilets and a dressing room - while the fourth is alleged to have happened in his Rolls-Royce when he was said to have given a lift home to a complainant.
Before the jurors retired, trial judge Mr Justice Holroyde reminded them of the prosecution's central claims, made by Anne Whyte QC in her closing speech.
"The reality in the case is that either Mr Roache is lying or the complainants are," he said.
"It's not just that Mr Roache denies that the acts alleged against him ever occurred, he denies they ever could have occurred, because, for example, he says 'There never was any young female in my house or dressing room or in my car'.
"And so, says Miss Whyte, Mr Roache's case is that the complainants have not only made up the allegations, but also made up all the surrounding circumstances they describe."
The judge reminded the jury of the question posed by Miss Whyte - who has most to gain from lying? - and the prosecutor's answer: "Obviously, the well-loved star of a very popular soap opera."
He also reminded the jury of the words of Louise Blackwell QC, defending Roache.
The defence case says it is not enough to simply regard the bare allegations the complainants make - the jury must look closely at the "inconsistencies and errors" in the evidence.
The judge pointed to a central argument in the defence case: Roache's glowing character testimonies from fellow co-stars on Coronation Street.
Mr Justice Holroyde said the defence argued it "simply cannot be right" that the defendant committed the offences, then stopped and not only did nothing wrong for 40 years but also "attracted the sort of character evidence you heard from witnesses".
In weighing the arguments up, the judge again warned the jury to put emotion aside.
He said: "I will make it plain to you, as I have throughout, you are going to have to weigh up the witnesses and decide which evidence is truthful and reliable and which is not.
"You will remember quite early on in my directions how I warned you that you must set your emotions to one side.
"You must approach all this with a clear head and make a dispassionate assessment of the evidence you have heard."
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Kristina Shevchenko, 15, was hospitalized Tuesday night after being shot by a gunman at Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore.
Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET -- A teenager from Oregon faces a "long road to recovery" after surviving her second brush with death in just the past few months.
Kristina Shevchenko, 15, was rushed to a hospital Tuesday in critical condition after a masked gunman sprayed bullets around a suburban Portland, Ore., mall during the height of holiday shopping season, piercing her chest. After surgery, she was in stable condition, according to a statement from her family.
Her family continued to update supporters on her condition via a Facebook page on Wednesday, with her brother, Yevgeniy, writing early in the morning, "The bullet went through bruising her lung, it missed any vital organs and it missed her ribs. She will need 2 more operations. we appreciate any and all support including your prayers! Thank you."
In another post, Shevchenko's family revealed something else: Over the summer, Shevchenko had survived another fatal encounter.
"Many of you have noticed the earlier tragedy that happened in our family a couple months ago where 7 of my siblings and 2 friends were involved in a fatal car accident. You could read it online for yourself, but yes it did happen and yes Kristina was in that car accident," the post read, and linked to an article about a Beaverton, Ore., man who was killed after veering into a van driven by a 27-year-old member of the Shevchenko family.
Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts identifies the victims of a deadly shooting at an Oregon mall, saying there was "no apparent relationship" between the two and the shooter.
Oregon mall gunman ID'd; motive unclear
The crash happened in Vancouver, Wash., in August, and alcohol was believed to have been a factor, Vancouver police told Columbian.com. Multiple teens and adults were in the van when the driver -- Alberto Perez Garcia, 25 -- veered into it, they said. The driver and at least two other adults had been hospitalized at the time.
In a statement, the family described Shevchenko as a "happy child" who is "active in church," and said "by the mercy of God she is now in stable condition, but has a long road to recovery."
Shevchenko, who had been with a friend when she was shot, regularly walked through the mall around the time of the shooting -- which happened at about 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday -- to get home from school, her family said.
The motive for the shooting, which sent Christmas shoppers and people waiting in line to see Santa running for cover, wasn't clear.
Several witnesses reported hearing the gunman, identified as Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, announce, "I am the shooter," before he began firing.
"All of a sudden, I just heard a series of gunshots… boom, boom, boom, boom, boom… whatever the shooter was shooting at, they continued to shoot," shopper Bill Hoff told NBC station KGW.
Macy's employee Mariah Saldana told KGW that she was sitting by the door "watching what was going on, and then some guy just ran by in a white mask and an assault rifle, and then I look out because I hear a few shots and he's … and he's sitting there and he's pointing the gun at some people."
Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts discusses the gunman who opened fire at a Portland-area mall, saying it "looked to be a random shooting."
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Lesley Anderson from Ancestry.ca and Brian Glenn from BIFHSGO rounded out this special evening with a very informative talk on where to search for an immigrant ancestor.
Lesley stressed that you should start your search in the land that they migrated to - in this case, Canada.
She had listed 19 records she would check, but the two most important are BMDs (birth, marriage & death certificates) and census. One can use both of these records to cross-check against each other to verify birthdays, where the person was living, whether the person was married or not, his occupation, etc.
She explained that Ancestry.ca was launched in January 2006, and to date, close to 410-million records have been put on the site.
The Vital Statistics of Ontario can be checked on Ancestry.ca. This summer, two more years will be added to the end date of each one - births will go from 1909 to 1911, marriages will go from 1924 to 1926, and deaths will go from 1934 to 1936.
The most impressive non-pay site that she has encountered is the one by the Library and Archives Canada, which has very good Irish-Canadian databases and information.
Brain Glenn told us that the LAC and the National Archives of Ireland is in the process of digitizing the census of 1901 and 1911, and they will be made free on the National Archives of Ireland website.
Lesley ended the session by talking about the Boston Pilot, a newspaper which had a section on looking for missing Irish people in the U.S. and Canada (from 1831-1921).
Ruby Cusack has mentioned her experience with this database on her website.


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You also post what you believe in and not much else.
Be honest about it,
Then tell me what "you" would do about it
DAX is onto something for sure, but its the brain rotting combo of prescription meds and some illegal substances.
He is left with extremely negative paranoid delusional megalomaniac obsessions.
DAX, was given free gear due to someone having a brainfart of an idea that if you give the biggest antagonist and nice person on the forum a kite, and then some more kites and he says nice things about the product, this will have a massively powerful influencing effect on us dumb minded consumers.
Jury is still out on whether it worked, for me it was just another straw.....
Super marketing american style from the company that specialises in smoke and mirror tactics.
Cya and
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The point is I post about kite topics, he cannot succsessfully rebut, so he makes it personal instead.Dax wrote:Steve and Fokiten -
Why don't you guys just fly off to some romantic location somewhere and just get it out of your system. There is obviously a lot of sexual tension between you two, why else would you two continually go at it? Maybe the only reason you haven't met yet is you can't agree on who gets to be the girl?
Everyone stopped caring at least year ago, except for Rockstar who is just trying pathetically to make it into a three-way. But its obvious that you two have a unique love for one another that no one else could match (not to mention the legal implications of involving a minor.)
Seriously, either do the nasty, or move on. There has got to be something more productive to do.
It drags down the thread it drags down the forum.
Indulging in "character assasination" is a cowardly thing to do
It's un sportsman like conduct, and should not be tollerated by anyone..
Either you add to this forum ( I most certainly do, so do you DAX) or you drag it down.
Kitepower indugles hinself with pur "character assasination" see above....
I think we as a group need to straighten him out.


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So my X-mas cards are almost ready to go out. Anyone who isn't in the publishing industry who might want one ought to contact me about that.
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Adjusting charge time by adjusting amperage.
Adjusting charge time by adjusting amperage.
Depending on how low you set your charge there may be effeciency issues with charging at a lower amperage as well as the longer battery conditining that you mentioned.
Since you are doing the calculations every night, why don't you just use the timer to set the car to start charging full at the appropriate time such that it finishes right before you leave. That should reduce your electricity use.
I have read of people doing this on TMC as recommended by Tesla Service, and lower amperage charging has an added benefit of better maintenance recharging of the 12V battery.
I knew I read about this somewhere, just found it:
There is a lot of data there (about the Roadster), but the main answer to this question:
As you can see from the table, there's not much variation in charging efficiency when charging at or above 240V at 32A, but energy use rises noticeably at lower power levels.
This is a clever tactic.
You needn't worry about charging too slow. Slower charging is always gentler on the battery, though the effect in this case is negligible because TM manages the cells so carefully.
The efficiency is optimum above the 32A level due to process overhead, but the effect is not large.
32 or above seems like the sweet spot.
The reason your strategy works is that the charge completes at the time you want to leave. That means the car is warmed up and has a full charge, with zero vampire loss.
The warmup comes without further cost because it's the result of the ~90% efficiency of charging. That is, about 10% is lost to heat, which in this case has the beneficial result of preheating your pack for driving.
People who are not in colder climates don't really need this though.
TM should let everyone do your trick by adding an app feature: "Ready Time".
Instead of saying when you want the charge to start, you'd say when you want the car ready. (You could still constrain the starting time by entering a "best rates" period).
The algorithm could easily figure out the best charge path to save money, energy, and your time.
Totally doable, and very cool to have.
If I have a short commute, say 20 miles, and charge every day, are you suggesting the optimal scenario given the above is to schedule charging for the early am hours at 32A so the car tops off at the same time I leave for work? This would be in contrast to 15 amp or less charging starting earlier in the evening. I was not aware 32 amps provides optimal efficiency. It would be helpful to have this information verified for MS.
The difference between optimal and lower is not worth fussing about. You'd need instrumentation to detect the difference. Don't sweat the small stuff.
Yep. As to the 32 amp number, that's an inference from roadster experience, but something analogous likely exists with MS. TM needs to confirm where that is for the S.
The idea is you order room service the night before, and your breakfast is piping hot, right on time.
An algorithm considers time, temperature, utility rates, etc, and figures out the right charge plan to optimally deliver what you need.
All without you giving it a second thought.
It could even infer your habits, like a Nest thermostat, if you don't set anything.
This is a natural evolution of the car's intelligence.
I think this will simply show up one day in your auto-updates.
this strategy worked well for me this past winter. With the warmer weather and no off peak rate advantage, I just charge it when I arrive home in the evenings now. I will likely use the scheduling software next winter and yes, I suggested the same 'ready time' function in a thread earlier - and I do hope we will see something like that in a future update.
@Robert22 - With a 20 mile commute, does it really matter whether you start your day with 240 rated miles rather than 230?
The Leaf has has ready-time/end-time charging timer since day one.
It surprses me that Tesla hasn't made this relatively simple update yet.
Hasn't the Roadster had it for some time?
If you have a 100' run, charging at low current can save about as much as running a lamp all night because loss through the wire is I-squared * R. Exact savings depend on wire gauge, length and currents.
Actually, it may. That commute is frequently punctuated by errands that can easily drop me substantially below 200 miles. There's been prior discussion about what constitutes a charge cycle and its effect on battery longevity and performance. Some of the simplifying assumptions made in those threads may not be completely accurate when applied to the MS batteries which may be more unique than I first appreciated. There are still unknowns about the battery that make definitive calculations difficult. The definition of charge cycle for these batteries needs to be better defined.
It's an industry term: a cycle is one full charge and discharge, or the equivalent sum of partial charges and discharges.
The efficiency measurements were for a roadster with a 70A charger. I would expect most of the charge losses to be in the AC to DC converter, which usually show good efficiency above 50% load. That's consistent with the 32A number. For the Model S with a single 40A charger the number might well be 20A. I'd guess that's true with two chargers as well, assuming that the setup is to fully utilize the first charger before adding current from the second.


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Welcome to Saturday Story Spotlight, my feature where I discuss books my husband and I are reading with our children. These are books that they, we, or all of us particularly enjoy.
Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody by Ludworst Bemonster (Rick Walton and Nathan Hale)
Published by Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan
I doubt I am alone in this, but when I was young I simply adored Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeleine. In Frankenstein, Rick Walton and Nathan Hale – writing under the pseudonym Ludworst Bemonster – parodies the beloved childhood classic to monstrous effect. Their main character, as you might expect, is a little Frankenstein, although instead of the littlest of them, he is the ugliest one.
The first portion of Frankenstein is particularly clever. Bemonster has a good ear for the rhyme and meter of the original Madeleine and the story is cute. The monsters's teacher Miss Devel wakes one night, certain that something is quite wrong and finds that Frankenstein has, quite literally, lost his head.
Frankenstein has some really great 'spooky' vocabulary. Things are grotesque and gory, full of shrieks and howls and groans, the monsters torment Miss Devel. The plot loses a bit of steam at the end, though, particularly after what should be the end of the book. There are two more pages of illustration that are so anti-climatic that they nearly ruin the entire book.
Of course, that is all from an adult's point of view. Daniel, who is now three years old and has never read Madeleine, thoroughly enjoys Frankenstein. He has pronounced it his "favorite," seemingly due to the good cadence and rhyme, as well as the cutely spooky illustrations.
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Engaging programs for students offered during winter break at UH Hilo's Imiloa Astronomy CenterUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
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HILO, Hawaiʻi — ʻImiloa Astronomy Center will offer "cosmic" fun, learning activities for students during the January 2008 school break. These exciting, hands-on programs are designed to expand students' curiosity and interest in space, provide new understanding and appreciation of the Universe, and instill a sense of wonder about the skies over Hawaiʻi.
Parents of students in Grades 1-6 can register their children in one of two sessions of "Explore Our Solar System," which will be conducted on Friday, January 4 and again on Friday, January 11, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. This program includes ʻImiloa's animated planetarium program, "Secret of the Cardboard Rocket," an entertaining show about the planets in our Solar System. After seeing the planetarium show, keiki will be engaged in an activity in which they create planets with Play-Doh to learn more about their relative sizes and distance from the Sun. Children in Grades 1-3 must be accompanied by an adult. Students in grades 4-6 may attend alone if a parent or legal guardian signs a release form. The fee for this program, which includes materials and the planetarium show, is $5 per person.
For students in Grades 7-12, "Cosmic Questions" will be conducted on Wednesday, January 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. This program includes activities about the composition of the Universe and its vast scales of space and time. The engaging, mind-expanding activities are based on concepts presented in ʻImiloa's new exhibit, Cosmic Questions: Our Place in Space Time, created by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Students will explore ideas and models of the universe, learn about the electromagnetic spectrum and its importance in observing objects in space, and contemplate the possibility of life on other worlds. Adults are welcome, but not required, to attend. Students can participate on their own if a parent or legal guardian signs a release form. The program fee is $5 per person.
Thanks go to the Earl and Doris Bakken Foundation, which provides support to make these programs affordable to all families.
Space for these school intersession programs is limited, and reservations are required. To reserve and pre-pay for these sessions, call (808) 969-9704 or email email@example.com. For more information about the "Explore our Solar System" program, contact Janet Babb at (808) 969-9730.
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ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi weaves today's newest astronomy findings and Hawaiʻi's cultural heritage into a compelling story of astronomical exploration. For more information, visit www.imiloahawaii.org, or call (808) 969-9700. The Cafe is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. without admission charge. For more information about the café, call (808) 969-9753.
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ZENESSA are right when they say: "McMurphy's Subliminal App for Cancer Patients can't replace the appropriate treatment". And they are right when quite positively, they postulate: "By controlling your thoughts, you CAN change your life". But in titling their latest app Subliminal App for Cancer Patients by Prof McMurphy (SACPPM), they may have overstepped their already obnoxiously low morals. SACPPM is a stitch job of text fields, a few recorded encouragements and some retina reruns; it stands on the same technology as the other Subliminal ZENESSA apps which tackle various mental issues such as the fear of flying to trying to keep it up (YKWIM). And, in drawing attention to the word subliminal, ZANESSA are playing a somewhat open hand. But that open hand is a dangerous precedent especially at the volatile App Store. ZENESSA have turned cancer into a mental issue.
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Tobias Harris not enough as Magic fall to Nuggets for 7th straight loss
DENVER (AP) — Kenneth Faried had 17 points and nine rebounds, Randy Foye and Evan Fournier scored 18 points apiece, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Orlando Magic 120-94 Saturday night.
Quincy Miller had 16 points and 11 rebounds — both career highs — for Denver, which has won five straight after losing eight in a row. Seven Nuggets scored at least 13 points, including J.J. Hickson, who had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Denver has scored at more than 120 points three times in the five-game winning streak.
Tobias Harris had 22 points and nine rebounds and Glen Davis scored 20 points for the Magic, who have dropped seven straight.
The Magic have lost the first four games on their five-game Western Conference road trip. They haven't scored 100 points in the last seven games, and things got tougher with the absence of leading scorer Arron Afflalo.
Afflalo, who played four seasons in Denver before being dealt to Orlando in the summer of 2012, strained his right foot in Friday's loss to Sacramento. He entered Pepsi Center wearing a walking boot, depriving Orlando of much-needed offense.
Without Afflalo, the Magic didn't have enough firepower to match the suddenly rolling Nuggets.
It was apparent from the start.
Denver jumped out to a 34-19 lead in the first quarter with a 14-2 run. Ty Lawson and Evan Fournier hit consecutive 3-pointers to push the advantage to double digits.
The Nuggets used a 10-2 run in the second quarter to go up 56-33. Orlando got within 15 twice, but Foye made it 69-47 at halftime.
Davis hit two early buckets in the third quarter to get the Magic within 16, but Foye's 3-pointer made it 81-60 and J.J. Hickson's hook shot gave the Nuggets an 86-60 lead with 4:20 to go in the period.
Denver led 92-66 heading into the fourth.
With most of the starters on the bench for fourth, Denver led by as many as 36 points in the quarter.
NOTES: Nuggets F Wilson Chandler missed his second straight game with a strained left groin. … Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn said there is no timetable for Afflalo's return. … Denver F Anthony Randolph is out for a few days with sprained left ankle. … Nuggets F Darrell Arthur left the game in the third quarter with a left groin strain and didn't return.


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Today I have a card to share with you that I did just for fun! I really wanted to use Mojo Monday Sketch 172, and Winter White Tuesday Trigger from Moxie Fab...so I did! Tee hee! This is what I came up with:
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It's not so much that Jim Jarmusch has edged toward the mainstream but rather that the mainstream has moved closer to him. Over the years the gravitational pull of his slant, laconic sensibility in films such as Mystery Train, Dead Man and Broken Flowers has brought him in contact with a classic gallery of performers including Tom Waits, Joe Strummer, Gena Rowlands, Johnny Depp, Bill Murray and many more.
Though he first emerged from the outcast environs of the late '70s/early '80s post-punk scene of New York, he has recently received retrospectives from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At 61 he is no longer a punk outsider but part of the pantheon.
His latest, Only Lovers Left Alive, even makes the vampire film cool again. He uses the idea of immortality to craft a celebration of the continuity of culture, the eternal issues of love, life and loss that drive the creation of art across the ages.
The film, opening April 11 in Los Angeles, stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as Eve and Adam, a romantic couple in every sense of the word. As vampires they have been together for centuries as bohemian vagabonds, often in just the right place at just the right time to witness cultural explosions and renaissances. He has of late been living in Detroit, tinkering with musical instruments and science experiments, while she has been off in Tangier for more spiritual pursuits.
The cast also features Mia Wasikowska as Eve's wild-child younger sister and Anton Yelchin as a human assistant to Adam who is part roadie, part Renfield, as well as Jeffrey Wright and John Hurt.
"The center of it is a kind of tenderness. It is a love story," Jarmusch said during a recent phone call from his longtime stronghold on New York's Lower East Side. "Even the title is very positive and optimistic, in terms of survival tendencies of the species. I find it a celebration of consciousness and all the things that we encounter in our brief lifetimes.
"That's why it's not a monster movie, it's not a horror film, it is a love story," he said. "They just happen to be vampires."
Though the character names have obvious biblical overtones, for Jarmusch the inspiration came more from Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve. (In a film full of cultural references it is conspicuously not mentioned.)
During a recent interview in Los Angeles, Swinton recalled how Jarmusch called her up one New Year's Eve to first tell her of the Twain book and his idea of linking it to a century-spanning, bloodthirsty love connection. "I think there's something much more romantic about people being as different as Adam and Eve are and still really digging each other," she said, "supporting each other even when from a distance you're going, 'You're weird, but I get a kick out of our difference.'"
For Only Lovers Left Alive Jarmusch opened himself up to new experiences. He had initially tried to make the film before his previous film, 2009's The Limits of Control, but was unable to raise the financing. Reaching out to British producer Jeremy Thomas, the project began to move forward.
Though the film would also shoot in Detroit and Tangier, it was Thomas who pointed Jarmusch toward shooting interiors in Cologne, Germany, where Thomas had recently made other projects such as David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.
Jarmusch had never before shot on a soundstage and likewise worked on digital for the first time to capture the film's nighttime palette with cinematographer Yorick Le Saux. Other key positions were also filled by people Jarmusch had not worked with before, such as production designer Marco Bittner Rosser and editor Affonso Goncalves.
"He's open because he wants to discover what he's doing whilst he's doing it," said Thomas from London. "He's a very instinctual filmmaker, and the film sort of comes together in the making of the film. Yes, it's scripted, but the whole film is not as preconceived as many films and he needs a sort of freedom to make a sort of specific film that is identifiably a film of his, as a film of Jim Jarmusch."
Though Swinton had worked with Jarmusch before, for Hiddleston it was the first time. The actor recalls his first contact with Jarmusch's work, remembering the very theater in Oxford, England, where he saw 1999's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and has been a fan ever since.
In getting in sync with the director's sensibility and the gothic melancholy of the character of Adam, Hiddleston took in Jarmusch's suggestion to think of Pink Floyd's raven-haired, wild-eyed former frontman Syd Barrett while re-reading Hamlet.
"We did find a commonality, because it was always about specifics," said Hiddleston, on the phone from a movie shoot in Toronto. "What kind of music does Adam make? What does he like? What doesn't he like? Through those conversations I began to get a sense of Jim's palate, his speed, his tone and his style."
Both Swinton and Hiddleston draw a comparison to Jarmusch's recent work as part of the band Sqürl as a reflection of the collaborative nature of his work, how it can be singular while he remains so seemingly open to others. The movie is a reflection of his own broad-ranging interests, across literature, music, art and science — "I'm a real nerd," said Jarmusch, noting his recent pursuits as an amateur bird watcher and studier of fungi.
"That's what's so great about working with him, is his passions rub off on you," said Hiddleston. "He loves the music that Adam loves; in a way there is some of Jim in Adam, but there is also so much of Jim in Eve, and the things they love are the things that he loves."
"I'm neither of them, but I'm both of them. It's not a portrait of me in any way," Jarmusch said. "I feel very close to Adam in a lot of ways, and Eve I aspire to be more like. I wish I had more of her qualities as I get, I don't know what the word is, older. Or more confused."
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Aren't these pinata cookies just too cute?! Break open or bite into these festive treats and be greeted with a sugary surprise! Get the recipe & directions to make these awesome cookies from She Knows HERE!
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This thread is to list OM meets, hopefully to make it a bit easier to find out what's coming up.
When setting up a meet please add a post linking from this thread, copying forward any that are still to come and deleting any that have already taken place (or been cancelled) â?? so that the latest post in the thread lists all future meets.
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Jury convicts suspended Conroe officer in fatal shooting of alleged Wal-Mart shoplifter
Montgomery County jurors on Tuesday convicted a Conroe police sergeant of manslaughter for fatally shooting a suspected shoplifter who'd fled from a Walmart store into the woods last year, a rare finding of guilt for a Texas law enforcement officer in a shooting case.
Sgt. Jason Blackwelder, 30, was off-duty when he fired a shot that struck 19-year-old Russell Rios in the back of the head during a struggle, killing the unarmed community college student instantly, prosecutors say. Store security guards had accused Rios of taking iPhone covers and candles valued at $50.
The 410th district court jury deliberated for 10 hours before convicting Blackwelder in Rios' death.
A member of the Conroe police force for six years, Blackwelder was suspended without pay after his indictment for the July 31, 2013 shooting.
He faces up to 20 years in prison, but his attorney, Greg Cagle, has told the court that he will seek probation because his client had an unblemished disciplinary record prior to the incident.
The punishment phase of the trial is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Conroe Police Chief Philip Dupuis said he was withholding comment until the trial was over.
Blackwelder's family, including his twin brother, John, who is a Montgomery County sheriff's deputy, have staunchly backed the suspended officer, who claimed that he acted in self defense after he was gripped in a choke-hold and feared for his life.
"It's extremely rare for a law enforcement officer to be convicted in a homicide case, especially in Texas," said Larry Karson, a University of Houston professor and police expert. "Juries tend to put themselves in the place of the officer and give them every benefit of doubt."
The Montgomery County prosecutor in the case, Phil Grant, had said he could not recall an officer being indicted for a shooting in the county in the 30 years prior to this incident.
In Harris County, the last officer to be indicted in a shooting was Pasadena police officer Michael T. Martin, who was charged with official oppression for the shooting of Victor Hernandez during a traffic stop in 2011.
Family 'thriled'
In a federal lawsuit brought last fall, the attorney for the victim's family accused Blackwelder of using unjustified deadly force.
"I can tell you the family is thrilled and obviously feels that justice has been done," the family's attorney, Cade Bersen, said of the jury's verdict. "You do not often see a police officer convicted of manslaughter or murder. It's very difficult."
He said the victim's mother, Jacqueline, and father, Juan Cuyun, of Conroe, have been asked not to comment until after a sentence is handed down as they might be called as witnesses.
According to police testimony, Blackwelder was not in uniform and off-duty, carrying a weapon in his waistband without a holster, when he began pursuit of Rios. The police sergeant and his wife had driven to the Walmart off North Loop 336 in Conroe to buy school supplies when he saw security officers chasing Rios from the store.
After the shooting, police released a statement that the two had gotten into a "violent struggle" and the teen "began choking the sergeant."
The family later said an autopsy showed that Rios was shot in the back of the head, casting doubt on the officer's story.
Prosecutors Kelly Blackburn and Jeff Hohl argued that the wound to the back of Rios' head and blood splatter patterns on the front of Blackwelder's shirt did not support the officer's claim about the choke-hold. Rather, prosecutors contended the evidence showed Rios was face down when the gun went off unintentionally during a struggle.
"An officer can't use deadly force unless he's in fear of the use of deadly force," said Grant, the Montgomery County district attorney's first assistant.
No prior record
Bersen stressed that Rios had no prior criminal record. "Rios had a job as a bank teller and was going to school," Bersen said.
After the shooting, Rios' family had marched from the courthouse to the district attorney's office to demand justice because Conroe investigators first labeled the shooting "self defense."
Bersen said Tuesday, "We thank the district attorney for being courageous to bring this case forward."
To convict Blackwelder of manslaughter, jurors had to find he acted reckless by failing to properly secure and maintain control of his gun, prosecutors said.


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"Saturday Night Live" returns to NBC this weekend, and when it does, Sasheer Zamata will make her debut as a regular on the sketch comedy show — and as its first black female cast member in years.
"SNL" announced Zamata was joining the cast after it auditioned around two dozen candidates in early December. The series had come under fire late in 2013 for failing to add a black female comic to the cast in recent years.
The controversy over the lack of diversity was spurred by "SNL's" only black cast members, Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharoah. Thompson voiced his displeasure at having to play black female characters in drag, while Pharoah lobbied for the addition of a specific comic, TV sitcom actress Darmirra Brunson.
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According to Zamata's website, she's a New York-based actress, writer and comedian who has performed with improv troupes Doppelganger and Bucky. Zamata also has a web series called "Pursuit of Sexiness."
After graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in Drama, Zamata moved to New York in 2009 and began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
It's "100 percent good for the show to have an African-American woman" in its ranks, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels told the New York Times in December. The show has had just four black women in its regular cast lineup since premiering in 1975. The most recent was biracial Maya Rudolph, who left in 2007.
"Saturday Night Live" returns this weekend, on Jan. 18, with Drake serving as both host and musical guest.


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WoW Schools Guide Review
Today we are dealing with some less well rated guides. So to say WoW Schools, was on the top of the charts a few years ago and now they just updated (thing for which I'm writing this review) their webpage. Problem is that they seem not to be aware that the game evolved and now runs on Mists of Pandaria, patch 5.2, soon to be updated to 5.3 and then end this expansion as well.
If that would be the only issue that I have noticed with their so-called update it really wouldn't matter much, but there are plenty of other problems which simply act as a drawback instead of a comeback. Pretty sad but WoW Schools Gold Guide, can't even begin to compare with premium guides such as Tycoon from Manaview or the gold guides from Zygor and Dugi.
Anyways here's the link to my full review: WoW Schools Review, if you are interested in checking out a few more details, see the "updated" page itself, or compare it to other products, you can just swing by. More strategy game guides for World of Warcraft and not just, coming up pretty soon … I guess!


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It was the best thing we could have done.
Since we were driving almost 2000 miles total, we broke our trip up into two travel days. First stop, Las Vegas.
The one thing I wanted to do in Vegas was see the Bellagio fountains. (One of my favorite movies is Ocean's 11.) They were beautiful to watch.
We kept our family's time on the strip very short, and headed to California the next day. Our children had never seen the ocean. It was really fun to watch their reactions.
Although we'd admonished them to just get their feet wet, soon Little Boy and Sis were soaked. I'd forgotten how sand gets EVERYWHERE. Oh well. It cleans up pretty quick once it is dry.
The next morning we were off to the Magic Kingdom.
As part of telling the kids where we were going, we gave them matching t-shirts. I just found simple white t- shirts which I freezer paper stenciled. The best part, most of the rides use black lights, so the shirts glowed. It also made things easier to spot our family if we split up for a "big kid" ride.
Dolly had one request...princesses. She was able to meet Rapunzel on our first day.
On the second day, I found something orange from our closets for everyone to wear. Again, it made it so much easier to find each other. I had a few comments on how coordinated we were!
We spent most of the second day at Disney California. The kids thought these jumping fountains were so fun.
The painted area at the "backlot" was impressive. I wish we could have been there for the new Cars attraction, but hopefully we can come back in a few more years.
My favorite rides were Soaring over California, Star Tours, and the Ferris Wheel. It was also fun to torture our kids and make them go to It's a Small World. I'm glad we had two days to take it all in.
That night we got our fast passes for The World of Color. Well worth the wait!
We just got back yesterday, and the laundry is a force to be reckoned with. :) If you're planning an impromptu visit to Disneyland, I found some great sites through pinterest that helped us plan our trip. My favorites were:
Over the Big Moon's Insider Tips to Disneyland
All Things Thrifty's Disneyland Tips
My best advice:
- Have a big breakfast, bring lots of snacks, and plan on a late lunch/early dinner to save money on food.
- Take advantage of package deals. Our trip included the hotel, buffet breakfast, and tickets into the park. Our hotel also had a shuttle service to and from the park for a reasonable fee...less than parking!
- Have a game plan. Be at the park before it opens. Using the first link I listed above, we went to popular rides first, and then worked our way around to other attractions. Evenings were also a great time to ride, as lines were short or nonexistent. We chose to go when crowds would be less, during the school year on a Monday and Tuesday.
- Wear good shoes and plan on lots of walking. By the end of the second day, we were all exhausted.
- To save on souvenirs, I made our kids shirts and little journals. Simple, and no whining about things they wanted at all those ubiquitous shops all over the park.
- Plan on doing laundry at least once (& bring some laundry detergent with you). We did have some mishaps along the way before we made it to Disneyland, and being able to get some clothes clean helped my peace of mind.
Things really went smoothly for us, and it was a much needed break. We'd been saving money to take our family to Disneyland "someday", but didn't think we'd ever be able to afford it. I'm so happy we found a way to make it happen, for less than we thought it would be!


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Connecticut may allow charitable donations in lieu of hunting, fishing fines
HARTFORD -- State legislators are considering a bill that would allow for charitable donations instead of fines for hunting and fishing violations.
The bill is being reviewed by the state's Environment Committee. It would allow violators to make charitable contributions to two state programs aimed at enforcing fish and game laws instead of paying fines.
The Turn In Poachers program offers rewards for information on poaching and other violations. The Lobster Restoration Program works to grow and protect the state's lobster population.
Under his revised budget proposals, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recommends that Lobster Restoration Program funding be reduced by $100,000.
Last year, a similar bill failed to make it out of committee.


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Bill Bennett is speaking tomorrow night in Minneapolis at the Center of the American Experiment's Fall Briefing. It will be a fun event, on the eve of a historic election. Information about the event is here. It is sold out, but you can still come, as my guest. We bought a row as we always do, but the wife of one of our guests is traveling in the Middle East and we had a last-minute cancellation, so we have three tickets left over. I am offering them to our readers on a first come, first served basis. You can have one ticket, two tickets, or three tickets, for free. Just be the first to email me at [email protected] Here is more information about the event:
Note that free valet parking at the Woman's Club, which is near downtown Minneapolis just south of Loring Park, is mandatory as there is very little public parking in the area. If you are the lucky one(s) who get the free tickets, I will send you a reply email. When the tickets are gone, I will do an update to this post. I will put your name in so that all you have to do is show up, tell them your name and a ticket (or tickets) will be waiting for you in my row.
It will be a great evening, and I look forward to meeting a few of our readers!
UPDATE: Three tickets, three minutes–they are gone. Thanks to all who responded, and I look forward to meeting those who got tickets tomorrow evening.


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New Hampshire Union Leader Cherry-Picks Coverage Of Obamacare To Revive Popular Falsehoods
A New Hampshire Union Leader editorial promoted inaccurate claims regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including an exaggeration of the effects of the ACA on employee benefits, a false claim on rising premium prices, and a warning that Medicaid expansion would shift costs to hospitals, even as the hospital community praised the ACA for being financially beneficial.
Union Leader Claims Companies Are Likely To Reduce Benefits In Reaction To Rising Costs ACA
Union Leader: Organizations Will Be Forced To Cut Employee Benefits. The New Hampshire Union Leader cited CNN's report that the University of Virginia will no longer cover spouses (provided they can obtain insurance through their own employer) as proof that organizations will reduce benefits to most employees:
CNN counted three fees, one tax and the individual mandate as Obamcare provisions that "are certainly pushing up health insurance costs for employers..." The University of Virginia is dropping coverage for spouses who have their own insurance option because Obamacare will add $7 million in costs to its current coverage, university officials have said.
Though some companies were making similar changes before Obamacare, as CNN noted, "The ACA is definitely escalating the pace of change," a health care consultant told the network. [New Hampshire Union Leader, 8/31/13]
Employers Overwhelmingly Opted To Continue Spousal Health Insurance Coverage
The National Business Group On Health: Only 12 Percent Of Employers Will Exlude Spouses From Coverage In 2014. A report by the National Business Group On Health concluded that despite an increase in termination of benefits for spouses covered by their own employer, only 12 percent of all businesses studied will expect to exclude spouses from coverage in 2014, up from 4 percent of businesses that did so in 2013:
[National Business Group On Health, March 2013]
Bloomberg: Shifting Cost From One Employer To Another Is Not Necessarily A Bad Thing. As a Bloomberg editorial suggested on August 22, what UVA and other organizations have done may not negatively impact spouses because they will maintain health care coverage and organizations will save money:
No one can blame companies for wanting to shift the cost of covering some workers' spouses to those spouses' employers. But such a shift needn't lead to any loss of coverage -- a happy outcome that Obamacare makes more likely, not less. [Bloomberg, 8/22/13]
Bloomberg: Organizations Will Shift Spousal Coverage Despite ACA Savings, Not Necessarily Because Of ACA Costs. Bloomberg's editorial also suggested that organizations that are shifting spouse coverage to their employers may be reacting to high premiums and rising health care costs that will be reduced by the ACA. Bloomberg looked at UPS's situation, which, like UVA, excludes spouses from coverage if it is offered by their employer, and concluded:
UPS also says its new policy is needed because of the "rising cost of health care in general." Yet this cost is rising far more slowly than it was before the Affordable Care Act was passed. Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage are up only 4 percent this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over the past decade, they have generally been rising about three times faster. And the slowdown appears to be occurring in part in response to the new law. [Bloomberg, 8/22/13]
Union Leader Claims Premium Prices Will Rise For Most Americans
The Union Leader: Premiums Will Rise For Most Americans. The Union Leader relied on an August 29 National Journal report to conclude that "the vast majority of Americans" will pay higher premiums due to the ACA:
National Journal reported last week: "For the vast majority of Americans, premium prices will be higher in the individual exchange than what they're currently paying for employer-sponsored benefits, according to a National Journal analysis of new coverage and cost data. Adding even more out-of-pocket expenses to consumers' monthly insurance bills is a swell in deductibles under the Affordable Care Act." [New Hampshire Union Leader, 8/31/13]
Premiums Will Likely Remain The Same Under The ACA
RAND: "Nongroup Premiums Are Estimated To Remain Unchanged At The National Level." The RAND Corporation's report, The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Markets, concluded that many Americans would see little change in premium prices, and stressed that premiums will vary based on several factors:
Our Analysis suggests that comparisons of average premiums with and without the Affordable Care Act may overstate the potential for premium increases. Sweeping statements about the effects of the Affordable Care Act on premiums should be interpreted very carefully because the law has complex effects that differ depending on individuals' age and smoking status, the actuarial value of the plan chose, individuals'' eligibility for federal tax credits, and state implementation decisions. Once we adjust for age, actuarial value, and tobacco use, nongroup premiums are estimated to remain unchanged at the national level and in many states. Further, after accounting for tax credits, average out-of-pocket premium spending in the nongroup market is estimated to decline or remain unchanged in all states considered and in in the nation overall. [RAND Corporation, Accessed 9/4/13]
Union Leader Claims Medicaid Expansion Will Place Fiscal Burden On New Hampshire Hospitals
Union Leader: New Hampshire's Hospitals Will Financially Suffer If Medicaid Is Expanded Under The ACA. The Union Leader citied a Lewin Group study that looked at the impact of Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire to claim that the state's participation in Medicaid expansion "would cost hospitals $228 million." The editorial explained that the cost comes from low-income people dropping their insurance and applying for Medicaid coverage as they become eligible under the expansion. [New Hampshire Union Leader, 8/31/13]
Cherry Picking Hospital Data Downplays Overall Positive Benefits Of Medicaid Expansion
The New Hampshire Hospital Association Supports Not Just Hospitals, But Health Care Systems. A December 2009 report by the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA) explains the collaborative efforts of treatment facilities that make up a health care system:
Traditionally, acute care hospitals have included inpatient care and emergency room services, 24/7. However, it is important to understand that acute care hospitals have changed. In response to diverse health care needs and to adapt to a changing, complex environment, acute care hospitals in New Hampshire are now systems of local health services that may include: primary care and specialty care physician practices; ambulatory surgery centers; health centers or clinics; assisted living or skilled nursing care facilities; home care or hospice services; rehabilitation therapy centers, etc. For example, primary care physician practices are more often becoming part of a "hospital system" because independent practices are not as financially viable. Assisted living facilities within a hospital system are often in response to an aging population. [New Hampshire Hospital Association, December 2009]
The Lewin Group: Health Care Systems Will See Uncompensated Care Reduced By $340 Million "With Or Without The Medicaid Expansion" And Increased Profits. According to the Lewin Group's study, health systems -- which include hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, freestanding surgical centers and home health agencies -- in New Hampshire are likely to benefit from a significant reduction in uncompensated care as well as a 28 percent increase in profits under the Medicaid expansion model:
Using the Lewin Group Health Benefits Simulation Model for the state of New Hampshire and data provided by the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA), we estimate uncompensated care (bad debt, charity care, and undercompensated care due to below-cost Medicare and Medicaid payments) for New Hampshire health systems, which include the hospital as well as other entities owned by the system, such as physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, freestanding surgical centers and home health agencies. Here, health systems in the state could see uncompensated care reduced by about $340 million (4 percent) under the ACA with or without the Medicaid expansion (Figure E-7). This is due to the take-up of commercial coverage anticipated in reaction of the individual mandate.
As shown in Figure E-8, we estimate that health systems would see an increase in net income of about $113.1 million under the Medicaid expansion assuming full implementation in 2014, which would represent a 28 percent increase from their current net income. [The Lewin Group, January 2013]
Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid Reimbursements Will Increase 50 To 99 Percent In New Hampshire Due To The ACA. According to a December 2012 report on Medicaid expansion by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid reimbursements will increase 73 percent on average nationally, and will increase between 50 and 99 percent in New Hampshire:
[Kaiser Family Foundation, December 2012]
Concord Monitor: Doctors And Hospitals Agree That Medical Expansion Is Financially Beneficial. According to the Concord Monitor, medical providers were in support of expanding Medicaid citing financial benefits and improved health care for citizens:
Medical providers - hospitals and community mental health centers, doctors and nurses - presented a united front yesterday in support of expanding New Hampshire's Medicaid program.
"We see it both as a public health and an economic imperative for our state," said Henry Lipman, senior vice president for financial strategies and external relations at LRGHealthcare, to the state commission studying Medicaid expansion as it met in Representatives Hall. [Concord Monitor, 8/27/13]


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We now know the secret why Kevin Costner has been writing so many baseball songs — he's resurrecting his beloved Crash Davis for an upcoming sequel to Bull Durham, the New York Post's Page Six says. Say it ain't so, Kev!
A source tells the tabloid that Costner just met with director Ron Shelton in L.A. to discuss going to the well again. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are supposed to return, as well, but it seems Nuke and Annie were the ones who lived happily ever after, and bought a Major League baseball team that Crash manages.
Throw on top of that steaming pile the idea of Kristen Kerr as one of the cantankerous catcher's love interests and you will see every baseball fan on the planet simultaneous vomit onto the bleacher bench in front of them. Since the Rays have a working relationship with the Bulls, can't they do anything about this? This is the worst idea since the designated hitter — remember, Kevin, you're better off being a Sixty Minute Man.


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Welcome to the CRG Discussion Forum!Forum registration problems: Make sure you enter your email correctly and you check your spam box first. *Then* email KurtS2@gmail for help.Classified ads are not allowed on the forum.
I would take it up with your service provider or find someone in your area on the same service and see if they get the same error. T-Mobil?
I have a similar issue when using my work computer, I can look at the main public CRG pages but if I click on the button to take me to the forum, I get an error message stating that the page is forbidden because it requires me to log in. I don't get an opportunity to log in though, not sure why. Used to work before the site upgrade.
I've never seen a blocked access report on the site level - shouldn't have any.But I can see it on the forum level. Dave/Tim, send me an email and we'll try a test or two.
FYI I get anError occured: 403 - forbiddenwhen I am not on WIFI on my iphone.


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Harlan, John Marshall (1833–1911, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
John Marshall Harlan, 1833–1911, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1877–1911), b. Boyle co., Ky., grad. Centre College, 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853, he served in the Civil War as a colonel in the Union army until 1863, when he became attorney general of Kentucky. He took a leading part in the violent political struggles of the day, becoming after the war a leader of the conservative Republicans; he was defeated for the governorship, however, in 1872 and 1875. As head of the Kentucky delegation to the Republican national convention in 1876, he played a leading role in the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes. In Oct., 1877, Hayes appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A man of strong and independent convictions and, on the whole, a strict constructionist, Harlan became known as a dissenter. In the "insular cases" (1901) he protested against the decision that denied the residents of the new U.S. possessions the national benefits of the Constitution. He upheld the police power of the states, dissented in the civil-rights cases (1883) and the income-tax case (1894), and argued that the court had no right to read the word unreasonable into the Sherman Act in the decisions against the Standard Oil and American Tobacco trusts. A firm defender of civil liberties and civil rights, Justice Harlan dissented vigorously in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the Supreme Court enunciated the "separate but equal" doctrine justifying segregation. In 1893, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him to the tribunal to settle the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy (see under Bering Sea) at Paris.
See the memoirs of his wife, M. S. Harlan, Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911 (2002); F. B. Clark, The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice Harlan (1915); F. Latham, The Great Dissenter (1970).


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It's widely known that Jürgen Klopp is the only Bundesliga manager who doesn't need to wear a mask to frighten the kids on Halloween. But on Saturday afternoon, the Dortmund manager showed us his softer, altogether sweeter side. When his attempt to volley a stray ball back on to the pitch misfired badly – he shinned it to the side and smack on the back of the head of the fourth official Thorsten Kinhöfer, who was scribbling furiously away on his notepad at the time – Klopp was a picture of acute, sheepish embarrassment, complete with a hefty dose of schoolboy charm.
The short clip of the incident doesn't quite do it justice. The scene, captured in super slow-motion glory by German Sky, continues with a po-faced Klopp looking around in distress for a good eternity before acknowledging Kinhöfer's discomfort with a shrug of the shoulder. It's not quite an apology, more a self-deprecating admission of guilt. "What do you expect from me, I was never very technical as a player," Klopp seemed to be saying.
That would have been quite funny by itself – by German standards anyway, we like that sort of thing – but it was made even more entertaining by the fact that Klopp and Kinhöfer had previous. In 2007 Klopp, then the Mainz coach, was fined €12,500 for calling the official an "idiot". Both his embarrassment and non-apology after the misguided volley were much more comical as a result.
Under normal circumstances this scene would have set the news agenda, but neither Klopp nor Kinhöfer were asked a question about it, as far as this column knows. There was just too much else going on in the 143rd Revierderby at the Veltins Arena. And most of it wasn't laughable.
Unlike in last season's instalment (180 injured) there was no wide-scale violence, but plenty of smoke and fire. Yellow smoke bombs in the Dortmund section of the ground delayed kick-off by 10 minutes. Much worse, however, were the flares fired on to the pitch – Roman Weidenfeller was targeted by his own fans when he tried to intervene – and into the Schalke stands made up of regular supporters and families. "At that moment I was ashamed of our supporters," said Klopp after the final whistle. "We won despite these missiles, not because of them." The Dortmund chief executive, Hans-Joachim Watzke, spoke of "antisocial behaviour" that was "intolerable and unacceptable". Stadium bans for the perpetrators were on the agenda, he told Sky on Sunday.
Only a handful of fans were to blame, of course, but the latest trouble has come at a sensitive time. Police and local politicians throughout Germany are still advocating more draconian measures and the chaotic scenes from Saturday, seen as a bit of harmless fun by many of the Ultras, could usher in a more repressive approach.
Furthermore, they endanger the special bond that many teams and their supporters enjoy in the Bundesliga. The Dortmund players could not stop themselves from celebrating widely with their fans after the game had finished 3-1 in their favour. Would a symbolic snub have sent the appropriate no-tolerance message in this case, as the local paper WAZ seemed to think? "Dortmund and Weidenfeller, who led the celebrations, missed a great chance to make a statement," it wrote. On the other hand, non-celebrations would have amounted to a collective punishment for the 95% of law-abiding fans. Kevin Großkreutz's declaration – "I'm not ashamed for anybody, everybody is responsible for their own behaviour" – didn't really help, either.
At least there could be no arguments about right and wrong on the pitch. Dortmund's performance confirmed Schalke's deepest fears – the qualitative gap between the two sides has become so big that all the pre-season talk about "playing on the same level" (Schalke's sporting director Horst Heldt) appears preposterous in hindsight. To understand the Royal Blues' frustration, it's worth noting that their neighbours, who seemed down-and-out not long ago, have managed to erect a super mansion next door while the House of Schalke resembles an eternal building site, liable to fall down at the first gust of wind. That's what happens when you hire architects who lack flair as well as organisational skills.
"Jens Keller's position is assured, we will give him the time," said the Schalke chairman, Clemens Tönnies, unconvincingly. Even the most benevolent appraisal of the 42-year-old's reign – he has suffered from injuries to key players – has to attest to a total absence of any progressive momentum, over-arching playing style or, even, a smidgen of consistency. And what does it say about Keller's leadership qualities if he couldn't bear to watch Kevin-Prince Boateng's failed penalty attempt? (Heldt turned his back, too).
Schalke created some chances, to be fair, but the visitors were superior in all relevant categories. "We played against Dortmund today," said Keller with an air of resignation that has become quite persistent. Heldt quickly revised the season target's down to scraping into fourth space. The top three – Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen – are not just miles ahead in the table, but also playing much-better, well-planned football than the rest.
Schalke's horror weekend was compounded on Sunday night when Ottmar Hitzfeld hinted that Boateng's knee problems are chronic. "It is rumoured that he was already injured when he came to Schalke," the Switzerland manager told Sky. "They saw the problem in the medical, that's why they got him." Schalke subsequently denied this version of events. But in Italy, too, there were suggestions that Milan had been surprisingly keen to get rid of the 26-year-old, who was signed for a relatively modest fee of €10m.
Heldt admitted that the Ghanaian international had hardly trained over the past couple of weeks, and he refused to make any long-term prognosis. "I don't know what will be in one, two or six months," said the 43-year-old. Maybe it'll be someone else's problem by then.
Talking points
• Hans E Lorenz, the chairman of the German FA's sports tribunal, likes a bit of a laugh. "Mr [Stefan] Kiessling, now you've been finally invited by the German FA" was his welcome to the Leverkusen striker (and non-favourite of Joachim Löw) at the opening of the "Phantomtor" adjudication on Monday. Lorenz also mused that Kiessling could be made to try and hit that same hole in the Hoffenheim net again and again. In the serious matter of a muted replay, Lorenz was unmoved, however. "The decision of the referee was wrong, but that's part of the system," he said. "It's not up to us to change the system." So there won't be a replay.
• The officials from Hannover had seen that decision coming. "I had a feeling throughout the week that it would be difficult for us because no referee would whistle against Hoffenheim today," said the Hannover sporting director, Dirk Dufner, after his side's 4-1 home defeat against TSG.
Mirko Slomka, the Hannover head coach, also seemed to suggest that the official had set out to right the wrong that was done to Hoffenheim the week before. "Maybe he felt under pressure," he said. The ref in question, Tobias Stieler, did not have his best day, to be fair – he awarded a penalty for a foul outside the box and sent off Hannover's Mame Diouf after only 12 minutes for dissent and a dive that didn't look clear-cut at all, before then also sending off the Hannover defender Marcelo in the second half.
"Total madness," foamed Diouf. There would have been more sympathy for Hannover's plight if they hadn't themselves made a gross mistake before the match. Steven Cherundolo, the captain, could not feature since the club had forgotten to officially register him as fit again, with a medical note. Before kick-off they told the press that the American had suffered a late back injury. "It was a stupid mistake," said Dufner.
• What Joe Hart can do, Oliver Baumann can do – but worse. The Freiburg goalkeeper made not one but three calamitous mistakes to gift Hamburg three goals and as many points on Sunday. Unlike Hart, however, Baumann faced the media with a mixture of self-effacing humour and defiance after the final whistle. "Fuck me, I don't look good at all here," said the 23-year-old while watching the replays. "It didn't quite work out as planned. But I'll emerge stronger from that." The "the slapstick keeper" (Welt) fared so badly that Rafael van der Vaart offered his condolences. "I've never seen something like that before," said the Hamburg midfielder, and he has played with Heurelho Gomes.
Results: Stuttgart 1-1 Nürnberg, Schalke 1-3 Dortmund, Leverkusen 2-1 Augsburg, Hannover 1-4 Hoffenheim, Bayern 3-2 Hertha, Wolfsburg 3-0 Bremen, Mainz 2-0 Braunschweig, Freiburg 0-3 Hamburg, Gladbach 4-1 Frankfurt.