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I can see he dual specs, and he is great at turfing missiles across the room.
At 1st thought he is a Hunter, but as much as he loves his fluffy stuffed non-combat pets, he runs screaming from any furry creature with blood pumping through it's body.
Maybe he's a rogue. He lies in wait for his unsuspecting Dad to enter a room, then ganks him. He knows how to find the soft spots, can bring Dad to his knees in only a couple of blows.
He cackles with glee as he delivers the final blow.
Rez Inc…
But then he must be a healer, because with a couple of quick motions, and a
Come on Dad, get up, I want to dead you again
Dad is back on his feet running from certain kiddy doom.
Maybe he's a warrior. He gained endless joy from waiting in the dragon's lair (under Grandma's dining table) with Dad for the ferocious fire breathing dragon (Mum) to return so he could ambush her.
Mind you he leaves trail of totems everywhere he goes, so maybe he's a Shaman.
Guild Leader
Whatever class he ends up being, he is defintely the Guild Leader…
He makes the decisions about what is going to happen when, who gets the raid invite (No Daddy, I want Mummy!).
Mind you he is the Drama Lama in the family.. bloody Leo's
(Speaking of Lamas… He loves petting zoos… can't wait to get inside, except… When he gets inside, near all those living breathing animals, then he wants out.. fast… The other day we found one at a festival and it had a Lama… Lama was eye height when in Daddy's arms… Daddy, I don't want to be here!)
Early (childhood) entry into gaming
On a slightly different subject Rip had a post on casual gaming, and just to throw in my 2 cents, I will draw attention to my son.
Not yet 3, but he can't get enough.
When I'm home, my iPhone is his. The more noise the game makes, the better it is.
Then he found YouTube on my iPhone, and the Wiggles videos. Then he found the same on the PC.
That new gaming mouse must be good, a week ago he couldn't use a mouse, now he can point and click a Wiggles video at 100 meters.
This is all good for me…
My farmer in training is coming along nicely…
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Dealing with sexual intruders from the UK to the USA
The Independent of London has taken a strong stand against unnecessary and intrusive laws which regulate the sexual lives of the denizens of the UK.
What the Independent is concerned about is the continuing attempt in the UK to ban extreme pornography. Most immediately The Independent is concerned about the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008 which takes effect in less than a month. Section 63 of this law prohibits pictures on the internet of someone having sex with a corpse as well as images of bestiality.
The Independent points out that-
The usual problems with such legislation are that in the first place the law is adopted in a mad hurry and is thus vague and unclear and, second, a set of general principles is wrongly deduced from truly exceptional circumstances.
With this law, the evidence of haste and a knee-jerk response to a specific event can be seen from the imprecise wording. As a result, the viewing of images of a number of practices that are legal, and which most people would consider acceptable if not exactly desirable behaviour between consenting adults, will become as illegal as viewing images of bestiality and necrophilia. All such viewers will have the same potential to be caught under the same dragnet.
Regrettably, the Government will probably get away with it. In these "on-message" days, no politician wants to be seen as the spokesperson for sexual freaks. A reputation for a partiality to bondage is not the way to boost the career of a junior minister or rising backbencher. And so a few more of our civil liberties are done away with – and the opportunities for police surveillance increased.
Ministers may even think they are on to a winner, by giving unpopular Sixties-style liberals a good drubbing – and a good dose of New Labour Puritanism at the same time. Well, perhaps so. It's also possible that the Government's obsession with regulating every aspect of peoples lives will rebound on it. We can only hope so, for the Government should beware of poking its long nose into people's sex lives, and when it is far from clear that such intervention is necessary.
The tactics used in the UK are not unique and are rather simple. Get some significant percentage of the public riled up about some sexual behavior which almost all persons agree is disgusting and obnoxious and then pass a law that goes way beyond the behaviors that led to the hysteria. In essence this is what happened in California with the passage of proposition 8. Make gay marriage illegal since if we have gay marriage then in some way this will facilitate the predatory sex crimes against children. Or as Rick Warren does, associate homosexuality with child abuse and incest.
And what is most germane to this blog, use cases of relationships between students and professors which involve coercion and harassment to ban all consenting sexual relationships between students and professors. And then present as a taken for granted assumption that such relationships undermine the integrity of the university. And, of course, once these rules are in effect, consenting student professor couples are unlikely to come forward to challenge these rules since they would then become subject to being penalized by the powers that be.
And what becomes most galling to the dankprofessor is that the belief comes into being that the laws have been successful since student professor couples have scant visibility on campus. Of course, they are not visible since they have been forced into the closet. As gays have come out of the closet on campus, student professor couples now occupy that closet. The campus moral entrepreneurs and zealots have carried the day with barely a peep from the liberty advocating professoriate. Of course, it is fear that carries the day on campus; with or without tenure, almost all faculty will not speak up for their colleagues, colleagues who only want the basic right of sexual privacy and to be left alone.
And when it comes to this blog, I know that fear prevents many professors and students from posting comments. In 2008 I received many emails sent directly to me from students who have found these campus fraternization laws to be oppressive and hurtful. I have done my best to write helpful responses to these students. And I have done the same for a much smaller number of professors. So even though there are few comments on the dankprofessor blog from students and professors, I do believe that I am getting the dank word out. And the dankprofesssor will continue to blog.
I greatly appreciate the support of my readers in 2008 and am looking forward to the dankprofessor blog doing more good in 2009.
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[1]Later today, Gov. Christie makes public his budget proposal before a joint session of the Legislature. One of the key factors will be money for the rebuilding after superstorm Sandy. The federal government approved $60 million for New Jersey and other states but no one thinks that will be enough. And it is unclear how the "sequester" in Washington about to kick in would affect storm funds. Beyond that, there are the usual demands for money to run state government in an election year.
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Our Brothers And Sisters
Tito Naranjo
december 2009
"America is great at trying to make other people in their own image..."
When I was young I thought indigenous people were a phenomena particular only to the United States. Public schooling reinforced all kinds of misconceptions, creating Natives as a discovered and quickly conquered race. And, that after the Mexican border, the indigenous population ended. I learned that historical figures like Christopher Columbus, Don Juan De Onate ventured into uncharted territories already inhabited, established a presence while carving an indelible place for themselves in American history. No one clued me to the fact that indigenous people were everywhere in this world and not only were they everywhere they had incredibly rich cultures, with specific world views, languages and ceremonies. No mention of the magnitude and influence these cultures had on our world, none of that existed in my education. Of course later on I learned differently. I intellectually understood indigenous people existed elsewhere, however, this information didn't resonate truly until I met and worked with the Morales family from Obergon Mexico. Working with the Morales family on Always Becoming paved the way for a new awareness that informed me of indigenous connections and relationships all over the world. This awareness continued when an opportunity took me back to Mexico recently.
Guerillmina Ortega is a Totonac-Mexican woman who lives and works in the El Tajin area near Papantla, Mexico. Where is that you ask? El Tajin is in the state of Vera Cruz, 6 hours- by car- East of Mexico City. Vera Cruz, the port, is also a popular American vacation spot on the Gulf of Mexico. Back to Ms. Ortega. Guerillmina traveled to the Smithsonian three years ago, saw both the Always Becoming sculptures and the film while visiting the New Museum of the American Indian and decided she wanted to incorporate Always Becoming in a project. Ms. Ortega works at the Centro de la Artes Indigenas institute in El Tajin. The institute serves as a gathering place for several of the indigenous communities in the El Tajin region. The institute encourages a continuation of indigenous art forms and cultural knowledge through a number of programs and community oriented projects.Ms. Ortega and NMAI worked together to create a residency for me and twenty women from the institutes's House of Clay.The residency emphasized land and family- what that meant historically as cultural people and what it means to us now. Most of the people we worked with in the House of Clay were women who came from smaller, more remote communities in the El Tajin region.Because the residency was geared toward family, my daughter Eliza joined in this incredible project bringing a different voice which she used while working with Totonac children at the institute. Eliza and the children who's ages ranged from 6 to 13 years of age, painted portraits with clays from New Mexico and the land of El Tajin. They also picked up trash from the side of the roads, shared soda pop and learned words and sentences from each of their languages. At any given time during our residency there would be five languages in this group of thirty five or so people. There was one translator, but mostly there was a lot of pointing and guessing, mostly on my part. We spent 10 hours a day in a two room building made of bamboo and branches. We ate, we washed dishes and we made things out of the different types of clays. We shared clay techniques, cultural experiences and by day two, even though language was a challenge, we knew that gossip and laughing was a universal understanding. Each day we started off with prayers that the older women of the Clay House led, everyone seeking life in our own languages, asking for a good new day.
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"Um, I felt like they were family right off the bat."
Every morning before heading out to the Centro de la Artes Indigenas Institute, we crossed El Centro - the plaza area of Papantla - to get a cup of coffee. The community is small enough that it's easy to walk the town's length and after a couple of days it's very possible to keep running into the same people. Of course El Centro is where everyone gathers to sell food, shoe shines, catch taxi and a lot more, it's the heart of the community. As Eliza and I sat in a booth at the town's only coffee shop, two elderly women turned around and waved to us. We waved back and 30 seconds later they were at our booth chatting away. It didn't seem to matter that my Spanish is at best, poor. That we looked different, that we were obviously strangers, none of that mattered to these two women or anyone else in Papantla. By the end of our visit with the ladies at the coffee shop - they had to leave for work- we were on a first name basis as they hugged us and wished us a blessed day. This kind of interaction was an on going phenomena. Affectionate and chatty.Curious and open. Kind and unbelievably giving the people in Papantla and the other communities embraced us and allowed us a place at their table.
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December 2009
"We've made everything un-sacred. Uh, we have made everything profane. And profane means that
it...it...it is just a tool we use that has no special meaning, when we're done with it, we throw it away, you know. Uh, the sacred, you don't do that to it. The sacred you preserve."
The sacred is in the land. In those rich, green hillsides of Mexico that bear witness to fertility and continuity. The sacred is in the people who create lives while making vessels and homes, farms and ceremonies.They are the brothers and sister, aunts and cousins we've missed knowing because we've been taught to think they do not exist. We are like them in many ways. We are coiled from the same earth and spirit. We breath and die under the sky. In Tito Naranjo's interview, he spoke about the sacred and about seeking life.The sacred is here with us, still. It's in the small communities tucked along the hillsides of Mexico. The sacred is on the plains where Comanches gather to celebrate, in the arid landscape of the Dineh and the cold white of the Antarctic. The sacred lives in the elders who prayed for us at El Tajin. It's in the cultural knowledge we are meant to use as a foundation for our lives now. The residency in El Tajin wrapped up the filming phase for Always Becoming, now we begin the process of using all the information we've gathered over the last year to tell the story of how a community oriented project became an even larger story about culture, the land and people.
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MLA Thomas Buchanan backing a Creation Outreach Ministries' conference on how best to teach YECism to children in schools.
I dunno.
We deserve better in the province:
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AN event aimed at promoting the rejection of evolution among children has been endorsed by an MLA who wants to see creationism "taught in every school".
DUP Assembly member for West Tyrone, Thomas Buchanan, praised those behind the conference titled 'Reaching Children in an Evolutionised World'.


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Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams met with Adam Dunn's agent in preliminary discussions on what Dunn is expecting in free agency this offseason, according to a major league source. The 31-year-old Dunn averaged 40 homers and 100 RBIs the past seven seasons. Numerous teams, including Washington where Dunn spent the past two seasons, are interested in the left-handed slugger.
One major league general manager told ESPNChicago.com that the starting point for Dunn will be a three-year, $40-million deal. …
Rosenthal said Dunn might accept a move to DH:
Dunn's made clear his distaste for a designated hitter's role, but he isn't about to rule out AL clubs, who comprise nearly one-half of his market. He could seek a longer term in exchange for accepting full-time DH duty.


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When life is fair, Beaufort County officials will seek group treatment for this obsession they seem to have for building new roads, whether they are needed or not.
It seems that once elected to office the urge to build some new road, parkway, bypass or flyover becomes paramount in their thinking patterns. Of course, parkway is a dubious term since after they are built and opened; the need to lower the speed limit to golf cart limits along some stretches becomes obvious because of design flaws or unanticipated obstacles.
Moreover, most of these roads are built under the never questioned justification of being needed for possible hurricane evacuation. Once that phrase is used, all opposition is effectively muted because who could be against safety in the event of a hurricane evacuation.
However if you take into account insurance company data, the likelihood of a Category 3 hurricane hitting us in this particular area comes about once every 79 years. In 79 years, Capt. Kirk will probably be in charge of teleportation patterns in our area if there is enough bandwidth, not if we have 14 to 20 lanes of asphalt laid heading westbound. We are just as likely to be hit with a tsunami in the next 79 years so should we also be borrowing tens of millions of dollars to build massive sea walls along the beaches to allow sufficient time for evacuation. Money spent educating citizens to evacuate when told, would be a better long-term investment than building roads that may or may not ever be needed.
It seems the prevailing mentality of most officials is that if you are not borrowing millions of dollars to build something new, you are failing your constituents. Perhaps sinking millions of dollars into the ongoing maintenance or beautification of what is already in place would be a better alternative than the construction of unneeded roads with no long-term plan to keep them functional.
There has been a four by four patch of spilled concrete in the eastbound turning lane of U.S. 278 onto Buck Island Road for at least six years, crossing the intersection of U.S. 278 and Simmonsville Road at more than 5 mph is an adventure that only auto undercarriage body shops can enjoy. For that matter, most of the new intersections along the Bluffton Parkway seem like designs from rollercoaster manufacturers.
It is time to stop building redundant roads, speculative escape routes and concentrate on the long-term usability of what we have already paid a few hundred million dollars to construct.
Unfortunately budgeting for ongoing maintenance is more difficult than borrowing capital dollars that allow for showy ribbon cutting ceremonies, but paving Paradise, kudos to Joni Mitchell, for the sake of doing something is not the answer.
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Yippee skippy ... look what arrived in my mailbox a few weeks back!
Yup, it's like an advance copy of my friend Aneela Hoey's debut line for Moda, Sherbet Pips! Many of you know Aneela as the creative force behind the comfortstitching blog, as well as a fellow founding member of Fat Quarterly. I've been able to catch just a small glimpse behind the scenes as Aneela was planning and working on this, her first major fabric collection (but surely not the last).
I know this line is going to be a BIG hit, based upon the major buzz that's going around the blog and Flickr communities and further evidenced by the fact that I believe it was the first line to completely sell out at Sample Spree during Quilt Market in Houston last month.
Want to see what the buzz is all about? Let's take a quick tour through the collection ...
First up, some whimsical illustrations in the inimitable Aneela style. These little guys (and girls) on scooters should look familiar to anyone who has followed Aneela's blog, and specifically her brilliant embroidery pieces. I am so happy to see them translated to fabric.
And did you notice the little puppy chasing after the scooters in the photo above? Well, he's featured in his very own print. And one of the things I love most about this collection is the color tone -- the reds, pinks, and aquas are a bit ... dusty. Not sure if that's the proper term, but they're a bit more muted than most, which I think will immediately give quilts made from this line a cozy, worn-in, and already much-loved feel. Oh, and are you starting to see the amazing fussy-cutting potential here?
OK, ready to be blown away? Take a look at the ingenious way that Aneela incorporated a stripe into the line ...
... SCARVES! How brilliant is that? The pièce de résistance of the line, IMHO.
But what I'm most excited about are the GREYS. Grey, grey grey ... I love it. I can't get enough grey fabrics, and this line really delivers. Instead of dots, Aneela designed squares. Squots, maybe?
Here are our scooter friends again, this time in the beautiful shade of grey. The exciting news is that I've heard from some of my other fabric designer friends that we'll be seeing a lot more grey prints next year. And I am a big fan of that news.
Little girls on swings -- another of Aneela's more popular illustrations. Have you seen her mini quilts based on this design? If not, check out this tutorial. It's great!
Another great grey print, and another riff on dots. This time, it's reverse dots. Yes please!
Big congrats to Aneela on what I am sure is only the beginning of a successful journey in the world of fabric design.
Sherbet Pips will be available in Spring 2011 .... April, I believe.


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Pinball machines and Ed Paschke paintings go side by side as a suburban museum becomes an artful arcade.
A place where ducks outnumber people 20 to 1 might not sound like somewhere you'd want to move with your wife and young daughter. But that's exactly what Chicago author David McAninch did.
Artistic responses to the politically pointed term are on display starting this week at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Learn about the "Sanctuary" exhibit.
Advocates for Illinois' agriculture industry anticipate new export opportunities if the U.S. relaxes trade barriers with Cuba.
Colorectal cancer is increasing among younger adults despite an overall decrease in the disease in the U.S., according to a new study. A local doctor talks about the disease and the importance of screening.
Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes could see a substantial amount of federal funding dry up.
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CALGARY — Team Canada's failure to win the gold medal at the IIHF world junior championship for the third year in a row is:
(a) a pity
(b) an embarrassment
(c) an outrage
(d) grounds for a federal inquiry, or at the very least, a national navel-gazing summit on the deplorable state of our national sport.
Myself, I'd be in the (a) camp.
There's a case to be made for (d), mind you, because our national sport is more than occasionally deplorable at some levels, mainly at the professional end. But Tuesday night's 6-5 loss to Russia in the semifinal of the 2012 under-20 tournament wasn't any kind of evidence of it.
It was, in fact, evidence of the opposite: that at the junior level, with adrenalin-charged teenagers equally apt to rise to enormous emotional highs or crash to panic-stricken lows, often in the same game, our hockey — and the Russians' hockey, and the Swedes' hockey and the Finns' hockey — can take an entire country on that same roller-coaster ride and leave a fan wondering, as all of us here were wondering Tuesday:
"What the heck did we just witness?"
A nervous, undisciplined, poor-finishing letdown by Team Canada in the first two periods, or a demonstration of jaw-dropping Russian skill? An epic collapse by the cocky, drama-queen Russians in the third period, or a classic exhibition of Canadian passion and wounded pride and grit that fell one goalpost, and perhaps a few more ticks of the clock, short of a miracle comeback?
Who feels worse heading into Thursday's afternoon bronze-medal match: the Canadian kids, for having lost their minds and their manners in an ugly second period before mounting a fierce rally? Or the Finns, for having one boot firmly planted on Sweden's neck, up 2-0 at the end of two periods, then blowing the lead and losing in the shootout when their captain and best player, Mikael Granlund, lost the puck and didn't even get a shot off?
Wednesday at the WinSport arena complex, where all four medal contenders practised simultaneously, was for kicking the loss to the Russians around one more time, licking wounds, and trying to put a happy face on the task of getting up for the consolation prize.
"Well, that's a challenge. It's a real challenge for us, and we've already started that process," said Canadian head coach Don Hay.
"You know, it's not the end of the world, right? We've got to go play the game. It's no use feeling sorry for ourselves, we've got to get over that. We have a job to do, and we have to go out and do it to the best of our abilities.
"I think they just have to (realize) that this is the last time they're going to be together, and you want to be able look back and reflect on what you've accomplished and be proud of that. You'd like to leave here with a medal."
There are any number of Canadian players who would love to have a few moments of Tuesday's game back — like forward Boone Jenner, whom the IIHF suspended for the bronze medal game for spearing Yevgeni Kuznetsov. The Russian star had skated over to Jenner, apparently to gloat, after Jenner had been flattened with an elbow to the head by defenceman Ildar Isangulov, who was also suspended and will miss the gold-medal match.
Or like Jonathan Huberdeau, whose 10-minute misconduct late in the second period for disputing a slashing call took Canada's most creative player out of the game for 12 vital minutes. Or like Brendan Gallagher, who was wonderful all night except when the little warrior took an obviously frustrated high-sticking penalty that handed the Russians the means to score their final, and eventually decisive, goal.
"Let's put it this way, when players get frustrated, they do things they regret," said Hay. "If you understand how important winning is, you really feel the value of discipline. It's about sacrifice and doing things to help you win — it's not about getting even."
For reasons difficult to explain, the Russians' speed and skill and determination seemed to catch the Canadians off-guard, and they didn't get great goaltending from either starter Scott Wedgewood or his reliever four goals in, Mark Visentin.
"I don't know if the best word is regret. Disappointment, bad decisions, yeah," said Wedgewood. "But for myself, it's probably going to be the biggest learning experience of my career, because it's the first time I've ever felt pressure of that (magnitude), in front of a crowd like that, in front of a nation. You've got to be able to handle it. I thought I was ready for it, but there's some things you can't be ready for until you've experienced it."
Unquestionably the Canadians had the easier path to the semifinal in Pool B, and could have used some high-pressure preparation for what the Russians threw at them.
"Russia came at us early, and I don't think we were expecting it, and we had to be more prepared for what they had," Wedgewood said.
"They got a couple of breaks early and we didn't know how to deal with it. It's the first time we'd got scored on first in the tournament, and then we were down two, and I mean — everyone wanted to win, it's not like we were going to give up, and we never did — but to be in that circumstance for the first time in the tournament kind of caught us by surprise."
Somehow, now two forwards short, the Canadians have to rise again.
"It may not seem all that important now, but 10 years, 20 years down the road that bronze medal sounds a lot better than fourth place," said Gallagher.
"It's not what Hockey Canada is all about — they're about gold medals. But they're also about playing hard every time you're on the ice.
"We try to do that the best we can, and hopefully everyone watching us sees that. We're going to go out there and play for them and play for that crest on the front of our jersey, and play for each other. It'll be a fun game, and we're going to enjoy it."
Fun? Without a gold medal to play for?
That's downright un-Canadian. Cue the summit.
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A reboot of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character has been in the works for the past few years, but the project has now finally gotten off the ground under the direction of Kenneth Branagh as Jack Ryan is currently in production. Chris Pine steps into the role that was previously portrayed onscreen by Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October), Harrison Ford (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger), and Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears), and this time around the titular Jack Ryan is an ex-Marine working as a Moscow-based financial analyst. Conflict is set in motion when he uncovers a plot by his employer (Branagh, pulling double duty) to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy.
Keira Knightley is set as the film's female lead, and Steve recently spoke with the actress at the Toronto Film Festival for her upcoming romantic drama adaptation Anna Karenina. Knightley talked about what incited her to do a large-scale thriller after dabbling in smaller budget fare over the past few years and how her affection for Branagh drew her to the project. Hit the jump to see what she had to say.
Knightley cited the somewhat dark nature of her past few projects as a motivation to do something a bit lighter in tone:
"I thought, 'I think I'd quite like to do something that's just entertainment'—not just entertainment, but entertainment in that kind of Hollywood sort of run-around, explosions [vein]. I've always loved thrillers; thrillers are incredibly difficult to do which is why there's so few of them made now, and [the Jack Ryan films] have always been really good thrillers, so I sort of fancied that."
The actress also said that the opportunity to work with Kenneth Branagh, who is both directing and acting in Jack Ryan, was also a major draw:
"Hugely, I'm working with Kenneth Branagh who has been a hero of mine since I was about 6 or 7, so getting to be directed by him and act with him is something that I just thought, 'I want to do that.'"
Knightley consciously chose to do smaller films in the wake of the massive Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, but following the intense drama of films like Never Let Me Go and A Dangerous Method, a Jack Ryan's sharp thriller tone is understandably appealing. You can watch the portion of Steve's interview with Knightley regarding Jack Ryan below, and look for the full interview closer to the release of Anna Karenina.


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Parking Permits
- UIS Parking Permit Application (online)
- Residential Student Parking map (pdf)
- Download complete Rules and Regulations (pdf)
All full and part-time faculty, students and staff must obtain a Parking Hang Tag for their vehicle, when parked on University property . The Hang Tag is obtained by registering the vehicle with the Parking Operations Office. Persons who work at the University of Illinois Springfield, but who are paid by another entity, must purchase a hang tag to park on University property.
NOTE: The parking hang tag image displayed provides an example of the 2009 – 2010 academic calendar year parking hang tag.
Parking Hang Tag Effective Dates:
An Annual parking hang tag is valid for the fall and spring semester, along with the summer session. For example, an Annual parking hang tag purchased during the FALL 2018 semester is valid for the Fall 2018 semester, the Spring 2019 semester, and the Summer 2019 session and has an Expiration date of August 31, 2019.
An Annual parking hang tag purchased in the spring semester is only valid for the spring semester and summer session. For example, an Annual parking hang tag purchased during the SPRING 2019 semester is valid only for the SPRING 2019 semester and Summer 2019 session and has an Expiration date of August 31, 2019.
All Housing parking hang tags are sold on the above mentioned academic calendar year format.
Therefore, regardless of purchase date the "18/19 UIS ANNUAL" parking hang tag's expiration date is August 31, 2019.
A Fall parking hang tag purchased in the fall semester is valid for that specific semester. For example, a Fall parking hang tag purchased in the Fall 2018 semester is valid only for the Fall 2018 semester and has an expiration date of December 31, 2018.
Therefore, regardless of purchase date the "18 UIS FALL" parking hang tag's expiration date is December 31, 2018.
See parking hang tag fees and refunds
Section 3-102 – Eligibility, General
A. Any University of Illinois Springfield student, faculty member, staff member, or other employee of the University is eligible.
B. No person shall register a vehicle, or receive a parking Hang Tag for a vehicle, unless he/she completes the Parking Hang Tag Application form online. Once the online purchase is complete, the Hang Tag permit receipt and a photo ID must be presented to the Parking Operations Office, in order to receive the appropriate Hang Tag. No hang tags will be sold to individuals with "dealer" license plates, without the permission and approval from the Parking Operations office.
Section 3-103 – Vehicle Eligible for Registration
Any UIS student, faculty, or staff member, may register only his/her vehicle, or the vehicle of a member of his/her immediate family, including any relative domiciled at the individual's residence. Each individual UIS student, faculty or staff member, that has a vehicle on campus, will be required to obtain a hang tag at the full price for their own vehicle.
Section 3-104 – Display of Hang Tag
Registration of a vehicle is not complete until the hang tag issued, is hung on the rear view mirror, of the front windshield, with the hang tag numbers facing toward the front of the vehicle.
Section 3-105 – Online Student Registration
Any student that is taking only on-line classes, and visits campus less than 6 times a semester (for exams, etc.), will be allowed to acquire and display a temporary "one-day" dashboard pass. The one-day "pass" should be requested by the on-line student through the Parking Operations office (see Section 3-102, B above). The UIS On-line Student should request and pick up the "one-day" dashboard pass from the UIS Parking Operations office.
Hang Tags
Section 4-101 – Issuance of Hang Tags
All hang tags shall be purchased online and acquired from the Parking Operations office. Payroll deduction is an additional online purchase option, but only for full-time faculty and staff.
Section 4-102 – Persons Affiliated With the University
Persons affiliated with the University of Illinois Springfield shall not park a motor vehicle on University property, without display of a current hang tag.
Section 4-104 – Car Pools
If a group of people wish to "Carpool" to work, one individual within that group shall obtain one "hang tag", which shall be transferred between the group's vehicles being used, when they take a different vehicle to campus. See Section 4-105 – Vehicle Registration Fees, for the fee structure.
Section 4-106 – Other Vehicle Usage
If someone wishes to drive a different vehicle to work, or class, they may only do so, if they transfer their hang tag to the other vehicle.
Section 4-108- Ownership of Hang Tags
All hang tags remain the property of the University of Illinois Springfield and may be reclaimed for cause at any time. Upon sale of a vehicle, or other changes of eligibility for motor vehicle privileges under these regulations, a hang tag must be immediately RETURNED to the Parking Operations office.
Section 4-109 – Manner of Displaying Hang Tag
All hang tags shall be hung from the rear view mirror of the vehicle. The lettering on the hang tag shall face the front of the vehicle. Individuals that only have a motorcycle, will be responsible for paying for one hang tag, but are not required to display it on the motorcycle. Should the individual have both a vehicle and a motorcycle, they should only purchase one hang tag, but will be responsible for displaying the single hang tag on the rear view mirror, of that vehicle.
Section 5-101 – Prohibited Parking
No person shall park a vehicle unless directed by police officers:
- (1) In a location other than an authorized parking lot or space.
- (2) In a location prohibited by a sign or a yellow curb marking.
- (3) In a marked loading zone for a period longer than the allotted time.
- (4) On walks or grass.
- (5) In a driveway unless marked or posted.
- (6) So as to block a crosswalk or driveway.
- (7) So as to block cars legally parked.
- (8) So as to block a wheelchair ramp.
- (9) In a designated parking space for emergency vehicles or other authorized vehicles.
- (10) On a campus street or driveway except where posted.
- (11) In a handicapped space unless the vehicle meets the standards for handicap parking as defined in Chapter 625, Illinois Compiled Statutes.
No vehicles with the exception of emergency vehicles may park in a fire lane.
Section 5-102 – Temporary Permits / Loading-Unloading
These temporary permits (dashboard passes) are available at no cost, to any visitor, but may only be issued by the UIS Parking Operations office during normal weekday business hours.
A. Temporary Employees
Temporary employees who are hired for a period greater than one month must purchase a parking permit for either a full semester, or yearly fee. Temporary employees hired for less than one month may be given a One Time Issue temporary parking permit on a case by case as need basis determined by the Parking Operations office.
B. Loading/Unloading Approval
Please contact the UIS Police department at (217) 206-6690, should you require an extended period of time to load/unload goods or material.


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Volunteers have been a critical ingredient in the success of many major sporting events in recent decades including previous IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. In May 2013, volunteers will again perform a variety of roles from the backrooms of arenas assisting with teams, media and VIP guests, sports presentation and ceremonies to helping visitors outside the arenas, Fan Zones and at transport hubs."Ice hockey is all about team work and the successful delivery of a tournament of this scale could not be possible without a team of dedicated volunteers, delivering the full range of services from ticketing, and media services to team and VIP services. Each volunteer will have a key role to play in ensuring a memorable experience for the global Hockey family", says Matti Nurminen, General. Secretary of the Finnish Organizing Committee.Nurminen together with his Swedish colleague Tony Wiréhn, General Secretary of the Swedish Organizing Committee, stress that volunteers will make a real difference to the smooth running of the Championship."On the other hand, this is a great chance for people interested in ice hockey or sports in general to see and learn what it takes to organize such a large scale event. But like great hockey players, great volunteers must be team players, dedicated, hard working and passionate."
Volunteers for both venues have been recruited. In case you want to learn more about the volunteer programs, please contact the OC for more information.


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Chloe Varelidi has been playing around with a small team thinking through how to make games hackable, free and open source. This work makes me happy. Somewhat relatedly, Greg Wilson has just written a terrific blog post about web literacy and why we need to provide pathways and tools that provide for creativity. What ties these two things together and loops in where we're headed with Webmaker Badges is their open ended, non-deterministic approach to learning. I believe that games and game design should be deeply integrated with Webmaker.org. Why? For a number of reasons I'll discuss here but perhaps most importantly it's because games are typically fun. True, they're not always fun but when they are, they can act like mental catnip.
Games present a number of opportunities for learning and tie in really beautifully with a variety of potential learning objectives, as well as outcomes.
There are a few books that point to games being effective teaching and learning tools—surprisingly tools that can have quite a positive impact upon personal perception and well-being (see Reality is Broken). And there are a number of research studies that are being focused on games. But the one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that what makes games great is the way that they provide immediate feedback, thereby diminishing the negative charge that usually rides shotgun with failure. We're taught to avoid failure and still, failure is a quotidian occurrence. We might more commonly refer to failure as making a mistake. Yet, learning to develop resilience in response to failure (an ability that tends to make people feel happier and helps them thrive) can be quite helpful. Games can help us to do just that.
It may seem obvious that games and learning go hand in hand but here are a few reasons why I see them as intertwined. Games generally do not hit you over the head with what they're teaching you. Nor do they often tell you why they're teaching you something. Heck, they don't even tell you that they're teaching you anything at all. They don't always provide instructions; this means that a player must discern how to play them. As Mario Herger said at the CalTech Entrepreneurs Forum: Venturing in Serious Games for Simulation, Education, and the Enterprise, "They don't come with a 200 page manual telling you how to use them." Players must use their own judgment about what's important and what comes next. This also means that a player typically makes a lot of mistakes about those things—and that's perfectly okay. In fact, it's expected that the player will make mistakes. Mistakes are built in to the process. Intentionally. How many other activities have the user's mistakes planned for and built into the process?
Perhaps what games teach more than anything is the value of persistence. If failure is anticipated, so is persistence. Extra lives anyone? I'd also argue that games teach the value of a community as well. What's the use of playing a game if you can't share it with someone else? Okay, that's a bit of an overstatement because there are games meant to be played entirely by yourself. Solitaire is one of them. But even within solitaire you play until you absolutely can't play anymore. And then you start again. Resilience.
Do we learn in games? Most certainly indirectly and directly as well. As mentioned earlier, we can come to understand persistence, social and moral values, community, the concept of multiple possibilities, how to assess options, the importance of planning, soft skills, hard skills—this list could go on and on and we could examine each property endlessly. But for now, let's just consider the ways in which games provide multiple pathways to achievements despite numerous and difficult obstacles: we like a challenge.
So, what does all of this mean for Webmaker.org? A lot. There's a huge opportunity for us to leap into the gaming boat; to set up a few challenges of our own. To ask people to not only play games, but to code games, to design and test them. Because developing a game for someone else puts you inside the mind of that someone else and encourages you to anticipate that person's next move. And the move beyond that. And this is the nexus of playing and learning. How can you make something fun and compelling and difficult enough to excite people but easy enough for folks to win every once in a while. This is precisely what we're aiming to do with Webmaker.
How might Webmaker Badges fit into all of this great potential? I'm guessing that some of this may appear obvious to you and I'd love to engage on that point. My next post will address how we might best integrate these two protean elements but in the interim, if you have ideas, send them my way.
McGonigal, J. (2011). Reality is broken. New York, NY: Penguin Press.


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Kalorama Triangle, due to the contracted period of time during which it was developed, as well the awareness of architectural styles, is a particularly important illustration of the aesthetics of middle-class speculative housing during the early years of the 20th century. The neighborhood is composed both of examples of high style architecture and modest builder-designed dwellings, but it is primarily a showcase for the stylistic variations of popular trends. Three important styles are abundant in Kalorama Triangle: English Arts and Crafts, Georgian Revival and Mediterranean (including both Italian and Spanish derivatives).
The first house constructed on the newly subdivided land was the Fuller House NR in 1893 at 2317 Ashmead Place. This house, designed by its owner, Thomas Fuller, is an early and important representation of the influence of the English Arts and Crafts Movement on residential architecture in the United States.
1850 and 1852 Biltmore Street provide the most handsome examples of the Mediterranean influence in the Kalorama Triangle. They were designed and built by W. Granville Guss for himself in 1911. The popularity of the Spanish Revival style rose in the 1920s. The firm of Sonneman and Justement designed a row of houses on Ashmead Place that were built in 1921.
Other significant buildings are listed below:
Lothrop Mansion NR
Woodward Apartments
2029 Connecticut
Kalorama Triangle presents many building types and a variety of styles. Its buildings are important both individually and for their relationship to each other. They present a visually rich medium composed of picturesque streets lined with rows of three-and four-story dwellings and anchored by solid blocks of multi-family apartments. Together, the form, size, scale, and the ornament materialize into a significant period piece.
Kalorama Triangle is roughly bounded by Columbia Rd., NW, on the east and south; Connecticut Ave., NW, Rock Creek Park on the west; and the rear of the properties on the north side of Calvert St., NW, on the north. The buildings referred to above are private and not open to the public. Metro stop: Woodley Park/Zoo.


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Third-period pressure shuts down Panthers 5-3
November 29, 2012 | Grand Rapids, Mich.
After two evenly matched frames, the Liberty Flames Division 1 men's hockey team put on the pressure in the third to skate away with a 5-3 victory in the last of a three-game series with the Panthers of Davenport University Thursday night in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Panthers got on the board first with a goal by Matt Ogden at the 5:20 mark, but Liberty capitalized off a turnover from Panthers netminder Phil Graveline as Luke Baumgarten intercepted a pass and backhanded it home to bury it in the back of the net, tying the game at 1-1 at the end of the first period.
The middle frame saw more points on the board for Liberty, with the Flames cashing in on Rick Turner's goal on the breakout, assisted by Steven Bellew and Andrew McCombe, firing into the high slot at 4:23 to pull away with a one-goal lead. It was Turner's 40th point earned in 20 games.
Bram Erickson then scored on an unassisted goal to put the game at 3-1.
The Panthers made a comeback late in the second, scoring two unanswered goals to lock the game at 3-3 going into second intermission.
Offensive pressure picked up at the beginning of the third, with Liberty's Andrew McCombe burying it in the net on a rush, with assists from Lindsay LeBlanc and Ryley Egan at 1:01. The Flames would keep the Panthers at bay for the rest of the game, with McCombe securing the final two-point lead by finding an empty net with just less than 30 seconds to go.
Liberty blocked eight shots in the final period, with goaltender Blair Bennett making 10 saves for a game total of 47.
The victory comes after a sweep by the Panthers, 2010-2011 ACHA Division 1 national champions, at Liberty in October, giving Davenport rights to the newly inaugurated Blue and Gray Cup, a trophy the two teams will now compete for annually in a best-of-three format. The cup celebrates their rivalry and the historical one between Michigan and Virginia dating back to the Civil War.
Liberty, ranked No. 12 going into Thursday's game, improves to 11-8 on the season and will take on No. 10-ranked Oakland University in the first of a two-game series Friday night at Onyx Ice Arena in Rochester Hills, Mich.


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In 1981, some three years after Johnny Paycheck's version of "Take This Job and Shove it" topped the country charts, a movie inspired by the twangy slam-The-Man anthem opened.
The middling comedy, starring Robert Hays in his first big post-"Airplane" role, has been all but forgotten. Paycheck's hit, meanwhile, is enjoying a zeitgeist revival thanks to the real-life airplane antics of rogue flight attendant Steven Slater, whose slide down an escape chute armed with beer lived up to the spirit of the tune better than any flick ever could.
While it took a few years for "Take This Job and Shove it" to spawn a film, Slater's JetBlue misadventure within days spurred Facebook pages, songs (most notably Jimmy Fallon's clever "The Ballad of Steven Slater") and even an animated recreation. Now there's talk of a Slater reality show – potentially carrying the steamed steward to the heights (or depths) of modern-day non-celebrity celebrity.
Perhaps the true ballad of Steven Slater isn't about living vicariously through a working stiff pushed two beers too far as much as it is about the jet-speed of his takeoff into what passes for stardom and folk-hero status three-plus decades after Paycheck's blunt, fantasy declaration.
The folks at TMZ reported Monday that Slater has been offered a reality show in which he would help people quit their jobs – presumably with a dose of the Walter Mitty-without-impulse-control theatrics that helped his story go viral.
The premise, frankly, sounds decidedly unrealistic – especially with a 9.6 percent unemployment rate. But a harsh economic climate in which many workers feel trapped, no doubt, is part of the appeal of the Slater tale (When "Take This Job and Shove it" hit the top of the country charts in early 1978, it should be noted, the U.S. also was in a pretty miserable economic state, coming off 7.1 percent unemployment rate).
A Slater show could prove an interesting counterpoint to CBS' surprise reality hit "Undercover Boss," in which CEOs masquerade as employees to get a seemingly first-hand look at the conditions facing workers. The boss, more often than not, ultimately comes across as a hero of sorts who promises change – certainly not the kind of person you would tell to shove a job or anything else.
That's long way from the plight of Paycheck's song character, a factory worker who's had it with a whole assembly line of bosses. But times have changed: Slater is a creature of the service economy age – he ostensibly was pushed over the edge not by supervisors, but by customers. (Never mind that his account of what sparked his reckless leap into fame reportedly is being questioned and that deploying the emergency chute could have caused serious injury or worse).
Part of the lasting charm of Paycheck's song, besides the sentiment, is that the title says it all – much like Fallon's catchy refrain of "You gotta get two beers and jump," which, when Slater finally slides off into the sunset, will be the soundtrack to his legend.
For fed up working folks everywhere, the tunes might be variation on a theme, but the song remains the same.
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Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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How do I get the AWS Access key and Secret Key?
- Use your AWS account email address and password to sign in to the AWS Management Console.
- In the upper right of the console, choose the account name or number and then choose Security Credentials.
- On the AWS Security Credentials page, expand the Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) section.
- Choose Create New Access Key. You can have a maximum of two access keys (active or inactive) at a time.
- Choose Download Key File to save the access key ID and secret access key to a .csv file on your computer. After you close the dialog box, you can't retrieve this secret access key again.
**We recommend that you create an administrative AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user for your everyday interaction with AWS instead of root access keys. Here is how you can create an IAM user : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html
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The NFL Championship game on December 26, 1955 featured the defending-champion Cleveland Browns against the Los Angeles Rams. The Browns were a perennial powerhouse under Head Coach Paul Brown, having won all four titles in the All-America Football Conference and then appearing in five straight NFL Championship contests after joining the NFL in 1950, winning two. The quarterback throughout the remarkable run was Otto Graham (pictured at right), who had announced his retirement following the previous year's title win but agreed to come back when the club was foundering in the preseason. Cleveland went 9-2-1 to again top the Eastern Conference.
The Rams, under first-year Head Coach Sid Gillman, finished a half-game in front of the Bears in the Western Conference at 8-3-1. They were largely a veteran club best known for offensive prowess. QB Norm Van Brocklin was a formidable passer and still had savvy veteran ends Tom Fears and Crazylegs Hirsch as targets. Rookie HB Ron Waller joined with veteran FB Tank Younger to pace the ground attack and the defense was anchored by All-Pros in DE Andy Robustelli and HB Will Sherman.
There were 87,695 fans under a gray sky at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Browns missed out on a first quarter touchdown when DHB Ed Hughes wrestled a pass away from HB Ray Renfro for an interception. Both clubs parried until Cleveland, capitalizing on an interception by safety Ken Konz, finally got on the board with two minutes remaining in the opening period on a 26-yard field goal by Lou Groza.
The Browns got another big defensive play in the second quarter when DHB Don Paul (pictured at left) returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown, with only the slow-footed Van Brocklin between him and the goal line. However, on LA's next possession HB Skeet Quinlan scored on a spectacular long pass after beating DHB Warren Lahr. The play brought the home crowd alive and, at least briefly, kept the contest competitive with the Browns leading by 10-7. But just before the half the Browns scored again when Graham connected with end Dante Lavelli for a 50-yard TD. It was 17-7 at the midway point and Cleveland would not look back.
In the third quarter, Konz returned a punt 24 yards to set up a five-play, 46-yard drive that ended with Graham rolling out around end and running 15 yards for a touchdown. Shortly thereafter, LB Sam Palumbo intercepted a Van Brocklin pass to give the Browns the ball in LA territory and they drove 36 yards to a one-yard scoring carry by Graham. Cleveland had a commanding 31-7 lead.
Early in the fourth quarter, Renfro caught a pass from Graham for a 35-yard touchdown to cap the scoring for the Browns. Thoroughly overwhelmed, the Rams finally scored again with three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter on a four-yard run by Ron Waller, long after the contest had been decided. With a little time remaining, George Ratterman came in at quarterback for Cleveland and Graham received a standing ovation from what was left of the crowd as he trotted off the field. The Browns were once again NFL Champions by a score of 38-14.
While both teams had 17 first downs apiece, the Browns had the edge in total yards (371 to 259). More significantly, LA turned the ball over seven times (all by interceptions), to three by Cleveland. And while the Rams were unable to capitalize on their takeaways, the Browns generated 24 points from theirs, including the one long interception return for a score.
Otto Graham completed 14 of 25 passes for 209 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions, and also ran the ball 9 times for 21 yards and two TDs. FB Ed Modzelewski (pictured at right) led the Browns with 61 yards on 13 carries as well as 5 pass receptions for 34 yards. Dante Lavelli gained 95 yards on his three catches that included a touchdown.
For the Rams, Norm Van Brocklin was successful on 11 of 25 throws for 166 yards and a TD but also was intercepted six times (Bill Wade relieved him and tossed another interception). Skeet Quinlan caught 5 passes for 116 yards and the one long touchdown. FB Dan Towler led the club in rushing with 64 yards on 14 carries and Ron Waller contributed 48 yards and a TD on 11 attempts.
It was a near-perfect sendoff for Otto Graham, who made clear that he was retiring for good this time. He left having piloted the Browns to ten straight title games – four in the AAFC and six in the NFL – with seven wins in that string. While his career passing totals pale in comparison to those accumulated in modern offenses, his pro statistics include 23,584 passing yards and 174 touchdowns against 135 interceptions. Of that, 13,499 yards, 88 TDs, and 81 interceptions came in the NFL. He led the NFL in completion percentage in each of his last three seasons and twice led in passing yards. Graham's career average yards-per-attempt of 8.6 is still the best in NFL history. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965.
Graham's value to the Browns was further underlined in 1956 when, without him in the lineup, they suffered the first losing season in franchise history (5-7). They bounced back to top the Eastern Conference in '57.
As for the Rams, they dropped all the way to the bottom of the Western Conference with a 4-8 record in 1956 and did not return to the postseason until 1967. Norm Van Brocklin's poor performance in the '55 title game became one of the points of contention between the talented but irascible quarterback and Coach Gillman, ultimately leading to his departure from the team following the '57 season.


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If you want to receive more singals, maybe this high quality omni antenna is a good choice.
- Standard SMA female connector, compatible with most wireless devices like AP, wireless router, PCI wireless network card, etc.
- Omni-directional
- Betriebstemperatur: -40℃ to 80℃
- Color: Black
- Gain: 16dBi
- Frequency: 2.4-2.483GHz
- Connector: RP-SMA
- Length: Approx. 14.8 inches
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The New York Times website has certainly seen better days. The financially-strapped company blundered late last year with its TimesSelect gimmick, placing its regular columnists behind a subscription scheme and strangling its circulation.
Until the TimesSelect fiasco, the regular columnists were nearly always among the "most emailed" stories on the site. Nowadays, one of them might show up as "most emailed" monthly, if that. How happy they all must be.
Personally, I won't miss Kristof's unhealthy fetish for suffering girls; Dowd's and Rich's determination to stretch the limits of English by writing the same two articles as many times as humanly possible; Friedman's wholly imaginary expertise in development economics; Brooks's unique blend of chirpy bourgeois confidence and Panglossian bromides; or Herbert's morbid fears. Tierney, who replaced the plodding and bombastic Safire, and not a moment too soon, disappeared behind the Greenback Curtain before I could form an opinion, which leaves Krugman as the only columnist I've found worth reading occasionally.
Only, I'm not nearly fan enough to pay 50 bucks a year for his column. Maybe 10 - maybe. Which brings us to why TimesSelect is a failure - except, perhaps, to the bean counters: most readers have one or two columnists whom they follow, but only read the others when they're bored or feel the need to sneer at something. The TS price is based on the foolish assumption that readers will pay ten bucks a year for each of the columnists, whereas an à la carte service might actually have worked.
It would not take much at this point to persuade one to delete the NYT website from one's bookmarks. The same news is available anywhere, unless you're looking for WMD hype from a sock-puppet of Ahmed Chalabi that helps start a war, or news about an illegal Bush Administration domestic spying program, quite relevant to the 2004 elections, that the paper spiked until more than a year after the elections, or something like that.
The restaurant reviews are painfully soft, essentially BJs for the city's celebrity chefs and major restaurateurs, and the book reviews - except those from the regular staff - are a forum for reviewers to exhibit all the long, thick, hard books they've read, and lecture their own views on the subject, while ignoring the book under review entirely.
Here's what it looks like in Mozilla:
It's a real sensory overload, with indistinct, overlapping columns, and numerous links that don't work if JS is disabled. There's little visual hierarchy. It's all a muddle.
It looks a bit cleaner in Firefox, but it still suffers from crowding and a homogeneous look:
Essentially, it's more text, more links, and more buttons, whistles, and bells, crammed into slightly more space. And the paper seems rather proud of this accomplishment:
"We have expanded the page to take advantage of the larger monitors now used by the vast majority of our readers. We've improved the navigation throughout the site so that no matter what page you land on, you can easily dig deeper into other sections or use our multimedia," NYT editor-in-chief Leonard M Apcar explains.
To be fair, the W3.org markup validator found only 338 errors on the NYT home page, which is not that bad, compared to technology news outfit c|net's 449 errors.
So this, then, is the Gray Lady's answer to its loss of credibility, from the Jayson Blair fiasco, to Judith Miller's hard-selling of the Iraq war with absolute rubbish for sources and zero evidence, to spiking a story with serious implications for the 2004 elections: more buttons, whistles, and bells.
The management should be bloodying their knees apologising. Instead, they're distracting us, hoping we'll be captivated by their poorly-executed high-tech gimmickry.
The Gray Lady has truly hit rock bottom. ®


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Spring Training Day 1
For the fifth year in a row, I decided to make the trek to Spring Training in Florida. However, this year, I would travel with my girlfriend Amy instead of my dad, who is recovering from surgery.
There was some early airport drama, where we arrived at the security checkpoint 12 minutes prior to the boarding of our plane due to flooding of rivers in Pittsburgh which led to the closing of 376 west, the highway that leads us to the airport. However, Amy did some smooth talking to a TSA agent and got us moved to the front of a lengthy security line, and we arrived at our gate just as the plane began boarding.
We arrived in Tampa at 10:30 and awaited our first spring training game the next day.
We arrived at McKechnie Field bright and early at 9AM and took the obligatory picture in front of the stadium:
And in front of a Spring Training sign posted there:
After taking several more photos, we walked around to the back of McKechnie Field, where I would do my ballhawking for the day.
Here's the entrance to the area behind the fence:
The building that you see there to the left is a Boys' and Girls' Club that was closed since it was a weekend.
We actually got there too early, as the cage wasn't even up yet,
and the players were just starting to stretch
and have a meeting in the outfield.
Batting practice wouldn't even get started until about an hour later around 10AM, as the players would do some baserunning drills and infield work first.
That left us ample time to explore the area behind the outfield wall. There were a few changes from last year in the area behind the fence.
First, there were a bunch of picnic tables installed, which would lead to crazy bounces and limited range if a ball hit in that area.
Second, the garage where two mechanics used to work on cars had apparently been bought out by the Boys and Girls Club, as evidenced by the logo on the side of the building. This would lead to decreased competition, as the mechanics would typically try and compete for baseballs and subsequently sell them for $3 each at their garage.
Finally, an orange fence was installed to protect bus windows from being shattered by baseballs, and a basketball hoop had been erected in the area.
We made our way behind the old garage,
and over to the area behind the batter's eye in center field.
All the while, I was keeping an eye out for easter eggs, but there were none.
In the area behind the wall in right center field, there is a small practice field.
After a while, Pirates pitchers came out to do some PFP, Pitcher's Fielding Practice. Working with pitching coach Ray Searage, the pitchers first worked on taking grounders and making a throw to second base.
Then, they fielded bunts and threw the balls to third base.
Finally, the pitchers took line drive comebackers. The players appeared to be having fun, but none as much as Searage who was extremely cheery and enthusiastic.&nbs
This was my view from the security fence. I didn't bother any of the players by calling out to them or getting their attention, I just stood and watched.
My girlfriend took a video, about halfway through or so, Evan Meek recognizes me and waves to me. You'll also see Joel Hanrahan say hello to me. Both of the pitchers were very kind to me at batting practice and have had conversations with me on several occasions.
Check it out in Amy's video:
There still wasn't much going on, so I took a video of the area behind McKechnie Field.
Check it out:
Batting practice wouldn't start for another 30 minutes or so, and the waiting took forever. There was a lot of standing around.
Followed by some pacing.
It allowed Amy to take some random photos, such as this one of a squirrel:
Or this one of an inch worm.
When batting practice finally got underway, it was more of the same. Standing around.
And pacing.
And kneeling.
At McKechnie Field, you can't see the ball until its about to leave the field. I absolutely hate it. It's very tedious. Imagine doing that for two hours. I was kind of frustrated with the whole process, but I had my girl there to keep me calm.
There were only two competitors there with me. A man in a Barry Bonds shirt,
and his friend.
The two worked as a team. Later, they would be seen selling the balls on the street as we exited the stadium.
They stayed close to the secondary fence and had that whole area covered thanks to a 20 foot long ball retrieving device:
Since they played up, I waited back for any balls that would clear both fences. Unfortunately, there was NO wind at all today, so most fly balls died in left field before even reaching the fence.
I did get my first ball of the day near the end of the Pirates' batting practice. Amy spotted it first and shouted "Erik! Erik! Erik!" and pointed towards the building. A ball had landed on the roof.
It rolled off the roof and I raced over to scoop it up before ballhawk #2 could get there.
We had arrived at the stadium almost 2 hours ago, and I finally had a baseball to show for it.
I wouldn't have gotten that one had it not been for Amy's heads up.
The Phillies than came out to hit.
Their session was ama
zingly disappointing. Since the Phillies had a split squad today, they brought all of their scrubs, and very few home runs were hit.
To pass the time, the guy in the Barry Bonds shirt offered to play catch with me.
It was much better than standing idly, so we began to throw:
We caught for about 10 minutes.
This was all during Phillies' BP. That's how dead it was.
Near the end of the Phillies' BP, a batter crushed a home run that bounced on the pavement and into the cypress tree moss above. I crouched down and used my glove to snag it on the bounce.
Moments later, presumably the same batter struck again and ripped a home run that landed in the same place as ball #1, on the roof. I raced over and grabbed ball #3.
That would be all that I would get today. Three balls. I had fun with Amy, but I really disliked ballhawking in this venue. Not being able to see anything takes away a lot of the fun and skill needed. Despite having tickets to tomorrow's Red Sox / Pirates game, I vowed not to return to McKechnie to ballhawk again.
We entered the stadium and snapped a picture in front of the field:
The game itself was a blow out, as the Phillies sprang out to an 8-0 lead.
Some pictures from the game:
The field from our seats, in Sec 8, Row 1.
Ahead of us was Pirates president Frank Coonelly who looked visibly agitated at the amount of runs given up, as well as four misplayed balls by outfielders during the first three innings.
I really like Ross Ohlendorf, but he didn't have his best stuff today, and four missed catch-able balls by outfielders didn't help his cause. Keep your head up Ross. That's what Spring Training is for.
Pedro Alvarez has put on some weight and his range looks very limited, but I only saw two balls hit to him that he didn't get to, so I'll have to see a larger sample size to say for certain if he'll be a liablilty at third.
Lyle Overbay, the Pirates new first baseman. Hopefully he brings a line of .275-20-85 this year at least. We'll see.
The Phillies didn't bring many of their regulars, but at least Ryan Howard was there.
Ryan Howard at bat:
Pedro Alvarez digs in. I'm hoping for 35 home runs from Pedro this year, but I fear it may come with a .240 average and lots of strike outs. He's still young though.
Neil Walker, the Pirates' second baseman at the plate:
And finally a panorama of McKechnie Field from our seats:
We left after a few inning
s to go enjoy ourselves in Florida.
We headed to the beach.
There weren't too many people there.
We went for a long walk. And found lots of sea shells.
We eventually came to parts of the beach where there weren't any people around. So we went exploring.
The second best highlight of going back there was finding a Sting Ray skeleton. Check it out:
We found it here:
After about ten minutes in the brush we emerged and saw this sign:
We would go on to find about three other small sting rays that had washed ashore.
Soon, the sun began to set, and it got cold.
We decided to call it a day soon.
But not before snapping a few pictures of the sunset and taking a video or two.
Sunset on the beach:
It was a great first day in Florida.
Check back for Spring Training Day 2.


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With all the drama of a free throw at the buzzer, a tentative deal has been struck to keep the Sacramento Kings from leaving California's capital city.
That's bound to be a big disappointment to officials in Anaheim, which had hoped to lure the team to the Pond.
And likewise a disappointment to leaders in Seattle, which is actively shopping for an NBA team after the exit of the Supersonics.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The agreement was announced Monday in Orlando by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, himself a former NBA player with the Phoenix Suns.
"It's game over, so our community should be really excited," Johnson said following marathon meetings that stretched throughout the weekend with NBA Commissioner David Stern and the Maloof brothers, owners of the team.
Johnson has likely cemented his reelection this year, assuming the deal holds.
A move by the team would have been seen as both an economic and psychological blow to the city and to the capital region. But voters made it clear, in an election several years ago, that taxpayer dollars should not be used to keep the team.
Team owners Joe, Gavin and George Maloof have reportedly agreed to contribute $75 million up front to finance construction of a new basketball arena to replace the aging Power Balance Pavilion.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Senator Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, said he is pleased that the Maloofs "have stepped up to the plate and committed to the region."
Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, called it, "great news and a big boost for the Sacramento region."
The agreement must still be voted on by the Sacramento City Council on March 6. But the agreement by the Maloof family to kick in some serious cash is widely seen as the final factor in putting together a plan to keep the NBA franchise from leaving.
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British actress Keira Knightley and her rocker boyfriend James Righton are getting hitched, the couple announced Friday.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Pride and Prejudice" star has been dating the keyboard player and singer of the English indie rock band Klaxons since early 2011. According to reports, the couple were introduced by a mutual friend, the fashion commentator Alexa Chung.
While Knightley's publicist has confirmed the engagement, no other proposal or wedding details have been revealed.
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Illinois-based Software Restore Solutions has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the company's Disk Utility application violates a patent on automatic computer configuration repair. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Illinois.
The patent in question, US Patent #5,832,511, is for a "Workgroup network manager for controlling the operation of workstations within the computer network." Certainly, Disk Utility does not automatically manage the configuration of client systems on a network. However, Software Restore Solutions alleges that the application, which can repair the permissions of certain system or user files, does violate claim 32 of the patent:
"A method of computer management automatically resetting a computer to a preferred configuration by executing system configuration instructions in dependence upon a comparison of prior computer status to the current condition of the computer...."
Since Disk Utility is an included part of every install of Mac OS X, the lawsuit targets every version of the OS as well as products that are sold with it, including every Mac for the last decade.
Lest you think Apple was Software Restore Solutions' only target, however, the company unsuccessfully sued 26 software vendors last year over the '511 patent, including Apple, Adobe, Autodesk, Capcom, Citrix, Corel, Intuit, Sega, Skype, and THQ, among others. The case was closed after all the defendants were dismissed, some with prejudice.
Software Restore Solutions acquired the '511 patent from Acacia, another apparent patent troll, which acquired the patent from original inventor Beck Systems. Litigating the '511 patent appears to be Software Restore Solutions' only business activity.


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Announcing the Classic-Castle Calendar Contest (CCCC 2013)!
Later this year Classic-Castle will be producing an official calendar, illustrated by YOU. Each month will be illustrated by a LEGO Castle themed photo, and the twelve photos will be chosen as part of a contest. Photos could be anything, ranging from a close-up photo of a Castle figure, to a full scale castle covering multiple baseplates. Any scale or building style is acceptable - micro, fig scale, miniland, sculpture, mosaic, etc. The emphasis here is on presentation, not necessarily on MOC building. Your prize is inclusion in the calendar, which will have photo/builder credits and will be marketed to the greater LEGO community.
Who can enter - Anyone in the larger LEGO community is free to participate.
To enter - Submit your photo to the Classic-Castle Calendar Contest Flickr group. If you do not have a Flickr account, you can sign up for a free account [url]here[/url]. By entering the contest you are giving your permission for Classic-Castle.com to use your photo in the calendar or in the promotion of future contests.
Entry limit - Each person can enter up to five photos. However, you can only win one of the twelve month slots.
Photos - Photos must be ready to be included in the calendar (that is, we will not crop the photos, balance the colors, etc.). Photos must be in landscape orientation, and the size must be at least 3300x2550 pixels. -Edit- I hadn't realized that there was a 2048 pixel size limit for non-Flickr-Pro-users. If you are a non-Pro-user, post the largest photo you can, maintaining a roughly 8.5x11 aspect ratio. Ideally, if your photo is selected, you could e-mail me a copy at the higher resolution at the point we actually produce the calendar.
Subject matter - Anything castle-related is relevant subject matter. This could be fantasy or historic. Historic will be broadly interpreted as post-Roman Empire, pre pirate-era. Non-European castle subjects are welcome (e.g. Ninja or Persian). Castle-relevant licensed themes are welcome.
Seasonal entries - Seasonably appropriate photos will be considered for inclusion on appropriate months - for example, if a number of Christmas-themed photos are submitted, one of them may well be chosen for December.
Text - text is allowed in an image, though not encouraged, except that you are not allowed to include your name, nickname, or website as text in the image. Builders/photographers will be credited on each page of the calendar, but we want to keep this credit constant from month to month rather than have each person watermark their image in a different way.
Time frame - You can submit any photo/new MOC produced after January 1, 2013 - note that this means you can submit something you have already posted online in the first half of this year. The deadline for submissions is July 1.
Calendar - Details will be posted sometime in October, so you'll have time to order calendars before the new year (or as Christmas gifts!). Calendars will be produced by a third party service such as Lulu.com. Prices will probably be somewhere in the US$10-20 range. If possible we will also look for a similar service based in Europe to minimize shipping costs.
Some clarifications for the rules. I know, the deadline was yesterday. I'm just putting these here as a placeholder for next year's contest while these are fresh in my mind.
Customs/non-LEGO parts: Customization is allowed. Reasonable non-LEGO parts are allowed (e.g. custom flags or sails, use of string, etc). Photographing LEGO creations in non-LEGO environments is allowed - e.g. you could place your MOC or figs in a natural setting, or on rocks, or interacting with other toys, or whatever. Custom parts by AFOLs who create and sell accessories/decals/etc are allowed. Clone brand parts are not allowed. And, yes, we realize there is an inconsistency between those last two rules.
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Pugging sucks on Steamwheedle, the best you can get in both 10/25 is Festergut, most can't even do Saurfang though. Hell most of the guilds can't even go past Saurfang.
Lord Marrowgar
Lady Deathwhisper
Deathbringer Saurfang
Plagueworks + Princes
Plagueworks + Crimson
^ + Valithera
Plague, Frostwing, Crimson
Everything except PP, Queen and Sindra
Pugging sucks on Steamwheedle, the best you can get in both 10/25 is Festergut, most can't even do Saurfang though. Hell most of the guilds can't even go past Saurfang.
11/12 Clear b4 the 5% buff and then i took a " Break"... also made Marrowgar,Gunship and Rotface in HC... and this is @ 25 man ofc.
Group ofc continues after me and now killed LK, Fester+Saurfang+Valithria in HC
In an actual PuG, it never seems to get further than Deathwhisper. All the mages and other classes feel they are too important to drop lower on the Recount-scale to provide CC to the mindcontrolled mob. All too often have I seen myself mindcontrolled and just chopped down a couple of healers before it wears off.
For the love of god... keep your AoE-peen in your pants and single-target something so the mages can sheep the GIANT raidmember. (That also includes DnD, Consecrate...)
In an experimental cooperation with another 10-man raiding guild we breezed right on through the first 6. (storming + Fester/Rot), but that wasn't really pugging.
Some good pugs on Earthen Ring can get pretty far these days, especially with the zone buff
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pp, princes and val
Dear developers,
please nerf Rock, it's too overpowered. Paper is fine, however.
Signed, Scissors.
i made it in the door. everyone started arguing that the leader brought his fresh lvl 80 healer friend. and then everyone left.
Pugged 8 bosses + Gunship hardmode
Theres no option for a full clear? I've pugged a full clear twice already.
I can usually go up to saurfang without any problems, but after that the pug just falls apart. No coordination at all on darkspear :P.
Strikke 80 Holy Paladin/Darkspear US
Blackrock US pugs has pugged LK 25 a good bit of times.
Downed fester and rotface in a pug.
enter shikari is the best.
Rofl.Originally Posted by Inos
You can pug that shit on Pro'gall (Cho'gall US). I heard normal modes were hard, is that true ?
about that blackrock-us business.....been pugging it weekly for weeks and the ninjaing/selling gear is just absurd, unguilded on that server is fine for getting in old resets, but terrible for actually playing the game
killing 11/12 every week, LK on 44% so far with my weekly pug
Question though, even if it was originally a pug if you're getting together week after week doesn't it just become a group rather than a pug? Unless you're swapping members every week of courseOriginally Posted by Raylea
Have gotten to/past Saurfang with a number of 25 pugs, stood in front of Rotface but never managed to fight him just yet...
Never pugged 10 man but on 25 man the best we did was get to Saurfang :<
35% lol? and as far as im aware defile only grows if you take damage from it you should have a disc priest shielding the raid so with a 30% buff to absorptions its very likely defile gets trivialized cause any retard can move out of a big black circle when given an extra couple of seconds.Originally Posted by Gabbo
I've done 10/12 with a completely random pug - Did take us roughly 1½ hour to get together though. EU-Mazrigos btw
My option is missing, plagueworks+princes+valithria