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The St. Louis Cardinals were sporting a 2-3 record as they hosted the New Orleans Saints on October 23, 1977. The Cardinals, in their fifth season under Head Coach Don Coryell, had won in double figures in each of the preceding three years and gone to the postseason twice. But they started slowly in '77, losing three of their first four contests before winning at
Philadelphia the previous
week. While there was feuding between coach and owner and players complaining
about their salary levels, there was also talent, especially on an explosive
offense that included QB Jim Hart, all-purpose HB Terry Metcalf, and WR Mel
There were 48,417 fans in attendance at Busch Memorial Stadium and they saw the Cardinals start fast. Six minutes into the game, Hart threw to Gray for a 38-yard touchdown. FB Wayne Morris followed up with a one-yard scoring carry at 11:32 into the first quarter.
Shortly thereafter, LB Kurt Allerman blocked Tom Blanchard's punt and on the first play of the second quarter Morris scored again on a nine-yard draw play. At 21-0, it seemed as though a rout was in progress.
New Orleans began to
get back into the game after DT Derland Moore recovered a fumble by Terry
Metcalf at the St. Louis
46. A 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on DT Mike Dawson erased a loss
by the Saints on the first play from scrimmage after the turnover. Two runs by FB
Tony Galbreath got the ball to the 19 and from there HB Chuck Muncie ran for a
touchdown on a sweep to the right.
The Cards responded with Metcalf returning the kickoff 51 yards to the
New Orleans
44. The fleet halfback followed up with a pass reception for 11 more yards and
two carries by FB Jim Otis advanced St.
Louis to the 21. But after catching a pass from Hart,
TE Jackie Smith fumbled at the eight and DE Joe Campbell recovered for New Orleans.
The Saints proceeded to drive to another score in eight plays.
gained 22 yards on another sweep and QB Bobby Scott, the replacement for Archie
Manning, passed to backup TE James Thaxton for 20. Thaxton caught a pass from
Scott for a 25-yard touchdown and with another successful extra point New
Orleans was only a TD behind.
Following a punt by the Cardinals, the Saints drove 80 yards to the tying touchdown. Scott threw to TE Henry Childs for a 53-yard TD and the teams went into halftime tied at 21-21.
The Cardinals moved back in front on their first series of the third quarter. They drove 70 yards in 14 plays, eating up 7:44 off the clock in so doing. The highlight of the drive was a Hart pass to HB Jerry Latin for 14 yards to the
New Orleans
six. Morris ran for five yards and then leaped into the end zone from a yard
out for the touchdown.
The Saints roared back with a drive from their 24 to the
St. Louis five. However,
the Cards held as Scott tossed three incomplete passes and New Orleans had to settle for a 22-yard field
goal by Rich Szaro that narrowed the home team's margin to 28-24.
In the fourth quarter, the Cards scored again on an option pass from Metcalf to Gray that covered 11 yards.
New Orleans kept pace as Scott passed to
Childs for a 29-yard TD with 7:18 left to play.
The Cardinals finally put the game away with just over a minute left on the clock as HB Steve Jones scored from a yard out. That possession was helped along by a fake field goal attempt in which holder/CB Roger Wehrli ran for 19 yards and a first down. They padded the lead following an interception by CB Lee Nelson when Morris scored his fourth TD with a 12-yard run with 44 seconds to go. Wehrli intercepted Scott's final pass of the game to end it and
St. Louis
came away with a 49-31 win that, for most of the game, was closer than the
final tally indicated.
The single-game total of 49 points was the most for the Cardinals in 12 years. They led in total yards (487 to 440), including 244 on 52 running plays, and first downs (31 to 23). Each team turned the ball over twice.
Jim Hart completed 17 of 24 passes for 225 yards with a touchdown and none intercepted. Wayne Morris had a notable performance, rushing for 95 yards on 25 carries that included four touchdowns. Terry Metcalf added 78 yards on 17 attempts, caught 5 passes for 62 yards, and completed both of his option passes, including one for a TD. Mel Gray also gained 62 pass receiving yards on three catches that included two for touchdowns.
For the Saints, Bobby Scott (pictured below) was successful on 16 of 35 throws for 285 yards with three TDs but also two interceptions. Chuck Muncie ran for 102 yards and a touchdown on just 13 carries. The two tight ends were the most productive receivers for the club as Jim Thaxton had four pass receptions for 83 yards and a TD and Henry Childs caught three for 79 yards and two scores.
"We (backs) moved the ball real well, but the line did a fantastic job," said Wayne Morris.
"In the final analysis, I thought we fought like hell," summed up Hank Stram. "We never stopped. They (the Cardinals) are an excellent blocking team."
The win evened the Cards' record at 3-3 and put them in a three-way tie for second in the NFC East with the Giants and Redskins behind the Cowboys. It was also the second of six consecutive wins, but after peaking at 7-3 the team lost four straight to fall out of contention and end the year at 7-7 and third in the division. The feud between owner and coach led to Don Coryell departing afterward.
Terry Metcalf ranked second in the NFL in all-purpose yards with 2022 that included 739 on 149 rushing attempts (5.0 avg.), 403 on 34 pass receptions, 772 on 32 kickoff returns, and 108 on 14 punt returns. He was selected to the Pro Bowl for the third time. Having played out his option, he jumped to the CFL for 1978.
Wayne Morris ended up running for 661 yards on 165 carries and caught 24 passes for 222 more yards. His four rushing TDs against the Saints were half of his season total of eight, and he had one pass receiving touchdown to give him nine on the year.


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I can still vividly remember days at my grandparents' pool. Picking raspberries off the bushes that surrounded it, splashing around with my cousins, trying to see who could come up with the most inventive leap off the diving board. I can also remember lunch. I remember the crinkle of wax paper bags, soaked with grease, out of which would emerge the Chicago Hot Dog.
|My grandma and grandpa with my cousins as babies.
You see my grandparents, Norm and Bernice, they lived in a northwest suburb of Chicago. It's where I was born and lived until the ripe, old, age of four, before New England became my home. Even after we moved, we'd spent summers and holidays back in Illinois, surrounded by my aunts, uncles, and cousins. We'd all (both the Kleins and the Virzis) would end up eventually at Ma and Pa Klein's backyard pool in Arlington Heights. Just down the street from the house they lived in for decades was a place called Luke's. That's where the grease soaked bags would come from. They were filled to the brim with fries and a Chicago Dog.
|The homemade hot dog
If you know hot dogs, you know what a Chicago Dog is. It's often referred to as being "dragged through the garden". What you see above, it's not a true Chicago hot dog because I grilled it (my preference). More often, they're steamed or boiled, topped with neon green relish, mustard, fresh tomatoes, sport peppers, chopped onions, a pickle, dash of celery salt, all on a poppy seed bun. It's how I remember the hot dog. Even now, when we go back to the Chicagoland area to visit family, a stop must be made at a hot dog joint (most often Portillo's) for a Chicago dog.
|I survived stuffing the hot dogs.
So when hot dogs were among are choices for this month's Charcutepalooza challenge, I knew I had to pay homage to the hot dog of my youth. The hot dog is an emulsified sausage basically. It means that the fat and the meat combine in perfect harmony to fill a casing. In other words, unlike sausage, you're not going to see bits of fat or meat when you break the casing.
|They behaved well on the grill
The version of Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman that I possess apparently is an earlier version. The recipe for hot dogs is based on using all beef short rib meat. I'm down with that. I love short ribs. Actual, quality hot dogs should be made of all-beef anyway. No mystery meat here, just beef and seasonings. I will say making an emulsified sausage is work. Grind through the meat not once, but twice, and then combine in a food processor to bring it all together at the end. Then you smoke these babies over, in my case, hickory chips. It's messy, it requires a lot of clean-up, but since it's been a few days since I did this, I'm looking back on it fondly. I even elected to make a batch of refrigerator pickles to go on this special dog.
|Heck yeah! Emulsification!
I don't know why I was shocked when I loaded up that hot dog and took a bite. It tasted not only like a hot dog, but the best hot dog I have ever eaten. Maybe it was the heart and soul that went into making it, but it was fabulous.
|My grandparents, younger, at their daughter's wedding.
It brought me back to my grandparents' pool, the all-beef Vienna hot dogs, and summers as they once were. Grandma Klein has since passed on, I miss her every single day. I talk to her all of the time. Not long after Grandma passed away, my Grandpa started showing the signs of Alzheimer's. He has glimmers of recognition of all of us here and there. If you sit with him long enough, he'll show you a picture of Grandma, talking about her with a love not even death could conquer. He's healthy and he's happy. I love him. Food, even the most simple, can be the ultimate thread that weaves itself through our memories.
The Chicago Hot Dog
I have to give a nod to Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Me. They raised the cows that gave me the beautiful short ribs. I'm not going to kid you. This process takes time and a lot of patience. It's worth it, I believe. I'd probably tackle it once a year in a large batch.
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Four things you didn't know about Xbox One
- Xbox team %27obsessed%27 over controller design
- XBox One can be used as a universal remote for TV
- Console doesn%27t require Internet connection to play games
With just about a week until its launch, Xbox One ($499) is garnering plenty of buzz among gamers.
As you likely know by now, Microsoft's next-generation console is fueled by a powerful processor and graphics engine, and includes an improved Kinect accessory to put you in the action. Along with new features added to the Xbox Live service, the new machine boasts a number of exclusive games, such as Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3, Ryse and, early next year, Titanfall.
And you're probably aware that Xbox One lets you record, edit and share gaming experiences with friends around the world and even broadcast live games right from the console.
But there's quite a bit you probably didn't know about Xbox One. We caught up with a few key "players" at Microsoft to share their favorite lesser-known facts and features of the new console.
"The controller went through some unique tests," says Carl Ledbetter, senior principal creative director at Xbox.
"You may already have heard that the Xbox One controller features more than 40 improvements, but the team obsessed over every little detail in ways they never have before, going as far as to create fake hands in a variety of sizes to ensure the design fit as many types of hands as possible." It's difficult for designers to visualize something as complex as people's hands, he explains.
"When evaluating concepts, we actually created a set of 3-D models of the smallest (5th percentile) and largest (95th percentile) hands, which we then used for reference as a reminder that our own hands fit into this range." "These references kept the team grounded in the fact that we were solving problems that affected our whole population of gamers, not just our small group, and the size difference between the hands was staggering and really helped illuminate the challenges of making the new controller more comfortable."
In addition to understanding the need to fit a larger range of hand sizes, the Xbox team built more than 200 controller prototypes that investigated size, shape, and controls and elements such as battery location and access. "Once we had those prototypes, we spent more than 500 hours testing the models in 1100 pairs of hands," Ledbetter says.
Xbox One can be used as a universal remote for watching live TV from your cable or satellite box or for streaming content from apps.
"We wanted to take TV to the next level. With Kinect, we could really do that by unlocking the power of speech and controlling the devices in the living room," says Ben Smith, head of TV for Xbox One. "Xbox One has a universal remote built in, and OneGuide, the personalized program guide in Xbox One, voice-enables channels." Smith says you simply utter the words "Xbox Watch," followed by the channel name. Kinect recognizes what the user says, and OneGuide changes the channel for the user — no remote control needed. You can say things such as "Xbox Mute" and "Xbox Volume Up" to control the volume of your TV.
"We were also fascinated by bringing together content in streaming video services and TV," Smith adds. "In OneGuide, users can browse or access 'favorite' content from apps, like their watch lists or recommended movies, right alongside TV listings."
"Kinect no longer needs to tilt to see even more," says John Link, chief of staff for personal devices and applied technology at Microsoft. "We worked really hard to improve the field of view provided by the new Kinect sensor for Xbox One."
Specifically, the 70- by 60-degree view of the scene allowed Xbox to eliminate the need for a tilt motor, enabling the team to account for more living rooms — without needing to rearrange the furniture. "Small children and adults can now play together at the same time, and the average player can stand 2 feet closer to the sensor, which is a big deal in smaller homes and apartments," Link says. "The increase in horizontal field of view also means that people playing side-by-side can stand around 3 feet closer and have less need to worry about running into each other when they are getting into the action."
Link says one of the coolest things to experience is how this applies not only to the traditional Kinect gesture technologies, but to see what it means for HD video experiences: "The new Kinect really delivers the best living-room Skype experience you can find. I can have my entire family sitting around the living room at Thanksgiving, and Skype my family across the country without excluding anyone or forcing people to huddle around a camera. It even zooms in and tracks the person talking, all within the Kinect lens, without actually moving."
After gamers spoke out at the E3 video-game expo in June, Xbox reversed a few decisions over what you can and cannot do with Xbox One.
"You can use Xbox One's disc-based games just like you do today with your Xbox 360 discs — there are no limitations to using, sharing or trading them," confirms Albert Penello, senior director of product management and planning at Microsoft. "You also don't have to be 'always connected' to the Internet to play Xbox One — it does require a one-time connection to set up the system, but that's it. The choice is yours." The console won't require an Internet connection to play offline features of games.
Finally, "you are in control of what Kinect can see and hear," Penello adds. "You have complete control over your privacy settings, and no data will leave your Xbox One without your explicit permission."
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Robin Williams will reunite with his former "Mork and Mindy" costar Pam Dawber on an upcoming episode of his CBS comedy, E! News has confirmed.
Williams took to social media to share his excitement. "The secret is out! Can't wait to work with her again," Williams tweeted along with a link to the TV Guide story that broke the news.
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NEWS: Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar Could Not Be More Adorable Celebrating "The Crazy Ones" Pickup--Watch!
Williams and Dawber starred in "Mork and Mindy" from 1978-1982. On the show, Williams played Mork, an alien from the planet Ork. Dawber played Mindy, a young woman who takes in Mork. The two characters eventually got married on the ABC sitcom.
Williams currently stars opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Wolk on the CBS comedy "The Crazy Ones." He plays Simon Roberts, the eccentric head of an ad agency. According to TV Guide, look for his character to meet Dawber's, an author named Lily, at a book signing where he becomes smitten.


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1-Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.
2-Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.
3-The 3rd goal of the Peace Corps is to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. This can happen in big and small ways and is possible everyday.
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Recent mysterious sightings of creepy clowns in the Carolinas have triggered fears among local residents - and drawn attention across the country.
This week, North Carolina had a wave of reported clown sightings, in areas near Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
On Tuesday, as reported on TODAY.com, a woman called police to report a clown lurking in the woods behind her apartment complex in Greensboro. As she was reporting the incident, her husband, Chris Bass, chased the red-haired man, said to have been dressed in blue Aladdin pants, a polka-dot shirt, clown shoes and a white mask or white face paint, into the woods with a machete. The clown escaped.
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Police in Greenville, S.C., received numerous reports of clowns lurking near wooded areas near schools and behind apartment complexes. A 12-year-old reported seeing two clowns behind a residential complex taking photos of children, according to local media reports.
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Everyone else is advertising on TV. Why don't game companies seem to get it?
Great article. I see very few gaming TV spots and have always wondered why. Hell, the only times I see a game advertised is on Wal-Mart or Best Buy commercials. But advertising costs a mint on the real networks and there isn't a lot of money to go around before the game starts selling. This is a problem with no easy solution and I don't see it getting solved anytime soon.
Hey, those snuggy adverts happen to be very compelling television.
If your product can only exist because of advertisers then it industry starts to rot from the inside and becomes a house of cards where outside companies(advertisers) will have more power than the publishers or developers.
This is why newspapers and now magazines are starting to fail. They relied too much on advertisement funds to support the business structure instead of the consumer.
The consumer needs to be the one that supports the business to exist because it is their demand that will reflect what will exist and what won't.
It would be great to see more Gameing getting advertising, but of course it is the costs involve which I think put alot of people off.
I know some companies have done it on TV, and, I would be intrested to see what it cost and how much they made from it in comparison.
I was just thinking this same thing - I never see any sort of video game advertising on TV, and I really have to wonder why; video games are currently making more money than the film industry, and yet film commercials easily outnumber video game ads 10:1 (or maybe a little less than that, but still relatively close). Although, to be fair, it doesn't really matter to me whether video games get advertised or not; I'll still be playing them either way.
It wouldn't help. You assume that those peolpe do not play games. So to play a videogame, like Heavy Rain, you must have a console. In this particular case you have to buy a PS3. But spending money on a expensive console + game and not knowing if you might like it is, for nearly all people, too much money.
I really would like to play Heavy Rain, but it's on ps3 only. But there are more problems to it. Quick time events on every turn are not a good gameplay mechanics! If they are bringing QTE, then they could just remove them, call this game ''interactive movie'' and voila, it would be more enjoyable.
I have seen one game ad on TV. it was NFS.
did you notice many games write what button to press to ensure you didn't forger the control layout?
I remember the Wii had a very good TV marketing campaign. The one with the two Japanese guys traveling the country in the Micro Mini. Showing up at random American house holds with Wii mote saying "We would like to play." The whole advertising campaign seemed very non gamer focused, and probably did a lot to get Wii's into more house holds.
No, of course it isn't. I chose Max Payne as an example simply to contrast information that was easily grasped -- action in a movie setting -- versus information that much of the populace does not possess -- how to play the action of a movie. (Granted, Max Payne the movie and the game have little to do with each other, but roll with it.)
At no point did I suggest that Heavy Rain is going to be an action packed game, merely that its plot and gameplay might appeal to a chunk of the audience that watches police procedurals like CSI or Criminal Minds.
Ah, those commercials were amazing! I remember wanting a Wii from those. Playstation has a few good ones, like the family one with the Playstation exec taking your spot in your family, things like that. They're great console sellers, but they're not so much game sellers (although that Metroid Prime 3 part does make me want to play it again). They showcase the system, and both companies have massive buck to drop on advertising--but not so much for the games. A few first party titles can make the bill, but not many third party ones can afford to invest in a failed marketing attempt for a game that just might not make it. I do like Susan's idea of putting the commercials for specific games on networks who host similar shows--for the murder mysteries and case solvings like CSI and Bones, we put ads for Heavy Rain and Professor Layton. For the immensely boring Law and Order we drop Phoenix Wright, for immensely more fun. For commercials around any one of a billion networks playing WWII and combat movies all weekend, we drop ads for CoD:MewTwo, Killzone 12, Halo, etc. For funsies and to test the limits of the ESRB, we drop adds for Bayonetta on the Cartoon Network at 11am, and end up finding out which kids were skipping school that day, or who's at home on their couch watching 'toons while a bit toked up or insanely bored waiting for semester to start again.
The only problem is that a vast majority of games are still geared towards young males. Watch a UFC event and you'll see lots of game commercials. Prime time major network TV is not solely focused on the young male demographic so you don't see video game ads as much.
When the video gaming medium matures, we'll see more acceptance and AAA titles that actually offer variety. Right now you can kill or have sex with alien hookers, but there's nothing worthwhile out there for the prime time TV audiences... yet.
In the UK, there's quite a lot of game/console advertising, at least compared to 5-10 years ago.
The Wii and DS especially have had plenty of adverts, with famous faces (including recently some awful Ant and Dec ones). Quite a lot of football games are sponsored by Playstation as well. Many of the actual game ones tend only to be shown after about 8pm though.
A QTE is when a button pops up on screen, and you have to press the corresponding button on your controller: it's glorified simon says.
In heavy rain. 4-8 buttons appear on screen at a time, not indicating which one is correct, only what action will result will come from each button.
Get it? It doesn't tell you what buttons to press, it just gives the controls fluid connection, e.g., buttons do different things in different situations. They just appear on screen to let you easily know what those things are.
It's actually just the same as a fighter, or platformer or adventure game; it's just that the controls are applied in much broader strokes, rather than being rigidly assigned to a certain task.
I do agree the PS3 exclusivity is quite a big hurdle though.
I dont know how things are in the land of the free, but here in jolly old england there is a fair bit of game advertising on TV. The Beyonetta ones are doing the rounds, and the nation is constantly assaulted with Ant & Dec (if you don't know you're lucky) turning up in pubs, cafés, and people's living rooms, and discovering how much everyone really loves Nintendo. There are more on digital channels like Dave (yes, we have a TV channel called Dave), but you can't blame them for marketing to their target audience
Don't blame them at all. They need to get the most bang for their buck, after all. And we get a fair few Nintendo adverts here, too...but that's about it. I'm talking about letting people know that games will let them do something other than train their brain or simulate bowling. If all you have to go on are TV ads -- and that's all a lot of people do have to go on -- you simply have no clue as to the vast choices available to you.
Do they have those Uncharted 2 ads in the US? Recently there have been a series of adverts for Uncharted where it puts a lot of emphasis on the cinematic experience, as opposed to the action, or fighting. The Forza 3 ads also put a lot of focus on the realism of the experience. These may not really be examples of what you're getting at (that there can be an emotional connection in games that isn't being focused on in marketing, if I'm right). It is a hard thing to get across. I mean take someting like Portal. A minimal game that actually touches you at times (they make you feel love for a box), but how do you do that in 30 seconds showing clips of puzzle solving in a White lab? As a medium I believe games are the hardest to advertise as the experience is too personal.
As a point to ponder. How often do you see fiction books advertised on TV? They've been around for thousands of years.
How can you not like monster trucks!?
Modern Warfare 2 had a television advertisement......look at the money that made
You said it yourself, Susan: "it makes far more sense to spend it on full-page spreads in EGM or on banners on a gaming site like this one, because that's where people already predisposed to buy games are likely to see them"
The bottom line is that the marketroids are going to feel that the 'Return On Investment' for targeted advertising is going to be much greater in the millieu that gamers haunt than by doing a wide-spread, far-flung campaign.
And to be honest? The data to this point supports thier hypothesis. Only the big-time games, like Halo, like WoW, are broad-spectrum targeted. ("I'M A NIGHT-ELF MOHAWK...!)
I really think this is a chicken+egg scenario that will play out to a specific result: the marketroids for games are going to stay away from the mainstream until they get survey data that indicates that most homes have a console of some sort in them: then we'll see gaming ads during the Super Bowl (the most expensive advertising time on a per-second basis).
Personally, I wish the game companies would ardently (ha ha, see wut I did ther?) pursue developing markets, but I just don't think that a conservative business strategy supports that possibility... particularly during a recession.
Even if Quick Time Events aren't good game mechanics, they are more accessible than the average game's controls.
They could also advertise Ace Attourney games during Law and Order or People's Court!
Wasn't that only for interaction? The action sure won't be like that. It's not like they will give ''punch'', ''kick'', ''block'' and ''run'', when you are attacked by somebody. And there sure will be choices that will just get you killed, meaning that only one button saves you.
I'm from Eastern Europe. For the second Transformers movie, there was this advertising campaign in my city: I don't think there were billboards or TV ads, I may have just missed them, but the main thing were these Autobots and Decepticon logos printed on the ground at the busiest places in town. I see them to this day and feel like geekdom has somehow claimed this land. It fills me with glee.
A game about killing alien hookers would be awesome, in my opinion.
I know I'm a rarity, but I have not watched television in nearly ten years. At this point in time I don't even own a TV. I stopped wasting time on television, and instead focused on interactive media (the PC). Around the same time, I quit buying print. So, neither of those media is going to entice me into buying a console or its games.
Every once in a while I get a strong urge to buy a Playstation (the original) and replay some of my favorite games of yore. But there's no money in that for the big three.
Didn't there used to be lots of TV ads?
Sonic, Zelda, Boxing Games, Mortal Kombat?
You can still catch some of those on youtube
I don't watch commercials anymore. I record everything on my DVR and only watch what I have recorded so I can skip the commercials.
The marketing monkeys will back me up on this. Most people likely to be persuaded to purchase a game are already fairly tech-savvy people. The kind of people that will more likely see a game advert on a website or techie magazine.
I don't think it's quite the same on British T.V. as it is U.S. - Ok, I'm a gamer by nature but many titles are promoted on big stations here I'm sure there's room for more of the niche releases.
For me the most effective ad I ever saw was for Gears of War the one with Mad World as the theme and the giant spider at the end. It was such beautifully performed cinematography it managed to sell me in to a title of a genre I don't really like.
This was also during daytime t.v. demographic: Students & house wives
Hmm I guess I've actually just proved your point, well done :) - Still it'd be a turn up if a few more house wives went out and picked up Gears instead of watching Loose Women :)
Very rarely. But people are already very familiar with books and the type of experiences they offer. They're introduced to books as children, required to read them in school, and so on. They're very well indoctrinated to the concept of fiction books by the time they're adult consumers. So while they might not know that a specific book is coming out, they do at least know where and how to look for books that might be of interest to them. The same definitely can't be said of videogames.
They did a little bit with Modern Warfare 2 and I think Call Of Duty:WaW and they do it for the majority of DS games.
True. Then why is food advertised on TV?
Now Nintendo has broken the barrier to gaming, in a fashion, maybe we'll see more games advertising.
Actually I think that the fact the gaming generation is now old enough to be an economic force will be what breaks gaming into the mainstream TV. Nintendo are attacking from the opposite end.
Well that's my take on it, but I'm not a games journalist
For starters: great article.
I don`t see TV ads as a good bet because I`m sorry to say that you will appeal to the public that buys the games. I bet a lot of goldz that a vast majority of the people that have seen the MW2 TV ad didn`t understand shit from it accept maybe that it`s about some video game thing. And in my opinion this is normal, I don`t see gaming reaching the audience of TV or other forms of media in the next 100 years because lets be honest kids, gaming is hard. It is a proven fact that if you take 10 (I originally wanted to say women because it`s the public that is the least interested in gaming ) people of the street and ask them to complete a easy level in a generic FPS there is a pretty good chance that they will fail at it badly. The why ? is very easy, above Tetris most of the worlds population cannot go due to hand-eye coordination, attention span, brain power and spatial realization.
Conclusion : You can`t go mainstream when the audience cannot understand you medium.
For many reasons. The first is that we're creatures of habit. If we find we like a particular cereal, as a rule we're happy to keep eating that cereal over and over and over again. Until someone pokes us and says "Hey...how about this cereal?" we're not overly likely to start looking for another option. Food commercials also help educate the consumer about options...this cereal is sweet, that one lowers your cholesterol, that other one is gluten free, this other one benefits the rainforest. Food is a necessity, but the reasons for choosing food vary wildly.
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Iowa women debate decision like Angelina Jolie
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday that she has joined the growing number of women who've voluntarily had a double mastectomy.
Jolie wrote in Tuesday's New York Times that she decided to have the double mastectomy as a preventive measure, after discovering that she has a gene that gives her an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer. The chance of developing cancer after the surgery is less than 5 percent.
She wrote that her mother fought cancer for nearly a decade before dying at 56, and that she didn't want her own children to fear that they would lose her to breast cancer.
Two Iowa sisters have also made the tough decision for surgery.
Nicki and Mallory look alike and even sound alike, but besides these similarities the two share something else in common that isn't so obvious.
"I like having that my sisters and I are in the same boat together, but also it's very disheartening knowing that our percentage of all getting cancer was very high," said Nicki.
Nicki, Mallory and their youngest sister all tested positive for a gene mutation that makes them 87-percent more likely to develop breast cancer and 44-percent more likely to get ovarian cancer.
The sisters got tested because of their family history. Their mother and several aunts either had breast cancer or tested positive for the gene mutation.
"I am really glad that we all got tested. I definitely think you have to be ready for it. It's very big news," said Mallory.
But a positive test result doesn't mean a death sentence. Women who choose to get a double mastectomy and remove their ovaries can reduce their chances of those cancers to less than 5-percent.
"I have had patients that have had preventative surgery. I have had a patient that had ovarian cancer found during her preventative surgery that we could not see on scans," said Shawna Freeman, a nurse practitioner.
Nicki, who has one daughter, and Mallory who is expecting, have both decided they will have the preventative surgeries when they're done having children.
"There is no reason for us to have these body parts if they are only going to cause us harm in the future," said Mallory.
"I feel like this is what's best for my family. If this is what's going to keep me with my family and here and enjoying the blessings God has given me then that's what I'll do," said Nicki.


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Skype plugin for pidgin: real soon now ?
My periodic search for a Skype plugin for pidgin brought up the following link:
Haven't figured out how to make it work, though. No documentation, little source-code and only a pre-built library to chew on.
Keep us posted
Keep us posted on that one :)
Hey, thats me!
I noticed you had a link to my googlecode project. I'm just using googlecode for the CVS repo, and there's a link on the front page now that redirects to where the docs, changelogs and screenshots are.
The plugin is pretty stable and works on Linux and Windows. There's a working, but buggy, plugin for Adium too.
I'm also happy to answer email's or Skype IM's about it.
In your opinion, what would make it easier to "make it work"?
Hey you!
Apparently I didn't look close enough because I couldn't find any documentation, nor could I find sourcecode. After your comment, I looked back and was ashamed to find out everything was there.
Also I probably made the mistake to add the .so file in the /usr/lib/pidgin/ directory instead of the /usr/lib/purple-2/ directory. No wonder it was not picked up by pidgin...
I am interested in packaging it for RHEL/CentOS, but I wonder whether to call it pidgin-skype, purple-skype or libpurple-skype. The latter one is probably more correct but less obvious to users.
Also, I prefer if source archives are versioned otherwise buildsystems have no way to make sure they are using the correct version.
I just tested it here and it seems to work fine (I have no contacts online currently so limited testing). What is missing though is the protocol icon. I guess that needs to be installed as well (although it would be nice if it could look for it in the usual places ?).
I will blog about it when I have it packaged :-)
Thanks for your work :-)
Just to reply to a few
Just to reply to a few issues you bring up:
* I had trouble naming the plugin too, and I still havn't come up with any name that I like; something that shows that it's for pidgin, but something that shows that it's not just for pidgin :)
* I was wanting to make a few packages too, including a proper Windows installer. I've been using file mtime's as build numbers, however I havn't been keeping old versions, so any kind of packaging system might have trouble getting old versions. I was looking at putting an auto-updater inside the plugin itself so that it would check for new updates periodicly, but that's probably not ideal.
* The readme says where to get the protocol icons from. Unfortunatly, Skype says that if you distribute one Skype icon with source-code, you have to distribute all of them (2.7MiB worth compared to a few kiB of code). You can download the icons from https://developer.skype.com/Download/SkypeIcons
I'd be keen to see the package once you had it made :)
If you're needing to test the plugin, feel free to add me. I'm always happy to talk about the plugin and any features/bugs/feedback are greatly appreciated.
RPM Packaging
Just noticed you being interested in packaging this.
I package it by patching the normal pidgin specfile to build it.
patch to the specfile at http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/pidgin-libskype.patch
Makefile for simple build of new revisions at
This Skype Plugin seem great.
This Skype Plugin seem great. just still need Skype to be running to be able to use it, and I want to one plugin for pidgin for linux. at a word, I like this very much. thanks.
Just what I was looking for
That makes it much easier now for me to work.
Skype for Pidgin
Hi, fellows. I have the same problem with Skype on Pidgin as you have. I am on F10 i686 remade to desktop - only the first disk of Fedora Live installed on HD. It is a wondeful machine. I am looking at that pidgin and I am wondering what to do. It has one thousand chat protocols and settings and no skype. In my list I see AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Group Wise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpace IM, QQ, SIKC Simple, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo and Zephyr. How can I connect to skype using one of these. As for skype4pidgin the comments on Internet about it are not entirely positive.


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The Situation now finds himself in an unemployed situation.
The "Jersey Shore" crew that has wreaked havoc in Miami during their stay filming Season 2 won't be back on South Beach, New Jersey or any other city, reports Blackbook magazine.
MTV will reportedly give The Situation, Snooki, JWOWW, Sammi the Sweetheart and the other guidos the Donald Trump treatment with a hearty "You're Fired" and look for new cast members for Season 3, says casting director Doron Ofir.
MTV has denied the allegations, with one MTV spokesperson saying it's merely adding new cast members to the show.
The dispute is allegedly over money, but the timing lends us to believe it may be a little less about dollars and more about sense.
Sammi the Sweetheart is at the center of the latest controversy that could cost MTV millions in a civil lawsuit. She reportedly punched a woman at a South Beach nightclub, giving her a black eye, while dealing the popular TV show another self-inflicted wound.
Sammi's attorneys said Wednesday she is innocent.
Since the crew has been in Miami, they have been shunned by most of the top hot spots because of their shenanigans and reputation for starting trouble. Yet somehow the Jersey Shore cast still found ways to get into bar room brawls and other drunken trouble.
"Jersey Shore" has generated monster ratings for MTV and the new season, partly shot in Miami, premieres July 29.
Set your DVR, because it might be the last time you see Snooki slapping (or getting slapped by) someone in the face and getting away with it.


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What a nice experience to be able to attend track meets held on our own track at Morenci Area Schools.
In the past every meet required driving to other schools in and around our county.
Our track team is a dedicated group of students, who put in many hours of their lives practicing and participating in these meets. Thanks to the adults who support their efforts.
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Where is the SQL Azure Development Environment
Recently I posted an entry explaining that you can develop in Windows Azure without having to connect to the main service on the Internet, using the Software Development Kit (SDK) which installs two emulators - one for compute and the other for storage. That brought up the question of the same kind of thing for SQL Azure.
The short answer is that there isn't one. While we'll make the development experience for all versions of SQL Server, including SQL Azure more easy to write against, you can simply treat it as another edition of SQL Server. For instance, many of us use the SQL Server Developer Edition - which in versions up to 2008 is actually the Enterprise Edition - to develop our code. We might write that code against all kinds of environments, from SQL Express through Enterprise Edition. We know which features work on a certain edition, what T-SQL it supports and so on, and develop accordingly. We then test on the actual platform to ensure the code runs as expected. You can simply fold SQL Azure into that same development process.
When you're ready to deploy, if you're using SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 or higher, you can script out the database when you're done as a SQL Azure script (with change notifications where needed) by selecting the right "Engine Type" on the scripting panel:
(Thanks to David Robinson for pointing this out and my co-worker Rick Shahid for the screen-shot - saved me firing up a VM this morning!)
Will all this change? Will SSMS, "Data Dude" and other tools change to include SQL Azure? Well, I don't have a specific roadmap for those tools, but we're making big investments on Windows Azure and SQL Azure, so I can say that as time goes on, it will get easier. For now, make sure you know what features are and are not included in SQL Azure, and what T-SQL is supported. Here are a couple of references to help:
General Guidelines and Limitations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336245.aspx
Transact-SQL Supported by SQL Azure: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336250.aspx
SQL Azure Learning Plan: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2010/12/13/windows-azure-learning-plan-sql-azure.aspx


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Collegiate Personal Bests:
200 Meter Dash: 26.44
55 Meter Hurdles: 9.11
100 Meter Hurdles: 16.55
High Jump: 1.82m
Long Jump: 5.45m
Triple Jump: 10.80m
2013 Outdoor Track: Named to the All-NEC Second Team...Tabbed NEC Field Athlete of the Week (4/2)...Placed second at the NEC Championships in the high jump, registering a season-best, IC4A/ECAC qualifying height of 1.74m...Tied for ninth place at the IC4A/ECAC Championships with her height of 1.71m...Also competed on the 4x400m relay squad at NECs, helping Central to a third-place finish with an IC4A/ECAC qualifying time of 3:51.75...Also competed in the long jump during the season, registering a season-best distance of 5.12m for sixth place out of 22 jumpers at the AIC Yellow Jacket Invitational...Placed ninth out of 46 in the 200m dash at the Monmouth Season Opener, clocking a career-best time of 26.61.
2013 Indoor Track: Two-time NEC Field Athlete of the Week...Named All-NEC First Team...Awarded Most Outstanding Field Performer at the NEC Indoor Championships...Broke the CCSU indoor high jump record with her jump of 1.78m (5' 10") at the IC4A/ECAC Championships...Also helped break the Central 4x400 record at the IC4A/ECAC Championships, the squad registered a time of 3:52.22...Competed at the New England Championships where she finished sixth overall with her jump of 1.75m...Placed first at the Yale Invitational in both the high jump (1.70m) and the long jump with a career-best distance of 5.36m.
2012 Outdoor Track: Named 2012 Northeast Conference Most Outstanding Rookie...Set an NEC record at the NEC Outdoor Championships in the high jump with a 1.75 meter performance, she surpassed the previous record (set in 1992) of 1.73 meters...Placed second in the high jump at the USA Track and Field Junior Nationals, registering 1.75 meters...Competed on the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relay teams at the NEC Outdoor Championships, the teams earned fifth (48.68) and seventh (3:58.28), respectively.
2012 Indoor Track: Placed second in the high jump at the NEC Indoor Championships, posting a mark of 1.73 meters and qualifying for ECAC competition...Ran the final leg of the 4x400 meter relay at the NECs, the team finished in sixth place with a time of 4:01.41...Placed third in the high jump, clearing 1.75 meters, at the NEICAAA Indoor Championships...Cleared 1.68 meters at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Champinships for 15th place.
Before Central: High jump and heptathalon State Open Champion her senior year at Lyman Hall High School...Placed second in the high jump at New Englands and seventh at the New Balance Outdoor High School Nationals her senior year.


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- Government
- Departments
- Planning & Building
- Planning Division
- Comprehensive Plan & LDRs
Comprehensive Plan & LDRs
The Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations are now available online. A hard-copy may be purchased at our office located on the second floor of the Teton County Administrative Building at:
200 S Willow Street
Jackson, WY 83001
Note: The Small Wastewater Facility Resolution is not available on the website.
Administrative Manual (PDF)
The Administration Manual includes information, processes, templates, and forms and serves as an additional resource for implementing the Land Development Regulations (LDRs).
Jackson / Teton County Comprehensive Plan
View the current Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan adopted May 8, 2012.
Land Development Regulations (PDF)
Find Teton County's Land Development Regulations document.
List of LDR Amendments (PDF)
View the county's list of Land Development Regulation (LDR) amendments document.
Resort Master Plans
Browse Teton County's resort master plan documents.
Teton County Resolutions
Check out the various Teton County resolutions from the Affordable and Employee Housing In-Lieu Fee Resolution to the Small Wastewater Facility Resolution.


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Chicago Sun-Times published this deansguide article 7-24-09
What is your social media, marketing or sales pitch pet peeve? Is there anything worse than over taxation, misrepresentation by politicians, horrible reality shows, celebrities with no talent, or interruption marketing? Yes there is one: Interruption solicitation. What is this Interruption Solicitation and how does it work? The following is a description of what I consider the worst type of hard sell marketing sales pitch known to man: Black Hat Marketing.
Black Hat Marketing: Interruption Solicitation
- Intrusion or interruption phone call for marketing or sales purposes
- Solicitation to join, buy, or listen to an offer
- Unclear message that has no detail, description, or story
- Pitch is all about "passive income", money making proposition
- Declaration from caller that they are "making money" hand over fist and it is just "rolling in"
- Commonality is their reference point, as my recent Interruption Solicitation came from a former high school peer who I never knew in high school or had any kind of relationship
Our Perception
- Desperate sales pitch
- Trick, gimmick, or scheme to enrich the marketer while costing you money
- Attempt to lend mystique, secrecy, or exclusivity in order to create the illusion of desirability for a product or service
Legitimate businesses invite questions and provide forthright answers. They covet people's willingness to perform due diligence as a way of proving the worth of their offer through honest investigation. Interruption solicitations via Black Hat marketing is anything but legitimate.


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If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
If a baby concieved during Lent, is that baby "condemned" since you are supposed to refrain from marital relations? Thoughts?
I just found out im pregnant and you know, it's an oldddd Russian Orthodox (I was born in Russia) belief or whatever (I don't believe it, but you know how crazy pregnant women are...I just want some reassurance). Thanks!
And, he was very kind in it and everything, but it still makes me feel very worried that he came across as very concerned for me and the baby, and my first son. He is a very holy man, and I do respect his opinion but I just don't feel comfortable.
I would say I lean more traditionally, but my Priest thinks it's ridiculous, and a Monk seems concerned so I confused. I personally don't think that God would punish an innocent child. My husband did not want to abstain during Lent. I could have or not. It was dependent on him. He is deployed now so now I am abstaining :-)
There is a widespread folk belief that kids conceived on fasting days will be cursed. In my home region they taught they will become werewolves.
Upon the Pontifical order of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the Feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary was proclaimed as Day of Blessing of Motherhood and Beauty.On April 7, all Armenian churches will conduct a special blessing service for women anticipating motherhood, the Information Services of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin said.
Thank You, Father. I spoke to my Priest at Church tonight, and he told me that it was fine and not to worry and that you don't have to abstain from marital relations unless you want to and both partners agree. I feel much better now. He also mentioned the monastics have a much different view of sex than clergy do, which makes a lot of sense to me. So thank you everyone, for your kind words and reassurances! :-)
Jesus was conceived during Lent.
If we believe God to be the author of life, and ultimately it is God who makes conception possible, why would God curse His own creation? Rejoice! For God has blessed you with a new life inside you!
Quote from: orthonorm on April 06, 2011, 04:19:57 PMJesus was conceived during Lent. Shhh. Is only rumor
And particularly here:http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,13366.msg184841.html#msg184841
No. The baby didn't do anything wrong. God is not Calvinist.
I just found out im pregnant and you know, it's an oldddd Russian Orthodox (I was born in Russia) belief or whatever
Is it a sin to not fast from marital relations during Lent if your husband doesn't consent to such a fast?
ISTM that if he doesn't consent to such abstinence during Lent, then you would be sinning to deprive him of the marital relations he desires from you.
In my home region they taught they will become werewolves.
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Hong Kong University has teamed up with executive search firm Harvey Nash to develop a certificate programme to prepare women managers in Asia for appointment to the corporate board.
The Women's Directorship Programme, run by HKU's executive education division, will comprise five modules, taught over two three-day sessions in April and June 2013. The programme will cover topics such as strategy, ethics and compliance, remuneration and conflict resolution.
Amy Lau, director of executive education at HKU's faculty of business and economics, says there is no one size fits all solution to address the lack of women directors. "However this programme is aimed at helping participants develop their own set of strategies tailored to their career ambitions, situation and personality, recognising that these will evolve over time as new challenges arise and elements in their lives change."
Promoting women to the board makes business sense, both improving performance and creating access to a wider talent pool, says Nick Marsh, managing director of Harvey Nash Asia Pacific. "Business success hinges on a gender-balanced boardroom for continued growth."
Getting women on to the corporate board is as pressing a problem in Asia as it is in North America and Europe, with women accounting for only 9 per cent of executive committees and 8 per cent of all boards in China, according to McKinsey. In Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and Korea the figures are even lower.
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A CFP that may be of interest to Digital Americanists …
NANO: New American Notes Online
Call for Papers: Issue 2.1
Deadline: 30 March 2012
Special Theme: Evaluation, Critique, Peer Review
What are the best and newest methods for creating, evaluating, and disseminating scholarly and creative work? This question motivates the next issue of NANO. As digital formats help to foster new ways to share and critique written and artistic work, as more people try to squeeze through the narrowing bottleneck of publishing, approval, and jobs, something has to give, or at least change.
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Perhaps there is something intimidating about writing your own thoughts. Sometimes those creative juices flow, but usually I sit down thinking I need to write something and nothing is really there. I find life fascinating so I know it is not because nothing is happening around me or in my own life. I write in my journal every night, for the most part, and do not feel like rehashing the same stories. My journals will be available to my family and others probably for a long time to come. However, I do have hundreds of photographs that I think I have learned some stories on which probably are not recorded.
Therefore, as a hope of continuing family history by preserving the stories with some of these photos, I start my new goal. To start posting pictures with my thoughts, perspective, musing, and whatever else I might feel to include. So, here we go. A sort of a picture is worth a thousand words expose. I think part of me hopes I might find further clarification and other answers for the unknown bits of the stories I might present. Please feel free to share.
Here is a portrait of David D Williams and Gwenllian Jordan. I do not know what the D stands for. Still hoping I will find that out at some point.
David was born 12 November 1832 in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales to John Williams and Frances Henneys. His father was a Collier (coal miner). On the 1841 Census, John is then listed as a farmer in Pembrey. David joined the LDS church 12 July 1849. His father joined in 1851, and siblings John in 1837, Joseph in 1853, and Richard in 1855. John Haines moved to Pennsylvania in 1855.
In 1864, David immigrated through Liverpool and New York to America. He met Gwenllian Jordan in Liverpool, probably with the other Saints waiting to immigrate to the Zion. They embarked on the "General McClellan" on 21 May 1864 with a shipload of Mormon converts. The two married on the ship 22 May 1864. David and Gwenllian married while the ship was still in the Bramley-Moore dock of Liverpool Harbour. Gwenllian's sister, Mary Jordan, was also on the boat and married William Evans the same day on the River Mersey as they left Liverpool. Thomas Jeremy, the presiding Elder on the ship married both couples. These four disembarked together at Castle Gardens, New York (both Gwenllian and Mary using the Jordan name) on 23 June 1864. I do not know if any other siblings of either David or Gwenllian were on the ship. None of the others on the ship appear related.
The company of Saints from the ship were met by Joseph and Brigham Young Jr, sons of Brigham Young. They then took the ""St. John" to Albany. From there they took a train to Rochester, St. Joseph, and then Chicago where Parley P Pratt Jr met them. From Chicago they took the "West Wind" to Wyoming, Nebraska Territory. There a wagon train awaited and provided transportation to Utah. The train arrived on 4 October 1864 (depending on which wagon train they traveled).
Gwenlliam was born 2 August 1842 in Merthyr-Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales to Margret Watkins and David Jordan. She joined the LDS church on New Years Day (in probably cold baptismal waters) in 1851. Her parents joined a few years before and I don't know if any of her other siblings besides Mary joined the LDS church. I believe Thomas did. Her parents immigrated to Utah in 1872.
I am guessing the photograph of David and Gwenllian was taken while they were in the 40's. That is, of course, assuming the photograph is really of them. This is a photograph in my Great Great Grandmother's, Mary Elizabeth Williams, possessions. She was the third child of David and Gwenllian so I have little reason to suspect the authenticity of the people in the photograph. The photo was probably taken in Ogden since they settled and remained there the rest of their lives.
David and Gwenllian had 10 children, 5 who lived to adulthood. I list the children below. David worked as a farmer. He passed away while sitting in his chair 27 November 1911 in Ogden. Nobody was around when he passed but it seems to have been peaceful. He had suffered from some heart problems and senility that came with his age. Gwenllian apparently died in Slaterville from what her death certificate indicates as paralysis of the brain.
The 1870, 1880, and 1910 Censuses have David and Gwenllian in Ogden. The 1900 has the family in Slaterville which is where Gwenllian passed away.
I really do not know anything more about the lives of David and Gwenllian. If you have anything more, please share.
The five who died as children are as follows:
David Moiah Williams – 15 August 1866 – 15 January 1867 both in Ogden.
Margaret Ann Williams – 22 June 1867 – 4 March 1868 both in Ogden.
Sarah Jane Williams – 4 June 1874 – 4 January 1880 both in Ogden.
Katherine Williams – 15 June 1876 – 22 July 1877 both in Ogden.
Rosa Bell Williams – 15 June 1878 – 15 September 1879 both in Ogden.
The children who lived to adulthood are as follows:
Mary Elizabeth Williams – 7 April 1869 – 29 Mar 1951 both in Ogden. Married William Scott Donaldson (Link to their marriage post here: Donaldson-Williams Wedding). Five years after his death, she married Anthon Edward Peterson. Three years after his death, she married Thomas William Stoker. This is my Great Great Grandmother.
John Haines Williams – 14 May 1871 – 29 October 1954 both in Ogden. Married Bernice Cowan. He married a Charlotte and Pamela, but I do not know if the information I have is correct so I will not include it.
Joseph Williams – 10 March 1880 in Slaterville – 25 October 1960 in Ogden. He married Charlotte Dinsdale.
Louisa May Williams – 16 October 1881 in Slaterville – 1 February 1960 in Ogden. She married Louis Jackson. Twenty-five years after his death, she married Thomas Wilson Laymon.
Thomas Hyrum Williams – 1 July 1885 in Slaterville – 21 May 1967 in Ogden. He married Ethel Peterson. Five years after her death, he married Erma Amanda Carlisle.


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Previously, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, as an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, and as Chief of Staff to the President of Property and Casualty Operations at the Hartford Financial Services Group, one of the capital city's largest employers. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was a member of the military's anti-corruption task force during his deployment to Afghanistan from September 2010 to April 2011. Most recently, Bronin worked as a partner at the law firm Hinckley Allen. Prior to his election, Bronin proudly served on the boards of the Hartford Public Library and the Amistad Center for Arts and Culture.
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Amicable or not, it's not great news to lose executive producers two seasons in a row. What is Kirkman or AMC's vision for the show?
Link for Jesse James: Hines Ward Zombie
I'd seen images of Ward Zombie online, but wasn't sure if you'd be able to point him out in the show. Didn't know he'd get his own solo moment like that.
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It's Nobel Prize season again, and the science behind this particular award for Medicine feels like a familiar friend. I got my crash course in telomeres and telomerase from a group meeting talk that one of my lab colleagues gave almost exactly a decade ago.
The science recognized was done a quarter century ago. DNA sequences have protective caps called telomeres that are maintained by a riboenzyme, telomerase, but the implications for the scientific understanding of aging, cancer and stem cells remain active research areas. Telomeres get shorter as we age, and maintenance of telomeres in cancer cells may help them continue to survive and divide. Part of the understanding of stem cells and their capacity for regeneration (or to cause cancer) will come from a better understanding of their telomeres.
This Nobel Prize story has many of the plot points associated with great discoveries, particularly the discovery of the telomerase enzyme, by Carol Greider in Elizabeth Blackburn's laboratory on Christmas Day 1984. But notably, this award goes to two women: Blackburn of UCSF and Greider of Johns Hopkins University (They share the award with Jack Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School).
Though I wish that there were enough female Nobelists to make a double double-X chromosome Prize in Medicine less notable, it's definitely a good day for women in science.


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By Ali Noorani
November 8, 2012
(CNN) -- Both parties have received an electoral politics wake-up call, courtesy of a diversifying America.
President Obama won re-election thanks in part to a 52-percentage-point spread among Latino voters, the nation's fastest-growing electorate, according to election eve polling.
In the America coming over the horizon, it is practically impossible to overcome such a number and win the race for president.
Even in Florida, with its large, Republican-leaning Cuban population, the Latino Decisions poll found that Latinos overall favored the president 58% to 40%.
While these trends worked to Democrats' advantage on the ground on Tuesday, that's not entirely good news: A demographically challenged Republican Party is bad for America.
As a nation, we are at our best when both parties work together to address difficult policy issues. And, in the case of immigration -- an issue of great concern to Latinos -- a bipartisan roadmap is good politics and great policy.
Bringing the country together around a common-sense immigration process is not a bridge too far. In fact, while partisan politics dominated the national debate, faith, law enforcement and business leaders have worked with immigrant leaders across the political spectrum to forge a new consensus on immigrants and America.
People who hold a Bible want change. "Christians can agree on basic values to guide our decisions and help heal our land," Luis Cortes, president of Esperanza, a Latino faith-based aid organization, said in a recent radio ad -- in which he shared air time with Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. It's not every day that the leader of one of the nation's largest Hispanic evangelical networks stands shoulder to shoulder with a Southern Baptist and presents a unified message.
People who wear a badge also want reform. At a recent Midwest summit on immigration, Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark Curran said, "We don't need higher deportation levels; we need to fix the system as it exists."
And job creators, people who own businesses, are yearning for common-sense reforms too. We know we need to find a solution when Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, says, "The longer national political leaders ignore the issue or use it as a political wedge, the more our farmers suffer because they cannot find a sufficient labor pool to harvest their crops."
Post-election talk will focus on the president's mandate. Immigration is different from other issues because the mandate for reform is clear, and it's not only because of his vote margin among Latinos.
"Immigration is the most important thing to focus on if you're concerned about America as an economic power. It's not only good policy to have more immigrants to the United States ... (and) a path forward for those people who are here; it's also good politics."
That's Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who added, "Hostility to immigrants is a vote-losing, not a vote-winning, issue."
When it comes to crafting a 21st century immigration process, Bibles, badges and business are ready to work with both Democrats and Republicans to reach a consensus.
Americans are ready for a just immigration system that treats all people with dignity and respect. Our leaders in Washington -- of both parties -- can and must deliver.
As we saw Tuesday, their electability may depend on it.
Editor's note: Ali Noorani is the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an organization based in Washington that advocates for the value of immigrants. Follow him on Twitter.


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According to MacObserver, the French legislation opening DRM (like that on apple's ipod) has now passed into law. Presumably, this was supposed to open up Apple's scheme to competitors so music purchased at iTunes store will play on other devices. According to consumer groups this portion was quite weakened; however, Forbes still seems critical so presumably there must be some consumer-friendly benefit left?
A few months ago, amendments had been introduced that would have made this the the first national law, so far as I'm aware, to aggressively target the anti-competitive / anti-consumer aspects of DRM. Unfortunately those were significantly watered down from the original proposal. The *rest* of the bill is pretty bad, largely anti-P2P and anti-circumvention provisions. The "fair use" pieces are interesting: France added in recognition of educational uses, disability, web caching, etc.; but then weakened all these, plus preexisting "fair use" type exceptions by importing the Berne three step test which says exceptions "cannot hamper the normal exploitation of the work … [nor] cause an undue loss to the legitimate interests of the author."
In the meantime, Wikipedia has the most current info (Eng). Also see commentary on the bill at Ars Technica (Eng), BoingBoing (Eng), Stop DRM (Fr). I'm laboriously reading thru it the bill at http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/ta/ta0596.asp (PDF) (Fr, of course).


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Tuesday, February 28
Forget the Caribbean. Just Give Me Some Black Beans and Rice
The other day I received a flyer advertising a romantic Caribbean get-away. It showed a scantily clad, deliriously happy couple lounging on the beach, cocktails in hand. I ripped it in half and tossed in the recycle bin.
When you're married to someone whose Twitter handle is @Dermdoc, lying on the beach isn't in your future. Consider this: Last summer when our local Target ran out of sunscreen, they called us.
So the only thing worth going to the Caribbean for would be the food. Caribbean food is a fusion of many cuisines including African, Ameri-Indian, French, and Spanish making, making it deliciously unique. Given its temperate climate, the Caribbean produces an astounding array of exotic fruits such as passionfruit, guava, cherimoyas, and coconuts which feature prominently in both sweet and savory dishes. And their beloved jerk seasoned meats and fresh fish, are often accompanied by two of my favorite foods: plantains and black beans.
Caribbean black beans and rice. If you've never had it, I'm sorry; you've been missing out. I had my first taste about 12 years ago in an eclectic Caribbean restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina. I was smitten and still am.
What makes Caribbean black beans so good? They're flavored with an enticing combination of ingredients including refreshing ginger, sweet pineapple and orange juice, aromatic allspice, and savory thyme. Spooning Caribbean black beans atop a bowl of white or brown rice makes a happy, humble vegetarian dish that you'll find yourself returning to again and again. And if you'd like to add some protein, may I suggest some pan-seared chili-lime shrimp?
Caribbean Black Beans and Rice
Serves 4
Printable recipe.
1 cup white or brown rice of your choice
3 cups water
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
2 small garlic cloves, minced
1 medium white onion, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 (14-ounce) can black beans, drained
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1/3 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon orange zest
1 teaspoon freshly minced ginger
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, depending on how hot you like it
1/8 teaspoon allspice or nutmeg
2 teaspoons fresh thyme
1. In a medium heavy saucepan over high heat, bring rice and water to a boil for 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low, partially cover, and cook until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 20 minutes.
2. In a medium pot over medium heat, saute garlic and onions in olive oil until fragrant and lightly browned, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, and stir until combined. Cook over low heat until heated through, about 8 to10 minutes. If beans become too thick, simply add a little bit more juice or water. Serve atop white or brown rice.
Optional garnishes: Chopped ripe mango or diced fresh pineapple.
You might also like these Caribbean-inspired recipes:
Slow Cooker Caribbean Jerk Chicken recipe from A Year of Slow Cooking
Caribbean Style Black Bean and Delicata Squash recipe from Lisa's Kitchen
Caribbean-Style Steamed Cabbage and Carrots recipe from Coffee and Vanilla
Bluebeard's Rum Custard Pudding recipe from Trini Gourmet
16 comments:
- sangeeta said...
Yes, I have been missing out on this. Would try very soon. Love beans n rice in every possible form.
- February 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Magic of Spice said...
Beautiful recipe! I adore black bean, well most beans really, and love fining new flavor combinations for them!
- February 28, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- Kalyn Denny said...
I love all the flavors in this dish, and anything with black beans is going to be something I will enjoy!
- February 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM
- Cooking with Michele said...
I just returned from sailing for two weeks in the Caribbean (we used massive amounts of sunscreen, I promise!) and loved everything about it, including the fabulous food!
- February 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- The Short (dis)Order Cook said...
Looks quite tasty. Black beans I think are my favorite bean.
Can you compromise and eat black beans on the beach under a cabana?
- February 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I love the combination of sweet, sour, and spicy!
- February 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- Jacqueline Meldrum said...
You know I have never tried these, I will have to give them a go.
- February 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM
- Flavors of the Sun said...
What a nice combination of ingredients in this straight-forward recipe. Looks like a terrific interpretation of a favorite dish of mine.
- February 29, 2012 at 6:07 AM
- Diane Balch said...
I have a few black bean recipes, none of which have the same amount of citrus in them. The flavors sound really great in this one, can't wait to try it.
- February 29, 2012 at 6:53 AM
- Kevin said...
I haven't made them in a few years. It's time I did so again.
- February 29, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
sangeeta-Your life will vastly improve!
magic- I too never tire of beans.
kalyn-Me too. They're so refreshing.
michele-Good for you; otherwise, I'd have to sic DermDoc on you! ;) I'm so happy you had a fabulous time and enjoyed the fabulous food.
sdoc-Yes, absolutely. Compromise is the key to a good marriage. Black beans don't hurt.
lydia-It's got it all, indeed.
jacqueline-You'll be happier after the first mouthful. I promise!
flavors of thesun-Thank you!
diane-The citrus is kicky in this one, for sure.
- March 1, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- Unknown said...
I've got try this. I love black beans and include them in many tex-mex style meals. Thanks for posting!
- March 1, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Margot said...
Delicious recipe Susan! It made me hungry :)
Thank you for the link to my cabbage, I really appreciate that.
- March 2, 2012 at 5:11 AM
- Mother Rimmy said...
I live in Seattle, so I think Target might be calling me soon to get my sunscreen too. Fun blog post and terrific recipe. I'm a big fan of black beans.
- March 4, 2012 at 4:33 PM
- Lana said...
I always have dry black beans in the pantry and cannot wait to try this recipe. Out of all the beans, the black beans are the most exotic and adventurous to me, maybe because we did not have them in Serbia.
I love Caribbean food and as we are eating less meat and more "other stuff", this dish would be perfect.
- March 6, 2012 at 11:00 PM
Instead of using beans from a can, you should try using dried beans(e.g., pigeon peas aka gandules or red kidney beans aka habichuelas coloradas). Of course,they take longer to cook, but the taste is outstanding, especially when cooked with spices and fresh herbs. Can't be beat!
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A former Blue Earth priest facing criminal sexual conduct charges caught a break in Faribault County District Court last week....
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Patients rarely told about medication errors
Patients and their families are rarely told when hospitals make mistakes with their medicines, according to a new study.
Most medication mistakes did not harm patients, the researchers found, but those that did were more likely to happen in intensive care units (ICUs). And ICU patients and families were less likely to be told about errors than patients in other hospital units.'For the most part, our findings were in keeping with what the existing literature tells us about the where and how of medication errors in a hospital,' wrote Dr. Asad Latif, the study's lead author, in an email to Reuters Health.
'The most surprising finding was what we do about them, at least in the immediate time around when they occur,' added Latif, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.Using a database of about 840,000 voluntarily reported medication errors from 537 US hospitals between 1999 and 2005, the researchers found that ICUs accounted for about 56,000, or 6.6 percent, of the errors. The rest happened in non-ICU units of the hospital.The vast majority of the mistakes – about 98 percent – didn't lead to a patient being harmed, but those that did were more likely to happen in the ICUs, the researchers reported in Critical Care Medicine.
About four percent of the errors in ICUs ended up harming a patient, compared with about two percent of errors in non-ICU wards. That's not surprising given the fragile condition of ICU patients and the more intensive treatment they receive, the authors note.Of errors that may have led to patient deaths, 18 occurred in ICUs and 92 in non-ICU areas of the hospital.In ICUs and non-ICUs, errors of omission – failing to give a patient the medication – were most common. Harmful errors most often involved devices like IV lines and mistakes in calculating medication dosages.More than half of the time, no actions were taken after an error. In fact, only a third of the hospital staff who made the reported mistakes were immediately told about their errors.
'And the patient and/or their family is immediately informed when an error occurs barely two percent of the time, despite literature supporting full disclosure and their desire to be promptly informed,' Latif said.Still, Latif said it would be premature for patients and their families to be concerned based just on their findings.'Studies like this give us the opportunity to find out how we are actually doing, compared to how we think we are doing,' he said. 'They help us discover associations between the outcomes we are interested in and their potential causes and consequences.'
Recent research has found that instituting a blame-free reporting system in hospitals increases the number of reported mistakes (see Reuters Health story of November 21, 2011 here:reut.rs/RKo4oJ).According to the new paper, one prior study demonstrated that medication errors can add an extra $2.8 million in costs at a single hospital.Latif added that the healthcare system is always trying to reduce medication mistakes.'However nothing is fool-proof as we show in our study; there is always the human factor to take into account. The key is what we do if they do happen and to keep striving for perfection,' Latif said.