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A mountain lion, grizzly bear and monkey were the only animals still running loose after being set free from an exotic-animal preserve, an Ohio sheriff said Wednesday, as authorities tried to piece together why the animals' owner apparently released them before committing suicide.
The Muskingum County Sheriff's office has received numerous complaints since 2004 about animals at the property in eastern Ohio, sheriff Matt Lutz added.
Muskingum County Animal Farm owner Terry Thompson killed himself after freeing the animals, Lutz said, following a night during which officials hunted down and shot to death nearly 30 of the 48 animals, including lions, bears and wolves.
As officials warned that more animals still were on the loose, three school districts in the region and some private and special schools canceled classes as the remaining bears, big cats and other beasts from the Muskingum County Animal Farm were hunted down.
Flashing signs along area highways told motorists, "Caution exotic animals" and "Stay in vehicle."
The animals' cages had been opened and the farm's fences had been left unsecured, police said.
The preserve in Zanesville, about 55 miles east of Columbus, had lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves, giraffes, camels and bears.
Lutz called the animals "mature, very big, aggressive" but said a caretaker told authorities the animals had been fed on Monday.
Tuesday night, more than 50 law enforcement officials — including sheriff's deputies, highway patrol officers, police officers and officers from the state Division of Wildlife — patrolled the 40-acre farm and the surrounding areas in cars and trucks, often in rainy downpours. Lutz said they were concerned about big cats and bears hiding in the dark and in trees.


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The first female military pilots in U.S. history — women including Lucile Wise of Arvada — signed up during World War II and trained to fly bombers and fighters such as the legendary P-51 Mustang.
The U.S. Army Air Forces didn't have enough pilots, so women were recruited for military flying jobs stateside to free up men to fly combat missions overseas.
Seventy years after her pilot training, Wise strapped herself into the open cockpit of a 1942 Boeing-Stearman biplane, used as a military trainer during the war.
The 92-year-old wore goggles, a headset and a borrowed leather bomber jacket. Excited, she grinned as the pilot fired up the engine.
When the canary-yellow biplane roared down the runway, a former Air Force pilot watched in awe.
"Fifinella flies again," said Greg Anderson, president and chief executive of Wings Over the Rockies, as the plane rose into the warm afternoon sky earlier this week. "The legacy lives on."
Fifinella — a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney that appeared in many World War II cartoons — was the official mascot of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Her image appeared on the noses of bombers and on the flight jackets of 1,074 women, including Wise.
"These ladies were way ahead of their time," he said. "Individually, and as a group, they have a piece of history we will never be able to experience. They paved the way and proved it could be done."
These women will be honored at the 10th annual gala of Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum on Dec. 21, which will feature many WASP pilots, including seven who live in Colorado. The traveling exhibit, "Fly Girls of WWII," runs through March at the museum.
In an era when the dominant role for women was to stay at home serving as wives and mothers, the opportunity to train as military pilots opened a door to women like Wise, who had dropped out of Colorado Women's College and was working in Wichita.
"We all wanted to do something to help the war effort. All my women friends were joining the military," Wise said. "I did it for a lark, to add a little excitement to my life."
She took her first flying lesson Dec. 6, 1941 — the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor — because someone had taken her up in a Piper Cub.
Once behind the controls, Wise was hooked.
By 1943, Jackie Cochran — a beautician who became America's top female pilot — had established the WASPs at the request of President Franklin Roosevelt.
More than 25,000 women applied to the program, and fewer than 1,900 were accepted into the training program at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Wise's classmates included Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins, whose fighter went down along the California coast soon after takeoff Oct. 26, 1944, and has never been found.
"We never dwelled on it," said Wise. "We were too busy."
The pilots flew a total of 60 million miles in two years. Thirty-eight women died during their service, an accident rate comparable to male pilots doing the same job.
WASPs flew military planes from factories to bases, trained male pilots, towed targets for gunnery practices and tested planes.
Two WASPs were also used to convince male pilots it was safe to fly the B-29. Men resisted flying the new heavy bomber because it hadn't received rigorous testing, and its engines tended to catch fire.
Col. Paul Tibbets recruited two WASPs to serve as demo pilots, and after three days of training, the women powered up the four-engine bomber and ferried around the men.
"They flew it, no problem," said Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, one of the most decorated women in military history, now president of the board of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation. "They thought it was great. That ended the (men's) fear of flying that plane."
The WASPs were disbanded in late 1944, receiving a letter of thanks from Henry Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces.
The war had reached a point "when your services are no longer needed," he said. "The situation is that if you continue in service, you will be replacing instead of releasing our young men."
Most WASPs returned to traditional roles.
"I didn't know what I was going to do. I felt lost," Wise said.
Although the women had been promised that they would be adopted into the military, that never happened. Bills in Congress to militarize the WASPs hit fierce opposition, so they were disbanded with no military benefits and "largely ignored by the U.S. government for more than 30 years," according to the teacher guide of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Wise, who married and raised two children with her husband in Washington, D.C., got fired up in the late 1970s when the Air Force announced that women would be allowed to become military pilots for the first time.
"We got very annoyed," said Wise of the WASPs, who realized they had been totally forgotten by history. "We got organized."
Wise fought for their rights by volunteering in a tiny office at the Army Navy Club in Washington, D.C.
Their demand to be recognized as military veterans faced a united front of tough opponents, including the Veterans Administration, President Jimmy Carter, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
"Those groups had so much power, and they feared this would open the floodgates," said Wise.
If the WASPs were granted military status, opponents feared, then the other civilian organizations that worked in the war effort would also demand military recognition.
But the WASPs refused to quit, calling their congresspersons and talking to supportive reporters. They gained some key advocates.
"The Pentagon testified in our favor," said Wise. "It was pretty unusual for them to take a position opposite the White House."
Col. Bruce Arnold, the son of commanding Gen. Henry Arnold, also fought for them, as did Sen. Barry Goldwater, himself a World War II pilot.
In 1977, the House and Senate passed a bill that gave WASPs military status and veterans benefits.
And in 2010, the WASPs received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Barack Obama.
"I've been fortunate enough to know a number of WASPs," said Vaught. "They're a breed among themselves. They have a spirit of adventure that just won't quit."
Colleen O'Connor: 303-954-1083, email@example.com or twitter.com/coconnordp
Celebrating wasps
To encourage girls to learn more about the history of WASPs, admission to "Fly Girls of WWII" at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is free to girls younger than 17 through Dec. 31.
The exhibition, which debuted at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation in Washington, includes a 26-foot WASP timeline, uniformed mannequins, a video, hundreds of photos, WASP memorabilia, and a photo mosaic featuring the face of every WASP.
The gala honoring the WASPs will be at Wings Over the Rockies, 7711 East Academy Boulevard in Denver, Dec. 21 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $200 for members, $250 for nonmembers. For more information, call 303-360-5360 x 110.


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Striking Comments: Article One
When we were young, late seventies that is, Bangla Bandh was an occasion of some importance, and rarity. It was also fun. It was a day when we could play football or cricket on the VIP Road, or ride to our school in Ganganagar on our cycles and then come back to Baguiati.. Ever since people began saying 'yet another Bandh?', strikes lost their political and sociological relevance.
Everyone likes a surprise holiday – once in a while. Even lazy people like myself do not look forward to multiple Strikes in a year or sometimes even in the space of a month. This political instrument has been misused and abused to an absurd extent. Today Economists can talk about how Strikes do not change a darn thing about price hike. An irrelevant observation, if you ask me: Strikes are not for people who understand the intricacies of Economics. While we are on the topic, who understands the intricacies of Economics other than Economists? I certainly don't. Strikes are a show of power and solidarity among people brought together by common interests. It is a way of showing the administration that no government can function without a work force, and so, it had better pay attention – or else. Strikes are a way of making your presence felt. It is unfortunate that today we all know what happens when such presence is felt too often.
I personally support the Government's initiative to end Strikes in West Bengal. However, the good intentions fall flat when you look at the methods adopted to ensure that. The Hon'ble Minister Shri Madan Mitra does not appear to have changed much from his questionably famous 1, 2, 3 days. He is still using the same tactics with regard to 'illegal and unlicensed' auto rickshaws. It is probably okay to force no work no pay on a Strike day on Government employees, and it would certainly be effective to drive home the point with a service break threat – if there were legal provisions for such a move. As it turns out, there is none. It is also rather disturbing that the representatives of the Government should keep referring to the Countrywide Strike as a plot hatched by a single political party which must be defeated. The challenge game, let us face it, is immature at best.
As for 'wasting' fuel by keeping the Government buses plying: perfectly justified in view of the fact that there is no other way to assure the general populace that they have a choice. Why do most people not go out on a Bandh day after all? For one, they are not sure that there will be sufficient transport available, and then, they wonder if they are going to come back home in one piece or at all. Admirable move, then, by the State Government, to keep the buses plying even without passengers. No sarcasm here: if we are to banish the Strike Virus for good, some amount of initial loss is inevitable. Call it investment. That takes care of the first part of the problem. Unfortunately for us all, we are more uncertain than ever of coming back home safely when journalists are thrashed and the Chief Minister publicly dismisses it as a plot hatched by a certain news channel. Ransacking a Party Office of the Opposition is perhaps justified since we all know how the Left Front Government has done absolutely nothing useful in the last thirty four years.
Anyway, the CP(I)M is getting what was coming to them, everyone knows that. They are the worst thing that could have happened to West Bengal in the last – that's right, – the last thirty plus four years. Problem is, when the Opposition is murdered – let's say the investigation will reveal that the Dewandighi victims were murdered by a combination of internal strife and spontaneous outburst of public rage – we are still not safe even though we are bhadralok who have nothing to do with politics. The Chief Minister and her Ministers have made enough well thought out comments to give the impression to a lot of people that explaining away any kind of act is easy. Which is why there is a distinct echo of Ms. Banerjee's comment when the recent murder of Sagar Mete in Nanoor (http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/cpim-worker-beaten-to-death/970368.html ) is dismissed by TMC local spokesperson on camera as consequence of internal strife. It is either internal strife, or, in case of farmers' deaths (who, incidentally, are not really farmers at all, we are told), problems within the family, and if all else fails, there is the conspiracy theory. How long before we are either in the wrong place at the proverbial wrong time or before we realize that there was a lot of internal strife within our family because of which nothing happened to us that was not fabricated?


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From 2005 to 2009 the River Junction Poets hosted Poets Birthday Readings at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Saginaw (MI) to read and discuss poets and poetry. Events were planned around the birthdays of poets; the bookstore mentioned our events in its monthly Newsletter. When we sent a birthday card to the poet we celebrated, we included the Newsletter that mentioned the event. Several of those poets responded with Thank You notes. This blog serves an ongoing interest in poets and poetry.


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Quality educational programming is a top priority for the Fresno Art Museum. From classes for children, tours for students, resources for artists and teachers, to thought-provoking lectures and bus excursions to other Museums and events for adults, the Museum strives to create programs and exhibitions that enlighten, challenge, and inspire creativity for all ages and provide a powerful opportunity for learning, exploration, engagement, and fun.
In recent years, a focus on Valley youth from every socio-economic group has become increasingly important for the Museum and particularly our Education Department. With numerous cuts to arts education in our schools, the Museum strives to be an innovator and find ways to provide opportunities for all students to positively interact with the arts. A key objective in our educational programming is to foster the next generation of artists and arts enthusiasts, spark critical thinking, and improve our community's quality of life through the arts.
Each year the Fresno Art Museum expands and enhances its educational programs through partnerships with such organizations as the Fresno County Office of Education, Kennedy Center's "Any Given Child" program, Fresno Unified School District, Sanger Unified School District, Center for Creativity and the Arts at California State University, Fresno, the Economic Opportunities Commission, the Girl Scouts, SAM Academy, Fresno County Public Library, Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministry, the Cultural Arts Rotary Club, and others.
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EA founder Trip Hawkins's new London studio If You Can has drawn back the veil on its first major project, an educational iPad game for children.
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Trip Hawkins opens new London studio If You Can
EA co-founder Trip Hawkins has opened If You Can, a new studio in London with Moshi Monsters lead producer Ben Geliher. The studio will focus on educational games with the first round of funding from Venture Capitalists.
EA founder claims console market is becoming niche
EA founder Trip Hawkins has explained why he feels the console market is shrinking down to a 'hobby business', while the PC and mobile sectors will continue to boom.
Digital Chocolate lays off 180 people, Hawkins stands down as CEO
Social studio Digital Chocolate has laid off 180 of its staff, with CEO Trip Hawkins also stepping down from his role as CEO of the company.
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Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins believes if Apple were to "support all of the web standards," instead of maintain staunch control over it's App Store along with continued insistence on using HTML5, the firm could be "the best at everything."
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Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins believes we are currently in the dark ages of gaming. According to Hawkins, the golden age of gaming died when big companies like Nintendo came upon the scene with software licensing.
Trip Hawkins in serious shizzle over $20m tax bill
A San Francisco federal judge has rejected the effort of EA founder Trip Hawkins to use personal bankruptcy to cancel more than $20 million of federal and California state tax obligations stemming from, according to this Forbes report, "abusive tax shelters he used to shield vast profits from Electronic Arts, the pioneering video gaming firm […]
EA founder predicts the death of console exclusives
EA founder Trip Hawkins has predicted console exclusivity and consoles in general will become a thing of the past as more publishers get on board with Cloud-gaming.
Hawkins: iPhone is "freaking out" Sony and Nintendo
Trip "Poster Boy" Hawkins has told VentureBeat that Sony and Nintendo are currently "freaking out" at inroads made into the gaming space by iPhone."The iPhone is by far our most effective platform," said the EA founder and Digital Chocolate boss."We make as much money with these games on one device as we do putting a […]
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Early Monday morning, the legal team representing Jamaican music icon, Buju Banton, was forced to file an emergency motion with the US District Court (Middle District) in Tampa, Florida on behalf of their client. Last Thursday, Banton (aka Mark Myrie), who has been incarcerated at Pinellas County Jail (PCJ) in nearby Clearwater since early January, was placed in maximum security for 30 days for giving away his food to a fellow inmate. After several futile attempts to negotiate directly with the jail (and the prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney, James Preston) to have Buju moved back to general population, Team Banton felt compelled to file the Emergency Motion for Bond or for Alternative Relief.
Lead defense attorney, David Oscar Markus, believes this excessive punishment is simply the latest in a long line of subtle yet exacting harassment endured by the Reggae star since his transfer to PCJ. Immediately upon his arrival at the jail, Banton, a devout Rasta who follows a strict ital diet, filled out the required paperwork to apply for vegetarian meals, but all of his requests were ignored. In addition to his visible weight loss, Banton has been inexplicably moved from floor to floor of the jail — 5 times at last count. And his cell is customarily tossed by guards (read: searched at random), among other things.
According to reports from former inmates who were interviewed for a PCJ resource site about (but unaffiliated with) the jail, South Division or "max," is for non-sentenced (usually dangerous) felons. However, Central Division, the minimum security area where Banton was previously housed, at least has a "microwave and hot water" and is "very clean and neat compared to max."
And here's a Typical Meal Schedule & Sample Menu at Pinellas County Jail:
Breakfast – 3:00am
Lunch – 10:00am
Dinner – 4:00pm
Shank & Cereal
Meat & Gravy
Macaroni & Ham Bits
Inmates may order from the commissary twice a week.
Below is an excerpt of the motion filed by Mr. Markus:
Because Mr. Myrie had the audacity to share his food with a hungry inmate, he was sent out of general population and into the maximum security wing of the prison. When Mr. Myrie told the officer that he did not believe that he was doing anything wrong, he was told that he could contest her finding, but if he lost, he would be sent to the hole. Knowing how that would turn out, Mr. Myrie waived his opportunity to contest the hearing and was sent to maximum security for the next 30 days — the most critical 30 days of Mr. Myrie's life as he prepares for trial.
Since being incarcerated in December 2009, Mr. Myrie has lost about 40 pounds and has not been provided with a diet in accordance with his religious views. Although he has been able to make appropriate meals in the kitchen with food he purchased from the commissary, he does not have the ability in his new maximum security wing. In addition, the living areas and kitchen are unsanitary, and the showers do not work. Because he is being treated inhumanely, we have no choice but to file this motion for bond.
The decision to then place Mr. Myrie in a maximum security wing weeks before his upcoming trial suggest that something else is going on. Counsel for Mr. Myrie was advised that he would remain in maximum security for at least 30 days, and that there was "nothing we can do about it." In sum, Mr. Myrie is now in a maximum security wing for caring enough to offer food to another inmate who was hungry, and genuinely believing there was nothing wrong in doing so.
Transferring Mr. Myrie to maximum security is not only affecting him (Mr. Myrie's mental and physical health has been rapidly deteriorating) but it is affecting undersigned's counsel's ability to prepare for trial. For example, this week when counsel attempted to visit Mr. Myrie, counsel was required to wait over two hours until he could see Mr. Myrie.
Many of the people that we spoke to at the facility tried to help us and agreed that this "violation" was extremely minor. We were told, however, that once the decision was made, it was not going to be overturned.
Team Banton was granted the emergency hearing and will appear in Tampa Federal Court on Friday, March 26th at 10am before Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli.
In the meantime… Bujumania!
Listeners request and selectors continue to play as much Buju Banton music as possible, especially the uplifting new single "Optimistic Soul," which officially dropped online, March 23rd. Multimedia programmers should add the accompanying music video into rotation on local, national and international TV outlets and web sites. Plan a special Buju Banton Tribute program for the weekend of April 16th-18th (just before the trial start date of Monday, April 19th).
Swap your Facebook/Twitter profile pic to the official Free Buju! logo or your favorite photo of Buju Banton. Bombard the web with inspirational Buju Banton lyrics, quotes, interviews, videos and other memorabilia. Stay optimistic.
Continue writing letters of encouragement to Buju Banton:
Mark Anthony Myrie – Docket # 1387202
Pinellas County Jail
14400 49th Street North
Clearwater, Florida 33762-2877
Please note *new housing info, which must be included in address to ensure delivery.
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Fat Man and Little Boy go camping in Chimayo
This Friday marks the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, with the anniversary of Nagasaki's bombing on Monday. To protest the continued procurement of nuclear weapons, Think Outside the Bomb are camping near Los Alamos. Their website, thinkoutsidethebomb.
If you're not real outdoorsy, check out John Hersey's Hiroshima. It's an amazing book, which appeared as an article in the New Yorker's August 31, 1946 issue. In fact, it was such a powerful story, editors dedicated the entire issue to it, forgoing their cartoons or any other articles.
Another of my faves about the aftermath of World War II is John W. Dower's Embracing Defeat. It's not an uplifting book but it creates a vivid post-war world in your mind.
Of course, 65 is often cited as retirement age (though that's not exactly true these days), which gives Think Outside the Bomb's protest a little more of a "Happy Retirement Fat Man and Little Boy" feel.


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Bullets narrowly missed a civilian taking a ride in a police cruiser in central California early Sunday morning, when a traffic stop turned into a police chase.
Many citizens who want to understand the job of police officers and get a sense of the excitement of the job go on ride-alongs, like the woman in Madera. But her morning was anything but routine after a suspect ended up firing 14 rounds at the patrol car, leaving the passenger scratched by broken glass and crying in fear, but safe, Police Chief Steven Frazier recapped Monday at a news conference. Originally, police had said nine rounds were fired.
The story, and especially the dashcam video police posted of the shootout and chase, has been seen nearly 1 million times on the department's Facebook page, and made its rounds on the TV morning talk shows, including the "Today" show.
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"By the grace of God," Frazier told reporters, "this officer and this civilian ride-along are with us today."
Officer Julian Garcia, who was on his second week of the job and spotted a Mazda with a broken headlight, wasn't injured and the woman on the ride-along suffered minor scratches, Frazier said. She is part of the department's volunteer citizen's academy. She declined to be interviewed or identified.
Madera is in San Joaquin County near Yosemite National Park.
The ride-along started off normally on Sunday about 4:30 a.m., police said. Garcia tried to stop a Mazda SUV traveling west on Howard Road because the car had a broken headlight and the driver failed to stop at a stop sign, according to the dashcam video and the chief.
"He's not stopping," the woman is heard asking in the video, before a chase ensued.
When the Mazda turns onto Lighthouse Drive, its front passenger is apparently seen sticking a gun out the window, prompting the officer's passenger to say, "He has a gun! No, no, no, no!"
Approximately 14 rounds were fired at the police car, Frazier said. The patrol car was struck by three bullets, two of them through the windshield, and the patrol car was disabled. Frazier said that one of the bullets even landed inside someone's home in a pile of laundry.
The Mazda sped away, and the police cruiser pulled over. "You OK?" the officer is heard asking the woman, who begins sobbing in the car.
The Mazda was later found abandoned on Krest Street, and police found an AR 15-style pistol and other evidence, which they didn't detail. Det. Sgt. Johnny Smith told NBC Bay Area there were paper license plates on the car, which was stolen from Fresno.
Police have not announced any arrests, and the chief said they were looking for at least two suspects.
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Titanfall Review (Xbox One)
Through the electrified smoke, corpses of militia grunts and pilots can be seen strewn across the rubble of the crumbling building. At one time, it was a majestic piece of architecture. Now, all that remains is the husk of life once lived. We've managed to push back and defend the fueling depot, but the militia is still trying to escape. The dropship's location pops up on the heads-up display inside the Ogre mech, and we begin rushing towards the extraction point. Titans of the proud Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (IMC) lie in wait for the remaining living militia forces. Another fight breaks out, threatening to collapse what remains of another once palatial fragile estate. Rockets and bullets fly across the battlefield with reckless abandon, with few finding actual targets. The dropship reaches escape velocity before we can take it down, and thus the battle rages on to another destination. We've won the battle, but the war just never seems to end.
Raging across worlds as vast and varied as our own solar system, Titanfall pits players against each other in one of the longest, most expensive wars we've ever seen. The IMC has been mining whole planets for resources to continue crafting more and more Titans so they can continue mining more and more planets. The militia, consisting of some former members of the IMC, but mostly people from the far reaches tired of corporate expansion, have been fighting back, but there's no end to the conflict in sight. Even across the brief campaign, which does a rudimentary job of explaining the who, what, when and where of the conflict, there's little resolution to the fight across the next frontier. But that's okay. Resolution isn't what Respawn is after. The developer just wanted to create the foundation for the war. The real meat of Titanfall lies in the fighting itself, and it is glorious.
Titanfall is all about multiplayer. Not because the multiplayer is the main draw, as it is with games developed by many of Respawn's contemporaries, but because there literally is nothing else to do but play multiplayer matches in Titanfall. In addition to the adequate team deathmatch and capture the flag modes, you'll find Pilot Hunter (where only human kills add to the score) and Last Titan Standing (rather self-explanatory, don't you think?) spice up the standard fare. Even the shorthanded campaign is nothing but multiplayer matches with the window dressing of a narrative thrown in. It takes a bit of time to get acclimated to the big differences between Titanfall and the endless other shooters you've been playing for years. The core concept remains the same (winning), but the formula for success is quite different from what you've been applying elsewhere.
Mostly, Titanfall is fast. Each match has a frenetic pace that's tough to keep up with initially. There's a lot of verticality to deal with, and understanding level geometry goes well beyond learning choke points and kill boxes. Staying still is death. Titanfall's combat pushes you to stay agile to stay alive, and sightlines aren't limited to a single plane. It's not until you've been in the trenches for a handful of battles that Titanfall's combat begins to make sense, and suddenly you're seeing things like Neo in 'The Matrix.' That shell of a car that you thought was merely set dressing before is now a platform for you to jump higher. Buildings stacked close together now become a wannabe parkour expert's dream instead of a poor city planning decision. Every inch of the map matters, and scaling it faster and cleaner than your enemies gives you all the advantage you'll need.
There will be instances where not everything goes as well as you'd hoped, even after playing Titanfall for a dozen hours. Sometimes the creativity of the maps gets in the way, and you'll spend an extra few precious seconds trying to escape out that window before being gunned down. Other times, objects that look 100 percent scalable feature no grappling points, and you end up jumping around like an idiot, easy pickings for the opposition. It doesn't happen often enough to ruin the experience, but the longer you play, the more you begin to question whether making the 15 maps so populated with detritus was really the best idea.
Of course, this is just as a pilot. In addition to the freewheeling wall-running, the grounded combat is majorly important. However, Respawn has put its own twist on the traditional flat-footed action by implementing giant mechs called Titans. Every player has access to Titans immediately from the start, though you'll have to earn additional models beyond the Atlas by completing the story for both the IMC and the militia. Titans are locked away from the battle on a timer, and you can accelerate the waiting period through your performance in a given match. Kills, flag captures, hardpoint holds, hacking and more player actions cut time from the countdown. Basically, the better you're playing, the faster you'll get one, but you'll still get at least one even if you've been barely skating by.
Unlike the player characters, which all perform basically the same and rely on human skill to push to the limits, the three different Titan classes all offer something different for players. The Atlas is the well-rounded mech, and offers moderate speed, armor and strength. The Ogre is the tank of the fleet, and is a hulking beast that trudges through a stage even when sprinting. What it lacks in mobility it makes up for in sheer raw power. Dropping an Ogre on a hardpoint to defend is the equivalent of hiring a bouncer who weighs 350lbs. for your exclusive nightclub. Then there's the Stryder. Its insect-like appearance delivers performance you would expect, being both incredibly agile and weak. These pesky Titans are tough to catch, and can really frustrate you with the right pilot behind the wheel. Still, dropping your own Titan on one should end its life rather quickly, and happens to be supremely satisfying to boot.
Once Titans do start dropping, and they do start dropping with regularity once the first few land, the open expanses of the field of battle become congested. This is another reason why so much verticality was built into Titanfall's maps--the Titans just take up so much space. When there are a half-dozen Titans battling it out on the streets or desert wastes, you don't want to get caught under foot when you're sans mech. If you did call yours down, you can choose to pilot it or leave it on auto-pilot to follow you around. Depending on the match type, either strategy is completely viable. In fact, newcomers may find it easier to let the Titans do much of the heavy lifting under the guide of the AI early on, while players focus on learning the maps and how to combat those other pesky human enemies.
You do have some tools at your disposal to take Titans on as a soldier, but it takes a concentrated effort to bring one down, regardless of whether it's piloted by a human or not. Player weapons are strong at the start, but new and better (read: different) armaments unlock the more proficient you become. You'll also have special abilities like temporary cloaking, speed bursts, electrified smoke screens and more to tie to your pilot and Titan. Unlocks are tied to leveling, but you might catch a glimpse of a stronger weapon or ability with the right draw in the random Burn Cards.
There are no micro-transactions in Titanfall, but nearly every match you play will earn you a handful of Burn Cards. These are temporary perks that last the length of one life, and grant you stronger weapons, unique abilities or even cut down the wait time for a Titan. There are dozens to collect, and you can bring up to three with you into any given match (once you've leveled up enough anyway). It's a interesting way to give players cool abilities, and since the draw is mostly random, you never feel outmatched by another player's perks. It can suck tremendously to activate a card only to get stomped immediately, and thus lose that ability, but that's part of the risk of using Burn Cards. Hoarding doesn't serve any real purpose, and the cards replenish quite quickly, so using them frequently is a great strategy even if you're still learning the ropes. Take any advantage you can get.
While much has been made of Titanfall's 6v6 player limit, the matches never feel outmatched by the map. Regardless of which mode you're playing, there will be dozens of AI soldiers on either side contesting the map right alongside the human players. The AI isn't exactly teeming with brilliance when it comes to the foot soldiers, which is odd given how intelligently Titans play when left to their own devices, but they do help populate the arenas with more life. They can also help unfamiliar players ease into Titanfall's rapid fire combat by providing "easy" targets for those not yet as formidable as their other human teammates. It feels nice to be contributing to the war effort even if you're taking out a majority of AI opponents. There's always some sense of accomplishment, and that's important when trying to establish a new franchise with a new approach to the way an FPS is played on a new console.
Though Titanfall doesn't add much new to the first-person shooter formula, its unique features do help it stand out quite a bit. The rush of running across rooftops, snagging kill after kill, while massive mechs rumble on the terrain below, is like no other. That said, the immeasurable amount of hype behind Titanfall was impossible to meet. It's definitely one of the most entertaining multiplayer shooters we've ever played, but it's still too rough around the edges to truly challenge any of the incumbents right now. Still, Titanfall stands on the cusp of this new generation, ready to blaze its own path to greatness. Titanfall is not a perfect game, but it sure is fun. Sometimes, that's all you need.
This review was completed with a purchased retail copy of Titanfall for the Xbox One.


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Apple Stores will reportedly be changing how they market and sell the iPhone, in hopes that more phones will be sold through their own Apple Store retail locations. This according to comments Tim Cook was said to have made at Apple's annual retail leadership gathering. Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac:
The iPhone is Apple's central "gateway product" to other devices like iPads and Macs, so it is critical that the Apple smartphone is sold via an Apple Store so new customers are immediately exposed to iPads, Macs and other devices on the showroom floor. Even though 80% of iPhones are not sold at Apple Stores, 50% of all serviced iPhones are troubleshooted, repaired, or replaced at Apple Store Genius Bars. Cook reportedly hinted that he would like those numbers to be more in line.
Incentives will be offered to customers who buy iPhones from Apple Stores, with Apple's 2013 Back to School promotions being the first part of the new push. Another element that was hinted at during the event was an iPhone trade-in program at Apple Stores. Details on the program are scarce at this time though it appears that it might allow customers to trade in their older phone for a refurbished version of a newer phone. The retail leaders are said to have left the event confident in this fall's product lineup.
It's likely that we'll see this new approach with the launch of new iPhone, iPad, and Mac models, widely expected for this fall. Apple's physical stores have often been credited as playing a major role in Apple's success over the last 12 years, in part because it let customers walk in and see the entire selection of products that Apple was offering. With increasing competition in mobile, the retail stores will continue to be critical differentiators, especially given that Apple can be in full control of the presentation of their products, something that isn't true in other retail locations.
Did you buy your iPhone at an Apple retail location? If not, why not, and is there any way Apple could convince you to buy your next one there?
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Daring brides are donning their gorgeous gowns for one last time to "rock the frock" and "trash the dress" to add to their wedding albums.
These photo shoots can show brides on fire, poised in junkyards, cuddled up with their groom in caves or in seductive poses on beaches or picturesque bays.
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It's photography for brides such as Kyle Kiser, who want something unconventional in their wedding albums.
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Michelle shot Kiser in her dress in a lake at sunset.
"I mean, it's just a dress; it'll be fun, and then the pictures will be worth more than anything," Kiser said.
Her mother, Debbie Toler, said she initially had reservations about the unconventional photo shoot.
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The Boston Beer Co.brew was followed in the rankings by Budweiser, Bud Light, Heineken and Corona. Popular Irish dry stout Guinness was ranked sixth, before Dos Equis, Miller Lite, Coors Lite and Miller.
YouGov also performed a sweep of the East Coast, where beers such as Yuengling, Beck's and Foster's showed up on New York's favored list and Busch and Amstel were among the top ranked in Boston. Rolling Rock made an appearance in Chicago.
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By deploying Kodo into a J2EE environment, you can maintain the simplicity and performance of Kodo, while leveraging J2EE technologies such as container managed transactions (JTA/JTS), enterprise objects with remote invocation (EJB), and managed deployment of multi-tiered applications via an application server. This tutorial will demonstrate how to deploy Kodo-based J2EE applications and showcase some basic enterprise JDO design techniques. The tutorial's sample application attempts to model a basic garage catalog system. While the application is relatively trivial, the code has been constructed to illustrate simple patterns and solutions to common problems when using Kodo in an enterprise environment.
This tutorial assumes that you have installed Kodo and setup your classpath according to the installation instructions appropriate for your platform. In addition, this tutorial requires that you have installed and configured a J2EE-compliant application server, such as JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Borland Enterprise Server, JRun, or SunONE / Sun JES. If you use a different application server, this tutorial may be adaptable to your application server with small changes; refer to your application server's documentation for any specific classpath and deployment descriptor requirements.
This tutorial assumes a reasonable level of experience with Kodo and JDO. We provide a number of other tutorials for basic Kodo and JDO concepts, including enhancement, schema mapping, and configuration. This tutorial also assumes a basic level of experience with J2EE components, including EJB, JNDI, JSP, and EAR/WAR/JAR packaging. Sun and/or your application server company may provide tutorials to get familiar with these components.
In addition, this tutorial uses Ant to build the deployment archives. While this is the preferred way of building a deployment of the tutorial, one can easily build the appropriate JAR, WAR, and EAR files by hand, although that is outside the scope of this document.
Every application server has a different installation process for installing J2EE components. Kodo can be installed in a number of ways, each of which may or may not be appropriate to your application server. While this document focuses mainly upon using Kodo as a JCA resource, there are other ways to use Kodo in a J2EE environment.
JCA: Kodo implements the
JCA 1.0 spec, and the kodo-jdo.rar file that comes in the
jca directory of the distribution can be
installed as any other JCA connection resource. This is the
preferred way to integrate Kodo into a J2EE
environment. It allows for simple installation
(usually involving uploading or copying kodo-jdo.rar
into the application server), guided configuration
on many appservers, as well as dynamic reloading
for upgrading Kodo to a newer version. The drawback
is that older application servers have flaky or non-
existent JCA support as the spec is relatively new.
PersistenceManagerFactoryImpl: This
remains the most compatible way to integrate Kodo
into a J2EE environment, though this is not seamless
and can require a fair bit of custom application server
code to manually bind an instance of
PersistenceManagerFactoryImpl into the
JNDI tree. This is somewhat offset by avoiding JCA
configuration issues as well as being able to tailor the
binding and start-up process.
Section 8.1.4, "Kodo JDO JCA Deployment" goes over the steps to install Kodo on your application server of choice via the Java Connector Architecture (JCA). If your application server does not support JCA, see Section 8.1.5, "Non-JCA Application Server Deployment" and Section 8.1.1, "Standalone Deployment" for other installation options.
Installing the sample application involves first compiling and building a deployment archive (.ear) file. This file then needs to be deployed into your application server.
Navigate to the
samples/jdo/j2ee directory
of your Kodo installation. Compile the source files in place
both in this base directory as well as the nested
ejb directory:
javac *.java ejb/*.java
Enhance the Car class.
kodoc -p jdo.properties package.jdo
Run the mapping tool; make sure that your
META-INF/jdo.properties file includes the
same connection information (e.g. Driver, URL, etc.) as your
mappingtool -p jdo.properties package.jdo
Configure options in
to match your JCA installation, most notably the JNDI
name to which you have bound Kodo (it defaults to kodo).
This step (editing
Be sure that the setting you put for
JBoss, for example, will prefix
the JNDI name with
Build an J2EE application archive by running Ant against the
build.xml. This will create
samplej2ee.ear. This ear can now be
deployed to your appserver.
ant -f build.xml
Place the ear file in the
directory of your JBoss installation. You can use the
above hints to view the JNDI tree to see if
samples.jdo.j2ee.ejb.CarHome was
deployed to JNDI.
Place the ear file in the
directory of your WebLogic domain. Production mode (see your
startWebLogic.sh/cmd file) should be set to false to enable
auto-deployment. If the application was installed correctly,
you should see
sample-ejb listed
in the Deployments/EJB section of the admin console.
In addition you should find
CarHome listed in
the JNDI tree under
Create a new directory named
in the
applications directory of
your WebLogic domain. Extract the EAR file (without copying
the EAR file) to this new directory:
applications> mkdir samplej2ee.ear applications> cd samplej2ee.ear samplej2ee.ear> jar -xvf /path/to/samplej2ee.ear
Deploy the application by using the admin console
(Deployments -> Applications -> Deploy a new Application.
samplej2ee.ear and deploy
to the proper server targets. If you have installed the
application correctly, you should find CarHome
listed in the JNDI tree under
Browse to the admin console in your web browser. Select
Applications/ Enterprise Applications
from the left navigation panel. Select
Deploy... and in the
following screen upload the
file to the server. Apply your changes by selecting the
link in the upper right portion of the page. You should
now see
samplej2ee listed
in the Enterprise Applications folder of the navigation panel.
Browse to the admin console in your web browser. Select
J2EE Components
from the left navigation panel. Select
Add under the
Enterprise Applications
heading. Select the
file and hit
You should now see
listed in the top-level folder of the navigation panel.
Select it, and then select the
component under
Enterprise JavaBeans
section, then change the
JNDI Name
for the bean from the default value to
samples.jdo.j2ee.ejb.CarHome and
If the Kodo resource adapter and the sample EAR are both
configured correctly, you should now be able to access
your sample application at JRun's deploy URL (e.g.,
Browse to the admin console in your web browser. Select
Applications / Install New Application
from the left navigation panel. Select
the path to your
samplej2ee.ear file
and press
On the following screen, leave the options at the default
and select
Next. On the following
screen (
Install New Application->Step 1
), ensure that the
Deploy EJBs
option is checked. Leave other options at their
Move on to Step 2. On this screen enter
samples.jdo.j2ee.ejb.CarHome as the JNDI name for the
Car EJB. Continue through the
remaining steps leaving options at the defaults. Select
Finish and ensure that
the application is deployed correctly.
Save the changes to the domain configuration by either
selecting the
Save link
that appears after the installation is complete or by
Save from the top menu.
To verify your installation, select
/ Enterprise Applications from the left
navigation panel.
should be listed in the list. If the application has not
started already, select the checkbox next to
and select
Deploy the EAR file using iastool or the console. Note
that you may have to include the JDO library in your
stub generation process. Also be sure that you have
followed the JCA instructions for
BES as well as editing the samples.properties to
point to
serial://kodo JNDI location.
You should be able to see the CarEJB located in JNDI
located at the home classname.
The sample application installs itself into the web layer at the
context root of sample. By browsing to
, you should be presented with a simple
list page with no cars. You can edit, add, delete car instances.
In addition, you can query on the underlying
PersistenceCapable instance by
passing in a JDOQL query into the marked form (such as
model=="Some Model").
The garage application is a simple enterprise application that demonstrates some of the basic concepts necessary when using Kodo in the enterprise layer.
The core model wraps a stateless session bean facade around a persistence capable instance. Using a session bean provides both a remote interface for various clients as well as providing a transactional context in which to work (and thus avoiding any explicit transactional code).
This session bean uses the Data Transfer Object pattern
to provide the primary communication between the
application server and the (remote) client. The
instance will be used as the primary object upon
which the client will work.
This model can be easily adapted to using entity beans.
See our sample
ejb directory and
for more details on how to using JDO to power your entity beans.
The core of the sample application. This is the
persistence capable class that Kodo will use to persist the
application data.
Instances of this class will also fill the role of
data transfer object (DTO) for EJB clients.
To accomplish this,
Car implements
so that remote clients can access cars as parameters
and return values from the EJB.
The JDO metadata file for the package.
Note that some appservers have a problem with the
way we include an internal DTD. If you see a lot
of illegal/malformed character exceptions, uncomment
out the DTD declaration in this file.
This is a simple facade to aggregate some core
JDO functionality into some static methods.
By placing all of the functionality into a single
facade class, we can reduce code maintenance, as
well as having the added advantage of being able
to access Kodo from other portions of the
application such as a servlet or JSP (though this
functionality is not demonstrated in this sample).
In addition, some simple utility functions such as
JNDI helper methods are also in this class.
The source for the
CarEJB session bean.
Clients can use the
CarRemote interfaces to
find, manipulate, and persist changes to
Car transfer object
instances. By using J2EE transactional features,
the implementation code in
can be focused almost entirely upon business and
persistence logic without worrying about transactions.
The web presentation client. These JSPs are not aware of JDO;
they simply use the
CarEJB session
bean and the
Car transfer object to do
all the work.
Files required to deploy to the various appservers,
including J2EE deployment descriptors, WAR/ EJB/ EAR
descriptors, as well as appserver specific files.
A simple Ant build file to help in creating a J2EE EAR file.
A simple
.properties file to tailor the
sample application to your particular appserver and
Persistence capable instances are excellent
candidates for the Data Transfer Object Pattern.
This pattern attempts to reduce network load, as well
as group business logic into concise units.
For example,
CarBean.edit allows you
to ensure that all values are correct before committing a
transaction, instead of sequentially calling getters and
setters on the session facade. This is especially true when
using RMI such as from a Swing based application
connecting to an application server.
CarEJB works as a session bean facade
to demarcate transactions, provide finder methods, and
encapsulate complex business logic at the server level.
Persistent instances using datastore identity
lose all identity upon serialization (which happens
when they are returned from an EJB method). While
there are numerous ways to solve this problem, the
sample uses the
clientId field of
Car to store the stringified
datastore id. Note that this field is
not persistent. This field ensures
that the client and EJB always share the same
identity for a given car instance.
Note that this situation is slightly different for application identity. While persistent instances under application-identity still lose their id instance, recreating it from the server side is trivial as the fields on which it is based are still available.
Other ways of solving this problem include:
Transmitting the object id first or otherwise storing identity with the client:
Object oid = dogRemote.findByQuery ("// some query"); Dog dog = dogRemote.getDogForOid (oid); // changes happen to dog dogRemote.save (oid, dog);
Wrapper objects that store the persistent instance, object id instance, as well as potentially other application-specific data:
public class DogTransferObject { private Dog dog; private Object oid; private String authentication; // some application specific client data }
should be called at the end of every EJB method.
In addition to ensuring that your code will not attempt to
access a closed
PersistenceManager, it
allows the JDO implementation to free up unused resources.
Since a
PersistenceManager is created
for every transaction, this can increase the scalability
of your application.
You should not use
PersistenceManager.currentTransaction or any
javax.jdo.Transaction methods.
Instead, use the JTA transactional API.
SampleUtilities includes a helper method
to obtain a
UserTransaction instance
from JNDI (see your application server's documentation on
the proper JNDI lookup).
While serialization of PC instances is relatively straightforward, there are several things to keep in mind:
Collections and iterators returned from
instances become closed and inaccessible upon method
close. If the client is receiving the results of a
Query, such as in
CarBean.query, the results
should be transferred to
another fresh collection instance before being returned
from the server.
While "default fetch group" values will always be
returned to the client upon serialization, lazily
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47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying America On The Global Economic Stage
(Not forgetting they are doing this with slave labour and child slave labour, including suicide outbreaks!…Ed.)
Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement? Well, that is what China is doing to the United States. China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage. Once upon a time, the Chinese economy was a joke and the U.S. economy was the most powerful the world had ever seen. But over the past couple of decades the U.S. economy has decayed and declined while the Chinese economy has skyrocketed. Today, China makes more steel, more automobiles, more beer, more cotton, more coal and more solar panels than we do. China has the fastest train in the world, the fastest computer in the world and they export twice as much high-tech equipment as we do. In 2011, our trade deficit with China was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world, and China has now accumulated more than 3 trillion dollars in foreign currency reserves. Every single day, we lose more jobs, more businesses and more of our national wealth to China. In technical economic terms, China has "taken us out behind the woodshed" and has beaten the living daylights out of us. Unfortunately, most Americans are so addicted to entertainment that they don't even realize what is happening.
If you do not believe that China is wiping the floor with America in front of the rest of the world, just keep reading. The following are 47 signs that China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage….
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Welp, it's here. Hardcore evidence that Kristen Stewart did, in fact, cheat on boyfriend Robert Pattinson with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders has materialized in a way no on really saw coming -- Kristen just issued a public apology and released a statement admitting to the affair. In what has to be an entertainment industry first, KStew confirmed the rumor, addressed it head on, and acknowledged her wrongdoing. So did Rupert.
Kristen said:
I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry.
So there it is, folks, proof. Perhaps the Mayans had it all wrong, seems like July 25, 2012 is actually the end of the world as we know it.
More from The Stir: Kristen Stewart's Hookup With Rupert Sanders Could Destroy Their Careers
Not to be outdone, Rupert Sanders also released a public apology.
I am utterly distraught about the pain I have caused my family. My beautiful wife and heavenly children are all I have in this world. I love them with all my heart. I am praying that we can get through this together.
Guess it's pretty easy to forget about the boyfriend you love, love, and your beautiful wife and heavenly children when amateur lust gets in the way. But I digress.
Let's discuss Kristen's statement. I admire Kristen's team's decision to just go ahead and fess up to this whole mess -- they could've denied this, or at least never spoken about it publicly, but instead they grabbed the bull by the horns and issued a mea culpa. That's fine and all, but do you think it's really helping anything?
If you've ever been cheated on in a big way (I'm not talking eighth grade hand-holding scandals), then you probably know what Rob's going through. Once you find out you've been burned by the person you love most, it's hard to tell which way is up. And because of that, you might want a little time to catch your breath before you let your friends, family, or in this case, fans know that you've been screwed.
More from The Stir: 5 Things About Rupert Sanders, Kristen Stewart's Alleged Man on the Side
Kristen selfishly took that time away from him and made herself look like some Tinsel Town trailblazer. She fessed up! How noble! How revolutionary! I'd venture to guess the compliments she's likely getting for this statement probably doesn't help Rob feel any better. In fact, it might make him feel worse.
If I were Rob, I'd release a public statement of my own to People mag to express my feelings. A nice, simple, eloquent statement along the lines of:
F You, KStew.
Pretty much says it all.
What do you think of Kristen's public apology?
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I've been missing in action for almost two weeks now – I know it's a shame and travesty. My excuse? The hubby and I took a wonderful vacation to Cancun. It was quite invigorating to spend one-on-one time with my better half without the distraction of school, work, friends and family. Sorry friends and family! For the first time in ages, we vacationed without computers and most of the time kept our cell phones and Blackberry's locked in the hotel safe. In today's society, it isn't often that we "unplug" ourselves from the hustle and bustle and simply relax. After the trip, I found myself not only rested and peaceful, but happier with myself and life than I have been in some time. Now that the holidays have passed and it is time to celebrate the New Year, I have decided upon my New Year's Resolutions…
1. Relinquish those things that attempt to steal my peace of mind.
2. Sharing God's agape (unconditional) love with those around me.
3. Practice the art of picking my battles wisely in every relationship.
4. Seek every opportunity for self-preservation and restoration – strengthening my relationship with God through prayer and increasing my yoga practice.
5. Finding joy in life's simple pleasures – drinking an abundance of tea, laughing uncontrollably, dancing in the wind, writing to my heart's content, and the joy of finding a great sale at Macy's! 🙂
To start the New Year with a bang, first share your New Year's resolutions. Then we can toast over one of the following tea cocktails…
1. The Crimson Sparkler (The Voice of Tea)
- 2 cups sugar, plus a pinch for garnish
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon crimson punch
- 1/2 teaspoon sweet vermouth
- 6 oz sparkling wine, chilled
- 1 blood orange, sliced into wheels
Bring water to a boil, then add sugar, stirring until completely dissolved. Remove from heat and add tea, steeping for 10 minutes. Strain and allow to cool to room temperature.
While cooling, cut the blood orange and sprinkle orange wheels with a pinch of sugar. Add 1 tablespoon tea syrup and the sweet vermouth to the sparkling wine, garnish with sugared blood orange wheel.
2. Amaretto Tea Recipe (Drinks Mixer)
- 6 oz hot tea
- 2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
- 1 1/2 oz chilled whipped cream
Pour hot tea into a pousse cafe glass, using a spoon in glass to prevent cracking. Add amaretto, but do not stir. Top with chilled whipped cream and serve.
3. Ginger Tea (About.com)
- 1 oz Hennessy VSOP Cognac
- 2 oz fresh brewed green tea (chilled)
- 1/2 oz simple syrup (or splenda)
- 3 mint leaves
- 3 pieces ginger
- extra mint leaf for garnish
In a mixing glass, add ginger, mint and simple syrup and muddle. Pour the Cognac and fresh tea over top and muddle a little more. Strain into an ice filled glass and garnish with a mint leaf. For those of you like me, who had no idea what "muddle" means… to muddle is to combine ingredients in the bottom of a glass by pressing them with a muddler before adding the liquid ingredients. Y-e-a-a-h right, so what is a muddler? Again, for those of you who don't know, it is a long pestle often shaped like a baseball bat and commonly made of wood.
With that settled… select a cocktail – shake or stir – share your resolutions – and toast! Happy New Year!


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I have this problem too, I installed the 3.1.0 XAMPP now, and when I start the apache, it won't want to work, automatically stop running. I get this message in the control panel:
20:43:40 [Apache] Status change detected: stopped
20:43:40 [Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
20:43:40 [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
20:43:40 [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
20:43:40 [Apache] Check the "/xampp/apache/logs/error.log" file
20:43:40 [Apache] and the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
But the error.log is empty.... I tried changeing the ports, but still doesn't work... Any other idea?


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided along ideological lines Monday over whether lethal-injection execution methods in about three dozen states are being properly and humanely applied.
The high court's involvement in the case has halted executions at least until the summer.
At issue are the standards to determine whether the most common method of capital punishment can cause excruciating pain, violating the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment."
"I am terribly troubled," said Justice John Paul Stevens, referring to the use of one type of drug in the lethal injection mixture that is designed to paralyze a condemned prisoner.
"If it is properly administered, would you have a case here?" asked Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote could swing a ruling to either side.
The justices have never directly addressed the fundamental question over the use of the chemical "cocktail" of drugs used to execute convicted killers. All but one of the states that perform such executions use the three-drug mixture at issue in this appeal.
Kentucky inmates Ralph Baze and Clyde Bowling Jr. brought suit in federal court three years ago, questioning that state's chemical mixture and the procedures used to administer it. Watch how the drugs work »
They claim the first drug -- sodium thiopental -- which renders the prisoner unconscious, wears off too quickly. Some prisoners are awake and able to feel pain as the procedure continues, the condemned men contend.
The second drug -- pancuronium bromide -- paralyzes all muscle movement, then prevents the condemned person from speaking out and expressing awareness of the pain, according to the men's attorneys.
The third drug, potassium chloride, which induces cardiac arrest, is "excruciatingly painful in a conscious person," the inmates and lawyers say in their court papers.
Baze, 52, admits killing Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe in 1992 while the lawmen were trying to serve him with arrest warrants.
Bowling was convicted of killing Edward and Tina Earley in Louisville in 1990. Their 2-year-old son was wounded in the attack in the parking lot of the couple's dry-cleaning business. Bowling's attorneys have alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the case and say their client has a low IQ.
Officials in Kentucky say their procedures are in line with other states, and a doctor is on site and available to provide any pre-execution medical care to the inmate.
A Texas inmate was put to death the day the high court accepted the Kentucky cases. Since then, the justices have stepped in and imposed a de facto moratorium nationwide. Depending on how the justices rule, capital punishment could effectively be delayed for a year or more.
Twenty-six people were executed last year, the lowest total in more than a decade.
In oral arguments, the justices debated the threshold when execution procedures become unconstitutional. No consensus was reached, although both sides of this politically charged issue are hoping for clear guidelines from the Supreme Court.
Baze and Bowling's attorney, Donald Verrilli, said inmates run "the risk of a cruel and inhumane" death from a flawed execution method. Watch what the lawyers had to say »
"Of course, there is risk of human error," said Justice Stephen Breyer. "But can we say there is a more serious problem here than other execution methods?"
Verrilli suggested a single drug -- a strong barbiturate used on animals -- might be a more preferable alternative.
"It's never been tried on humans," said Chief Justice John Roberts. "Can we establish it doesn't cause pain?"
Verrilli replied the second drug of the current mixture is "just an anti-convulsant" designed to ensure the audience witnessing the execution is not personally in "discomfort" seeing a dying person's body reacting to the drugs by twitching uncontrollably.
But using this drug "also enhances the dignity of the inmate," Roberts asserted. He also said he wondered whether a fresh round of legal appeals would start if a single drug was used to perform executions.
Stevens reiterated his concern that the second drug "seems totally unnecessary."
Arguing the other side for the state, Roy Englert said Kentucky has "excellent" procedures and safeguards, including trained technicians who specialize in inserting needles in veins, and monthly practice sessions at the correctional facility housing death row. He also said technicians are always "in close proximity" to the gurney where the inmate is placed.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginbsurg said she wondered why technicians were not next to the prisoner to ensure there were no last-minute problems. Englert explained it was to preserve the anonymity of the technicians, who might be subject to harassment or threats as the official executioners.
Stevens and Justice David Souter suggested the high court postpone a decision on the application of lethal injection until lower courts can fully investigate alternative methods of death that might be more acceptable.
Stevens told Englert that Kentucky's procedures with the three-drug mixture were "very persuasive in your favor" but wondered whether other states could apply them without risk of lengthy legal challenges.
Justice Anthony Scalia said he worried about endless litigation if the issue is not settled soon. "This never ends," he said.
Various states and judges have applied different standards over whether an inmate can make a challenge to the method of execution.
In September, U.S. District Judge Judge Aleta Trauger stopped a planned execution in Tennessee, saying correction officials' new method of execution in that state "presents a substantial risk of unnecessary pain."
And in 2005, then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush issued a moratorium in his state after complaints over the length of time needed to execute prisoner Angel Nieves Diaz. A two-year review was completed, but executions were halted further by the high court's current review of the issue.
The Supreme Court has not ruled directly on the "cruel and unusual" aspect of lethal injection, but it did conclude in 2006 that prisoners can make last-ditch legal challenges to the method of execution, using claims that they would suffer a painful death.
"The question before the court is how much risk of unnecessary pain is too much risk of unnecessary pain under the Constitution," said Edward Lazarus, an appellate attorney and Supreme Court legal analyst.
"There is evidence to show that this is somewhat of an inhumane way to approach this, but there's going to be a group of justices who really think we shouldn't be in the business of micromanaging the death penalty," he added.
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It's almost that time of year again. Fantasy football. But wait it's still preseason and I can't wait so I'm playing tonight haha. Preseason is a lot tougher because you're focused on 2nd and 3rd stringers compared to starters. Here's who I like :
QB - Ryan Lindley - confirmed he will play the 2nd half. I also like Tyrod Taylor against the horrible Dallas Defense
RB - Rashad Jennings. Davonta Freeman, Bernard Pierce
WRs - Robert Woods(also like Watkins), Corey Washington, John Brown
TE - Dennis Pitta, Fleener
K - Justin Tucker or Dan the Man Carpenter
D - The BUFFALO Bills but really pick any defense, it's pretty much a pick em in preseason
This is my shot at preseason so I'm not sure how good these picks will work out.


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The last Nike Air Epic Vintage colorway to arrive at retail mixed Sport Grey and Team Orange with a rustic Obsidian suede. Continue the navy blue fade-out until it's more of a dark grey, switch around the color distribution and shades and you have an idea of what to expect with the next pair. These VNTG Air Epics have a more neutral feel with the Sail, Medium Grey and Night Stadium greyscale mix, but Team Orange branding adds just a hint of energy. These just released in Asia, so keep your eyes peeled for a release at US Nike Sportswear retailers and check out more images below in the meantime.
Nike Air Epic VNTG
Sail/Medium Grey-Night Stadium-Team Orange
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Beware Chinese Stocks
David Herro, chief investment officer of Harris Associates, is wary of Chinese stocks. He tells Barron's at the 2012 Art of Successful Investing conference that good Chinese companies have expensive shares, while many cheap companies are controlled by the government, which isn't looking out for other shareholders.
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