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Death Machine (UK - DVD R1)
Gabe struggles to find the off switch while Brad Dourif's monster eats him
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CHAANK Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting human/machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has a number of innocents laying dead in its wake. The genius behind this project is a child like hacker named Jack Dante (Brad Dourif). When Jack is fired for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes his Death Machine against his oppressors.
Three years before he reinvigorated the comic book and kung fu genres for US audiences (say what you will about the final product, Blade pre-dated The Matrix and X-Men), and six years before big bad Sean Connery chased him out of the editing room (I say League of Extraordinary Gentlemen could've been decent), Stephen Norrington made a little picture called Death Machine. The years before that saw the Englishman working behind the scenes in make-up and special effects on many a major Hollywood production.
Death Machine's plot is deceptively simple, and pretty darn unoriginal, but the final product greatly exceeded my synopsis related expectations. The film is a quirky work of visual ingenuity. It's not that the story is worthless, or even particularly bad, but it's entirely secondary to Norrington's feast for the eyes. The character names give it all away; John Carpenter, Scott Ridley, and most telling of all, Sam Raimi. The only name missing from the list is James Cameron, who's influence makes great sense considering the film's basic plot (very Terminator meets Aliens), and the fact that Norrington worked for Cameron on Aliens.
There aren't many live action, cyberpunk motion pictures that really exude the style (most end up looking like cheap [/i]Blade Runner[/i] clones), just as there are very few comic book movies that look like comic books, and this is why Death Machine gets a thumbs up in my book. Watching the film actually feels like reading a comic book, from framing, to texture, to colouring and cutting. You can almost hear the pages turning. The only major breaks in this style are the Raimi inspired Death Machine P.O.V.s, kind of Evil Dead meets Duke Nuke 'Em.
Death Machine is over-long for sure, and a lot of the film's more lofty ideas are lost in the flood of exposition that is the first third. I have to admit that I was totally confused as to what specifically was going on at the CHAANK Corporation, though once people start running from the title monster the plot really doesn't matter. What matters is the film's pure energy.
This energy is given a nice boost by the low rent (at the time at least) cast, including a young and buffed down John Sharian, a post- Brisco County Ely Pouget, a fine young actor I've never heard of named Martin McDougall, a super slimy Richard Brake, Porkins himself William Hootkins, and the uncanny Brad Dourif. The film's comic book nature means that none of these actors are particularly 'challenged' in their roles; Pouget makes for a good Ripley fill-in, McDougall and Sharian are likeable tough guys, but it is, of course, Dourif that digests the most scenery. It's always wise for a director with less than invincible script to let an actor like Dourif loose with his character, and as a fan of the man I was not disappointed. Oh, and don't blink or you may miss the beautiful Miss Rachel Weisz.
If searching for realistic complaints about the film I have to come back to the run time, because I really wasn't expecting much in the way of classic cinema from something called Death Machine. It's sort of like two shorts crammed into one two-hour feature. At the beginning of the film there is the story of a futuristic corporation breaking the rules on the road to world domination. Very OCP-like stuff. This is the film that houses all the weird and unfortunately confusing stuff. After about thirty minutes of that film we tear into the Terminator 2 inspired robot chase movie (right down to an elevator scene), which is probably the movie most viewers will be expecting. These two films, both good films, are at odds throughout the runtime.
A mainstay of American cable TV, and easily found in bargain DVD bins all over the States, Death Machine really begs to be seen in widescreen, and for widescreen your going to have to go to Britain. This UK release is non-anamorphic, but doesn't lose two thirds of its picture because of full frame tampering, so it's worth it. The image is grainy in the extreme and washed out, but the occasional ghosting is what bugged me the most. When zooming on an anamorphic set the lack of detail becomes pretty obvious, but I was surprised at the overall smoothness of the image. I was expecting much more in the way of pixilation.
This release could really use a 5.1 upgrade because the sound design is overtly aggressive. The Death Machine itself is a big old bucket of loud. The music is pretty aggressive too. The Dolby Stereo track we're left with is all fine and good, but lacks the bass and surround attack the film could really use. There is a flatness to the whole track, but important dialogue is discernible, and things never get too muddy.
Death Machine is a pleasant surprise, an energetic and amusing romp through comic book and video game visuals. It's not to original, and it isn't going to set anyone's world a fire, but it's easy to see why director Norrington was selected to direct the original Blade film. The DVD is lacking all around, but unlike US release it is widescreen, which is very important to this particular viewing experience.
You can this and other gnarly imports at Xploitedcinema.com.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 1st January 1995
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo English
Subtitles: None
Extras: None
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Stephen Norrington
Cast: Brad Dourif, John Sharian, Ely Pouget
Genre: Action and Sci-Fi
Length: 115 minutes
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Peyton Allen took care of his future late Thursday when the Chatham Glenwood High School senior made a verbal commitment to Texas A&M University. Friday night he went to work on the present, helping the Titans beat Springfield High 72-44.
Peyton Allen took care of his future late Thursday when the Chatham Glenwood High School senior made a verbal commitment to continue his basketball career at Texas A&M University.
Friday night he went to work on the present.
With his college coach Billy Kennedy sitting in the front row, Allen scored 32 points and added 12 rebounds to lead the Titans to a 72-44 Central State Eight Conference victory over Springfield High at Willard Duey Gymnasium.
After missing his first four shots, Allen made 12 of his next 17 in every way imaginable, including a pair of dunks, a 3-pointer and a host of drives to the basket. He had three three-point plays the old fashioned way.
If he looked like a guy with a load off his shoulders, that's exactly what he was.
"I felt a lot of relief after I committed to Texas A&M," Allen said. "It felt like the perfect place for me academically, athletically and the coaches. It felt perfect. Now I can focus on playing."
Allen had 11 points in the second quarter and 13 in the third.
"I'm sure it was a lot of weight off him," Glenwood coach Todd Blakeman said. "Now he can play basketball and just have fun."
The Senators trailed just 9-5 after Josiah Small made one of two free throws with 3:43 left in the first period. The next time the Senators scored — on a pair of free throws by Isaac Nelson with 5:39 left in the first half — the Glenwood lead was 25-7. The Senators got within 25-12 before Glenwood (15-11, 8-6) closed out the half with a 13-5 spurt. SHS never got closer than 20 points the rest of the night.
"We didn't play with a lot of passion in the first half," Springfield High coach Matt Reed said as his team dropped to 6-18 overall and 3-12 in the CS8. "And Allen went off. It was easy for him.
"They had a lot of guys make shots. But a lot of those shots were around the basket."
14 for Hunt
Ethan Hunt had his best game all year with 14 points for Glenwood, and Cole Harper finished with 13.
"We know Hunt can shoot," Allen said. "I was looking for him every time. He played excellent."
"We're playing with fire," Blakeman said. "I saw it the last two games."
Two of Allen's best games have come at Duey Gym. As a sophomore on Feb. 3, 2012, Allen scored 37 points and made all seven of the 3-pointers he tried. Reed was there for that one, too.
"I feel really good for the kid," Reed said about Allen's college decision. "I can't imagine what he had to go through because I was never that kind of athlete. But everything he gets, he deserves.
"I won't miss seeing him in that red uniform. But in addition to being a heck of a player, he's a real good leader, too."
Taivon Kincaid led the Senators with 17 points, including a 4-for-6 performance from beyond the arc. Obediah Church had 12 points and nine rebounds before fouling out with just over 6 minutes left in the game.
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Were you hate-watching Super Bowl 48 and complaining about—well, pretty much EVERYTHING? Did you know you could have spend that time reading a great work of literature?
According to Forbes magazine — which did the math in the article "Do You Read Fast Enough to be Successful?" — the average adult has a reading speed of about 300 words per minute. The book publishing standard runs to approximately 250 words per page.
So unless you're horribly distracted by a giant plate of chicken wings that just aren't going to eat themselves, you could theoretically finish a 200-page book while your drunk friends are screaming about how shitty [INSERT TEAM YOU HATE] is doing in the Super Bowl.
Of course, in case you need suggestions, PBS rounded up some good ones:
"The Hound of the Baskervilles," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Interpreter of Maladies," Jhumpa Lahiri
"Metamorphosis," Franz Kafka
"Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time," Dava Sobel
"Into the Wild," Jon Krakauer
"Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus," Mary Shelley
Or you know, you could just keep reading angry tweets about Richard Sherman or Peyton Manning. It's basically your call, America!
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Two versions are included, of which one is more pitched up that the other, which results in first sounding like a crazy cartoon duck laugh, while the other sounds like cartoon squirrel laugh. Really catchy and fun
Both laughs are included as separate files, and both are available in three audio formats (WAV and MP3 in 128 and 320 kbps), so there are six files in archive in total.


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Parents, we are good at many things. But these days, we aren't so good at selling our job.
We begin with the best of intentions, building shrines to our unborn children, impeccable nurseries frosted with designer furniture and pastels. Before our children are a year old we've documented each smile and burp and broadcast it to the world.
We are hell-bent on raising specimens of genius and talent. The moment they utter that first miraculous word, we schedule the upcoming 20 years of their existence with music, art lessons, sports, and tutoring. We load their lives like a gym bag, filled to the brim with cleats and ballet slippers. But outstanding kids come at a high price. We've branded parenting in all the wrong ways. Is it any wonder that an increasing number of couples are opting out of having children?
First, there's the supposed sticker-shock of raising kids. According to a recent Time magazine cover story, "The Childfree Life", the cost of raising a child born in 2011 to the age of 18 is $234,900. Even on a double income, that figure is staggering. It seems there is only one way to raise a child, and it is down a road paved with gold.
Even more, there's the frenzy that defines the modern-day family. Life already moves so quickly these days. Parents seem to have their foot on the accelerator. We broadcast snapshots of joy on social networks: happy at the amusement park! Happy at the ice cream parlor! Happy, happy, happy as we go, go, go. Behind the camera, most of us stumble around like zombies, juiced up by latte and fruit snacks, as we try to maintain the breakneck schedules we've set for our families.
Notice this: 10 years ago, when you asked a parent how they were doing, they would say, "Fine". This is what I hear now, almost daily: "We're so busy". This is in summer mind you, that former bastion of freedom and boredom, when a kid had enough time to count blades of grass and tally the mosquito bites on his leg.
It's not entirely the parent's fault. We all feel this crushing societal pressure to make our kids into something grand – the next YouTube sensation, Mark Zuckerberg, or Yo-Yo Ma. We field all sorts of marketing messages, starting with those plush nurseries and toddler flash cards. Even the schools have pushed for more résumé padding: the community service, the academic clubs, the college-level courses starting at twelve. It doesn't take long before we begin to buy into the idea that letting kids just be is an affront to our ego as parents.
Not long ago I got cornered by a man trying to sell me on his local sports club.
"How many sports does your kid play?" he asked, pointing to my 9-year-old.
"He just started basketball," I began.
"Four sports," he shot back. "In order to develop his muscles properly, he should play a minimum of four sports per year."
I was speechless. Four sports may be a realistic number if you have one child and live your life solely to shuttle that child from one practice to another, watching his muscles properly develop. But I have four children. That's sixteen sports a year, on top of the music lessons, Scouting, church events – oh yeah, and that thing called school.
We've all read the studies and books. We know what's best for our children, and it is not this. As quoted in Bruce Feiler's book "The Secrets of Happy Families", a recent study by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute asked kids what they wanted most from their parents. Guess what? It wasn't quality time. They wanted parents who were less tired and less stressed. But we're all on this train together, and no one wants to be the first to push on the brakes.
In the US and Europe, the birthrate is dropping at a rapid clip. When we read about couples who make the conscious choice not to have kids, we balk. We get offended. We wonder aloud why everyone doesn't want to board this machine that is roaring down the rails toward imminent doom.
Family life has changed. Once upon a time, children were viewed as a physical asset. They helped work the farm. They took over the family business. They cared for their ailing parents. Back then, children came without a manual or a nursery of their own, and happy was the man who had his quiver full of them. Today, children have become an emotional asset, something to blog and fret about. We wear our kids' accomplishments like glittering badges. But those badges come at a huge emotional toll, to parents, to a marriage, and to the poor kids who get lugged along for the ride. The family unit is shrinking, weighed down by financial and material expectation.
Years ago I was walking through a parking lot when a shopping cart went whistling past. A little boy sat in the front basket, squealing with delight while his dad sailed on the back, steering the cart at top speed between the rows of cars. I stood a moment and watched them glide away into the sunset. I felt like I had witnessed some sacred event between father and son. There was no one to post it on Instagram. It didn't require a six-week class, complete with a sparkly uniform. It was a moment of free-form joy, an intimate connection.
That's the snapshot we need to send to the world. Parenting is a singular experience. To have stewardship over a helpless baby and help steer it toward adulthood, with all the bumps and hurdles along the way, is a task that shouldn't be taken lightly. Of course it isn't all flying carts and laughter, but it doesn't need to be expensive or frenzied either. It needn't include a family four-pack to Disneyland or a trust fund. Some of the happiest families I've known have raised a whole brood of kids on pennies, ingenuity, and homegrown tomatoes.
That's the parenting we need to sell. It needs to grace the cover of all those fancy-pants magazines, knocking aside the hand-crafted toys and designer baby socks. Deliberate, unadorned childhood. That's why we got into this business in the first place. And it's most definitely worth the sticker price


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How Giving Consumers Choice Can Save Health Care
by Paul Ryan
The failure of politicians in Washington to address the crisis in Medicare is putting the health security of Americans at risk.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a budget that advances a plan to save Medicare for today's senior citizens and strengthen it for future generations. But instead of seeing an opportunity for bipartisan action, President Barack Obama and his party have seized it as a chance to play politics with the health of our nation. The Democrats' dishonest characterization of this plan before the special Congressional election in New York State on May 24 was just the latest example.
Here are the facts. Medicare is a critical program that helps people age 65 or older achieve health security. But it's headed for a painful collapse. Independent experts and leaders in both parties agree that if we do nothing, Medicare will exhaust its trust fund in nine years, putting enormous pressure on the federal budget as health-care costs continue to rise. Unless we act, we're moving toward a debt-fueled economic crisis, harsh cuts that affect today's seniors and enormous tax increases that diminish the dreams of the next generation.
We can save Medicare, but we have to reform it so that it delivers the high quality we expect, at a price we can afford.
Skyrocketing Costs
If we don't get skyrocketing health-care costs under control, we have no hope of containing government spending and averting a debt crisis. Health spending per person increases by almost 9 percent every year. As a result, total expenditure for health care has gone from consuming 5 percent of our economy in 1960 to almost 20 percent today.
Medicare is a top driver of these unsustainable costs. More than 75 percent of Medicare recipients — that is, 35 million people — receive what's called the fee-for-service insurance plan. This means that Medicare reimburses doctors and hospitals for seniors' health-care services.
This system leads to higher costs and lower quality for two reasons: First, the patient is disconnected from the cost. Fifty years ago, Americans spent a lot less on health care than they do today, but the share they paid for directly was much larger. In 1960, patients paid for about half of their own health-care costs. Today, that share is down to just 12 percent, with the rest paid for indirectly, through third parties such as Medicare.
We all pay for Medicare with our tax dollars, and Medicare patients also pay premiums, but someone else pays the actual bills — and so the true cost of care is hidden. When we pay directly for something, and we know how much it costs, we have a strong incentive to demand the best value. In health care, we don't. Is it any wonder that the costs keep rising?
No Competition
The second reason costs are going up and quality is going down is that fee-for-service Medicare insurance has no competition: It pays doctors and hospitals even if the quality of the care they provide is poor and the cost is high.
That means doctors and hospitals have had little financial incentive to deliver the best care to patients at the lowest price. Their incentive instead has been to structure their business so that every aspect of care requires many services, even if some are duplicative or might not be any more effective than a course of care that used fewer services.
There is broad agreement that this has led to rising costs. The disagreement is over what to do about it.
President's Strategy
One of President Obama's strategies is to let a panel of 15 unelected officials decide how much Medicare will pay doctors and which services it will cover. This panel was created by the health-care law enacted last year, and the president recently gave a speech in which he argued that these officials should be given the power to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare for current seniors.
This approach is centered on the power of government price controls. Other supposed cost-saving aspects of the president's plan, such as bundled payments, speak to the same misguided faith in government's ability to successfully control costs where it has failed so often in the past. Price controls encourage more consumption of a good or service as its price is artificially lowered by the government.
There is a better approach: The budget the House recently passed saves Medicare, period.
First, the House plan protects today's seniors from any disruptions. Our budget ensures no changes for those who are now 55 or older.
Second, our plan provides real reform to save and strengthen Medicare for current taxpayers, so that it is there for them when they retire. Rather than putting the government in charge, our plan provides financial support to help future Medicare patients pay for the insurance plan that works best for them and their families. Patients will have the freedom to choose from a list of guaranteed coverage options — the same kind of system members of Congress enjoy today.
We also ensure that lower-income seniors and those with more health risks will receive greater support, while healthy seniors with more resources receive less.
Consumers in Charge
Our reforms will stop the relentless increase in our health-care costs. Some take issue with this claim, arguing that the reforms in our budget merely cap the government's cost exposure but lack a true cost-containment mechanism. Critics who say our budget would leave seniors paying more are ignoring the fundamental laws of economics. In stark contrast to reducing reimbursements to providers and denying benefits to patients, our plan relies on the best cost controls ever devised: consumer choice and competition. When providers are forced to compete for patients' business, they will look to lower the costs and increase the quality of their services — the way it always works when the consumer is in charge.
The urgent need to reform Medicare and the president's misguided response have left us with a profound question: Who should be making health-care decisions for you and your family?
A panel of officials in Washington? Or you?
(Paul Ryan represents Wisconsin's First Congressional District and serves as chairman of the House Budget Committee. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Vegetable Soup with Herb Dumplings, Cuban Black Bean Soup, Chicken Gumbo, Baked Potato Soup, Pumpkin Muffins, Skillet Cornbread & More
We embraced Soup Week with abandon — soup, stew, and gumbo are the best seasonal food we can imagine right now! There was this creamy roasted vegetable soup with herb dumplings, a reader favorite. There was extra-simple chicken noodle, and Cuban black bean. There was a family recipe for chicken-sausage gumbo, and a colorful blend of squash and chard. Oh, and let's not forget: Baked potato soup loaded with scallions, cheddar, and bacon.
To complement your soupy pleasures, we also addressed bread (moist cornbread baked in a skillet), breakfast (pumpkin muffins with an eggnog cream cheese swirl), and dessert (a peachy yogurt cake, mixed up in just one bowl). And to close things out, how about an old-fashioned elderflower cocktail?
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• Bean, Bacon and Butternut Squash Soup with Swiss Chard
• How To Make Easy Chicken Noodle Soup
• Baked Potato Soup With Bacon, Green Onion & Cheddar
• Skillet Cornbread with Creamed Corn
• Pumpkin Muffins with Eggnog Cream Cheese Swirl
• Peach Yogurt Cake with Cinnamon Glaze
• Traditional Elder-Fashioned Cocktail
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[Intro: Rilo Wonder]
In the spot all night, Air Force Ones, a hundred keys
Bulletproof vests, a whole cake, a flake
200 grams of bait and you just stand on the pot and do the Harlem Shake
That's why niggas die: they got 848's
For goodness sake, whatchu think? You the man?
You got a platinum chain? we sold so many grams
We had platinum hands, nigga
And when coke went up, we had it for 27
When we was in these streets, it was like God in Heaven
[Verse 1: AZ]
I'm all about chilling, fam, house, car ceiling fans
Had a run, sold a nice amount of kilograms
Had my fun, really hate to have to kill a man
But, if I ain't feeling scrams, fuck he gotta go
Could give a fuck, got a whole lot a dough, plus
I'm on the low, got a whole lot of hoes, yep
Sucking and fucking got me huffing and puffing
Cussing for nothing, clutching heat, bucking and ducking
But, understand I'm just surviving the game, man
And being broke ain't a part of the gameplan
Deep in it, walk, talk, sleep in it
Replenish, 3 minutes to start us something that's endless
[Interlude: Rilo Wonder]
Gotta be a wolf out here to get this motherfucking money, man
Y'all niggas running around here tied together by love, trust, and respect
None of y'all be tied together by lust, fear, and greed and don't give a parakeet fuck
[Verse 2: AZ]
Direct dispute, bad boys on the rise
Press the mute if your barrel width ain't quarter sized
Get lost if your thoughts is unorganized
The cost is short but I fought with the taller guys
Hate them loudmouths, niggas that wild out
Let off a few shots, hit nothing, then hide out
Get snitched on, surrounded and bribed out
Disarm misinform 'fore they find out
Time is up, state greens is laying for 'em
No liars to trust, since eighteen moms's playing for 'em
Shawty, this is real talk for ya
Niggas will walk towards ya and Tom Sawyer your coil
[Interlude: Rilo Wonder]
What the fuck you know about going the full fledged motherfucking Oscars, nigga. Get the wind beneath your feet and start dancing with the wolves like Kevin Costner
Made capo rank, nigga
We was outsmarting people who was paid to think
[Verse 3: AZ]
We all balling to see the niggas is scoring or
Hearing that war up North, hearing the morgue is all
Trying to stay afloat with it
Become a part of the system, want to work and cope with it
Convert, it's smart thinking when the heart weaken
And the skin start to darken, body parts start squeaking
Stay creeping, that's my motto for the '04
Oversecure, prepare for that Cold War
Love the cashflow, the streets, the fast dough
The beef, the MAC blow, you sleep, you asshole
Don't stop 'til you paid or you knocked off
Laying in the box, I'm the greatest since Pac
[Outro: Rilo Wonder]
Nigga this is Rilo Wonder, nigga, the rap Rich Porter of the New World Order
And I've been in the game since I was too young to fuck, nigga
Playing the U-quartro-O-W nigga
University of 40 Grove Street
And in that time, got a lot of real niggas
3 AZ's to be exact
One of them from Jersey, my man Darnell Horns just beat 5 murders in 2 week ? in the fed joint
Other one from Harlem, nigga, AZ Faison
A transcender of the motherfucking game
Nigga used to come through the 88 joint in '86
By the Rucker, throw a thousand dollars up in the air
Last but not least, Anthony Cruz, nigga AKA Sosa
One of the greatest emcees to ever grace the motherfucking microphone, nigga
Now I feel he ain't reach his highest potential yet
I don't think it was the raps
Maybe it was the machine, the label or something that he was in
Maybe it was the management
But anyway, we ain't blaming no motherfucking body, man
Cause y'all know AZ mean "Almighty zig zag knowledge wisdom understand and complete" nigga
But today, that A stands for the law of inertia
Meaning wanting something to get out and it's so hot
The public need like a crackhead need his crack, a dope fiend need his dope, and it can't be muthafuckin' stopped
So y'all need to go out and get this album, The Final Call
Before y'all miss one of the greatest rappers to ever grace the mic impeach their legacy
Track 15 from the album A.W.O.L. released on September 6, 2005.


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A gunman who barricaded himself in an apartment in Orlando, Florida for almost 24 hours after taking four children hostage, shot dead all of them, then turned the gun on himself, before a SWAT team could rescue them.
The gunman was Gary Lindsey (35).
Two of the the children were his own and two a girlfriend's. They were aged one, six, ten and eleven.
The standoff between the police and Lindsey started when they responded to a domestic violence report.
On arrival Lindsey opened fire on them on and one police officer, Kevin Valencia was seriously injured. Though in a critical condition at a local hospital Valencia, who is in his late twenties, is expected to survive, Police Chief John Mina said.
Lindsey's girlfriend, who filed the violence report, left the flat before the police arrived.
But Lindsey barricaded himself in the flat using the four children as hostages.
Police attempted to negotiate with him but had difficulty because his phone was faulty. When they eventually decided to offer him a better phone they noted one of the children had already been shot so made the call to storm the apartment.
On entering they found the Lindsey had shot all four of the children before turning the gun on himself.
The gunman had an extensive criminal record involving arson, battery and theft the police confirmed.


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Michael Phelpshas backed away from a previouscomment he made aboutpurchasing a pool in Baltimore,saying at a news conferenceyesterday that he's not sure ofhis plans.
Phelps, still in China after winningeight gold medals at theOlympics, said, "We're definitelygoing to start training back inBaltimore.
"But I'm not really sure exactly.I never know what I'm reallytalking about, I just saythings."
A day earlier, Phelps told NBC'sNightly News that he and hiscoach, Bob Bowman, hadbought a pool in Baltimore andwere looking to change the sportof swimming. Phelps and hisrepresentatives are in preliminarytalks with management atthe North Baltimore AquaticClub to buy the Meadowbrookfacility.
In April, Bowman was namedthe NBAC's chief executive officer,and he is expected to startthe position next month.
At yesterday's news conference,Bowman, sitting next toPhelps, said he would not confirmor deny any looming deal,adding, "There are plans to expandour facilities. We have a lotof options for that, quite honestly.But nothing has been donewith them."
One possibility has Phelps andhis representatives also purchasinga neighboring ice-skatingrink and post office to turnthe area into an Olympic trainingcenter.
Officials from Northwest SkatingRink have not returnedphone calls seeking comment.But some of the rink's instructorshave been informed bymanagement of the rink's closure,which is expected at theend of this month.
Fellow Olympic swimmer Katie Hoff, also at the news conferencein China, said she hadheard speculation about theNBAC expansion.
"That would be nice," she said."I heard something about theice rink being turned into [apool], but I don't know. I reallydon't know anything. I've beenkind of in my own little world forthe past month or two."


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While most consumers are still trying to figure out the differences between Froyo, Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich, Android enthusiasts are praising the latest iteration of Android. Android 4.0 delivered a myriad of new functionalities to Android, including a shiny new user interface (UI). The Android development team at Google spent countless hours making Android's new UI "enchanting, beautiful and seductive." With such a dramatically improved UI, manufacturers would certainly ditch their custom skins and bring back some unity to Android's user experience – or would they?
There was certainly hope from many Android enthusiasts that the stock Android UI would be embraced by all. Unfortunately, early leaks and previews from Sony, Samsung and HTC have disappointed many since Android manufacturers seem to be chugging along on the same course as before, spending the majority of their time working on custom skins for Android rather than focusing solely on updating older phones to the latest version of Android. But is this really a bad thing?
If you read through the comments on this site you will notice a recurring theme: our readers are very outspoken about the virtues of the stock Android UI, claiming that "Google finally got it right" and asking "why would manufacturers mess around with perfection" while bullying (down voting) commenters who showed support for HTC Sense, TouchWiz or MotoBLUR (or whatever Motorola is calling it these days).
Personally, I'm a big fan of stock Android and will agree that Google has finally delivered a UI that's better than most custom skins produced by OEMs. The problem is that Google's new UI improvements for Android are merely a composite refinement of all the features Motorola, HTC and Samsung have had for quite some time. If you pick apart the new UI piece by piece you will notice that there's really nothing new. Looking back over the past three years, you'll see that Google's UI improvements with every new version of Android include borrowed ideas that were introduced by others.
Below are a few examples of some of the features included in Android 4.0 which were originally pioneered in one or more custom skins produced by Android manufacturers.
Social Media Integration
Facebook and Twitter integration into the contacts application was first introduced by HTC and was adopted a few months later by Motorola in 2009. Both Motorola and HTC served up your contact's latest status update or a notification of an impending birthday when you called or received a call from one of your contacts. Google introduced a more limited Facebook integration with Android 2.1.
Animated Widgets
When Android first launched, Google only had three widgets and developers had to wait until Android 1.5 before they were able to create their own. Fortunately, HTC jumped into the deep end with HTC Sense and delivered several dozen widgets which also featured animations. The HTC flip clock is probably the most recognizable and mimicked Android widget. Motorola, Samsung, LG and even Huawei introduced animated widgets to their custom versions of Android before Google got around to it with Honeycomb.
Re-sizable Widgets
While HTC kept adding more and more widgets to its Sense library (most of which were simply different sizes of the same widget), Motorola chose to take a different route with the introduction of the DROID X by introducing re-sizable widgets. Users could now choose how large or small they wanted a widget to be. The best part about Motorola's widget resizing feature is that the widget layout changes depending on which size you choose. As with animated widgets, Google introduced re-sizable widgets in Honeycomb, but the functionality was not nearly as advanced as Motorola's.
Advanced Lock-screen
With Sense, HTC has always been on the forefront of the customizable lock screen. Early iterations included music controls and details of missed phone calls and text messages. With HTC Sense 3.0, HTC took the customizable lock-screen to a whole new level by giving users a variety of different skins which displayed stock quotes, animated weather, pictures and social media updates from friends. Users were also given the option to choose four different applications which could be launched directly from the lock-screen. The Android team added new features to the lock-screen in Android 4.0 which allow users to launch the dialer or camera applications, but there is still no option to add any user customization.
When it comes to features, many of the custom Android skins produced by OEMs clearly have the Android team beat. But this shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Motorola and Samsung have been in the mobile phone business for decades and one of HTC's biggest accomplishments before Android came along was adding a custom UI on top of Windows Mobile which finally made the OS usable for everyday consumers.
My assumption is that there is fear among Android enthusiasts that manufacturers will simply take Android 4.0 and all its new features and cover it up with their own UI without adding any new functionality on top of it. While I can't guarantee that every custom skin will look nicer than what the Android team has whipped up, the majority of new phones running Android 4.0 with a custom skin will have all the base features with additional features which give users more control and an enhanced experience.
The reason Android is successful isn't because Google is doing all the work. The leading manufacturers take Google's base code and add their own tweaks to differentiate their products from the competition while adding features which Google has not yet dreamed up. If everyone simply took Android 4.0 and loaded it onto their phones, the rapid pace of Android's innovations would slow to a crawl which might lead to the platform's demise.
I know there will always be a lot of supporters of stock Android, but I hope those of you who prefer your vanilla UI treatment can learn to appreciate custom skins a little more. Google has done an incredible job with the Android 4.0 UI, but lets not forget to give credit to the manufacturers who pioneered many of those same features months or even years before Google wrapped them into the Android fold.


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Diabolical Demons lapse into old habits
Melbourne coach Paul Roos knows a bad side does not become a good side overnight, or in the space of half an AFL season.
But the self-confessed impatient man was nonetheless stunned by just how "diabolical" his Demons were early on in Sunday's six-point loss to Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.
Marcus Bontempelli booted the final two goals of the topsy-turvy thriller to lift the Bulldogs to a 14.7 (91) to 13.7 (85) victory.
But it was the Demons' lack of pressure, inability to man up and knack of turning the ball over in the opening half which led to the Dogs kicking seven consecutive goals.
Roos did not hold back in his assessment when asked to explain such a shambolic start, and the lapse into old, bad habits.
"Have you watched the team play for the last two years? I can't explain it, but that's what we're trying to fix," Roos said.
"That's my job and I'm just not getting the job done at the moment. Because it's just unacceptable.
"It was diabolical. That first 40 minutes we were just horrible. Horrible."
Bernie Vince was among his side's best players, but also the unlikely source of a terrible turnover in the first quarter when he gifted possession to Jake Stringer.
The clanger led to the first of Stringer's career-best four goals.
"Three of the blokes who turned the footy over in the first half were our three best kicks," Roos said.
"What's a one-step kick? That's a lack of care.
"Which is a lack of focus, which is a lack of effort."
The Demons kicked seven goals in the third quarter to set up a thrilling final stanza, when there was never more than seven points in it.
"There was just no margin for error," Roos said.
"No question we're improving, but if you accept that you don't get to the next level."
Robert Murphy and Dale Morris were excellent in defence for the Bulldogs, while stand-in skipper Will Minson rucked himself to exhaustion while being double-teamed by Mark Jamar and Max Gawn.
Former Dogs captain Matthew Boyd tallied a game-high 32 disposals in the absence of fellow midfielders Ryan Griffen and Adam Cooney.
Mitch Wallis, tagging in-form Nathan Jones, Stringer and Bontempelli were among the club's young guns to stand up with the game in the balance.
"Belief is a big thing. It's incredible with developing teams how belief can drive effort," Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney said.
Melbourne's Dean Terlich suffered a shoulder injury late in the third term and played no further part in the game, but Roos was hopeful it wasn't too serious.
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If you've decided to be a guest this Thanksgiving instead of hosting, you might be wondering how best to contribute. Of course, it is always polite to ask your hosts what to bring, but for many, the response "bring a dish" invokes sheer terror.
Have no fear; there are plenty of smart and delicious ways to be a good gourmet guest. Lifestyle expert Robyn Moreno, author of "Practically Posh: The Smart Girls' Guide to a Glam Life" (William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.95), is happy to share her tips for bringing items that are deliciously posh, practical and totally portable.
"When heading to someone's house for Thanksgiving, you want to bring a 'wow-worthy' dish, but there are a few things to consider, like how far is the commute and how large or well-equipped is the host kitchen," Moreno points out. "Even in the best scenario, the cook is knee-deep in preparation and doesn't need you crowding the space."
Moreno suggests preparing chic appetizers like white bean spread with poached garlic and lemon or a simple skewered Caprese salad (mozzarella, grape tomatoes and basil). Both are perfectly portable and have mass appeal.
Her shaved Brussels sprout salad is fresh, tasty and easy to prepare ahead.
Chef Elvis Inniss from Del Frisco's thinks the ultimate side dish is lobster mac and cheese. "It's a great dish to bring to Thanksgiving dinner because it's comforting and familiar, yet luxurious and special enough for a holiday meal," he says.
He also points out that it can be made ahead so all you have to do is reheat it before serving.
Inniss is also a fan of desserts; his no-bake pumpkin cheesecake is easier than pie and even better. "It's a seasonal alternative to the classic cheesecake and [is] always better made in advance, [with] no re-heating needed; just slice and serve heavenly goodness."
Executive chef Chris D'Amico of Gemma at the Bowery Hotel is passionate about simple, rustic and honest Italian fare. He loves putting an Italian spin on his Thanksgiving sides, and feels that the flavor profile is the perfect complement to a holiday meal.
His turkey sausage, apple and herb stuffing is a delicious blend of flavors. "This [stuffing] is best prepared outside of the turkey, so no need to worry about stuffing a bird. It's also very moist and re-heats beautifully," says Chris.
For those who are comfortable with baking, he recommends his apple strudel. "Apple strudel is a great departure from traditional apple pie because it still has all the classic flavors of the season, just in another form."
Maria Gamble, who heads up the consumer test kitchen for Campbell's, likes to keep a lot of broth on hand.
"Just as I use Swanson broths to moisten my leftovers, I do the same when I've prepared a dish to carry with me. I usually make all of my dishes except for the turkey a day ahead so I am not so stressed on the actual day. Just before re-heating, add some Swanson chicken broth on the top to keep vegetables or the stuffing moist and flavorful through the re-heating process.''
She is a particular fan of roasted seasonal root vegetables.
"It's a great way to highlight in-season vegetables as well as being a bit healthier than other holiday sides, which can be super-rich and fattening."
Celebrity chef and restaurateur Marc Murphy thinks soup is the perfect portable dish to bring to a holiday gathering.
"It travels well in a thermos or containers, and can be re-heated in the microwave in case the stove is too crowded, which is often the case on Thanksgiving," says Murphy. His roasted pear and parsnip soup is warm, rich and creamy, and the toasted hazelnut garnish adds a nutty and elegant touch.
So relax — being a gourmet guest is easier than you think and will have you on the invite list for many holidays to come.


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On Web Applications, Web Architecture And Resource Identifiers
Table of Contents
1 On Web Applications, Web Architecture And Resource Identifiers
1.1 Background
As we evolve from a Web of documents (Web 1.0) to a Web of applications (Web 2.0) and eventually Toward 2^W --- Beyond Web 2.0, key underpinnings of Web Architecture such as resource identifiers require careful re-examination. As a member of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group, I have been trying to define Web Architecture in the context of Web applications; a necessary first step toward that goal is to analyze how complex Web applications are implemented on the Web of today.
This article will carefully avoid abstract issues such as Resource vs Representation, URIs vs URLs, etc. - and instead focus on more practical considerations such as:
- What is a URI and what can the user expect to do with it?
- When dereferencing a URI, what pieces of software does one need to have to retrieve a useful representation of that resource?
- Here, useful is defined from the perspective of the end-user. Thus, given a URI to a piece of media on the Web, relevant metadata is necessary but not sufficient to be useful - the user needs to be able to retrieve and play the media stream as well.
1.2 Case Study: BBCiPlayer And BBC Backstage
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) provides streaming access to a large amount of radio and television content via a Web application called BBC iPlayer. In addition, BBC Backstage provides a rich data-oriented API to the underlying dataset in the form of linked data. Additionally, program schedules can be downloaded in a number of presentation independent formats such as XML, JSON and YAML. The remaining sections in this article detail what can (and cannot be done) with the information that is readily available from BBCiPlayer and BBC Backstage. In the process, we observe some design patterns (and anti-patterns) found on today's Web, and their efect on building richer Web applications from Web parts.
1.3 BBC IPlayer
Using the BBC iPlayer Web application requires:
- A modern script-enabled browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or IE.
- Browser plugins for media playback, such as Realplayer or Windows Media.
- The Adobe Flash plugin for translating playback links on the BBC iPlayer page to their corresponding Realplayer or Windows Media resources.
- Appropriate media player plugins based on the user's platform, e.g., Realplayer or Windows Media.
The Web application as implemented provides a rich, interactive visual interface that is sub-optimal for use from other programs.
1.4 BBC Backstage
Given the triple (radio-station, outlet, date) e.g.:
(radio4, fm, 2010/04/14)one can retrieve an XML representation of the program schedule using the URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/2010/04/14.xmlas documented on the BBC Backstage site. Alternative serializations such as JSON or YAML can be retrieved by appropriately replacing the .xml extension.
This retrieved schedule contains detailed metadata for each program that is broadcast, including a programme id pid that is used throughout the data store.
The BBCBackstage API assigns a persistent URI to each program of the form:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/<pid>When retrieved, this persistent URI redirects appropriately to the BBC iPlayer page for that program. Note that the media streams for most programs are only available for a week.
As an example of the above, you can retrieve Midnight News from BBC Radio4 for April 14, 2010 by doing:
- Retrieve the program schedule via BBC Radio 4 FM Schedule
- Obtain the programme id pid for Midnight News b00rw6hf
- The BBC iPlayer URL for this episode is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rw6hf.
On the surface, this URL appears to satisfy many of the expectations that users might have:
- Plays the relevant media when handed to a Web browser.
- Can be bookmarked for later use (modulo the 1 week limit on archived media).
- Can be passed around via email?
The final bullet above exposes some of the problems with the current implementation. Note the set of pre-requisites for the BBC iPlayer Web application enumerated earlier; all of these apply to the URI generated above.
1.5 How It Works At Present
It is instructive to turn on HTTP Request/Response tracking in the browser when opening URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rw6hf. Here is a brief summary of some of the steps that the browser performs:
- Receives an HTTP Response with content-type text/html.
- The body of this response is an HTML document that in turn loads a number of JS libraries.
- An embed tag in the retrieved HTML page invokes the Flash (shockwave) plugin.
- The embedded shockwave player receives several mostly undocumented parameters that pass in details of the enclosing environment.
- Once these steps have completed, the browser is automatically redirected to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00rw6hf, i.e., the earlier URI is transformed by replacing episode with console.
- The HTTP conversation continues, and the browser is eventually sent to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b00rw6g2 which resolves to the realplayer .ram file: http://www.bbc.co.uk//iplayer/aod/playlists/2g/6w/r0/0b/RadioBridge_intl_2300_bbc_radio_fourfm.ram.
Thus, the recipiant of the Midnight News URL would need to implement all of the above transforms (or have access to software that does those computations) in order to effectively consume the media stream that was addressed by the URL.
1.6 Observations
- Web applications have gotten more complicated than they need to be: notice the multiple redundant layers between Flash, JS, HTML, and the complex interplay that results during the HTTP conversation between client and server.
- Such complex interplay within multiple layers makes RESTful APIs difficult to achieve.
- It is possible that the underlying media stream URLs are being intentionally obfuscated. It's hard to imagine anyone wanting to voluntarily inflict the pain inherent in steps 1..6 without a valid reason.
- The obfuscation scheme makes it effectively impossible (on the surface) for interfaces other than the BBC iPlayer Web application to play the media.
- Note on the surface in the above. As a testament to the robustness of the architecture of the Web, steps 1..6 can be hidden in a computational blackbox that surfaces a reliable URI that can be email.
- As an implementation of the above, see this IPlayer Convertor found on the Web.
- In addition to providing a simple HTML form that takes a pid and performs the trnaslation that happens during the client/server HTTP conversation, that site offers a persistent URL given a pid.
- What's more, the persistent URL offered up by this convertor is guessable given the pid - this in its turn then becomes a RESTful API for accessing BBC media streams given a pid.
- Thus, for the BBC Midnight News episode in question, the iPlayer convertor above serves up http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk//pid/b00rw6hf/r/stream.aspx.
Notice that replacing %s in
http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk/pid/%s/r/stream.aspxin the above with a pid yeilds a persistent URL that can be handed off directly to a media player, where:
- The media player supports the codec in use.
- The media player supports the underlying streaming protocol, rtsp in this case.
2 Conclusion
So to conclude, let's ask the original question:
- Given a URL, what can a user expect to be able to do with it, after having dereferenced the URI?
- How does the user discover what software bits he needs in order to consume the received HTTP Response?
- In Web 1.0 (Web of documents) the answer was simple --- HTTP Response header Content-Type specified the media type, which in turn specified what the recipiant needed to understand.
- A recipiant who only understands mime-type text/html in this example is likely to flee screaming in terror if he makes the mistake of doing Show Source.
- We all acknowledge that Show Source helped Web 1.0 succeed.
- Q: What is the equivalent of Show Source that will help us collectively take the Web to the next level?
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District Judge Ricciardi certified for service again
May 24, 2011
Magisterial District Judge Gene Ricciardi was again certified for service as a member of Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System after successful completion recently of continuing legal education course work.
Conducted by the Minor Judiciary Education Board (MJEB) and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), the educational program for magisterial district judges is held in Harrisburg.
The week-long instructional program is designed to ensure magisterial district judges remain current in a variety of legal topics and management techniques required to fairly adjudicate cases and effectively supervise a district court office. Included in this year's curriculum are updates on civil law, landlord/tenant law, criminal law; Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code; Pennsylvania Game Code; Pennsylvania Dog Law; oversized vehicles and permitting; HUD and BOCA; Act 46 Sales Tax collection and compliance; litigation strategies; ethics; insurance fraud; truancy and updates on evidentiary law and search warrants; as well as updates pertaining to the MDJS Rewrite; state and procedure audits and reports, and a session on procedural fairness in courts.
Continuing education course work is required by statute of each of the more than 500 Pennsylvania magisterial district judges, with approximately 50 judges attending one of 13 such classes at some time during each academic year.


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LONDON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Rolls-Royce has signed contracts with Britain's Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense worth more than $1.6 billion.
Under the first agreement, Rolls-Royce will deliver nuclear reactor cores for Britain's submarine fleet. The second agreement, worth $103.3 million, is for maintenance and support of its F405 engines, which are used on the U.S. Navy's T-45 training aircraft.
Included in the $1.6 billion contract with Britain, the company will, in addition to maintaining and operating its facility for manufacture reactor cores for the British navy, complete a phased rebuilding of the plant to support future Ministry of Defense needs.
"This is excellent news that demonstrates the high level of trust the Ministry of Defense has in both our technology and the expertise of our highly skilled workforce," said Jason Smith, Rolls-Royce's president, Submarines, and chief operating officer of Nuclear business. "This new facility will deploy advanced manufacturing techniques to enhance our world leading nuclear manufacturing capability."
Under the award from the U.S. Defense Department, administered by the Naval Air Systems Command, Rolls-Royce will provide inventory control, integrated logistics support and required engineering for both the F405 engine and the aircraft gas turbine starting system on T-45 trainers.
More than 200 of the planes at four principle U.S. Naval Air Stations are covered under the contract.
"Our MissionCare contract with the U.S. Navy is one of our most successful partnerships and we take great pride in supporting the training of new aviators for the Navy and Marine Corp," said Paul Craig, Rolls-Royce's president of Defense Services said. "We look forward to another successful year, working in partnership with our customer to maximize engine availability for training missions."


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I'm not versed in linguistic or anthropological analysis, but would it be reasonable to assume that rival factions would probably pass down increasingly divergent versions of the original stories?
I beg to differ, but there is a big difference in Central Africa in the 1970's and first century Jerusalem. There is a big difference between hearing a story and repeating it, and the discipline student went through learning Judaism.
You see, Jaime, this is a little bit more than just hearing something and repeating it. This is what the people did in the day- they listened and learned.
Quote from: holybuckets on May 27, 2013, 10:15:51 PMI beg to differ, but there is a big difference in Central Africa in the 1970's and first century Jerusalem. There is a big difference between hearing a story and repeating it, and the discipline student went through learning Judaism.What? You think that the people who passed down oral traditions didn't have students who they trained very carefully in order to make sure they could fulfill the role? You think that only the 1st century Hebrews ensured that their students were disciplined and trained carefully? Sure seems that way to me.Quote from: holybucketsYou see, Jaime, this is a little bit more than just hearing something and repeating it. This is what the people did in the day- they listened and learned.I don't believe this. Did you really just try to claim that 1st century Hebrew students listened and learned, while contemporary Africans just hear and repeat? No, that isn't going to fly.
Jaime, did you read my post refuting yours. Can you please give something more than your opinion. Thanks
Quote from: holybuckets on May 27, 2013, 10:34:51 PMJaime, did you read my post refuting yours. Can you please give something more than your opinion. ThanksWhy should he? Why should any of us bother giving you anything, HB? All you're going to do is dismiss the most carefully researched and written response as "opinion," and try to dump the burden of proof on the negative side.Personally, Holybuckets, I am of the opinion that you came here for the sole purpose of angering and baiting people who do not believe as you do. I don't think you ever had any intention of seriously examining evidence that disagrees with your current POV. You're using your precious gospel as a bludgeon, secure in your belief that *you* have a free ticket to heaven and can do whatever the fuck you want in the meantime, including spouting mass quantities of hatred masquerading as discussion questions.(Springy G tears HB's page out of the Book of Life and runs it through Her crosscut shredder) I think Matthew 7:23 is particularly apt in this context.
I appreciate your opinion, however, I think you can see that I have provided some very credible information in this discussion.
Quote from: holybuckets on May 27, 2013, 11:11:29 PMI appreciate your opinion, however, I think you can see that I have provided some very credible information in this discussion.No; I didn't see you post anything even remotely credible. (Springy G empties the shredder, and Holybuckets' eternal salvation, into one of Her cats' litter boxes)
As opposed to Rabbi Stan Farr, "expert" on 1st century Christian Scripture, who doesn't even seem to have a single scholarly paper to his name? Oh, didn't you say something along the lines that you would only use people who had actually published in scholarly journals?
Can you please then dispute my findings with your credible sources, instead of your opinion...
He is a Rabbi, who writes on what it takes to be a Rabbi.
Why should anyone bother to try to have a discussion (never mind a debate) with you? You've been verbally abusive to virtually everyone here, you constantly try to dismiss anything that someone presents unless it's 'scholarly' or 'historical' (and even then, you'll use any excuse you think you can get away with to dismiss it anyway), you routinely act as if the evidence you present is foolproof (dismissing any rebuttal of it, often without even bothering to answer the rebuttal), you've basically told people that you won't respond to them if they press you too hard on things you don't want to talk about, and now you've been caught lying. And that's just scratching the surfaceYou complain about the way atheists supposedly treat you, but you act worse than that. It's not nice to accuse someone of hypocrisy, but in your case, the shoe certainly fits.
Back to the discussion, Are we in agreement that God cannot be proven nor disproved by scientific methods? What are some areas God may be proven or disproved? Are there any?
do you think your god acts in the world today?
So, I know everything holybuckets is saying is false because Thor told me and I know the true gods are the Norse ones. Fuck it, I cannot be arsed being an atheist, personally knowing Thor and Odin really doesn't help my stance as an atheist, it's like not believe the chair you're sat on doesn't exist.
The Septuagint (LXX), a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, was completed around 200BCE...
Quote from: wheels5894 on May 28, 2013, 08:14:59 AMThe Septuagint (LXX), a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, was completed around 200BCE......and therefore would be available to the Gospel writers so that they could plagiarize, uh, "harmonize" the Jesus story and make it line up with OT messianic prophesies.And of course, if the LXX was a translation of the Tanakh 200 years BCE, it stands to reason that there were written versions of the Tanakh at 200 BCE that it was based upon. So much for the myth of the rabbinical students learning orally -- Those Hebrew scriptures were written for someone to read.
Quote from: Azdgari on May 25, 2013, 09:22:18 PMSo you quoted a statement with which you agree, and called it the definition of ignorance...?Please allow me to put the post in context for you, since you obviously failed to read before you spoke. Which, by the way, is a sign of ignorance. The posted criticized me for not being able to prove my religious faith with scientific evidence. I responded that this was ignorant, since one cannot prove religious faith with scientific evidence.
So you quoted a statement with which you agree, and called it the definition of ignorance...?
How can "faith" stand up to "scientific" investigation? Can you explain this one to me please?Faith is something that cannot be proven scientifically. Hence the word faith.
Riley2112,Why would you seek help from an atheist? First of all, it appalls me that these people would attempt to pull you away from your faith. Just because they don't have any faith doesn't mean they have to try to drag you away form God. Secondly, they cannot be trusted. Polls show that people don't trust atheists. "Atheists are one of the most disliked groups in America. Only 45 percent of Americans say they would vote for a qualified atheist presidential candidate, and atheists are rated as the least desirable group for a potential son-in-law or daughter-in-law to belong to. Will Gervais at the University of British Columbia recently published a set of studies looking at why atheists are so disliked. His conclusion: It comes down to trust." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-atheists-we-distrustPlease do not trust these people. They argue in ignorance, admittedly they have no evidence or proof to back up what they believe. And for that matter they cannot even figure out what they believe. Being a Christian is simple. You believe in the Risen Christ. You do not have to have all the answers like the atheists want to make you believe that you do. Remember, they don't have any answers.
Christians are never commanded to do miracles.
Only God can perform miracles.
they will pick up snakeswith their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands onsick people, and they will get well."
I suggest that you review the text.
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A harsh and beautiful land gives Ray a real adventure
KYBONG farmer Ray Gresham may have walked away from dairying, but his trek across Papua New Guinea was a different kind of walking altogether.
Looking for a change of scenery, Ray says he felt like an adventure. And, as the promotional material promised, that is what he got.
"Kokoda isn't all that tough," the pamphlet warned.
But the Black Cat/Bull Dog Track, north to south across Papua New Guinea - now there's a real walk, the tour organisers promised.
"Truly wild country," the pamphlet reads, where "few trekkers venture".
It has in common with Kokoda a role in some of the most crucial moments of the Second World War, including the Battle of Wau, where Allied forces fought the Japanese to a standstill.
But as he struggled across the huge mountain backbone of our nearest northern neighbour, Ray discovered adventure, scenery and culture shock on a scale reminiscent of Lord of the Rings.
Relics along the way included dumped mortars, heavy machine guns from both sides and the country's best preserved Second World War plane wreck - a shot up B17 Flying Fortress.
Kokoda is "still a fine walk," tour organiser James McCormac wrote in that pamphlet that caught Ray Gresham's eye. "But the Black Cat/Bull Dog track is "more challenging... a real adventure".
"More challenging" turned out to mean "dodgy river crossings, deep mud, leeches, torrential rain" and all participants "physically shattered" by the end.
Of all this, Ray had fair warning when he set out on October 10 for 12 days of slipping, sliding, walking, hobbling and hanging on for dear life, as he retraced the steps of the soldiers who slowed the Japanese advance from the beautiful beachside village of Salamaua, on the northern coast near Lae, to the critically important mountain airstrip at Wau.
If the Japanese had got past there, they would have had a made road (now eroded and landslip damaged to the point of being a narrow foot track) to the south coast at Terapo.
More strategically important still was the airstrip, which would have provided a base for aerial bombardment of Port Moresby.
The airstrip is on a 10-degree slope, with mountains all round, one of PNG's infamous no-second-chance landing fields - made even more tricky by Japanese soldiers shooting from the end of the airstrip.
Planes bringing up to 50 soldiers would lose two or three as they attempted to get off.
Then the pilots would have to turn around and take off, carrying the wounded, right in the face of the enemy guns.
Ray Gresham's adventure was not quite so death defying, but it was certainly a challenge - one accompanied by some of the most stunning and difficult landscape imaginable.
Struggling up loose shale slopes to an altitude of nearly 3000m, the sky from the deep valleys was a small patch of light among walls of green towering all round.
And a struggle it became.
"I rolled my ankle on the second day (20km into the journey) and had to walk the remaining 120km as well as I could," he said.
"There's no rescue service. You either get yourself out or you stay there".
Yet this is the countryside where a local woman was seen carrying 40kg of goods in a large back bag, held by a strap around her forehead - all in a day's work.
"I was carrying half that and it was hard enough," Ray said, recalling one rushing river crossing where water and weight held him under as he hung on to a rope to fellow trekkers in the shallows. By the end, his feet had started to rot, costing a layer of skin.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
The Right Direction: No More Lottery
By Evil Ted at 4:44 PM
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So let me get this straight: the first three - and most important - picks in the draft are left to a mysterious, shady system of "Here's who we supposedly selected to pick 1 thru 3 in a back room somewhere," but the rest of the picks are ordered by the traditional system used by every other league since the beginning of time, "That team which sucketh the most shall getteth the highest pick."
This lottery system supposedly defends against teams intentionally tanking to get a higher draft pick. But the fact is, there's STILL an incentive for teams to tank - they get a higher percentage possibility of receiving a better pick. Or at least they THINK they will...I'm guessing Stern, realizing that his lottery plot hasn't kept teams from doing what they will, is now choosing the order of the draft himself to further dissuade what he considers bad behavior. Is that grassy knoll conspiracy theory talk? Yes, and that is how much I have lost faith in the ability of Stern to lead this league. I can just see him in a dark room, putting the cards in the envelopes, muttering to himself..."That'll teach you to intentionally suck, Boston."
What Stern doesn't realize is that the Celtics weren't trying to suck that hard - THEY REALLY ARE THAT BAD. C'mon, David, throw us a bone here. We were half of what kept the league alive during the Bird/Magic era...hell, with Larry's help, we MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE, MAN. Are we asking for all that much? Oden is going to be little more than Ben Wallace when he hits the Pros, and Durant is a whole lotta hype. C'mon, dude - give us a reason to breathe.
The fact is, tons of enormous, legendary talent has been selected at or below the fifth pick, where the Celts now stand. But is Danny Ainge smart enough to find it? Hmmm, just peek at the last 20 years of Celtics lore a few posts down to figure that one out.
OK, back on point: Mr. Stern, leave it to you to make your draft as inconsistent and unpalatable as your league's officiating. No wonder a website called Basketbawful has so goddamn much content.
Below is some excruciating video of an NBA draft party attended by every basketball fan in the Portland area, made up predominantly of what appear to be illiterate lumberjacks. My favorite part of this video is the end where the dude says "We TOLD you we were headed in the right direction! We weren't lying." Way to interpret pure, blind luck as managerial prowess, dork. Even Danny Ainge wouldn't have said that.
Am I bitter that this stupid lottery system has
worked against the Celtics? You betcha.
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So I suppose that Henry Abbot is said "illiterate lumberjack" since he is a huge Blazer fan as well? His blog is a hell of a lot more successful and better than yours. I hate to break it to you buddy but Portland Oregon is one of the most educated cities in the US. Basketball aside, you really sound intolerant and ignorant.
Go on believing in your curse or what ever the hell your excuse is for bad coaching and bad management.
Gosh anonymous. Those are harsh words. I'll try to type a response through my waterfall of tears.
Was Evil Ted, the author of this post, indicting Henry Abbot? Not sure, since ET was specifically talking about people "in the Portland area," and I'm relatively certain that Mr. Abbot doesn't live there. Nor do we at Basketbawful consider him an illiterate lumberjack, otherwise his blog posts would be carved in cuneform on an old log. I guess. That's just how I imagine illiterate lumberjacks communicating.
Just for the record: according to Encarta, Portland ranks behind Lexington, KY, in the list of the most educated cities in the U.S. For some reason that seems telling.
Is Henry's blog better and more successful than mine. Yup. I would hope so. But besides the fact that he's brilliant at what he does, I'm pretty sure that's Henry's "day job." I work as an executive for a global software company. That makes this blog my "hobby."
Of course, the funny thing is, you are pretty free with accusations of intolerance and ignorance, yet you make blanket statements about me and my blog without even checking the signature on the post to determine that it was, in fact, written by a friend from Boston who occassionally contributes. So feel free to take your own intolerance and ignorance and, well, you seem like an intelligent lad, so I'm sure you can figure out something to do with it.
Kudos for posting my last response. My comment was directed at ET, not you. Sorry for generalizing to all that post on your blog. I'm actually am a huge fan of yours.
And for the record, that whole "Portland ranks behind Lexington, KY.." is a bit misleading since both cities are in the top 15. I don't actually live in Portland but take attacks against my own personal.
Hey anonymous. I'm guessing your a Portland fan? Fact is, I am too. And I know the Blazers have seen hard times and heartache over the years. I mean, losing 4-1 in the '90 Finals, having the league's best record but getting upset in the '91 WCFs, then losing to the Bulls in the '92 Finals. The downfall of that Blazers team, the famous collapse against the Lakers in 2000, the "Jailblazer" era. Those are the kinds of things that can make you an angry, bitter fan.
Evil Ted grew up in Boston, and he's got an almost Sports Guy-like obsession with the Boston teams (to the point that he and I have yearly arguments -- heated ones -- about Patriots/Colts).
Of course, I'm a huge Celtics fan too. When I saw them get the 5th pick, my jaw dropped. Now, my anger wasn't really directed at the Portland organization, because they didn't do anything wrong. I'm not sure I agree with the lottery system, but then again, I don't necessarily have a better solution. The whole thing is a mess, particularly due to the fact that teams knowingly tank.
You're right; Portland and Lexington both rank in the top 15. My sister lives in Lexington and I end up visiting her several times a year. Not that the people there are inbred mutants, but I don't know if I'd rightly qualify them as one of the most intelligent towns in our country (certainly not ahead of my own town, Chicago). So I have to wonder about the methods they use to quantify something like "most intelligent city." Short of forcing everyone who lives there to take an IQ test.
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It's incredible how Celtics fans felt ENTITLED to one of the top picks. And now they all come out whining about how the lottery is unfair.
Hey Evil Ted, you want to get mad at Portland - why don't you get mad at them for conning Danny Ainge into turning diamonds (Brandon Roy) into dogshit (Bassy Telfair)?
Evil Ted
Next time you hurl insults, please make sure you hurl them directly at me, rather than at my dear friend Basketbawful. I can't stand it when hypersensitive, needlessly serious comments don't make their way to me.
Anyway, thanks to Basketbawful for defending my honor, what little of it there is.
Most of my post was an indictment of the lottery system, which I continue to maintain is a needless farce, but as for my crack against Portland...
...look, I've never even BEEN to Portland, so my assertion that the area is filled predominantly with illiterate lumberjacks is completely baseless (upon second viewing, nobody in the video is wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt, but that's probably just because the weather was temperate that day).
This was just my way - albeit my childish, self-indulgent way - of bringing down the team-slash-region that received the first pick. Had Seattle won it, I'd have likely called them a bunch of "pot smoking, sour coffee swilling, Nirvana listening, sandal wearing, Microsoft Windows using, Bill Gates poster humping, elitist snobs." There. I've insulted a whole other group of people, just to give the first group some company. Feel better?
Sorry Anonymous, baseless insults are all I have left at this point...well, that and the measly fifth pick...oh, and the comfort of knowing that I hail from the city with the most incredible, intelligent, most evenly tanned, funniest, tallest, coolest, fittest, best dressed people in the world - Boston, Massachusetts.
To all future readers looking to be offended by comments about Don Imus, Rutgers, illiterate Portland lumberjacks, or hatred of the French, please take note: Evil Ted writes with tongue placed firmly in cheek.
I just love having to explain humor; it doesn't suck all the humor out of humor.
It really doesn't.
Not at all.
Hugs and kisses,
Evil Ted
Sorry about your Celtics Evilted, that sucks. I grew up in Portland (go to school out of state now) and I am a huge Blazer fan. I stuck with them through the John Nash era of drafting Telfair (sorry) and some Russian guys. We tanked last year and got the 4th pick when we should have gotten the 1st. This year we still sucked but didn't tank and the got the 1st.
Anyways, the point of the story is:
Not one of those illiterate lumberjacks was big enough of a douche-bag to hold up a custom made Oden Blazer jersey like that one Celtic fan on TV. Ha ha! Make sure to catch the Blazers on TNT!
P.S. - Keep up the good work guys! Try and update more!
As a Portland area native, I must agree with Evil Ted. Seattle is full of people exactly as he described.
Incidentally, the name of Portland's pro lacrosse team: The Lumberjax.
America's most literate cities:
Seattle, WA 1
Minneapolis, MN 2
Washington, DC 3
Atlanta, GA 4
San Francisco 5
Denver, CO 6
Boston, MA 7
Pittsburgh, PA 8
Cincinnati, OH 9.5
St. Paul, MN 9.5
But hey, Chicago is always in the top 3 for being the fattest, so you've got that going for you!
Durant is the real deal. He's much more talented than any other player in this years draft. Can't wait for you to eat your words after the season begins.
-I usually agree with what you have to say.
I can't wait for these idiots to realize Durant and Odom are going to get eaten alive by the recent acquisition of Mr. Kevin Garnett.
The alleged "humor" behind the "anonymous" posts are about as dry as the Arizona desert.
It seems his panties are in a huge wad, so he must be a Laker fan.
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I was in the DUMBO West Elm watching stroller-pushing condo-dwellers tap their toes to the beat of "Sealion Woman" while admiring antler lamps when it finally dawned on me: Feist's "The Reminder" is totally the "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" of Summer 2007. Leslie Feist's Canadian smart-rock was fun for a minute and then so ubiquitous you felt like killing someone every time you heard it. Sure, the first few hundred listens were great! And those wistful yearning songs about how "I will be the one to break my heart" were perfect complements to all our summer crushes. But it's fall now, even though it's still 85 degrees out, and everyone's job is back to being serious and all those summer crushes have decayed like so many overripe farmer's market tomatoes. Please. It's over. It's time to forget.


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Djokovic-Isner will open Davis Cup QF in Boise
Boise, ID – The 2013 Davis Cup quarterfinal showdown between the host United States and Serbia will swing into action Friday with a singles bout between world No. 1 superstar Novak Djokovic and 6-foot-9 American John Isner.
Djokovic-Isner will be followed by a rubber between 6-foot-6 American Sam Querrey and 2010 Serbian Davis Cup hero Viktor Troicki, who won a fifth and deciding rubber three years ago against France in the World Group final.
The high-flying Djokovic is 2-1 lifetime against the towering Isner, but the American won their last meeting at an ATP event in Indian Wells last year. The Serbian great, however, beat Isner in a Davis Cup matchup back in 2010.
Saturday's doubles affair in Boise will pit the outstanding American twin Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, against a Serbian duo of Ilija Bozoljac and Nenad Zimonjic, while Sunday's reverse singles call for the Australian Open champion Djokovic to battle the 20th-ranked Querrey and the world No. 23 Isner to take on the 44th-ranked Troicki.
Djokovic is a solid 20-7 in his career Davis Cup singles action, while Troicki is a respectable 12-8. Querrey has a losing 3-5 record in his limited career Davis Cup singles outings, while Isner is only 6-6 in his singles rubbers.
The best-of-five tie will be staged on an indoor hardcourt at Boise's Taco Bell Arena. Team USA is captained by Jim Courier, while Bogdan Obradovic guides the visiting Serbs.
Serbia topped the 32-time titlist U.S. 3-2 in Belgrade in an opening- round tie three years ago in their lone previous Davis Cup meeting.
The Serbs are playing this week without injured world No. 9 star Janko Tipsarevic.
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El Pollo Loco, the fire-grilled chicken restaurant chain, announced four new variations of the brand's signature entrée, The Pollo Bowl: Chicken Mexican Cobb, Chicken Ranchero, Chicken Mole, and Ultimate Double Chicken. The new Pollo Bowls will be available for a limited time only.
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|Peggy's cut + Joan neck line detail = my dress! Can you see it?? :)
Saturday, 28 April 2012
The best kind of dress is an IWGMU dress
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You look ADORABLE! What a great find! I'm off to shop vintage in a Tennessee city called Chattanooga...I hope I have as much luck! Enjoy your weekend.
- 28 April 2012 at 14:29
- Gina G said...
This is your dress! Totally suits you.
- 28 April 2012 at 14:52
- Sue said...
This dress is so totally adorable and perfect! It fits you just right, too. :) Great find!
- 28 April 2012 at 15:36
What a wonderful dress and that label is so fascinating! x
- 28 April 2012 at 16:46
Lovely dress - very flattering on you. Lovely piece of social history too.
- 28 April 2012 at 17:08
- Sabrina said...
Beautiful dress! What an awesome find! And I love how you've styled it with the red beret and gold brooch. You look fabulous!
- 28 April 2012 at 18:43
Absolutely had to comment on this one. Beautiful, classic, looks great on you. However, a bit of nostalgia with the label. I remember when all clothing, of any decent calibre, had that label. Just goes to show how off-shore sweat shops and the inferior quality we have come to accept as normal, have changed our world. Those ladies, union workers, did quality work, were proud of their jobs and produced quality.
- 28 April 2012 at 22:52
That is a divine dress! I'll have to check out Prim Vintage next time I'm in Norwich! x
- 29 April 2012 at 15:16
- Sarah Rooftops said...
It's gorgeous!
- 29 April 2012 at 21:47
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- 30 April 2012 at 09:55
- Elise said...
Wow amazing luck with the dress, it looks great! :)
- 30 April 2012 at 18:22
- ReeRee Rockette said...
Wow! An amazing dress! Fits you like it was made to measure!
- 5 May 2012 at 16:24