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Is it possible to extend the TinyMCE rich text editor to allow the insertion of Internal Links to my web sites pages.
I already have a function which can return the list of page names and URLs however I cannot figure out how to add a new button to the Advanced Link plugin.
I have worked with the Image Manager and Document manager plugins before and so am aware that they are able to add their own 'browse' button within the advanced link dialogs.
Ideally when the user is in the link dialog I would like to present them with a list of possible pages to link to.


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The ad on the search and browse page moves all of the comics down, thus making the whole thing very unaccessable. Is there anything anyone can do about this?
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Nov. 2, 2010
BERKELEY - California sophomore defender Steve Birnbaum collected the first Pac-10 Player of the Week honor of his career and senior forward Davis Paul garnered a spot on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week on Tuesday, after their strong play contributed to a pair of 2-1 double overtime wins over Oregon State and Washington at Edwards Stadium.
An Irvine, Calif., product, Birnbaum scored his first career goal as a Golden Bear and assisted on Paul's game-winning score against the Beavers on Oct. 29. Paul, from Upland, Calif., assisted on Birnbaum's goal against OSU and set up senior midfielder Hector Jimenez's golden goal against the Huskies on Oct. 31.
This marks Cal's 19th Pac-10 Player of the Week awards, including five this season for the conference-leading Bears. Paul and senior defender A.J. Soares have each collected two Pac-10 accolades.
Cal (11-2-3, 7-1-1 in the Pac-10) brings a four-game unbeaten streak and three-game winning streak into the regular-season finale against rival Stanford (8-9-0, 4-5-0 Pac-10) in the Bay Area Derby on Nov. 11 on Goldman Field at Edwards Stadium. With a victory over the Cardinal, the Bears would capture the Pac-10 championship and accompanying automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.


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I don't think that was a mutual agreement . That was Bernie basically black balling indycar from ever racing on the same track as f1. I guess since f1 doesn't race at mugello it can work. I would be chuffed if it all came about! What a track to see those cars on!


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After more than two years of community-wide and bipartisan struggles to raise the bar for everyone in Cleveland schools, a sudden and incongruous shift has dropped expectations to a new low, at least for some of its freshman, just in time for the start of a new school year today.
The Freshman Fresh Start was recently approved by the school board of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). The resolution allows incoming freshmen to participate in extracurricular activities (sports and clubs) despite low grades that, under the current regulations for all other grades, would make them ineligible. Instead, incoming freshmen are now only required to pass (receive a "D" or higher) a minimum of five subjects in the preceding grading period. (For the first quarter of the year, eligibility would be based on the last quarter of the preceding year.) Formerly, the policy required that students a) not receive a failing grade in the previous grading period, b) maintain a GPA of 2.0 or higher in the previous grading period, and c) maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 throughout the year.
It sounds innocent enough, but upon closer inspection, the implications are far-reaching and appalling. Incoming...
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Representative Andy Thompson and Speaker Pro Tempore Matt Huffman have introduced new legislation to repeal the Common Core, and hearings start today (Monday, August 18). But they're not telling you the whole story. Read on to find out what they don't want you to know and why their reasoning doesn't make sense.
[All opponent statements are direct quotes from this press conference]
1. Ohio was ahead of the game in wanting change: It began reviewing its academic standards back in 2007—long before governors and state superintendents started to talk about creating Common Core.
What opponents said:
[We] want to make sure Ohio is in the driver's seat in this process.
[We] want to make sure Ohio is in the driver's seat in this process.
The truth: By the time the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) started work on replacing state standards that were sorely lacking, the Buckeye state had already begun to respond to educator concerns about Ohio's standards. In fact, the Ohio Department of Education conducted an international benchmarking study in 2008 (published in 2009) that laid out some guiding principles for revised Ohio standards—principles...
Ohio's new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
If this does end up happening in practice, all is not lost. Rather, as I discuss below, informal channels for teacher feedback might actually be more conducive to helping teachers (and their schools) improve than formal procedures.
Consider Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer's recent work on New York City's charter schools. The research duo takes great pains to uncover what school-based factors make a great school tick. In my estimation, one of their key findings is how strongly the frequency of informal teacher feedback correlates to school effectiveness.
Dobbie and Fryer measure school effectiveness in two ways. For the full sample of thirty-nine schools, they use a statistical model (a matched student-pair approach) to estimate a school's impact on achievement. Second, for twenty-nine of the schools, lottery-admissions data were used to estimate school effectiveness. Lottery-based computations are typically considered preferable, because researchers can approximate a random experiment. The researchers then probe the schools' "inner-workings" during the...
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In Ohio, like many states across the nation, reading achievement has largely stalled. The state's reading scores on the domestic NAEP assessments haven't moved over the past decade: In fourth-grade reading, the state's average score was 222 in 2003 and 224 in 2013. The story is the same for eighth grade. Meanwhile, on state assessments, reading proficiency rates have improved noticeably in fourth grade (from 77 percent in 2006 to 88 percent in 2013), but fifth- and sixth-grade reading proficiency rates haven't budged. In fifth grade, for instance, statewide reading proficiency was 75 percent in 2006 and 74 percent in 2013.
Test data suggest that strong and concerted efforts must be made to stem the tide of mediocre reading achievement. The Third Grade Reading Guarantee is one policy initiative aimed at improving early literacy. And in 2010, the state board adopted new English language arts (ELA) standards—part of the Common Core—in order to increase the rigor of what students are expected to know and be able to do when it comes to reading, writing, and grammar.
State leaders have created a policy framework—Third Grade Reading for foundational early-literacy skills and long-term growth under the Common...
For decades, much ado has been made over parental involvement in schools. Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), as part of the 2012 Cleveland Plan For Transforming Schools, requires by law that all parents meet with their child's teacher by December of every school year. About 75 percent of elementary school and 60 percent of high school students had a parent meet with their child's teacher this past school year, the first covered by the new law. District administrators call these numbers "pretty impressive" (at least at the elementary level), but the outcomes resulting from mandating parental involvement are unclear. For starters, it's impossible to compare the totals to previous year's totals or even to other districts' totals, including those of suburban counterparts, since the state doesn't require them to keep track of parent-teacher conference attendance. Despite the good intentions of the Cleveland mandate, a question remains: is there an academic benefit to this kind of parental involvement?
The answer is complicated. Some types of involvement, such as reading to elementary students at home, discussing school activities or college plans, and requesting a particular teacher, do yield positive results. But other common practices, like helping with homework, usually don't alter...
Many students in Ohio and across the nation continue to perform poorly in mathematics. In response to this chronic underachievement, schools have tried numerous interventions, including "double dosing" students who lag behind academically. "Double dosing"—most commonly utilized in middle and high schools—can be an extension of time in an existing math class or assigning struggling students to two independent math courses (one remedial, one comprised of grade-level content). In either case, the goal is to improve student outcomes through additional "time on task." In this new study, the author analyzes student data from 2003–04 through 2012–13 provided by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) to observe whether students' participation in two distinct math classes improves outcomes. The study examines the outcomes of middle school students scoring just below and just above the predetermined cut-off score on the previous spring's state assessment.[1] Findings indicate that students taking a double dose of math made significantly higher gains on math assessments compared to those students who were just above the cut-off score but did not receive a double dose. Yet over time, these gains diminish. Only one year after returning to a single math class schedule, gains...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This short review originally ran in Education Gadfly Weekly on July 23, 2014. Here we present the original review with an added Ohio perspective.
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI). For the cost-effectiveness analysis, the authors consider how many test-score points students gain on the 2010–11 NAEP for each $1,000 invested; to measure ROI, the authors used, among other data, student-achievement results from CREDO's national charter school study (that matched students via a "virtual twin" methodology). The key finding: For every $1,000 invested, charter students across the United States earned a weighted average of an additional seventeen points in math and sixteen additional points in reading on NAEP, compared to traditional district students, controlling for student characteristics such as poverty and special-education status. This translates into charters nationwide being 40 percent more cost effective. Meanwhile, Buckeye State charters are less cost effective than national charters, though still more so than their district counterparts within the state. Ohio charters averaged nine additional NAEP points in both reading and math per $1,000 in funding relative to comparable districts. The researchers...
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Wetpaint Entertainment teamed up with Viggle during the most episode of Revenge to find out if fans think that there have been too many new characters this season, and the answer is pretty divided!
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I've used one image so far, and, from a design point of view, I thought it would be best to put the info (name of photographer and the information about the CC-licence) in the ALT tag. Eg "Shopping baskets. Image by flickr user agagagaga, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license."
I'd like to use more, but want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.
So semantically I'd say that you probably shouldn't use it - however in this case it'd probably be ok to put it here as I can really think of a more intuitive spot - Other options I can think of would be using the longdesc and title attributes, adding text to the image itself, or annotating it below using the <blockquote> or <cite> tags...
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It's natural that the girls in the Bachelor house get close to one another, considering they travel together for weeks straight. But there's no love lost between two of the remaining girls in Juan Pablo Galavis's bevy of beauties, Clare Crawley and Nikki Ferrell, and we wanted to know whose side Viggle LIVE! users are on. While we've been split since the beginning, it turns out we're the only ones not decided!
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Folks, I didn't make it to Glastonbury. I'm kind of working on something important in Chicago, so there was no way I could go down there, and since there's so many acts to talk about, and so little I can really add to the story, I will do something different and link to some NME pages that cover what went down at this year's festival, day by day. If possible, I'll add some more information on stories I've found out about.
Just for the record, I wrote an article about possible secret shows, and, as it turned out, Jonathan did not post it before the festival, and, so, now, it's old news. Although, it should be noted that Beady Eye actually did a secret show at Glastonbury and said that the festival was "back in the good books. I just had a bad experience but now it's cool again. It's always been cool, it's just me. I'm full of it." I'll go into more detail in this month's upcoming Liam Gallagher scandal sheet. Unfortunately, there were no special guests at the Stones' set on Saturday.
Also, the official police stats for Glastonbury 2013 have revealed a considerable decline in criminal activities fro the last festival. There were only 150 arrests and 104 thefts from the tents. There were 177,000 people at Worthy Farm that year, giving a rate of 0.84 per 1000 people. Nothing to sneeze at.
At his usual Sunday morning press conference, Michael Eavis talked about the festival, including a confirmation that Prince Harry was there the previous day. He also told him that "he should go through the night, because the nightlife is really what Glastonbury is all about. At three in the afternoon, you won't get it, will you? So I told him to get his taxi driver to come back at five in the morning and, you know what, he lasted until four in the morning, so he saw all the best stuff. He had lots of mates with him and they were all having a good time I think. He didn't want to make a formal thing of being here or anything. I didn't have a drink with him because I don't drink during the festival."
On the Stones, he said that the 43-year wait to hire the Stones was worth it, saying that they were brilliant and that, "The Stones were the best thing – it had to be, didn't it, 43 years of me, 50 years of them, we finally come together and we're on the same page at last. Mick Jagger's energy, leading that band with such a passion and so much skill was absolutely amazing. Seeing him moving… I've never seen anything like it. I'm quite a bit older but I couldn't go like that – and I can keep going, but not at that pace!"
He also talked about the mechanical phoenix that sprang during the headliners' acts cost "more than I'd like to say."
Finally, he said he had already booked the three headliners for 2014's festival, but would only announce the names once tickets were on sale. So, presumably, we should know by October. He said picking headliners is difficult as "there aren't many left… There were maybe a dozen headliner potentials so we're running out of headliners but we've got the last three for next year". When asked if any of those headliners are veterans in the league of the Stones, he said, "Ever so slightly, yeah."
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However, BHEL fell by 7.70 per cent, followed by Gail India (4.80 per cent), Tata Power (3.53 per cent), HDFC Bank (2.66 per cent), Axis Bank (2.27 per cent) and ICICI Bank (2.26 per cent).
Among the S&P BSE sectoral indices, Realty rose by 6.91 per cent, followed by CD (5.71 per cent), Metal (4.40 per cent), HC (3.15 per cent), Oil&Gas (1.46 per cent), IT (1.19 per cent), Auto (1.04 per cent) and Teck (1.02 per cent) while FMCG dropped by 2.14 per cent, Bankex (1.53 per cent) and CG (1.19 per cent).
Small-cap and Mid-cap indices also rose by 3.80 per cent and 2.67 per cent, respectively on the back of good demand from retail investors and outperformed the Sensex.
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Brand Names: Sectral
Generic Name: acebutolol (Pronunciation: A se BUE toe lol)
What is acebutolol (Sectral)?
Acebutolol is in a group of drugs called beta-blockers. Beta-blockers affect the heart and circulation (blood flow through arteries and veins).
Acebutolol is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart rhythm disorders.
Acebutolol may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.
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Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
Less serious side effects may include:
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Acebutolol can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be awake and alert.
Avoid drinking alcohol, which could increase drowsiness and dizziness while you are taking acebutolol.
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|Sinner to serve another term as Village chairman
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|Wednesday, 18 December 2013 20:21
By Sheri Hink-Wagner
The Wauneta Breeze
The Wauneta Village Board elected Lloyd Sinner as chairman for another year during the board's regular December meeting Tuesday, Dec. 9. Sinner was first elected as chairman of the board in 1996.
Sinner reappointed Tony Cribelli, who was unable to attend the meeting, as vice-chairman of the board.
Authorized check signers for the village were delegated as Sinner, Cribelli, Beau Kramer, Village Clerk Evelen Skelton and Deputy Clerk Sara Bardsley.
Authorized check signors for Sunrise Heights of Wauneta were set as Administrator Lisa Kisinger, Office Manager Julie Hoskovec, any village board member and Village Clerk Skelton. The nursing home's policy states that any check over $1,500 written on a nursing home account must be signed by both a nursing home committee member and nursing home representative.
Arlan Wine was appointed as Village Attorney again for 2014.
The board also appointed commissioners and named individuals to the village's various boards and committees. No changes were made to Village Commissioners for 2014.
The only change made to boards and committees was to remove Sheri Hink-Wagner from the Wauneta Economic Development Committee at her request and to add all members of the village board to the nursing home committee, with the stipulation that only two board members may attend any one nursing home committee meeting.
Turkey issue a concern for citizens
Board member Page Johnston informed the board that he had been contacted by residents regarding damages being inflicted on property in town from the wild turkeys.
Johnston indicated the number of turkeys in town has been growing, where it is a regular occurrence to see 100 or more turkeys in yards on the east side of town.
Residents informed Johnston the turkeys are getting up on houses and fences and causing damage to lawns and trees.
Johnston contacted the Game Warden Dirk Greene and Mike Sherman, the USDA Wildlife Specialist in Hayes Center.
Both men told Johnston it was likely that people within the village are feeding the turkeys, thus encouraging them to come into town.
Sherman also suggested possibly creating or amending a village ordinance prohibiting the feeding of wild animals in the city limits.
For now, the village has decided to make a plea to the public to stop feeding the turkeys as they continue to research another means to discourage the turkeys from habitually coming into town.
Credit/debit card payments
Board members also took the first step towards acceptance of credit and debit cards for payment at the Village of Wauneta at the December meeting.
The board has discussed the possibility previously, however the motion to accept credit card processing for payment was approved at the December meeting.
The village had been approached by Valley Bank and Trust Company about credit card processing services through First Payment Services.
Valley Bank representatives gave the village some basic numbers on what it would cost the village to accept credit and debit card payments.
After discussion village board members approved the motion to accept credit card payments. They plan to work with First Payment Services representatives to determine how to pass the costs for credit card payments on to customers utilizing the service.
Based on discussion it seems that individuals wishing to make credit card payments to the village will be charged a fee based on the amount of the payment. The board will determine the fee amounts at a future meeting.
New furnace for Ambulance Barn
Chairman Sinner asked the board to consider purchasing a new radiant heat furnace in the ambulance barn.
Sinner explained the ambulance barn currently only has one furnace, which was not operational for a short period recently.
Although the exact cost of the project is unknown, Sinner and the rest of the village board agreed the improvement is needed to properly care for the equipment and supplies stored in the building.
The village board decided to ask the ambulance maintenance person, Gary Hunt, to call a reputable heating and cooling company to ask them to determine the exact needs and draw up a specification sheet so the village can put out a call for bids or advertise the project.
Christmas bonuses
The village board approved Christmas bonuses for village employees. The full time employees and the deputy clerk will receive $125 in Chamber bucks, the librarian and village attorney will receive $75 in Chamber bucks and the pool manager will receive $60 in Chamber bucks.
Bid for well house improvements accepted
The village board approved a bid of $4,830 from S&S Construction to complete work on the village's well house 2, the bulk water well.
The bid will include residing the building and rebuilding the hatch. It will also include putting a new steel door on the block building.
Eminent domain
The village board asked the village attorney to move forward on the land purchase needed to complete the water project through eminent domain.
The village previously attempted to purchase the small tract of land from a resident, but was unable to complete the purchase due to title issues on the property.
Nursing home report
Village board members reviewed October 2013 financials for Sunrise Heights of Wauneta. Nursing home committee chairman Page Johnston told the board the average resident days for October was 32 residents.
In summary, Johnston said, "We're in good shape."
He explained the nursing home has enjoyed $3,000 to $4,000 in operational revenue so far in the fiscal year, which started in July. However, Johnston said the amount of revenue may be even higher due to an anticipated reimbursement of as much as $10,000 or more from the State for Medicaid and Medicare services.
Johnston also told the board the nursing home's workmen's compensation insurance premium was lowered significantly–from $5,900 to $1,100.
Other items
The village board approved the Street Budget Reports, prepared by Greg Wolford, for submission to the Nebraska Board of Public Roads Classifications and Standards.
The report, which is reviewed each year, includes information about the village's street budget, expenditures and revenues.
Village Superintendent Bill Bischoff explained the report is necessary due to the village's highway allocation funding.
At the November village board meeting the board approved a bid from CDS Inspections and Beyond to provide lead-based paint services for the Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation project administered by Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment Corporation.
At the December meeting the board approved the contract CDS sent down regarding those services.
Also on the agenda, but not discussed in detail were the village's updated comprehensive plan and the draft ATV/UTV ordinance. Both items will be discussed again at a future meeting.
Clerk's report
Village Clerk Evelyn Skelton reported to the board that the village's audit was completed since the November meeting. She said things went very well and an audit report is expected soon, probably after the first of the year.
Superintendent's report
Bischoff told the board the village hosted CNN training in Imperial recently. He explained the group meets regularly to discuss electrical issues including metering and transformers. He explained the group meets every month except December.
Bischoff revisited the need to purchase new tires for the village's loader, which he expects to cost approximately $1,500 per tire. He indicated the village can get government pricing at Wauneta Co-op Oil. He said government pricing is the same everywhere and therefore he plans to purchase the tires in town.
Bischoff also reported he had a meeting with a NPPD representative, who informed him that although the energy rates will not increase from NPPD, the transmission rate (the cost of putting energy over their lines) will increase .81 percent.
Due to the amount of time that has gone by since the last energy rate review Bischoff and Skelton told the board it would be prudent to have an audit done on the electric rates.
Bischoff asked the board if they would like him to get in touch with a consultant to inquire about the cost of an energy audit. The board indicated they would like him to do so.
The Wauneta Village Board meets at 7 p.m. MT on the second Tuesday of each month. The public is welcome to attend their meetings.


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There. He points to a spot in the empty, green bottom along the Tuckasegee River. Its not much bigger than an exaggerated baseball mound anymore. Russell Townsend has tawny skin and eyes dark as moonless nights here in the Great Smokies. Farm plows have leveled the terrain, but the learned he among them have probed the gentle rise in this field with radar and magnetometers that penetrate the earth. They show dark spots where posts formed walls, a gap in the circle is the entrance, and in the center the most hallowed spot, the fire pit. Generations ago 10,000 years or more Townsends people believe they were given an eternal flame here. It once burned in the hearths of Kituwah Mound, and it still glows in the hearts of the Cherokees. This is their birth- place. Most folks dont know where their Garden of Eden is, the archaeologist says quietly. We do.
A few miles down the road, on the same sultry summer day, another man wades into the maelstrom of a modern construction site. He has exchanged the jacket of his pinstriped suit for a chartreuse safety vest and wears a hardhat, but his tie remains tightly knotted. Workers scurry as forklifts blare warnings. Drills chatter. A tower crane sweeps over a nearly completed 22-story hotel. Darold Londo, general manager of Harrahs Cherokee Casino & Hotel, is headman here. He has Indian blood, but its from faraway Wisconsin, and thats not why hes here. His tribe is Harrahs Entertainment Inc. hes also a senior vice president and it is much larger than Townsends 13,500-member Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Las Vegas-based Harrahs is a privately held, multinational company with more than $17 billion in market capitalization and 85,000 employees worldwide. Its eternal flame is money it took in $10.1 billion in 2009.
Londo, 45, oversees not only daily operations of the casino, hotel and entertainment center but now an expansion that is one of the biggest in the nations hospitality industry. In North Carolina, it vies with an Apple Inc. data center in Maiden as one of the states two biggest private construction projects. Apples technology-heavy project will cost $1 billion over 10 years but will employ only 50 people. The Harrahs Cherokee expansion will cost $633 million and employs more than 1,100 construction workers alone. When finished in 2012, it will boost casino and hotel employment, now about 1,600 and the most in western North Carolina, to more than 2,400.
Londo stops next to a five-story heating-and-cooling plant carved into a solid-rock mountainside and pumping air throughout the burgeoning complex. He dials an aide. How much will we have under roof when we finish? The reply comes quickly. About 3 million square feet, equivalent to three shopping malls, not mentioning the tribes new 18-hole Sequoyah National Golf Club, designed by Robert Trent Jones II.
As a business matter, the expansion is intended to transform this rugged enclave into a convention and tourism destination rather than an isolated gambling casino. That will accelerate the pace of life here and hedge the Cherokees bets against a day when luck or legislation might frown on the nations $26-billion-a-year tribal gaming industry. As much as concrete and mortar, though, whats going on here is evidence of the enigmatic 13-year marriage of one of the nations most spiritual people with one of its most materialistic corporations. Its an unlikely union, but both have benefited beyond eithers expectations. Now, Darold Londo, an outsider in Eden, plays an equally unlikely but pivotal role in remaking it for tomorrow.
He looks down, his hand on the cyclic the joystick piloting the UH-1H Huey, the workhorse helicopter of the U.S. Army. Below lay the rugged peaks and steep valleys of South Korea. This is for real, he reminds himself, not training. He was flying the demilitarized zone, in the late 80s some of the most dangerous terrain on earth. We were flying real missions, tactical stuff. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, class of 1986, Londos goal wasnt to run a casino or construction projects. A few years earlier, he hadnt even imagined attending one of the worlds most esteemed military schools. When he was growing up, his parents ran restaurants and lounges in Milwaukee before moving to northern Wisconsin. There, at Lakeland High School, he excelled at football and baseball. His Indian blood didnt seem to matter. My great-grandmothers marriage certificate lists her only as Josephine, Ojibwa Indian. But I didnt walk around saying I was Indian.
His father is one of seven siblings, and hes one of four brothers. In a large family, you have a certain amount of getting along ingrained in you. You develop huge deference to institutions larger than the individual church, family, the Army. Or, he leaves unsaid, the tribe. But he wasnt among classmates ardently jockeying for a military-academy berth. He just wanted a scholarship. Lakeland had a record of sending people to the academies, but I was just going through the motions. Then his attitude began to shift. I was tired of the Midwest. I wanted to do something different, so the prospect of West Point became pretty cool. When I got there, I was taken aback by the emphasis on duty, honor, country.
West Pointers typically follow military careers, many winning generals stars. Londo was on track. A captain by the early 90s and up for major, military success seemed assured. But his mission began to change around him. He was shifted from lift helicopters those used to transport troops and equipment to the Armys Cobra attack helicopter. Then he was assigned to train other pilots during the first Iraq war in 1990 and 1991. They left for Iraq; he stayed behind. As military budgets withered after the war, his flight log sometimes dropped from 100 hours a month to as little as 15. He used his spare time to earn an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y. it had a campus where he was stationed with the 10th Mountain Division. Londo left the Army in 1992, earned a law degree from the University of Wisconsin and joined the large Madison-based law firm of Axley Brynelson LLP, handling business real-estate matters, mergers and acquisitions and municipal law.
In the 90s, telecommunications consolidation was in full swing. We were buying and selling telcos, Internet companies and so on. He became chief operating officer of Chorus Communications Group, a publicly traded telephone and Internet company based in Madison. He was promoted to president of the Chorus Networks subsidiary, but it folded when the telecom boom segued into the dot-com bust. I didnt want to go back to the military, and one of my buddies from the Academy was general manager of Harrahs in New Orleans. He said, What about the gaming business? Londo went to work for Harrahs in Atlantic City in 2002. He was fast-tracked. Id run a telecom company for about two years, so I had operational experience, and Harrahs figured my Army experience was transferable. By February 2006, when he was named general manager of Harrahs Cherokee, he had progressed through marketing, overseeing games, customer service and other positions.
Londo walks briskly, navigating the dim Harrahs Cherokee casino. The lights of hundreds of slot machines twinkle. Chuck Berry belts out Roll Over, Beethoven, and cigarette smoke a nonsmoking section seems little used hangs in the air. Hostesses balance trays of drinks as players cluster around gaming tables fingering chips. By state law, dealers hold no real cards, and hands appear on small computer screens. Walls are clockless. Hurried gamblers are anathema to a successful casino.
This makes the military look like a Sunday-afternoon picnic, Londo says without breaking stride. Daily operations that he oversees expansion project aside are staggering. Outside, shuttle buses hustle more than 3 million gamblers a year from remote lots the expansion includes a deck that will park thousands more. On a peak day, close to $1 million might change hands here. Total gaming revenue in 2009, off about 6% from the previous year because of recession, was $228 million. It pours in through games nickel slots are popular that can be played for pocket change, or by way of table players willing to bet the farm.
Not only luck but temptation stalks the gaming floor, and part of Londos job is to manage that, too. He strides down a hallway the length of a football field the new back-of-the-house operations center. None of this was here 18 months ago. In the back rooms are multiple layers of internal accounting, constantly under the shadow of tribal, state and federal audits. The digital integrity of the 3,400 electronic slot machines and games is constantly checked. That number will soar to 4,600 with the expansion. In a compartmentalized concept the Army would call need to know, an employee must have a reason to be in a particular area or to access data. Only Londo and the vice president of finance have full run of the casino.
Londo manages in part by relying on best practices from the collective experience of Harrahs Entertainments more than 50 casinos break a pattern, trigger an alarm. There have been few alarms in the casinos 13-year history. The biggest was in 2008, his second year here, when a dealer and 11 gamblers were busted in a scam that had netted them $286,000 in false winnings. Walking through the casino, Londo stops. Overhead, high on the ceiling, sensitive cameras can, if directed, read the words on the West Point ring he wears. If a gambler insists he gave the dealer a $100 bill and the dealer says it was $20, cameras can record not just the denomination of a bill as it changed hands but the serial number. Every time we interact with law enforcement, they appreciate that we can be very helpful, Londo says.
In the merger of corporation and tribe, of chief executive and Indian chief, Londo, Harrahs and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians play for high stakes. How high and the payoff emerges a mile from the casino on the banks of the Oconaluftee River, in a modest frame building that bears no resemblance to Russell Townsends Kituwah Mound.
This is the council house. At the end of a short hallway, his desk butted against a conference table, Michell Hicks sits under a mounted deers head and the framed picture of a wolf. On his desk is a family photograph, including five dark-haired children. He is a Cherokee who returned after a stint as a Wall Street accountant to be elected principal chief of the Eastern Band. Few know better the contradictions the riddles that color the relationships between Londo and the tribe. The Cherokee people and our culture and traditions are who we are, says Hicks, 45, a serious man with a smile as sparse as his crew cut. Gaming is something we do.
Harrahs gets a management fee of about 5.5% of the profit for operating the casino, its hotels the third tower, to open in December, gives Harrahs Cherokee 1,150 rooms, the most of any hotel in the Carolinas and, now, spa, golf course and a new, high-end 3,000-seat events center. Among new retail shops is a Paula Deens Kitchen restaurant and store, in partnership with the cooking celebritys Paula Deen Enterprises. Increasingly, around the gaming tables, sit Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese visitors. The expansion includes a noodle bar. Londo runs it all, but the Cherokees own everything the Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise Board oversees operations and they guard their primacy.
Darold has brought professionalism, Hicks says. Hes an attorney by background, and hes well respected. This isnt a knock on other tribes, but with him our decisions are based on good data and good feasibility information, not keeping up with the Joneses. In other words, the nations other 232 tribal casinos. What if he and Londo disagree? I dont think Darold has ever disagreed with me on anything. Hicks smiles, but only fleetingly. I say that jokingly.
Underlying the relationship between Londo, Hicks and members of this ancient tribe is the knowledge that Cherokee and other Indians have fared miserably in dealings with the white man and his institutions. In the 1830s, the Cherokees were forced to move to Oklahoma, a death march known as the Trail of Tears. At the College of Charleston, Douglas Walker, a business-school professor and national expert on tribal gaming, says economic truisms trump tribal history. The tribe has the status and the property, and Harrahs has the expertise and management, so both parties benefit from the exchange. Normally, you wouldnt expect them to even be friendly, much less business partners. But thats how economic freedom works. We trade with other countries even if we dont like each other.
Londo straddles the fences of his own Indian heritage, allegiance to the Eastern Band and loyalty to Harrahs. He lives in the tiny mountain town of Sylva, nearly 700 miles and a world away from the glitz of the Jersey shore, where he started his career. Hes still military, up at 5:30 for a workout and at work by 7:30. He and his wife have three children in school. He grew up Catholic, attends Sylva Methodist Church and has long since reconciled the morality of what he does. My grandmothers were avid card players, and that was one of our regular activities, our family culture. I grew up not knowing anybody with a gambling problem. Same with alcohol. I just see gambling as another form of entertainment. Harrahs runs responsible-gambling programs telephone numbers are posted prominently including one in which problem players can, in moments of clarity, permanently exclude themselves from all Harrahs casinos. Harrahs will enforce their wishes. Sometimes I feel remorse when I spend too much going to a Major League ball game or NASCAR event, Londo says with a shrug. We all have our budgets.
He concedes, though, that reconciliation might be simpler for him than for the Cherokees. As he walks through the casino on a busy weekday, signs boast of the casinos increasing sophistication, intended, like the expansion itself, to make Harrahs Cherokee a destination for conventions, tourists and high rollers: Now Serving Alcohol Throughout Our Entire Casino. There is an undercurrent, barely detectable but rooted in history, of suspicion about Harrahs, the root of their prosperity, and its agent, Londo, who learned the art of accommodation in a large family. The Cherokees have always been very good at understanding the other side of the game and playing it well or better, Townsend, the archeologist, says. After the American Revolution, they changed their economy, growing cash crops, owning taverns, operating ferries. We understand this is a big corporation, and it represents a lot of the things people distrust about corporations, but we can benefit from them. Still, some resist. One Eastern Band legend is of Tsali, a Cherokee farmer who resisted relocation. Now revered, he was executed by Cherokees who feared he would queer the deal they had struck with whites to leave a pact they came to rue.
Some Eastern Band members refuse to accept per capita payments from gambling, and only last year did tribal members approve alcohol sales. The vote was 1,847 for, 1,301 against, though one traditionalist Cherokee clan the Snowbirds, who live near Robbinsville opposed it 115 to 109. Hicks recognizes that alcohol abuse remains disproportionately high among Indians. But few Cherokees drink this high-priced tourist liquor, he says. If they want it, booze is easily available elsewhere. Like Townsend, he sees a more basic conflict. The corporate mentality is a lot of times driven by the dollar. Thats not the mentality we have as Cherokee people. But you have to operate a business, and you have to take care of family and community. We make that a priority, and weve made Darold and Harrahs aware that its not going to change. It can be a tough balance. When a casino worker wanted to wear her difficult-to-pronounce Cherokee name on her uniform name tag, Harrahs said no. She appealed to Hicks, who appealed to Londo. A compromise was stuck. Now her tag shows both. The culture outside of Cherokee doesnt necessarily understand how we do things, Hicks says. Youve got to live and breathe it to understand. Londo apparently does.
This is what the casino has done here. On orientation day, Londo faces a group of new employees. How many of you lived here 15 years ago? Half the hands go up. Have you noticed the difference in the region, not just here in Cherokee? More hands. Everybody, Londo says, benefits from the rising tide. Cherokee the place is a boomtown. New buildings, construction barrels and road graders line streets. Across from the new hotel, Londo slides in among gritty concrete workers and orders lunch at Hard Hat Café, one of dozens of new businesses feeding the boom.
As the regions biggest employer, Londo signs paychecks of employees who live not only on the Qualla Boundary the tribal land but Buncombe, Jackson, Haywood, Macon, Swain and other counties. Curiously, an aversion to family-disrupting shift work limits Cherokee numbers to fewer than 20% of Harrahs employees. Its one thing to work for Harrahs, a big, multinational corporation, and be satisfied at the end of the day that we hit our numbers and some stockholder somewhere is going to realize a return on his investment, he says. But there are more personal connections between me and what were doing here than that stockholder out there. When I see the positive effects, its gratifying.
Those effects anchor the tightrope Londo walks. Since Harrahs arrival, $2.1 billion nearly $1 billion just since his arrival has flooded a region that, until 1997, was among the states poorest. Before, Cherokees subsisted on the seasonal sale of rubber tomahawks and foreign-made trinkets souvenir stands now boast that they sell only American made bullwhips and shot glasses and overnight accommodations for visitors to the outdoor drama Unto These Hills, which chronicles Cherokee mistreatment by whites. Many lived up steep mountain roads, in drafty shanties, marooned by snow in the winter at the end of unpaved driveways.
Under Londos leadership, the casino last year alone pumped $228 million into the Eastern Band, divided, as from the beginning, evenly between the tribes general fund and individual members. Per capita payments were $8,046 for each adult and child. Its wealth now, Londo says, that fosters the enigmas. The greatest is that it might help the Cherokee preserve their sovereignty, rather than destroying it, as many had feared.
Overlooking Kituwah Mound in a nearly 100-year-old farmhouse with creaky floorboards, Townsend heads a staff of six tribal preservationists who protect not only the Qualla Boundary but other Cherokee sites throughout the Southeast. Most tribes, he says, are lucky to have one staff member guarding their historic sites and culture. A Cherokee-language immersion school teaches youngsters a language once threatened with extinction. Londo cites a recent study by Duke University researchers that concluded Harrahs wealth has lessened drug and alcohol abuse among youth. That, he says, might be attributable to hope that supplants despair. Cherokee youth can tap their trust funds at age 18, but more than ever stay in school and go to college. One reason: Sans high-school diploma, they collect nothing until they turn 21. None of which says, though, that Londo and the Cherokee dont face tough challenges here.
Outside the casino, two men wait for shuttle buses. Strangers until moments ago, Ernest Bramlett, 72, and Elmer Davis, 82, rib each other with the familiarity of old friends. Going in there and break em, quips Davis, a World War II Navy veteran from Richmond, Ind. Bramlett says hes here from Douglasville, Ga., only because his wife won a free nights stay at the hotel. If I can play a little while on $20, fine. If not, I get up and come out here. Thats why Im out here. Lost my $20. Londo appreciates such patrons but realizes they are a diminishing part of the casinos future. Casual gamblers are vulnerable to recession, and revenue was flat this year through midsummer. But without the live dealers barred by the state, the casino will find it hard to attract high rollers. A spokeswoman for Gov. Beverly Perdue says theres no plan to restart stalled negotiations.
Walker, the tribal gaming scholar, calls the prohibition on live dealing kind of silly since the state benefits from the casino, and that makes it less competitive with other casinos. But other factors color Londos projections. One is that refocusing Harrahs Cherokee as a convention-and-tourism resort is not unique among tribal casinos. Thats typical of the industry, Walker says. In the old days, pre-early 90s, most casinos were focused on gambling, and thats where they got most of their revenues. Now most are destination resorts and most of the revenue nongambling.
At the end of the day, Londos tie is still tightly knotted, his shirt still stiffly starched. He seems corporate to the core. He pauses for self reflection. One thing I do well is to look to tomorrow, to determine where opportunities might be, to determine what our value propositions are, what we can do better. I like to execute. Thats my Army aviation background everything has its place and everything in its place.
He laughs at himself. He has, he says, the neatest garage in Sylva. Outside, a summer storm breaks. Thunder rumbles. Lights flicker. Emergency generators, Londo says, nonplussed. In the casino, gambling goes on unabated. So does construction. His strong traits, he says, are his energy and optimism. When youve dug foxholes for a living, anything else is better. There are no foxholes in Eden, but his tenure here might nevertheless be limited. He might move up to manage a larger Harrahs casino overseas. Ojibwa blood or not, big corporations work that way. But hell be here at least until 2012, when the expansion is complete. By then, he figures the Cherokees and their casino and resort will be ready for the next generation of change in a land where change comes slowly the lesson of Kituwah Mound.


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text: Think you're hot stuff on a bike?Impressing yourself and your friends with your bike splits at the local tri or du?Then sit back and help yourself to a big ol' piece of humble pie and sign up for a local time trial.The time trial is called "The Race of Truth" for a reason. It's just you against the clock. No drafting, no other competitors (or even supporters) to engage you and drive you on to keep pushing. No cowbells or cheering. It's just you and a lonely strip of asphalt, and that devil perched on your shoulder whispering in your ear: "What are you doing? Slow down! Take it easy! This hurts." If you're lucky, someone passes you and you have a rabbit to chase. But that means also that you've already lost 30 seconds to a competitor because that person started at least that long after you. If you're luckier still, you catch your 30-second man. But - do you have that in you?I had a lot of time to think during Saturday's Church Creek Time Trial. To think about when the next 5km marker was coming up. To think about how quickly that woman behind me caught and passed me. To think about those dogs that chased my friend and me on the road where we warmed up - that stretch of road onto which I was about to turn. I hope that guy put those dogs inside (he did, thankfully).So, in the end, I did okay. I had hoped for something a little closer to 1:06, but for me, the results would've been the same. The two women behind me were smoking fast. It was a day for PRs, but only if you're in shape to PR.Looking forward to another slice of humble pie at the August race. Just me, and my devil on my shoulder. I hope I can forever outrace him.


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Yeah, that's my only real issue. Lots of people have written artifact quality pathing implementations. He should probably break that part out to a dedicated core or three, or provide enough dox to allow others to implement it.path finding
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April 13, 2010
FRESNO, Calif. - Jordan Ribera reached 14 home runs Tuesday night after launching a solo shot over the right field wall in the Bulldogs 12-1 loss to CSU Bakersfield. Fresno State is 20-14 this season and 3-1 in WAC.
The Bulldogs pitching staff combined for 13 strikeouts on the night, a team high in 2010. Starter Taylor Garrison, Sean Bonesteele and Tom Harlan all recorded three strikeouts.
Junior Garrett Weber had a 2-for-3 night with a pair of singles. The `Dogs recorded seven hits against the Roadrunners.
CSU Bakersfield jumped on the board first scoring in the first inning of the game. The roadrunners added six unearned runs in the second inning taking the lead, 8-0.
Weber recorded the second hit of the game with a single up the middle in the second inning.
Jordan Ribera led off the second inning with his 14th home run of the season. The junior hit a solo shot over the right field wall into the weight room parking lot and the `Dogs trail, 8-1.
In the third inning, the Roadrunners hit a two-run home run increasing their lead, 10-1.
The Roadrunners scored a run in the fifth inning extending their lead, 11-1.
Catcher Trent Garrison hit a double down the right field line for the third hit of the game. Weber followed with his second hit of the night, a single through the right ride.
CSUB added a run in the eighth inning increasing their lead, 12-1.
In the ninth inning, pinch hitter Scott David recorded his first career hit, a single through the right side. Pinch hitter Clay Cederquist followed with a single up the middle moving David to second base. Left fielder Kenny Wise singled through the right side advancing the runners. Freshman Austin Wynns hit a sacrifice fly allowing David to score and the Bulldogs trail, 12-2.
The Roadrunners won the game, 12-2. The Bulldogs are back in action on Friday, April 16 at 6:05 p.m. against Louisiana Tech.
"We Are Your Team" - The No. 27 Fresno State Bulldogs take on Louisiana Tech in a four-game series at Beiden Field April 16-18. Tickets are available at the Bulldog Ticket Office or by calling 278-DOGS.
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Along with the recent PC release, Big Ant has rolled out a major patch that resolves most of the issues we had with Don Bradman Cricket 14 back in April -- so much so that we've updated the score.
There have been a couple of patches since a raw Don Bradman Cricket 14 debuted before it was ready in April, but none resolved the issues that almost made it unplayable at times; until now with version 2.0. Massive credit to Big Ant, who has clearly listened to fans and addressed their issues based on performance. Returning after a near two month absence -- you'll need to restart any career or saved matches to apply the fixes -- I was immediately struck by the saving grace: the frustrating run outs and throws hitting the stumps from out in the deep have been eliminated. The non-striker no longer obliviously stands a meter out of his crease, and will even lunge with desperation to reclaim his ground after backing up when the on-strike batsman plays defensively -- previously, the player had to manually tell him to go back.
Run out shambles led me to abandon my career player at launch, and I'm thrilled to report my successful comeback. You're no longer confined to beginning as a 16-year-old. Staggered starting ages of 21, 26 and 31 are now options, and the 'Pro' difficulty is no longer the lowest, with the additions of Rookie and Amateur to Career Mode, making it considerably more accessibly.
The new difficulty options are a welcome addition, but returning players mightn't need them. Fielders aren't super-human gymnasts anymore. They'll watch good shots fly past them to the boundary and edges occur at a more realistic rate. The fun factor is further assisted by tweaks to batting which, in general, feels a lot more balanced. The Career Mode also benefits from the addition of an internal nets section so you can practice your timing, and increase your player's attributes, between matches.
It's not just major overhauls. Annoying glitches have also been addressed. Some commentary gaffs have been eliminated, issues with players clearly being out, but not given (clean bowled and "umpire's call" through the DRS) have been fixed and stats now seem to be correct.
There are still a few issues, and more fixes promised in version 3.0, but most of the lingering issues are merely cosmetic. The commentary still has some problems and the presentation has a few bumbles, but the core gameplay out in the middle is now free of the inhibitions that were holding it back.
Fielding position labels were added in a previous patch, but I'd still like to see an optional fielding radar. I understand it detracting from the realism of needing to pick your spots, but even when I know where the fielders are, the swinging nature of the running camera makes it too hard to know when you're clear -- but at least misjudged runs don't automatically throw away your wicket now the magnetic stumps are gone.
Factoring in these changes, our original review (which hasn't been modified until 'The Final Verdict') remains valid to the current version of Don Bradman Cricket 14 -- the best cricket game I've ever played.
Original Review April 8, 2014: Sir Donald Bradman has salvaged cricket 66 years after the late batsman played his last Test for Australia and narrowly missed retaining a batting average over 100. After the disastrous release and subsequent cancellation of Ashes Cricket 2013, I was sceptical that a quality cricket game would ever flourish again until The Don took guard. While it's rough around the edges, Don Bradman Cricket 14 is the best virtual recreation of the historic sport since 1994's Super International Cricket.
EA Sports (HB Studios) and Codemasters, respected developers on a world stage, have dabbled with cricket games in the 3D realm, but neither have been able to recreate the intricacies of batting, bowling and fielding. Don Bradman Cricket 14 is an extremely complicated and ruthlessly challenging game. Whereas the most popular sports games tend to offer highly detailed simulation with optional adjustments to become accessible to casual players, Cricket 14 is firmly entrenched in the former. Expect to be terrible at first.
It will take you a long time to learn how to play, and even longer to play well, especially as a batsman. Even remembering the relatively initiative, yet extremely complicated, controls is no simple feat, but cricket is not a simple game, and perhaps that's where other developers have been going wrong. I shouldn't be able to hit every ball for six by finding an undefendable zone; Big Ant has remedied that by punishing a batsman with his wicket for momentarily losing concentration and nicking off. As a gamer, it's inherently frustrating to see my burgeoning career junior stumble off the pitch with another single digit score, but as a cricket fan, it's the intense level of mental concentration that makes real-world tussles so exciting. It's this level of engagement that Big Ant has captured where other attempts have broken down. The development team's passion for cricket runs deep into all facets of Don Bradman Cricket 14, and that's the crucial ingredient for a successful sports game that cannot be manufactured.
Offering a mixture of casual matches, real-world tours, custom tournaments, online play and a fully fledged 20 year career, there's no shortage of content to keep you occupied until Australia plays its next Test in October — although I can't help but wonder why a game carrying the Bradman name wasn't pushed back until the next local season.
As a cricket fan, it's the intense level of mental concentration that makes real-world tussles so exciting. It's this level of engagement that Don Bradman Cricket 14 has captured where other attempts have broken down.
First, you'll need to tackle the underdone practice mode, where you can take to the nets to perfect your timing, or walk onto the field to learn how to play a cricket game like no other. With both bat and ball you'll need to master a revolutionary dual analogue control scheme unlike anything you've played before.
With ball in hand, which doesn't feel like a chore, the left control stick is used to select the type of delivery; the eight directions are mapped to different deliveries, which you'll need to remember, and naturally differ between bowler types. The face buttons are used to indicate a full, good or short delivery, and trigger the bowler's approach. As he moves toward the crease, two timing meters need to be hit for pace by first pulling back the right stick, and then flinging it forward determining the ball's trajectory.
Removing the pitch marker was risky, but has paid great dividends as neither bowler or batsman is entirely sure where the ball will pitch until it lands. At the same time, spin bowlers will need to rotate the left stick to put revolutions on the ball. It's complex and alienating to newcomers — the rudimentary tutorial doesn't help by interrupting timing practice to inundate you with text commands — but as a mechanic it works surprisingly well, and you'll be taking 5-12 against incompetent AI in no time.
Batting is considerably harder. On the 'rookie' and 'amateur' modes it's easy enough to slog sixes straight past the bowler, but as soon as you hit 'pro' and above —
the lowest Career difficulty — an average of 9, let alone 99.94, looks impressive. Batting is reliant on precise shot selection, lightning fast reflexes and impeccable timing. The left analogue stick selects either front or back foot, while the right aims and hits the ball. Against pace there's a fraction of a second to plant your foot, select a shot and consider engaging the aggressive or unorthodox shot (reverse sweep or ramp) modifiers, making Don Bradman the most realistic and simultaneously frustrating recreation of batting in any video game. If you get one of the three wrong, you'll sky the ball to mid-on or nick it to the keeper.
Playing casually as an international team is the fastest way to improve a shaky technique, with access to the best players and accommodating difficulty levels. However, the Career mode is brutal at the outset, essentially undoing all I had learnt playing internationally on the second easiest 'amateur' difficulty — timing changes so much between the difficulty tiers, moving up a grade is like playing a different game with its own skillset. Career starts you on the third level, 'pro', and warns that the difficulty will increase as you progress. Couple the monumental spike in challenge with a rookie 16-year-old powered by terrible stats, and it's pretty easy to throw in the towel and go back to casual matches.
If you stick with it, the basic Career mode sends you on a journey from junior up-and-comer to eventual Test captain and IPL star over a 20 year span. Unfortunately wins are almost meaningless, aside from a minor XP boost, with no Sheffield Shield final or even any indication your state team is successful. Starting so young, you're automatically no chance of being called into the national team for several seasons (it actually says "no chance"), especially as a batsman or allrounder.
One of the coolest features is Big Ant's Review System, which is basically DRS. You'll need to manually appeal for LBW, run outs and some caught behind chances by pressing up on the D-pad, and if a call doesn't go your way it can be sent to the third umpire. So far, I've only had one wrong LBW overturned, and occasionally seemingly plum decisions remain not out, but for the most part it accurately captures modern umpiring. Real umpires are known to make mistakes, and it's no different in Don Bradman Cricket 14.
Almost non-existent initial career batting skills means you're stuck in a constant rut needing to bat time and hit boundaries to earn skill points, with too few skills to really be able to do that. It's a matter of practice and patiently building an innings, but the unbalanced difficulty between ball and bat will regularly see young all-rounders spend 30 minutes bowling in an innings, to take 5-12, and then 90 seconds batting to make two runs — actually, even if you're an opening batsman you'll be forced to roll the arm over. Big Ant says a patch will be released this week to resolve a glitch that has opening batsman bowl far too often, among other things, but you'll need to restart your career.
On the subject of tinkering, I would love to see an option to start as a 22-year-old, with partly developed skills on the brink of national selection, rather than being forced to suffer through too many rookie years. There's an option to simulate match portions until your career player is called to bowl or sent out to bat, but there's no way to simulate entire matches, or seasons, which means you're stuck as a struggling youngster.
Despite the career's limitations and frustrating skewed difficulty, I take pride in my junior's innings of 19 from 27 delivers (double figures is pretty good) and harbour a strong ambition to see him proliferate as his stats increase and the 50s start rolling in towards a promotion to the national team.
Once again, it's The Don that becomes the star of the show; no, not him schooling the 1940s English team in a T20 wearing a baggy green, although that's an odd sight to behold. The Don Bradman Cricket Academy is a marvellous team and player creator. Bradman is the only licensed player, and as it would be nearly impossible to license all the international teams, let alone the global T20 squads, Big Ant has made it entirely community driven. It's easy to create a player, real or fictional, and add them to teams which can be shared online for others to download. While the visuals are hardly cutting edge, users have already made fairly realistic recreations of most current-day players, and there are some decent former heroes as well.
Don Bradman Cricket 14 doesn't officially hold player licensing. Michael Clarke is in the default Australian team as "M. Church". However, before hitting the main menu, you'll be prompted to "replace all teams" to their best user created options at the press of a single button. Church becomes Clarke, and looks a lot like him, and all 79 teams are replaced with some 1500 players spanning eras between the '40s to now that have been made and shared by keen fans.
For all that it's done right, Don Bradman Cricket 14 is clearly an Australian sport game made on a tight budget. It's very rough around the edges, with visuals and robotic player movements more akin to the PS3 and Xbox 360 four or five years ago than today. As with AFL Live, a patch is promised to fix a host of niggling issues that compound to make Cricket 14 feel a little too buggy for a game that missed its November deadline, and a lot of these little issues don't manifest until you've been playing for a couple of days.
Top of the list is atrocious running between the wickets, where 2s are risky and 3s are something rarely seen at all, as players lumber towards the crease and often get run out because they either slowly walk back or just stand outside the crease. On three separate occasions, long after a single has been completed, the non-striker has been run out because he inexplicably stands outside the crease. Regular run outs are ensured not only by deplorable running, but by impossibly accurate fielding that sees almost every throw, even from the deepest player in the outfield, hit the stumps. For all the realism ingrained in batting and bowling, fielding and running between the wickets falls into the clunky, unpolished trap that doomed past cricket games.
Other little things start to add up the more you play. Bowlers randomly decide to switch between around and over the wicket without command, the commentators make wildly inaccurate calls and there's the occasional out decision after the umpire has called a no ball free hit, as well as some baffling AI decisions.
Similarly, the positives of numerous camera angles are undone by the shocking lack of a radar. You can look around the field before taking guard, but there's still no way to know if the ball has passed the fielder until the lethargic camera eventually swings around, costing you the chance to come back for a second or ensuring a runout. I appreciate that a mini-map goes against the realism mantra so heavily prevalent in most of what Cricket 14 has accomplished, but for the sake of enjoyment there needs to be a better way to know if you've hit the ball in a gap much sooner, even if it's an optional feature.
Don Bradman Cricket 14 is the best cricket game I've ever played. It was fairly good back in April, but with most of the deal-breaking issues fixed in version 2.0 (via a July patch on PS3 and Xbox 360), it's now a must play for any cricket diehard. Cricket 14 tackles the intricacies of bowling and batting better than any game before it. The cricket academy makes for a strong online community, and while there's still a learning curve, the updated version is much more accessible to wider skill levels. Don Bradman Cricket 14 has more than a claim to the definitive cricket game -- it is the definitive cricket game.
NOTE: We originally award Don Bradman Cricket 14 at score of 7.0/10 in April. However, taking in consideration the recent changes, we have revised it to a score of 8.0/10.
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Danish905 said: Please someone help me!!!
When I started this game i replaced the unlicensed team with the licensed one but after some days i by mistakely pressed that reset menu so now my player are unlicensed again and the option of 'replace all team' is not visible.
So now tell me how to licensed all the players again?????
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The next oil shock? – Parliament research paper
New Zealand is highly vulnerable to oil price shocks that are nearly certain to occur in the next few years according to a research report published by Parliament last week.
The report states that another supply crunch is likely to occur soon after 2012, and high oil prices will be sustained in the future because low-cost reserves are near exhaustion. It warns that the world economy could suffer recurrent recessions as the price fluctuates.
"This report makes it clear that the Government's decision to spend over $11 billion on horrendously expensive new expressways is short-sighted and irresponsible," said Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman.
"Continuing to spend the vast majority of the transport budget on roads will only make us more dependent on oil, and more vulnerable to high prices."
New Zealand's economy is extremely vulnerable to high oil prices because our transport sector is so reliant on imported oil. Oil and vehicles make up 30 percent of our total imports.
The world's oil production capacity may not be sufficient to match growing demand in coming years. The potential for short-falls arises from geological, infrastructure, and political/economic constraints limiting the ability of world oil production capacity to grow while demand continues to rise. If oil supply cannot meet demand a price spike may be triggered, with major detrimental effects on economies, especially those heavily dependent on oil imports like New Zealand.
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The Mast General Store celebrates Land Trust Day on Saturday. Land Trust Day is a friend-raising event encouraging new memberships in local land trusts and an educational opportunity to find out how these groups unite the past and future by preserving land heritage.
"According to the Conservation Trust for North Carolina, over 400 acres of open space are lost to development in the state each day," said John Cooper, president of the Mast General Store. "With that statistic in mind, it is imperative that we have an active plan to preserve our beautiful spaces and open farmland for future generations to enjoy and benefit from."
Representatives from Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy will be on hand at the store on Main Street. Mast General Store will donate 20 percent of sales Saturday land-trust organizations.
For more information on land trusts, visit the information table or www.carolinamountain.org
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Patrick Kikut: Western Road Movie
The wide-open road and classic Western films merge in Wyoming artist Patrick Kikut's newest exhibition. Inspired by his love of highway travel, the paintings blend movie imagery, traditional landscapes, and pop art into a commentary on the modern West and man's ecological irresponsibility. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m.


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Kinect has changed the way people play games and experience entertainment. Now, Kinect for Windows offers the potential to transform how people interact with computers and Windows-embedded devices in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, retail, transportation, and beyond.
The release of the Kinect for Windows sensor and software development kit (SDK) for commercial applications opens up the limitless possibilities offered by Kinect technology. Together, the hardware and software offer a superior development platform for Windows and a higher quality, better performing experience for end users. (Note: The sensor unit does not ship with any software, and will only operate with an application developed for Kinect for Windows. In addition, the Kinect for Windows sensor is intended to be used with the Kinect for Windows SDK or an application that was developed with this SDK. The SDK includes drivers, APIs, sample code and more. )
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Pros: If it works, it works decently well, but nowhere near as good as the sensors with the Kinect One.
Cons: Too finicky about what USB controller it's connected to, which led to not being able to use it on my main system but instead on a $350 budget laptop, where it could run, but anything utilizing it ran poorly.
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Pros: Better hardware than xbox kinect
Cons: Price
Other Thoughts: Set this up on my HTPC to control Windows 7 media center. It worked, however not to my satisfaction. In fact, im pretty sure a hacked xbox 360 one would have been better.
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Pros: Easy to install, works with the few SDK samples available. The Xbox 360 Kinect also works with the SDK samples so long as you have the powered USB adapter with the slim version Xbox sensor it works fine. A Microsoft Kinect Sensor Power Supply is $35 at the MS Store but knock offs are much less buyer beware of damaging your sensor. I did not try the older models sensors but they too are supposed to work. Mid 2012 MS is supposed to begin disabling the game Kinect Sensors from working with the Windows SDK (and probably the OpenKinect stuff as well) So then you will have to buy this one or an older game sensor without Near Mode.
Cons: A bit expensive for the only addition to the standard sensor "Near Mode" that currently appears to only gives you one large point between your chest and head. Hand tracking or upper body tracking not implemented yet. In the future I am sure more sophisticated tracking will be added (or I have just not found it yet) You can do everything in the current SDK samples with the much cheaper XBox 360 sensor until mid year when MS will no longer allow them to work with Windows. Also there are conflicting installation instructions. What worked for me: Uninstall all old Kinect and speech drivers then install the SDK version 1 which includes everything all (samples drivers and all) in one install. Then all works well.
Other Thoughts: The few crude examples are not too much to get excited about. There appears to be much more powerful abilities when using the OpenKinect software (openkinect.org) and other hackers who have published their work. google "Teaching Kinect to recognize objects" or "Kinect 3D Scanning" to see more advanced uses of the Kinect device. Warning don't programatically move the sensor's ElevationAngle very often or for any length of time, you can burn the motor out in the Kinect. It draws some hefty current.
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With the holidays quickly approaching, famous people all around the world are using their star power to spread good cheer. The nice silver lining to the glutinous, gratuitous time of year that is the Holiday Season. Charities and benefits everywhere are getting an influx of publicity and donations thanks to the endorsements from the good people of the entertainment industry. One such person using their power for good this week is pro soccer player and exceedingly handsome human, Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Portuguese soccer player enlisted the help of his Real Madrid club members in an initiative called "No Child Without A Toy At Christmas" that took place in Madrid, Spain at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. In attendance, apart from Ronaldo was the President of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez who spoke during the event about the goals of the initative, saying "The power of sport puts Real Madrid in a strategic position to try to make the world less unjust and more united. Whatever happens, this club will always be loyal to their commitment to those less fortunate, especially children. Now, more than ever, we must put all our efforts into making sure that this Christmas no child is left without a toy." The initiative has provided toys to over 2,000 children since it's formulation.
After the President of the Real Madrid club and the President of the Community of Madrid (who Real Madrid partnered with to create the foundation) spoke on behalf of the club members in attendance, Pepe, Kaká, Sergio Llull and Rudy Fernández, the players passed out toys to all of the children at the event.
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I know all to well how great stem cells can be and how much research still needs to be done. My mother had a stem cell transplant to put her cancer in remission, in less then 7 months she was back at work at 100% health.
Stem Cells could be the answer to almost every illness on the planet and it can be used to re-grow limbs and even create orgains.
The point is, if the goverment would put money towards the research it would be done that much faster and could save millions of lifes world wide but know our president is a moron and veto's federal funding.
P.S. My spelling and grammer suck, I already know thanks.
For Elba!
Why cant private investors do this?
Why cant any number of the foreign medical systems research into this? I mean, they are a damned site better than the US, just ask any Euro or Canuck.
Why is it so bad that the government doesnt want to give federal money to private research institutes, who if sucessful, will not give away the knowledge freely?