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It's the end of a minor era, as Larry King-supplanting CNN garden gnome and noted liar Piers Morgan has announced that he will be stepping down from his America's Got Talent-hosting duties, effective immediately.
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Sorry but I cannot help on Fedora.
I just installed Mageia 2 on HP 5101 that previously contained SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11.
This particular HP 5101 has no bluetooth or WIFI hardware.
But everything else seems to work well inclusing sound, video, keyboard shortcuts for sound volume and screen brightness.
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First spotted in 2006, NUWAR malware spread across systems via mass mailing copies of itself as an attachment. Its worm variants contain its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine to send email containing a copy if itself as an attachment. The messages are then sent to email addresses which the worm harvests from infected systems.
Later NUWAR malware are Trojans and rootkits that spread via spammed email messages. The spammed messages use fake news in its topics.
In 2007, STORM malware paired up with a NUWAR variant to create an endless loop of infection. The loop starts with a SMALL malware that downloads other files, among them a NUWAR worm. The NUWAR worm, in turn, drops the same SMALL malware that downloaded it. Hence, the endless loop.
NUWAR malware also are known to have rootkit capabilities, effectively hiding processes and files related to NUWAR. This routine makes detection and removal difficult.
This worm drops the following file(s)/component(s):
(Note: %System% is the Windows system folder, which is usually C:\Windows\System on Windows 98 and ME, C:\WINNT\System32 on Windows NT and 2000, or C:\Windows\System32 on Windows XP and Server 2003.)
It drops the following copies of itself into the affected system:
(Note: %Windows% is the Windows folder, which is usually C:\Windows or C:\WINNT.)
Autostart Technique
This worm adds the following registry entries to enable its automatic execution at every system startup:
asam = "%Windows%\asam.exe"
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Baja Belmont: Tiny bungalow tops a townhouse
ADDRESS: 900 Rives Street
NEIGHBORHOOD: Hogwaller
SIZE: 752 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 0.14 acres
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Robin Romer Real Estate III-West 984-7482
At just about this same time of year back in 2002 we reviewed a 728-square-foot concrete-block house on Mason Street, two or three streets over from this one, that was On the Block for $89,500 and eventually sold for $80,000. (We hear you: those were the days.)
This 2006 equivalent has some things in common with that one (not including the price): it's small, with two small bedrooms and one bath; it has a nice porch; there is no attic. But that's where the similarities end.
And the differences between the two places might serve to mitigate the chagrin of a buyer having to pay more than twice as much for this house only four years later: here there's a nice dining room with a built-in china closet and an attractive bay window, the kitchen is much larger, and the house has a root cellar/basement that stays dry and provides good storage for outdoor equipment– or can serve as a tornado shelter, with its fold-down ground-level doors.
Outside, there's no comparison: whereas the little house on Mason sat high on its perch overlooking the stockyards, this bungalow is off-set to one side of a flat corner lot with woodsy mountain views to the rear. So while the price inflation might cause some winces, the fact is that for the money, this may still be an appealingly comparable investment.
Rives Street runs in a straight line from Carlton to Florence, where it takes a little dog-leg twist before continuing down past Rives Park to Monticello Road. The upper part of the street is within easy walking distance of the busy activity in lower Belmont: Mas and LaTaza restaurants, C'ville Market, Rudy's rug cleaners, and so on. Down at the Monticello Road end is I-64 and a quick hop to Monticello, PVCC, Monticello High, and Tandem School.
Around this house are others just like it except for a big townhouse development on the lower end of Monticello Avenue and new condos where a sweet old farmhouse used to be on Linden Lane. That's to say that a neighborhood that looks like a tranquil throw-back to lazier, simpler days is really a little pocket of calm amid a storm of real estate activity.
In fact, the agent reports that developers were sniffing around this lot until advised by the city to sniff elsewhere. (Who would have believed that some places are still off limits to exploitation?)
But it's easy to see why they might have been interested, and why this house might provide an opportunity for buyers with higher aspirations than 752 square feet. With its solid foundation (the rock ledge it's built on is visible in the basement) and corner location, expansion appears to be possible either laterally or vertically– or both. The outside is a combination of wood and asbestos shingles, nothing to weep over if they have to go, and the views toward the mountain from a new second story would probably be pretty.
All this talk of square footage and expansion potential neglects the virtues of the house as it is. Whimsy is apparent in the lavender exterior and in pastel pink of the bedrooms. Ceiling fans keep air moving (there's no central air), and heat flows from the reasonably new furnace through old-fashioned grates in oak floors that look like they've just been redone.
The current owner has begun some landscaping projects in front and on one side to soften the too-close situation of the house next door, leaving the back yard (fenced on two sides) available for new owners to do their own designing.
The biggest problems with the place are in the rear addition containing the kitchen and bathroom. The latter is especially dodgy: the tub/shower installation covers parts of the room's two windows. The windows in the kitchen look like they came from a salvage sale, but their industrial aluminum frames do serve to emphasize the appeal of the large original single-pane wooden windows in the rest of the house.
All high schoolers remember that old standby from English comp, the "compare and contrast" essay. This house provides a good chance to use the strategy in the "real world." Comparing sales of houses of similar size in the same neighborhood four years apart provides some perspective on the real estate situation in town.
In 2003 we said of the Mason Street house, "All in all, this house isn't so bad. Tiny, to be sure. Weird part of town.... But it has the one redeeming feature you can't get around: it's not a townhouse." La plus ca change. Today, as then, there are townhouses available for this price– two are right down the street. So the situation is not so different. A buyer looking for something under $200,000 can have a sweet little– emphasis on little– house with a nice yard and the potential for interesting expansion– or can have an attached townhouse (bigger, true, and newer) with not much room for creativity.
Sounds like a no-brainer to us.


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Google Chrome50 が世界ナンバーワンです。心からお祝い申し上げます。
This article creates a new hope and inspiration with in me. Thanks for sharing article like this. The way you have stated everything above is quite awesome. Keep blogging like this. Thanks.
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Much slower than the 49 releases. Very slow. Same on my desktop and ChromeBook machines. Not very good.
Causes my Mac to run extremely slow if I don't completely shut Chrome down before putting the Mac to sleep. After waking up, my computer is unusable. I have to reboot. I've never had this problem before with other versions.
So you fixed a bug on android but didn't release a new version for android?


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President Barack Obama adds to his jersey collection
President Barack Obama is used to acquiring sports jerseys from teams visiting the White House when they celebrate championships. On his stop to Michigan State on Friday, the Spartans will have something ready for their visitor.
Have to get President @BarackObama a gift whenever he comes to East Lansing! #MrPresident #SpartanPride pic.twitter.com/n1f5CEvTEK
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User talk:Davidy22
Hi Davidy22,
Just a quick thanks for helping roll back so much of the vandalism. Per your recent log comment, yes, there has been a recent spate of vandalism; before yesterday, it was the odd spammer that I've had to remove. But with the advent of Click and Drag, there's also been an insurgence of ip-based vandalism. I'm hoping this is just a spike owing to the popularity of the comic, but I'm with you; if it doesn't die down, something more drastic is going to have to be done.
But again, thanks for helping...
-- IronyChef (talk) 14:17, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- 1 Please don't
- 2 Davidy22, the spam connoisseur
- 3 Just asking
- 4 Ahem... You gonna finish that?
- 5 The Anonymous editor of 1132
- 6 Broken mirror...
- 7 Fooooooooor He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
- 8 Please take a look
- 9 autoblocking suspicious users
- 10 separate section for title text
- 11 No more imagesize
- 12 Please move pages
- 13 Sorry
- 14 Trivia placement
- 15 Jurassic Park category
- 16 220: Philosophy
- 17 Character names in transcripts
- 18 My unexplained hobbies.
- 19 About your new admin powers
- 20 Removed Level 2 headings from Discussion page
- 21 Captcha help
Please don't
Please don't create the redirects to explanations that haven't been created yet. It breaks the next and previous buttons, and gives people that are browsing through the explanations the false impression that the site is more complete than it is. lcarsos (talk) 06:41, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Davidy22, the spam connoisseur
Congratulations on transcending from being annoyed at all spam to recognizing the truly beautiful works of spammage from the rest of the cruddy heap. We should throw a party, lol. lcarsos (talk) 16:33, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hey, it *was* a well written bit of spam. It was one of those copy/paste types of spam, except it was nicely formatted and coherent all the way through. It was informative too. A great change from the mindless template drivel or gibberish that we usually get. Davidy22(talk) 23:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Just asking
Was there a reason you deleted most of the List of all comics? lcarsos (talk) 05:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
- What on- shi-
- I was adding comic number 1132, and the preview was really slow, so I copied everything in the edit box and refreshed the page. I think half of the page hadn't finished loading in the edit box, and I only copied the first half. Derp Davidy22(talk) 08:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Just so you know, it happened again. But SlashMe fixed it. lcarsos_a (talk) 18:07, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
- Mother of fracking- I'm going to figure out what's causing this and I'm going to fix this. Godammit. Davidy22(talk) 23:20, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
- Durr dee-durr, and now I've done it. Thanks for spotting that. lcarsos_a (talk) 07:22, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Ahem... You gonna finish that?
Have you taken a look at the front page recently (say within since you created the 1134 redirect)? lcarsos_a (talk) 05:42, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
The Anonymous editor of 1132
Has been 18.104.22.168 all along. For a while he changed his signature to be a userpage that didn't exist, and wasn't a registered user. He has now changed it back to being the IP address again. Just thought I should do some out-of-band communication about that. If you want to change your last comment about the anonymous user, that would be good. (I almost offered to edit it for you, but then realized the subject we're talking about, and decided that if 50.0 ever learns about looking at the edit history and diffs, I don't need to be called a hypocrite as well as a banhammer wielding BOFH) lcarsos_a (talk) 03:35, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Broken mirror...
Sorry for the "ninja"... I guess we probably don't need 2 versions of the image though... Feel free to distill the explain part...--B. P. (talk) 07:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
- Godammit, I even had the window open waiting for the article. The definitions can be merged into one paragraph, and wiki magic will explain how the comic works. Davidy22(talk) 07:20, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Fooooooooor He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
You are the man, man. Keep it up! lcarsos_a (talk) 06:50, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Please take a look
...at this. Nothing new to you, I suppose (spam fighting can be quite hard if we're overly cautious on every step), but I'm dropping the note just in case :) --Waldir (talk) 17:52, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
autoblocking suspicious users
Once again, it looks like auto-blocking users that have suspicious usernames would require someone with more power than we have.
However, I very nearly blocked those three when I noticed the account creation. But, I didn't because I thought they might be legitimate users with stupid usernames. But now I've read up on Wikipedia's block policy and from now on I'll be posting {{uw-blockindef}} (which I've bungled fantastically right now, but shortly should be working) which should allow the rare legitimate user (with bad taste in usernames) to reclaim their good account, but allow us to block bad people.
You're ever friendly, massive toddler of an admin, lcarsos_a (talk) 03:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- I've also just found this page Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide which I will be reading very thoroughly and beginning to use this blacklist. lcarsos_a (talk) 04:16, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- Hum. A great many of these templates could be condensed into a few bigger ones, but at least the documentation links are there for us to use. Also, you do know that Template:UserBox already exists, right? Davidy22[talk] 04:55, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- As a general rule I loathe my shift key, using more keys to achieve the same goal is wasted time, and I could be called ruthless about wasted time. Saving a single keypress seems petty. But I had a CS professor point out that by specially crafting what you have to type (creating shortcuts) saving a keypress here and there can add up to saving several thousand keypresses every 8 hours, which over a long enough quantity of time can equal hours and days. That's my long winded explanation for why I like using {{userbox}} instead of {{UserBox}}.
- Also, I like the wikipedia userboxen, it's more flexible. And that allows anyone who comes over from Wikipedia to know how to work userboxen here too. That's my case for it. I hope you agree because I don't want to have to push my shift key, but I'll take your input, and if we end up in a tie, we might ask Waldir to tie break for us, as he'd be a neutral third party. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:44, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- In CS, I learned that descriptive variable names and easy to recognize naming conventions can save heaps of debugging time. I personally like the CamelCase version better because it uses variable names like left-bg instead of id-c for the background color in the box on the left, which makes the template self-documenting and easier to grok for a new user who's just reading the source. Davidy22[talk] 07:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- I was asked to comment. Here are my thoughts:
- Regarding CamelCase, it is indeed a neat convention but we don't use it elsewhere on the wiki. In fact, MediaWiki itself, in its early versions, used to rely on CamelCase for linking, but moved to the free-form, space enabled link syntax, which is better in many cases. Not everything converts nicely into CamelCase. So while I appreciate the argument to use CamelCase as the template name, I think the regular case version fits the wiki better. Besides, redirects are cheap and work well, so if the CamelCase title redirects to the lowercase one, whoever wants to use the CamelCase version can still do so seamlessly. Not an issue, therefore.
- I agree with Davidy22 on the parameter names. In fact, the code of the template can be arranged in a more readable form (using whitespace and indentation) so not only its uses can be deciphered, but the template itself too. Renaming parameters is a simple matter, especially for templates with not many uses as these are, which means there isn't a lot of replacements to perform.
- In summary, I think the two templates should definitely be merged and the best features of each kept in the final version: the title being Template:userbox (with redirects from Template:UserBox and Template:Userbox), and the parameters using intuitive names as {{UserBox}}.
- --Waldir (talk) 17:06, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- I was asked to comment. Here are my thoughts:
separate section for title text
I agree that in the two instances you removed the section header for the title text, it wasn't justified, but in some cases it does make sense. See here. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 15:27, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
No more imagesize
I made a comment on Template Talk: comic#Imagesize, essentially imagesize isn't necessary, and I've changed the {{create}} template to not include it. So rejoice, and forget imagesize ever existed (until the bug gets fixed). lcarsos_a (talk) 03:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- Bah, what was that parameter good for anyways? Clicking on the image should take you to the XKCD site anyways. What user cares about the image pages that the template currently takes you to? Davidy22[talk] 06:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- That's an interesting point. It's technically doable. But I think there should be a way to access the comic images (granted, I'm not sure why exactly, but I'm not comfortable leaving them "orphans" —linkless— either) --Waldir (talk) 12:08, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- There's the list of all comics page, and we could make the titletext link to the image page or something. I dunno, any excuse to kill imagesize. Davidy22[talk] 12:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- To clarify, linking the image directly to xkcd has nothing to do with killing imagesize. That, for what I understand, has already been done. Good point about the list of comics page. I'll wait for more comments before implementing the change in the image link target. --Waldir (talk) 12:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- Imagesize isn't *quite* dead yet. There's still four or five comics that still use it. Permission to upload the thumbnail versions of those comics, as we do with the other large comics, and end that broken thing once and for all? Davidy22[talk] 13:05, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- I don't like the idea of uploading smaller versions of images. We ought to be able to use mediawiki's own image scaling abilities as soon as we can do some testing in the wiki setup and make the image scaling issue go away. Apart from that, what exactly are the problems of imagesize, again? I haven't followed the discussions about it, sorry. Feel free to give me pointers to the appropriate places where the issues have been discussed. --Waldir (talk) 13:17, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- Imagesize isn't *quite* dead yet. There's still four or five comics that still use it. Permission to upload the thumbnail versions of those comics, as we do with the other large comics, and end that broken thing once and for all? Davidy22[talk] 13:05, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- To clarify, linking the image directly to xkcd has nothing to do with killing imagesize. That, for what I understand, has already been done. Good point about the list of comics page. I'll wait for more comments before implementing the change in the image link target. --Waldir (talk) 12:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- There's the list of all comics page, and we could make the titletext link to the image page or something. I dunno, any excuse to kill imagesize. Davidy22[talk] 12:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- That's an interesting point. It's technically doable. But I think there should be a way to access the comic images (granted, I'm not sure why exactly, but I'm not comfortable leaving them "orphans" —linkless— either) --Waldir (talk) 12:08, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Please move pages
I'm noticing that when someone creates a new page with the wrong title you're just copy/pasting the content onto the new page. Please don't do that. Please use the move page feature on the drop down of the page, that way we can keep the edit history for the page intact, and that way it doesn't look like you created these oddly poor quality pages. Thanks much. lcarsos_a (talk) 00:49, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I have been working contra u by routinely adding a white line above the categories. I instantly raise white flag! And say good night! -- St.nerol (talk) 00:40, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Trivia placement
Cheers mate! Please check the comment I made some time ago in the section you started, "Section style and usage" on the Proposals community page. –St.nerol (talk) 23:10, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
If you disagree with the trivia placement between explanation and transcript, why don't you say so, and explain why? –St.nerol (talk) 14:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
I made a section for discussion of this, so that we can come to some agreement: explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Trivia and transcript. –St.nerol (talk) 15:18, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- Moved to explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination#Trivia and transcript placement –St.nerol (talk) 23:05, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Jurassic Park category
Hi, you wrote you don't like how I created a new category for Jurassic Park. I thought it appropriate: there's a *lot* of references to Jurassic Park and/or velociraptors in the comics. And not all reference are to both... But what did you not like? Thanks for enlightening me! Kaa-ching (talk) 09:07, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- There's a lot of categories on this wiki. When adding categories to a page, it can get extremely difficult to make sure that you've gotten every category that applies to the comic. For regular editors, the amount that we have to remember when maintaining pages is already quite onerous; more categories hurt our dinky heads. If you're willing to steward that category, go ahead, but you'll have to remember to put in the explanation pages yourself when you find a comic that it applies to. Davidy22[talk] 09:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
220: Philosophy
Actually, what happened was: This being my first new page edit, I copy-pasted the format from another page, and then edited all the information to fit the correct comic. Then I realized I'd forgotten to remove the date of the original page's comic, so I did so. *blushes* No trolling intended, just a newbie mistake. Is 2/7/07 the correct date for this comic? Ekedolphin (talk) 11:23, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- Oooh. I thought you had gotten the date then removed it after seeing earlier rants concerning omitted dates. You can check a comic's date by clicking on the "All Comics" button in the sidebar on the left. All dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Davidy22[talk] 11:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- Yep. I see that now, and now that I know it's there, I create new pages straight from List of all comics. No offense taken. Thanks for the useful advice! Ekedolphin (talk) 05:52, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Character names in transcripts
Ah, I see now that you've been cleaning up after me, adding character names to transcripts instead of "Man", "Woman", et cetera. Now realizing that's the wiki's standard, I'll endeavor to do that myself from now on. Thanks for your patience with the new guy. Ekedolphin (talk) 07:40, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
- It's k, just doing maintenance. You're really prolific, do you write all of those yourself or are you getting those explanations off the forums somehow? Davidy22[talk] 10:38, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
- I write them all myself. It's been some time since I've looked at the xkcd forums, actually. Sometimes I get a little help from Wikipedia when a particular detail escapes me. But you'll notice I don't make an attempt to explain the math ones. *laughs* Ekedolphin (talk) 02:16, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
My unexplained hobbies.
I just want to make sure that you are getting this, but I restored "My Unexplained Hobbies." You can now explain them. Greyson (talk) 14:47, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I suck at wiki stuff but am a real human - sorry for the confusion. -- Schmammel (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- No matter. Also, see the blue box above the talk page edit box for instruction on how to sign your posts. Davidy22[talk] 04:55, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
About your new admin powers
Actually just the rollback hammer. I've learned this after being burned a few times.
Rollback will actually not revert just the one edit you are looking at, but will go back until it hits a revision that wasn't done by that user, so its useful for pure spam accounts, but if you're just undoing a single edit, you may still want to use the undo tool.
Also, once or twice I actually had it revert all the way back to the last patrolled edit, which meant it actually got rid of the edits of a few anonymous editors too.
Just a caution that with great power comes great responsibility.
--lcarsos_a (talk) 04:11, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Removed Level 2 headings from Discussion page
Hi, I noticed you removed the level 2 headings in the discussion of comic 1188. I'm guessing it's the application of some formatting rule established on this wiki, so I'm curious where I can find a list of these standards that I should adhere to, so I don't make such a mistake again in the future. Jfresen (talk) 15:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
- It's not really a formatting convention, more of a workaround to technical limitations of the wiki. The way discussion pages are embedded into comic pages, headings in talk pages cause breakages when tables of contents are spawned. It's ugly and bad and it's the reason why we delete discussion page headers. Davidy²²[talk] 15:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Captcha help
The page Special:Captcha/help tells people to contact an administrator if the captcha is "unexpectedly preventing you from making legitimate contributions". I just recieved a captcha asking me what the first name of XKCD's writer is. Now I know that most fans should know his name by now, you really can't expect every visitor or editor to this site to remember that, and in many cases a visitor won't know that sort of information at all.
I respectfully request that you arrange for that question to be removed from the list of captchas that appear for us IP users.
Thank you.--188.8.131.52 00:44, 28 March 2013 (UTC)


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Big Rapids, Mich. - First-year Ferris State University head football coach Tony Annese has completed his coaching staff as he announced today the hiring of a Bulldog alum and former professional football coach in Charles "Sparky" McEwen.
McEwen, who played for the Bulldogs from 1987-90, spent more than a decade as a professional football coach in the Arena Football League with both the Grand Rapids Ramapge and the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz. He will coach the wide receivers at Ferris State and also be involved in alumni relations aspects of the program.
"We're excited to announce the hiring of a former Bulldog and someone of his caliber in Sparky McEwen," Annese said. "He's a guy who really has some great connections and ties to Ferris State University and has had success at all levels. We believe he'll be a great fit as we continue to elevate our program."
At the professional level, McEwen most recently coached the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz for three seasons prior to the franchise's departure from the AFL prior to the 2011 campaign.
McEwen began his arena football career as a quarterback with the now-defunct Grand Rapids Rampage in 1998 and first served as the team's offensive assistant and scout in 2000. He was the offensive coordinator from 2001-03 before originally becoming assistant head coach and offensive coordinator in Oklahoma City in 2004.
The Bulldog product returned to Grand Rapids as head coach and director of football operations of the Rampage for three seasons (2005-08) before going back to Okalahoma City as the head coach and president of football operations for his final three seasons of indoor football, which included two as an arenafootball2 franchise and the final year in the AFL.
McEwen was the Rampage's offensive coordinator during the program's three best seasons from 2001-03, which included winning ArenaBowl XV in 2001. Under his direction, the Rampage's offense scored more points than any other team in the Arena Football League and gained more yards than any other over the three-year span.
McEwen also served as a successful prep football head coach in Grand Rapids at Creston High School from 1996-2003.
A Bulldog alum, McEwen played football at Ferris State from 1986-90, but was redshirted for the 1987 campaign. He quarterbacked the Bulldogs for two seasons (1988-89) and was switched to wide receiver for his senior year in 1990. He currently ranks 14th among the school's all-time passing leaders with 2,183 career yards and 17 TD's on 155-of-297 attempts (52.2% completion pct.). McEwen's best season was in 1988 when he threw for 1,386 yards and nine TD's while completing 49.8% of his aerial attempts (100-201). As a senior, he had 18 receptions for 259 yards and one TD. McEwen also ranks 17th in Bulldog history in total offense as he compiled 2,298 yards in his collegiate career.
"The opportunity to get back involved with young student-athletes is something I have thought about for years," McEwen said. "I'm excited about working for the university where I started my career many years ago.
"After speaking with Perk Weisenburger and Coach Annese about their goals for the program, it was very apparent that high degrees of success will be the expectation. Tony is a relentless worker who has a great sense for success and high level of committment to detail, and it's those things that will continue the great tradition of Ferris State Football," he added.
While a collegiate player at Ferris State, McEwen played seven different positions, including quarterback, receiver, corner, safety, kick return, punt return and special teams.
As a quarterback in the Rampage's inaugural 1998 campaign, McEwen appeared in five games and had a 2-1 record as a starting quarterback with 477 passing yards, four passing touchdowns and six rushing scores.
Sparky has three children, Charles, A.J. and Ja'nae. His son, A.J., plays football for the Bulldogs and will be a sophomore in 2012.
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The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1898
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Today we have Maree Anderson, author of "Freaks of Greenfield High." Her heroine is actually a cyborg who looks just a like your everyday teenage girl on the outside. How cool is that? I'm going to let Maree explain the rest below.
Remember - this works just like the other posts. Read the except and then enter to win. I'm giving away copies of all these authors' books as well as a $50 gift card to Amazon. Winner will be chosen February 29th.
Today's question? Who would you love to kiss? (Celebrity or boy next door!) And those of you who have boyfriends or husbands -- let's pretend they don't mind you doing it!!
Now, without further ado, here's Maree and Freaks of Greenfield High.
The Set-up:
When a covert organization intent on her as a weapon comes after her, Jay needs to find a place where she can blend in. Greenfield High seems perfect, except all the boys think she's totally hot and keep hitting on her, and she has no idea how to handle them.
Jay's just been partnered for Bio with ex-jock fallen from grace
. She's fascinated by him… and the feeling is entirely mutual. Unfortunately for Tyler , the thrill of scoring the hot new girl as his lab partner is marred by his reaction whenever he's forced to dissect stuff. Last time he fainted. This time, as he watches Jay fishing round in Kermit's stomach cavity, the result is far more humiliating. He loses his breakfast… all over the girl he so desperately wants to impress. Next stop, the guys' bathroom to clean himself up and wish he was dead… but Jay follows him in. Tyler
"You don't know me. Why should my wellbeing concern you?"
Gah! Did the girl not understand guy-talking-to-hot-chick subtext? She was gonna make him come right out and say it.
But before he could make a complete dumbass of himself, Jay nodded slowly, like she'd finally understood what he was trying not to say.
He sagged with relief, because once he admitted how he felt about her, there was no taking it back. And if he'd read her wrong, and she wasn't into him, wasn't doing anything more than being "nice" to a guy she felt sorry for, he'd be gutted.
When she didn't say anything more, he slanted her an assessing glance. But he couldn't tell what she was thinking at all—not the merest hint.
had become pretty good at reading people's faces. It was a skill he'd perfected, a skill that helped him get by in this clichéd little corner of hell where the jocks and the cheer squad ruled. He knew how to get by without a bunch of peeps to watch his back. He knew when he could get away with mouthing off. Just like he knew when to shut up, suck it up and do a disappearing act. He had it down to a fine art. Tyler
The silence stretched.
's hopes wound tight, strangling him. What was he thinking, falling for a girl he'd just met? Jeez. He was a dumbass. He'd played right into her hands. Any moment now, she'd slink back to Shawn and this whole pathetic little episode would be all over school. Tyler
Except she stayed right where she was, her whole focus on him.
There was a light in her eyes that made his gut clench—in a good way. When he inhaled, she was standing so very close that her scent curled through him. His eyelids drifted closed. And then, layered beneath her fresh, clean smell was something indefinable, something that made his heart clamor. The merest hint of strangeness.
His eyelids popped open. His gaze locked on hers.
Those remarkable eyes held his, unblinking. Unwavering.
He saw it then, got the feeling she deliberately let him see it. Jay had secrets. Just like he did. And he didn't move at all, not a muscle, as she rose up on tiptoe to press her lips against his.
The kiss was excruciatingly gentle, a butterfly kiss, the merest brush of her lips against his before she backed off and considered him through narrowed eyes.
"What's wrong?" he whispered.
"That must be painful." She pressed the pad of her finger to her lips and then stroked it lightly across the spot on his chin.
She was gone as quickly and noiselessly as she'd come, leaving
's face glowing from her attentions. And his heart aglow with something else—something he'd never felt for a girl before. Something more than just a little scary. Tyler
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Strong, long 7.4 quake shakes Mexico City
MEXICO CITY – A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, shaking central and southern parts of the country, sending a pedestrian bridge crashing atop a transit bus and swaying high-rises in Mexico City. At least one building in the capital appeared on the verge of collapse.
More than 60 homes were damaged near the epicenter in Ometepec in southern Guerrero state, though there were no reports of death or serious injury. Fear and panic spread as a less powerful, magnitude-5.1 aftershock was also felt in the capital, where there were also no reports of deaths.
Other aftershocks were felt around the borders of Oaxaca and Guerrero states close to the epicenter.
"It was very strong, very substantial," Campos Benitez, hospital director in Ometepec.
Police radio operator Marcos Marroquin said there were preliminary reports of 60 houses damaged in the municipality but only a report of a broken arm.
In Mexico City, frightened workers and residents poured into the streets of the capital just minutes after noon local time (18:02 GMT). Telephone service was down in the city and throughout the area where the quake was felt, and some neighborhoods were without power, according to Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who set up a hotline for people to report damage.
About 40 passengers were stranded for a short time on the Mexico City airport air train, but later released. The airport closed for a time but officials said there was no runway damage and they resumed operations.
Samantha Rodriguez, a 37-year old environmental consultant, was evacuated from the 11th floor on the Angel Tower office building.
"I thought it was going to pass rapidly but the walls began to thunder and we decided to get out," she said.
The quake was felt strongly in southern Guerrero state, where the epicenter was located about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the city of Ometepec. Neighboring Oaxaca state also shook heavily.
Governors in both states and civil protection reported strong shakes and some building damage but no casualties.
In Huajuapan, Guerrero, near the epicenter, hotel owner Marco Antonio Estrada also reported shaken-up guests but no major damage. He said it was the longest and strongest earthquake he had ever felt and people ran out of their homes and cars.
"It was very strong, but we didn't see anything fall," said Irma Ortiz, who runs a guesthouse in Oaxaca. She said their telephones were down, and that the quake shook them side-to-side.
The U.S. Geological Survey set the preliminary magnitude of the first quake at 7.4 and said the epicenter was 11 miles underground. The survey set the aftershock at 5.1.
U.S. President Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia, was reported safe while on vacation with a school group in Oaxaca.
Groups of women hugged and cried at Mexico City's Angel of Independence monument, where hundreds of people evacuated from office buildings said they had never felt such a strong earthquake. Others typed ferociously on their Blackberries.
Mexico City's airport was closed for a short time but there was no damage to runways and operations were returning to normal.
In Oaxaca, Sylvia Valencia was teaching Spanish to five adult students at the Vinigulaza language school when the earthquake hit.
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Dirt Sports 411Posted in News on June 18, 2014
Rockstar Energy Continues its Support of LOORRS for 2014
Returning for another year, Team Lucas confirmed Rockstar Energy as the Official Energy Drink of the 2014 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. Now entering its fifth year with Team Lucas as a major promotional partner of the popular off-road competition, Rockstar Energy will again have significant presence at every Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series event. Additionally, the deal secures high visibility via broadcasts on the CBS, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, and MAVTV networks.
Because of its commitment to the sport, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Director Ritchie Lewis said, "Rockstar Energy has become a brand fans associate closely with the exciting, short-course competition that makes Lucas Oil Off Road Racing so popular. It's great having the energy drink aboard as a series supporter and sponsor for multiple competitors."
Jason May, Executive Vice President Marketing for Rockstar, Inc., also noted the company will continue to support top Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series teams and drivers, including Brian Deegan, Rob MacCachren, and Todd LeDuc. "Rockstar Energy Drink has become synonymous with exciting and emerging motorsports events," May said. "Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is a marquee series Rockstar Energy is honored to partner with for the benefit of racing fans everywhere."
SST Series Rebranded as Formula Off-Road Series Presented by Traxxas
Reported first in Dirt Sports'"2014 General Tire Fan Guide," Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Trucks series confirms it will be rebranded as the Formula Off-Road Series. The name change highlights a move out of stadiums and into popular motorsports events. Venues include this year's X Games in Austin, Texas, and multiple open-wheel racing events like the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and the Detroit Belle Island Grand Prix. In addition, Traxxas announced it will support the new series as its title sponsor.
"Our association with the Formula Off-Road Series provides the perfect forum for Traxxas to showcase the extreme capabilities and incredible fun our vehicles deliver," said Traxxas President Mike Jenkins. "The SSTs are fast and jump and fly high, just like their scaled-down Traxxas R/C replicas. The Formula Off-Road Series allows us to market our trucks and cars directly to one of our most targeted groups of customers and put our products in their hands to experience and enjoy."
As part of its marketing partnership, Traxxas will have on-site "Try Me Tracks" at all SST races, offering consumers a hands-on opportunity to race Traxxas R/C vehicles. Each event will feature a full product display and demonstration area along with the fully loaded mobile Traxxas store to make it easy to jump right into the fun. Plus, Traxxas will highlight its products through traditional commercial inventory in SST broadcasts on NBC Sports Network and on ESPN during the X Games.
"Traxxas has been a major supporter of the SST/Formula Off-Road Series since its inception," series founder Robby Gordon said. "The brand continues to capitalize on the marketing capabilities of our unique series by taking this presenting role after fielding two trucks in the series during our first season."
The SST trucks will continue to be branded as Traxxas Slash trucks in all 2014 Formula Off-Road Series Presented by Traxxas races. In several events, most notably the X Games, Austin, Texas, resident and Traxxas owner Mike Jenkins will be behind the wheel of one of the life-sized Traxxas trucks.


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How to Clean Up American Elections
Step 1: Ignore the Supreme Court.
For voters and activists interested in clean elections, 2014 isn't shaping up to be a good year. In the wake of last week's decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which eliminated aggregate limits on campaign contributions, and 2010's Citizens United, corporate and billionaire donors can dump tens of millions into the 2014 elections.
But all hope for limiting the corrupting influence of big money is not lost. Campaign finance reformers have another option, one that doesn't rely on Congress or the courts and that can be implemented immediately: the People's Pledge.
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First tried in the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race (between then-Sen. Scott Brown and now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren), the People's Pledge is best understood as a private contract between two candidates to keep outside groups out of their election. Under the pledge, the candidates agree that if a third party — super PACs, so-called dark money organizations, rich billionaires or even public interest groups — spends money on advertising during their race, the candidate that benefits will pay 50 percent of the advertising cost to a charity of their opponent's choice. So if the League of Conservation Voters ran TV ads attacking Brown (or helping Warren), Warren's campaign would have had to pay out (potentially big) money to a charity Brown picked.
How is the pledge enforced? Primarily through public pressure. The idea is that third-party groups will refrain from advertising for fear of harming their preferred candidate. If they do run ads in the race, the campaigns will pay the penalty to charity because they fear backlash for breaking their word.
While this might seem like wishful thinking, it actually worked. Prior to Brown and Warren signing the People's Pledge in January 2012, outside groups spent millions in negative advertising against both candidates. Brown felt the heat of $1.9 million in critical ads from the League of Conservation Voters, while Warren was hit with $1.12 million in attacks from Crossroads GPS, a 501(c)(4) linked to Karl Rove. But once the pledge was signed, with a couple of minor exceptions soon thereafter (some third-party groups didn't seem to get the memo), not a single outside group advertised through Election Day.


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Maybe with enough money thrown in the R&D someone can find away to eliminate it. For the other 99% the antiskate (magnetic is my favourite) is a necessity of live, and a simple listening test on the inside grooves is explanation enough. What irritates me is your total buy in without question why the company left it off completely.
VPI Aries Scout turntable & JMW-9 tonearm
I'm endlessly fascinated with the science behind them—at least partly because, as with theology and frankfurters, the real essence of the thing I'm trying to know is in fact unknowable. Given the subjectivity we bring to music appreciation and the fact that we can't see what's really going on in the groove during record play, theories and guesswork are all we have to go on in the world of phonography, notwithstanding some tedious and unintentionally funny claims to the contrary. Like it or not, wherever two or more people gather to write or read reviews of record players, faith is always close at hand.
So here goes:
How It's Done
Designer Harry Weisfeld has whapped the ball so far out of the park with this one, it isn't funny. There's a glorious sense of completeness—of wholeness and rightness—in the way the Aries Scout/JMW-9 combination of turntable and tonearm plays music, echoed and underscored by those same qualities in the player's appearance and ease of use. The Scout and JMW-9 are serenely well-designed, as opposed to being just a frantic collection of the latest analog fads and follies, and their construction quality is nothing short of astounding for the price.
The solid-plinth Scout starts life as a sheet of 1 1/8"-thick MDF, machined to shape and finished in semigloss black. Most of its underside is covered with a thin steel plate for rigidity and damping, the latter thanks also to a thin layer of silicone sealant. The right-rear corner is drilled with a 1"-diameter hole for VPI's standard arm-mount collar. A Rega RB-300, with its pillar diameter of 22mm (or just over 7/8"), will fit, but the VPI's platter is way too tall for the Rega arm by itself, even with the usual 1/16" spacer: If that's what you have in mind, you'll have to get a machinist to make you something special.
Four aluminum cones support the plinth, although these aren't quite as simple as they appear: A steel ball is pressed into each point, à la Bic, for enhanced isolation from outside vibrations, and the thick, spongy washers—made of something called Poron—between the cones and the underside of the plinth ensure that the feet can be adjusted for height without losing contact.
The Scout has an inverted bearing, the well of which is machined from sintered bronze (a graphite-based lubricant is contained in pores in the alloy itself) with a Teflon thrust disc on top. This is a departure from VPI's recent standard practice of making bearing wells out of a thermoplastic called Rulon—designer Weisfeld says that sintered bronze can be machined more accurately with fewer operations, thus keeping comparative costs down. The Scout's bearing shaft, massively bolted to the plinth, is case-hardened tool steel, meaning it's actually somewhat softer at its core than its outer surface: Theoretically, at least, this could aid in damping vibrations. The business end of the shaft encapsulates a chrome steel ball whose hardness is 60 on the Rockwell scale.
VPI chose a Hurst 5.5W AC synchronous motor for the Scout, which is less torquey than the ones used for the company's other models—but then, at just 4 lbs, the Scout's acrylic platter is less massive than most, including those in the rest of VPI's line. Other than the shelf they'll sit on, a thin, round drive belt is the only mechanical link between motor and turntable—the motor enclosure is a structure separate from the rest of the plinth. That chunky little steel box also contains a pushbutton switch, an AC cord socket, and two capacitors, one of which is used to "phase" the motor, the other to suppress turn-on thumps (at which it is only partly successful). The motor armature is topped with a two-speed Delrin pulley, which is both grooved and slightly tapered (1.5 degrees), allowing the user to make minor speed adjustments by choosing lower or higher positions for the belt. The pulley is so free from visible run-out error that you might have to touch it to know if it's turning.


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Roman DNA Project funded
Nice. We're funded!:
Thanks to an amazing piece at the CNN blog Light Years by Ed Yong, the outpouring of support for the Roman DNA Project today has been astounding! In financial news, we have actually exceeded our $6,000 goal, after just 10 days. That goal was to fund analysis of at least 20 individuals (the immigrants to Rome that I found through Sr/O isotope analysis). Of course, we are accepting donations through mid-December, so additional funding will be put to good use – studying more ancient Romans!
And I've received a dozen or more emails today from people as excited as I am about this project, offering their encouragement, lab services, expertise, and knowledge about the ancient world. I will respond to all of them, I promise, but it might take a few days!
Again, thank you – all of you reading this – for making this project a reality!
Dienekes has a little extra commentary. In any case, congratulations are in order! This sort of genetic science seems to be "low hanging fruit." It isn't as if you need to fund a massive particle accelerator and what not. I hope that all the museums with assorted samples in their back rooms may now consider the possibility that they don't have to wait for Max Planck to approach them….
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Was the $$ for the Sr and O isotopic analyses also crowdsourced?
No, just the proposed DNA analyses.
If the researchers still have the teeth and want in-situ Pb isotopes done, I can probably get them SHRIMP time at-cost if they can find interested donors…
click through to my blog, and my contact info's on the right hand sidebar.
@Lab Lemming – The Sr/O isotopes were funded by the more traditional granting agencies (NSF and Wenner-Gren), but I could definitely have used some crowdsourced funding back then. I've also had some Pb isotope work done, as well as Pb concentration, which has led to some interesting comparative studies with Romano-British skeletons!
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Wolfgang's laser lab?


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Salma Hayek: "I am proud to be Mexican"
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Salma Hayek says she is proud to be Mexican and that comments suggesting otherwise were "lost in translation."
The 45-year-old actress issued a statement Thursday after German Vogue magazine quoted her as saying she "hardly had any memories of what it is to be Mexican."
Hayek says she has never denied her background or culture, and has taught her young daughter to speak Spanish and appreciate Mexican history, music, food and folk art. She goes on to say that she has always tried "to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride" and is saddened by the magazine's misinterpretation of her remarks.
Hayek plays the leader of a Mexican drug cartel in the Oliver Stone drama "Savages."


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weatherpm necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
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We're a FEARLESS, young weather media company looking to shake things up by taking risks and trying new, innovative approaches to presenting weather in new and innovative ways. We deal with print, web, and broadcast, and have experience in all areas of production. While most of us are professional meteorologists (to quote Bill Murray, "back of man, I'm a scientist!" :-) ), we're focused at our core to serve the best interests of our clients in the long-term.
We've been challenged to change the way that weather looks on the back page of the newspaper. We are looking to create a new, innovative, sexy, hip, cool, attention-grabbing, easy-to-digest view of weather (with a lot of content) that does not have the same tired look and feel of current traditional newspaper weather. The audience will be typical newspaper readers, so the information needs to be graphically appealing and easy-to-understand.
1. Must be a NEW, INNOVATIVE, HIP, COOL design that is EASY TO READ and understand by a casual newspaper reader.
2. Design must fill an 8" wide X 10.5" tall space (newsprint, so can use small fonts on occasion), no margins
3. Must have ALL of the following elements:
a. 5 or 7-day forecast (hi/lo temps, conditions)
b. Map of Minnesota (incl. conditions for 5-10 locations)
c. Map of US (incl. conditions for 5-10 locations)
d. Forecasts for 48 US cities (incl. hi/low temps, conditions) -- graphic or list ok)
e. Forecasts for 20 International cities (incl. hi/low temps, conditions) -- graphic or list ok)
f. Almanac (Temp [hi/lo, norm hi/lo, record hi/lo], Precip [past 24 hrs, mon./norm. mon./yr. to date], Pollen Count [Grass, Trees, Weeds, Mold])
g. Degree Days (Heating/Cooling for Yest./Mon. to Date/Season-Yr. inc. departures)
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Innovative approaches to graphically representing data are encouraged!!
Any other information that may be useful to a newspaper reader is welcome if you can fit it in!
Attached to this challenge are two (very rough) concept samples that failed because they were too "old school" and did not challenge the bounds of what could be done!