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Mayor Bloomberg wants to outlaw large containers for soda and sugary drinks.
The Libertarians come crying out, "The government shouldn't be able to tell us what we can and can't have! This is America!" When I tell people that I think this is a good idea, they cry to me about how crazy I am. "You're going to let the government tell me what I can and can't do? Because of your lack of self control?"
Yes. Because drinking large quantities of soda is bad for you and I learned the bad habit because it was available to me, anywhere and everywhere, and I took advantage of it. And I've fought my body ever since.
Just because we can (either in our minds or legally) drink 40 oz. sodas, doesn't mean that it's a good idea. Nothing good comes from that.
James Holmes was arraigned today on multiple counts of murder.
He shot 70 people with a high powered assault rifle that costs a little over $1,000 and can be bought, legally, in a store and picked up with a short background check within the hour. He bought 6,000 rounds of ammo on Amazon. It was legal for him to own the gun and to buyt that ammo. He could do that.
We, as Americans, can own weapons that allow us to defend against ourselves. We can do this, legally. But, does that mean that we should?
Today, the NCAA handed down unprecedented sanctions upon the Penn State football program.
Sandusky was accused, JoePa was fired and then died, Sandusky was convicted, anyone else powerful at Penn State University who had any connection was also fired, the Freeh report came out and made the situation appear even worse than we all feared, they removed the JoePa statue, and the program's reputation that had once been legendary was ruined, not simply tarnished. Joe made a huge mistake that cost him everything. Jerry made several huge mistakes that cost him everything. Spanier made a huge mistake that cost him everything. And together, with a few others, they cost the university's football program everything.
Today it got worse. The NCAA had the power, because of their system, setup, power, influence, and total control over anything college sports related to do what they did. They had the complete ability to flex their muscles. They had the ability to make an example out of a once untouchable football program. And they did.
But just because you can, should you?
(I'll forego the argument for the sake of this post that the NCAA completely stepped out of the way of due process, allowing the almighty Emmert to personally intervene, unlike anything he has done with programs that violated specific NCAA regulations...**grunt grunt** UNC **grunt grunt**. I'll also forego the argument that this is a criminal act and therefore is left for the legal system, not the silly constantly over reaching NCAA)
Did the NCAA need to come down this harsh, effectively killing this program for an entire generation? Was this necessary?
Many say, "Yes! Child molestation and the covering of it up is atrocius and unacceptable!" Those people are right. Child rape and molestation is unacceptable. Those who cover it up for the sake of a program are in some ways just as guilty as those who committed the atrocities, too. This is unacceptable.
But, should the NCAA destroy the future of the program, making it effectively impossible to recruit for, simply because it can? No. Should it make an example out of a group that has already through the court system and the media been made an example out of? Again, I don't think so.
When we drink 40 oz sodas, we must ask ourselves, what good does it do?
When we buy assault rifles, we must ask ourselves, what good does it do?
When we enforce unbelieveable penalites on people who had nothing to do with an atrocity, we must ask ourselves, what good does it do?
What's hoped to be accomplished? Show the world child rape is wrong? We're already there, guys. We get that. Show the world how powerful you are? The good in that is questionable. Make a change so that this doesn't happen again? Maybe, but in order to make that believable you're going to need to articulate your process for how in a very convincing way.
If the NCAA hadn't done anything, they'd been looked at as weaklings. But they needed to flex their muscles...to show the world that they're actually paying attention and that they are the almighty voice to which programs must listen or else all the benefits from having an athletic program might be lost.
What's the good in that? Little. What do I think they should have done? They should have invested in figuring out ways from preventing this from happening again (the $60M fine is the one sanction I can understand). They should have done investigations into all programs. They should have helped Penn State football recover from such a devastation. They should have sent the message in another, healthier, better way. In a way that brings good, rather than stabbing in the dark hoping that good would be found somewhere.
They could flex their muscles. But should they? Not unless they can clearly articulate the good that will come from this.
I shouldn't drink 40 oz. sodas, even though I can. I shouldn't buy an assault rifle, even though I can. I shouldn't flex my muscles even though I can either.
Because, in all things, I must ask myself, "Can I clearly articulate the good that will come from this? Can I point directly to the good that the world will see from this?"
Otherwise, it's useless punishment and an example. And that's not good enough.


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LAKE FOREST, Ill., Feb. 23, 2012 — Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, announced today that it has joined the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA). Hospira is dedicated to Advancing Wellness, a goal that matches well with the GPhA's core purpose of bringing affordable medications to patients who need them.
"Hospira is pleased to announce our membership in the GPhA today," said Thomas Moore, president, U.S., Hospira. "We commend the leadership shown by GPhA President Ralph Neas and the excellent staff he has assembled. GPhA is a strong industry trade association that will continue to work tirelessly to bring the safest, high-quality, lower cost generic drugs to patients and families who need them, and Hospira looks forward to working with the association on the many pressing issues facing our industry."
"We are pleased to welcome Hospira to GPhA, and we look forward to their joining in the Association's mission to improve the lives of consumers by providing timely access to affordable pharmaceuticals," said Ralph G. Neas, President and CEO of GPhA. "Hospira's products, like those of all our members, have enabled millions of Americans to obtain affordable treatments for critical conditions. Their input and participation will be a valuable asset for GPhA as we move into this new and exciting time for our industry."
As the leading provider of generic injectables in the United States with the broadest and deepest portfolio of low-cost, safe and effective products, Hospira's specialty injectable pharmaceuticals (SIP) offering includes approximately 200 generic injectable drugs in many dosages and formulations. Therapeutic areas include analgesia, anesthesia, anti-infectives, cardiovascular, oncology, emergency and other areas. Hospira also has robust pipelines of both generic and biosimilar drugs.
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GPhA represents the manufacturers and distributors of finished generic pharmaceuticals, manufacturers and distributors of bulk pharmaceutical chemicals, and suppliers of other goods and services to the generic industry. Generic pharmaceuticals fill 78 percent of the prescriptions dispensed in the United States but consume just 25 percent of the total drug spending. Additional information is available at gphaonline.org.
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Hospira, Inc. is the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies. Through its broad, integrated portfolio, Hospira is uniquely positioned to Advance Wellness™ by improving patient and caregiver safety while reducing healthcare costs. The company is headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., and has approximately 15,000 employees. Learn more at www.hospira.com.

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Recent Advances in Microchips for Companion Animals
Each year, millions of dogs and cats enter animal shelters in the United States, with most of these animals lacking any type of identification. The Humane Society of the United States estimates that only 30% of dogs and 2% to 5% of cats that enter animal shelters are returned to their owners each year. One potential method for improving these reunification rates would be to increase the use of microchipping, which provides a permanent and unalterable method for identifying pets.
Sensitivity of commercial scanners to microchips of various frequencies
Throughout much of the world, a standard recommended by the International Organization for Standards that 134.2 kHz microchips be used for microchip identification of companion animals has been adopted as the preferred or sole standard. This standard has been endorsed by groups such as the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Humane Society of the United States, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Society of Animal Welfare Administrators, as well as the National Standards Institute. In the United States, however, a national standard for microchip identification of companion animals does not currently exist. However, the majority of microchips in the United States function at 125 kHz and there are three distinct frequencies in the U.S. with the 125 kHz, 128 kHz and 134.2 kHz all being used.
In recent years, several universal scanners that purportedly can detect or read microchips of all 3 frequencies used in the United States have been introduced. However, there has been growing concern that some of these newer universal scanners may not be able to reliably detect or read certain microchips. The purpose of the studies reported here, therefore, was to evaluate sensitivity of 4 commercially available microchip scanners used to detect or read encrypted and unencrypted 125 kHz microchips, 128 kHz microchips, and 134.2 kHz microchips under controlled conditions and in a field setting in animal shelters.
JAVMA Study Results
- Lord, LK, Pennell, ML, Ingwersen,W, Fisher, RA, Workman, JD. In vitro sensitivity of commercial scanners to microchips of various frequencies. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 2008 Dec 1;233(11):1723-28.
- Lord, LK, Pennell, ML, Ingwersen,W, Fisher, RA. Sensitivity of commercial scanners to microchips of various frequencies implanted in dogs and cats. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 2008 Dec 1;233(11):1729-35.
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It's one of the greatest traditions in all of sports, and one the biggest injury risks I can think of. As many of you know, since the Lombardi era, Packers players have been riding children's bikes to practice. Since the Lombardi era, Packers players have also been risking their careers on the hopes of thin metal rod likely manufactured overseas.
All bikes have a weight capacity. On 26" bikes, for instance, the average weight limit is 250 pounds. Did you know the weight limit of Trek bikes is only 275 pounds? This begins to question the general common sense of some of pairings of player and bike.
Let's imagine a scenario when little Jane VandeHey, a 3rd grader from Highlands Elementary in Appleton, brings her Dora the Explorer bike to training camp with one goal in mind – that her favorite player, Josh Sitton, will ride it during practice. There's only one problem: Jane VandeHey is 42 pounds, and Josh Sitton is well over 3 bills. Well, being the good sport that he is, Josh gladly obliges the young girl's request and sits on her bike – WHICH IMMEDIATELY CRUSHES UNDER THE WEIGHT OF AN NFL LINEMAN!
The bike rods contort awkwardly from the immense pressure, sending a spear-like aluminum rod straight through Josh's thigh, ruining his career. The chain is jolted off the sprocket and flies through the air off into the crowd like a metal flying death, striking the Grand Poobah of the Pewaukee Packer Backers in the jugular. Women and children scream at the horror. Josh Sitton holds his leg, wailing in agony, while unsuspecting paramedics get the unexpected call.
It's Josh's fault and it's little Jane VandeHey's fault. In fact, it's all of our faults for not recognizing that, generally speaking, human giants should not ride atop bikes adorn with cartoons. From now on, I want these bike rides regulated by the natural pairing of a bike's and player's size. Backs, Receivers, Kickers, Speedsters, Gunners, Streakers, Blasters, and those under 225, congrats, you have free reign on everything from BMX to Treks. Offensive and Defensive lineman, stick to the mountain bikes. And everyone in between, just use common sense. I think you'll agree that we've had enough preseason injuries.
In the interest of safety, if not in the interest of coolness, maybe some of the players might consider riding one of these:
In the interest of safety, if not in the interest of coolness, maybe some of the players might consider riding one of these:
If you look at the specifications, this bike-thingy is rated up to 880 lbs. That means BJ Raji (337) and Ryan Pickett (338) could ride comfortably, and more importantly, safely, and still have enough structural soundness to give DuJuan Harris (203) a lift.
Not to cause further alarm, but in addition to the weight specs of bicycles, there is also an ever-present risk of head injury from biking accidents. According to the Center for Head Injury Services, 85% of head injuries while biking could be prevented by wearing a helmet. Helmets are standard issue for all NFL players. In fact, as you may or may not know, they are actually required to wear them.
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Network Analytics Market worth $1672.5 Million by 2018
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DALLAS, September 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
The report "Network Analytics Market [(On Premise, On Demand), by Applications (Mobile, VoIP and Fixed Line, Unified Communications), by End Users (Cloud Service Providers, Telecommunications, Enterprises)] - Global Advancements, Forecast & Analysis (2013-2018)" defines and segments the global network analytics market into various sub segments with in-depth analysis and forecast of revenues. It also identifies drivers and restraints for this market with insights into trends, opportunities, and challenges.
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Solution providers such as IBM, HP, Sandvine, Empirix, Procera Networks, Accenture, Danaher Corporation, and many others are expected to provide innovative solutions by continual encapsulation of multiple use cases and at competitive prices in order to fulfill the need of providing complete network analytics solution. Network operators, cloud service providers, and Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector will remain the major consumers of network analytics solutions.
The Network Analytics Market is estimated to grow from $487.9 million in 2013 to $1672.5 million in 2018, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.9% from 2013 to 2018. In the current scenario, telecommunication vertical continues to be the largest contributor for network analytics solutions. In terms of regions, North America is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution, while the APAC region is expected to experience increased market traction, in due course.
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Bryan Welnicki of Manchester is playing the romantic role of Lucas in the non-Equity touring edition of the musical "The Addams Family" musical which will play the Shubert Theater in New Haven Feb. 1 to 3.
Welnicki, 23, was a regular in the area theater community, performing leads at Manchester High School as well as appearances at The Little Theatre of Manchester.
He is a graduate from New York University's Steinhardt School.
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DK(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual DK(4) NAME dk -- disk partition (wedge) driver SYNOPSIS options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT options DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR DESCRIPTION The dk driver provides a disk-like interface, or wedge, to an area of a physical disk. Wedges may be configured manually with dkctl(8) or auto- matically by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk. KERNEL OPTIONS DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods. DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL BSD disklabel detection method. DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table (GPT) detection method. DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) par- titioning detection method, with support for Extended MBRs. FILES /dev/{,r}dk* dk device special files. SEE ALSO config(1), disklabel(8), dkctl(8), fdisk(8), gpt(8), MAKEDEV(8) HISTORY The dk driver first appeared in NetBSD 3.0. AUTHORS The dk driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe. NetBSD 7.1.2 May 19, 2010 NetBSD 7.1.2
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jonpatrick necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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American Green Up and Green Up (insert city) such as Green Up New York, Green Up Orlando, Green Up Boston,
My name is Jon Hughes and recently I had an idea that I think will become a valuable tool in the movement to "go green".
I am a small business owner whose business has benefited from the many small changes I made toward "greening up". So, I am in the process of building a "socially responsible network" where local communities can connect around a cause (going green) and help communities to work together at the local level to build more a sustainable future.
Our objective is to encourage involvement from everyone in the local community to join in and contribute in any small way by helping them find their personal "Green Mission". By reducing the scale of the global environmental issue to a local level, people, businesses, and governments will understand that their individual actions ARE relevant because they can see the impact in their daily lives.
American Green Up will ultimately consist of 3 primary components:
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In a nutshell here is my 10 second elevator speech:
American Green Up is a "socially responsible network" of communities connected by a common cause whose mission is to inspire greener and more prosperous communities through consumer savings, business profitability, and government accountability. Together we are local communities on a global mission.
As a social network wrapped around a cause, our target audience will be the:
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Our Mission statement is: "Inspiring greener and more prosperous communities through consumer savings, business profitability, and government accountability."
I am seeking a logo / Brand ID that translates across all mediums . It should be simple, clean, and easily distinguishable from any others. Obviously American and Green is the overall theme.
The logo must work well for americangreenup.com as well as greenup(insert city).com (i.e greenuporlando.com or greenupsanfrancisco.com)
It should include the Tagline "Local Communities on a Global Mission"
Please be as creative as possible and think outside of the box. I am not looking for another eco site. Instead, my focus is on community involvement centered on living greener. I do not want to tell people how to live, I want to make it easy for them to do their part by helping me do mine.
Please take a look at some of my first logo attempts. I really like the idea of the smile, but really can't envisions how to incorporate it properly. I'm not married to it though.
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I am looking something great! Thanks and good luck.
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Playing video games is about chasing victory. In Pac-Man, that means eating as many little dots as possible and avoiding ghosts. In Doom, it means shooting demons. In Super Mario Bros., it means stomping on the heads of evil mushrooms.
But as hard as we try to win, the experience of playing actually tends to be dominated more often by failure, disappointment, and frustration. As we play, we lose, over and over again. We watch Pac-Man deflate, we get mauled by zombies, we fall off cliffs and die. Then, for some reason, we hit "play again."
For Jesper Juul, an assistant professor at the New York University Game Center, the experience of being wrecked by a game contains multitudes, and can teach us a great deal about why we play, how we think, and what we want. There is no fun without losing, Juul writes in his short new book, "The Art of Failure," just as there is no pleasure without pain. Games, in this light—and video games, in particular—provide us with a chance to experiment with our own vulnerability, to struggle with our flaws in what is essentially a low-stakes simulation of an intense emotional experience.
Juul argues that games, in a way that's unlike novels, movies, paintings, or poetry, allow us to inhabit failure and experience redemption: By putting us in the position of working toward a goal and frustrating us as we pursue it, they force us to confront all the ways in which we're weak and incompetent while also giving us a chance to outgrow them.
"This is what games do," he writes. "They promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy—an inadequacy that they create in us in the first place."
Why do we do it to ourselves, subjecting ourselves again and again to the horror of "game over"? Juul spoke to Ideas from New York.
IDEAS: In reading the book, I got the impression that you have a great familiarity with losing at video games. Do you think of yourself as someone who takes losing particularly hard, or loses more than most?
JUUL: I think I'm a decent player, but I think that I take failure more seriously, or experience it more harshly than people around me. Old friends of mine would attest to the fact that I'm a bit of a sore loser, who tends to be very disturbed by losing regardless of whether it's a board game or a video game.
IDEAS: Do you remember some of the very first times you lost at a game?
JUUL: One childhood memory I have is of playing table tennis with a friend of mine in primary school, and losing to him. He was much better at table tennis than I was. And I later realized that I was able to make up all kinds of explanations for why, every game I lost, there was some particular reason it was not a real judgment of my skills....It's very clear to me [now] that that's the wrong way to approach a game. If you want to be good at it, you have to accept responsibility for failure.
IDEAS: You make the point that there's something paradoxical about playing games—that we try as hard as we can not to lose, but at the same time, we're putting ourselves in a position where losing is possible. Why do we voluntarily subject ourselves to this?
JUUL: If we fail, we have the option of saying, "Well, it's just a game." Or, "This is a stupid game, so it doesn't measure my skills or measure me in any important way." Or we can say, "I wasn't really trying" or "I was unlucky." Games make these excuses available to us, and I think in a way it's how we deal with the fact that we are exposing ourselves to something that we don't really like.
IDEAS: Losing at a game feels like no other kind of disappointment. It hurts in a special way. Why is that?
JUUL: Single-player games, especially, have this kind of melancholy attached to them. Because you put in all this effort, and it might be super interesting, but then once you fail, it's like, "Why did I do this?" You subjected yourself to something that's artificial, and then you failed at it. You put in all this energy, and then you didn't succeed in this thing that in a way isn't important, but it feels important to you. So it has this free-floating status—I think that's why it feels very different from, say, getting a low grade on a high school paper.
IDEAS: You describe games—and video games, in particular—as an art form uniquely concerned with the experience of losing. How did you arrive at this conclusion?
JUUL: If you watch a Sherlock Holmes movie, or read a Sherlock Holmes story...you probably have various hypotheses about what actually happened. And I think at the very end it's very easy to trick yourself into believing that you kind of, sort of had it figured out all along. But when you play a game, you don't really have that option. The game concretely tells you that you lost—that you found the wrong solution to the puzzle, or you pressed the button at the wrong time. And so, I think this is really what is unique to games: They will call your bluff, and they will tell you that you need to improve. Games in this sense are really about you, as a person, failing to live up to standards, whereas stories are about someone else.
IDEAS: Many games that people play now, like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, go very fast and involve losing over and over again. One of the defining features of those games is that they're really addictive. What role do you think that constant losing plays in creating the addiction?
JUUL: A lot of it is the promise that you will be able to improve yourself if you can play again. And that has a lot to do with how easy it is to understand why you failed. So you can see that a lot of the super popular cellphone games do tend to have this feature—it's very easy to see what you could have done, that you should have turned a little earlier, or you should have clicked the exploding black bird just a little later....That [makes you say,] "Oh, I'll just have another go, because I have an idea for how I might improve." And I think that's a fundamentally addictive quality.
IDEAS: Do you feel like there's something profound in winning as well as losing? Do you like winning?
JUUL: Well, obviously. You're usually playing to win, and you want to win. But it's also the case that when you fail at a task, you're more likely to consider the mechanics of the task, or how the task works, and if you succeed, you're not really being challenged. It's failure that pushes you to try something new, while success makes you a little complacent. Of course, complacency feels good, sometimes.
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DENVER — In observance of Independence Day, many state offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4.
State driver's license offices, the Department of Public Health and Environment's vital records office and executive branch departments will be among the facilities closed Thursday.
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World War Z author Max Brooks: "I went to the Army ROTC office at CMC my freshman year because... I thought, 'America's been really good to me and we're at war (Desert Storm), and I'm going to give back...' "
For Claremont Colleges students who might think keeping their GPA up is a matter of life and death, consider what an army of zombies attacking campus would do to reorder those priorities. Well, that's exactly what happened in author (and '94 Pitzer graduate) Max Brooks' apocalyptic 2006 bestseller, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
In an excerpt from the book (pg. 161 in one of the paperback editions), the narrator tells of "The Battle of the Five Colleges" in which 300 heroic students fight a horde of zombies. Given Brooks' major (history) at Pitzer College, it could be a knowing nod to the like number of ancient Spartans who, vastly outnumbered, fought Xerxes invading Persians to a standstill at the Battle of Thermopylae in Greece:
"Just outside of Greater Los Angeles, in a town called Claremont, are five colleges – Pomona, Pitzer, Scripps, Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna College. At the start of the Great Panic, when everyone else was literally running for the hills, three hundred college students chose to make a stand. They turned the Women's College at Scripps into something resembling a medieval city. They got their supplies from the other campuses; their weapons were a mix of gardening tools and ROTC rifles. They planted gardens, dug wells, fortified an already existing wall. While the mountains burned behind them, and the surrounding suburbs descended into violence, those 300 kids held off 10,000 zombies! Ten thousand over the course of four months, until the Inland Empire could finally be purified. We were lucky to get there just at the tail end, just in time to see the last of the undead fall, as cheering students and soldiers linked up under the oversized, homemade Old Glory fluttering from the Pomona bell tower.
The book's widely anticipated movie version starring Brad Pitt is set to open wide on Friday, June 21. Pitt has surprised fans across the country by showing up at advance screenings, and the film's official Twitter profile (@WorldWarZMovie) is buzzing with reviews, photos, games and even WWZ gear. Reviews meanwhile have been divided, with Rotten Tomatoes, for example, giving the action blockbuster 81 percent, while the less impressed Telegraph says Brooks' "thinly-veiled parable" had… "much in common with Steven Soderbergh's" medical thriller Contagion.
In a piece for Variety, chief film critic Scott Foundas describes World War Z as a film imagining "how the world's ideologically disparate peoples and governments would respond if great masses of the populi did suddenly turn into rabid, flesh-eating beasties." And while 5C students apparently fought zombies with admirable aplomb and smarts under Max Brooks' vivid imagination, a publicist at Paramount Pictures says The Claremonts didn't make it into the film version.
Which is too bad, right? But Max Brooks has an undeniable soft spot for The Claremont Colleges, and in fact, in his 2011 Commencement address to Pitzer College graduates, he gave a particularly nice shout out to Claremont McKenna College, where he was enrolled in ROTC his freshman year. "I got up every morning and I ran around and I threw up all over CMC, as I'm sure some of you have, too," Brooks said, rousing laughter. "But even though I blew out my knees and my back (to this day I can't run), I met some really awesome people and some career soldiers (in ROTC) who became characters in World War Z. I probably couldn't have written that book if not for that experience."
The impression was so deep, that Brooks says when he published WWZ, "I said, 'Oh my god, I have to get some copies under my arm and come back here (to The Colleges), because this place has defined me. I even wrote about it in World War Z. A whole big zombie battle takes place right here." His first stop with copies of his new book was the Army ROTC offices at CMC, he says––where he'd forged relationships that inspired his characters.
For those who haven't read the book, World War Z is a follow-up to Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), and is a collection of individual accounts of a decade-long war between humans and zombies that decimated the Earth's population. As narrator, Brooks assays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission 10 years after the zombie's have been eradicated.
Brooks, who has been called "The Studs Terkel of zombie journalism" for World War Z, is the son of director/actor/writer and legendary comedy bon vivant Mel Brooks, and actress Anne Bancroft.
Addressing Pitzer grads a few years ago, his talk was expectedly funny, while perhaps unexpectedly genuine. Although his parents (without naming them) were "hugely successful and never talked about their 'struggle years,' I got out of grad school and spent so many years struggling and just bashing my head against rejection," Brooks said. He says he finally broke through with a two-season gig writing for SNL, during which time he was also finishing up The Zombie Survival Guide.
"All my life I wanted to be a published author, and here it was," he said, reflecting on the moment his book hit the shelves. "And it did turn out to be the most successful thing I've done, and the book that would define my career and change my whole life," he says. "But I didn't know that at the time. Because when it first came out, all I had were some really, really crappy reviews––hugely, epically––crappy … The Los Angeles Times ran a two-page spread of my book and me, and essentially argued that my parents should have used birth control," said Brooks, rousing another wave of laughs.
Perhaps now he's even laughing––yep––all the way to the bank.
Watch Brooks' 17-minute Pitzer College Commencement speech. His comments about how The Claremont Colleges defined him start at about 9 minutes in.


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We declared Tebowing over on Friday, but it is somehow still limping along, enjoying the final tour before total meme death. Tebow himself got Tebowed over the weekend, and yesterday, The Chosen One gave it a turn.
Bryce Harper, who wants to have a lot in common with Tebow ("Love God, my family, and baseball!") made this his Twitter profile picture yesterday. I'm only just considering it now, but if someone had asked me to guess what might eventually be the second iteration of Harper's public Yankee fandom, I think I'd have gone with: a) taking a selfie in a club with Alex Rodriguez and then posting it on Twitter with the caption "u know how we do!" or b) engaging in a Tebow-inspired meme three days too late.
This, we hope, is the real end of Tebowing, and perhaps of something bigger than that. May we never speak of it again in this hour.
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India's ruling coalition endorsed creating a new state in southern India, which immediately spurred activists to call for other long-standing demands for separate states to be met.
The United Progressive Alliance coalition unanimously agreed to endorse that a new state called Telangana be carved out of Andhra Pradesh state, Indian Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told reporters on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress party also backed the formation of the state. The government will finish creating the state within the next four to five months, said Digvijay Singh, a top Congress party leader.
The large size of some of India's 28 states makes them difficult to administer and has prompted movements to divide them. Telangana would become India's 29th state.
Telangana supporters say the drought-prone northern area is underdeveloped and ignored by powerful politicians from southern Andhra Pradesh. Residents of the 10 districts that form Telangana say they are discriminated against in the allocation of state funds, water and jobs.
The decision is likely to be opposed by the rest of Andhra Pradesh, primarily because the proposed Telangana area would include Hyderabad, the state capital and industrial hub.
Police and paramilitary soldiers were deployed in Hyderabad and other parts of Andhra Pradesh to prevent protests after the announcement.
The demand for a separate state of Telangana has erupted sporadically since the 1950s, with hunger strikes and violent protests claiming about 1,000 lives over the past decade. Several protesters self-immolated to press for the creation of the state.
The protests gained strength in 2009 when veteran politician K. Chandrasekhara Rao began a hunger strike. After 11 days, the federal government agreed to split the state.
The government then delayed a decision while sporadic protests, both for and against the new state, gripped Andhra Pradesh.
Critics said the split would spur other demands for new states.
"The government has opened a Pandora's box. This will give rise to similar demands from several regions that are fighting for separate states," said Kalyani Shankar, a prominent political commentator.
Several parts of India — the Bundelkhand region in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha in western Maharashtra state and Gorkhaland in the eastern West Bengal state — face similar statehood movements, but the government has not made any moves to create states there.
On Tuesday, leaders of the Gorkhaland movement called for a three-day strike in the northern parts of West Bengal to press their demand.
"Our demand for Gorkhaland is older than the demand for Telangana. If the government announces a Telangana state, then it should also declare a Gorkhaland state," Gorkhaland leader Bimal Grung said.


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Western Illinois pulls away from IUPUI 69-54
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Garret Covington had 17 points and 9 rebounds as Western Illinois pulled away in the second half for a 69-54 win over IUPUI on Thursday.
Covington hit 5 of 7 shots and all six of his free throws to lead the Leathernecks (9-12, 3-3 Summit League). Michael Ochereobia added 13 points and Mike Miklusak 10.
Ja'Rob Mcallum led the Jaguars (5-18, 0-6) with 18 points and Khufu Najee had 14, hitting 7 of 9 shots. IUPUI has lost six straight.
Western Illinois hit 13 of 15 free throws, 8 of 9 in the second half, while the Jags went just 2 of 8 from the line. Western also had a 35-23 rebounding advantage.
The Leathernecks led 23-21 at the half.
Najee's fast-break layup with 10:45 to play cut WIU's lead to 46-40 but Adam Link made a layup and Miklusak made back-to-back 3's and IUPUI never recovered.


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Hi everybody, I am trying to express my betaglucosidase gene in pichia but i have a question i inoulated a single colony in 5 mL mgy medium 300 rpm 28 C the next day i inoculated the whole culture to 20 ml MGY buffer (total 25 mL). 24 h later the od could only reach 1.3. So i santrifuge the cells 3000 rpm 5 min and resuspend them in 20 mL fresh mgy buffer and 300 rpm 28 C an overnight again. The od is noq around 2. My question is do you think i miss the log phase of the cells because of 2 overnight waiting? Could anyone offer me a pichia expression protocol because i am trying to do what invitrogen says; i could not catch the od 600.
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Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed many long-held views about the world and the way explorers would henceforth navigate its oceans.
In 1519 Magellan and his fleet set sail from Seville, Spain, to find a water route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Most important, they were looking for a passageway, a strait, through the great landmass of the Americas that would lead them to these fabled islands. Laurence Bergreen takes readers on board with Magellan and his crew as they explore, navigate, mutiny, suffer, and die across the seas. He also recounts the many unusual sexual practices the crew experienced, from orgies in Brazil to bizarre customs in the South Pacific. With a fleet of five ships and more than two hundred men, they had set out in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later they returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. They suffered starvation, disease, and torture, and many died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle.
A man of great tenacity, cunning, and courage, Magellan was full of contradictions. He was both heroic and foolish, insightful yet blind, a visionary whose instincts outran his ideals. Ambitious to a fault and not above using torture and murder to maintain control of his ships and sailors, he survived innumerable natural hazards in addition to several violent mutinies aboard his own fleet -- and it took no less than the massed forces of fifteen hundred men to kill him.
This is the first time in nearly half a century that anyone has attempted to narrate the complete story of Magellan's unprecedented circumnavigation of the globe -- to tell this truly gripping and profoundly important story of heroism, discovery, and disaster. A voyage into history, a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, an anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans, and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power, Over the Edge of the World is a captivating tale that rivals the most exciting thriller fiction.
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College of Osteopathic Medicine receives provisional accreditation
Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) has announced that it has been granted provisional accreditation from the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (AOA-COCA), the programmatic accreditor for Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine in the United States.
Provisional accreditation allows LUCOM to officially begin recruiting and accepting students and offer education leading to the D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) degree. LUCOM has initiated that process, and the inaugural class will begin in Fall 2014.
The Southern Association of College and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), Liberty's accrediting agency, also recently recognized the university's capacity to develop a D.O. degree program.
In gaining provisional accreditation, LUCOM becomes the 30th College of Osteopathic Medicine in the nation, and the second in Virginia following Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. The profession boasts 38 campuses in 28 states. Today, one of four students attending medical school in the U.S is attending a College of Osteopathic Medicine.
"Provisional accreditation comes as a testament to the tremendous work of the faculty and staff, our clinical and community affiliates, and our financial supporters," said LUCOM's dean, Dr. Ronnie B. Martin, D.O., FACOFP-dist. "Having achieved the highest level of recognition available at this time, we are on track to achieve full accreditation prior to the graduation of our first class of students in 2018."
Martin thanks Edward Via for support of Liberty's program.
"Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine is an outstanding institution that has consistently supported our development," he said. "They have established a high standard for us in the state by graduating quality primary care physicians for rural and underserved portions of our state, physicians who maintain a global mindset."
LUCOM's new status brings the college one step closer to graduating physicians dedicated to providing expanded access to quality health care both locally and across the globe.
"The college exists for one purpose: to provide service that benefits people in need," Martin said. "Our mission centers around producing health care professionals who are not only excellent physicians but have servants' hearts that will cause them to positively impact patients around the world, specifically those in underrepresented and underserved areas. Our graduates' knowledge and skill, along with their passion and commitment, will positively affect the lives and health of countless individuals in the decades to come."
In addition to its new provisional status, LUCOM is also ahead of schedule for construction of the much-anticipated, 140,000-square-foot Center for Medical and Health Sciences, which broke ground at the southeast end of campus in November 2012. A $20.5 million Virginia Tobacco Commission matching grant substantially supported the facility. The four-story building will include state-of-the-art technology, simulation and standardized patient education facilities; extensive clinical medicine, osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) and anatomy labs; an expansive learning resource center; and an interactive electronic library. In addition to a new and thoroughly equipped research lab and center, the building will contain a comprehensive medical clinic to serve both the public and the Liberty community. It will also boast the ability to broadcast medical educational presentations around the world. Construction is set for completion this coming spring.
"Though I am confident that Liberty University will have facilities, curriculum, and faculty to place it among the most advanced medical colleges in the nation, it must be clear that our vision is not about the building," Martin said. "Our challenge is to graduate excellent physicians who will improve the lives of those they serve and who will continue to advance medical knowledge and the health care status of their patients for many years after graduation. They will be provided the opportunity to become excellent practitioners, but more importantly, influenced to become better servants."
Referencing the unparalleled curriculum, Martin said the program focuses on active learning processes that are designed to produce primary and community-based physicians who practice holistic, patient-centric medical care while placing an emphasis on wellness prevention of disease.
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Given decreased property values and budget shortfalls, the Destin Fire Control District will ask voters for permission to raise its mileage rate cap to the maximum allowed by state law.
DESTIN � Given decreased property values and budget shortfalls, the Destin Fire Control District will ask voters for permission to raise its mileage rate cap to the maximum allowed by state law.
�It allows the (Board of Fire Commissioners) the ability to operate the district in a way that meets the need of the citizens,� Fire Chief Kevin Sasser said. �It doesn�t mean that the board will go up to the maximum cap, but it gives them flexibility.�
As it stands, the district�s charter caps the tax rate at 1 mill. One mill equals $1 for every $1,000 of taxable property value.
The fire district will ask Destin residents in a special referendum May 14 whether or not they support raising the millage cap to 3.75 mills.
Sasser said most other professional fire districts in south Okaloosa County have set their millage caps at 3.75. The actual millage rates set by those districts range from 2 to 3.1 mills, he said.
Given the decline in property values over the past few years, Sasser said Destin has been using funds from its reserves to help balance the budget.
That cannot continue, fire district officials say. According to a letter from board Chairman Tommy Green, the district�s remaining contingency funds will only cover a portion of the projected shortfall for the upcoming budget year and would be �completely expended� by the following year.
�To continue to provide existing services while holding the budget flat for the next two years would require a millage rate for 2014 of approximately 1.12 mills and 1.25 mills in 2015, based on the best projections available for property tax valuations,� Green wrote. �As the public record shows, at no time has the commission considered raising the millage rate above these levels.�
Not everyone is so sure. Bob Wagner, who is considering running for the fire commission, wrote a letter to The Destin Log saying: �I understand that the current millage rate has been in effect since 1971 and some change may be needed. However, to ask the taxpayers of Destin to accept the maximum millage rate increase by law and not the 1.25 rate that is needed to balance the budget shows a lack of fiscal responsibility for our money.�
But Sasser said the only options the fire district has to balance the budget are either to reduce services or ask for an increase to the tax cap.
�Our citizens have become accustomed to a certain level of service, and we don�t want to reduce that, if possible,� he said.
Given the proposed 1.12 mills that the district would potentially operate under in fiscal 2014, Sasser said it would be only a $12 increase for properties valued at $100,000.
The referendum will give the fire district an idea of where residents stand, Sasser said. The district also is scheduling meetings with residents who want to discuss the issue. For more information about the meetings, call the fire district at 837-8413.
Meanwhile, Sasser said the district will continue to offer the best services possible, regardless of the outcome of the referendum.
�We�d like for them to vote yes, but if they vote no, that�s OK, too,� he said. �We are just trying to avoid a reduction in services we offer.�
BALLOT QUESTION: �To operate and maintain the Destin Fire Control District�s current facilities, fire rescue, advanced life support and beach rescue services for the citizens of the district, shall the district be allowed to change the millage cap from the current rate of 1.0 mills, approved in 1971, to 3.75 mills as authorized by Chapter 191, Florida Statute. Your elected commissioners set the millage rate annually, which determines the rate you pay, during publicly open budgeting processes.�
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WASHINGTON (PA) – Delaware Valley College posted its second straight, one-point victory as the Aggies rallied from a 19-7, first-half deficit to down host Washington & Jefferson College, 20-19, in the PAC-MAC Challenge Series.
The win improved Delaware Valley to 2-0 on the season as it was coming off last Saturday's 10-9 overtime triumph over Muhlenberg College. The Presidents, who opened their year with a 40-0 rout of Juniata College last week, fell to 1-1.
The PAC-MAC Challenge Series features games between schools from the Presidents Athletic Conference and the Middle Atlantic Conference. The Delaware Valley-W&J contest is viewed as the marquee match-up as the Aggies have reached the playoffs (NCAA or ECAC) in seven of the last eight years while W&J has made eight straight trips to the postseason.
The 2011 contest did not look at all like last year's meeting in Doylestown where Delaware Valley was dominant in a 27-0 blanking. In fact, the Presidents had three consecutive touchdown drives for a combined 143 yards in the second quarter alone and that yardage figure more than doubled their entire offensive total from last year's contest (67 yards).
The first score for W&J was a 17-yard touchdown pass from Matt Bliss to Alex Baroffio with 9:45 remaining in the opening half. However, the extra-point attempt failed, leaving it at 6-0.
The Aggies responded with a six-play, 82-yard drive that culminated in a 24-yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Aaron Wilmer to sophomore wideout Lewis Vincent. Jake Sobchak booted the point-after for a 7-6 Delaware Valley advantage with 7:17 on the clock.
However, the Presidents quickly responded just 22 seconds later as a 62-yard connection between Bliss and Adam Dominick put the ball at the Aggie two-yard line. A penalty moved it up a yard and Dion Wiegand took care of the final yard for the touchdown. W&J failed on a two-point conversion attempt and it was 12-7. Delaware Valley went three-and-out and the Presidents needed just four plays to go 52 yards. Bliss ended the drive with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Hunter Creel and a 19-7 advantage with 4:55 left in the half.
The Aggies then marched 64 yards on nine plays to put themselves right back in the game. The big play was a 30-yard pass from Wilmer to fullback Tom Devlin. Devlin fumbled the ball but recovered it at the W&J eight-yard line. Delaware Valley then faced a fourth-and-goal at the one-yard line and elected to go for the touchdown. Tailback Kyle Schuberth found the end zone with just nine seconds left before the intermission. Sobchak missed the extra-point and the Aggies trailed 19-13 at the break.
Delaware Valley's defense made a big stand early in the second half after Wilmer fumbled the ball on a sack and it was recovered by the Presidents at the Aggie seven-yard line. The Aggies allowed just three yards over the next three plays and W&J kicker Colin Kracinovsky then missed a 21-yard field goal attempt.
Delaware Valley was forced to punt, but on the Presidents' first play after the boot, Aggie linebacker Jim DiLisio stripped Wiegand of the ball and Ken Fowlkes recovered it at the W&J 48-yard line. A 33-yard pass from Wilmer to Isaiah Hall on a third-and-eight put the ball at the 13 yard line. Delaware Valley then faced another third down from the eight-yard line when Wilmer scrambled and made his way into the end zone. Sobchak added the extra-point for a 20-19 Aggie advantage with 8:45 left in the third.
W&J had another chance late in the quarter as it recovered a fumble at the Aggie 34-yard line. The Presidents drove down to the 15 where they had a first down, but a sack, incomplete pass and a four-yard scramble brought up fourth down. Kracinovsky lined up for a 31-yard field goal attempt on the first play of the fourth quarter, but he sailed it wide to the right as Delaware Valley held onto its one-point advantage.
Later in the quarter, the Aggies appeared to up its lead as Wilmer found Chris Ruiz behind the secondary for a 56-yard strike, but it was called back due to an illegal shift penalty. They eventually punted and the Presidents took over at their own 22-yard line.
The teams then traded punts and W&J had another chance from its 20 with 4:40 remaining. A pair of completions moved the ball to the Presidents' 45-yard line, but a sack by John Marcelline marked it back six yards. Following an incomplete pass, Bliss was pressured by Dwayne Shaw and his throw was picked off by Terrance Osborne, who returned it 14 yards to the W&J 44.
Wilmer ran for eight yards and Kyle Schuberth followed with 13 yards and a first down. Later in the drive, the Aggies faced a fourth-and-two from the W&J 15 with exactly a minute to go after Presidents used their final timeout. A false start bumped it back five yards, but Wilmer then hit Rodney Blango on the right sideline for nine yards and a first down to ice the game.
Delaware Valley finished with 375 yards of total offense, including nearly 300 by Wilmer. The transfer from Division II West Chester University completed 14 of 27 passes for 245 yards and one touchdown and added another 51 yards and one score on the ground. He gained 110 yards rushing, but lost 59 as a result of six sacks. Hall caught four passes for 59 yards while Vincent made three grabs for 93 yards and a touchdown. Schuberth carried the ball 13 times for 52 yards and one trip to the end zone.
Defensively, All-American defensive end Mike Jaskowski racked up eight tackles and 1.5 of the team's six sacks in his first action of the season. Chris James added five tackles, one sack and interception in the win.
Bliss finished 20-for-31 for 260 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions for W&J. He was the team's leading rusher with just 10 yards as the Presidents managed just 19 yards on the ground in the game. Dominick and Barrofio had seven catches each for a combined 197 yards. Neil Sorice had 17 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble on the defensive side.


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It looks like John Cook and co at Skeptical Science are in a bit of a tizzy because their secret forum has been exposed to public view. Their complaint is that they have been hacked though John Cook admits that their security is almost non-existent.
What is interesting, in reading some of the excerpts from the forum posted here, is the similarities between the SkS secret forum and the Climategate emails - i.e. we know the facts don't support what we say but don't tell anyone!
That's ok, guys, your secrets are safe with us ;-)


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[Verse 1: Hit-Boy]
All these niggas really know my at bat average, ridiculous rap patterns
And fuck what you know, this youngen got the coldest beats
All my old hoes laying in the coldest sheets
Even if they married they still can't get over me
You 0 for 3, I'm shooting a hundred right from the field now
I'm just a Fresh Prince, buzzing like Uncle Phil's child
And I Will style, peace to all my Hilary's
Stuffin' money in banks, hitting Marilyn's like a Kennedy
And if you feeling me, just let me know it
'Cos I just set the stage and get these words off like a poet
I'm Robert Frost cold on these hoes, I just give them the
Edgar Allen Poe up
Sippin something expensive and party 'till they throw up
Hold up
All my niggas roll up, until the cops show up
My momma says "momma's son is a millionaire"
And just for that, throw your ones up in the air
This is Freshman Adjustment meets Late Registration
Connected up with the kings all 'cos of Ricky's relations
To the nigga I've been studying since I started creating
Now all these niggas is hating, waiting, judging, debating
Tryin' to charge me with a flagrant, but I will not stop
They tryin' to Derek Fisher the boy, but I will not flop
Instead I take it bassline, like Kobe
And I play my own drums and basslines, you know me, homie
I'm getting courted by the bosses
The Ye's, the Hov's, the Puff's, and all them nigga's who's notorious for flossing
Known to be in places these niggas ain't never heard of
I fucked women and watched thrones up in the Mercer
Sign my signature in cursive for them incidentals
Then we got fucked up off that Ace listening to instrumentals
I came a long way from that place where niggas can't wait to get you
And now you copped your favorite mag and I'm in the latest issue
And all the bitches I could never bag, they steadily claiming they miss you
And it's a shame when I get the low-fade
Have all these women feeling like the fourth grade
Crushin on a Youngen, 'cos they know I'm so paid
Once I get the digits consider me so laid
And none of this shit is fiction cos really I don't play
I changed up my old ways, to kill 'em like OJ
Remind them of a young Mike, fresh J's and a gold chain
I stay tailored like politicians, but fuck like I'm out on bond
Women catching feelings trying to be my first son mom
But I'm catching millions trying to be the first one on
And my CD, do you feel me, if you coming, come on
IE nigga, I'm a IE nigga
Went from Colton High School to the widescreen nigga
Couldn't walk in my shoes or jog by me nigga
Since I play by my rules I acquired these figures
Now a nigga got enough to supersize, ride with him
No surprise, all these Benjamins inside my denim
Couldn't be the nigga sitting on the sideline benching
Open minds will be the ones to oblige my vision
Televise my mission, on channel 5, see me in the news
They monitor my every move, wanna see me lose
Hear the shit I spit like "what the fuck has gotten into you?"
I got 'em tuned in like a Jay-Z interview
First official rap song from Hit-Boy, well-known to have produced the hits "Niggas in Paris" (Kanye x Jay-Z), "Goldie" (A$AP Rocky) and "Drop the World" (by Lil Wayne).
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Rockies squash Tulo rumors, seek slugger
DENVER -- The Rockies continue to put out the smoke from the Troy Tulowitzki trade rumors.
"He's not going anywhere, period," Rockies senior vice president of Major League operations Bill Geivett told MLB.com on Tuesday upon leaving the General Managers Meetings in Orlando, Fla., for a trip to the Dominican Republic.
DENVER -- The Rockies continue to put out the smoke from the Troy Tulowitzki trade rumors.
"He's not going anywhere, period," Rockies senior vice president of Major League operations Bill Geivett told MLB.com on Tuesday upon leaving the General Managers Meetings in Orlando, Fla., for a trip to the Dominican Republic.
Throughout the last week, various national reports had the Cardinals making a strong play for Tulowitzki, considered the game's best two-way shortstop when healthy. But Geivett's statement mirrors that of Rockies ownership, that the team wasn't looking to deal Tulowitzki, or left fielder Carlos Gonzalez, for that matter. Tulowitzki's name surfaced because the National League champion Cards are looking to upgrade at short.
With that rumor off the front burner, it's time to turn the focus of speculation other places:
• With the Rockies not wanting to meet defensive catcher Carlos Ruiz's asking price, the Rockies are likely to return to their original plan of pursuing a slugger for first base or the outfield.
One possible fit is right-handed-hitting Mike Napoli.
The World Series champion Red Sox made Napoli a qualifying offer, which means the team that signs him will have to give up a pick in the 2014 First-Year Player Draft. But because the Rockies will select among the top 10 in the first round (eighth overall), they would not forfeit their first pick but their second should they sign Napoli -- or, for that matter, outfielders Carlos Beltran, a switch-hitter, or Nelson Cruz, a right-handed hitter, who also received qualifying offers from their 2013 squads.
Napoli, 32, hit .259 with a .360 on-base percentage and an .842 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage), with 23 home runs and 38 doubles. Almost as important as those numbers is the fact he led the Majors by seeing 4.59 pitches per plate appearance in 2013. For a club that traditionally struggles offensively on the road and had a penchant for empty at-bats, Napoli could be a fine addition. However, the Red Sox are making re-signing him a priority, even though they have enough in-house candidates to replace him.
The Rockies would not give up a pick if they signed switch-hitting James Loney, who has put up big numbers at Coors Field as a visitor with the Dodgers and Rays, or left-handed-hitting Justin Morneau.
• With the Rockies dropping out of the bidding for Ruiz, the plan is to stick with power-hitting Wilin Rosario (.504 career slugging percentage, 49 home runs and 91 extra-base hits the last two years) and hope he continues to develop defensively. They liked the work of Jordan Pacheco when he moved from the corner-infield spots to catcher for the final days of last season.
Geivett and Rockies catching instructor Rene Lachemann will be watching Rosario and Pacheco in Dominican Winter League play.
The Rockies continue to pursue experienced, hard-throwing relievers. They've been connected to Brian Wilson, Grant Balfour, LaTroy Hawkins, Jesse Crain, Jose Veras and Joe Smith.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Authorities on Thursday called off the search for two men who fell off a Mississippi River barge that overturned in northeastern Arkansas earlier this week, saying both are presumed to have been killed.
Capt. William Drelling, the commander for the U.S. Coast Guard in Sector Lower Mississippi, said searchers haven't seen any sign of Juan Nieves or Nicolas Perez, who have been missing since the barge capsized Tuesday. When asked if he thought they were still alive, Drelling said, "If we thought they were, we'd still be searching."
Nieves and Perez fell into the water when the barge flipped over while unloading about 700,000 pounds of steel coil at a Kinder Morgan terminal near Blytheville, which is about 60 miles north of Memphis, Tenn.
Investigators don't know what caused the barge to capsize.
A ten-mile portion of the river that was closed was reopened Thursday after the Coast Guard suspended their search. The latest reading of the water's temperature was nearly 50 degrees, and according to Drelling, a person could still have control of their body for about seven hours and stay alive for about 10 hours. The barge sank in about 50 feet of water near the river's tree-lined banks.
Drelling said the Coast Guard had searched about 40 miles downstream since the search efforts began earlier this week.
Richard Wheatley, the spokesman for Houston-based Kinder Morgan, said the vessel is owned by the owned by GATX Corporation, was leased by Cooper Marine & Timberlands Corporation and operated by American Commercial Lines.
The men worked for Kinder Morgan through staffing agencies, Wheatley said. He said a salvage operation for the barge will be conducted by an outside contractor.