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It's been bothering me all day, because I can't figure out a good way to say this without coming across as a total usability geek obsessing over the least little thing. Whatever, here goes.
Slashdot, the archetypal "News for Nerds" site has long posted news items with small icons next to each story. These were great because they were topical, and a quick scan of the page could let you know which stories to read or not, base on your particular interest in the topic.
As far as I can tell, these are no more. The best attempt at categorization right now is a throw–away line following each story title, "from the such and such department", usually a joke.
What a step backward. No more quick scanning, now you actually have to read a bit into each story to see if it's one you've read before, or even if it's one you're interested in.
There. I've spoken my piece, and I'm satisfied now.
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Have you tried reading slashdot in light mode (you can set it in the preferences page)? I find it way easier to read without there awful ugly clunky black and green interface. More then makes up for the lack of pictures. As for the pictures I suspect its a temporary thing, the icons still appear on the top of the page, and the option to toggle the icons is still in the preferences.
Same experience. Icons show up at the top, so they're obviously still around in some form or another, the stories are just icon-free.
Jemal, baby, some of my best fodder for writing comes from commenting, so keep 'em coming.
I have. I still don't get the immediate sense of "seen this one already" that the icons gave me. It was a great system because if you had a couple in a row you could use as a benchmark. "Okay, I've seen the one directly above the Microsoft icon, so that means the one above that is new" Very instinctual, and didn't involve any extra thought.
I noticed before they disappeared outright, each story had three or four icons loading, tiling one over top of the other. I'm thinking they may have moved to multiple categorization, which means buh-bye icons. I noticed the toggle switch still in place though… odd.
Ummm - the icons are there - did you perhaps turn them off? Or block the server that provides them? (AdBlock on Mozilla might do that)
Nope, and nope. Logged in and logged out, I'm not getting icons.
If this is a quirkly technical issue, I suppose my post becomes -1 Redundant, doesn't it?
I was thinking -1 Flamebait, but at least you didn't complain about duplicate posts. =-)
Try viewing this Wireless icon from their page and see what happens.
By the way, I just started coming to your site - very impressive - and it's been added to my list of daily reads, so try coming up with something new on a daily basis.
i havent seen icons next the the stories for a while now, though i do still see them at the very top of the page.
Okay, here we go. Notice the three icons by the story? That's probably why I was originally seeing three overlapping icons before they disappeared outright. Categorization in multiple categories.
Yep, they're probably gone for good off the home page, and now only show up on the individual story pages.
What browser are you using? I am not expert enough to figure out why, but I see the icons next to each article when I view the page with Opera 7.0 but I do not see them when viewed with IE 6.0.
Very much enjoy your site, by the way.


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Cisco at CES 2012: Catching Up With Marthin De Beer and Jesper Andersen
Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Video and Collaboration Group takes time at CES to share his thoughts on the service provider video market. He highlights Cisco's video experience demos at the show, and discusses how we are helping customers through our end-to-end architecture, with strategies to bridge legacy infrastructure to future IP-centric architectures, including the emergence of home gateways.
Jesper Andersen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group, sits down at CES 2012 in Las Vegas to offer his insight on the top video trends of the last year, along with the areas of focus for service providers in 2012, including the cloud. He highlights Cisco's Videoscape news at the show, and how the new Videoscape cloud and client technologies can help service providers with their cloud strategies and deliver on the vision for 'Any Screen TV' video experiences.
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What's going into Somerville's Assembly Square?
Assembly Row is a new $1.5 billion complex in the Assembly Square section of Somerville. Construction began on its first two buildings in March. The project will create a neighborhood of offices, stores, restaurants, homes, a hotel, and new MBTA station along the Mystic River. Here is a look at what's expected in the area.
Pictured: An aerial rendering of the project.
Assembly Row's developer, Federal Realty Investment Trust, said last year that it plans to include dozens of outlet stores among the retail offerings at the 45-acre complex. About 50 outlets are planned in the first phase of work. The massive Somerville project will cater to Boston-area shoppers that are tired of trekking to the suburbs for bargains on popular brands.
The furniture giant Ikea decided not to build its planned store in Assemby Row, the company announced on Thursday. The company believes its current store in Stoughton is sufficient for the state.
Left: Police officers directed drivers to the IKEA store in Stoughton in 2005.
The proposed Assembly Row apartment buildings by AvalonBay Communities Inc. will have 448 rental units. According to the developers, the 470,000 square feet site is one of the largest residential real estate projects under construction in the Boston area. Overall, the Assembly project is expected to have 2,050 housing units and a 200-room hotel.
The new $29.2 million Assembly Square MBTA station is under construction near the Assembly Row development. In July, the Orange Line between Oak Grove and Sullivan Station was replaced with bus service after 9 p.m. on Sundays through Thursdays. It will continue through Dec. 28. Pictured: An Orange Line train heads into downtown from Ruggles.
Developers proposed 1.75 million square feet of office space for Assembly Row. An office building from the second phase of construction will include office space built for company's needs. The development is only in the early phase.
The property is expected to offer nighttime attractions of restaurants with outdoor seating and a movie theater. AMC Theatres plans to open a 12-screen movie complex in the area. The theater was the first major retail tenant to commit to opening. Its expected opening is fall 2013.
A view of the area's Main Street, where people will gather to dine and shop.
Another rendering of Main Street for after the entire property is completed.
A photograph of the future Assembly Row site in Somerville from last year.
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From Pastor to President: An Interview with Philip Graham Ryken
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Eleven days from now, I expect to cast my vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States for these reasons:
Full Text of President-Elect Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech from Chicago, Illinois on November 4, 2008
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
Text of Republican John McCain's concession speech Tuesday in Phoenix, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.
MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
My friends, we have — we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.
A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him.
To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too.
But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters.
America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — In his three previous successful gubernatorial bids, incumbent Middlebury Republican James Douglas has been able to cite a litany of priority issues to tackle while in office, including property tax reform, improving health care access and fixing the state's roads and bridges.
This year, Douglas — and indeed other candidates for statewide office — are seemingly unified in rallying behind a single, dominant campaign issue: dealing with the sagging economy and its effect on the state budget.
Douglas is being challenged this year by Jericho Democrat Gaye Symington and Middlesex independent Anthony Pollina.
"The economy; that's the major concern on the minds of everybody," Douglas said during a recent interview at the Addison Independent. "It's the top priority our state is going to face during the next couple of years."
Thankfully, Douglas said, Vermont is contending with an economic slowdown that is less pronounced than other regions of the country.
"We have done well compared to other places, in terms of the national slowdown," Douglas added. "Our banks are strong; they didn't issue risky loans, to the extent that other states did. The foreclosure rate is low here. (Vermont banks) have cash to lend. Our financial system, locally, is in good shape."
Still, Douglas noted Vermont is not "immune to the impact of what is going on around the nation and the world."
Like Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, Douglas noted the extent to which many elderly Vermonters are dependant on investment income that has been taking a hit in the stock market.
"One report I saw indicated we are number one in terms of the percentage of our income tax receipts that come from capital gains," Douglas said. "So when those gains disappear, as they are likely to for the next year or so, our general fund revenues are going to take a hit."
Editor's note: The following profile of gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina first appeared in the Addison Independent last spring and is reprinted here to provide more information for voters going to the polls next week.
MIDDLEBURY — It's still early in the election year, but Middlesex Progressive Anthony Pollina has already grown weary of leaders in Montpelier saying what they "can't" do for Vermonters, either due to scant finances or the sheer complexity of the problems at hand.
So, Pollina has decided to run for governor to tell citizens what state government "can" do for them.
"Overall, I would say I share the same frustration that a lot of other Vermonters share with the current governor (Middlebury Republican James Douglas), who tends to be holding us back from dealing with the challenges we face," Pollina, 56, said during a March 28 interview with the Addison Independent. "The way I would categorize it is, the current governor spends too much time lecturing us about all the things he thinks we cannot do."
Pollina, during a far ranging interview, discussed his stand on a variety of campaign issues, including health care reform, boosting affordable housing and creating new jobs. He also addressed the perception, held by some in the Statehouse, that his candidacy could siphon votes from a Democrat challenger to Douglas. Vermont Democrats have yet to field a candidate for governor.
Pollina is no stranger to statewide races and controversy.
In 1984, he was the Democratic and Rainbow Coalition candidate for U.S. Congress.
He ran the first-ever Progressive Party campaign for governor in 2000, polling 10 percent of the vote. He followed that up in 2002 with a bid for lieutenant governor, garnering 25 percent of the vote in a very competitive race.
Editor's note: The following profile of gubernatorial candidate Gaye Symington first appeared in the Addison Independent last May and is reprinted here to provide more information for voters going to the polls next week.
MIDDLEBURY — Jericho Democrat Gaye Symington has a special fondness for the word "energy" when she talks about her campaign for governor these days.
The current Vermont House Speaker talks about the energy she would bring to the job as the state's chief executive, and how energy policy is of paramount importance at a time when gasoline is hovering around $4 per gallon.
Symington enters a race that includes incumbent Gov. James Douglas, a Middlebury Republican, and Progressive Anthony Pollina of Middlesex. Now in her second term as speaker, Symington when away from the Legislature is development director for the Intervale Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs various agriculture-based ventures in Burlington.
It wasn't until recently that she decided to forego a re-election bid for her House seat in order to make her first run for governor. She said she looks forward to the challenge.
Symington said she first considered running for governor last fall, but a busy legislative session and other responsibilities forced her to delay her decision until this spring.
"As the legislative session moved on, more and more people came up to me and said, 'You are the person to do this; we really want you to consider doing this,'" Symington recalled. "It really wasn't until late-March that I realized I really have to allow myself to think this through in a complete way."
She formally announced her gubernatorial bid at the Statehouse earlier this month. Symington said she came to the realization she could bring a lot of energy and enthusiasm to charting a more prosperous course for Vermont.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Democrat Tom Costello aims to topple incumbent Republican Brian Dubie in this year's race for lieutenant governor with a platform that calls for economic assistance for Vermont seniors, a vigorous debate about the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor and a focus on positive ways to attract business to the state.
The 63-year-old Brattleboro lawyer and veteran state representative is up against Dubie, who has served three terms as the state's lieutenant governor, after winning out against Nate Freeman of Northfield in of the two contested statewide primaries last month.
"Our present administration is not dealing specifically and effectively with these problems which are solvable," said Costello, who jumped into the race in June after learning that Dubie was running unopposed.
Costello was born and raised in Rutland, and graduated from Mount St. Joseph's High School in 1963. He attended St. Michael's College in Colchester, and after graduating enlisted as a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam, where he received a Bronze Star with a Combat V for valor and a Purple Heart.
After returning from Vietnam, Costello earned a degree from Boston University Law School in 1974, and moved back to Rutland, where he practiced law until 1980. During that time, Costello began his political career in 1976 as a Rutland City representative in the Vermont House. He served until 1980, when he moved to Brattleboro, where he later started his own law firm, Costello Law Offices.
Costello represented Brattleboro for an additional three terms in the legislature from 1994 to 2000. He was the chair of the judiciary committee from 1994 until 1998, and also served on a special legislative committee investigating Vermont State Police practices.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie is seeking to win another two-year term with a proposed agenda that includes working to increase renewable energy sources in the state, crafting more sustainable state budgets in view of declining revenues, and enacting tougher laws on sex offenders.
Dubie, 49, is seeking his fourth consecutive term as lieutenant governor. The Essex Junction Republican faces major party opposition this year from Democrat Tom Costello (see story, Page 1A).
In an extensive interview on Tuesday at the Addison Independent, Dubie discussed his priorities for the next biennium, offering more of what he says he has delivered to Vermonters. He touted a six-year record in which he says he pushed for the creation of more "green" and high-tech jobs in Vermont, diversification of the state's energy sources, a bolstering of aid and services for the elderly and needy in the face of surging fuel prices, and harsher penalties for those convicted of sexually assaulting children.
Dubie has condensed his accomplishments into a binder he titled "Lt. Governor's Logbook: A Record of Success." The latest edition includes 122 pages of text evoking Dubie's vision for the state and initiatives he has supported to attain that vision.
"(The Logbook) gets thicker every year," said Dubie, a Vermont Air National Guard veteran and current American Airlines pilot.
The Vermont lieutenant governor's primary duties include presiding over the state Senate and casting the deciding vote in the case of a tie. But Dubie said he has tried to take a more visible, active role during the past six years by:
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We regularly feature the photos and collections of women the world over who love showcasing their incredibly expensive handbag and shoe collections for thousands of curious onlookers, but that kind of sharing can have its downsides. Not long after going on both local and national TV to showcase her three-story closet, including dozens of Hermès and Chanel bags, among others, Houston resident Theresa Roemer is now missing more than a million bucks in designer wares.
The 3,000-square-foot space, which had recently been dubbed America's biggest private fashion closet, has been the subject of its fair share of media attention, which was likely the cause for the burglary earlier this week. Roemer told the Houston Chronicle that the theft appears to have been perpetrated by professionals, and that the robbers focused on her jewelry, watches and handbags, despite the probable existence of many other extremely expensive things inside a house with a $500,000 custom closet.
Roemer and her husband moved into the 20,000-square-foot house in the tony Woodlands neighborhood of Houston two years ago after two burglaries on their previous home. The massive closet has security features, but Roemer says that she forget to arm them before she and her husband stepped out to dinner with friends on the evening of the robbery.
The couple's security cameras caught the perpetrator entering the house through the rear, according to the Chronicle, and then using three of Theresa's Hermès travel bags to load up on other accessories before departing on foot. All told, he was in the house for 40 minutes, and the place is so massive that the Roemers didn't realize that something was amiss until a little while after they returned home from dinner.
Media attention on Roemer's closet appears to have started with a Neiman Marcus blog post(which is where the above photo is from) about her collection and philanthropic efforts, and the story grew from there, as these kinds of things are wont to do on the Internet.
No matter how you may judge Roemer's use of her money, it's a stark reminder that what we share, online and elsewhere, isn't only being viewed by those with our best interests at heart. Handbags, especially from brand likes Hermès and Chanel, have great value on the secondhand market, which can send thieves directly to your closet.


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Clinkle, A Start-Up With Deep Stanford Roots
More than a dozen Stanford University students have left to launch a startup called Clinkle that aims to let people use their mobile devices to pay for goods and services, Amir Efrati joins digits. Photo: Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal.
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Trains are considered to be a safe mode of transport. Nevertheless, collisions do occur. The only way to prevent them is by having precise information well in advance. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have now devised a new kind of system intended to prevent rail accidents, and have named it Railway Collision Avoidance System (RCAS). On 11 May 2010, at a test track near Aachen, the developers gave a first demonstration of how RCAS functions.
Train-to-train communication without infrastructure
"RCAS is a system for preventing train collisions that operates independently of other safety technology deployed alongside the railway tracks," explained project director Prof. Dr Thomas Strang from the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation, as he summed up the objective of this DLR project.
The system uses the latest communication and sensor technologies, and these enable direct train-to-train communication. The trains exchange information about position, speed, loading gauge and the planned route as soon as they are within radio range of one another. "If the system detects an imminent collision, it warns each train driver and assists them by offering possible solutions," says Prof. Strang. He is convinced that RCAS could have helped to prevent tragic collisions such as the one on 15 February 2010 involving two Belgian regional trains near Brussels.
A multi-institute project
RCAS is a multi-institute research project at DLR. The team involves researchers from the Institute of Communication and Navigations, as well as researchers from the DLR Institute of Transportation Systems and the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. In addition, DLR is collaborating on its RCAS venture with Bayerischen Oberlandbahn, a Bavarian railway company. For the test runs at the Wegberg-Wildenrath test centre (in the Heinsberg / North Rhine-Westphalia region), the company made various facilities available, including one of its 'Integral' regional trains and personnel.
The DLR researchers delivered lectures and showed models to participants on the demonstration day, explaining to them the technology, operating method and potential applications of RCAS. On test runs, the audience of specialists was then able to experience the RCAS technology at work on board the Integral, equipped with RCAS and in communication with its simulated collision partner – DLR's road/rail 'RailDriVE' vehicle.
Three different test scenarios
Integral and RailDriVE exchanged information in three different scenarios. The first situation involved a side-by-side run during which the two rail vehicles were simultaneously approaching a section of single-track line. In the second scenario, the train headed for a set of points behind which one line was occupied and the other was vacant, but where the setting of the points was unclear. In a third test run, a train was left stationary near a set of points but did not constitute a hazard, and the system successfully recognised this fact.
In all cases, RCAS assesses the situation for itself and evaluates it. If a situation appears critical, the RCAS system prompts the train driver to apply the brakes. If the situation is not critical, the system does not raise an alarm and the train is able to continue on its journey.
RCAS intended to complement existing control and protection systems
"RCAS is initially intended for routes and situations where, at present, no other protection systems are employed – for example, routes with very low volumes of traffic, industrial railways, construction sites or shunting areas," explained project team member and DLR rail transport researcher Dr Michael Meyer zu Hörste as he mapped out the potential applications. Dr Meyer zu Hörste emphasised that RCAS is in no way intended to replace the European Train Control System, ETCS (the standard European rail traffic management system). "RCAS is an add-on system – train control and protection systems already play a successful role in preventing collisions. RCAS can act as what we call a 'Safety Overlay', to increase safety levels in places where conventional safety technology is not being employed." The existing prototype is based on standard commercial hardware and software, which in its existing form does not hold, and will not be awarded, official approval for safety-critical fields of operation.
Since RCAS is not reliant on functional elements in the transport infrastructure, the system can be designed and built very cost-effectively as a simple on-board unit for trains. "The precise timing of a market launch and the price will, however, depend on the functional and timing requirements of the first train operators to employ this system. RCAS is already available as a working prototype for trials under operational or close-to-reality conditions," explained project director Prof. Strang as he outlines the current project status.
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Every morning I receive email from a website that sends me spiritual messages. Sometimes it is about the day and if its a holiday I get a message pertaining too it. Anyway, this morning I received one like usual but it pertained about my country and it's birthday. I truly enjoyed it, and want to share it with you all this morning. I have cut and pasted it below from my email. It is sent from a website called Worthy News.
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With love from a brother in Christ Lord Jesus to all ; Kent Kruelski
Worthy News Brief – July 4, 2012
Kent, restoration of a nation!
Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Throughout the United States today, everyone will be celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence — a document through which leaders of the colonies in the New World broke free from the King of England.
The declaration begins: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
While revisionist historians are working hard to remove any trace of Christian/Biblical ideals from the foundations of America, today's celebration finds its basis in a foundational document which appeals to the authority of a Divine Creator, one whom most of the founding fathers fully believed to have been the author and main subject of the Holy Bible, and who was the guarantor of certain "inalienable rights". So the Fourth of July – more than just a celebration of independence, ought also to be a day which recognizes God's participation in the nation's birth.
I've read and heard all kinds of advice about how America ought to be transformed, while a simple recognition of God's covenant offer to a nation goes ignored. The words found in 2 Chronicles 7:14 could be claimed and applied to any nation, but particularly one whose foundational documents and institutions have drawn their inspiration substantially from Biblical monotheism. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
IF we truly want to see healing brought to any nation, then this conditional covenant is for US and the restoration of our land will require our part in the covenant: humility, prayer and repentance, so that God can forgive our sin and heal our land!
Kent, true restoration and healing only comes through true repentance and God's grace! With so much work to be done — may restoration begin with us!
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah
Negev Desert, Israel
That's my King!
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Daniel Farnum was born in the blue-collar town of Saginaw, Michigan. He is the recipient of many notable awards such as the Juror's Selection Award given by Christopher Rauschenberg at the Center for Fine Art Photography, two prizes from the Paul Sack Architectural Photography Contest, and an award from William Jenkins, who curated the seminal New Topographics exhibition. Daniel's prints have been exhibited at the Marin MOCA, MPLS Photo Center, Sea and Space Explorations in LA, UC Berkeley, and at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in NYC. He has also been featured in solo exhibitions at Center Gallery in Wichita, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Newspace Center for Photography in Portland. He has upcoming solo shows at the University of Toledo, University of Wisconsin, and Calvin College in Grand Rapids. Daniel received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Michigan. He teaches photography at the University of Missouri.
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PyData 2013 in Silicon Valley
Event Details
PyData Silicon Valley 2013 Conference
Tutorials: March 18, 2013
Conference: March 19-20, 2013
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, CA
(PyCon 2013 Sprints are March 18-21, 2013)
The PyData conference/workshop is a semi-annual event for scientists, programmers, and data analysts in the Python community. We will focus on techniques and tools for management, analytics, and visualization of data of different types and sizes with particular emphasis on big data and modern data problems.
2013 Conference Schedule
Please see the schedule & videos from PyData NYC 2012
PyData NYC 2012 Schedule: http://nyc2012.pydata.org/
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When you think about salmon in Alaska, you might picture grizzly bears standing in a gushing stream and snapping up spawning fish as they leap against the current. (Even a Steamfresh® Chef's Favorites frozen dinner commercial plays off this image, as does this John West Red Salmon clip).
But for all the iconic footage of salmon runs, this annual rite of passage and predation has gone largely unstudied from the point of view of individual bears—especially outside of easily observable areas.
The challenge is that observations of bears are generally too few and too close to reveal natural feeding behavior, so most of what we know about the bear-salmon relationship comes from fish carcass surveys: We see what's been eaten, but not always who did the eating, or how often or where or when. That leaves a lot of unknowns, including how many bears hunt along salmon spawning-streams, and whether bears return to the same stream year after year.
To answer these questions and others, two units in the College of the Environment—the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS)—have launched a coordinated research project.
Led by SAFS Professor Tom Quinn and SEFS Professor Aaron Wirsing, this new study is investigating coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) abundance and behavior along sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) spawning streams in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Their project draws from decades of existing salmon research and introduces a completely new perspective by exploring individual brown bear behavior, including monitoring bears through remote cameras and collecting hair samples for DNA analysis.
The research team is housed at the Fisheries Research Institute, a program within SAFS, and based in the village of Aleknagik. In addition to Professors Quinn and Wirsing, the crew includes SAFS graduate student Curry Cunningham and Professor Lisette Waits from the University of Idaho.
Their work began in 2010 by placing the first cameras along salmon-spawning streams in the Wood River Lakes System. In July 2012, they then deployed barbed wire across three streams to begin snagging tufts of hair from foraging bears. This past summer, they expanded the research area and deployed two barbed wires each on six streams. One wire per stream is paired with a remote camera trap to document what happens when bears encounter the wires. The wires are set just high enough—55-60 centimeters—for bears to step gingerly over them, often leaving small tufts of hair behind (when good samples are collected, they call it a "good hair day"). The hairs, in turn, yield DNA samples that help researchers identify individual bears.
The study is designed to be noninvasive, so among the questions to answer was whether the wires would impact or otherwise disrupt bear behavior and hunting. Judging from the camera images so far—including many taken at night (see slideshow below)—the bears appear largely unconcerned with the wires, often stepping over and under multiple times in a single encounter (in the process, of course, leaving collectible tufts of hair).
In the first year of hair sampling last summer, the team collected 74 tufts from wires along Bear, Happy, and Hansen creeks. They have analyzed 41 of the samples so far and have successfully identified 15 different individuals—eleven females, four males, and all brown bears.
Field work is just winding down for this summer (at left, check out a slideshow of photos Professor Wirsing took a few weeks ago). They plan to continue the project for a few more years, and as researchers sort through several hundred new samples to analyze, they're excited to open this window into a largely unseen and unstudied realm of bear behavior.
"Outside of a few highly visible areas, such as the McNeil River, the behavior of brown bears foraging on salmon has been largely shrouded in mystery," says Wirsing. "We hope our work will reveal how feeding and social behavior of individual bears are shaped by the arrival of migrating salmon—and by extension how coastal brown bear populations might be affected by changes to the size and timing of salmon runs."
Super Salmon
In the short video clip below, Professor Wirsing captures sockeye salmon swimming up Hansen Creek, which in some places is only a couple inches deep as it approaches Lake Aleknagik. You'll get a glimpse—a tiny glimpse, mind you—of the herculean effort it takes for salmon to reach their spawning grounds. Their exertion is nothing short of heroic during this brutal slog. After all, even when they manage to dodge the maw of a hungry grizzly, they still have to muscle their way through narrow, shallow streams to reach their final destinations. In some cases, a few of the larger males get too fatigued to maneuver through the shallowest sections and end up stranded. Those beached souls then sometimes have to suffer through gulls pecking their eyes out as a final insult. No question, it's an unforgiving business.
Slideshow photos, hair tuft and salmon video © Aaron Wirsing; all other photos © Tom Quinn.


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Dyer County
Each time Eric Maupin looks out over a green field, sees his wife, Jo Ann, coming down the road bringing lunch in the field or recalls that one of his toddler Cara's first words was 'tractor,' his decision to return to farming is reinforced.
Each time Eric Maupin ('97) looks out over a green field, sees his wife, Jo Ann, ('04) coming down the road bringing lunch in the field or recalls that one of his toddler Cara's first words was 'tractor,' his decision to return to farming is reinforced. The truth is, in spirit, he never really left.
Eric's career plans were to get an agriculture business degree at UT Martin and finish up with an agriculture law degree at UT Knoxville. At the time, he was not sure the opportunity to return to the family farm would present itself, "but I still had that desire ... to help farmers." As it turned out, he got involved at UT Martin, completed an agriculture internship abroad and added a communications minor.
After he graduated, Maupin was appointed as the Tennessee Department of Agriculture's first international agricultural marketing coordinator. "My job, specifically, was to help agricultural companies ... that felt like they could move their product to an international market," said Eric. Focusing on smaller companies throughout the state, he guided them through every facet, from marketing and product regulations to logistics. "I thoroughly enjoyed my job; loved the people I worked with. I stayed overseas a lot ... months at a time," he said.
But then, Eric's father, Larry, decided he wanted to semi-retire after 35 years of farming in Dyer County. And the land Larry was farming was not just any piece of ground. Eric's great-grandfather bought the land in 1938. His great-grandfather was later joined in farming by his son, Calvin, Eric's grandfather, who was then joined by his son, Larry.
The Maupin family, he said, had everything from chickens, cattle and a farrow-to-finish hog operation to row crops.
When Eric considered returning to farming, he contacted his brother, who is Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation associate director of public affairs, to see if he was interested in continuing the family business. Knowing that, at the time, it would have been difficult for the farm to sustain two households, Stefan decided not to make a career move. So in 2000, Eric developed a transition plan to buy out his parents. "I could not do what I do without my parents," he said. "We're talking three generations that had been here before me to build what we have to this day."
Now, Eric and Jo Ann grow corn, soybeans and wheat as main crops on more than 2,000 acres of land they own and rent. They have commercial beef cattle and produce all the needed hay. They also have a seed sales business and are partners in a livestock truck-wash business. Jo Ann, who grew up on a dairy farm, provides the bookkeeping services for all the family businesses. They have one full-time employee, Andy Butler, and Eric hires seasonal employees when needed. Eric's mother, Joan, has continued to help. As an aside, Eric, a licensed auctioneer, calls bids for a local auction and realty company and an auction barn in the off-season.
In 2009, Eric and Jo Ann were named Tennessee Farm Bureau Tennessee Young Farmers of the Year, advancing to the national competition, where they were runners-up. They won use of a tractor for a year, as well as other equipment and prizes in the contests.
Eric speaks confidently about the many ways technology has changed and improved farming in preparing to meet the consumers' demands in the future. "In the next 40 years, it is predicted the American farmer will have to produce the same amount of food that has been produced since the conception of farming," he said.
He also talks passionately about his and other farmers' commitment to being good stewards of the environment. "One of the most important things we can do as agriculturists is preserve the land for the next generation," he said.
Jo Ann and Eric agree farming requires leaps of faith. "Anytime there's manual labor, and you have to deal with Mother Nature, ... there are going to be instances when you go, 'Why did I do this?'"
In the end, Eric will think he made the right decision to return to farming "if I am able to provide for my family – not everything that they want, but everything that they need – and if I have instilled in my children a good work ethic so they can be productive citizens. Then I'll think we've done a good job."
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Indonesia's Constitutional Court has thrown its resource investment environment into further turmoil by declaring that the country's own oil and gas licensing agency and regulator is unconstitutional.
The regulator, BPMigas, was disbanded as of yesterday and the national government hurriedly announced that the Energy and Mineral Resources department would take over its role in administering 302 production sharing contracts.
The chairman of the now-defunct agency, Raden Priyono, said ongoing negotiations with foreign companies, including a proposed $12 billion investment by resource giant British Petroleum (BP) for an expanded natural gas facility in Papua, would now stall.
Contracts for licenses worth $70 billion which companies had signed with BPMigas were also now in doubt, he said, though other commentators played this down.
BPMigas was set up by the newly democratic Indonesia in 2001 as an independent statutory authority to replace the regulation and licensing function of state-owned oil producer, Pertamina, which had become hopelessly corrupted under the Suharto regime.
BPMigas has no link to the oil company BP.
But despite being a government agency, BPMigas has run afoul of growing nationalist sentiment, with the belief afoot that it was awarding too many lucrative contracts to foreign companies and cheating the Indonesian people out of income. The court case was brought by 42 community and Islamic groups.
Contracts governing 29 oil and gas projects are up for renewal between 2013 and 2017, and pressure is building on the Indonesian government to nationalise them all.
Indonesia produces 2.36 million barrels of oil per day and foreign owned companies including Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Total, ConocoPhillips and BP account for about 90 per cent of the country's production. Companies have refused to comment as they digest the implications.
The Constitutional Court's binding judgement declared the agency unconstitutional because it is in violation of Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution, which guarantees that land, waters and natural resources should be "under the power of the state".
The court said that because BPMigas did not actually operate oil and gas wells, and therefore the constitutional requirement was "degraded".
Chief justice Mahfud MD – who reportedly has political ambitions to be the next Indonesian president – led the judgement.
Dien Syamsuddin, the chairman of Muhammadiyah, one of the world's largest Islamic organisations and one of the plaintiffs in the case, said the judgement "represents a people's victory".
But Phil Shah, a consultant to the oil and gas industry, said the move was "a disturbance". While BPMigas had, at times, been a "scourge" for foreign investors, the judgment was "another obstacle in the path overall".
"It's an unfortunate event, and certainly disappointing, but it's one of many."
Recent laws in other parts of the resource industry have forced foreign miners to pay new taxes on exports, to hastily formulate plans to process and smelt minerals in Indonesia, and to sell down their stakes in productive mines to 49 per cent to local businesses.
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Many browsers now have the ability to access video and audio input from the user. However, depending on the browser it might be a full dynamic and inline experience, or it could be delegated to another app on the user's device.
Start simple and progressively
The easiest thing to do is simply ask the user for a pre-recorded file. Do this by creating a simple
file input element and adding an
accept filter that indicates we can only accept audio files, and
capture attribute that indicates we want to get it direct from the microphone.
<input type="file" accept="audio/*" capture>
This method works on all platforms. On desktop it will prompt the user to
upload a file from the file system (ignoring the
capture attribute). In Safari
on iOS it will open up the microphone app, allowing you to record audio and
then send it back to the web page; on Android it will give the user the
choice of which app to use record the audio in before sending it back to the web
Once the user has finished recording and they are back in the website, you
need to somehow get ahold of the file data. You can get quick access by
attaching an
onchange event to the input element and then reading
files property of the event object.
<input type="file" accept="audio/*" capture id="recorder"> <audio id="player" controls></audio>
Once you have access to the file you can do anything you want with it. For example, you can:
- Attach it directly to an
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- Download it to the user's device
- Upload it to a server by attaching to an
- Pass it through the Web Audio API and apply filters on to it
Whilst using the input element method of getting access to audio data is ubiquitous, it is the least appealing option. We really want to get access to the microphone and provide a nice experience directly in the page.
Access the microphone interactively
Modern browsers can have a direct line to the microphone allowing us to build experiences that are fully integrated with the web page and the user will never leave the browser.
Acquire access to the microphone
We can directly access the Microphone by using an API in the WebRTC
specification called
getUserMedia() will prompt the user for
access to their connected microphones and cameras.
If successful the API will return a
Stream that will contain the data from either the camera or
the microphone, and we can then either attach it to an
<audio> element, attach it to a WebRTC
stream, attach it to a Web Audio
AudioContext, or save it using the
MediaRecorder API.
To get data from the microphone we just set
audio: true in the constraints
object that is passed to the
getUserMedia() API
<audio id="player" controls></audio>
If you want to choose a particular microphone you can first enumerate the available microphones.
navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices().then((devices) => {
devices = devices.filter((d) => d.kind === 'audioinput');
You can then pass the deviceId that you wish to use when you call
audio: {
deviceId: devices[0].deviceId
By itself, this isn't that useful. All we can do is take the audio data and play it back.
Access the raw data from the microphone
To access the raw data from the microphone we have to take the stream created by
getUserMedia() and then use the Web Audio API to process the data. The
Web Audio API is a simple API that takes input sources and connects those
sources to nodes which can process the audio data (adjust Gain etc) and
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The data that is held in the buffers is the raw data from the microphone and you have a number of options with what you can do with the data:
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- Store it locally
- Convert to a dedicated file format, such as WAV, and then save it to your servers or locally
Save the data from the microphone
The easiest way to save the data from the microphone is to use the
MediaRecorder API.
MediaRecorder API will take the stream created by
getUserMedia and then
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LOS ANGELES – A murder trial for the man who once called himself Clark Rockefeller will be held in downtown Los Angeles, officials said Wednesday.
Rockefeller, a German national whose real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, is accused in the 1985 slaying of John Sohus and suspected in the disappearance of Sohus' wife, Linda. Both were residents of San Marino.
Sohus' body was discovered buried in the backyard of a home in the 1900 block of Lorain Road in San Marino in May 1994. Linda Sohus has never been found.
Previous hearings in the case have been held in the Alhambra Superior Courthouse. Attorneys had hoped to move the case to Pasadena or Burbank, but weren't successful because a Pasadena judge is a witness for the prosecution.
A hearing to determine which judge tries the case will be held Friday in Department 100.
Gerhartsreiter, 50, is "very much looking forward to his day in court," defense attorney Brad Bailey said in an email.


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CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Kara Patterson holds a long, heavy javelin above her head. She waits. She moves it next to her ear and runs. In one smooth motion, it flies from her hand in an elegant arc, landing way down the field as it plunges its point into the grass.
Her coach watches from a folding chair on the sidelines. "Better," he says.
Then the 2008 Olympian throws the javelin again. And again. And again.
She's trying to make the 2012 Olympics.
Here in Chula Vista, the javelin throwers are throwing, the rowers are rowing, the cyclists are cycling, the field hockey team is whacking little white balls.
It is just dawning on Americans that the 2012 Olympics are this summer.
But athletes have been training for years.
The United States offers no federal financial support for its Olympians. However, the privately funded, nonprofit U.S. Olympic Committee has three U.S. Olympic Training Centers: In Colorado Springs, Colo.; Chula Vista, and Lake Placid, N.Y., where athletes get free housing, training, dining, recreation and professional development.
Although Lake Placid's center is not open to the public, those in Colorado Springs and Chula Vista are.
So even if you can't get to the Olympics this July in London, you can see an Olympian in action.
Here's a guide:
—Colorado Springs
Where: 1750 E. Boulder St., Colorado Springs, about an hour south of Denver. The 35-acre facility, which looks like a community college campus, opened in 1978. Colorado Springs' altitude is over 6,000 feet. (www.teamusa.org, 888-659-8687)
For tourists: Free public tours every half hour, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; they last about an hour. You can see gold medals and Olympic torches from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Atlanta. You can sit in an Olympic bobsled or try to leap 27 1 / 2 feet on a long jump. Walk past the dorms that can house 500 athletes.
Best times to see athletes train are early morning and late afternoon.
What's to see: Impressive indoor shooting range, fitness center, wrestling and weightlifting center, plus gymnastics and volleyball facilities.
Because the high altitude speeds up the dives of high divers and makes balls fly through the air faster than normal, some athletes can't train here. On the other hand, high-altitude training helps those in endurance sports, like swimming. The Aquatics Center pool holds nearly 1 million gallons of water and has a catwalk above .
Highlights: Outdoor sculptures; one that's titled "Olympic Strength" depicts the weight of the world on the backs of four athletes. Be sure to see the clock ticking down the minutes until the London Olympics and the Sochi (Russia) Olympics in 2014.
Needs improvement: A 12-minute introductory film is demeaning to the Olympic concept. Instead of being an insider look at how Olympians train, it's a boring montage of recent triumphs.
It's a jarring way to begin a tour because the film's message is that being an Olympian is all about gold medals and jingoistic American rah-rah. It's not.
In fact, the centers prove that being an Olympian is about individual hard work, sacrifice, endless practice and little glory. The marksman who can hit a target as big as a pinhole usually doesn't draw a crowd.
—Chula Vista
Where: 2800 Olympic Parkway, Chula Vista, about 45 minutes southeast of San Diego. Open since 1995, it covers 155 acres. The city's elevation is 69 feet above sea level. (www.teamusa.org, 888-659-8687)
For tourists: The training center has had so few tourists that its big visitor center and souvenir store are closed. Free guided tours in golf carts are offered only at 11 a.m. on Saturdays; it's open other days for a self-guided audio walking tour.
Visitors begin their tour by watching a little TV showing the promo film that's shown in Colorado Springs.
What's to see: Spacious, beautiful and surrounded by hills and the Lower Otay Lake reservoir, the center concentrates on the outdoor sports of track and field, archery, soccer, rugby, triathlon, field hockey, rowing, BMX Supercross, beach volleyball, badminton, boxing, cycling, kayaking and rowing. About 70 athletes live on site and 70 more are in nearby Chula Vista.
When I visited, the field hockey team was practicing, as were javelin throwers and shot putters, rowers and archers. Paralympic athletes ran on the track. I also saw the women's rugby team; rugby will become an Olympic sport in 2016.
Highlights: The chance to see archery practice up close. The archers work so smoothly and fast, you can't hear the arrow hit. The archery facility is the largest in North America. It has 50 lanes and can accommodate 200.
Needs improvement: The closed visitor center and gift shop are a downer. If more people visit, perhaps both can reopen.
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CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Kara Patterson holds a long, heavy javelin above her head. She waits. She moves it next to her ear and runs. In one smooth motion, it flies from her hand in an elegant arc, landing way down the field as it plunges its point into the grass.


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Chia Seed Blueberry Tea Drink Recipe
This morning, Lulu's 13-year-old teenage sister Mimi and I woke up in the wee hours of the morning and prepared a drink so we could have enough energy before our yoga routine. The drink was very refreshing, delicious, rich in antioxidants and made with natural ingredients such as chia seeds, fresh blueberries, oranges, green tea, ghee and maple syrup.
This special concoction was Mimi's idea, and I adore it. It doesn't require too much sweetener thanks to the blueberries and chia seeds, which add another dimension to the tea drink. Isn't it wonderful to start the day in a healthy way? Plus, it's gluten free!
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Idli Recipe with Coconut Chutney
Idlis (also spelled idly or iddly) are South Indian savory steamed rice cakes, very similar to the Vietnamese equivalent called bánh bò. The sponge cakes are made with urad dal, rice and water. The idli batter is fermented and steamed, which creates mini air bubbles. I usually serve them with sambar (a toor dal vegetable soup) and coconut chutney.
In India, this traditional dish is usually served for breakfast or as a snack. I think they also make perfect appetizers when we have dinner parties. I love that they're bite-size, which means they won't interrupt conversation too much. I usually serve them in Chinese porcelain soup spoons that I place in a circle around a large serving bowl of sambar with several chutneys on the side. It's a great way to start a party!
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How to Cook Basmati Rice
Ah, basmati rice. I don't think there is a food that better represents the similarities and differences of Indian Subcontinent and East Asian cultures. Rice is the staple starch in both of these Asian regions, but the preparation couldn't be more different. In the Far East, sticky jasmine rice is typically prepared with every meal. Chopsticks are the utensil of choice, which helps explain the popularity of rice that can stay clumped together on the journey from the bowl to the mouth.
By contrast, the quality of cooked basmati rice is judged primarily by how separate the grains remain. Traditionally, people of the subcontinent eat with their hands, and the various dals and kormas do a great job of creating cohesion.
Preparing basmati rice at home is not nearly as challenging as it may seem, but as is the case with many simple dishes, precision and care are required. Like pasta, if it's cooked past "al dente", basmati rice will become mushy.
I didn't have much experience with basmati rice until I got married. After more than five years, I have not only learned how to make it, I have come to love it. In our home, we make both sticky Asian jasmine rice and Indian basmati rice everyday to satisfy the different palates. We typically eat it with dal, but the girls love to have basmati rice with a little butter and sumac. Sumac is a common Middle Eastern spice and has a deep reddish, purple color. You can see it sprinkled over the rice in the photos.
If you don't have well cooked basmati rice on a regular basis, you don't know what you're missing. I know that for a long time I didn't!
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Toor Dal
Toor dal is a staple dish in Indian cuisine. What I like the most about this dish is that no soaking is required. Like kali dal, the lentil dish is finished with baghar, which is a layer of melted ghee with fried darkened garlic cloves.
Toor dal is a great protein complement for a vegetarian diet when paired with a starch such as rice. Dal is a great way to bring a taste of India into your home.
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Chana Milk Halwa (Besan Burfi)
If you're familiar with French pâtes de fruit or fudge, you'll want to try the Indian / Middle Eastern equivalent, called halwa. Halwa literally means "sweet" in Arabic. It can be made with different ingredients such as carrots, pumpkin, yams, beets, semolina and many types of beans, lentils or nuts.
Daddy (my father-in-law) had a craving for some chana dal halwa, so my mother-in-law made several batches this weekend. To the chana dal, she added roasted cashew nuts (Kaju in Urdu) for flavor and texture. This particular recipe also calls for a large quantity of clarified butter, or ghee. Ghee is popular in Indian cuisine and can be found at almost any Indian grocery store. This dessert is definitely not low fat or low calorie, but the taste and texture are extraordinary. Store-bought halwa cannot compare.
We made a huge batch and stored them in tins in the refrigerator. The girls placed the sweet candy in cellophane gift bags and tied a pretty bow around them to give away to their friends and teachers. Whether or not you decide to share the dessert with others, you should definitely find time to make some. Your efforts will definitely be rewarded.
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WWE Smackdown Recap: Racist Dinosaur Hands
When they first started showing highlights from past editions of Monday Night Raw, Triple H did a segment where, without any sort of irony, he said his favorite Raw moment was when he returned from his quadricep injury in 2002. So basically, in the thousand episodes of a show that's been on the air since 1993, Triple H's favorite moment involved … Triple H.
Tonight on Smackdown! Michael Cole picked his favorite Raw memory, and it involved Michael Cole. You know what the difference is between these two segments? There's no problem with Michael Cole picking a segment involving himself as his favorite memory. Michael Cole is a television villain, and it was pretty clear from the segment that he was still playing that part. Cole was playing a character, Triple H just wants to put himself ahead of everyone else at the expense of everyone else. And for a guy who is going to run the WWE some day, and whom has a heavy influence over the actual direction of the show each week, that's a pretty serious problem.
And you know what the tragedy is? It's not that Triple H is a dick. Every wrestling fan with Internet access knows that. Its that he pretends he's not a dick. His public response to any and all criticism over his editorial influence always boils down to either "Who, me?" and "Who cares what people on the Internet think?" That latter part has a lot of merit, but after a while the truth stops being something the Internet makes up, and starts looking like reality. And the reality since 2002 has been that Triple H runs the show, and anyone he doesn't like is either pushed out, sabotaged, or demoted until they get out of his way.
People like clear cut villains with a understandable, if not likable, motivation. That's a time tested formula throughout fiction that always guarantees success. Why do you think people love Breaking Bad so much? So if Triple H came out, and stopped trying to get people to like him, and was actively like, "Yeah, I'm the guy who keeps Mick Foley off television because he helped make me the star that I am and I resent him for it, what are you going to do about it?" People would go crazy. But he doesn't. He wants to be the cool guy that people like because all the other stars of the Attitude Era except The Big Show, although he's now kind of getting his moment too, have surpassed Triple H in every conceivable way. The Rock and Steve Austin make popular movies. Mick Foley is a great fricking writer, and a New York Times Best Selling Author to boot.
What's Triple H got besides "guy who married the bosses's daughter and made sure to make friends with the popular wrestlers when he got hired so that he'd, with their editorial influence, always be popular too?"
The NBA Finals is doing great in terms of ratings, and it's all because Lebron James is an excellent villain. If the Celtics had gone on to play the Thunder, nobody outside of Boston, Oklahoma, and Seattle would care. But you throw in a guy who everybody, NBA fan or not, hates, and who is arguably the best player in the game right now, and you have a villain everyone wants to cheer against. That's a successful formula Triple H should take advantage of. If he did, people might even like him, which is what he clearly wants so badly to begin with.
5 Thoughts On Tonight's Edition of WWE Smackdown!
1. What kind of name is Dolph? "Dolph" sounds like something you do in the backseat of a busted Camaro on a second date, not the name of a professional wrestler. I just can't take Dolph Ziggler seriously, especially because he sounds like the voice of a bad guy on a Saturday morning cartoon show from the '90s.
(Bonus observation: Have you seen the commercial for National Geographic's "Taboo"? I happened to see this spot run during Smackdown! at the same time my Mom was in the room. Do you have any idea how awkward watching the commercial spot for Taboo is with your mother? The only thing that could have made it worse is if she had turned to me and said, "You know, your father and I used to be really into Puppy Play when we were younger". Yikes.)
2. There's been this thing going on with people who write about professional wrestling on the Internet for a living (myself, The Masked Man over at Grantland, Mr. Brandon Stroud at WithLeather, and occasionally Chris Sims of AOL's ComicsAlliance, among many others) concerning whether or not the Funkasaurus is kind of racist. To which I'd reply, "Do you have any idea how many future Mendelsons lose their lives each week when Cameron and Naomi come to the ring? This man not only has excellent taste in women, he couldn't possibly be a racist". But I do feel a little uncomfortable knowing that Brodus Clay is pretty much ripping off Ernest The Cat Miller, theme music and all, and that he's also a big fat white dude making some serious money who talks like a poor black dude from the street. But then, he does dinosaur hands, and I forget about the racist imagery I see before me.
Until tonight. During tonight's broadcast of Smackdown!, when the Funkasaurus came out, WWE IMMEDIATELY cut to apparently the only black fans they can find in the audience, applauding and cheering for the Funkasaurus. Of course, Smackdown! is heavily doctored in terms of audio and who knows where that footage came from, but I had a serious problem with that. It was like they were acknowledging that the character was racist and going, "See? Black people like the Funkasaurus, so it's totally cool that we keep doing this!"
I don't know. I could be over-thinking it, but pro-wrestling isn't really known for its racial sensitivity, so it's something to think about it. Case in point: Camacho in WWE and Hernandez in TNA have the same exact gimmick: Threatening Gangster Mexican Guy, so really … can you blame us for keeping an eye out for this crap and calling it out?
3. Anyone remember that episode of WCW Monday Nitro, way way back, when the Macho Man decided he was going to hang outside the ring and interrupt matches because he felt like being a dick? It was kind of awesome, and that's what the Big Show should have done tonight. "What? John Cena is coming? He knows where to find me, I'm just going to sit here in the ring and not let anything else happen." Sounds pretty badass right? And WWE's target audience these days don't remember Monday Nitro, so it'd be totally fresh in their mind, but instead Big Show disappeared because someone (re: Triple H) probably thinks "cowardly bad guy" sells better than "unstoppable monster who is shutting down the whole show because he wants to fight the hero."
Great idea geniuses. Great idea.
4. I got a kick out of the dude's wrestling Ryback being billed as coming from Albany, New York. Have you ever been to Albany? The city has beautiful women, but it's also the place students at the schools get routinely beaten and mugged, corrupt politicians from NYC bend upstate NY over backwards to get what they want, and blight is all around you unless you're uptown by the UAlbany campus or immediately around the state capitol building. I guess what I'm saying is, Albany is a hellhole, and for people being billed from Albany, they should have been able to take out Ryback.
They live in a hellhole. Who knows what they're capable of in the ring?
5. Is anyone else legitimately concerned about the health and safety of A.J.? She seems so tiny, which I love because she doesn't look like most of the WWE Divas, but I keep thinking that at just over 5' and 107 pounds, if someone drops her wrong she's going to fold up like a Japanese car.
I guess as I'm getting older I'm getting more into the "don't hurt each other guys, it's fake, we all know it's fake, so have fun" mode as a wrestling fan and less of the "I want you to crack that guy's skull open and scoop out his brains" mode I was in back when I used to watch ECW. And this isn't just A.J. we're talking about here, it's everyone. You drop someone wrong in prowrestling, no matter how big, and they're going to be crippled for the rest of their life. So, I'm totally cool with the phony stuff. In fact, I almost prefer wrestling go back to the cartoony '80s and just be ridiculous again. Everyone knows it's fake, so let's have fun.
A.J. is awesome though, and as Mr. Brandon Stroud has so aptly pointed out, she's the only thing the WWE has to a fully fleshed out female character, and if not for the really annoying constant reminders that C.M. Punk likes "crazy chicks", it's a breath a fresh air to actually see a female character leading a storyline for a change whose last name doesn't end with "McMahon". A.J. is complex, and I really, truly hope that this storyline continues and they don't do anything to mess with her character because that complexity is even making Kane interesting, and Kane hasn't been … oh screw it. Kane has never been interesting.
B.J. Mendelson is the resident WWE expert. He'll be giving his opinions on Raw, Smackdown and the entire WWE Universe. Get used to it.


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The defender suffered a hamstring injury in the build-up to their encounter with Barnet two weeks ago and has missed their last three npower League two matches as a result.
However, Artell has taken a full part in training in the latter half of this week and is expected to be included in the squad to face the Valiants.
His availability presents manager Dario Gradi with a welcome selection dilemma as Harry Davis and Adam Dugdale have impressed in Artell's absence.
Gradi has no other injury worries as Crewe bid to extend a purple patch that has seen them win four of their last five League Two matches.
New signings Rob Kozluk and Liam Chilvers are expected to be in the Port Vale squad.
Kozluk is a free agent after leaving Sheffield United, where he played under Vale manager Micky Adams, at the end of last season and the 34-year-old has signed a short-term contract until the end of the year.
Chilvers, 30, arrives at Vale Park on a month-long loan from Notts County and will provide defensive cover with Gareth Owen, Jamie McCombe and Lee Collins out injured.
With Marc Richards completing a three-match suspension and Sean Rigg (hamstring) still out, on-loan striker Ben Williamson will again lead the attacking line alongside Tom Pope.
Williamson's brace in the 3-2 home defeat to Shrewsbury last weekend were the first goals of his Football League career.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Apocalypse marks Treyarch and Activision's fourth and final DLC map pack for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, capping-off the year with two all-new Multiplayer Maps, two re-imagined fan-favorite Multiplayer classics, and an alternate-reality Dieselpunk Zombies experience that transports players to the undead-infested trenches of a World War I battlefield.
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With Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse, Treyarch reveals Origins, the most horrifying and imaginative Zombies experience yet. Players will be deployed to Dieselpunk-stylized World War I-era France where they will encounter the return of the four original heroes from the very first Zombies map, as well as hordes of zombies that have overrun trenches and fields, as well as the ruins of a mysterious and ancient location.
Unleashed after the Germans unearthed the mysterious new "Element 115," this next chapter in the Zombies legacy will explore the saga's origins as players reunite with an unlikely band of soldiers that come together to defeat the greatest evil the world has ever seen, using a period-specific arsenal that includes Wonder Weapons that harness supernatural powers, a diesel-drone and Mark IV tank, as well a new perk machine and power-ups - and that's just the start. Players will need all the help they can get to succeed in defeating the undead, as well as evading an unprecedented 1,000-foot tall robot abomination. In this stylized undead adventure, they'll need every advantage if they have any hope of surviving one of Treyarch's deepest Zombies experiences to date.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse is available to Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Season Pass holders and as a standalone map pack on August 27th, first on Xbox LIVE® (other platforms to follow).
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