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Across the state, communities have gotten into the Christmas groove, ready to celebrate the holidays with locals and visitors alike. Festivals and fairs, months in the planning, touch on Christmas past and present with a wide range of events guaranteed to warm even Scrooge-like hearts. North to south, California will be lit with twinkling lights and lavish displays, along the streets and on the water. Need a new holiday tradition? Here's a guide to traveling California for Christmas delights.
California Victorian Christmas: Downtown Nevada City slides back into 19th-century London with costumed street vendors, wandering minstrels and carolers, roasted chestnuts and yuletide treats and libations. Gaslight illuminates buildings festooned with lights, garlands and ribbons, Victorian-garbed participants and Father Christmas. Take a carriage ride through the streets, find a unique holiday treasure and share the holiday spirit.
Details: 5-9 p.m. Dec. 5, 12 and 19 and 1:30- 9 p.m. Dec. 16 and 23. Free. Optional shuttle service, $5 round trip, free for those 15 and younger. 530-265-2692; www.nevadacitychamber.com.
Old Town Country Christmas: For the 26th year, the streets of Old Town Auburn have altered their 1850s Gold Rush atmosphere to bring out holiday spirit and fun. Crafters and artists display handmade goods, offering special, one-of-a-kind holiday gifts and old-time Christmas crafts. Shops welcome you with holiday open houses. Come for shopping and stay for pony rides and hayrides, strolling carolers, comfort food, lively entertainment and photo ops with Santa Claus.
Details: 5-9 p.m. Dec. 8 and 15. Free. 530-888-1585; www.oldtownauburnca.com.
A Simple elegant Christmas and Candlelight Tours: Sutter's Fort State Historic Park in Sacramento pays homage to a past when people from all over the world passed through its gates, bringing their holiday customs and traditions. Spend Saturday day viewing special live vignettes that depict 1840s holiday food, music and decorations from other cultures, then try your hand at dipping candles, making cornhusk dolls and crafting paper ornaments, aided by docents in period attire. In the evening, the fort turns to candlelight as it relates round-the-world stories of Christmases past.
Details: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 8. Admission: $7 adults, $5 those 5 to 17. Evening tickets: $17. 916-445-4422, www.suttersfort.org.
Sausalito Winter Festival: Sausalito has planned an entire weekend of fun for the whole family to celebrate the festival's 25th anniversary. Friday night's Naughty o' Nice Ball under the Big Tent gets things rolling. Restaurants and wineries offer tastes of the season, along with live music and dancing. A full day is planned for Saturday, with local artists selling their wares and special children's activities, including face and ornament painting and cookie decorating. The Lighted Boat Parade takes place that night, followed by fireworks and a dance party.
Details: Naughty o' Nice Ball: 6:30-10 p.m. Dec. 7. Tickets: $65-$85.
Children's activities and artists sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 8. Free.
Lighted Boat Parade: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8. Dance party 8 p.m., admission is $10 or a bag of nonperishable food for the SF Marin Food Bank.
Proceeds benefit SF Marin Food Bank and Toys for Tots. 415-990-1630, www.sausalito-on-the-waterfront.org.
Julefest Celebration: Solvang, California's Little Denmark, turns back the clock for a series of holiday activities to ring in Christmas. On Friday, an evening tree-lighting ceremony includes live entertainment, caroling and Santa's arrival. The next day, a Sharing Holiday Cheer parade features Danish dancers, vintage vehicles and carriages, and animals on parade. On Dec. 15, the Nativity Pageant brings the Christmas story to life with live actors and choirs. Entertainment and open houses at many of Solvang's specialty boutiques will also be featured that day.
Details: Tree lighting: 5 p.m. Dec. 7; Julefest Parade: 11 a.m. Dec. 8; Nativity Pageant: 5 and 7 p.m. Dec. 15. Admission is free. 800-468-6765, www.solvangusa.com.
Balboa Park December Nights: Balboa Park celebrates its cultural richness with San Diego's largest free community festival. Multiculturalism reigns with entertainment, culinary treats, musical and dance performances and heavy doses of holiday cheer. Buildings sparkle, carolers and musicians perform, there's a Santa Lucia Procession, the San Diego Youth Ballet performs, and Spanish Village artisans display their wares. Area museums offer free admission, and the Del Cerro Baptist Christmas Story Tree glows onstage.
Details: 5-10 p.m. Dec. 7 and noon-10 p.m. Dec. 8, 619-239-0512, www.balboapark.org/decembernights.
Fisherman's Wharf Lighted Boat Parade: More than 60 boats glowing with lights and decorations parade along the waterfront from Pier 39 to the Marina Green and back in San Francisco Bay's oldest, largest water parade. Check out restaurants along the route for traditional holiday fare.
Details: 6-7:30 p.m. Dec. 14. 415-673-3530, www.visitfishermanswharf.com.
Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade: All of Newport Harbor, including homes, docks, landscapes and yachts, is transformed in a holiday extravaganza with thousands of lights, animated Christmas scenes and holiday music for the annual lighted boat parade. View the100-plus-boats parade from shore or board one of several cruise ships to become part of the 14-mile parade and ogle decorated homes and estates.
Details: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Dec. 19-23. www.christmasboatparade.com. For cruise ship information: 949-675-0551, www.christmasparadeboats.com. Tickets: $31-$36.
Huntington Beach Cruise of Lights: Join in this year's theme of "Island Serenade" as you cruise the waterways that run through Huntington Beach. Pass illuminated, richly decorated homes, docks, decks and boats, all of which are reflected in the water. Watch thousands of lights twinkle amid dancing snowmen and animated displays on 45-minute narrated cruises.
Details: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 15-23. Tickets: $17 adults, $10 children 2-12 years. 718-840-7542, www.cruiseoflights.org.
San Diego Bay Parade of Lights: More than 80 boats participate in San Diego's 90-minute lighted boat parade, which is celebrating its 41st anniversary with the theme "USS Santa Claus." A fireworks display kicks off the event, then the parade leads off from Shelter Island.
Details: Two parades. 5:30-9 p.m. Dec. 9 and 16. 619-224-2240, www.sdparadeoflights.org.
Palo Alto Christmas Tree Lane: This marks the 72nd year that Fulton Street has created a Christmas wonderland, with lights and decorations that run the gamut from tasteful to whimsical. Strolling is the best way to take in red street lamps and a tiny Christmas tree in front of every house.
Details: 5-11 p.m. Dec. 8-31, www.christmastreelane.org. The lane is located on Fulton Avenue between Embarcadero Road and Seale Avenue.
Oxnard's Christmas Tree Lane: This storybook locale of an old, established neighborhood gleams for the holidays with lights and decorations. Everything from angels and elves to Smurfs and Festivus flash and entertain. Stroll or board a double-decker for a Holly Trolley Tour of the Historic Home District with hot chocolate and cookies.
Details: 6-10 p.m. Dec. 9-26, www.downtownoxnard.org. The lane is located on F and G streets between Fifth and Palm. Holly Trolley Tours: 6-8 p.m. Dec. 11-13. Tickets: $10. Reservations required: 805-385-2705.
Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena: Santa Rosa Avenue shines with 132 beautifully lit Deodar trees, planted more than 100 years ago for America's oldest, large-scale Christmas lighting spectacle. Volunteers string 100,000 lights on this mile-long array of majestic cedars.
Details: Dusk-midnight Dec. 8-Jan. 1, 626-403-1123, www.christmastreelane.net. The lane is located on Santa Rosa Avenue between Woodbury Avenue and Altadena Drive.
Garden of Lights, The San Diego Botanic Garden: Walk through a fairy tale as more than 100,000 magical lights turn the garden into a winter wonderland complete with snow, roasting marshmallows over a wood fire, Santa in the gazebo, an array of poinsettias and a display of more than 50 nutcrackers. Enjoy performers, live music, draft horse wagon rides, hot beverages and treats.
Details: 5-9 p.m. Dec. 8-23 and 26-30. Tickets: $12 adults, $4 children ages 3 to 12. 706-436-3036, www.sdbgarden.org/lights.htm.
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Some of my thoughts on last week's Helen Hunt-centric episode of WDYTYA:
Next up this week (tomorrow): Rita Wilson explores her Bulgarian roots, answering another thing on my wishlist, seeing more Eastern European genealogy.
- Funny that just as I wrote a blog entry saying I wanted to see some Western genealogy, this episode did a little bit of tracing Helen's San Francisco-based family, who took advantage of the 1849 Gold Rush to expand their business.
- I kinda dug that portion of the show because Helen's ancestor became a successful and wealthy businessman who ended up investing in a bank (the eventual Wells Fargo) that is still around today. I could totally identify with this, as my great-great grandfather Rudolph Stutzmann became a successful and wealthy businessman (as an undertaker) who ended up a founding member and first president of a bank (Ridgewood Savings Bank) that is still around today. Loved it.
- I really wanted to see more emotion on Helen's part, at least for the first three-quarters of the episode. When she was talking to the woman who had written a book on her own San Francisco-based genealogy and it turned out that their ancestors had been friends and business partners, I just loved it, and yet Helen was all, "meh." She really didn't seem like she wanted to be there and she really, really didn't seem excited about anything she was finding out (except that her ancestors were rich, and that kind of bothered me, too). But I was getting more excited than her, and it wasn't even my family they were talking about!
- I loved the last part of the episode, when Helen traveled to Maine to learn about her great-grandmother Augusta Hunt. That was where Helen seemed to finally emotionally connect to a specific person in her tree and to her ancestry in general. The irony of Helen's great-grandmother fighting alcohol abuse and her future daughter-in-law being killed by a drunk driver really seemed to resonate with her, as well as finding out her great-grandmother was instrumental in the fight for women's suffrage and that she lived to be able to register to vote and be the first woman to cast a ballot in Maine. That was really cool.
- I loved that Helen was able to read the keynote speech her great-grandmother wrote and gave at one of the meetings. I've read newspaper articles where my great-great grandfather Rudolph has been quoted, and more than vital records and obits and census records, these things are an actual voice from the past - these are words your ancestor spoke, these are thoughts they actually had, reaching out over the years, the decades, the centuries, to us today, a tiny glimpse into their personality, their psyche, their lives. I just love that.
Next up this week (tomorrow): Rita Wilson explores her Bulgarian roots, answering another thing on my wishlist, seeing more Eastern European genealogy.

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U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, has a redistricting bone to pick with a fellow Republican, again. Several weeks ago, Barton was perturbed with congressional colleague Lamar Smith, the San Antonio Republican who's supervising the drawing of maps for congressional redistricting, because he thought Smith wasn't pushing hard enough to eliminate Democratic incumbents. Now, he's upset with state Sen. Kel Seliger, the Amarillo senator who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting, for not getting the job done as the legislative session winds down.
In an e-mail to supporters, Barton says he has filed a lawsuit in a Navarro County district court and plans to present his own map to that same court where he filed the suit. The lawsuit will likely bring an end to any further action on congressional redistricting during this legislative session, which ends Monday.
Seliger told Mike Ward of the Austin American-Statesman this afternoon that he hadn't seen the lawsuit and isn't sure what effect the suit will have. Seliger's been saying for several days, though, that it's unlikely that the legislature will get around to finishing the job. The governor could call a special session to deal with redistricting, but it's more likely that a court will finish the task.
"I acted immediately after the legislative deadline passed to increase the likelihood that this lawsuit would become the vehicle for Attorney General of Texas to use in creating the Congressional map for the 2012 election cycle," Barton wrote in his e-mail.


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Anti-Cancer Activity Drug IRX4204 Shows Promise as a Potential Disease-Modifying Agent for Alzheimer's DiseaseSeptember 13, 2012
September 13, 2012 – New research presented today at the 6th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference in San Francisco, California demonstrates the role of the investigational compound IRX4204 in alleviating cognitive decline in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. The presentation entitled "Investigation of the RXR-specific agonist IRX4204 as a Disease Modifying Agent of Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology and Cognitive Impairment" was made by lead researcher Guilio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
"The data presented include studies demonstrating attenuation of cognitive deterioration in IRX4204-treated mouse model of Alzheimer's disease through promotion of electophysiological features in the brain associated with retention of memory function," said Dr. Pasinetti, the Saunders Family Chair and Professor in Neurology, and Director, Center of Excellence for Novel Approaches to Neurotherapeutics, in the Department of Neurology of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The study included data from preclinical studies of the Retinoid X Receptor (RXR) agonist compound IRX4204, a compound produced by Io Therapeutics, Inc. The company also announced the establishment of a sponsored research agreement with Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct additional studies of this compound in Alzheimer's disease.
"IRX4204 is a highly specific and very potent agonist of the RXR nuclear receptor pathways, which has at least a 1000-fold difference in the concentrations that activate RXR versus concentrations that activate RAR nuclear receptors," said Rosh Chandraratna, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Io Therapeutics. "This specificity and potency distinguishes IRX4204 from bexarotene, an RXR agonist compound, which also has been reported to be active in animal models of Alzheimer's disease."
Dr. Chandraratna added, "IRX4204 has previously completed a phase I/II clinical trial in patients with a variety of solid tumors, in which it was well tolerated for up to 20 months without observation of typical RAR-related toxicities, and in which findings supporting potential clinical activity in a variety of types of cancer were observed."
The company plans to file an additional IND for evaluation of IRX4204 in patients with Alzheimer's disease, with clinical studies in Alzheimer's patients anticipated to start in 2013. IRX4204 is currently being evaluated in a phase II clinical trial in men with advanced prostate cancer.
"The treatment of Alzheimer's Disease remains a serious unmet medical need which IRX4204 may be able to address," said Martin Sanders, MD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Io Therapeutics. "Dr. Pasinetti's studies, combined with data from other laboratories investigating the less specific RXR agonist bexarotene, support that RXR agonists have potential for slowing, and possibly reversing pathology and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease patients."
Alzheimer's disease currently afflicts more than 5 million Americans and may triple in prevalence to more than 16 million Americans by 2050, according to data from The Alzheimer's Association
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The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News and World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by U.S. News and World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
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Choking, eh? Told you John Tortorella was a perfect fit for the Canucks!
Today at Canucks Army we looked at Mike Gillis's draft record in terms of his favorite prospect fishing holes at the NHL draft, rounded up reaction to the John Tortorella hire, and wondered whether a Chris Tanev contract extension could be close at hand now that he's hired a player agent to represent him.
For more Canucks goodies and such click past the jump.
Wyatt Arndt has some tips for Canucks fans who are struggling to deal with two of their favorite teams biggest rivals squaring off in the Stanley Cup Final. Somehow this post includes no references to rendition hoods. [Legion of Blog]
Daniel Wagner briefly profiles seven players who various mock drafts have the Canucks selecting with the 24th overall pick. [Pass it to Bulis]
The Canucks are holding a press conference on Tuesday. I wonder what they'll discuss. Probably the weather. [PHT]
The CDC breaks down some interesting numbers – none of them fancy – regarding every draft pick in Vancouver Canucks history. [Canucks.com]
Also, Mothership TV chats with Assistant General Manager Laurence Gilman about the teams preparations for the 2013 NHL Draft:
Jim Jamieson reports that Chris Tanev has hired an agent. [The Province]
Meanwhile former Canucks defenceman Brad Lukowich, who played for John Tortorella with the Tampa Bay Lightning, is all aboard the "Team of Rivals" train. [The Vancouver Sun]


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COLUMBIA -- Enterprising homeowners in key locations may dodge a new tax.
Rep. Bill Hixon, R-North Augusta, is trying to save people who rent their homes out for less than 15 days from paying a pending 2-5 percent accommodations tax on what they collect. It applies to people who rent out their primary residence, for which they pay a 4 percent rate.
The bill, which cleared the S.C. House unanimously on Thursday, applies to any South Carolina homeowners, but specifically mentions those on the coast or across the Savannah River from the Masters Tournament.
If passed into law, the proposal, H. 3767, is projected to decrease state revenue by $2 million. But Hixon said the figure is misleading because most property owners have yet to pay the tax his bill aims to eliminate.
As he sees it, he is trying to stop a tax from taking effect now or in the future.
He said a state Department of Revenue official left him a message assuring him that he wouldn't be sending out any letters to property owners directing them to pay the accommodations tax.
But Hixon wants to make sure it stays that way.
"There could be another (revenue department) administration or person at the head who could decide to go after it, because the law is so vaguely worded," said the lawmaker of the tax.
The Masters Housing Bureau found that homes for rent are priced at $2,000 for an apartment and more than $15,000 for a house. The bureau is a joint venture of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce.??
It found that an "average," four-bedroom, three-bathroom home rents for $8,500 per week. South Carolina properties account for 20 percent of its rental listings.??
Exempting the 272 private residences in South Carolina, which were situated largely in North Augusta and Aiken, would preempt state collections of $152,000. ??At least twice as many additional listings for apartments, condos, and townhouses might be advertised on social media, newspapers and word of mouth.
Exempting these 544 smaller residences in South Carolina, which go for an average of $2,500 per week, would decrease state tax revenue by about $95,000.
Hixon's proposal would give coastal homeowners a break, too.?
"I'm not trying to be selfish for North Augusta," he said. "I'm writing this for all South Carolinians who rent their house out, whether in Aiken for the horse races or Charleston for the Spoleto (Festival)."
The Board of Economic Advisors' fiscal impact analysis identified 5,185 private coastal homes that beckon vacationers during beach season. Weekly rental rates ranged from $1,295 to several thousand dollars.
The proposal now awaits Senate committee review, having easily cleared the House chamber before the May 1 Crossover Day deadline.


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Charting their way to the top
CSB grads rank #3 nationally on 2011 CPA exams
March 29, 2012
By Barbara Hein
It was an unusual sound coming from the halls of the Accounting and Finance Department at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University recently. The chair of the department was heard to say "whoohoo!" Why all the cheers and clapping?
The results had been announced for the 'Best-Performing Accounting Programs' of 2011 and CSB is ranked number three in the United States, according to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). The NASBA annually reviews the results of all first-time Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exams taken.
"We have a history of out-performing — by a strong measure — national averages at CSB and SJU," said Mary Jepperson, chair of the CSB/SJU Accounting and Finance Department. "In the three years prior to 2011, our average pass rate for the two schools for all candidates (first-time and repeat) was about 60 percent. The national rankings are based on first-time candidates and the 2011 group performed exceptionally well."
In 2011, CSB had 14 first-time CPA test takes with a pass rate of 84.8 percent and an average score of 82.2. SJU test takers also performed well with 45 first-time candidates tallying a pass rate of 65.2 percent and an average score of 75.2.
"This is a strong affirmation that we have an excellent department and excellent faculty," said Rita Knuesel, provost at CSB and SJU. "I was absolutely thrilled to learn this excellent news. I am very proud of our students and the Accounting and Finance Department."
According to the report, the top five schools for first-time exam takers were:
- Wake Forest University with an 88.4 percent pass rate
- University of Pennsylvania with an 85.5 percent pass rate
- College of Saint Benedict with an 84.8 percent pass rate
- University of Virginia with an 84.7 percent pass rate
- Duke University with an 80.8 percent pass rate
"We have long believed that a strong accounting and finance program nestled in an amazing liberal arts education is the best possible preparation for the work world — wherever our students go. This ranking solidifies the fact that the liberal arts is a good home for pre-professional programs," Jepperson said.
A home that may need to get used to more "whoohoo's" from its chairperson in the future.


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Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional reactive patterns. Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body. For example, an attack thought or a hostile thought will create a buildup of energy in the body that we call anger. The body is getting ready to fight. The thought that you are being threatened, physically or psychologically, causes the body to contract, and this is the physical side of what we call fear. Research has shown that strong emotions even cause changes in the biochemistry of the body. These biochemical changes represent the physical or material aspect of the emotion. Of course, you are not usually conscious of all your thought patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness.
The more you are identified with your thinking, your likes and dislikes, judgments and interpretations, which is to say the less present you are as the watching consciousness, the stronger the emotional energy charge will be, whether you are aware of it or not. If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom. A great deal has been written about this in recent years, so we don't need to go into it here. A strong unconscious emotional pattern may even manifest as an external event that appears to just happen to you. For example, I have observed that people who carry a lot of anger inside without being aware of it and without expressing it are more likely to be attacked, verbally or even physically, by other angry people, and often for no apparent reason. They have a strong emanation of anger that certain people pick up subliminally and that triggers their own latent anger.
If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. This will also put you in touch with your emotions. We will explore this in more detail later.
You say that an emotion is the mind's reflection in the body. But sometimes there is a conflict between the two: the mind says "no" while the emotion says "yes," or the other way around.
If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who you are, but the relative truth of your state of mind at that time.
Conflict between surface thoughts and unconscious mental processes is certainly common. You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware. To watch an emotion in this way is basically the same as listening to or watching a thought, which I described earlier. The only difference is that, while a thought is in your head, an emotion has a strong physical component and so is primarily felt in the body. You can then allow the emotion to be there without being controlled by it. You no longer are the emotion; you are the watcher, the observing presence. If you practice this, all that is unconscious in you will be brought into the light of consciousness.


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Sinn Fein doubled its strength in the polls over the Labor Party and at the same time warned dissident Republican groups that the "war is over" in the North.
The party in the space of a few years in the Republic consolidated its position as the second most important, compared to a lowly fourth a decade ago.
As members celebrated at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Killarney Martin McGuinness, the North's deputy first minister, advised dissident Republicans that the process of building a new future would continue with or without them.
In a keynote address, he offered dissidents an opportunity to "come and tell us what you hope to gain by deluding yourselves and the gullible, that your actions will succeed in what is certainly a pathetic and futile attempt to turn back the clock."
He also referred to others in Derry who style themselves as anti-drug campaigners and who are involved in shootings and punishment beatings against "vulnerable young people."
McGuinness, a former senior IRA member, said, "Over 30 years ago I spoke out against such attacks and I do so again. These attacks are deplorable, they are not wanted and they need to end."
McGuinness was particularly scathing about dissidents who murdered Ronan Kerr last year, a young GAA-loving police officer. He also paid a rare tribute at Sinn Fein conferences to the Unionist population.
He said, "I recognize there are one million people on this island who are British, and let me state here and now that as a proud Irish republican I not only recognize the Unionist and British identity, I respect it and in return all I seek is for my Irish identity and tradition to be respected as well."
Several speakers, including party president Gerry Adams, underlined Sinn Fein's campaign for a no vote in the fiscal treaty referendum this week.
But Adams also dwelt at length on the political situation in the Republic. Some of his sharper comments were reserved for the Labor Party, Sinn Fein's principal rival for the left-wing vote and the affections of trade Unionists.
Listing the austerity measures taken by the Fine Gael/Labor coalition, he asked, "What really is the point of the Labor Party in this government? What would Connolly think of the promises broken by the party he founded?"
Meanwhile, an Irish Times opinion poll showed that Sinn Fein is now twice as popular in Ireland as Labor, and Adams is the most popular leader.


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Weblogs as AdvertisingMarch 04, 2003
What Anil has been talking about is bound to fail. For now. Short summary: Project Blogger is looking to pay weblog publishers willing to hawk merchandise.
It's easy to get sucked into the "everybody is doing it" mentality that surrounds weblogs today. But they're not. Poll 25 random people on the street. 1 or 2 of them might have a LiveJournal or a BlogSpot–hosted diary if you're lucky. Even they probably haven't heard of Movable Type or Blogger.
Blogger has just reached the million users mark. That's one million web logs, that's not one million people. I'd guess a maximum 400k individual people. Are they all keeping active logs? I doubt it. If Blogger sees one hundred thousand posts a week system–wide I'd be impressed.
Where am I going with all this? It should be obvious. The numbers aren't attractive to advertisers. Why put up $10k or so on such a small audience, a technically savvy audience who can generally tell when they're being marketed to? There may be a few high–profile attempts in the next few months, but the idea isn't going to catch on.
The weblog is still the playground of the technically savvy. This is changing though, and won't be true for long (reference: all the 14 year olds posting about their crushes on LiveJournal). The masses will pick up on the idea sooner or later. The internet was a playground for geeks not too long ago, now everybody's grandmother has an e–mail address.
Even when the numbers start looking good enough to make this idea profitable, the people Project Blogger requires to deliver its message are, well, just people. Some will be far more interesting than most, and as with any medium a natural hierarchy will sort out and certain people will be considered authoritive. (reference: Jason Kottke) Those are the ones that will be most attractive to advertisers. And they're also the ones who may have to pursue ways to pay off the higher bandwidth costs their popularity has caused. What better way than advertising?
We've seen all this before. This is exactly what happened to early independent content publishers on the web, and today we happily accept that ads are a small price to pay for continued use of their sites. Since we're so obviously not willing to pay. (reference: recent rumours of Salon's yet–to–actually–happen closure)
It'll happen again with weblogs. And we'll grumble, and moan, and accept. Weblogs were a shot in the arm for the increasing consolidation of major web content publishers, but they will inevitably follow the same path. This is just the start.
(All numbers are blind guesses due to lack of information or the motivation to seek it. This is an opinion piece based on intuition rather than fact.)


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UPDATE (10 days later): Amazing, I actually received an answer (Ref#: 37CRW6) for my fatwa request. Here it goes:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear questioner, we would like to thank you for the great confidence you place in us, and we implore Allah Almighty to help us serve His cause and render our work for His Sake. May Allah reward you abundantly for your interest in knowing the teachings of your religion, Islam!
As regards your question, we have asked Dr. Salah Sultan, President of the American Center for Islamic Research, Columbus, Ohio, regarding blogging and he gave the following answer:
"The basic rule in this case is that: whatever is good and attained through a good means, then it is halal (lawful). If you find "blogs" to be a good avenue to make da'wah and you are using noble ways to reach that, then it is permissible. However, if there is no tangible benefit for these websites, then whatever you will be doing is nothing short of wasting time, which is Islamically forbidden in Islam. A Muslim is responsible for his / her time.
So, you can better judge for yourself. If you are exchanging good thoughts, you proceed, if not, you refrain from doing it. But if you find people wasting their time in trivial issues or talking about things of no great concern, then you leave. Allah says: "When thou seest men engaged in vain discourse about Our Signs, turn away from them unless they turn to a different theme. If Satan ever makes thee forget, then after recollection, sit not thou in the company of those who do wrong." (Al-An'am 6: 68) This means you will be incurring the same sin if you continue doing what they are doing, unless you stay with the purpose of changing the munkar (sinful deed).
In changing the munkar, you must make sure you are capable of doing that and that you will never be influenced or negatively affected by it. I know of a brother whose `aqeedah (belief) was corrupted through these chats, so I advise you to be careful."
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Via Mohammed at Digressing, an Indian Mufti decided that its unislamic to blog! Huh!
Going to websites like these will not be permissible, because they contain personal matters and also they specify names/identities which can create a path for bay-hayaai (shamelessness), and unlawful relations, and It is a source that may leak out the faults/kharaabiyan "aayb" of muslims. It will not be permissible.Shame on you. How do they come up with these fatwas! I'm not ending my blogging experience now, that's for sure. But I've decided to get a second opinion, so that I maintain my Muslim readership (if any), though I'm sure that no one will listen to this guy.


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Perl Module Monday: Growl::Tiny
I'm a fairly-new MacOS user. I've had this MacBook Pro since just a few days before this last OSCON, and I'm growing more and more fond of it by the day. So for this week's PMM, I'm going to look at a Mac-centric module, apologies in advance to those who have no use for this— there's something similar for Linux desktops that I might explore in the future.
Growl::Tiny is the latest (it seems) entry into the Growl-glue arena, and certainly the most-recently-updated. As the author states, he had run into problems with the prerequisites for modules such as Mac::Growl, so he wrote this as a solution. In following with the "tiny" convention, the module has no prerequisites. It only requires that you have /usr/local/bin/growlnotify installed (as well as Growl itself, of course). I found that it built and installed just fine on my system, with only one hitch that I'll come back to later.
So what does it do? Well, it makes Growl notifications! If you are a MacOS user and you don't know about Growl, you should probably get over to http://growl.info/ first and check it out. Seriously, it's a terribly useful utility. Once you've done that, this module will let you, in a fairly lightweight fashion, use Growl to send desktop notifications to your users. It's the "lightweight" part that appeals to me, as the older Growl libraries seemed to be dependent on some other modules that haven't been kept up-to-date with the changes in MacOS. This one gets around this by opting to use a command-line utility (the aforementioned growlnotify) instead of native bindings. It's not without limitations, as the author points out in his documentation. But then, if you're sending several notifications per second, you might need something more substantial than this anyway, so the limitations might not be of concern.
The only issue I had with it was that two tests will fail if you don't set up Growl to listen for localhost-directed network connections. The author recommends using the network feature in the docs, but it shouldn't be a requirement for building and installation. A more graceful way of detecting that network connections are not enabled, and skipping the tests, would be preferable.


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Xavier Su'a-Filo hasn't announced his draft decision yet, but judging from what his position coach said the UCLA junior could be suiting up in the NFL at this time next year.
The All-American offensive lineman still is waiting for his evaluation to come back from the NFL draft advisory board to help him decide whether or not to declare early, but he has leaned on offensive line coach Adrian Klemm and head coach Jim Mora for advice.
"He knows what I think about it," Klemm said. "You come here to have success after you're done here. If that's one year earlier, he needs to go ahead and do that. I don't want to hold him back from it. I want to see him do well.
"There's not much more he can accomplish in terms of accolades. He can sharpen up some things, but if he comes out and he's the first or second guard taken I think it's a no-brainer."
Su'a-Filo, who turns 23 years old in less than two weeks, could boost his stock by slimming down and getting stronger, but Klemm pointed out the guard potentially could achieve even better results with an NFL training and nutrition program.
Should he go pro, the team will need to replace its most versatile lineman as well as one of its most experienced players. Su'a-Filo started 13 games in 2009 before a two-year LDS mission, and said he learned to assume a greater leadership role this season even while being forced to left tackle mid-season because of teammates' injuries.
"He's been a big difference," freshman right tackle Caleb Benenoch said. "He's so much further along than most of us in terms of his athletic ability, his body, his understanding of the game. He's kind of a mentor to all of us. We all try to hang out with him as much as possible."
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Klemm made a big decision of his own earlier this month by turning away an effort by USC coach Steve Sarkisian to add him to the Trojans' staff. The Santa Monica Catholic High alum said he chose to stay at UCLA because he enjoyed working with Mora, was comfortable in the environment and wanted to see his recruits develop.
Those players feel just as strongly about him.
"He's one of the main reasons we all chose to come here, this offensive line class," said Benenoch, one of three true freshmen who started on the line this season. "It was a big deal for us for him to stay. We're happy. We just want to make him proud, do better, show him he didn't stay for no reason."
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Graham has plans to attend business school if a pro career doesn't materialize, but he's trying to stay locked into the sport for as long as he can. He's expecting an invitation to the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, a game whose last two MVPs (G.J. Kinne and Dayne Crist) went undrafted. The Las Vegas native also will stay on campus to train with strength coach Sal Alosi,
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Several Hope College projects have received grants from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC).
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Hope will provide additional support for each of the projects, including stipends for the students as they conduct research during the summer, and matching funds for the faculty and institutional projects.
The students receiving fellowships were: senior Heather Brown of Holland, who will work on "Equipment design for the study of coastal dune processes" with Dr. Brian Yurk, assistant professor of mathematics; sophomore Matthew Hemenway of Ionia, who will work on ""Patches to Blowouts: Field Studies of The Development of Blowout Dunes Along Lake Michigan" with Dr. Edward Hansen, professor of geology and environmental science; freshman Jesse Ickes of Grandville, who will work on "Resonant Compton Scattering and the High-Energy Tails of Magnetars" with Dr. Peter Gonthier, professor of physics; freshman Andrew Johnson of Williamston, who will work on "Understanding Fermi Gamma-ray Pulsars in Terms of Gamma-ray Emission Models" with Gonthier; junior Daniel Langholz of Ramstein, Germany, who will work on "Experimental investigation of aluminum plate failure due to projectile impact loading" with Dr. Roger Veldman, professor of engineering; and sophomore Joshua Swett of Zeeland, who will work on "Design and Implementation of an 8-Tetrahedron Robot" with Dr. Miguel Abrahantes, associate professor of engineering.
The two faculty seed grants were awarded to Dr. Vicki-Lynn Holmes, assistant professor of mathematics and education, for "Teacher Assessment of Scientific Knowledge (TASK): A Program Evaluation of the Hope College Watershed Science Workshops and Academies"; and Dr. Jianhua Li, associate professor of biology, for "Unraveling the differential speciation rates of eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct plant genera based on plastid genome data. The grants are designed for junior faculty, to develop research expertise that will position them to earn support from other sources in the future.
The support through the public outreach and teacher training initiatives was awarded to Dr. Catherine Mader, professor of physics, for "Hope College Watershed Science Academies and Workshops," which will provide summer experiences for high school students to design experiments focused on the area watershed and for area teachers to learn how they can integrate inquiry-based lessons focused on the watershed into their classrooms. The project is a collaborative effort of the college's Center for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Inquiry and the Outdoor Discovery Center, with teacher Jennifer Soukhome, who teaches biology and environmental science at Zeeland West High School, and Hope faculty member Dr. Graham Peaslee, who is the Elmer E. Hartgerink Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Geology/Environmental Science.
The Michigan Space Grant Consortium seeks to foster awareness of, education in, and research on space-related science and technology in Michigan. Hope and Calvin College are the only undergraduate colleges that are members of the consortium, which also includes Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Oakland University, Saginaw Valley State University, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University.


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Fewer kids will go hungry this summer thanks to a food program in Sacramento City Schools. The new meal plan is open to students under the age of 18.
In years past summer school students from low income families would have to sign up for the meal program. Now, any child under the age of 18 can partake. The feeding program costs the federal government about $1.2 million. It serves nearly 14,000 meals a day at 43 Sacramento city schools.
"My children through the year have a breakfast and lunch," said the principal of Susan B. Anthony Elementary. "I would hate to think that they couldn't have the same opportunity during the summer even if they weren't in school."
Anyone interested in finding out which schools offer the free breakfast and lunch program can call the Sacramento Hunger Coalition at (916) 498-1000.
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The birthday celebrations that cram into the first week of June end with my mom's birthday today. It has unfortunately fallen on my school's graduation the past 4 years and I have not been able to celebrate with her personally. Hopefully, though she knows how much I love her and how much I wish I could be there to celebrate her birthday with her today. At least this year, in just four days, we will see each other for a mini-Florida vacation. Growing up, my mom worked tirelessly to ensure that Bryan and I were not only basically well fed and sheltered, but truly loved, challenged, and thriving. She focused on our education and helped us hone our writing, reading, and critical thinking skills. Each day after school, we would make camp at the kitchen table while she prepared dinner and we worked on our homework. There we munched on snacks, chatted about the days events, and struggled with Spanish, grammar and, of course, math. In between sautéing vegetables, she would quiz us for our upcoming assessments, help us create a variety of projects from scratch, and go over our work with us making sure we asked questions but more importantly that we could explain why we had the answers to her questions. I believe I am teacher today because she was always a present teacher in my daily life. She balanced this strength and determination though with a soft side and I can recall many times snuggling on the couch with her and talking about her own childhood memories. My mom was my partner in crime. Many afternoons we would sneak out to the mall together and shop for dresses for school dances. While we sometimes argued in the fitting room over the style of dress (I always aimed for something a little too mature and she for something a little more immature), we designed a veto system to turn these tiffs into productive discussions in which we explained why a particular outfit was unappealing to one of us. By the time, it came to buying my wedding dress, we had mastered our veto system and the experience of being just with my mom on the day we found "the dress" is a memory I will always cherish. My brother and I were so lucky to have our mother home with us each day. She modeled unconditional love, patience, support, and she always believed in the beauty of our dreams. I hope today my lovely mother has a truly lovely day.


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CENTRE: Small roster means more playing time for some
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With only 13 players on the Centre High School volleyball roster, quite a few could see varsity playing time.
Three starters return from last year's team.
Senior Shelby Makovec, a setter, is in her fourth year of volleyball. She was named first team all-league in 2013.
Senior Brenna Shields, a hitter, has been a letter-winner all three years she has been on the team. She received all-league honorable mention in 2012 and was named to the second team last year.
Sophomore Summer Espinoza, a setter, was a 2013 honorable mention all-league player.
The 2013 team finished with a record of 26-10. They were second in the league and second in the league tournament.
Head coach Yvonne Burhoop said having three returning starters will give the team some strength and put them with the top half of the Wheat State League.
The other players haven't had much varsity experience. Carlotta Benning, a 6-foot-1 junior exchange student who has not played volleyball, is expected to play a lead blocking role in the front row. She has played basketball for seven years.
Burhoop predicts Goessel will lead the league, followed by Rural Vista, Centre, Peabody, Little River, Solomon, Wakefield, and Elyria.
She is starting her 33rd year at Centre. Her daughter, Kylie Burhoop, will assist her.
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Is folder diff options are available only for registered customers?
I am trying to diff folders using command line
sgdm -d=D:\Result.txt "D:\Temp\Folder1" "D:\Temp\Folder2" , it returns the Exit status is 0 even though there are diff files in each folder.
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The DiffMerge tool is fully functional even if not registered. I tested with a couple folders here as well just to make sure it's working properly.
What happens if you diff two other folders?
Try changing directories to D:\temp, and put the result file there as well, and then use the full path to sgdm. It would look like:
"C:\Program Files\SourceGear\Common\DiffMerge\sgdm.exe" -d=Result.txt Folder1 Folder2
Does that work?
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Thanks Beth, Does the folder search supports any file format ? Does it have the ability to identify dlls too ?
I think it should work for any file format on the Folder Diff. It won't for the file diff, because the file diff can't deal with binary files, but at the folder level it should be fine.
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Thanks Beth for the prompt reply.
Let us sat Folder A : D:\Temp1\Test1\Helloworld.dll
Folder B : D\Temp1\Test1\hollaworld.dll
diff is not outputting the dll , It was able handle .txt files
File only in left:
Then it's probably in the filter list for folders. Go to Tools - Options - Folder Windows - Folder Filters. You can remove the DLL from the file suffix filters.
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Thanks for the reply, can I achieve that from Command line?
I don't think so. I think you'll need to run the program to change the settings, and then the settings will be saved for future Diffs.
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In an unrelated call, a North Summit woman said she left her vehicle to confront a neighbor standing in her yard, her vehicle, which was left in reverse, crashed into a trailer across the street.
On Sunday, Feb. 3, a Basin resident reported that a male, about 19 years old, had walked into the house at about 3 a.m. The homeowner said the male had a thin build and drives a grey four-door vehicle.
On Saturday, Feb. 2, a driver came around a corner too fast on East Canyon Road and slid off the road. The vehicle rolled down the hill and came to a rest next to the creek. The driver was checked by medical personnel and released to his parents.
On Friday, Feb. 1, a teen was injured when his rifle exploded. He was target shooting in North Summit when the rifle's receiver burst. The teen sustained hand injuries, according to the Sheriff's Report.
On Thursday, Jan. 31, a deputy saw a man driving over the fog line for an extended period of time on I-80. When the deputy pulled him over and approached the car, he smelled alcohol. The driver admitted to drinking and failed the field sobriety tests. His blood alcohol level was 0.11. The legal limit is 0.08.
A South Summit man failed to update his address on the sex offender registry. His last registered address was in Wasatch County. He was arrested for third-degree felony failure to register.
On Wednesday, Jan. 30, a man reported that his vehicle was stolen from a Kimball Junction parking structure. He had left his keys in the ignition with the door unlocked while he removed snow in the area.
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, deputies observed a woman making several lane violations on S.R. 224. After being pulled over, she showed signs of impairment and failed the field sobriety tests. She was arrested and booked into the Summit County Jail.
After being pulled over on I-80, a driver attempted to destroy a controlled substance, spice. He was arrested and booked into the Summit County Jail.
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|2010-06-24, 19:57
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EDIT: Do you know where I can find it? If it's this Team Gizka thingy, their website appears to not exist anymore. Or maybe it's just down.
I think the Expanded Universe certainly has a LOT of what you describe, but I don't see it ALL that way. My favorite EU story line is the X-Wing series of novels. I think they, overall, have positive finales. Sure, there are some bittersweet and even dark moments, but they're relatively positive.
Conversely, stuff like the Yuuzhan Vong War, for example, is just ridiculous, in my opinion. If you look up "Overpowered Plot Device" in the dictionary, the YV are at the top of the "Examples" list.
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|2010-06-24, 20:51
|Link #122
from head to heel
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 37
I don't think I'll be playing this game, but I do hope that the MMO storyline will at least address what happened to Revan after venturing out to unknown space in order to face the so-called True Sith. Even better if the game could also explain what happened to the Exile who followed him.
With the game featuring Satele Shan, I'm hoping that this would be a sign that the game would at least make a reference about whatever happened in the past.
|2010-07-24, 23:24
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Witcher, with tenure
Join Date: Sep 2004
Space combat, woo!
If BioWare does free roaming 3D space combat--including PvP--then ToR has potential to be revolutionary in this genre.
What would be spectacular is fully unrestricted spacecraft travel. If I can pilot my personal spacecraft from the hangar to the atmosphere then space, then travel to the next planet with the possibility of space combat (NPCs/players/asteroids), and finally land on said planet.. if all that was seamless then damn. I'm sold.
Even with zoning from planet -> space -> planet I'm game.
I assume we'll be able to retrofit and upgrade our spacecraft for combat. If so, I wonder how we'll obtain the best spacecraft equipment. Will the best parts drop from raid bosses? Better yet, can we have raid instances that are spacecraft only or hybrid? Imagine an instance that is your raid of 25 spacecrafts attacking Sith battlecruisers (or whatever). Now that is Star Wars!
All this is assuming they make spacecrafts a core part of the game, and not some mini-game or afterthought.
|2010-07-25, 10:50
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Then I'll apologize in advance for being a bastard and crushing that optimistic dream.
Navigation in space was previously described as the Mass Effect style galaxy map approach, meaning no manual take-off or unrestricted space travel. Space combat too was described as 'flying to various hot-spots on your galaxy map' so this hasn't changed since.
Space combat was described by Sean Dahlberg as "an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat." which, at this point of info, means that it's not an integral core part of the game
|2010-07-25, 14:07
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Witcher, with tenure
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|2010-07-25, 16:19
|Link #127
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
The next issue of PC gamer should have more information in it. Those who are able to get it, please do.
Anyway, making space combat in required part of the game is a sword so sharp in it's double edge you can't do much but cut yourself. STO tried that, and people either love the space combat and hate the ground combat, or relish in the ground combat and loathe the space combat, very few like both. I'm in the first camp, I love space combat but ground combat I'd wish had a big, fat skip button. Unfortunately, it doesn't, so getting tired of the ground combat interrupting my fun space adventure I left the game.
Choosing to make one side optional was an inevitable choice. No matter how much fun Bioware tries to make space combat, there are always people who won't like the system. People have different opinion on what's fun after all. By making space combat optional, those who enjoy it can fly around in space and have a good time, while those who say "no thanks, I'll stay with two feet on the ground and a good blaster" can just keep on blasting.
|2010-08-05, 09:08
|Link #128
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Join Date: Aug 2010
I've been looking around, but still no solid information regarding the pvp aspect of the game. Because I'm a big starwars fan, I will be getting the game regardless, but having open world pvp would be great in my opinion. It would feel really foolish and unrealistic if you are a Jedi and all you can do to a Sith Lord walking by is make a rude emote/gesture...
This may be a game where I will actually raid alot; the story and lore of warcraft never managed to make me an avid raider.
|2010-08-05, 10:03
|Link #129
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In Florida
I hope the Old Republic can find a good balance between the two.
|2010-08-05, 10:43
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|2010-08-05, 11:33
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Fortunately, ground combat in TOR is quite fast, so no fears there.
|2010-08-07, 06:33
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
So I guess you're rolling either a trooper or a bounty hunter then?
On that note, the bounty hunter story has been said by the writers to have the most mandalorian stuff, so you should probably roll one even if you're a trooper.
Oh, and before I forget, four new races have been announced.
It seems more and more that Bioware is going for a Dragon Age/Mass Effect-esque 'origin' aproach to the race/class choices. It's a great idea in my opinion. Sure, it limits customization, but you can actually adjust the class stories to make you feel like the race you're playing, not to mention incorporate at least 8 different races.
|2010-08-07, 06:47
|Link #137
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Define 'how to balance.' If you mean balance as in 'Jedi are super powerful in lore' then the answer is that the players aren't scrubs, but the best of the best. We're playing the Han Solo's, the Jango Fett's. The kind of guys who can fight a Jedi to a standstill.
If you mean balance by combat specifics... well, that's just a matter of skill-balancing.
|2010-08-07, 08:03
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CSB and SJU students on the radio
September 12, 2013
By Mike Killeen
Cindy Gonzalez didn't flinch when asked if the Minnesota Public Radio Gary Eichten News Fellowship met her expectations this summer.
"It did not at all," Gonzalez said. "I expected to get coffee, or to make some copies. It wasn't that, from day one. We had a list of 20 online assignments on our online file, and our supervisor (Kate Smith) said, 'You better start working.' "
Likewise, Alex Forster wasn't sure what to expect when he walked into the MPR studios on June 3.
"I made a joke that I showed up expecting to see Birkenstocks and hemp shirts," Forster said. "They threw us right into the 1:15 p.m. meeting (to decide) what's on the news for the day. I never felt like an intern there. I felt like an employee there," Forster said.
Gonzalez, a senior Asian studies major at the College of Saint Benedict, and Forster, a senior English literature major at Saint John's University, completed their 10-week fellowship Aug. 9, learning the basics of news writing, reporting and production work with a goal to write and produce material for MPR newscasts.
The fellowship for CSB and SJU students was created in honor of Eichten, a 1969 graduate of SJU who wore many hats during an over 40-year career at MPR. He retired from his on-air duties in January 2012, although he remains an editor-at-large for MPR News. Gonzalez and Forster were the second group of students to complete the internship.
Forster and Gonzalez are not "rookies" behind a microphone.
Forster, after all, read morning announcements each Friday while a senior at Irondale High School in New Brighton, Minn. Gonzalez worked shifts at KJNB Radio at SJU to get comfortable behind the mic.
But each learned a great deal about reporting and work in the media from Eichten and Smith.
"She (Smith) gave us a two-week crash course in writing for the news and doing audio, and then she threw us right into it," Forster said. "We were writing for the newscast, we were conducting interviews, and we were helping out reporters if they needed anything."
"Gary came in once a week, and he helped us individually," Gonzalez said. "It was interesting to see that every time we talked to somebody at MPR, they all had different ways of approaching the same task. Gary was a host, and he would come and he gave me a lot of voice lessons. I'm a Mexican American, so naturally I have a certain way to say certain words. And, he always tried to help. He said, 'There's going to be people that might try to change the way that you're going to speak, but that's what makes you you.' "
"Gary helped me out the most with just becoming comfortable reading for the radio - working the microphone," Forster said. "He said, 'If you're not talking to someone, you're doing it wrong. If it sounds like you're reading, you're screwing up.' "
The experience also reminded Gonzalez of the value of a liberal arts education.
"I think the No. 1 thing that I learned was that I'm very honored to have a liberal arts education," Gonzalez said. "I never quite understood the importance of the liberal arts. After this internship, I realized people value liberal arts in a real world setting."
"The one thing I liked about the fellowship is you don't have to have a journalism background to apply for the fellowship," Forster said. "The skills you learn there - working on deadline, the writing skills especially - are going to be applicable anywhere you go."
Both say the fellowship stirred an interest for a possible career in the media following graduation. Forster is considering applying for the Kroc Fellowship to National Public Radio; Gonzalez is interested in doing media work abroad, possibly in China, where she studied abroad as a sophomore. Both would encourage others to apply for the fellowship next year.
"At the end of the day, if you don't want to go into journalism, you still learn so much about journalism ethics and the philosophy of journalism, and that was super interesting," Gonzalez said.


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After posting gains in the first quarter, U.S. equities have reversed course and have started the second quarter in negative territory. Through the first few days of the second quarter, the Russell 3000, a broad measure of U.S. equities, is down about 0.53%, but the more aggressive areas of the U.S. stock market such as small-caps, biotech and technology stocks have seen the brunt of the recent sell-off. As we have noted in previous market commentaries, 2014 will likely be a year of elevated levels of market volatility and diversification will be the most prudent investment strategy. There are many possible reasons for the recent sell-off in more aggressive U.S. equities including the Fed reducing stimulus, increasing tensions in Ukraine, and a sharp decrease in S&P 500 earnings estimates since the beginning of the quarter. Last week's employment report further drove the point to investors that the Fed's tapering program will continue. Given that the Fed's three quantitative easing programs helped to drive market returns over the past few years, tapering or the reduction of these programs, is increasing investor angst. Uncertainty regarding Russia's next steps in Europe has furthered market uncertainty. While tapering was expected going into 2014 and it is always difficult to quantify effects of geopolitical risk on financial markets, the recent reversal in corporate profits has been of even greater concern. According to Thomson Reuters, since the beginning of the quarter there has been a sharp reversal in the share-weighted earnings for the S&P 500. Nine out of ten S&P 500 sectors have experienced downward revisions to estimates with the Materials and Information Technology sectors recording the highest percentage declines. Since stock prices tend to track earnings growth and earnings growth has risen by double-digits for each of the past five years, this reversal is a growing concern to investors. With earnings season likely to start this week, we will be closely watching profit reports. Because of these concerns, investors have been targeting the more aggressive areas of the markets. For example, the NASDAQ Composite Index fell 2.6% on Friday and is now down 5.2% from its bull-market peak on March 5th. This index tends to hold larger allocations to more aggressive sectors, such as Information Technology and Biotechs, while having a smaller capitalization bias. In times of investor bearishness, small caps tend to underperform large caps. On the other hand, the more conservative S&P 500 is only 1.4% below its April 2nd record high. Given market weakness and increased volatility, investors should remember to be diversified in their portfolios. A diversified investment strategy strives to smooth out portfolio returns so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others. For U.S. investors, diversification did not work in 2013 as U.S. equities far outperformed nearly every other global asset class. Unfortunately, many investors moved away from this strategy and have struggled as last year's laggards, including international equities, emerging markets equities, commodities, and REITs, have outperformed domestic equities during this current weakness. We continue to believe in the merits of diversification despite last year's setback. Outside of overall diversification, we remain focused on those portfolio biases that we laid out at the beginning of this year. These biases include a tilt to large cap U.S. equities, a slight increase in international developed equities, an income focus through dividend stocks and spread product in bonds, and liquid alternative investments.
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San Francisco, CA – Ian Desmond's RBI single in the top of the 10th inning sent Washington past San Francisco, 2-1, in the finale of a three-game set.
Bryce Harper's sixth-inning homer was the only other offense for the Nationals, who avoided a sweep and put the brakes on a four-game skid.
"Glad to be going home and coming home with a win," said Washington manager Davey Johnson.
Tyler Clippard (3-1) tossed a scoreless ninth for the win and Rafael Soriano followed suit in the bottom of the 10th for his 13th save.
Buster Posey knocked in the lone run and Andres Torres doubled twice for the Giants, who have dropped four of their last six.
Jeremy Affeldt (1-1) was charged with the loss for giving up the deciding run.
Harper stroked a one-out double to kick off the final frame, and after an intentional walk to Ryan Zimmerman, Desmond's base hit to right brought in the go-ahead run. The Nats couldn't provide any insurance, as Adam LaRoche grounded out and Roger Bernadina fanned with two in scoring position.
"(Harper) played well defensively and got a couple big hits against us," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Soriano retired the side in order to close out the contest.
Harper broke the scoreless deadlock with his leadoff homer in the sixth, an opposite-field shot which landed a couple rows deep in left.
Javier Lopez prevented Washington from extending its lead in the eighth, taking over for Jose Mijares with runners on the corners and two down, inducing an inning-ending pop to left from LaRoche.
The Giants responded in the home half. Angel Pagan walked with one out and Washington starter Gio Gonzalez exited for Drew Storen, who walked Marco Scutaro ahead of Posey's game-tying base hit.
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Gonzalez allowed four hits and one run with five strikeouts and two walks in 7 1/3 innings, while counterpart Madison Bumgarner lasted seven frames, also giving up a run on four hits while fanning five and walking two ... The loss snapped San Francisco's five-game home win streak ... Scutaro's 19-game hit streak came to an end with an 0-for-3 performance.


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