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Helen Hunt
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963), who is usually mistaken for Laura Dern, is an Academy Award-winning actress best known for her Golden Globes as well as for her roles in the American television situation comedy Made For You and the movie Twister.
Hunt assured herself of Hollywood stardom when, at age three, she changed a single letter in her surname after realizing it was an impolite word for female genitalia. As a result, her parents - an aspiring porn film director with a ready-made surname and a one-eyed photographer who didn't mind her name except when being paged - disowned Helen and left her on the side of a freeway to fend for herself. She immediately hitchhiked a ride and also immediately became a prostitute. At age three Helen was finally on her own, and she soon - actually, immediately - learned the tricks that would gain her many a film role in Hollywood.
Her only remaining family member is her maternal grandmother, Dorothy "French" Fries (née Spamala Anderson), a voice coach for the homeless. Hunt is of Jewish and Methodist background, but renounced all faith during her teenage years when she was disillisioned by the thought of a God who would allow such a thing as guppies.
Hunt spent part of her childhood in New York City, later attended the University of California at Los Angeles, and finally moved to Chicago to complete the trifecta.
Hunt is a star of the small screen, the silver screen, and the "Where is the screen?". She has worked before a camera or on a stage every day since she was old enough to jump up and down and ask for cookies.
Hunt got her big break in 1969, at age six, when she starred as one of Marlo Thomas' many lovechildren in "That Girl?". She later starred as a student in The Facts of Life, but was fired from the show for smoking marijuana with her body double, Laura Dern. Next, she tried wine tasting, and narrowly escaped death after she flung herself from a second-floor window while filming a tawdry direct-to-video movie, Desperate Lives. She then played former First Lady Betty Ford while undergoing rehabilitation and hosting the wine tastings at the famous Betty Ford Center.
In the 1990's, she landed a starring role in the TV sitcom Made For You, in which she played a cutting-edge bionic prostitute with three tiers of breasts and a lubricating esophagus. By the end of the show, in 1999, Hunt was earning $1,000,000 per episode (both on and off the set), and had won four Emmys for her "extraordinary bendy talents."
Major Movies[edit]
Two, "As Good As It Gets" and "Twister". In the former she plays a waitress who falls for a mentally ill writer, and in the latter she plays a mentally ill woman who spends her life trying to toss ping-pong balls into a tornado from ten feet away. In both films the audience is supposed to believe in her goodness and adventuress nature, while she just comes across as mildly retarded and suicidal.
Minor Movies and a turn at Shakespeare[edit]
Working her way to less fame and fortune in the downward swing of her career, Hunt has starred in such minor motion pictures as Are You Really A Director?, Twist Her, and Mom, Do You Do It For Money?. Taking time off from films, she starred in My Twelfth Night On A Bender, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of a similar title, at the Lincoln Center in New York City. To her disappointment, President Lincoln was unable to attend due to a prior engagement with death.
Suddenly finding "real acting too damn demanding", Hunt returned to a suburb of Hollywood to star in American Express, Give Them What They Want, and Join Me On The Casting Couch Young Lady. She then just gave up on ever again having a Hollywood career, and signed on to play the part of "Naked Lady number four, pose by the pool there sweetheart" in the upcoming Bollywood pic, Going My Way, Sailor?
Personal life[edit]
Hunt has a three-year old bastard daughter named Macaroni who is just now learning the ropes.
Very few know that her vagina has been photographed many times through an agency named Sweet Puss based in Madrid, Spain. Her Vajajay, as she calls it, was enlarged to murial sized art work for offices and museums throughout the world. Recently on CNN she stated that, "I probably have the most famous pussy in the world...well next to Madonna of course."


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Pastor Hagee: Blood moons point to 'world-shaking event'
SAN ANTONIO — Megachurch pastor John Hagee is warning his San Antonio congregation and international following of a "world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015."
And, no, he's not talking about Fiesta.
Hagee, founder of the Cornerstone Church, points to "four blood moons," a rare astronomical event of four consecutive and complete lunar eclipses, known as a tetrad, which begins April 15. The San Antonio pastor asserts the dates of the eclipses signify a major event that will change history in a book released in October, a series of sermons and a TV special airing on Tuesday, the first night of the tetrad.
"What is the prophetic significance? Is this the end of the age?" Hagee, 73, asked his flock during a sermon near the time he released the book.
The televangelist, who declined to comment through spokesman Ari Morgenstern, gained international attention two years ago for a series of sermons asking, "Could 2012 be the end of the world as we know it," that was broadcast to millions worldwide via his organization John Hagee Ministries and Global Evangelism Television.
Videos with dramatic music featuring Hagee's new prophecy have been posted to the organization's YouTube channel during the last few weeks, claiming "something is about to change" and seemingly ginning up excitement for the April 15 GETV special.
The four "blood moons" are total lunar eclipses that occur in intervals of about six months, an event known as a tetrad, according to NASA. A total eclipse is a result of a perfect alignment of the sun, the moon and the Earth and causes the moon to glow dark red.
Each eclipse in the upcoming tetrad will occur on a significant religious date, Hagee points out, citing NASA.
"The first of the four blood moons will come on April 15 this year, during Passover. The second will be on October 8, at the time of the Feast of the Tabernacles," Hagee said, according to the Daily Express in London. "On April 4, 2015, during Passover, we will have another blood moon. Then finally, on September 28, during next year's Feast of the Tabernacles, the fourth blood and final moon will dawn."
Hagee said to "have them fall on these exact dates is something that has to be beyond coincidental," according to the Daily Express.
The Cornerstone Church, located near Stone Oak on the North Side, has about 20,000 active members, according to its website.
During last year's sermon, Hagee read Acts 2: 19-20 from the New Testament to signify the importance of the "blood red moons."
"And I will show wonders in Heaven above and signs in the Earth beneath, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."
Between 1600 and 1900 there were no tetrads, but since, there have been five, according to NASA's millennium catalog of lunar eclipses.
The red moons all will be visible from the United States, and Tuesday's moon will be visible for approximately 78 minutes around 2 a.m., Fred Espenak, an eclipse expert for NASA, wrote on the agency's website.
"When you see these signs, the Bible says, lift up your head and rejoice, your redemption draweth nigh," Hagee said in a sermon. "I believe that the Heavens are God's billboard, that He has been sending signals to Planet Earth but we just have not been picking them up."
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PARKER, Colo. >> Even with six rookies on her team, captain Liselotte Neumann told the Europeans this was their time to make history in the Solheim Cup.
All she wanted was for them to prove they could win in America, but they gave her so much more.
Caroline Hedwall became the first player in Solheim Cup history to win five matches, and the final point was for more than the 24-year-old Swede. She left her approach on the 435-yard 18th hole within 4 feet for a birdie that gave her a 1-up win over Michelle Wie and assured Europe of keeping the cup.
"I'm still shaking," Hedwall said. "It's just amazing."
Moments later, Catriona Matthew holed a 5-foot par putt to halve her match and give Europe the outright win on the seventh try in America.
Even as the celebration played out across Colorado Golf Club, Neumann's crew kept battling for half-points until the end. The Solheim Cup ended when Cristie Kerr and Karine Icher reached the 18th green and conceded each other birdies.
That final half-point put Europe in the record books at 18-10, the biggest blowout since this competition began in 1990.
"It was really fun to see Caroline get her fifth point this week, making some history on the team," Neumann said. "Winning here for the first time, making more history … I'm sure we'll go have a drink or two and do some dancing and singing tonight."
The Americans have an 8-5 lead in the series, although this was the first time they have lost back-to-back in the Solheim Cup. The Americans are without the Solheim Cup, Ryder Cup, Walker Cup and Curtis Cup, the four biggest team events in golf.
U.S. captain Meg Mallon, gracious to the end, could only point to a poor performances on the slick greens and her team's inability to close. Over the final three-hole stretch, Europe had a 17-10 advantage in holes won.
"The way we played 16, 17 and 18 I think is what really made the difference," Mallon said. "It wasn't for lack of preparation because we played this golf course quite a bit. So it wasn't like a surprise for us. It was just a matter of who dropped the putts on those holes. And unfortunately, it was the Europeans."
Stacy Lewis, the highest-ranked American coming off a Women's British Open title at St. Andrews, went 1-2-1 for the week. Paula Creamer was 1-3 and was blown out 5 and 4 by 17-year-old Charley Hull in Sunday's singles. Angela Stanford (0-4) was the other player without a point this week. Cristie Kerr, the most experienced American on the team, went 1-2-1.
Europe's rookies were 12-5-2, with Hull stealing the show. The English teenager showed no fear, at one point asking Neumann, "When am I supposed to be nervous?"
"I didn't really feel that nervous, to be honest," Hull said. "Because this is how I always look at golf. I'm not going to die if I miss it. Just hit it, and find it, and hit it again."
It really was that simple.
"It's a fantastic feeling right now," Neumann said. "I'm so proud of them. They played such good golf this week. They just played tremendous golf."
Another rookie, Carlota Ciganda, handed Morgan Pressel her first lost in singles in four appearances to go 3-0 for the week.
Not even a one-hour delay due to lightning in the area could damper the European celebration. Suzann Pettersen, who tied Azusa's Lizette Salas on Sunday, was lining up her putt on the 16th hole when she heard cheers from the 18th hole, got news that Hedwall won her match and began pumping her fist.
Matthew holed the winning the putt, but the Europeans really won Saturday when they swept the fourballs matches to build a 10-5 lead, matching the largest margin going into Sunday.
Hull only showed her age at the end. She took a marker from her bag and asked Creamer if she could sign a golf ball for a friend back home.
"He's a big fan, so I thought I might as well get one," Hull said.
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Let's try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House:
� Economy's getting a little better. Deficit's dropping.
� Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how well things turned out for him.
� Nobody in the administration has been caught driving to Canada with Bo the dog strapped to the car roof.
It's been quite a week, what with the IRS scandal, the Benghazi controversy and revelations about the Justice Department's sweep of The Associated Press' phone records. Plus, the Russians came up with an alleged American spy in a bad wig who they said was caught carrying a compass, an atlas of Moscow and a ridiculous traitor-recruitment letter. That one could be a setup, but if it's real, then we are just going to have to cancel the summer.
Republicans were leaping joyfully through the capital like overcaffeinated gazelles. There is not a committee chairman in the House of Representatives who isn't planning hearings of outrage about something -- except maybe the poor woman John Boehner appointed to run the committee in charge of housekeeping.
Heads must roll! Sen. James Inhofe announced that "people may be starting to use the i-word before too long," having apparently missed all the prior calls for the president's impeachment for everything from failure to balance the budget to gun control.
Sen. Marco Rubio demanded "the IRS commissioner's resignation," possibly unaware that the nation had not had an IRS commissioner since last November. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed doubt that the nation would be satisfied just with the head of "some temporary guy" and called for a permanent appointment. This was presumably due to Reid's desire for stability, not just a more rewarding target.
The acting commissioner did, indeed, get the ax Wednesday, but the chances that the Senate is going to approve a new Internal Revenue Service commissioner are approximately as good as the odds it will include zombies under Social Security. Reid is still struggling with the nominations for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Environmental Protection Agency, which have been held up by the Republicans on the grounds that they don't really like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Labor Department appears likely to get a new leader the very second hell freezes over. Also, Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri has vowed to put a hold on EPA nominee Gina McCarthy until he gets a new flood-way project.
Serious problem for Washington: How do you get heads to roll when there aren't any heads? Except for Attorney General Eric Holder, who's been running the Justice Department for what seems like 100 years and appears linked to just about every disaster in the history of the Obama administration. I believe we may soon discover that he was the one who provided the would-be spy in Russia with a brown wig that looks like an obese cat.
People, this too shall pass. We're in a moment, not a map for the entire Obama second term. It is, of course, possible that things will get worse and we'll discover the president's health care plan is, as Michele Bachmann claims, part of a plot to deny medical treatment to conservatives. Or things could get better. The White House seems to be getting some traction on the IRS. Maybe the economy will really improve, the scandals will run their course, and people will turn their attention to worthy causes like early childhood education or stopping climate change.
Admittedly, the last scenario is a long shot. And even if Barack Obama ascended into heaven, the Republicans would point out that before he went, the IRS picked on the tea party.
Maybe, while he's crisis-managing, the president could also figure out a way to show people government working at something other than reorganizing troubled agencies. Maybe he could start off with passing a bill that's supereasy. I notice that in state legislatures, when times are tough, parties are sometimes able to get together in order to pick a new state thing. You know, state bird, state animal. Some states find this so relaxing they never stop. (New Mexico has an official state guitar, state tie and state aircraft, which, unfortunately, is the hot-air balloon.)
The United States has a few of these items, like a bird and an anthem, but there's plenty of territory to cover. The president could demand that Congress pick an official national rock. Committees could hold hearings about the relative merits of slate and granite. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would threaten to filibuster unless his colleagues considered coal. But, in the end, I believe everybody would rally around a grand compromise for marble. And the country would feel better.
Baby steps. Then we can get to the debt ceiling.
This too shall pass
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
In-Progress At Daytona: The Rolex 24 (Fox Local TV Station Problems)
Update: With the first portion of the Fox Sports telecast complete, SPEED now resumes the regular cable TV coverage of the Rolex 24.
Many local Fox TV stations chose not to air the early coverage. Some stations indicated it would air on a tape delay, actually while the live SPEED telecast was in-progress. Other stations had the race listed on their program schedule, but chose to show local programming.
The TV markets affected by this lack of coverage included Los Angeles, San Diego,
Honolulu, Seattle, Denver and San Francisco. We will keep working on this story, and bring updates when more information becomes available.
This year lots of NASCAR stars are going to spend the weekend on the road course at Daytona. The Rolex 24 is a sports car race featuring lots of different classes of cars and a whole lot of traffic. 24 hours of racing is a lot of laps at Daytona.
The race kicks off on Saturday at 1PM on Fox Sports, and then transitions over to SPEED for extended coverage both Saturday and Sunday. SPEED and Fox will be using a bevy of announcers for this one, both in the booth and on pit road.
Since the NASCAR presence at this event has increased significantly, I thought it would be a good idea to post a story that could serve to host your comments as you watched parts of this multi-hour telecast.
Please focus your opinions on the TV part of this event, and what you like and do not like about the coverage. SPEED has done an excellent job with this live race in the past, and sometimes the drama of the final hours is worth the wait. Anyone who watched Tony Stewart try to limp his car home a while back will attest to that.
Have a great time with this first live race of the season, we look forward to your thoughts as live action from Daytona returns to TV.
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77 comments:
- Ritchie said...
I think it is amazing that a network would attempt to broadcast a 24 hour event. I realize that they break the coverage into segments, but that is still an amazing feat. Espeacially considering all of the pre race preparation and then wrapping everything up after the race. Then you factor in the weather and coordinating shifts, I think SPEED deserves a lot of credit for attempting the level of coverage that they provide for this race. It would be much easier to just put on a highlight show.
That being said, I am a bit greedy. I wish there was some way to broadcast the entire 24 hour race non-stop. That's not too much to ask...is it?
- January 26, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
JD, will the FOX portion of the broadcast be in HD?
Also, I hear SPEED is already broadcasting HD programing with on DirecTV. I don't have direcTV, so can anyone with the HD package tell if the race is in HD with SPEED on DirecTV?
- January 26, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 12:12PM,
In the info that I got about the event, it did not mention HD.
The SPEED HD roll-out begins shortly and will take some time to ramp-up. The DirecTV customers will have it as soon as it becomes available on a 24 hour basis.
- January 26, 2008 at 12:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD, we may have a problem. It is 10am PST, and the FOX affiliate in San Diego is airing children's programing. The program guide says this station (XETV) should be airing the race, but that is not what I see on my TV screen. What is going on?
- January 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Same here in Colorado. Fox31 in Denver is showing some program about apes. This is not how I wanted to start 2008.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
Even though my on-screen cable guide clearly shows the Seattle Fox station (KCPQ) is supposed to be broadcasting The Rolex 24, they're showing their Saturday morning block of kid's programming. Instead of racing, I'm watching "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
I guess no-one in Seattle got the memo. Thankfully, the feed will be switching to SPEED in 90 minutes.
--KarenB in British Columbia
- January 26, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anybody else got no racing on the West Coast? Please tell us your local Fox Station call letters and location! Thanks.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
I guess none of the broadcasters on the left side of the continent got the memo. I feel your pain, guys. :-)
KarenB in British Columbia
- January 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fox29 in Philadelphia has it in broadcasted in HD
- January 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Did you guys call your local stations? What was the response?
- January 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am the one from San Diego. I had a feeling this could be affecting most of the west coast. I am trying to find out if KTTV, the FOX affiliate in LA, is having the same problem.
Also, earl06 mentioned the FOX station in Denver. That stations call letters are KDVR.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Unknown said...
KTTV - Los Angeles (Local Fox) is showing Ninja Turtles, when it says the Rolex 24 is supposed to be on.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fox station KHON in Honolulu is showing kid's cartoons.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hey - has anyone heard why Tony Stewart isn't running the Rolex 24 this year? Just curious. Thanks.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
West Coasters- green flag is in a couple of minutes. Maybe the stations will switch over then. Good Luck!
- January 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
So, Honolulu - Los Angeles - Seattle - San Diego - Denver.
Those are the TV markets where the Fox local stations are not showing the live Rolex start.
Keep updating us please about what they say on the phone to you when you call. I am trying to get the SPEED guys on site to dial up this blog.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
pbump-Tony said that with testing running so close together, he needed to focus on his Cup car.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
From the XETV Website program guide: The Rolex 24 at Daytona will air a 1pm PST.
Upon calling XETV they say they will air the race tape delayed at 1pm PST.
Why would they do that? That means it will not correspond with the programing on SPEED.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
Just to clarify, XETV is the FOX affiliate in San Diego.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Bobby said...
There are federal rules on "children's television" that unfortunately affects the West Coast coverage of the Rolex.
San Diego and Brownsville have a unique situation. San Diego is served by a Tijuana, Mexico station (XETV), noted by the first letter of its call sign (X). Similarly, the Rio Grande Valley situation is similar, as they are served by a Matamoros (Mexico) affiliate, XHRIO. Because they are Mexican affiliates, Televisa, which owns the stations, must receive a special waiver from the sports sanctioning body that airs games (FIA, Grand-Am, NASCAR, NFL, and MLB) to air the games because they are Mexican stations, have Mexican transmitters, and Mexican call letters, not American stations.
They are Fox affiliates in Mexico
- January 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
It is extremely dissapointing that Ninja Turtles are more important in the #2 TV market than this race. Shame on you KTTV.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
FOX Honolulu will show the Rolex at 4-5:30 Eastern Time.
I'll be watching SPEED's coverage then.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Both my on-screen guide and KCPQ Seattle's website say the Rolex 24 should be broadcasting right now. There's nothing about tape delay. I'm still watching cartoons. Well, not watching, but I still have my TV on Fox just in case they switch.
Darn, this is killing me!
--KarenB in British Columbia
- January 26, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Did you call or email them?
- January 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the update, Lisa!
- January 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bobby, XETV regularly airs all FOX sports programing LIVE. I don't see why today would be any different.
Also, regarding the Federal laws about children's programing, I thought stations were free to move this programing around as long as they always include a certain number of hours per week.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM
- Unknown said...
I have DirecTv here in NY and it is on live on the NY Fox out of NYC. When I look at the Fox out of LA (which I pay for also on DirecTV), the guide shows that cartoons and stuff are scheduled, with racing scheduled to start on it at 5pm EST.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fox Carolina in Greenvile -Spartanburg, SC is showing South Carolina vs. Kentucky college basketball. WHNS.
It's on their site schedule. Auburn at Alabama game is next.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
John, I just emailed them. I'd rather not call, since I don't have a long-distance calling plan. I rarely use my phone, so I didn't bother to spend the extra money.
--KarenB in British Columbia
- January 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 1:50PM,
Thanks for that info. Seen Connie LeGrand around down that way?
- January 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
No Rolex 24 on KTVU (San Francisco Bay Area).
- January 26, 2008 at 1:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
The Houston Fox channel came on just when the green flag flew and missed the beginning controversary and the broadcasters were mentioning something about rain tires versus dry tires and some cars on pit road but of course we missed it here. At least I saw the green flag for at least a second I guess that's a good thing. I'm enjoying the team in the booth, Diffie, Schroeder & Hobbs.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
There's timing and scoring on grandamerican.com/rolex for those of you who don't have the broadcast yet.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
I just tried to get on to the Grand Am website (http://www.grand-am.com/) and it's unavailable. Must be everyone in the Mountain & Pacific time zones trying to watch the race.
Btw, the Denver CBS affiliate is showing a basketball game so I don't think KDVR-Fox31 is showing kids programming under some federal mandate, they just don't feel like it.
John, I'm not sure how to contact KDVR from here, we're only getting their feed because our local affiliate burned to the ground last Sunday.
- January 26, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Wow, this reminds us of the problems with the ABC affiliates and NASCAR last season.
I am trying to get a better explanation of things, but what I am being told by a former GM is that each local station has contracts that deal with local station programming.
The decision to move a program for a network feed is up to the station, unless it is made mandatory by the network as a part of the affiliate agreement.
What a shame for SPEED to lose so many big TV markets for this live broadcast.
Please keep reporting in if the Rolex is not on in your area.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Do you know who is handling / supplying the cameras for this race? Is it the same team that do the Nascar races? It seems to be better than a Nascar race, the angles, steadiness etc.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
Earl06 try www.grandamerican.com/rolex
- January 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD, I have seen Connie, but not often. She's on the 5:30 news and I usually flip around the news stations at 11, (or sometimes 6 p.m.) so I mostly miss her newscast.
She looks great when I see her.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Earl06 try www.grandamerican.com/rolex"
Tried that too. No dice. Thanks anyway.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
You can also get to live timing through the DIS website.
If my link doesn't work, go the DIS site and and you will see the link.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Earl06 I have it on that's funny maybe just go to the grandamerican.com and look for the timing & scoring. Lots of more things added this year on that link too.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
Racing just started here in the SF bay area on speed. Fox did not have coverage, some cartoons and other crap.....
Glad to be able to catch some at least.. What a joke though...
- January 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
well the broadcast is now on SPEED. Hopefully everyone can see it now.
JD, Do you have any more information on the affiliate problems?
- January 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm now watching on SPEED. The Fox affiliate never did make the switch from cartoons to racing.
--KarenB in British Columbia
- January 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM
- elena said...
truck series fan,
Thanks for the site.
elena :>)
- January 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Nope, I have messages into SPEED and also Fox, but you know how responsive local stations are on the weekends.
I just think some Central and West Coast stations just chose to run their normally scheduled local programming.
That is the big problem with local TV stations. Remember when the ABC guys left with the NASCAR race in progress for local news at 6PM? And that was a race during The Chase no less.
I certainly will follow-up on Monday, but what a shame. If I was a SPEED executive and found out that LA, SF, Honolulu, San Diego, Seattle and Denver were "in the dark," I would have simulcast on SPEED regardless of the consequences.
After all, this is the Daytona 500 of this series, their biggest event of the year and those local station viewers missed the start.
You can always count on TV to make it interesting.
- January 26, 2008 at 2:42 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Thanks a lot to those readers that stepped-up and provided Internet link information.
I think back on the column about "convergence" and how much better this program would have been to remain on SPEED and simulcast live on SPEEDtv.com.
- January 26, 2008 at 3:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
Getting onto the actual coverage: The announcing team is good. I like how honest they are when someone screws up. When there was that dumb wreck at the beginning of lap one, Schroeder said "That was embarrassing. No need for that." and Hobbs agreed.
- January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fox Philadelphia showed it live and in HD
- January 26, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
Just caught the Fox Pre-Race at 1:30 MST. Interesting and informative, would have been nice to see it before the race.
JD, I agree. What is Fox gaining by showing the first hour of a 24-hour race?
- January 26, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD- I really do enjoy watching the Rolex 24, but cannot watch it all, so I am taping parts. What really frosts me is the absence of any coverage from 10:00PM to 6:00AM, especially since I most enjoy watching the racing at night. I think I can appreciate the added cost & problems of full 24 hour coverage - BUT the race is much more interesting than watching paint dry ( AKA Unique Whips) and I really do not understand why SPEED could not have some interim updates of some sort between 10:00 and 6:00, even if nothing more than just a scroll. Many thanks for your post.
- January 26, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
The race broadcast is now airing on XETV in San Diego.
While I am just barley about to see the start of the race. SPEED is showing 21 hours left in this 24 hour race.
Also, why is it in HD in Philadelphia as anon at 1:18 said, but not in San Diego? Is it just the pre-race show that is not in HD?
- January 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
It make more sense for Fox to show the first hour and the last hour in my opionon.
- January 26, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
The race has just started but, XETV does not have the in HD.
I find it interesting that in is in HD in other cities as Ryan and anon at 1:18 said, but not in San Diego. Can anyone who has or is now watching the FOX portion of the race tell if it was in HD or is this a problem with XETV?
- January 26, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- SonicAD said...
to anonymous watching on XETV:
Not all local stations have the ability to record an HD feed for delayed broadcast yet, so they probably had to record the SD feed when it aired and show it later.
- January 26, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- Sophia said...
I also think it's ludicrous NO OVER NIGHT coverage...at least give the West side folks a chance to watch until 11pm or Midnight? I am a chronic insomniac and can always hit the VCR button to tape.
But why should west coast folks have to lose viewing at 7pm??
And don't get me STARTED on the rubbish on SPEED :( that's run instead. Oy Vey
An my fave show now gone.
- January 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
KVVU in Las Vegas aired the beginning of the race in HD. The SpeedHD feed is up and broadcasting the Rolex 24 in HD.
@SophiaZ123 5:16pm:
I think you are being a little unreasonable in your request for 24 hour TV coverage. In the overnight hours, very few people would watch. Additionally, you would need to double up on the TV production crew (2 of every cameraperson, director, producer...etc) All that effort for little additional revenue..not a sound business decision. Can't you follow the race online anyways?
- January 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
The SpeedHD feed is up and broadcasting the Rolex 24 in HD.
January 26, 2008 6:05 PM
I knew it! Someone had told me that even though SPEED HD had not officially launched, they were airing a few programs in HD on the cable/sat operators that already carry the HD feed in preparation of the official launch.
- January 26, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
I wish they broadcast all 24 hrs. I wouldn't even mind overnight coverage without commentators. Just a video feed and a scroll would be fine with me.
- January 26, 2008 at 7:02 PM
- Haus14 said...
Anon @ 12.17
Regarding the broadcast being in HD on Speed: even though it is showing up as 16:9 for Speed on DirectTv, it may not be in HD. Barret-Jackson was broadcast in 16:9 as well, but according to an e-mail response from Speed it was not in HD it was just in 16:9 as they were getting used to the new formatting. Either way I am looking forward to the season this year on Speed. The 16:9 with or without HD looks great.
I have been checking in and out on the coverage and it has been very enjoyable with Varsha and Hobbs coming over from F1 to anchor the coverage.
Thumbs up to SPEED.
- January 26, 2008 at 7:09 PM
- Sophia said...
No where did I state they should broadcast ALL 24 hrs.
I just thought the folks on the WEST COAST (I live on EAST COAST TIME) should get better scheduling is all. Most got gypped out of the morning coverage.
Sometimes, it's not just about US but fans in the other part of the coverage.
I have no idea what you mean by following "online"? I do not pay for online stuff like following cartoons cars. :-)
Besides, even if FREE ONLINE, my computer is in the computer hospital. I am using house mates puter for this....
To the person who said broadcast just with video and no commentators, I would go for that if that could cut the budget. Just put stationary cams all around the track, lol.
Just wanted to clarify I was not being a narcissist thinking it's "All about me". Just thinking of the fans on the opposite coast of where I am at.
- January 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Can confirm KTVU channel 2 FOX (Oakland/SF, east bay area, north bay area) Showed the start of the race at 3:00pm pst.. We would be one of the stations as you put it JD. "Some stations indicated it would air on a tape delay, actually while the live SPEED telecast was in-progress". They only showed the first hour and a half. Now "Planet X" (skateboarding X game stuff) is on.
I never left the SPEED coverage. Thank goodness for SPEED.
I called and got a voice mail. I'll call again on Monday. I also sent an email.
Not much I can say but...
I guess it may have been cool for the folks who don't have SPEED.
- January 26, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD, I agree. What is Fox gaining by showing the first hour of a 24-hour race?
I think the reason the first hour is on FOX is so it promotes the series and the SPEED network. If you notice, its called "SPEED On FOX". It previews the network to the people. To be honest, we now have SPEED Channel just because all the hype and racing that was on it. We got it about two years ago and im glad we did.
In my opinion. I think it would make more sense to show the first hour and last hour on FOX. But I think the last hour on SPEED is some of the most highest ratinga for the network. I predict in a few years that most of the Rolex 24 Hours will move to network TV.
- January 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
KTVU Channel 2--Oakland, S.F. chose stupid turtle show for kids instead of Rolex 24 hours at Daytona start. After waiting several weeks to watch the start of this race, I got shut out by a kiddie show.I'm pissed!!!!
- January 27, 2008 at 2:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
Regarding the coverage, I liked the way the booth teams answered questions submitted by e-mail during the race. This was a brilliant move. Each question educated not only the asker but the entire audience about this form of racing. It provided some interaction between the crew and the fans. It gave the booth something to talk about during those longer runs when the field was too separated for battles for position.
The networks providing NASCAR coverage should consider doing this for those races known for long green flag runs when the field gets well-separated. Pocono leaps to mind.
- January 27, 2008 at 7:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
It's generally been a basic rule that you don't preempt programming that's been promoted.
Obviously, these Fox stations don't get that.
- January 27, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have no idea what you mean by following "online"? I do not pay for online stuff like following cartoons cars. :-)
I do pay for live scanner transmissions and telemetry, however.
I guess it depends on how important knowing exactly what's happening on the track is to you.
- January 27, 2008 at 8:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
I emailed Fox 31 in Denver. Still waiting for a response. I thought Denver was a little more "racer" friendly-there I go thinking....I'll forward their response if it ever comes.
- January 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- snowfaller said...
The coverage has been very good in my opinion - although they could use a few more commercials in the rotation. I watched all of the coverage Saturday and have been with it most of Sunday. I can't believe they didn't provide any television coverage overnight.
Once again, if SPEED wants racing fans to take them seriously they should at least show LIVE racing they have the rights to show...
It's even more ridiculous they "preempt" live IMPORTANT racing they own to show more of their crap lifestyle shows.
- January 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think the coverage has been so so.
Bob Varsha is the best play by play guy in the business. period. However, the others on the broadcast team could use some swapping in-out. What is up with Calvin Fishs glasses, come on, be professional. Do you have a sunglass deal too??? He comes across with such an ego. Andrew Marriott is awful. Keep Dorsey,Varsha,Hobbs, and get rid of the rest. I'm glad to have the race on TV, but why not make it something to watch? It comes across as Charlie Browns teacher. Plus, way too much inside stuff, I've missed so many stories due to the expectation that I should know it.
Speed and Grand Am had another great chance to educate and grab new fans, and once again they blow it.
Overall, I give them a C.
Why not include Dave Despain, he was the guy at TBS who brought us the 24 hour coverage in the 80's, and he's still the man.
ScottB / Atlanta, GA
- January 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
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- January 27, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have to disagree and say the broadcast was very good. But I was disappointed that they went off the air at 10 PM ET. The group that they have doing coverage are the same ones back when it was SPEED Vision. There is no need to swtich the broadcast team. They are all professionals. I have only started watching the 24 hours in the last three years and it is due to SPEED Channel. The coverage has made me want to watch. They recieved one new fan and thats me.
- January 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM
- Unknown said...
Itoo thoughtthe coverage was good. The announcers didnt get in the way of the racing, and the interviews they did were "timely" and pertained to the action on the track.
The concept of having 2 different divisions running on the track at the same time and having 2 different races is somethign that would be interesting to see used in Nascar. Imagine an All Star race that had the 15 best Cup, Nationwide and Truck racers racing each other at the same time with 3 different winners. It would be an interesting thing to see.
In an earlier post, someone mentioned not wanting to pay for racing online. It got me to wondering if anyone knew if a schedule for who would be on Hot Pass this year was available so I could decide if it would make more sense to pay a little extra to Directv then to pay for the Nascar Trackpass just to listen to my drivers scanner (JG). A side question, are you able to Tivo the Hotpass (for rewinding during the race)?
- January 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Plus, way too much inside stuff, I've missed so many stories due to the expectation that I should know it. Speed and Grand Am had another great chance to educate and grab new fans, and once again they blow it. "
Isn't that what NASCAR fans complained about all last season? That the broadcasts were dumbed downed for new fans. I'm glad it was presented as it was, and I'm no expert. I actually checked some things on the speedtv sports car boards to read more about it.
The coverage was excellent - except for one of the pit reporters (I don't know his name) was just mediocre. He completely ignored Memo Rojas before the race yesterday -walking past him as he was standing in the middle of teammates Montoya, Pruett, and Franchitti who all got interviewed. Very bad taste.
But today, the reporter decided to interview Rojas - I suppose he discovered Rojas existed since he was on the winning team and all.
- January 27, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
I may be in the minority or majority, I don't know. However, I kind of agree with the post concerning the coverage being mediocre. And I totally agree with the earlier post about calvin fish blowing past memo rojas, wth was that about? I remember how good the coverage use to be near the end of the IMSA days and then the split. I think it's gone down hill, and in a big way.
Brian from Orlando
- January 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bill H said:
"The concept of having 2 different divisions running on the track at the same time and having 2 different races is somethign that would be interesting to see used in Nascar. Imagine an All Star race that had the 15 best Cup, Nationwide and Truck racers racing each other at the same time with 3 different winners. It would be an interesting thing to see."
It would especially be interesting at Road America in Elkhardt Lake, WS.
- January 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't that what NASCAR fans complained about all last season? That the broadcasts were dumbed downed for new fans. I'm glad it was presented as it was
I am, too--and I learned a lot!
You're right--people on this board complained that ESPN was "NASCAR for Dummies," and I hated that, too.
So I was pleased this race was not dumbed-down for me.
- January 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM


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MANILA, Philippines – The 'September 2017 LET results' or the Licensure Exam for Teachers (Elementary and Secondary levels) list of passers, top 10 examinees, top performing schools, performance of schools and related announcements are available at this website as PRC officially released the results online 43 working days after the board examinations.
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However, PRC may also release the LET official results earlier or later than the stipulated date without prior notice. Just keep tuning-in at at this article for timely updates.
On the same exams conducted by PRC on March 2017, results were out after forty (40) working days. During September 2016 and September 2015 LET, results were out after forty eight (48) working days while forty one (41) working days on March 2016.
These important registration schedule and requirements shall be secured by a successful examinee.
- The schedule of registration for issuance of Professional ID and Certificate of Registration will be from December 4 to December 8, 2017 for Elementary Level and December 11 to December 22, 2017 for Secondary Level.
- Registration requirements: duly accomplished Oath Form, Notice of Admission (NOA), two (2) pieces of colored passport ID picture with white background and nametag and two (2) sets of doc stamps.
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- Filipino – Komunikasyon sa Akademikong Pilipino, Pagbasa at Pagsulat sa Panananaliksik at Masining na Pagpapahayag
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- Social Sciences – Philippine Government New Constitution with Human Rights, Philippine History, Basic Economics, Taxation, Agrarian Reform, Society, Culture with Family Planning; Rizal and other Heroes, Philosophy of Man, Arts, General Psychology and Information and Communication Technology
- Teaching Profession, Social Dimensions of Education
- Principles of Teaching, Educational Technology and Curriculum Development
- Facilitating Learning, Child and Adolescent Development
- Assessment of Student Learning, Developmental Reading
- Field Study and Practice Teaching
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To pass the board exam for teachers, PRC said that an examinee must obtain an average rating of not less than 75% and must have no rating lower than 50% in any of the tests.
LET is currently the program with most number of examinees being administered by the Professional Regulation Commission.
During March 2017 LET, 5,600 elementary teachers out of 53,915 examinees (10.39%) and 18,482 secondary teachers out of 72,584 examinees (25.46%) successfully passed. UP Diliman was the top performing school in secondary level having 62 out of 67 examinees passed. Complete performance of schools for March 2017 LET are posted here.
Samantha Christel Chua Gaerlan from De La Salle University - Manila topped in the elementary level garnering 90.60% rating. She was followed by Angelique Garcia de Vera from UP Diliman having 90.20%. Complete list of topnotchers for elementary level is posted here.
Arian Kaye Fortinez Gallego from University of Mindanao - Davao City topped the secondary level garnering 92.80% rating. She was followed by Acejan Lascuña Jadie from De La Salle University - Dasmariñas having 92.60%. Complete list of topnotchers for secondary level is posted here.
On the same exams conducted September 2016, 23,378 elementary teachers out of 77,466 examinees (30.18%) and 31,334 secondary teachers out of 92,754 (33.78%) successfully passed. University of Santo Tomas (UST) was the top performing school in Elementary level having 133 out of 136 examinees passed or 97.79% overall rating while UP Diliman was the top performing school in Secondary level having 92 out of 95 examinees passed or 96.84% passing rate. Complete performance of schools for September 2016 LET are posted here.
Mark Penuliar Castillo from Tarlac State University and Lady Princess Sanguyo Marcelo for UP Diliman got the top spot in Elementary level having 88.20% rating. Complete list of topnotchers for elementary level is posted here.
Richard Cabuay Macapulay from Tarlac State University ranked first in the Secondary level having 90% rating followed by Ella Vircelle Estoya Eguillos from UP Visayas Tacloban City garnering 89.80%. Complete list of topnotchers for secondary level is posted here.
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This look back is also a look forward: it is a document that asks, "Given what has happened, what shall we now do?" And a very subtle and important section, early in the "reckoning," raises the questions entailed by political and social success. How are our moral obligations affected when the forces we most strenuously resist come to power anyway?
Although it is certainly not true that success justifies an evil deed and shady means, it is impossible to regard success as something that is ethically quite neutral. The fact is that historical success creates a basis for the continuance of life, and it is still a moot point whether it is ethically more responsible to take the field like a Don Quixote against a new age, or to admit one's defeat, accept the new age, and agree to serve it. In the last resort success makes history; and the ruler of history [i.e., God] repeatedly brings good out of evil over the heads of the history-makers. Simply to ignore the ethical significance of success is a short-circuit created by dogmatists who think unhistorically and irresponsibly; and it is good for us sometimes to be compelled to grapple seriously with the ethical problem of success. As long as goodness is successful, we can afford the luxury of regarding it as having no ethical significance; it is when success is achieved by evil means that the problem arises.
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Suppose, then, that we do not want Technopoly to win, to gain widespread social dominance — but it wins anyway (or has already won). What then? Bonhoeffer:
In the face of such a situation we find that it cannot be adequately dealt with, either by theoretical dogmatic arm-chair criticism, which means a refusal to face the facts, or by opportunism, which means giving up the struggle and surrendering to success. We will not and must not be either outraged critics or opportunists, but must take our share of responsibility for the moulding of history in every situation and at every moment, whether we are the victors or the vanquished.
So the opportunism of the Borg Complex is ruled out, but so too is huffing and puffing and demanding that the kids get off my lawn. Bonhoeffer's reasons for rejecting the latter course are interesting: he thinks denunciation-from-a-distance is a failure to "take our share of responsibility for the moulding of history." The cultural conditions are not what we would have them be; nevertheless, they are what they are, and we may not excuse ourselves from our obligations to our neighbors by pointing out that we have fought and lost and now will go home and shut the door. We remain responsible to the public world even when that world is not at all what it would be if we had our way. We have work to do. (Cue "Superman's Song", please.)
Bonhoeffer presses his point:
One who will not allow any occurrence whatever to deprive him of his responsibility for the course of history — because he knows that it has been laid on him by God — will thereafter achieve a more fruitful relation to the events of history than that of barren criticism and equally barren opportunism. To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future.
But why? Why may I not wash my hands of the whole mess?
The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating. In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility. The rising generation will always instinctively discern which of these we make the basis of our actions, for it is their own future that is at stake.
In short: it's not about me. It's not about you. It's about how the coming generation is to live. To "wash my hands of the whole mess" is to wash my hands of them, to leave them to navigate the storms of history without assistance. And even if the assistance I can give is slight and weak, I owe them that.
In his brilliant new biography of Bonhoeffer, Charles Marsh points out that "After Ten Years," though addressed immediately to family and friends, is more deeply addressed to the German social elite from which Bonhoeffer came. And, Marsh suggests, what Bonhoeffer is calling for here is the rise of an "aristocracy of conscience." Now that, it seems to me, is an elite worthy of anyone's aspiration.
It is with these obligations to the coming generation in mind, I think, that we are to consider how to respond to the powers that reign in our world. It may be the case that those powers turn out to be less wicked than the ones Bonhoeffer had to confront; there are worse things than Technopoly, and many millions of people in this world have to face them. But if we are spared those, then so much the better for us — and so much less convincing are any excuses we might want to make for inaction.


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So by now you have probably read the news that Faction transfers are on the way in the forseeable future.
At first glance this is great news, I know I have muttered quietly to myself that I wish my Hunter and Druid could change faction and come and join Gnomeaggedon.
At second glance it is going to raise some issues. I will go through the good, the bad and the ugly of faction transfers in a minute, but 1st up a transcript of a discussion already happening on my mate's forums…
Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works
MainTankadin says:
This is f'n awesome, finally we can all go back to Horde!!!!
since alliance is so ghey….
Gnomeaggedon responds:
Only when the Horde gets Gnomes….
MainTankadin responds:
The only Horde race which has Paladins is f@#king Blood Elf and they look the "gheyist" of all races.
Sh$t, Bugger Bum….!!!! (crosses fingers they make another Horde race Paladin)
Mr. Z! Responds:
Yer I knew this was coming. It was only a matter of time. lol, this is going to set MainTankadin off in a spin, trying to get us all back to horde.
Zupa Reponds:
You can get a sex change dun worry mate. Belf chickies are hot like fire.
The Good
There will be many players like myself with toons that were created to play on a specific server in a specific faction that have been abandoned. This is a great opportunity to consolidate them all with your current main in your current guild.
Better than leveling
The one thing better than leveling a 55 DK, and way better than starting from level 1, is to faction transfer your high level toon. Both of my Horde toons are mid-50's, still that's 100-odd less levels that I have to grind if I want Druid and Hunter alts.
Many folks will be in a position to faction transfer 70s or even 80s.
Raid Roster Depth
Once again, a quick fix to increasing raid roster depth. If people faction transfer their toons, guild toon numbers may increase by 2x or 3x. Likewise, gaps in classes may be filled.
PvP Realm players
Players on PvP servers could only roll one faction. Which means if they have other toons of the opposite faction, they couldn't realm transfer them to be together. Now (soon) the opportunity exists to Faction transfer then realm transfer.
The Bad
Gno Gnomes
If you love your race as much as you love your class, then you are out of luck. MainTankadin wants us to transfer to Horde, but until the Gnomes go to the "Dark Side", that isn't going to happen for me. Likewise, he doesn't seem all that happy about being a Belf.
Funny isn't it that he has the dilemma of switching from an entire ghey faction to a single ghey race…
Speaking of which.. I tend to be pretty touchy when someone is called out as being Gay.. more so when it is purely intended as an insult… but Ghey… I just don't know about it… it just doesn't rub me up the same way… just like nub makes me angry, yet noob makes me chuckle…
Identity Lost
I doubt many roleplayers will make the switch, but even for non(bad)-roleplayers like myself, the concept of my Tauren Hunter as a Dwarf, or my Tauren Druid as a Night Elf just doesn't ring true… As for Gnome being anything other than Gnome…
- Forsakenaggedon… No…
- Trollaggedon… Maybe appropriate for the forums, but I couldn't play it.
- Belfaggedon… Makes me want to Belf… I mean Barf!
The Ugly
Mates gone Gnhome
People often join servers to be with mates, pick their factions and away they go. Often they will leave toons of different factions behind, more often than not on different servers.
Will people be in a position where the mates they joined a server for, depart/return to their origins now that they can so a faction-change operation?
I know that if my mates were adamant that they were changing back to Horde, whether it was one or all of them, I would be the last Gnome standing… The Gnome is as much, if not more of my character now that the fact it's a Mage.
Marriages transferred
What of those more physical relationships are are played out online in a specific faction?
If you partner asked you to do a faction chnage tomorrow, to follow them across enemy lines… would you?
Rhii wrote the other day of the dilemmas of level gaps and play preferences between partners…. How would she feel if her boyfriend wanted to change factions, and she found him sitting in wait next to a bonfire to gank her? Knowing how much she hates being ganked!
Guild Faction Splits
What of the guilds, both the mighty progression guilds and the struggling casual guilds?
Will players transfer out of the guilds effectively halting progression until new raiders can be found and trained up?
Will guilds split down the middle… Will the guild "We Slaughter Alliance" be mirrored by "We Slaughter Horde", each containing the faction confused members of the original guild?
Factionally confused.
I never really wanted to roll Alliance. I used to relentlessly stir anyone that I met with an Alliance toon. However, now that I am a Gnome, I can't imagine playing WoW any other way.
I don't know what the future will hold, whether my mates will bring their Horde toons over to the light, or whether their Alliance toons will disappear, dimming my WoW time considerably, but I know that a Gnome in any Horde form will not smell as sweet, so I guess I will just have to wait until the dust has settled, the factions are all formed, and see whether I am pugging 1 more, or 9 more.
Gnomer and Out!
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Barbados Surfing
When the world was created, Barbados was given an abundance of potential for becoming a surfer's paradise. The island's location far out in the Atlantic Ocean allows waves to travel thousands of kilometers on the bottom of the sea to finally unload all the power it developed during its long journey over Barbados' coral reefs.
As Barbados is a coral island, a coral reef stretches all around Barbados' coastline, providing for unlimited surfing conditions all over. No matter whether a swell approaches the island from a northerly or westerly direction or whether it's moving in from the east or the south, Barbados is guaranteed to have surf somewhere along its shores at almost any given day of the year.
The east coast of the island, especially Bathsheba and it's famous 'Soup Bowl', is ideal for more experienced surfers. The west and south coasts offer great conditions for those learning to surf and for less experienced surfers. It's always a good idea to hook up with a local surf instructor or guide as they know the best spots (including some secret ones!) and can give you advice on where to avoid.
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Accommodation for Surfers
If you are visiting Barbados to do some surfing, consider staying at a nearby accommodation on either the East or South coast of the island. Try accommodation on the East Coast to be near to what is considered the top surf spot on the island, with its large and powerful waves. Accommodation on the South Coast will be perfect if you want to be near the coast known for its variety of surfing conditions from one end of the coast to the other, to suit every surfers taste!
East Coast Accommodation
South Coast Accommodation
What an endorsement!
Read the New York Times article 'Surf's Up in Barbados' to discover why Kelly Slater calls the Soup Bowl in Barbados 'one of the top three waves in the world'!
East Coast
The East Coast is the No.1 surfspot as far as power and size of the waves is concerned, a spot named Soup Bowl is internationally recognized in the surfing world.
North-West Coast
The northern end of the West Coast of Barbados isn't any milder when things are happening. Duppys and some other breaks in the north west can live up to Hawaiian standards easily. While some breaks claim a little effort to get to, the waves of Maycocks roll out on a lovely white sand beach and are easier to access.
West Coast
Further down the West Coast there is the point break of Gibbs and the shallow reefs of Tropicana and Sandy Lane. Watch out at Tropicana, don't even try in low tide when you don't want to become sliced up for Sushi .as it almost happened to the author of these lines
South Coast
Along the South coast of Barbados, surfers find what they are looking for at many spots along the way down to Southpoint on almost any given day of the year. From Brandons near Bridgetown to Accra Beach the size of the waves is moderate. So it is at Freids where the cleanest wave one could dream of rolls out on Cotton Bays' beach. Closer to the rocks short boarders are in their element and right next to them longboarders find their dream conditions.
Right around the corner is South Point, home of many surfing competitions in the past, with a fairly powerful and clean wave.
The shorebreak at Inchcape on Silver Sands Beach is a pitchy shorebreak and can fit all sorts of descriptions, from mushy to super clean, but it always is quite powerful. It seems to break 365 days a year and is the last break to check when nothing is happening anywhere else.
At Inchcape, also Boogie Board heaven begins. The same shorebreak is where they have to arrange with the surfers and share the waves with them. Quite a spectacular to watch for Inchcape guests from their terraces when surfers and boogie borders try to show off their skill and tricks and locals and visitors alike try to outdo each other. And that's a daily event
Silver Rock, Long Beach, Foul Bay and Crane Beach as well as Sam Lord's castle, all those beaches make a year round boogie Board arena.
Don't you think that sounds like surfers paradise? Believe me it is Come and check us out at Inchcape in Silver Sands at the most southern point of Barbados where surfers created surfing and windsurfing heaven at Inchcape.
Written by Wolfgang Lange, Inchcape Seaside Villas
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So my plan for a post last week fell through, I was far too busy and had to have my mind on work - But now it's playtime, want to come outside with me and jump in puddles?
But if you want to stay inside, all warm and dry, then fine. I'll stay here with a cat leaning against me and gazing at the tree lights.
Did I say tree lights? Why yes, I did! The tree went up thirteen days ago... Because we could, that's why!
Things are still up in the air, so we don't know if we can stay in the house. I was hoping it would be sorted by now, having that hanging over you at Christmas is no fun. We thought that last Christmas might be the last one if this house, but we're here for another, and hopefully many more. Some news on that front would be a present in itself. But never mind, not much I can do about that at the moment, so decorate, bake and be merry.
I love getting the house decorated, all those twinkling lights. Oh and being in the kitchen for something other than everyday dinners (I cook everyday, it gets a bit boring sometimes) - The home-made Irish cream, veggie sausage rolls, mince pies and the chocolate truffles, the one thing Ma makes! Oh, I should point out she makes most of the Christmas dinner too.
Speaking of food and decorating, my fridge is in on the act...
After getting out the festive DVDs and books, they needed somewhere to live - Step in corner sewing box/shelving unit!
I also enjoy a little chocolate with breakfast, oh and the cat likes his calender too! Mine's the Hello Kitty one, and Ma as the Peppa Pig one... Who is Peppa Pig?
Ah, go on, I'm going to just fill up on festive snaps now. Don't like it? Best go and make a cuppa, this is going to take a while!
I really love this swag over the Rayburn, Mama braved the ladders to do it - Mind, she's taller than me so it's as scarey for her!
A few weeks back Ma had picked up some cheap snowflake lights in a charity shop, they were all bundled up but she planned to pop them on the tree. After unwinding them at home we discovered they were those icicle lights. After mulling it over, they were put across the arch. However, they are above my head, yet most normal sized people smack their face on them... Oh, how I laugh!
Did you all watch Nigel Slater's 12 Tastes of Christmas? Tut, if you didn't! I love that man, he has a cat and he can cook... I really don't ask for much! Anyway, I happened to press the pause button (on the iPlayer) and this is the oh-so-awful moment I caught, so I had to take a snap. Nigel (yes, we're on first name terms) has his hand up a goose's rear end, but the look on his face has me in giggles... Maybe you need to see it to understand. The program is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03mjxh6/Nigel_Slaters_12_Tastes_of_Christmas_08_12_2013/
I would've popped a link into the word "here", but would Blogger allow it? Oh no, why would they let me do something so obvious...Sorry, back to the goose...
Oh dear, I've just seen the time. It's almost time to feed the cat, then I have to go and sort out dog food and if I've time, pop into the charity shop - I've managed to pick up 4 presents in there so far, fingers crossed they'll have some more vintage decorations too!
Next time we'll maybe have a chat about that saucy book I read - I swear I didn't realise there would be so much graphic content when I started! But anyway, that's for another day!
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Q&A With HP CEO Meg Whitman and CFO Cathie Lesjak: The Turnaround Is on Schedule
If shareholders were eager for evidence that the turnaround plan at troubled technology giant Hewlett-Packard was still in place, they got it but good from the company today. After rivals like Dell and IBM turned in earnings reports that came up short, owing to the tough state of IT spending, it says a lot about how far HP has come in the last year that it is the one reporting results that handily beat the forecasts of analysts. HP shares rose more than 13 percent to $24.05 in after-hours trading.
But in a short phone interview with AllThingsD, CEO Meg Whitman and CFO Cathie Lesjak reiterated what they said on a conference call with analysts: Progress has been made, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
AllThingsD: Meg, let's talk about the state of the competitive environment. We heard some pretty tough results from Dell last week, and you said on the call that HP was choosing to pass on some deals in order to protect profit margins. Tell me a little more about that.
Whitman: For the long term, profitability remains a focus for us because we can't afford to let our profitability crater the way Dell did. We have to have the ability to invest in the next generation of PCs and servers and software. It was a tough quarter. We walked away from several deals and lost some share. But it felt like we did the right thing in going after the deals that were the right deals for us. There were also some execution issues. We have to make sure we have the right product for the right customers at the right price point. And particularly at the low end, I think we could do a better job there. But overall I'm reasonably pleased that we made the right decisions in the PC business.
Dell was also making a lot of noise about industry standard servers and how it took some share away from HP. Was it a similar dynamic in servers as it was in PCs?
Whitman: Yeah. We saw what happened to Dell's earnings. They were down 75 percent. If they were a publicly held company that was trading freely in absence of a buyout number, the stock would be down by 50 percent. It would be ridiculous. We are a publicly held company and we have to invest in the long haul. So we had to choose to walk away from some deals in hyperscale and industry standard servers and PCs that didn't make sense for the company. I feel like we did the right thing, but there's always something you can learn from these things.
How do you feel about competing against a privately held Dell versus a publicly held Dell? We saw some indication of how it might behave in the marketplace this quarter. Do you think you're going to have more of this aggressive pricing behavior and so on?
Whitman: I don't know exactly how their behavior is going to change. But remember, they're loading a lot of debt onto the company. And remember how LBOs work. The key is to pay off the debt quickly so you can take the company public again and make a lot of money. We'll see if they remain as aggressive as they have been. But frankly, this is just a competitive business. We have a lot of competition. We have shown that we can win over time whether it's against Acer or other manufacturers that we beat out. So if it's Dell or anyone else, we have to have continuous improvement. We have to invest in the right products. We have to streamline our go-to-market strategy, we have to constantly refine our supply chain and we have to be more agile. And that is just part of being in the business.
Lesjak: And we've shown that by being No. 1 in the market for industry standard servers for many, many years now, and we've been competing against Dell that entire time.
Cathie, there was a lot of talk on the call about reducing HP's debt. Give me a look ahead as to what changes when that debt comes down to approaching zero, then what happens?
Lesjak: It frees us up to step back and look at what we want to do with the cash we're generating, and we want to make sure we're making the right kind of investments. Those investments may be in buying back shares, or capital expenditures, or research and development to get us on track for the future, or to make small M&A deals. And we want to evaluate these all on a returns basis, both in the near term and in the long term. Because you really need to do both. Some decisions will be based on the near term and with some we'll be willing to wait a long time for the returns because they'll be worth it. This is actually one of those moments when we're going through a lot of product transitions, where the new style of IT products are coming in and the older style products are going away. And what we really want to be able to do, instead of having to manage big transitions, we want to get through them more quickly and that means that you have to invest for the short term and long term.
Whitman: I've been saying this a lot lately: You have to plant acorns before you have oak trees. And I think with a lot of the CEO transitions, we didn't plant enough acorns. And now we're paying that price.
So part of the impression I got from this quarter and last is that you're able to beat the Street expectations in part because you're able to manage your cash flow very tactically. You did well with cash flow for the first half of the year and you said on the call that you don't expect it to remain as strong in the second half. With the macro environment remaining so weak, I come away thinking that your success is really less about products and lines of business and right now more about managing and taking out costs. Is that fair?
Lesjak: I'd sum it all up to operational excellence. You have to do this all the time. I mean, we're in a competitive industry. Margins are tight and you have to be maniacally focused on managing your costs every minute, and making sure you've got the right product in the right place at the right time. I think this has to be part of the DNA of the company. There's no moment when you exhale and then you get to spend more. This is about being focused all the time and bringing that discipline to the company. Now in the second half we have some extraordinary cash payments to make around taxes and restructuring payments. As well as some cap-ex that we think will be good investments for the future.
Is there any indication that the macro environment is going to improve? We're seeing the worst environment for PCs pretty much ever, and IT spending generally isn't looking so good. Do you sense any improvement in either?
Whitman: From a macroeconomic perspective, which is what drives IT spending across small businesses, medium ones and big enterprises, I think the environment remains about the same. I could be wrong here. We don't see any improvement coming in Europe and we don't see an improvement in the U.S. So we're not counting on those as tailwinds or headwinds, but really more of the same. PCs are a little different. PCs are a subset of personal systems, and as you know that business is growing generally with all the tablets and mobile devices. It's possible the PC growth rate doesn't decline as much. It may continue or it may flatten. The objective is that when it starts to flatten out, whose is the company with the best products and the company best-positioned to gain share. We want it to be us.
Lesjak: Taking advantage of the fact that tablets are a growing segment, you really look at HP's position in tablets, and that will improve significantly in the second half of this year. We've got the Slate 7 Android consumer tablet and the Elitepad commercial tablet. Those ramp in the second half, so we'll have some help on the top line. Not so much in the PC business but personal systems.
Project Moonshot launched during the quarter and there's a sense that there's a lot of hope riding on that product. When does it start shipping in earnest for revenue? Is that a 2014 story?
Lesjak: It really ramps in the second half of this year but it's more of a 2014 story. The real material benefit is 2014 and 2015. IDC has done some projections that the Web and cloud services business will grow about 19 percent in 2016. So that works out to about 8-10 million servers between now and then. So that's the market that Moonshot is going after.
Whitman: You also have to remember that the ramp is slower with these enterprise products than with the consumer products. Big enterprises need to bring them in and do a proof of concept and see what workloads they want to run on them. And then they have to prove it out. Enterprises move more slowly, but when they move, they move big. But the ramp is slower than the the consumer product.
What's your biggest priority for the rest of the year now, Meg?
Whitman: We continue with our restructuring program. We said it was going to be a three-year program, and we're about halfway through that timeline. So there's more work to do there. And to Cathie's point, it becomes part of the DNA. This is what we do in the normal course of business. We also have to manage the transition between the new products and the older products. We'd like to accelerate the growth of the new products if we can.
And you said on the call, despite all these market headwinds, you think you can grow next year.
Whitman: We do. We continue to believe that growth is possible next year. You've got to remember, we're doing this amid some of the biggest transitions that have hit the IT industry in a generation. The macro environment is not going to help. The delayed runoff in enterprise services helps this year but hurts next year. But we think we can grow. It depends on a lot of different factors. To be clear, we expect EPS growth in 2014 regardless.
What's your latest thinking on Autonomy? Is that part of the operation where it should be?
Whitman: I think Robert Youngjohns and his team have done a great job of stabilizing Autonomy. We've put in some systems that were lacking and we've changed our go-to-market. We've invested in R&D jobs there. We had 50 openings for research jobs there recently and I suspect that most of them have been filled by now. So I'm pleased with the progress. That team went through a lot, so I have to give them a shout-out. They had some difficult circumstances. And I'm pleased with what they're doing. I think you're going to see Autonomy grow in the next few quarters.
You still having fun, Meg?
It is fun. The senior team feels like they're making a difference. The turnaround is on schedule. Obviously there are lessons learned every quarter, but we feel good about where we are.