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This collection makes me SO look forward to Spring! Such fun packaging, fun colors, and best of all MY BELOVED TENDERTONES ARE BACK! Very exciting. Check out the photos/swatches of the products I have from the collection below and don't forget to check out my new video giving my first impressions and a mini review of the products I have.
Tendertones, $15
(left-right) Tread Gently, Purring, Hush Hush
Eye Shadow x4, $38
"Shop & Drop": Sugar Snack, Hypnotizing, Power Boosted, Shop & Drop
"Call Me Bubbles": Call Me Bubbles, Fresh Daily, Full of Flavour, Brash
"Colour Added": Laundry Daze, Colour Added, Pre-Packaged, Self-Serve
Lipstick, $14.50
(l-r) Naughty Saute, Runaway Red, Quick Sizzle
Kissable Lipcolour, $19.00
top-Woo Me, bottom- Enchantee
Cremeblend Blush, $20
Restores Dazzle!
(blended on right)
Nail Lacquer, $16
(l-r) Al Fredo, Salad Dressed, Kid Orange


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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Onepeat Mountain
Gee, raising money regarding some past opinion-based honor to "prove" your opinion is the correct one by wasting that raised money on pointless PR. Yes, sounds very "Onepeat-ish" to me. Good to see these movie fans, like LSU fans still upset over the 2003 mythical college football championship, have nothing better to spend their money on than a $26,000 ad that was probably tossed in trashcans with the rest of "yesterday's news" the day it came out.
But here's an idea for both the Onepeat folks and the Brokeback crew: why not pool your resources into one campaign? By teaming up and killing two birds with one stone, you can waste money on even more, bigger ads! Heck, maybe even a president or two of Louisiana TV stations will chip in again as well.
Thus, as a public service, we at the M Zone have come up with a potential display for your next ad or billboard.
P.S. I'm beginning to wonder if "Onepeat" should be a worked into the lexicon. It would mean "complete and stupid waste of money." Like, "Dude, can't believe you purchased beer for an open bar party at a nightclub. That's so Onepeat, ass."
38 comments:
- The King said...
There's a big difference here though. "Brokeback Mountain" SHOULD have won the Academy Award. Unlike the Onepeat thing, this is a founded (though wasteful) argument.
This makes me realize that you could say that "Crash" was a lot like USC...A hit you repeatededly over the head faux tour-de-force designed to to impress the simpletons and easily led.
Yay mornings!
- March 15, 2006 11:08 AM
- Yost said...
Oh, my beef has nothing to do with that, King. I just am stunned by folks who waste money on crap like this.
- March 15, 2006 1:04 PM
Like the characters of the movie, who are afraid that everyone else in the world will know they are gay, "steve" remains anonymous as he is afraid that everyone else will know he is a moron
- March 15, 2006 2:25 PM
- Yost said...
- March 15, 2006 2:49 PM
well, at least the "brokeback" folks didn't wait two years.
- March 15, 2006 3:16 PM
- Yost said...
Good point, Anon.
- March 15, 2006 3:16 PM
Here's another good point for you yost. I read this blog from time to time and I find it somewhat entertaining. But let's give credit where credit is due and vice versa. Now I've always hated the SEC with a passion and disliked teams such as Florida, Tenn., Alabama, and LSU in particular. However, it just seems to me that you have some vendetta against this onepeat thing.
First off, I'm pretty sure that the onepeat thing is not solely an LSU or even SEC thing. Although I personally don't agree with it, I don't believe it's the abomination you try to spin it to be. I know two guys from here (STL) that donated a little money to that thing and I'm sure that donations came from a majority of states, but in particular Alabama (Auburn fans) Louisiana (LSU fans) Texas (Longhorn fans) and California (UCLA fans). I assumed LSU and Auburn, but know of donations from the other two because as a longtime fan of Longhorn basketball (my father went there), I've read numerous posts from both school's fans saying they gave to the billboard. Know why? Nothing against USC, but as of the last 2 years, they have been at the top of college football. It's fun to hate them just like it's fun to hate Notre Dame because they're media darlings or hate Duke because they're #1 in basketball. All I'm saying is that many fan bases contributed to onepeat so don't loop just LSU in it (although I just plain don't like some of those cajuns).
Second, spare me the point that the money could have been used to help Katrina efforts. I used to advocate this point until I really thought about it. Billions of dollars have already been put into rebuilding the Gulf Coast and it has barely made a dent. In a perfect world, $10,000 would be a lot of help but realistically, it doesn't mean squat in this case. This point if furthered by the fact that of these fan bases, I'm sure that the donations were in 5, 10, or 20 dollar increments respectively. So really, if the money hadn't been used towards a billboard, guess where it would be right now. In all these people's checking accounts. Thus, this aforementioned argument just doesn't hold water.
I'm not advocating that the LSU fans are completely undeserving of this label. Honestly, I've met a few in my life that I couldn't stand. However, I've met many fellow MIZZOU fans I couldn't stand either. Several families displaced by Katrina moved into our community right after the storm. Of course, they're LSU and Saints fans and are extremely respectable and courteous individuals. The point is that unfortunately, we all have our bad fans. I don't mean to harp on this anymore, but I just though that no matter how obnoxious I think SEC football is, the truth of the matter is that you give the entire fan base of LSU (and possibly OSU) a very undeserved label. I look forward to more of this site in the future.
St. Louis, MO: Home of the greatest pro sports franchises.
- March 15, 2006 4:54 PM
- Yost said...
All valid points. I wasn't so much for donating the money to Katrina as I agree w/ you (that was Benny's idea).
However, I still think it's a HUGE waste of money and effort. Why? They billboard is now up and...uh, so what? Why give money to this?
Maybe it's just me, I just don't get it. And my "vendetta" is against the dishonesty of the whole thing. It started as some "not for profit" thing to "raise awareness" and right some perceived wrong. But go to Onepeat.com. It's a money making venture now. And "Steve" is still anonymous.
That all just smells funny to me.
Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments. Always appreciated, whether we agree or not. That's the beauty of his site as opposed to other boards and blogs out there where, if you raise a point criticizing their team or board, you get banned.
- March 15, 2006 4:59 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
MIZ, we have never meant to imply that all LSU fans are as misguided as the guys behind Onepeat. As a matter of fact, we've always pointed out that they represent only a portion of LSU fans and that most Tiger (LSU, not Mizzou) fans are probably embarassed by the whole thing. We also admit - though it pains me to say this - that not ALL Tosu fans are miserable people.
As for the waste of money, you're right that $10K might not make much of a difference to Katrina relief or some other charity. And it was a bit sanctimonious of me to say the money should go to the Red Cross. Actually, I don't care if the people who donated used that money on beer and hard candy instead - it would have been a much better use for the money. Hell, lighting cigars with the money would have been a better use. The Onepeat idea was borne out of a guy's feelings of inadequacy. Who cares that USC was getting all the publicity? Well someone whose self-image would.
As for your comment about St. Louis having the best professional teams, I don't know where to begin. First of all, you have no NBA team. Second, your hockey team is the worst in the league. Third, though your baseball team has loads of tradition, and is always very good, they haven't won a World Series since '82. Even the Tigers have won since then. Though I must say, as someone who is in St. Louis several times a year, no city has more loyal fans. And to make sure you're a real Mizzou grad, I'll end with "M-I-Z" and wait for your response.
- March 15, 2006 5:09 PM
Thanks for your comments guys. We STL fans try to remain as loyal as possible even when our teams are down. As for the city itself, you gotta love the Arch and Budweiser. Benny, I hope you enjoy our city every time you come. "Z-O-U!!!"
- March 15, 2006 5:13 PM
All this reading is making me horny. Where's that FSU chick's picture again?
Aaaahhh, that's better.
- March 15, 2006 5:36 PM
"All this reading is making me horny", that sounds alot like "These pretzels are making me thirsty".
- March 15, 2006 5:40 PM
If you think it's just a small minority of LSU fans, think again. Go to Facebook and you will see that the second biggest club is the USC didn't win anything in 2003 club. LSU fans hate USC because Matt Leinert and Pete Carroll campaigned to try to make the BCS look like a mockery in 2003 and then happily embraced the BCS in 2004 and 2005 when the BCS benefited them.
I think any school in LSU's position would react in similar fashion. Ever since the BCS was agreed to by all the major conferences, everyone fought to get into the national championship game. The rankings of the AP and coaches was important just because they factored into the BCS equation. LSU fought and clawed its way into the championship game, having to play something like five or six ranked opponents. USC on the other hand played one ranked team and lost to an unranked team and then didn't have to play a top team in its bowl.
The media gives them a title. The media all but forgets the BCS and in 04 and 05 all but forget LSU won national championship and national championship game.
This isn't pre-BCS days when splits were common and accepted.
Don't agree to a system you are going to discredit when you disagree with the results. It's just sour grapes crying.
- March 15, 2006 7:52 PM
LSU "Anonymous" Fan:
*Yawn* Please stop embarassing yourself; clearly you do not understand how the championship is college football is awarded. With such nonsense you just posted, you are basically telling the rest of the country that LSU fans/students are morons.
Matt Leinart and Pete Carroll did no such thing such as campaign against the BCS. Sure, Matt Leinart wore a F*CK THE BCS shirt, but everyone (outside of Oklahoma fans)- including most LSU fans - knew that the BCS really screwed up in 2003.
Many schools - including USC, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio St, & Texas have been involved in split championships, and none have ever put up a silly billboard or denied the other team's share of the championship. Just because the BCS formula used the AP Poll to help choose its teams, doesn't mean, all of a sudden, the AP Championship doesn't count anymore. They still award the same trophy they have for almost 50 years. Of course, the BCS itself acknowledges a split champion. While it is true that USC lost a worse them who LSU lost to, USC lost on the road in triple overtime, and LSU lost by almost 2 touchdowns at home. Of course that doesn't matter - that's more of an arguement who had the better team (which I might agree with you that LSU had) - not of why some LSU fans/students do not understand there were 2 college football champions in 2003. The coaches poll - the part of the title that LSU did win - has even stated that that USC won a valid championship. This so-called media conspiracy that denied LSU the AP Championship they obviouslly so richly deserved is made up of 65 sportswriters, all across the nation - only 2 are from Southern California and one is even from Baton Rougue.
Regarding about sour grapes and crying.....(please look up the word irony in the dictionary)
- March 16, 2006 12:45 AM
That wasn't the point Eddie the SC bandwagon fan. The point was that many many other fan bases including one in particular located in Los Angeles contributed to that billboard. To call it LSU's billboard, like all trojan fans do, and not the People's billboard is a complete misrepresentation of what's going on here.
STL sucks.
Miami: The Best Pro Franchise City in the Country. Dolphins, Heat, Marlins, and what should be a pro team, the Hurricanes!
- March 16, 2006 10:06 AM
- John Frum said...
"the People's" billboard?
450 clowns with a lousy idea are now "the People"? At least the Auburn "People's National Championship" had over 500 supporters.
- March 16, 2006 10:55 AM
Just because I have enough common sense to understand how college football's championship works, doesn't mean I am a SC fan - because I am not. While there might have been some people outside of the LSU fan base who contributed to help the billboard up too (and thus embarrassing themselves and their universities, and announcing to the world they too are morons), doesn't change the fact it was LSU fans/students who organized the effort.
- March 16, 2006 1:05 PM
man, your post screams SC no matter what you choose to write hereafter.
Go Canes!
- March 16, 2006 1:13 PM
My posts screams "USC"? You would think that if I was a USC fan I'd probably say that USC was better in 2003, yet it actually says I might agree that LSU has the better team in 2003. Assuming you are a Miami fan, you are embarrasing yourself and the University of Miami, by announcing to the world your a bunch of morons too. If you want to know what team I root for, I will give you a hint:
google my user name and heisman trophy
- March 16, 2006 1:43 PM
We may be down but we're more of a premier program that "the" ohio state university. How brokeback of you guys to use that. Oh, and you argue that I'm the idiot??? At least I can speak and type proper english. It's you're, not your. How sad for you that English is my second language. Now, I'm taking off to watch the tourney.
- March 16, 2006 1:57 PM
Like I have always said: The LSU fans are the Gang of February 30th. They cannot accept nor understand simple reality. I'm still waiting for the BCS to disavow the AP. It hasn't happened and it won't. Can you point to anything that shows the BCS, school presidents or athletic directors deny the AP? No. Didn't think so. And they are the parties actually involved. As for the "campaign" by Pete and Matt, it never happened. That's an urban legend cooked up in the swamps of Baton Rouge. Come on LSU--get your facts in order and stop humiliating yourselves.
- March 16, 2006 2:01 PM
My good god, can't we just lay this all to rest. SC won the AP title and we won the BCS title. Nuff said. It's over. Everyone should just shut up about it already.....our fans, your fans, and any other fan base. It was fun for everyone to root against USC because they were on top for so long and continue to be. But this is just getting annoying for all of us. Congrats to USC on their previous run and whatever success they have in the future. But let's all forget about 2003, considering nothing that is said now will change what happened.
- March 16, 2006 2:09 PM
Agreed. This went too far long ago even before this billboard crap went up. My problem is this: guys like wds4usc lumping us all into this billboard mess when it was a handful of people from several fan bases. Yes, one of our idiots apparently started this but to put it all on one school is just ignorant. Like my bretheren said before me, congrats to USC for their success over the past few years. Now, stop lumping us all into one category.
- March 16, 2006 2:23 PM
Thank you.
- March 16, 2006 2:24 PM
And to geauxgrad: Agreed. I'll even buy the beer.
- March 16, 2006 2:35 PM
NP, good luck with Booty. His brothers were pretty good at LSU, but from what I hear, he's by far the best our of that family.
- March 16, 2006 2:43 PM
Before anyone has a joke, I'm not illiterate. I meant "out of".
- March 16, 2006 2:44 PM
It's going to be interesting as he's being pushed hard by Sanchez. But he's got one heck of an arm! Good luck this year, too.
- March 16, 2006 2:51 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Wow! The M-Zone really is the kinder gentler college football blog! Perhaps we should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for facilitating this love-fest between USC and LSU fans. I feel like Jimmy Carter watching Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin hug.
All joking aside, it's great to see some common sense--and decency--prevail. Good luck to everyone next year. Except when you play Michigan.
- March 16, 2006 3:00 PM
Hey! This is a class blog--only the best for us, right???!!!
- March 16, 2006 3:09 PM
Before this lovefest gets too comfy, I need to respond...
I never called you an idiot. You might be one, you probably are - but that is not what I called you. I called you a moron. I assume you are enough of a college football fan to understand how the national championship is awarded (meaning the media and coaches poll), and yet if you do claim that there was no split championship, then you are indeed a moron.
Regarding to the team I root for, you are a moron for assuming I was an USC fan because I have enough common sense to know how the college football champion is awarded. Further you are a moron for trying to label Ohio St as "gay" because some people refer it to as "the Ohio St Univeristy" In fact, not only are you a moron, but a homophobic moron as well. Now I didn't realize that this entry was turning into a pissing contest between whose program was more of a premiere program between Ohio St and Miami, but I know that the last time we played, we won a national championship by beating you guys, and we have won 2 BCS bowls since.
The other LSU fans on here - I know that most LSU fans do not agree with the billboard campaign. That doesn't change the fact this very vocal minority is making LSU fans/students look like morons. I do think your team should be preseason #1 next year.
- March 16, 2006 3:26 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I was going to comment that it figures a Buckeye would play the role of Hamas in our little peace process here, but Anonymous deserves of that title.
- March 16, 2006 4:27 PM
If not "Hamas", can I at least be Syria?
- March 16, 2006 4:36 PM
BCS Champion is the champion so long as the championship game winner is from a BCS conference.
Don't agree to a system you're not going to acknowledge when it doesn't work out how you want it to work out.
- March 17, 2006 7:32 PM
- Jeremie said...
Lol, Yost this stuff is guaranteed gold for you guys. Post something about Onepeat, sit back and watch the fight start. This ranks right up there with 'make fun of the Buckeyes' and 'flame an SEC school.' Pure gold.
- March 17, 2006 9:34 PM
1998 Tennessee
2000 Oklahoma
2001 Miami
2002 The Ohio State University
2005 Texas
To quote Lil' Sis, "That's it and that's all."
- March 18, 2006 11:27 AM
www.banfigureskating.com, is in the same line as the onepeat.com. This belongs on your site.
Roll Tide!
- March 19, 2006 11:09 PM
I forgot to mention this guy also put up a billboard.
- March 19, 2006 11:12 PM


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I'm curious to see how I'll feel as I get later in the game. I played Reach co-op originally, so taking it on solo also brings a different perspective. But Cinematic as it may be, the chaos of Call of Duty seems to me like it would be every bit as potentially off-putting as any perceived difficulty in Halo.
Meanwhile, back at the Shack, here's today's video game news:


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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Not That There's Anything Wrong With This Coaching
Now, a couple things caught our eye about this gem (and no, not just the title). First, in the YouTube description of the clip it states:
This program teaches fundamental techniques, drills and championship philosophy. Learn how to improve your technique and learn from one of the legends of the game. John Cooper is the 6th winningest active coach with a career mark of 179-73-6 and has led the Ohio State Buckeyes for the past 13 years. His Buckeyes have won 62 games over the past six seasons nad in the decade of the 90's Ohio State compiled an 85-23-3 record, eighth best among all Division 1-A schools and captured a national title for 2003.
Naturally, I was quite surprised to read the above as I thought Jim Tressel was the one that led Tuos to the National Title in '03. My bad.
And then there were the stills MA sent from the video that the eternal 8th grader in us couldn't help but wonder just what these drills were teaching...
"Now shower up and let's go watch some gladiator movies!"
30 comments:
- Zen Wizard said...
...and they wondered why I always tried to cut gym class!
- May 28, 2008 12:11 PM
- phil said...
Cooper's second video: "Coaching Offense - Brokeback Mountain Style" should be available at Blockbuster soon.
- May 28, 2008 12:55 PM
- Joshua said...
Just for the record it wasn't Cooper OR Tressell who brought that NC to Columbus- it was Terry Porter. Without him tressell is 0-3 in NC games.
- May 28, 2008 3:01 PM
- srudoff said...
Terry Porter was right.
Six and a half months after the most controversial call of the Bowl Championship Series era, the Big 12 field judge has been vindicated.
That's not going to please Miami players, fans and coaches who are still grinding their teeth over Porter's decision to signal pass interference against Miami defensive back Glenn Sharpe in the Fiesta Bowl.
Earlier this year Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said game films had been reviewed and that, in fact, Porter had made the right call. The Big Ten supervisor of officials, who is used by the NCAA to assign officials for bowl games, concurred this week.
The problem is, few people saw the actual infraction. All the replays focused on Sharpe jumping for a ball in the end zone intended for Ohio State receiver Chris Gamble.
The penalty occurred on fourth-and-3 from the Miami 5 in the first overtime of Ohio State's 31-24 victory. At the line of scrimmage, Sharpe tried to "jam" Gamble and impeded his progress. When the official who apparently had the call in the end zone didn't make one, Porter came rushing from the back of the end zone to throw the flag four or five seconds after the play had ended.
"The timing of the flag might have looked not good," said Dave Parry, the Big Ten supervisor of officials, who works with the NCAA. "Terry was probably trying to be very thorough. He signaled a push for a defensive pass interference, then a signal for holding. There is a time lapse there. When the camera showed it they didn't see the line of scrimmage. They saw the downfield play about 7 or 8 yards."
Porter has been the subject of Miami fans' message board rants for months since the call. Miami's stance seems to be that while the call might have been right, it was inexcusable that Porter waited those pregnant seconds before throwing the flag after running from the back of the end zone.
"I replayed it in my mind," Porter said after the game. "I wanted to make double-sure that it was the right call."
Without saying it was the case, Parry said this week there could have been a "small, small little downgrade" in Porter's evaluation for shoddy mechanics in waiting so long to make the call. Crews are assigned to the national championship game on a rotating basis. The crews are "all-stars" made up of the best official at each position in that conference.
A Big 12 crew was supposed to do the 2002 Rose Bowl but was delayed a year when Nebraska made the game. That allowed Porter and his mates a chance at the Fiesta Bowl. What bothered Porter and the Big 12 was a report that two letters of apology had been sent to conference schools after games Porter worked.
The Big 12 was upset by the report. Porter, a Stillwater, Okla., food broker, denied that was the case.
"I ain't talking about (the call)," Porter said brusquely this week when reached by phone. "You can call the Big 12 office."
Big 12 supervisor of officials Tim Millis, an NFL official himself, said this year that Porter would be NFL material if he were younger. Porter is in his mid-50s. Millis was out of the office this week and could not be reached.
"I talked to Terry about it," Parry said. "His view was the snuggle (contact) was right at the line of scrimmage. (Sharpe) took (Gamble's) shoulder away from him as he tried to get away. That's why he went with holding."
Jay Hansen, sports editor of the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal, was one of the few lay persons with a closeup look at the play. While everyone else was concentrating on the two players in the end zone, Hansen was watching the line of scrimmage from the floor of the Fiesta Bowl.
"From what I saw there was definitely contact," said Hansen, who had come down from the press box and was on the sideline near the end zone when the call was made.
"I thought it should have been holding. Gamble caught the defensive back on his heels. I was concentrating on Gamble. Definitely, in my opinion, there was a penalty on the play."
The view from South Florida is that the call cost the Hurricanes the national championship. Not even close. During that drive and before the call, Miami's vaunted defense allowed Ohio State to convert a fourth-and-14. A stop there would have won Miami its second consecutive national championship.
Even after the controversial call, it took the Buckeyes two plays to score from the Miami 1 in the first overtime to tie it. Then, after trailing 31-24 in the second overtime, Miami had four cracks at the tying (or eventual winning) score from the Ohio State 2.
On fourth down, Ken Dorsey crumbled in the face of a withering Ohio State rush and the upset was achieved. Porter was a stand-up guy, explaining the call after the game.
In retrospect, Miami, an 11-point favorite, had plenty of chances to put the game away and in the end was outplayed by an Ohio State team that was better prepared. And whether it takes five seconds or five minutes, they teach officials, above all, to get the call right. Porter did.
- May 28, 2008 6:33 PM
- srudoff said...
oh yeah
referee magazine named porter's call one of the 18 best calls in the history of officiating - for all sports
funny how people without a biased opinion see the call different
it was the right call, he just took so damn long to make the call
- May 28, 2008 6:36 PM
- phillip said...
speaking of people with biased opinions seeing things differently... ???
I'm indifferent to the call on the whole, and support the B10 getting the championship, but wow.
- May 28, 2008 7:48 PM
- Mikoyan said...
I don't understand what the Miami fans were bitching about. According to just about every pundit under the sun, Miami was supposed to wipe the field with Ohio State. The question wasn't whether Miami would win that game, but by how much. It shouldn't have come down to those calls.
There aren't that many games where it comes down to a bad call by the ref. Although that's what the fans will focus on.
- May 28, 2008 10:06 PM
- Jeremy said...
It's "UoOS." There is no T, dammit, not even in jest. You're letting the terrorists win.
- May 28, 2008 10:27 PM
- srudoff said...
wasn't talking about me
was talking about national columnists, especially one that complained about it after it happened
- May 28, 2008 11:37 PM
- Joshua said...
Dear Sru:
Thanks for giving us a play by play of this video:
Anyone who watches that and thinks it's "LEGIT" needs to have his head examined. Just because a CBS columnists says it was doesn't make it true.
Did it take you two plays to score afterward? Yes. Did they have their chances to answer? Yes. But if you watch that video and still think that call's correct you're not smart enough to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.
Please give TresseLLL my congrats when he wins his first BCS National Championship Game, whenever that may be.
- May 29, 2008 1:43 AM
- Lane said...
- May 29, 2008 8:15 AM
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- May 29, 2008 8:53 AM
- Out of Conference said...
"Call now and we'll throw in an instructional video on how to learn the art of handling a humiliating defeat at the hands of SEC foe South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. But wait, be one of the first 1,000 callers and we'll throw in part 2 of that video as well!"
- May 29, 2008 8:54 AM
- DaBraylon17 said...
LOL. i love it when one bad thing is said about UOS' national title "victory" in the 2002 season. the first thing UOS fans do is run to the Internet to find articles favoring the UOS win and people who say that the referee made the right call. hilarious. you guys are pathetic.
- May 29, 2008 9:44 AM
- DaBraylon17 said...
and srudoff, you are biased as well. you are a UOS fan and hence, you think it was pass interference. i think it was not interference, but opinions aside, the MAIN problem was that he took so long to throw the flag. if it's a penalty, throw the flag right away and then have a conference with another referee who possibly saw it as well. if it's not pass interference, waive the penalty. like i said, the problem with most people was that the flag was too late.
- May 29, 2008 9:46 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
Definitely holding at the line but there was no contact prior to the ball in the endzone. Either way the end result is the same. Defensive holding is an automatic first down and half the distance there so maybe they don't get in because of that extra yard or so but I don't think so.
The call should have been holding but there was definitely a right to throw a flag there. No pass interference though it was just a great defensive play.
- May 29, 2008 11:58 AM
- Mikoyan said...
I know there's a few REd Wing fans here....what's the deal with the Crosby love fest? I think they panned to the bench everytime he was there.
- May 29, 2008 1:16 PM
- Joshua said...
I didn't necessarily think there was holding at the line, and if that's the case the flag was thrown 10-12 seconds late and not just five.
I have no problem with the fact that they won the game, the thing that irks me is that I can't find one single Buckeye fan who says, "you know what- it was probably the wrong call, but sometimes that happens in sports." That's all I want. Don't shit in my hand and try to get me to agree that it's gold. Don't try to get me to agree to something stupid. Seriously, if I wanted to let people I was that stupid I'd hire Helen Keller to be my interior designer.
They played a hell of a game to even be in that position, but to justify the call with quotes like "The timing of the flag might have looked not good," said Dave Parry, the Big Ten supervisor of officials, who works with the NCAA. "Terry was probably trying to be very thorough."
And this? "I replayed it in my mind," Porter said after the game. "I wanted to make double-sure that it was the right call." Any referee or umpire worth his salt makes the call right as it happens. If you have to "think" about it, it's the wrong call.
So I'm not crying. Kudos to you Buckeye fans for winning one of the NC games you've been in. Hell, at least you were there, which is more than we can say, but don't call me stupid.
- May 29, 2008 1:19 PM
- Pogue Mahon said...
The coach in the pictures is none other than ND's new Assistant Head Coach Defense, aka Jon Tenuta
- May 29, 2008 2:30 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
"...but don't call me stupid."
"No one wants to look dumb."
- May 29, 2008 2:40 PM
- Joshua said...
Whets I give you an interior designing Helen Keller and that's all I get? Sheesh!
- May 29, 2008 4:34 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Admittedly, the H.K. reference was funny. I was going to segue off it with an Oriental "Heren Kerrer" Feng Shui motif and go with...
Ah, Grasshopper, snatch the golden turd from my hand and I will assume you are stupid.
- May 29, 2008 4:47 PM
- Corey said...
Happy belated B-day Catie!
- May 29, 2008 5:32 PM
- Catie said...
"Happy belated B-day Catie!"
Hey Corey! Thank you! :o)
- May 29, 2008 6:13 PM
- OSURulz said...
Oh good, my favorite topic. The old "you didn't really win a NC because the falg came in late" debate. I'll stick to my usual arguments ...
1. All it did was give us a second chance to score a TD to send it into a second OT. Its not like that call lost the game for Miami.
2. On Miami's very next possesion they get the exact same call in their favor.
3. If the officials had gotten the call right on our last possesion of regulation, either the pass interference call or the fact that we got the first down, we never would have seen OT in the first place. Nobody talks about that blown call much, I wonder why? It had just as much impact as the "late" flag.
- May 29, 2008 9:53 PM
- srudoff said...
Joshua - find me a Michigan fan that doesn't get all defensive about your 1/2 championship in 1997 and I'll find you a buckeye fan that would say that the call was wrong.
- May 30, 2008 1:55 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Is this the place that I get to make fun of your Michigan baseball teams? We stomped E. Michigan yesterday. I know, not much competition, but hey.
We don't have much to brag about in Wildcat Country (Univ. of Arizona) as of late. Even our basketball program is on life support.
However, our baseball and softball teams continue to fight for National Championships: A glimmer of hope in a very dark athletic world.
- May 31, 2008 11:50 AM
- Jim Harbaugh Scramble said...
That looks nothing like Coach Coop.
Furthermore U of OS "won" the national title in '02.
- May 31, 2008 8:36 PM
- Joe said...
I am sorry to hijack this thread. But, I need your prayers. My son is facing something that could be really bad. We go in Monday for him to have a brain biopsy. We are scared. Regardless of anything, please, please, please pray for my son and for us. We need God's mercy and our 9 year old son needs His mercy.
I know there are people of faith that read and post here…I am asking for prayers for my son. Thank you.
- June 01, 2008 7:15 AM
- Tom C said...
Joe; have them you shall.
- June 01, 2008 11:14 AM


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O'Reilly Book Excerpts: Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
Java and Sound, Part 1
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Java Examples in a Nutshell
Author's note: On systems that support it, sound can be an important part of many applications. Sound can be used to notify the user that her attention is required, to add the extra dimension of aural feedback to visual GUIs, or for entertainment purposes. Other applications -- such as media players, recorders, and editors -- are sound-centric and therefore require advanced sound capabilities.
In this first of a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 of Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, David Flanagan illustrates some of Java's sound capabilities. In the first section, he covers how to play simple audio clips with the
java.applet.AudioClip class. In the second section, he shows how to use the
javax.sound.sampled and
javax.sound.midi packages to load and play sound clips, how to monitor and change the playback position within a clip, and how to set audio parameters such as volume, balance, and tempo.
The Java Sound API is a low-level interface to sound, and the default implementation does not support compressed formats such as MP3. In these excerpts from the chapter we'll be working with simple audio files, with types such as .wav, .aiff, and .au. Note that, although Java Sound supports the recording of sounds, there is no recording example in this chapter: setup and configuration problems on different platforms make sound recording a topic that is beyond the scope of this chapter.
Playing Sounds with AudioClip
The sound capabilities of modern computer hardware are usually much more advanced than the dumb terminals of yesterday, and typical users expect their computers to make sounds that are prettier than the coarse console bell. Java programs can do this by loading and playing a file of audio data with the
java.applet.AudioClip interface. As the package name implies, the
AudioClip interface was originally intended only for applets. Since Java 1.0, applets have been able to call their
getAudioClip( ) instance method to read an audio file over the network. In Java 1.2, however, the static
java.applet.Applet.newAudioClip( ) method was added to allow any application to read audio data from any URL (including local
file: URLs). This method and the
AudioClip interface make it very easy to play arbitrary sounds from your programs, as demonstrated by Example 17-2.
PlaySound with the URL of a sound file as its sole argument. If you are using a local file, be sure to prefix the filename with the
file: protocol. The types of sound files supported depend on the Java implementation. Sun's default implementation supports .wav, .aiff, and .au files for sampled sound, .mid files for MIDI, and even .rmf files for the MIDI-related, proprietary "Rich Music Format" defined by Beatnik. [1]
When you run the
PlaySound class of Example 17-2, you may notice that the program never exits. Like AWT applications, programs that use Java's sound capabilities start a background thread and do not automatically exit when the
main( ) method returns. [2] To make
PlaySound better behaved, we need to explicitly call
System.exit( ) when the
AudioClip has finished playing. But this highlights one of the shortcomings of the
AudioClip interface: it allows you to
play( ),
stop( ), or
loop( ) a sound, but it provides no way to track the progress of the sound or find out when it has finished playing. To achieve that level of control over the playback of sound, we need to use the JavaSound API, which we'll consider in the next section.
Example 17-2. PlaySound.java
package je3.sound;
* Play a sound file from the network using the java.applet.Applet API.
public class PlaySound {
public static void main(String[ ] args)
throws java.net.MalformedURLException
java.applet.AudioClip clip =
java.applet.Applet.newAudioClip(new java.net.URL(args[0]));
clip.play( );
Finding Music Files
Before you can test
PlaySound, you'll need some sound files to play. You probably have lots of sampled audio files sitting around on your computer: they are often bundled with operating systems and applications. Look for files with .wav, .au, or .aif extensions. You may not have MIDI files on your computer, but many MIDI hobbyists make files available for download on the Internet; a quick Internet search will locate many samples you can use.
The JavaSound web page is also worth a visit (http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/). This page includes links to an interesting JavaSound demo application that includes source code and its own set of sampled audio and MIDI files. Also of interest here are free downloadable MIDI soundbank files, which may give you richer MIDI sound.
Playing Sounds with javax.sound
To achieve more detailed control over the playback of sounds, including the ability to skip to any specified spot in the sound and control things such as volume and balance, we must use the Java Sound API, which is a much lower-level API than the
AudioClip interface. JavaSound consists of the
javax.sound.sampled package for sampled audio and the
javax.sound.midi package for MIDI-based audio. Example 17-3, SoundPlayer.java demonstrates the basic capabilities of these two packages. It loads a sound file (sampled audio or MIDI) completely into memory and then displays a GUI that allows you to play it. The GUI makes extensive use of the Swing
JSlider component, which allows you both to select the playback position of the sound and to set things such as the volume, balance, and tempo of the sound. The program displays different controls for sampled audio files than it does for MIDI files. Both GUIs are shown in Figure 17-1. You'll notice that the code is substantially different for sampled audio and MIDI files as well.
Figure 17-1. SoundPlayer playing sampled audio and MIDI files
A shortcoming of the
SoundPlayer class is that it can only play sampled audio files that use PCM encoding. ALAW and ULAW encoded files are not supported, nor are more complex compressed encodings, such as MP3. The JavaSound API attempts to directly mirror the capabilities of sound hardware, and can therefore only play PCM sounds. It does provide a transcoding technique, however, to convert sounds to PCM encoding. We'll see this later in the chapter, in Example 17-4.
Streaming Sounds with javax.sound
Sound files, especially sampled audio files in the uncompressed PCM format, are quite large, and, except for the shortest audio clips, it is not generally a good idea to read the entire file into memory. Instead, these files are typically played in streaming mode so that only the portion of the sound that is currently playing must reside in memory. In exchange for reduced memory consumption, we lose the ability to easily jump to any position within the sound, of course. Example 17-4, PlaySoundStream.java is a listing of
PlaySoundStream, a program that plays streaming audio data read from the specified URL. It demonstrates streaming techniques for both sampled audio and MIDI data, and also demonstrates a transcoding technique for converting unsupported encodings (such as ALAW and ULAW) into PCM encoding so they can be played.
PlaySoundStream is a console-based application with no GUI. Note the use of the
wait( ) and
notify( ) methods to make
streamMidiSequence( ) into a modal method that does not return until the sound has finished playing. Note also that you must use a
-m command-line
argument in order to play MIDI data.
Check back here next week for two more excerpts from the "Sound" chapter of Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. We'll cover how to play streaming sounds in both sampled audio and MIDI formats, and how to read a simple musical score and converts it into a MIDI Sequence.
David Flanagan is the author of a number of O'Reilly books, including Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference.
[1] There is no guarantee that the RMF format will continue to be supported.
[2] This is reported to be fixed in Java 1.5.
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"Gerhard has been an invaluable intellectual asset to NS and we will miss his leadership in addressing the technical challenges of 21st century railroading," said Mark Manion, executive vice president and chief operating officer. "Fortunately, Tom, who has been leading our effort to comply with Congress' PTC mandate, has the knowledge, experience and wisdom to take up that mantle."


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Plus I know I haven't got to the raunchy part yet and I know I haven't used physical description yet ... I wanted to save that up for later.
Does it work ... I have no idea that is up to you guys
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Alex woke up feeling great. Today was his eighteenth birthday and despite no one else celebrating that fact he was ecstatic. He gathered his few precious belongings then side stepped his passed out, drunken and derelict father and walked out of the dingy, unhappy place some would have called his home and into brilliant sunshine on a warm summer's day. He was glad to be leaving. The Greyhound bus depot was a couple of blocks away and he was getting on the first available bus going anywhere … the further away the better. No one could make him come back this time.
He strode with great intent up to the ticketing counter and pointed towards people starting to board a bus. "Is this bus leaving soon?" he asked. The huge lady behind the desk nodded. Alex then took some money from his pocket and asked, "How far will this get me?" She looked at the couple of notes and small pile of coins and gave him the name of a couple of towns he could afford to get to. "That will do me," he replied and gratefully purchased his ticket.
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The bus ground to a stop depositing just the one passenger … Alex! By now it was very late afternoon as he stood and took a look at the town around him. This was practically picture postcard stuff and very unlike anything he had ever seen except from books. His growling belly told him exactly what he had to do next so he entered the bus depot and put some coins into a couple of vending machines and bought some Pringles and a Coke. He got some directions from an old guy and found his way to a cheap motel where he collapsed on the musty mattress and fell asleep smiling and well pleased with himself.
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Dulcie the aging matron who owned and operated the diner guessed how bad he needed the job. This kid had to be down on his luck and surely not any more than a teenager. So what if he only lasted a week! From his oversized clothing and worn down shoes to his gaunt hollow cheeks he reeked of neglect but nothing Dulcie couldn't handle and her instinct told her he'd be no trouble. On that point she was right.
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Three weeks later and on the other side of town Paul Marten prepared for a night out on the town. He heard a car's horn and looked out his second floor bedroom window to see his friend's chevy in the drive and a couple of youthful faces laughing and craning their necks through the car windows. A quick wave and soon he was running down the stairs across the manicured lawn and tidy flower beds and jumping into the back seat.
The party was held in a warehouse in the industrial part of town and was in full swing when they arrived. Paul wasted no time getting into the mood. The music was loud the grog plentiful and the privileged kids hedonistic as they indulged themselves with whatever pleasures were on offer.
Nobody knew what time the cops came but it had little effect on the party till some crazy kid lit up a joint in the copper's face and back up was called. Wailing sirens screeched through the air and a stampede of the town's elite youth surged from the building in every direction, each one anxious not to be the one caught up in the inevitable mess. Paul was jostled and ran with the crowd laughing through his mix of heady excitement and way too much alcohol. He kept running till he had no idea where he was and leaned against a wall in some dark alley where he retched sending splashes of vomit over his fancy boots and designer label jeans.
"Lookee what we have here guys … looks like one of those rich boys out on his own" he heard.
Paul stood up unsteadily and turned around just in time to see a fist hit him full on the face. He tasted the blood in his mouth as he crumpled to the ground barely conscious and curled up as the kicks rained down on him.
He barely understood what was happening in the dark alley but he knew someone had scared off his assailants, come to his rescue, and was checking his limbs for any broken bones. He was hoisted up and leaned heavily on whoever it was towards a dim light and open doorway then onto a clean sheet on an old mattress. "Take it easy buddy … there's nothing broken … you'll be OK," were the only words he heard before he succumbed to the extreme tiredness he suddenly felt.
Paul woke as his rescuer's hand gently shook his shoulder …. "I've called you a cab, buddy," was all he heard. He allowed himself to be half carried back down the alley to the waiting cab and gently positioned into the back seat.
Snippets of conversation made their way to his ear. "Take him home thanks … here's the address from his licence …. this is to cover the fare"
Paul swivelled his head despite the pain to see his rescuer who had turned side on and had a baseball cap low down on his head. It was enough to see it was just a kid no older than himself.
His parents were waiting anxiously in the drive as the cab coasted to a stop. They made a huge fuss and got him inside as quickly as possible and into a comfy lounge chair. The family doctor had already been rung and was waiting to appraise his patient.
"It's just severe bruising," the doctor told his parents. "He'll be sore for a while, just let him get some sleep and maybe some Tylenol for the pain," as they ushered him out the front door.
"Oh ,Paul we were so worried," sobbed his mother. "When we took that call it scared the daylights out of us."


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Firefighter Gary Brown Jr. almost dismissed the faint sound he heard while looking out on a remote stretch of the Green River Gamelands with two fellow members of a search and rescue team.
Sitting in the driveway of a home high on Scarlet Mountain Road, Brown thought, "Maybe I'm just hearing things. It was almost like a squeal. It was so far off, and I heard banging (from construction) down the road, so I wasn't real sure."
But Brown's persistent ear and a metal whistle eventually helped lead him and two fellow volunteers to two lost hikers who had gone missing the day before in a steep, wild area between Deep Gap Road and Big Hungry Road.
Jonathan Heatherly, 32, and Janice Collins, 56, left family property near the top of Laurel Mountain View Road — along with Collins' husband, Glenn — about 1 p.m. Saturday for a day hike, intending to head home by dark.
"The two hikers had gotten ahead of Mr. Collins because he had stopped to talk with someone on the trail," said Capt. Lowell Griffin of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office. "When he wasn't able to catch up, he decided to turn back and wait for them to come out of the woods."
But the pair never returned, causing family members to worry as darkness fell. Glenn Collins had backtracked with the only compass and cellphone, Griffin said, and the two hikers possessed only a bottle of water each and a walking stick.
A massive search-and-rescue operation ensued early Sunday involving roughly 100 people from every county fire department, a dozen dog teams, paramedics, law officers and a helicopter from the state highway patrol in Raleigh.
"When we found them, I said they better thank God, because He put them there at the right place and the right time," said Brown, a paid Hendersonville firefighter who was volunteering Sunday for Blue Ridge Fire and Rescue, where his father is chief.
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After being rescued, Heatherly told authorities he and Collins had kept on hiking Saturday even after it got dark.
"I think that's what pushed them off the trail," Griffin said. Disoriented by the darkness, the pair decided to build a fire for the night and try to find their way out in the morning, Griffin said.
"Once it got light, Mr. Heatherly said he couldn't recognize anything," Griffin said. So the pair decided to drop down and try to find a creek they could follow out to a familiar trail or road. That's when the search team located them, Griffin said.
Dana Fire and Rescue Chief Ben Lanning, who coordinated the search, praised the cooperation of everyone who participated in Sunday's hunt.
"It was a well-orchestrated, team effort from everybody in Henderson County, from law enforcement to the Rescue Squad to EMS and the fire marshal's office," he said. "Sunday is everybody's day off, but we had people from every (fire) department show up to help. And the big thing was we found them."
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Old Age in the United States, 1900 (ICPSR 8428)
Published: Feb 14, 1993
Principal Investigator(s):
Richard Jensen; Daniel Scott Smith; Mark W. Friedberger; Michel R. Dahlin; Janice Reiff
Version V1
This data collection describes the social conditions of the older population of the United States at the turn of the century. Detailed information, extracted from the 1900 United States Census manuscript schedules, is provided on household composition and family structure for each sampled older person. Ecological characteristics of the county of residence, e.g., the percentage of the county's population that is foreign born, are provided for most sampled older persons. In addition, occupational and ethnic characteristics of family heads appearing on the same sampled census page as the older person (on census pages grouped by street location) are reported.
Export Citation:
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (AG00350-02)
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Time Period(s)
Date of Collection
1976 -- 1978
Data Collection Notes
Age distribution: 55-64 (N is 2,002), 65-74 (N is 2,203), 75-84 (N is 690), 85 and older (N is 108). The values for the weighting variable "Weighting Factor II" are incorrect. The SPSS statements that will correctly weight the sample are given in the codebook.
Stratified sample of 56 counties (excluding cities with populations of 25,000 or more) and 44 urban Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). Cities with populations over 25,000 were triple-sampled. Sample members were drawn from clusters defined by manuscript census pages.
Noninstitutionalized population of the United States aged 55 and older in 1900.
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I love the trade paperbacks (I don't read them as single issues--rather devour them in one sitting). This comic series is phenomenal.
I thought the show did a good job of setting up the premise of the series. I found it lacking somewhat in suspense, but I know they'll build towards that down the road. Being AMC, the cinematography is top knotch, and the performances so far are very real. I was thrown off by at least one of the changes (in the hospital), but I understand why they did it the way they did.
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The Washington Post staff writer — Hank Stuever — doesn't know what to make of Sarah Palin's reality show.
You're flipping channels and you randomly land on "Sarah Palin's Alaska"... It's a show about . . . hmmm.Stuever is imagining "you" flipping channels and arriving at this show, but for "you" to have this reaction, "you" would need not to recognize the celebrity or the celebrity-at-home genre of reality show. Maybe 10 years ago, this hapless "you" would have puzzled over a show like that, back before "The Osbournes" was the next big thing. But now? Come on, "you" is dumb!
About a busy mom with a sporty husband. Their many offspring run from a soldier son in his 20s down to a mentally disabled adorable toddler and an unexpected grandson with curly blond hair. But quick enough it seems to be a show about a woman who fancies herself as something of a nature enthusiast who wants to take advantage of the short-but-sweet Alaskan summer. So is it about the li'l town where she lives? Is it about flowers and birdies and double rainbows? Is it like "Northern Exposure" meets "An American Family?"
You still don't know....
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Rumor: Next Xbox to require internet connection to start games
We've heard rumblings of the next generation of consoles requiring a constant Internet connection, and in the case of the PlayStation 4, that rumor has been dispelled. The next Xbox, code-named "Durango," on the other hand, is still a mystery. Sources now claim that the console will require an Internet connection to start games.
"Unless something has changed recently, Durango consumer units must have an active internet connection to be used," a source told Kotaku. "If there isn't a connection, no games or apps can be started. If the connection is interrupted then after a period of time--currently three minutes, if I remember correctly--the game/app is suspended and the network troubleshooter started." One source claimed this was the case as of two weeks ago.
Microsoft itself has been quiet on the next Xbox, so we've only heard anything from leaks. Some developers have said they're unaware of any online requirement, though Microsoft may simply not be telling them of the system-level functionality. Most sources have been uncertain or vague, so this leak is the first we've heard with such specificity. Of course, anything can change between now and the launch of the console, especially since Microsoft hasn't even publicly acknowledged its existence yet.


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We now know that the enactment of the Voting Rights Act almost a half-century ago has been responsible for nothing short of a reformation in the expansion of voting rights, particularly in the South where there had been pervasive voter discrimination against African-Americans.
We also know that the 1982 amendments to the act were responsible for the creation of majority-minority congressional districts, and that they have produced so many gerrymandered seats for both parties.
Since its enactment in 1965, the act has been renewed four times. The most recent renewal was in 2006 for another 25 years. The renewal passed the House 390-33 and the Senate 98-0. Such lopsided majorities would seem to suggest that the extension is an obvious, unblemished good. But maybe there's more here than meets the eye.
Let's look at a case currently before the Supreme Court, Shelby v. Holder. Shelby County, Ala., is challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the act. That is the section that requires certain state and local governments in the South with a history of voter discrimination to seek and receive approval from the federal government prior to making any changes in their voting procedures, regardless of how trivial such changes are. This is what is called "pre-clearance."
When Section 5 was enacted, there was no doubt that the states and counties it covered in the South had an obvious track record of voter disenfranchisement aimed at blacks. And there is no disagreement that Section 5's requirement for pre-clearance tramples on federalism and the sovereignty of the states. In 1965, that was an acceptable price to pay in order to begin to deal with voter disenfranchisement. The question before the court now is whether it's still an acceptable price.
The oral argument before the court a month ago suggested that the four liberal justices favor the continuation of Section 5, while four conservative justices appear poised to strike it down. Justice Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote. By this June, we will know whether the court will do what Congress would not do when it overwhelmingly voted to extend Section 5 in 2006: defy political correctness and recognize that Section 5 has done its job but is no longer needed.
But wait. There's more!
The court is also considering another case where race is at the core of the constitutional dispute, Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher, who is white, argues she was not admitted to the University of Texas because of her race. It is possible that the court's ruling in this case may profoundly alter the current nine-year precedent on affirmative action that it set in 2003 when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the 5-4 decision (Grutter v. Bollinger) in which the court affirmed the University of Michigan's use of race as a factor in its admissions policy so long as it did not amount to a quota system.
The central point of the Grutter v. Bollinger decision in 2003 was that the university can make use of race in its admissions policy until it achieves a "critical mass" of diversity within its student body. The problem then and now is that "critical mass" remains an undefined term. Universities won't define it for fear that, if they do, they will have cut across the bow of what is prohibited — using a racial quota system.
Greg Garre, who represented the University of Texas before the court, tried to argue that a "critical mass" was when underrepresented minorities don't feel isolated. Chief Justice Roberts didn't buy Garre's argument.
What makes this case so important is that its impact will likely go way beyond Fisher and the University of Texas. It's possible the Fisher decision will substantially reduce the degrees of freedom that universities have with respect to the use of race in their admissions policies. Such a ruling would amount to a watershed in the realm of affirmative action.
Like the Shelby case, Justice Kennedy holds the swing vote. A hint of Kennedy's thinking emerged during the questioning of Garre concerning the university's use of race in admissions. Kennedy pointedly asked Garre, "So what you're saying is that what counts is race above all?"
But the most significant piece of this fascinating puzzle is Chief Justice Roberts. Jeffery Toobin, a legal analyst who writes for The New Yorker, believes Roberts is on the verge of letting all of us know that his signature issue will be an affirmation that the Constitution is colorblind. The decisions this June in Shelby and Fisher may have the same bottom line — the nation's fight against racial discrimination has been won.
Toobin states, "Race-conscious policies have transformed our schools and workplaces. The Voting Rights Act has given the South new and very different politics. But affirmative action, in Roberts' view, has become discrimination against whites."
If, however, current policy is maintained, we can all look forward to 2043 when, according to Census Bureau statistics, America will be a majority-minority nation. At that point, it will be the whites who will be packed into racially homogenous, gerrymandered districts!
And, were that to happen, I believe Judge Robinson O. Everett would look down from heaven and conclude that white majority-minority districts in the mid-21st century are just as abhorrent and unconstitutional as black ones were in the late 20th century.
The Shadow's always been colorblind, and Goldman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Are we now a colorblind nation?
We now know that the enactment of the Voting Rights Act almost a half-century ago has been responsible for nothing short of a reformation in the expansion of voting rights, particularly in the South where there had been pervasive voter discrimination against African-Americans.


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Of the $333 million, approximately $100 million will go to 10 rail-related projects from grade separations to light-rail projects to the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC).
"Investing in our transportation infrastructure creates a better future for all Californians," said California Department of Transportation Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The 10 rail-related projects include:
• San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG); $7.17 million for the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority (ACE) grade separation of Glen Helen Parkway and railroad lines of Union Pacific and BNSF. SANBAG was also allocated $4.56 million for another ACE grade separation of Palm Avenue and UP/BNSF lines near the city of San Bernardino.
• Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA); $10.51 million for Phase 2 of the Alameda Corridor Terminus/West Basin Railyard – Berth 200 Rail Yard Track Connection. LACMTA was also allocated $28.25 million for Phase 2 of the Exposition Light Rail Extension, which will construct 6.6-miles of line between Culver City and Santa Monica.
• San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG); $30.05 million for Phase 1 of the San Onofre to Pulgas double track project, which is along the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo rail corridor. SANDAG and the North Transit District were also allocated an additional $7.33 million to implement PTC between San Onofre to Sand Diego.
• Sacramento Area Council of Governments; $5 million for the Grant Line Road grade separation project.
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC); $4.23 million for the Marina Bay Parkway grade separation project.
• Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, MTC; $233,000 for signal system rehabilitation along the Caltrain right-of-way.
• Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, MTC; $3.35 million for Phase 2 of a double track project between Oakland and San Jose.
The allocations include $233 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, nearly $15 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
The remaining allocation of $100 million came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal dollars.


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GameStop calls Wii U sales 'disappointing'
When a console fails to gain momentum, it tends to impact connected businesses as well: retailers, developers, and so on. So it should come as no surprise that the Wii U's sales shortfall has also had an impact on retail, and brick-and-mortar chain GameStop said as much directly at an earnings call today.
GameSpot reports that the store's executives called sales "disappointing," and chalked it up to two major reasons. First, the system has not properly explained the system's features to consumers, necessitating an "education process." The second is that the system lacks blockbuster titles to fuel adoption. "We're seeing the ramifications of that today," the company said. Regardless, it expressed confidence that the system sales will pick up when more of Nintendo's top-tier franchises start to arrive.
In general, GameStop called the last year "challenging" for consoles, and it expects the first half of the year to be as well. It does feel the launch of Grand Theft Auto 5 and new consoles will boost its profits late this year, though, saying it is "ready to lead the industry and its customers into the next phase of gaming."


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Hey guys,
This is a long time coming, but I think its time for me to come out before I totally loose my mind. No, not that closet... a different one.
Back when I bought linkmeallover.ca way back, the former owner told us whatever we do... don't use our real names on the forum. He promised us that if we did we'd have crosses burning in our front yards. That was almost a decade ago and a lot has changed in that time.
So today, I'm coming out and changing my username. Seth seems so silly now. No offense to the Seth's out there in the world, but it truly doesn't suit me. I don't feel like a Seth and so I'm renouncing my previous username.
From this day forward please call me Bryce, the name given to me by my parents
Bryce (formerly Seth)
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