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Georgia coach Mark Richt granted ex-UGA LB recruit Dexter Moody an "unconditional" release, meaning he could play for any school. Moody told the AJC he could end up playing for Lane Kiffin at Tennessee.
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Moody said he was invited to Tennessee's Orange and White game on Saturday by the Volunteers. "Me and my dad are planning on going up there," Moody said. "They talked liked they were going to offer me a scholarship. I don't know. I guess we'll see. They just want to meet me in person and everything."
Moody, who earned All-America honors last year at Emanuel County Institute, said he has had contact with several schools, including Florida, Memphis, Central Michigan and Troy, since breaking ties with Georgia last month. Moody said he has been offered by Marshall, and that he is very encouraged by Tennessee's Lance Thompson, who coaches linebackers for the Volunteers.
"Coach Thompson said they need some linebackers really bad," Moody said. "I'm definitely very interested in Tennessee. It wouldn't be bad to go there and be able to play against Georgia every year. That would be something, taking out some of my feelings against the team that released me. I think it would be fun."
Moody claims he has no hard feelings against Georgia. He said he hasn't had any contact with the Bulldogs since being informed of his release by UGA assistant Jon Fabris. "We thought Coach Richt might call to talk about everything, but I haven't heard from anybody else from Georgia. It's no big deal. I wasn't worried too much about it. I'm pretty cool with everything. I can sign with any other school that offers me. I guess it will just work out somewhere else for me."
NCAA rules prohibit college coaches from commenting on prospective student-athletes. Moody spurned offers from Florida and South Carolina, among others, to sign with his homegrown favorite, UGA. He was released by Richt after an incident at school, according to Georgia officials.
Moody is ranked as the nation's No. 8 outside linebacker by Scout, and No. 17 by Rivals. "I'm excited for [Moody]," said his ECI teammate, Washaun Ealey. "He's a great player, and hopefully Tennessee or another school will give him a chance."
April 15th, 2009
10:28 am
This guy needs to learn 1. to keep his mouth shut 2. that stupidity off the field demonstrates your true character and 3. college is a step up from high school and sometimes the "stars" don't cut it. I rarely speak out against young guys who are just running their mouths but this one is a total moron and his parents should have taught him to respect others, himself and authority. Perhaps he wouldn't already have his poor character on display for all to see, if they had raised him with some discipline. God forbid that my kids ever acted like this kid!
April 15th, 2009
10:15 am
Question to everyone other than those wearing those ugly faded orange glasses and dumb coonskin hats…with Kiffin coming in the way he has into the conference spouting off and with some of the actions we have seen coming out of Knoxville…Is Tenn trying to become the new Miami???
April 15th, 2009
9:53 am
YOu actually really believe B. Brown won't be an issue? Just read up on him and dig up why he ended up in Kansas to begin with. I'm sure you'll be impressed. Hell, he'll probably want to transfer to Georgia or Florida when he meets another hottie coed. You know his type. Everyone here knows what I'm getting at.
Yep, your right.
April 15th, 2009
9:52 am
So many comments from posters with Cynthia Tucker Syndrome…
April 15th, 2009
9:50 am
Please withold from finger pointing – all schools have had their embarrassing moments with their "student athletes."
This is a true fact – the area in the brain that effects decision making is not fully developed until the person in about 25 years old. This helps explain why most teens and young adults in their early twenties make behavioral decisions without caring about long term consequences. This is a fact.
Let's be honest – how many of you did stupid things in college or in your late teens – early twenties. We look back and laugh at our Fraternity days – but the reality of it is – we did some pretty immature and stupid stuff. I guess that's part of growing up.
Now if an athlete does the stupid stuff – get's caught – it's published in USA TODAY.
I am not making excuses – I am merely pointing out that most young adults do not become "adults" until their mid-20's.
To me – there is a big difference in "stupid stuff" – and flipping a table and threatening a teacher. I see the Moody kid as a potential Jamar Hornsby – a kid with a REAL CHARACTER ISSUE. I hope that this kid becomes successful – and makes millions in the NFL.
In case you do not know the saga of Jamar Hornsby
- His teammate and teammates' girlfriend were killed in a motorcycle accident.
- Jamar got the deceased girls credit card and proceeded to charge several thousand dollars of gas and food at convenient stores – for several months. Over 70 charges.
- Urban kicked him off the team immediately following his arrest.
- Plea bargained down to misdemeanor – and avoided jail time -paid big time fines.
- On probation.
But wait – here's more:
- Jamar wound up at a Junior or Community college and received national honors for his play.
- Several teams, including Alabama and Ole Miss pursued Jamar's services. (I was very embarrassed for Alabama that we would consider this kid). Let someone else offer him a second chance.
- Signed LOI with Ole Miss – which needs immediate help in the secondary.
But Wait……here's more!!!!!
- Jamar – with all of his "SECOND" chances in life – was charged with Felony assault and misdemeanor petit larceny after beating up a guy at a McDonald's in Starkville MS. The victim had a backended the car Jamar was in at a drive through – a frigging fender bender.
– Jamar has now violated his probation (could face jail time) and faces jail time on the new charges.
– Ole Miss Coach Houston Nutt may release Jamar from his scholarship pending his own investigation.
Are you kidding me?????
Again – big difference in inmature studid stuff and real character issues – let's hope for the best for Moody.
April 15th, 2009
9:40 am
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Bryce Brown will not be an issue. He is a good kid and will be a GREAT player. If you think Brown is trouble you just haven't been paying attention. And please don't give me that I wouldn't want him at UGA crap; because you know it's a lie. I understand your fear though.
Moody is going to Knoxville so the staff can meet and get to know him. If Kiffin doesn't like what he sees he won't offer him, IMO. He won't just keep the kid because he has talent; ask Demetrice Morley.
April 15th, 2009
9:33 am
bama12titles – thanks for clearing that up. that was a lotta info, but pretty interesting stuff.
as for this dexter moody stuff…….i know the whole "those in glass houses argument," and for the most part i follow that rationale bc i know uga has their fair share of problems. but tenn still has to realize that pursuing this kid right now puts them in a bad light, it just does. i'm all for second chances, but let him go to a smaller stage first and EARN his second chance to play with the big boys.
April 15th, 2009
9:27 am
I cannot imagine staring at the color ORANGE day after day, year after year. It must eat at your brain like a cancer. I guess that's what happens when you add YELLOW to a fine color like RED.
April 15th, 2009
9:26 am
Thanks for echoing my point. We've beaten UT 2 in a row but you don't hear me talking a whole lotta smack about that. Why? Because I also remember that we lost 7 in a row to the vols and after breaking that streak the series has been roughly tied. People should show a healthy respect for their actual accomplishments rather than just picking points in time to suit their argument. Not just dawg fans but really all of us. I also won't talk smack about Auburn since they did in fact dominate us 6 in a row before we beat them again.
Law dawg,
You are correct. We had this argument several times on this post. Bama has 4 consensus titles and 5 split titles between the 2 major polls of the time according to some stats that Atlanta gator compiled. The true # is really about 9 as far as national titles. The school claims 12, the NCAA official media guide says 17, but the true # should be about 9. 7 on the extreme low end, 17 on the extreme generous end using any poll, but most people count 8-9. I've just been using 12 titles as my handle for so long that I don't want to change. Probably should though.
In reference to being voted national champs and then losing your bowl game Bama does have a national title via that route. But the reverse has also happened to Bama and we legitimately felt we were robbed of national titles in 1966 especially, 1977, and perhaps a couple of other years. It all washes out as far as that is concerned.
Several books have been actually been written about the denial of a national title for the 66 team which Bear Bryant considered his greatest ever and his favorite team. It was also possible the most statistically dominant team of all time but while this team destroyed opponents all season, posted 8 shutouts, outscored people something like 277-30, Bama started out 3rd and stayed 3rd all season behind ND and Mich St which played to a 10-10 tie in what the media had hyped and dubbed "the game of the century".
The way I figure it over the last 100 years Alabama is the winningest program in college football with 754 wins to NDs 750. Common sense would dictate that we legitimately have 7-9 legit titles if that is the case. Also, another good measure is that OU leads the nation with 30 double digit winning seasons with us 2nd at 29. OU is credited I believe with 8 ncs so it would make sense that we also have 7-9 just out of common sense. Lastly, in the 3 qtr centuries 1926-1950, 1951-1975, and 1976-2000 Bama was 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd in each of those quarter centuries in win totals. Common sense would again dictate that with that type of overall success that the true, legit number is around 7-9.
Anyway, just to clear things up 9 is probably a good, realistic, legit number as several of us on here have agreed.
April 15th, 2009
9:25 am
Once again, Tn has no shame. Never has never will. Hey Kiffin, have you ever considered recruiting at the state pen? I could see it now, Kiffin talking to a convict behind a screen. " I know son, Ga didn't give you a fair shake". " We will get you out of this place and on the field".


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Stonington —Borough Warden Jeff Callahan said Tuesday that he is working with town officials to determine who owns the property that is at the center of a dispute between pet owners who use the unofficial dog park behind the borough sewer plant and an adjacent homeowner.
Callahan said he has spoken to the town public works department about what he called the central issue — determining the property line between the sewer plant land and the house at 13 Front St.
If the property line is the home's wooden fence, Callahan said the route the dogs have been taking down to water would be on land owned by the town. But if the line is the new fence with a gate installed by the town, then the dogs' route would appear to be on property owned by Laura Ann Gabrysch and Frank Mastrapasqua.
Former Congressman Rob Simmons, whose daughter made one of the complaints Sunday about Gabrysch, said Tuesday that he has researched the deed for 13 Front St. and found that its boundaries are defined by iron pipes and drill holes in the seawall on the property. That would mean the land between the seawall and town fence is public.
As for dogs standing in the shallow water in front of the house, Callahan said that would be in state waters and open to the public. There is also a tiny patch of sand in front of the home that is exposed by the water at times.
On Sunday, police twice responded to the park. The first call came after police say Gabrysch displayed and turned on a stun device while ordering two children to get their dog off the tiny beach below her seawall. The children told their parents, who called police.
On Sunday afternoon, police were back at the park when a resident complained that Gabrysch and Mastrapasqua had placed a mixture of paprika and pet repellent on the rocks that separate the park from Stonington Harbor in an effort to keep the animals out of the water. One dog, whose owner he knows, became ill after eating the material, according to Simmons.
Police said Gabrysch did not threaten the children with the stun device but admitted to putting the mixture on the rocks.
No arrests were made in either of the incidents, but police said they issued warnings and told Gabrysch to talk to town and borough officials about their park concerns. Police also said they informed Gabrysch that state law ensures public access to waters and beaches below the high water mark. The beach area is covered by water most of the day. A sign there reads: "No Trespassing — Violators Will Be Prosecuted.
The couple, who recently moved to the borough from Nashville, Tenn., bought the house at 13 Front St. in April for $900,000.
A few days ago, someone placed a heavy-duty bicycle lock on the gate so it can no longer be opened. Because of the lock, dogs have been climbing up and down the large rocks to the water.
First Selectman Ed Haberek did not respond to questions Tuesday about how the town will address the issue.
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Hi All ,
I am having a problem with CS5 which i cannot work out , before editing a set of photos i record an action on one of the files sending it to a folder for the edits for the forthcoming files , thereafter using that action saves each file i edit into the file of edits as their own file names.
Yesterday while editing we had a power cut and lost everything so had to restart the edits I was on , now when i use the same procedure have been using for years it does not work , it simply keeps saving the file as the same file name over the top of the last one i saved hence the action is of no use , I havent changed anything and cannot for the life of me understand whats happened , any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.
That kinda thing does my head in too...
Are you using image processor or batch?
Try using the "other one" to what you normally use
On my old PC, Image Processor stopped working with action - no idea why - it just failed every time. I switched to Batch Processor and that worked.
Sh1t workaround, but it got the job done.
I've now got 32 and 64 bit CS5 installed, the 32 bit one's getting to be unreliable...so using 64 bit for just about everything for that reason.
whoah.... slow down
re-read what you typed and see if it makes sense.... I'm struggling to follow it.
Maybe describe what you're doing in steps
1 - I am using the action once the file is converted from raw
2 - in photoshop once finished tweaking normally
3 - just have a one key press action to save to the specified folder and close the image.
.... something like that
I got the impression you were running this action on every images in a folder via "batch" - be that batch processor OR image processor.
Lol Ade sorry !
No the action is purely to save a file once i have done editing it in photoshop nothing to do with batch processing. I have managed to find a workaround but its meaning making a duplicate of the file which is forcing photoshop to save it with the amended -copy added to the file name which seems to work rather than it writing over the last file with the same file number , still have to try and work out whats going on so i can get back to the original way of doing it tho.
I guess the only way to explain it would be to screen grab it which i may do if i cant figure it out thanks for the help though
tried re-recording it?
I've seen this kinda thing happen with Photoshop and even a reinstall didn't seem to do the trick - reinstalling windows did though
I used to get Java errors when running batches - make me more angry than you would ever imagine, you shouldn't have to be debugging Java when resizing photos!
I've just found this thread, sorry, been v. busy.
When you created the action and selected "Save As", it sounds like this is being repeated for every file and saving each as the original "Save As" file. That's possibly the reason.
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How did you become interested in hockey?
I grew up in a military family and when I was in the third grade my dad was stationed in Fort Devins, Massachusetts, which is a lot better place to start playing hockey than in Virginia. That's around the same time that the Mighty Ducks movies came out and anyone who knows hockey knows the Mighty Ducks movies and the character Julie the Cat who was the girl goalie, and I saw the movies and came home and told my parents I was going to be a female goalie like Julie the Cat and they said all right.
What teams did you follow growing up?
I followed pretty much anybody who was on TV growing up since we moved around so much. I didn't really have a specific team that I followed. I was the only one in my family that was interested in hockey so it's not like my brother or my dad or someone had a team that I would root for. Since I moved to Virginia, of course I follow the Washington Capitals, since they're the hometown team.
You've been playing hockey for a number of years, on a number of levels. At what point in your hockey career did you say to yourself "You know what, I'm pretty good at this."
Growing up I played all with boys pretty much, and I knew that I could hang with the guys, and the people at my local rink in Virginia said you know the open tryouts for the women's 2002 Olympic team are coming up and they're up in Massachusetts, it's the closest one, we really think you should go and it would be a great experience. And so I went there, and it was my first time playing competitively with other women and I felt like I held my own. So I knew then that college hockey was something I wanted to do.
Was there a particular goalie that you looked up to as you moved up through hockey?
I always looked up to Manon Rhéaume, she was the Canadian Olympic team goalie and she also played exhibition games for the Tampa Bay Lightning. She was the type of woman who was very strong but she was feminine too at the same time and I always thought that was a cool balance.
Do you think a woman goalie could ever play in the NHL in non-exhibition style games?
Oh absolutely, I've seen some girls who are just phenomenal and I've played ice hockey with girls who were some of the best on the men's team. So I don't see it as out of reach for a woman to some day be able to play in the NHL and be an incredible asset to a team.
How often do you still play?
I try to get on the ice as often as I can, especially since I'm doing all these charity shootouts and I don't want to go out there and look like a fool in front of some professional hockey players. I have tried to play incognito before, and was recognized. I'm looking for a paint sponsor for my mask to maybe put the Miss Virginia crown and airbrush it on the hockey mask, then I'll definitely be recognized every time I play pickup. But I think it would be funny for the charity shootouts.
How do you combine your hockey background with your pageant background?
One of my big goals this year was to break down the negative stereotypes that surround pageants and I thought a great way to do that would be to combine hockey and pageantry and I thought it would be a great way to raise money for charity. I've done 4 shootouts, 3 of them were charity to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network and the "Cheetas" hockey program for disabled children. One was with Virginia Tech, one was with the Norfolk Admirals, and one was with high school All-Stars and they were both incredibly successful and I'd love to continue doing that for the next few years, however much longer I can play hockey. But I think it was just a cool way to get a new group of people excited about pageants and seeing us in a different light and get them excited about charities like the Children's Miracle Network and Cheetas too, and it raised money for two great causes. I've also partnered with the St. Baldrick's Foundation to raise money for pediatric cancer research. My goal is to raise $500,000 by April 11th and if I do, I'll shave my head.
When you go against guys in the charity shootouts, what kind of reaction do you usually get from them?
Well it's funny because I was originally really intimidated. It was my idea, and I get there and I'm a little bit scared, and these are pro athletes, and am I going to look stupid. But the guys have been more nervous than I have been. And I guess when I think about it I put them in kind of a weird position because they talked to me about it and said, we don't want to be the jerk who hurts Miss Virginia, and we don't try to score on her because that's less money for charity (money is donated per shot blocked), and if they try really hard to score a goal on me and I block it, then they're going to get made fun of. So I've put them in kind of a weird position, and I never really thought about it that way. I apologize guys, but it's for a good cause.
You did a shootout with the Washington Capitals, right?
I did. Sean Collins and Dave Steckel shot on me, and they used to play for Ohio State, so we had a big-10 rivalry thing going on. They won, but they also play in the NHL, so it's ok.
What it is like facing an NHL player as a goalie?
It was intimidating even though they didn't go full-out on me. I was trying to get myself all pumped up about it, but it's something that I'm going to remember for the rest of my life and I can tell my kids Mom was on the ice and faced shots from NHL players.
Who's better: Crosby or Ovechkin?
Ovechkin, hands down. And I've met him too, he's a cool guy.
Last question, do you still have all your original teeth?
Hahaha, I do. I have a nice mouthguard and a phenomenal helmet that keeps me protected.
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I think about strange, middling things, perhaps at too much length. For the heck of it, I figured I'd describe my recent thought process for one such thing here. At the very least, that should help establish a permanent record of my thoughts in the event I forget about this whole ordeal a few months down the road.
Trials Evolution is coming out this Wednesday. I played it at PAX East alongside other Giant Bomb mods and users, and it's a lot of fun. Trials can be frustrating as hell alone, but the four-lane supercross multiplayer, which puts more emphasis on racing and basic technique, eschews most of the frustration for hectic speed. I entertained the idea of hosting site-wide online tournaments here on Giant Bomb, and the second I did, my mind began racing over how brackets would work.
Most tournament brackets are focused on head-to-head matchups, be it team versus team or player versus player. The methods for handling these are numerous and well-established, both for single elimination and double elimination. Four competitors at once, however, is a trickier format, and while you can simplify it somewhat, that can be to the detriment of the ongoing competition.
Let me explain by highlighting the various formats and quirks I've been thinking about in regards to a Giant Bomb Trials Evolution supercross tournament. I'll use my own naming conventions, since I haven't found much in the way of information elsewhere.
Half In/Transfer
This is a more basic, straightforward format, and I'd expect most people would use this when faced with a similar style of tournament. It's much like you might see in a snowboard cross tournament at the Olympics or the X-Games: There's a set amount of transfer spots in each round, and a competitor either finishes well enough to transfer or is eliminated. Typically, you'd transfer the top two finishers in a four-person heat, which is pretty standard. This was also the format of tournaments in Forza Motorsport 2, except those matches had eight racers and transferred the top four to the next round.
It's an easy format to follow, both in the layout of the brackets and knowing how you have to perform in each match. It's also really simple for drawing up brackets as an organizer, which is helpful when you have an odd amount of entrants and need to figure out where your play-in matches or preliminaries need to go. However, it doesn't provide any extra incentive to be first until the very final round, since you're only looking to transfer as one of the top two. There's also no chance to recover from a single bad performance, so slipping up and finishing third means elimination at any point, even if it's after a string of firsts.
The other quirk here that can be dealt with involves seeding as rounds progress. In most formal tournaments, the transferring competitors move along the brackets much as if the tournament was geared for head-to-head matches. This means that if the same pair of competitors keep finishing in the transfer spots in each round, they could conceivably be facing off against each other for the entirety of the tournament.
This is where a little mixing or re-seeding can help out a less formal tournament. Perhaps I instead move all the second place finishers into another bracket to face another set of first place finishers. This hampers some of the ease of following the brackets, but it allows players to face a wider variety of opponents over their time in the tournament. Plus, having a more predictable movement along the brackets could be an incentive for finishing in first, I suppose.
This mixed "half in" format will probably be what I use for any Trials Evolution tournaments on Giant Bomb. What if I wanted to allow competitors more chances to recover and redeem themselves, though, sort of in the vein of double elimination (but not quite)? There's a complicated format for that, too.
Last Chance Qualifiers
In motocross and a lot of short track dirt racing, every heat sends a set amount of people to the main race, or at least to the next round. At least a portion of the entrants that didn't transfer then fight for a smaller handful of remaining spots in the main race, in what's called a "Last Chance Qualifier" heat. It's essentially your last chance of the night to get into the big money race, and while the chances are slim, it's at least a chance, which can be handy if you experienced misfortune in your earlier heat race.
This could be implemented into bracketed tournaments, as well, and it's actually beneficial on a few fronts. It allows for multiple chances to move forward in a tournament, while providing more incentive to finish in better positions to avoid having to compete in additional matches. It also provides a lot more matches for competitors to participate in, and generally provides a better sense of overall ranking against everyone else at the end of a tournament.
Of course, the problem is that it's difficult to organize, difficult to follow, and the method of providing multiple chances to move on, since it's not exactly double elimination style or otherwise strictly defined, can appear arbitrary in its implementation.
This LCQ format I've thought up also takes a lot more matches in general. For sixteen entrants, I could put together a tournament in the LCQ format that takes twelve to fifteen matches to run, whereas a typical transfer/half in system could handle double that, with thirty-two entrants in fifteen matches. It's not efficient, but that's not really the point -- it's meant to be exciting for someone watching the tournament unfold. Then again, that implies somebody other than the entrants will be watching a tournament like this unfold, and is that really going to happen for something this minor? Probably not.
Anyways, that's just a little bit of the thought process going through my head for potential Trials Evolution tournaments. I kind of wish there were more resources out there for tournaments that involve matches more complex than head-to-head, so that this sort of shindig would be easier to plan and implement.


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It is admittedly true that it's the Law-Chaos axis that tends to cause more confusion and debate than the Good-Evil axis. I could live with such an alignment model as long as alignment restrictions stay dead and as long as the book makes clear that "Neutral" should not be a commonly viable PC alignment, at least not for a normal game.
Khyber is a dark and dangerous place, full of flame and smoke, where ever stranger things lie dormant.
This will keep it from confusing new players and will make it simpler to play at the table, while keeping modifications easy through modules. At the very least this is how it should be in the core rules. No need to make them any more confusing than they need to be. Cutting out the fancy schmancy psychology debates that come with older edition alignments is a clearcut way of doing this.


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It might mean something that is on fire. It might also mean you are getting off something after it has stopped moving, like a horse or a train. It could also mean you are coming onto something after a flight, as in "see the bird alight on that branch".
Candles used to be the main source of light for people long ago before light bulbs and electricity were invented. Candles are made out of a piece of string, or wick, which is surrounded by wax.
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May 6, 2003 -- Outbreaks of mysterious infectious diseases are nothing new. In fact, the world has seen one or two new infections each year for the past decade. So why does the current epidemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) matter?
Experts say SARS not only speaks volumes about the current state of the science of infectious disease, but it also serves as a wake-up call about the increasing vulnerability of global public health.
"SARS is not just a blip on the radar screen," says Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "In a very short period of time, it has emerged as a new infectious disease that has likely jumped from animals -- although we're not 100% sure about that yet -- and it became a global public health threat in a matter of weeks."
Fauci says people speak of globalism in political and economic terms, but SARS is an example of the globalism of health in the extreme. "Within the hours of an airplane ride, a disease can become global," Fauci tells WebMD.
He says SARS reminds us that the threat of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases is always present.
Although some recent disease outbreaks, such as the hantavirus and Legionnaire's disease epidemics of the late 20th century, later turned out to be relatively minor in scope and were quickly contained, Fauci says SARS is likely here to stay.
SARS Threat May Never Be Completely Over
Through a combination of sheer luck, advance warning, and good infection control practices, both Fauci and CDC director Julie Gerberding, MD, acknowledge the U.S. has thus far been spared from the worst of SARS. The country has not yet experienced widespread transmission of the disease or had any SARS-related deaths.
"I would reframe luck as good fortune in this case," says Gerberding. "And for us, good fortune in this case comes in the form of a prepared public health and clinical community. But to some extent, we have been fortunate that a particularly contagious patient has not slipped through the cracks."
"Just a single person can set off a cascade of transmission with very serious consequences for the community," says Gerberding.
Gerberding points to the example of Taiwan, where a single SARS-infected traveler is thought to have infected a large number of close contacts and healthcare workers and spurred the epidemic in that country. The ripple effects of similarly effective disease transmitters, known as "superspreaders," continue to be felt in other areas that experienced clusters of SARS outbreaks, such as Hong Kong and Toronto.
That's why Gerberding says SARS will continue to pose a threat to the U.S. as long as the disease is being actively transmitted anywhere in the world.


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I fully agree, OP. I think the new model looks great and I'm over the moon happy with her animations, but I hope with all my heart that we'll see an option to customize actual facial features, as we have with most other races.
It's tough to imagine that they wouldn't allow for this, but the Worgen aren't able to change their faces, which is odd. I think a lot of players fear the Pandaren will suffer the same fate. I personally think the male's look perfect as is, but I wouldn't only want the females to have this option.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/pandarenpics/pandaren2.png
That's the male's muzzle copy and pasted on the female model. Nothing else has changed whatsoever. It would be so great if that was a single facial option available at creation. I'd love to see others, too, like an angry face, but even just that simple change would be awesome.
I have my fingers crossed for sure.


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It was pretty easy to spot the latest creation of Alois Ruf the moment I walked into the service area at the RUF Auto Center in Dallas. Dolled up in retro IROC tangerine paint, the first Rt12 Turbo to arrive in the U.S. jumped out from the pristine white walls and surrounding vehicles.
It was what's under the fancy paint that drew me to Dallas for a test drive. What makes the Rt12 Turbo noteworthy is Ruf's special relationship with the Porsche factory that supplies him with a limited number of bare chassis, bodies in white if you will, from which he builds complete vehicles that carry their own RUF (not Porsche) serial number. In other words, RUF is a manufacturer, not merely a Porsche tuner. In offering the Rt12, which comes in either a 3.6-liter or 3.8-liter twin-turbo format, RUF has preceded the Porsche factory in offering the first turbo production model based on the 997 chassis.
This particular Rt12 was equipped with the top-of-the-line, 650-bhp, 3.8-liter twin-turbo engine derived from the GT2 unit. It's not a mere engine swap, as the 997 has a completely different wiring harness than a 996. It features the Rt12 enhanced bodywork that includes an aggressive front end with gaping air intakes for engine cooling, artfully sculpted metal rear fenders flared 1.5 inches to incorporate air scoops for the intercoolers (as well as massive wheels and tires), and a low-profile bow-shaped carbon-fiber rear wing. Because RUF artfully integrates all these changes from the ground up as any manufacturer would do, despite the loud paint and equally intense modifications, the Rt12 Turbo that greeted me in Dallas did not come on with the garish "Hey look at me" pose affected by aftermarket tuner cars that usually promise more than they deliver.
And this car definitely delivers as I discovered the first time I nailed the throttle in second gear. Suddenly my head jerked back and I was admiring the Alcantara suede headliner instead of watching the road ahead. Yee-ha!
Those were the first words, along with my breath, to escape my mouth. I admit it was partly influenced by the locale at the time, a gritty two-lane road in the ranch land somewhere between Dallas and Oklahoma, but mostly because "yee-ha" is about all you have time to say between hurriedly grabbing higher gears to keep pace with the tach needle and holding yourself upright while 650 horses are grunting and shoving at your backside. Bear with me; I gotta say one more "yee-ha" just thinking about it.
Not that all the above bronco busting lingo should lead you to think that driving the Rt12 requires a white-knuckled grip on the reins. This particular car, belonging to a local gentleman in his sixties who, RUF Auto Center's sales VP Wayne Corley explains, "has a ranch in East Texas that he likes to get to in a hurry," was ordered with the optional all-wheel drive. This, combined with seriously wide 11x19-inch rear RUF wheels (the eventually standard 12.5x20-inchers are currently undergoing TV certification in Germany), wrapped in meaty 305/30 Pirellis, transmitted all the fury generated by the twin-turbo 3.8-liter engine to the pavement with barely a wiggle of the tail. If you need drama, rear drive is standard. Or just keep an eye on how quickly the road ahead gets gobbled up by the RUF's wind tunnel-tested, aerodynamically tweaked nose.
This part of Texas is a lot more horizontal than vertical, so there were no mountains or even semi-serious hills to aim for in search of twisty canyon roads. The ones I did find posed no problem for the RT12's adjustable coilover suspension and big wheels and tires. This included an interesting stretch of curves posted at 45 mph that had off-camber humps strategically placed at all apexes. The suspension easily gobbled these up at 80 mph without any hiccups affecting the ride comfort or steering wheel placement.
For added confidence in handling whatever life puts in the road ahead, the Rt12 was equipped with another RUF option that hydraulically raises the suspension settings by 50mm to clear driveways and other spoiler-snagging obstructions. It is programmable, with the one in the orange car automatically lowering itself at speeds above 13 mph.
Speaking of obstructions, the weather-beaten, heat-scarred surface of the rural Texas roads precluded any top speed testing. I can tell you that the Rt12 shot into triple digits a lot quicker than expected on one of the rare fairly smooth stretches of asphalt I encountered. I have driven many 500-plus-horsepower vehicles, including the 605-bhp Carrera GT, and based on my internal meter for gut-wrenching acceleration the Rt12 ranks in my top three, along with the Carrera GT and another 650-bhp twin turbo, the Novitec Rosso Ferrari 360. The way it was pulling in fourth gear left no doubt in my mind that it will easily exceed 200 mph. For any owners inclined to explore the Rt12's ultimate top-speed capability, RUF offers optional gearing that can take the Rt12 beyond 220 mph. Those whose high speed driving is limited to the Interstate will be more interested to know that I did an acceleration run at 80 mph in sixth gear, about 3000 rpm, and the Rt12 immediately and effortlessly pulled past 100 before the traffic started backing up toward me. RUF conservatively claims a zero-to-60-mph time of 3.7 seconds.


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Want to learn how to improve your negotiation skills?
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"But Katie, that sounds boring! And possibly worse than suffering through the last episode of Lost."
Perhaps. But not when Penny Arcade does it!
Strip Search, Penny Arcade's reality show, pits 12 cartoonists against one another to battle it out for a chance to win $15K and a year embedded at the Penny Arcade studio.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) – The University of Tennessee is considering gender neutral housing. That would be suites or floors in the dorms on campus where men and women can live together.
The goal is largely to help members of the LGBT community or anyone who does not feel comfortable identifying specifically as a male or female. It would also help, perhaps, a brother and sister who wanted to live together.
The bill was passed by the Student Government Association and is currently being looked at by university administrators. The proposal is in the very early stages.
The SGA President, Adam Roddy, says the bill was passed after several students approached them about it.
"Students who didn't feel comfortable stating they were a male or female felt like it was uncomfortable to live in a residence hall with all males or all females. They felt this was an uncomfortable situation they did not want to be placed in," Roddy explained.
There would be strict criteria for someone to qualify for this kind of housing.
"It's not going to be housing for boyfriends and girlfriends. That's not what we want to happen," he said.
Gary Elgin is a Knoxville gay rights activist who says college is a phase of life crucial to coming out about your sexuality.
"It happens during that high school and college age. It's important that period is left comfortable for self-discovery," Elgin said.
Roddy says they haven't had any opposition to the idea. UT administrators are still looking at the proposal and how it may play out.
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In the meantime Roddy says they are losing on-campus residents. Students have already left or plan to leave because they don't feel included.
"This was a wakeup call for us. If we're losing students, we have to look at why," Roddy said.
UT expects to have some response about the matter by the end of next week.
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The Roanoke Times reports (http://bit.ly/10wAiot ) that parts of a United Coalition of Reason billboard was covered with duct tape and wrapping paper on Friday.
The billboards read, "Don't believe in God? Join the Club." But now two of the coalition's four billboard's in the area have been altered to read, "Do believe in God? Join the Club."
The ads were launched Dec. 19. Paul Hoyt, the local group's coordinator, says the coalition will continue its attempt to add members.
The group says it will allow the billboard company to decide whether to file a criminal complaint.
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2. Cut zucchini in half lengthwise; cut diagonally crosswise into 1/4-inch slices. Cut polenta crosswise into 8 slices; coat both sides of each slice with cooking spray.
3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add polenta slices; cook 3 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Arrange polenta slices in an 11 x 7inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
4. Reheat pan over medium-high heat. Add beef to pan. Cook 4 to 5 minutes, stirring to crumble; remove from pan, and drain, if necessary. Add zucchini to pan; sauté 3 to 4 minutes or until tender. Add beef, pasta sauce, and pepper; cook 1 to 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally. Spoon beef mixture over polenta; sprinkle with cheese.
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Kale ... You either love it or hate it, but maybe, just maybe, this book will move you into the love it camp!
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Other countries create a special banking holiday on the first Monday in August so that their citizens get a three-day weekend. But not in the United States. (Maybe because everyone's on vacation?) Even though most of us don't have a three-day weekend to look forward to this month, there are still plenty of reasons to celebrate. Learn about some of the weird holidays that happen this month by clicking on the links below.
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Long ago, Children's Librarian Carmen Boston went to a special school in London called the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance which is now called Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She spent a year there studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance so she could gain more skills to teach dance to variety of people of all ages. Ms. Carmen had a lot of fun during this learning year, where she taught classes for moms and their babies to older adults. When she came back to the United States, she used these new skills to teach classes to children at schools in Western Massachusetts and at Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Md.
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- UWM is 2-0 to start a season for just the fifth time in the last 18 seasons. The Panthers have won at least 18 games in every season they have started 2-0.
- The Panthers snapped a nine-game non-league road losing streak with the win. Last season, UWM won just two road games and didn't win its first road contest until Jan. 11.
- Milwaukee's comeback from a 17-point second-half deficit is the largest comeback for a Panther team since Dec. 8, 2001, when UWM rallied from 21 points down to beat Virginia Tech in overtime.
- UWM has now won seven of its last 10 overtime games, though the Panthers had lost two-straight road overtime contests.
- Torre Johnson recorded his second-straight double-double.
- Johnson also has seven blocked shots in his first two games as a Panther.
- Paige Paulsen's 19 points marked the second-highest total of his career.
- Ricky Franklin came off the bench to score 11 points. Last season, UWM had a player reach double figures off the bench 19 times.
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Not that impressed with Ragnaros.
The kara bosses have some very memorable lines tho.
Yes @1, Big Bad Wolf is ownage.
"Run away little girl, run away!"
'The better to own you with."
Shade of Aran, is great. How he acts so offended and shocked that you enter his room, and before he AoEs, the way he says "Come Cloooser." (sp intentially incorrect) is pretty awesome.
Also love the way curator is done, with his friendly security system voice, coming from this giant supercharged being beating the crap out of the tank and his electric lights shocking the hell out of everything. Well done blizzard. Great Juxtapose.


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Bob, I think you misunderstand what it means to go AFK in a battleground. If you are actually flagged afk, you WILL get kicked out and given the deserter debuff that lasts like 10 or 15 mins. However, what people mean is that there are those people who are actually sitting at their computer (or botting) and making a conscious effort to not help. Those are the people that are referred to as being "AFK" in a battleground. They will not get the /afk flag because they are moving around (or standing and jumping every so often), but they are not helping the group, and are, for all intents and purposes, AFK.


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Home sales in Baton Rouge up 21% in April
With 616 sales recorded as of this morning, 20.8% more homes were sold in April across the eight-parish region tracked by the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors compared to the same month a year ago, GBRAR reports. Last April, a total of 510 home sales were recorded. East Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston and the five other parishes lumped into GBRAR's "other" statistical category—West Baton Rouge, Iberville, East Feliciana, West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee parishes—all posted year-over-year sales increases. The average sales price, however, continued a downward year-over-year trend in April, decreasing about 4.3% to $188,441, compared to $196,877 in April 2011. Nonetheless, the increase in overall sales pushed total volume up 15.5% to $409.9 million on the month. A strong April builds on first-quarter figures in 2012 that were the best since 2008. Year-to-date, total sales now stand at 2,213, up 18.2% over the 1,873 sales recorded through April last year. For historical comparison, 2,128 homes were sold through April in 2010, while 2,003 were sold over the four-month period in 2009 and 2,535 in the same period of 2008. You can check out the complete sales report from GBRAR here.
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I have two user name accounts set up on my laptop. When I click on this one particular link--inside the company website that I work for--the page opens full screen when I am logged on under one user name but not on the other user name. I have tried hitting Esc, F11, etc. and nothing will let me exit fullscreen. I can hit Alt + space bar or Alt + F4 and get a menu but size is grayed out. I can use the menu to minimize to get out of the application but under this one particular user name I can't get the address bar or the - [] + toolbar to show. I have noticed that at the end of the address--under the user name that I can see the address bar--the address ends with a BHO ending.
Would the reason this one page acts this way is somehow the page is stored in something like temp files or history somewhere?
Would anyone know of any tips or tricks that I can use to make a change so this page will not load fullscreen?
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A Showtime Original Series
About the Series Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Henry 8 as you've never seen him before. The epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world forever.
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Keira Knightley and her "close friend" Rupert Friend got cozy at the after party following the 2008 Elle Style Awards in London. Seeing each other for about a year, the on-the –down-low couple have yet to walk the red-carpet or acknowledge their relationship in the press. Would you like to see Kiera proclaim her Rupert love officially? Discuss!


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Thanks for clearing that up. I see better now what you're saying. I don't see pornography as the cause either. It's just part of it all. If you can help anyone with such sexual frustration, then more power to you.
Before I start a war here, I am not refering to anyone here on the posts, and I am not talking about Jerry Falwell. Thank God, I haven't been confronted with the kind of evil I am talking about, but I do think there are some whom evil would be an appropriate word for.
Hey pandora, sorry if my comment sounded like I though your beliefs were strictly oriented about only sex. I understand, thru your many posts, that is indeed, much more than that! I understand it to be a total healing from the heart outwards. My mother said that empathy is one of the most crucial aspects in life. While no one can fully empathize for all things and people, we must at least try to do it w/ people who are willing to reciprocate it. On a purely philosophical level, it is even possible to have some level of empathy for a slime bag like Hitler- in that it is sad to think that there was no one is his life to just pull him aside and say " Hey, what's the deal with wanting to kill all these people? We need to sit down and talk a bit and then we're going to get you on a starting round of psychiatric care!" Imagine if someone had done this, but it's in the past now and we can't focus on changing history, but only on preventing current and future problems. I think that most of us, on both sides are trying to do that in some capacity of other. All I know is that when I empathize with those around me and they w/ me, amazing things are possible! Not so much in any sort of 'super-natural' way, but in a 'supra-natural' way. Many people get these concepts confused and should be aware of the difference.
I have very good levels of trained observation and empathy to the degree that many people have thought that I am 'psychic'. No, I'm not, but my ex GF in NYC, who saw the 2nd plane hit in Manhattan, still thinks I am. I just knew her so well that I would often answer questions BEFORE she even said the 1st two words. She would ask "HOW did you know? You must be psychic!" Well, even when I was wrong and falsely predicted things, she just wrote it off and still believes that I am psychic. I even enjoy 'cold reading' people as an exercise and tell them things about themselves that they simply believe is impossible for people to figure out. It's like detecting when someone is lying by observing their facial actions, how their eyes and body move, and other factors. Nothing 'supernatural', just honed observational skills. Much like 'sizing up' people like have learned in MA. I can instantly walk into a room full of people and quickly identify what people's intentions are by how they interact w/ everything. This is why I can usually avoid most bad, or dangerous situations. But like most everyone else, I have had those moments when you haven't seen someone in a long time and you think about them, look at your phone, and it rings w/ them saying the same thing?
Pandora and even people like ED, I believe that you are Very Empathetic people! I can 'sense' it from your posts and it's NOT some sort of voodoo, just observation ( and yes, it was a compliment!).
Seeks Peace
I also remember one of the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin where he said, "God governs in the affairs of man. If a sparrow cannot fall to the groud without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?" He goes on to say," We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid we shall succed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel".
I don't know where you got those quotes, but it seems the source likes to pick and choose what is relevant.
ED, I think that during those times, religion was heavily in fashion and was impossible for people not to deal with. They did not have the same concepts that we have now. You would find yourself in deeper waters back then openly criticizing religion. Ben Frankiln was a Major Atheist for his time- it is well documented. Many others were critical of religion too, but it took a great deal of bravery to do so back then. But then again, people still believed in burning people w/ mental health issues as being possessed by evil spirits. Luckily, science and reason have eliminated most of these problems. Science is still Not perfect tho, as we have things like nuclear and chemical weapons, but without it we would still believe that sickness was caused by evil spirits. Religion has fought tooth and nail against many of these break-throughs, because it proved that religion does NOT have all the answers either. I believe, yes believe, that without critical thinking and science, science would still be stuck in the Bronze Age, during the times of the bible. I'm glad it isn't.
I think Hitler was evil. If I would have had the chance, I would have killed him.
Franklin was still an atheist tho. Yes, people do pick and choose what they like, but he was an agnostic. I found that out years ago when I studied him for a history report. I was Very Surprised by it, given the times. Just because I might say the words 'god' and 'hell' sometimes, does NOT mean i am doing it from a religious background. Given that time, I can see why he quoted religious doctrine. But Franklin was also a bit of a wild man in his day.Jefferson was Very Critical of religion tho, but I did not study him. Remember, most of those people back then were Free Masons too! FM doctrines are very, Very STRANGE!!!
Seeks Peace
I , most respectfully, can't accept that. It doesn't make sense that these men who were brave enought to face the hangmans noose and declare war on the greatest naval and military power on the earth, would be such cowards and commit hypocracy in order to hide their atheism or agnosticism and save their hides from simple persecution. These were men who spoke their minds even to a king! There were other vocal atheists of the time who had no fear. Why should these great men. I think your source is trying to re-write history.
M.L. Hitler was NOT a man deserving of empathy! I just used him as an example. But without him and WW2, we probable would have never gained the strength as a nation that we have now. That war made us a Super Power. Too bad we seem to be forgetting some of those lessons now!
Seeks Peace, no apology neccessary.
I really enjoyed the quotes. These pretty much support my view on Church and State. That is why I do well in the US, even though my gov is more like Rome than Adams was wishing for.
ED, no insult taken! I think you are an AWESOME PERSON who I have great respect for!!! We are still going to have our differences about many things, but I do NOT Respect you any less for it. I wish I could remember the specific book I read on Franklin. But many other books say the same thing and many of them were not flattering in the least bit! I still don't believe in Creationism and many other things, but that doesn't mean I'm an idiot either. You should read a book on Franklin sometime. He was so strange that I wouldn't be surprised if he lived presently, that he probably would have been caught in a child porn ring! I kid, but not by much! Who doesn't have skeletons in their closet? He certainly did!
BTW, the net is starting to slow down, so some of these posts might get lost, or slowed down quit a bit- if I don't respond, it's because of that.
Pandora, YEEEEP! I think I'm going to get drunk and visit a vomitorium afterwards- meet ya there! Don't forget to bring the entrails!
I know what your trying to say, but through the course of their lives, especially when approaching final years, men change their minds. Franklin may have been wild in his day, but this was not the time of frivolous fun and games. I think they all knew they needed Divine Inspiration for what they were about to do. Bring about a political upheaval and experiment never seen before. I only know what they wrote at this time period. If they wanted to base everything upon no religion, all they had to do was point to the Church of England as an example. Don't you see. It would be just as easy to form a nation with no religious statements or writings at all. They didn't have to go out of their way and tell outright lies.
I respect you and your opinions, Seeks Peace, please believe that, but if you would rather believe that your nation was founded by cowards and liars instead of brave men of religious conviction then you've just justified every criticism that we have ever suffered from nations of tyranny and communism to which our Declaration and Constitution place us diametrically opposed to.
Pandora and ED, here's where I lifted those quotes from:
ED, to be fair, I will warn you that this is an atheist site, so be fore warned! Thot I should tell you that before you go there- I do give a damn about your beliefs enough to do this!
Benjamin Franklin was always being criticized for his progressive thinking. In all the books I have read about him, I have never heard anyone say he was atheist or agnostic. Doesn't mean there aren't some books that might say that, however; I find his autobiography most interesting, and since it is his own account of his life, I don't recall him ever saying that he was either.
P.S. After his wife died, I believe he was somewhere in his sixties, and some said he was quite the "flirt". But considering the times he lived in, that could have meant anything, or nothing at all.


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CCA NC recently presented a $1,500 check to support South Brunswick High School's aquaculture program's flounder hatchery. Local and state CCA NC representatives who presented the check toured the aquaculture facility and came away impressed with the long-term impact of the high school's innovative program.
"CCA NC was interested in supporting this project because flounder are being over-fished — and also because, hopefully, one of the kids in front of you will turn out to be a marine biologist in a position to do something to ensure their future health and sustainability," said Stephen Ammons, CCA NC executive director.
"Programs like this give kids the option of getting into aquaculture programs and working in those fisheries," added Alton Raynor, president of the Cape Fear Chapter of CCA NC, which encompasses Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties. The school aquaculture department will use the money to buy the large amounts of salt needed during the flounder-hatching stage.
"Salt was the biggest thing on my wish-list," Bey explained. "It's our largest supply, and we have to buy it in 2,500-pound bags. We hatch our flounder in salt water for the first 120 days before transitioning them to freshwater ponds."
One bag of salt, which Bey said costs about $1,700, can last the aquaculture program an entire year.
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Here are the lead paragraphs from the Employment Situation Summary released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services and in health care.
Today's report of 142K new nonfarm jobs was substantially below the Investing.com forecast of 225K and the lowest monthly change since December. The unemployment rate ticked down from 6.2% to 6.1%, matching the Investing.com expectation.
The unemployment peak for the current cycle was 10.0% in October 2009. The chart here shows the pattern of unemployment, recessions and both the nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) price of the S&P Composite since 1948.
Unemployment is usually a lagging indicator that moves inversely with equity prices (top chart). Note the increasing peaks in unemployment in 1971, 1975 and 1982. The inverse pattern becomes clearer when viewed against real (inflation-adjusted) S&P Composite, with its successively lower bear market bottoms. The mirror relationship seems to be repeating itself with the most recent and previous bear markets.
The second chart shows the unemployment rate for the civilian population unemployed 27 weeks and over. This rate has fallen significantly since its 4.4% all-time peak in April 2010. It dropped below 3% in April of last year and is now at its post-recession low of 1.9%.
The next chart is an overlay of the unemployment rate and the employment-population ratio. This is the ratio of the number of employed people to the total civilian population age 16 and over.
The inverse correlation between the two series is obvious. We can also see the accelerating growth of women in the workforce and two-income households in the early 1980's. Following the end of the last recession, the employment population has been range bound between 58.2% and 59.4% — the lower end of which that harkens back to the 58.1% ratio of March 1953, when Eisenhower was president of a country of one-income households, the Korean War was still underway, and rumors were circulating that soft drinks would soon be sold in cans.
The latest ratio of 59.0% is near the top of a narrow range since the end of the last recession.
For a confirming view of the secular change the US is experiencing on the employment front, the next chart illustrates the labor force participation rate. To two decimal places we're at 62.83%, fractionally off the interim low of 62.76% set in October of last year. Today's level was first seen in the Spring of 1978.
The employment-population ratio and participation rate will be interesting to watch going forward. The first wave of Boomers will continue to be a downward force on this ratio. The oldest of them were eligible for early retirement when the Great Recession began, and the transition of the Boomer cohort to full retirement age won't end until 2030.
What is the average length of unemployment? As the next chart illustrates, we are perhaps seeing a paradigm shift — the result of global outsourcing and efficiencies of technology. The post-recession duration of unemployment remains high at 31.7 weeks, although that's well off the 40.7-week all-time high in late 2011.
Note: The start date of 1948 in the charts above was determined by the earliest monthly employment data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The best source for the historic data is the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.


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Such well integrated notion of design is shared by a few good programs: In the U.S., Cincinnati has an excellent program with very solid graduates
As three UC grads, Such&Such takes a lot of pride in Cincinnati's mention as a bright spot in the otherwise dour assessment of American Design education in Gadi Amit's article American Design Schools Are a Mess, and Produce Weak Graduates.
His complaints aren't really that new. New grads can't draw, don't understand how use skills to implement process, and we are entitled. Cincinnati's mention isn't evne really out of the ordinary for these type of critiques. We do get love. What was atypical was his example of my generations entitlement. It wasn't the standard, "they expect to be hired as design directors out of school" but that we
"Young designers tend to approach their first jobs as "extended education" with me, the principal, assigned to promote their career, rather than deliver projects to clients."
I suppose because we get our internship on long and hard this isn't really an issue with UC grads, but for students to think they are getting paid to work with clients as an "extended education". Well that's just silly.
Such&Such was formed with a fair bit of the former kind of entitlement. We didn't really want to work up the ladder. But I don't think that's totally fair. More than not wanting to start at the bottom, I think we don't really trust the top. Or that the ladder will even exist in ten years. We have watched our parents get laid off a few years short of retiring only to be replaced by someone fresh out of college. We pay into a social security system that has zero chance of paying us back. Our generation is called entrepreneurial for a reason. Why work your ass off for a company that doesn't care about you at all?
There is no Ma Bell, we are going to go get it ourselves.


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In this week's paper, they're asking readers to start subscribing in order to save the paper. Editor Eddie Byrd says, nearly two dozen advertisers who refuse to pay their bills cost the paper near 25 thousand dollars. He says that's too much for the small business to handle.
"It's just a culture that's evolved in America as well as in Albany among businesses, to either slow pay or no pay just string out the small business owner for as long as they possibly can," said Byrd.
Byrd says, the paper will decide by Tuesday whether they will print the Thursday edition or go out of business.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary app shows why we need to blow up dictionary apps
Merriam-Webster isn't the first dictionary app in the Android Market and it won't be the last. The trouble is that it just doesn't seem to be trying hard enough to differentiate itself.
All that to say, there's nothing inherently bad about the app. There just isn't anything intriguing either. It would be nice to see more OCR options for scanning words with your phone's camera, but the only app we've found that does that is SnaPanda.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary is free in the Android Market, but does contain ads.
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Day 26. Warmth. Raspberry Butter Cake.
Enthusiastic, affectionate, kind.
A warm feeling, thought, person, or place.
Autumn among us; warm, warm days.
Embracing the one you love.
Warm embrace, the ones you don't want to let go.
Warmness toward pets.
Music warms the soul.
Warm heart while daughter twists and pulls my hair.
Warm Autumn soon moves away from us.
In to hot chocolate, boots, a sweater, a fire, and a bowl of chili.
And then, top it off.
Warm cake.
Hot from the oven.
An upside-down cake with lots of butter.
Makes you feel good inside.
A reminder of Autumn.
What is it about Autumn that warms you up?
Recipe: Raspberry Butter Cake {ReluctantEntertainer.com}
Summary: An upside down cake with berries.
- 1 1/2 cups fresh raspberries
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 6 Tbsp. unsalted butter + 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a 10″ round baking pan (a 9×12 pan works, too).
- Sprinkle the brown sugar in the bottom of the pan. Pour 6 Tbsp. of the melted butter evenly over the brown sugar, then lay the berries evenly on top.
- Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat together the 1/2 cup of butter and the granulated sugar until creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well.
- Fold in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into the butter mixture. Stir in the cream and vanilla until smooth.
- Spoon the batter evenly over the raspberries.
- Bake until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Remove from the oven; transfer the cake to a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes.
- Run a knife blade around the edge of each cake to loosen it from the ramekin. Invert the cake onto a serving plate. Lightly tap the bottom of the pan to loosen the cake, then lift the pan.
- Serve the cake warm and top with whipped cream if desired.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 35 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 6
Catch up on my first 25 Days, HERE. :)
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10 Responses to "Day 26. Warmth. Raspberry Butter Cake."
WOW, that looks DELICIOUS!!! Perfect with a warm cup of coffee…
Your family is so sweet, Sandy! The cake looks delicious, and I'm going to buy some raspberries so I can make this cake. I love the first wood burning fires in the Fall…they always warm me up!
Oh that cake is making my mouth water!! I love autumn for so many reasons…one being all the togetherness with my family, especially on the weekends watching football games together (which we all love to do!). I also love the freshness of a new season, always puts me in the right frame of mind. Love all the pics!!!!
I love Autumn for so many reasons but mostly because of the beautiful and bountiful wine grape harvest we are about to have! But this cake…wow, wow, wow.
I love the idea of an upside down cake with berries, it looks so amazing! Even though the temps are cooler, fall does always seem so warm!
Looks delicious! I love the picture of you and your husband! It is too sweet :)
Sandy….I love this post and that fabulous looking cake is like the cherry on top. Beautiful! ♥
Love the warmth of this post and this cake!
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