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CHARLESTON - It can pay to enter a political race early.
Campaign finance reports show that Republican U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito had millions of dollars in her U.S. Senate campaign account months before a Democrat had even stepped forward to join the race.
Last week, Democratic West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant announced her candidacy to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller. West Virginia has sent only Democrats to the Senate for decades, but it has gone Republican in recent presidential elections, and the party had struggled to quickly identify a candidate it could coalesce around after Rockefeller announced his retirement plans in January.
Tennant's announcement means Democrats can start their fundraising for the race in earnest, and they'll have plenty of catching up to do after Capito announced her candidacy in November.
The most recent Federal Election Commission report available shows Capito had more than $2.8 million in cash on hand at the end of June, and had already spent more than $400,000 on the race by then. That includes money spent on campaign staff salaries, travel, polling and media consulting, among other things.
"Congresswoman Capito's biggest advantage in this race is that voters know she will stand up for West Virginia values in the United States Senate. We know there will be millions of dollars spent by out-of-state special interest groups to try and defeat Shelley. That is why so many West Virginian's have contributed both volunteer time and money to help her win in 2014," Capito campaign manager Chris Hansen said in an email to The Associated Press.
Between January and the end of June, Capito's campaign raised more than $1.1 million from individual contributions. But Capito also had plenty of contributions from out-of-state political action committees. Of the 230 contributions made by PACs to Capito, only three were based in West Virginia. However, that figure doesn't include West Virginia-based companies or organizations that have their PACs headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area, such as coal company Alpha Natural Resources, whose Washington-based PAC has donated $5,000 to Capito.
Fundraising and expenditure reports for the third quarter that ends in September aren't due until Oct. 15, and Hansen declined to provide an estimate about what the current quarter's financial figures will look like.
Already evident, however, is that the Capito campaign has started spending some money on advertising. In the days following Tennant's announcement, the first result by several major search engines for her name delivered a paid-for advertisement with a link to Capito's campaign website, with the title "Stop Natalie Tennant."
While Tennant's website just launched, there's little information on it other than an email submission form and a link to a page accepting donations. Still, Lou Ann Johnson, a senior adviser on the Tennant campaign, said the Tennant campaign wouldn't sit around idle when it comes to fundraising.
"We are fully committed to running an aggressive, well-funded campaign addressing the issues that are important to West Virginians and focusing on Rep. Capito's record of putting Washington interests ahead of West Virginia's," Johnson said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press. "The campaign has been energized and overwhelmed with the number of people wanting to volunteer and donate. We are aggressively setting up fundraisers across the state with the help of West Virginians who want a Senator in Washington who will always put our state first."


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The Second Stage of Labor: Delivering Your Baby
In This Article:
Monitoring and mechanisms
Monitoring you and your baby
In the second stage, the baby's heartbeat and your contractions are monitored. If the second stage is becoming prolonged, with the possibility of you becoming tired from pushing, an assisted delivery may be suggested with forceps or vacuum.
As A Matter Of Fact
The Mechanisms of Labor
The birth passage, far from being straight, involves a series of rotational maneuvers known as the "mechanisms of labor."
This curve, known as the "curve of Carus," is thought to result from the evolution of humans from being on all fours to being upright. This caused the spine to curve, the pelvis to tilt, and gave a curve to the birth canal. Your pelvic floor muscles help the head rotate through the birth canal.
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X's and O's: A Hugs & Kisses Quilt is a fun design that measures 50" x 70" when finished. The blocks in the border are created as you make the quilt center blocks. This piecing technique results in a clever border with a minimum of additional work. Instructions are color enhanced with pressing directions included. Surprise your family with this wonderful quilt that's a warm & cozy addition to your home. Designed by Nancy Nathan
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Pistachios are a good source of protein, thiamin and calcium, so they're a perfect, portable snack food. Their sweet distinctive flavor is great on its own. They can be used in salads, baked goods or in rice dishes and pilafs.
Organic pistachios are also rich in potassium to help regulate the body's fluid balance, phosphorus to help build bones and teeth, and magnesium for energy conversion. Snacking on pistachios can help your body operate at its full potential. The vitamin B6 in organic pistachios aid metabolism and absorption of nutrients and thiamine to enhance energy and promote normal appetite levels.
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Dr. Ohhira's Probiotic Magoroku Skin Lotion™ merges the revitalizing powers of natural ingredients' ancient Japanese fermentation skills' and modern science to create a superior moisturizing and rejuvenating experience. This exclusive formula' created by award-winning microbiologist Dr. Iichiroh Ohhira' melds probiotic and prebiotic nutrients along with wild plant and fruit extracts. The proprietary blend supports the balanced ecology necessary for healthy skin.
Your skin easily absorbs the natural ingredients' which are carried by the traditional skin-friendly Japanese Magoroku (equine oil). Modern science now confirms that Dr. Ohhira's Magoroku oil contains alpha-linolenic acids and linoleic acids that cannot be produced in the body.
Dr. Ohhira's Magoroku product is a soothing lotion ideal for daily use on very dry and sensitive skin. It may be applied as often as needed on face and body' wherever dry skin is an issue. Used regularly' Dr. Ohhira's Probiotic Magoroku Skin Lotion™ promotes and maintains healthy' radiant-looking skin … naturally!
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Synergistic Ingredients: Traditional Japanese Magoroku (equine oil) + vegetable extracts (peach leaf' loquat leaf' and Aloe vera) + Dr. Ohhira's probiotic extract for moisturizing rejuvenation.
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Verb - To search in such a maliscious or careless manner as to result in a disorderly or messy condition.
The police ramshackled my room.
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poorly constructed, poorly kept up
a ramshackle cabin in the woods.
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the act of blasting a female until snot comes out of her nose.
It is proper etiquette to wipe the snot from a girl's nose after you have ramshackled her.
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to ramshackle
I ramshackle every month and I make it hurt.
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1. A woman, preferably married that constantly is nagging people to do things. Like, for children, to do their chores. For husbands it's usually going on and on and on about random things that they think is important but in reality is not.
2. Used to describe someone that you dislike.
2. Used to describe someone that you dislike.
1. That ramshackle just told me to turn the television down. Who does she think she is!
2. She's such a ramshackle
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to have sexual intercourse with
Brooke was ramshackled on the cruise ship after she passed out drunk.
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Airport facilities
Money and communications:
There are ATMs, banks and bureaux de change at the airport, as well as a post office. Mobile telephone hire is also available. Wireless Internet access is available in the International Departures area.
Eating and drinking:
There are plenty of places to eat and drink. Food outlets include coffee shops, a juice bar, steak houses, a bakery, and fast-food restaurants.
The airport has a wide variety of shops, including a duty-free mall.
A left-luggage facility (tel: (011) 390 1804) is available on the upper level of the underground car park, just off the International Arrivals area. Porters are available in the Arrivals hall and can be recognised by bright orange uniforms and ACSA badges; visitors should not use unauthorised porters; tipping is recommended.
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There is a 24-hour medical clinic, a chapel, an Islamic prayer room and baby change facilities.


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Central swims past Monarchs
WHEELING - The Catholic Central girls swim team defeated John Marshall, 91-71, Tuesday night at Wheeling Park. The Patriots defeated the Crusaders 110-53.
Catholic Central's boys team lost to Wheeling Park (95-36) and John Marshall (92-46).
The Crusaders' Erin Mulrooney took second in the 500 free in 7:06.38, while Moriah Vosteen placed second in the 100 free (1:06.57) and 100 back (1:16.35).
The 400 free relay team of Vosteen, Sarah Derda, Maddie Gulan and Mulrooney finished second in 4:38.17.
For the boys, Brien Thompson took second in the 500 free in 6:31.13.
Jacob Arai, a junior, won the 100 back in 1:13:96 and teamed with Noah Flores, Thompson and Timmy Schlich for third in the 400 free relay (4:48:29). The team of Arai, Andrew Milewsky, Schlich and Thompson took third in the 200 medley relay in 2:25:96.
Big Red sweeps Knights
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Big Red swim teams swept Wheeling Central Monday at the Big Red Natatorium 89-64 (girls) and 89-61 (boys).
Allie Zimish grabbed the 200 IM (3:01.06) and 100 fly (1:26.55) for Big Red. Katie Slivka won the 100 free (1:07.89) and 100 breaststroke (1:23.54) , Haley Knight the 100 back (1:14.29) and Steubenville won the 200 medley relay (2:19.09) and 200 free relay (2:13.05).
For the boys, Dominic DiCarlo touched the wall first in the 200 IM (2:37.51) and 200 fly (1:15.84), Ryan Ledakis in the 200 free (2:56.64), Leon Levi in the 50 free (25.95) and Albert Alston in the 100 back (1:29.98). Steubenville also won the 200 free relay (2:10.86) and 400 free relay (4:37.65).
Meet the Bears to be held
NEW MANCHESTER - The Oak Glen wrestling team will hold its annual Blue Gold Wrestle-off intrasquad scrimmage at 6 p.m. tonight in the high school fieldhouse.
Oak Glen will hold its winter sports Meet the Bears at 7 p.m. Thursday in the fieldhouse. Both middle and high school boys and girls basketball, wrestling and cheering team members, as well as the high school marching band will be introduced.
Admission is free and winter sports pocket schedules will be available.
Elks Hoop Shoot being held Saturday
CALCUTTA - The free Elks Hoop Shoot free-throw contest will be he held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Calcutta YMCA. It is open to all boys and girls ages 8-13. Prizes available for top performers. Registration will begin at 11a.m.
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Gene Ammirante's resume as Bellaire basketball coach speaks for itself.
The accomplishments are simply off the chart.
Whether it's his 471 victories, six regional trips or his 2004 trip to the Division III state tournament, Ammirante has had a hall of fame career.
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The Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association agrees.
Ammirante was informed this past week that he'll be formally inducted to the OHSBCA Hall of Fame on April 27 during a ceremony in Columbus.
"When I got the call, it immediately brought back so many memories," Ammirante said. "To go into the Ohio High School Hall of Fame is very humbling and a great honor."
Ammirante came to Bellaire in 1976, just seven years out of high school, and worked under Mark Matz, for whom he took over.
"I remember I went to my first state tournament in 1976 and I am up there watching all these guys who are in this hall of fame and it's the same thing here," Ammirante said. "When I first started coaching, I'd go listen to every word Dick Potts, Henry Lasasz, Earl Habberfield or Charlie Huggins would say. It all comes back to you."
Similar to 2012 when he learned that he'd been chosen for induction to the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Hall of Fame, Ammirante immediately began thinking about the players he coached during his 30-year run as the Big Reds' hoop mentor.
"These types of awards are a testament to all of the great players we've had through those years," Ammirante said. "I always say, 'when coaches get into hall of fames, it's the players who put them there. But, when players get into hall of fames, they get in on their own.' I am very proud of this for the kids that I coached. It's more their honor than mine."
En route to racking up 189 victories during the 1990s, Ammirante and the Big Reds' program was clicking on all cylinders. And he means on all levels, too.
"We had a real good setup there for a while," Ammirante said. "The whole family was ticking. From the principal, to the assistant principal, to the A.D., we were all pulling the rope in the same direction and it showed."
To have the consistency that Ammirante built, it also took a coach who will willing, and able, to adapt his style to the players he had to work with. There were seasons when the Big Reds would attempt to make 10 or so passes a possession and during the latter years of his career, the Big Reds were looking to run on every possession.
"It was like sending my kids to a dance," Ammirante said. "I wanted my son to look nice. I didn't want him in an old suit or old shoes. I wanted to put them in the best scenario that I could, so they could achieve success. Same with my teams because some of those teams wouldn't have achieved success running up and down the court."
Success was achieved frequently for the Big Reds, who won 14 OVAC championships and played in 14 district tournaments. Ammirante's 1993-94 and 2005-06 teams finished the regular season with spotless 20-0 records.
Prior to the hall of fames, Ammirante's work didn't go unnoticed. He was named Division II State, Eastern District and District 12 Coach of the Year during his career. He was the OVAC Coach of the Year in 2004. He coached the Ohio North-South All-Star Game in 1997.
"We always had players who were committed," Ammirante said. "We might not have always had a bunch of great basketball players, but they were athletes who were committed and willing to do whatever was needed. They put on the suit that made them look the best to go to the dance."
While many would suspect the on-court success or the accolades mean the most to Ammirante, it was actually the ability to coach his son, Jerry, and nephew, J.R., who has since taken over the reins of the program.
"When I think of my career I think of coaching my son and nephew and then having both of them help me coach," Ammirante said. "The other thing that comes to mind are the guys who would do anything you asked of them because they were committed, even if that meant not shooting or making 30 passes. Those are the things I'll most remember about my coaching career."
Ammirante has also been heavily involved with the OVAC All-Star Basketball Classic and still serves on the committee.
Gene and his wife, Pam have two adult children, Jerry and Lindsay. They also have one grandson, Milano.


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I am using Linux with the following hardware configuration:
- Intel Core i7 3.4GHhz 4770k
- MSI Z87 MPower motherboard
- MSI GeForce GTX760 2GB DDR5 graphics card
- 1TB hard drive
Do I need a graphics card driver for Linux?
Yes and no.
Linux is perfectly happy to run even without a video terminal at all (consider serial console or "headless" setups).
Linux is perfectly happy to run in 80x25 character mode with 16 colors.
However, it would seem pretty wasteful to have a high-end graphics card doing nothing but displaying text at what amounts to 720x350 pixels screen resolution with almost-just-barely individually addressable pixels. This is a 1984 level of technology.
X11 (usually implemented in XFree86 and these days more commonly Xorg) needs a driver to be able to use the graphics card to display graphics. It can use the VESA framebuffer support of the Linux kernel, or it can use a specialized driver that is able to make better use of the specific graphics card installed. As peterph points out, the VESA driver is very slow, but it works with basically anything that can output to a graphical display and hence is a good fallback when everything else fails or when you have no idea what hardware you're going to encounter (such as in an installer environment).
This means that the question you should be asking is "do I need a driver for the graphics card to function in X11 graphical mode?". To answer that, yes, you do, and X11 comes with a pretty decent set of drivers that especially in concert with the kernel's framebuffer support allow you to use the basic functionality of most graphics cards available today. You might not be able to use the card's full potential (for example, hardware 3D acceleration), but then again you might. That depends on the capabilities of the particular driver that your distribution of choice installs by default for that particular card at the particular time, and as this can vary widely among distributions and releases, the only way we'll be able to answer that would be if you ask a specific question such as "is Ubuntu 13.04 able to use the full potential of the GTX760 out of the box or do I need to download a separate driver?".
This is basically what Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams's answer is about. Chances are that the driver that is installed by the distribution's installer is fairly well supported by that distribution, even though it might not fully support the hardware's capabilities. Hence the suggestion to just try it out first, and if it doesn't work the way you want it to, then you can look for an alternate driver.
You do, in your case of a nVidia card you have basic choice of the open-source
Apart from that, it should be possible to use legacy
Yes, you do. But you may be fine with the one that comes with your distro. Give that one a try for a bit, and only if it doesn't suffice will you have to look for a different one.
If you're already using linux with that configuration then you already have at least the default open source graphics driver installed.
If you want better performance and more features you'd want install the nvidia proprietary driver.


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Thomas Tall Bookcase
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With classic details like wide beadboarding and subtle molding, our Thomas Tall Bookcase has enduring American style.
- 25.5" wide x 14.5" deep x 51.5" high
- Expertly crafted with a solid wood frame.
- Sized to accommodate our medium and large Sabrina Baskets (sold separately).
- Our exclusive Rustic Sun Valley finish adds the warmth and patina of a treasured heirloom.
- Wood swatches, below, are available for $20 each. We will provide a merchandise refund for swatches if they're returned within 30 days.
- Tip resistant kit included.
- Assembly required.
- View and compare all available finishes at Furniture Finish Guide.
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- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed the highest industry safety standards.
- Built from solid wood, hardwood veneers and MDF, an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures that the bookcase will endure over time.
- All wood is kiln dried for added strength and lasting beauty.
- The use of veneers results in high-quality furniture with flawless surfaces and consistent color tones.
- Our Rustic Sun Valley finish was developed exclusively for Pottery Barn Kids. Using a dry brush, artisans mottle the finish while it's still wet to reveal the wood's textural grain. Once dry, the surface is subtly distressed for the special warmth and rich patina of a treasured heirloom. A final coat of lacquer seals the finish and adds extra durability.
- All finishes in the same color family are designed to coordinate with one another. For example, Rustic Sun Valley Honey, Sun Valley Honey and Honey all look great together in one room.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - At least 965 SUNY Geneseo students will participate in a daylong campus celebration April 16 showcasing their research accomplishments and creative talents during the college's seventh annual GREAT Day - Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent. Students representing all academic departments of the college will be sharing their work with visitors through presentations, exhibits and performances.
"GREAT Day is growing every year and with good reason," said Geneseo Provost Carol Long. "It celebrates the accomplishments of our students and faculty through scholarship, performance and creative activity. I look forward to GREAT Day every year because it powerfully affirms the strength of a liberal arts education."
Author Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, will deliver the GREAT Day keynote address, "Bringing Copernicus to Life in Prose and Script," as the speaker for this year's Jack and Carol Kramer Endowed Lectureship. The lecture series is endowed by SUNY Geneseo alumni Jack and Carol Kramer, both 1976 Geneseo graduates. Her address begins at 1:45 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.
Her address is based on a stage play Sobel wrote about Copernicus, "And the Sun Stood Still," which portrays the events that made him buck common sense and received wisdom to defend the Earth's motion around the sun. It's a familiar favorite theme of Sobel's: the great transformation of humankind's worldview through science."
Sobel is the author of "Longitude," "Galileo's Daughter," "The Planets" and "A More Perfect Heaven." In her 40 years as a science journalist, she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker. She also has served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni and co-authored five books, including "Is Anyone Out There?" with astronomer Frank Drake. She received the 2001 Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.
Sobel received her bachelor's degree from SUNY Binghamton in 1969 and was awarded two honorary doctor of letters degrees in 2002, one from the University of Bath, in England, and the other from Middlebury College in Vermont.
In addition to endowing the GREAT Day Lecture Series, Jack and Carol Kramer have provided major support for other Geneseo programs. In 2004, they established The Carol Kramer Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Psychology and The Jack Kramer Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Physics, merit awards that provide tuition assistance for students who demonstrate financial need and show a strong commitment to their field of study inside and outside of the classroom. Jack Kramer is president of the Geneseo Foundation.
No classes are scheduled at Geneseo April 16 to accommodate GREAT Day events. The keynote address and all GREAT Day events are open to the public without charge.
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Your bedroom is your own little paradise; a place to get away and relax. What better way to perfect your space than to deck it out in South Carolina spirit?! This Collegiate Bed in a Bag set comes with a reversible comforter that features a giant school wordmark with a contrast team-colored border on one side and an allover team logo pattern on the opposite side for two completely unique looks. A team logo printed sheet set, pillow sham(s) and bed skirt are also included, so you can rest easy in your USC-inspired haven.
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Just curious if it is at all possible to have Time Machine backup to the 'cloud' using Amazon Simple Storage Solution. I've setup Time Machine to work over the network before to unsupported volumes (NTFS) but wasn't sure if this is possible. Anyone ever tried?
Dolly Drive is newly-announced software that lets you do TimeMachine backups to "cloud storage". Their docs say the space is their own cloud-based storage space, not S3, so that might be sticking point. But other than that it's pretty much in line with what you're after.
In addition to doing the TimeMachine -> cloud bridge, they also help you duplicate your data to a local drive so you can do fast restores without having to wait for delivery of an cloud -> hard drive dump of your data.
Looks promising. I'm lukewarm on the pricing.
There is a FUSE-based project calles s3fs that claims to be able to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local volume. Since Time Machine seems to be able to use any locally available volumes as a target, this should work. I was not able to test this, however.
If you have an extra ec2 instance, you could use netatalk and s3ql. It is a native time machine solution and works in Lion too. Your backups will be compressed and deduplicated.
From Ubuntu:
Install S3QL (1.11.1) and netatalk (2.2.1)
Create S3QL authfile
Edit S3QL authfile as follows:
Set permissions on authfile
Create S3QL filesystem
Mount S3QL filesystem
Configure netatalk
Edit the bottom of AppleVolumes.default to appear as below:
(Note: tm is also added to :DEFAULT: options. Volsizelimit is in MiB# :DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots,tm
Create User for backup
Set ownership of the backup drive to the backup user
Then select Go -> Connect to Server -> and enter the server IP or hostname from the finder. Make sure you have port 548 open!
A different approach would be to use a local Time Machine backup and then use something like Arq to move it to the cloud (automatically). You get the benefit of local storage + cloud backup.
If you can get Time Machine to recognize a FUSE-mounted filesystem, then s3backer should work.
I have never done this but would be interested to hear if anyone gets it to work (specifically how they got Time Machine to recognize the mount).
See also this wiki page.


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Oracle AppCast Series on Data Governance
By rahulkamath on Sep 24, 2013
As each of you engage in your own journey with implementing a data governance program in the enterprise, you are bound to be confronted with several questions. What is data governance? How can we harness our data governance program for maximum impact? What best practices can we leverage to get a head start?
Recently, Michelle Kimihira in Oracle MDM Marketing sat down with Kelle O'Neal of First San Francisco Partners and yours truly to discuss the topic of data governance over the course of three podcasts. For instant access to these podcasts, click on the links below.


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Jeff Gerth
Recent and archived news articles by Jeff Gerth of The New York Times.
'Her Way'
"In Living History, Hillary connected her father's staunch Republican politics with a disciplined fiscal conservatism, and the link was hardly an accident."
July 15, 2007, Sunday
Hillary's War
On a Thursday afternoon in early May, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton rose before a nearly empty Senate chamber and proposed that Congress undo one of the most significant acts in its recent history: the authorization of the Iraq war. In remarks...
June 3, 2007, Sunday
Hillary's War
Hillary Rodham Clinton's decisions on Iraq may point to what sort of president she would be.
May 29, 2007, Tuesday
A Pentagon contractor that planted G.I. news stories also paid Sunnis in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda.
January 2, 2006, Monday
Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive
The Bush administration's costly propaganda campaign aims to counter anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world.
December 11, 2005, Sunday
Senate Summons Pentagon To Explain Effort to Plant Reports in Iraqi News Media
The White House spokesman also expressed deep concern over a reported secret campaign to plant paid propaganda.
December 2, 2005, Friday
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
A covert campaign is under way to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay Iraqi journalists monthly stipends.
December 1, 2005, Thursday
Some Doubt Saudi Pledge To Increase Oil Output
Some U.S. officials are skeptical about Saudi Arabia's assurances of how much it can expand its oil production capacity.
October 27, 2005, Thursday
Court Nominee's Life Is Rooted In Faith and Respect for Law
John G. Roberts is a Harvard-trained, Republican lawyer-turned-judge, with a punctilious, pragmatic view of the law.
July 21, 2005, Thursday
In Unocal Bid, U.S. Struggles With China Policies
The bid is forcing the White House to confront its own internal rifts over whether China should be viewed as friend or foe.
June 26, 2005, Sunday
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Due to a needed repair to the campus electrical system, there will be a curtailment power and campus operations on Friday, August 9, 2013.
Beginning at 10 am, buildings will begin to be powered down on an aggregated schedule. All buildings, except the Integrated Science Center, Greene and Wadsworth Auditorium, will be closed during the afternoon.
The campus is scheduled to return to its normal power source starting at 8 pm with total restoration by 12:01 am on Saturday, August 10. Any changes in this plan will be posted here.


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8 Cheap Ways to Fake Being a Pro Chef
#4. Anchor Purity Wrap
Plastic wrap, such as Saran Wrap, is a headache. It gets stuck to itself, it won't cling to whatever you want it to, and you wonder: Why the hell even bother?
Anchor Purity is the industrial solution (what the pros use), and for a mere $13 you can get 1,000 feet, which, unless your cooking is aggressively wrap-heavy, should last you forever. Easier to use, faster to use, no mess, and it just works.
And if you are going through more than 1,000 feet per year, you should know that you don't need to wrap your entire kitchen in Saran Wrap every time you cook. Whoever told you that was screwing with you.
#3. iSi Silicone Scraper Spatula
$6 to $9
This guy is perfect for picking up chopped bits of anything on a cutting board. When doing a bunch of cooking, stick this in your back pocket like a switchblade comb, The Outsiders style, ready for action. If you have a hardware store nearby, any flexible scraper for home improvement will work. Just make sure it's at least 4 inches wide at the blade.
Not that I've tried, but this thing is also really easy to toss at your friends like a throwing star. You could be part Bob Vila, part Thomas Keller, part Beverly Hills Ninja ...
Your friends will fear your wrath as much as they love your pancakes.
#2. Lodge LCC3 Logic Pre-Seasoned Combo Cooker
Francis Mallmann, the most famous chef in South America, has classical French training, which involves using high-end copper pots and pans. Regardless, he still prefers cast iron, because nothing transfers heat more uniformly. It's beautifully primitive.
The best combination model for value is the Lodge LCC3. If you'd like to cook tomatoes, baked beans or other acidic foods in "raw," or unenameled, cast iron (which is what I use most often), you'll need to first season the skillet. "Seasoning" helps the iron absorb a protective coat of oil so that acids don't react with the surface and cause a metallic taste or black coloring.
It also ensures the cast iron skillet's title of "deadliest non-bladed non-spork culinary instrument."
Since we're not going to take our time over six to 12 meals to season our tool, here's how to do it in an evening:
-Coat the pans in oil (flaxseed is ideal; look for it in health food stores among refrigerated nutritional supplements) by spreading it all over the inside surface with a folded paper towel.
-Bake the skillet and Dutch oven upside down in your oven, on the top rack, at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, then turn off the heat, open the door and allow the pans to cool for 30 minutes.
-Rinse with warm water (no soap), towel dry immediately and repeat five more times.
-Use all of the time I just saved you to learn piano, or dancing, or cooking, or karate, or fucking all of them.
#1. Optional Items for High-End Home Chefs
Kuhn Rikon Epicurean Garlic Press
Kuhn Rikon
The Epicurean press does a better job of pressing garlic when you keep the skin on! Read that sentence again -- it's a big deal!
No more peeling, no more cutting, no more pain-in-the-ass cleanup of a poorly designed press. This press is the one press to rule them all. Yes, it's expensive ... and totally worth it. That is, if you like garlic. If you don't ... well, then stop reading this, because I don't want to live in a world where people like you are allowed to walk freely among the rest of us.
Fissler Magic Smooth-Edge Can Opener
The Fissler Store
In the can-opening world, the equivalent of the Epicurean press is the Fissler Magic Smooth-Edge Can Opener. It cuts around the side of the can, leaving no sharp edges and a lid that can be put back on. As one chef asked upon seeing it, "Why did it take 100+ years for someone to think of that?"
Better late than never. Cooking needn't be complicated or expensive. Get cheap, get dirty and get inventive. That's the Kitchen Jedi path -- minimalist and brutally effective. Enjoy.
Tim Ferriss is a best-selling author of several books, including the brand new The 4-Hour Chef, now available on Amazon.


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We know that existence of a Lebesgue non-measurable set is consistent with the Axiom Of Choice. Is the converse true? That is, does the existence of a Lebesgue non-measurable set imply the Axiom Of Choice?
No, the existence of a non-Lebesgue measurable set does not imply the axiom of choice. If ZF is consistent, then set-theorists can construct models of ZF having a non-Lebesgue measurable set, but still not satisfying AC.
This is quite reasonable, because the existence of a non-Lebesgue measurable set is a very local assertion, having to do only with sets of reals, and thus can be satisfied with a small example, by set-theoretic standards. The axiom of choice, in contrast, is a global assertion insisting that every set, even a very large set, has a well-order. So we don't expect to turn a mere non-measurable set into well-orderings of enormous sets, such as the power set $P(\mathbb{R})$.
And indeed, one can use forcing to produce a model $L(P(\mathbb{R})^{V[G]})$ which satisfies $ZF+\neg AC$, for similar reasons as in the usual $\neg AC$ models, but since it has the true $P(\mathbb{R})$, it will have all the same non-Lebesgue measurable sets as in the ambient ZFC universe $V[G]$.
(Finally, let me make a minor objection to the question: consistency is a symmetric relation, and so if $A$ is consistent with $B$, then $B$ would be consistent with $A$, and so one wouldn't ordinarily speak of a "converse". You seem instead to be refering to the implication that AC implies there is a non-measurable set, and this is how I took your question.)


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Garrett Haake - Reporter
Garrett is thrilled to call Kansas City home after spending all of 2012 and most of 2011 traveling the country non-stop as the NBC News campaign embed covering Mitt Romney's presidential bid.
As an embed, Garrett followed the campaign through more than 35 states, reporting live on NBC Nightly News and MSNBC, as well as writing for NBCNews.com and shooting and editing video for all NBC platforms along the way.
Prior to his assignment as an embed, Garrett worked as an associate producer for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams in New York, where he covered stories ranging from the BP oil spill to tornado outbreaks in the South to heartwarming profiles of normal people making a difference in their communities.
Garrett was born in Colorado and raised mostly in Texas. He attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he became a Cowboys fan while working for the team as a production assistant. He's counting the years since the 'Boys last playoff win.
Garrett is an avid sports fan, and when he's not working he can probably be found watching or playing football, soccer or basketball, or exploring his new hometown, trying to learn as much as possible.
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I've no clue how to go ahead with this, all I know is it will be solved with induction.
- Proved it's true for $k=10$
- Assumed it's true for $k$
- Need to prove that $2^{k+1} > ({k+1})^3$
Any pointers? I'm struggling with tough Induction questions so if you have any general tips to solve such questions it'll be great.


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Our Thanksgiving holidays turned into a two- dinner event this year as we first traveled to Navarre for a turkey-with-all-the-trimmings dinner with my cousin, Frank Kollar, and his family on Nov. 18. His wife, Tina; and their daughters, Missy and Chrissy; and my other cousin, Dorothy, called Suzy by those who know her best; all prepared some of the food, and it was simply wonderful. Those ladies are excellent cooks.
Another daughter, Wendy, was called to work as she is a veterinarian and animals have emergencies just like people.
My aunt, Victoria, who turned 90 last January, prepared her special applesauce, made with the addition of spicy, cinnamon hearts.
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GUESTS — Purple Circle 4-H Club Achievement Banquet guests included, seated, from left, Mary Ellen Grafton; and Janine Yeske, 4-H youth development; and back, Frank Yeske.
-- Esther McCoy
HELPER — Hayden McCoy, 2 1/2-years old, helps his mother, Danielle, make appetizers for Thanksgiving dinner at Grandpa Buddy McCoy's house in Dover.
-- Esther McCoy
YUMMY — Ruth Carson of the Schiappa branch of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County shows off some of the food prepared by Dragana Lazic, who conducts a cooking class each month at the library. On display are Coconut Sweet Potato Balls and Stuffed Shell Appetizers. The next class is Monday at 6 p.m.
-- Esther McCoy
PLANNERS — The Purple Circle 4-H Club Achievement Banquet was conducted by these officers, including, from left, seated, Nathan Grafton, treasurer; Dustin McAfee, vice president; Taylor Grafton, president; and standing, Kaylee Bell, secretary.
-- Esther McCoy
On Thanksgiving morning, I climbed into the back seat of my brother-in-law, Larry's, truck with the appetizers I had made early that morning. We were traveling to Dover, the home of my other brother-in-law, Buddy, the youngest member of the McCoy brothers.
I tried to catch a nap by leaning my head on the window - there was little room to do much else with the boxes of food beside me - and my head kept banging on the window. Headaches don't go well with holiday dinner, I discovered.
I brought ingredients for making brushetta, and Hayden, the youngest boy in the McCoy line, and Buddy's grandson, wanted to lend a hand.
He did really well in putting the marinated tomato pieces on the Triscuits and helped sprinkle on cheese. I do brushetta different than most cooks. After putting the ingredients on the crackers, they are baked a few minutes to heat them and melt the cheese. The recipe was on the back of a Triscuit box several years back, and it was a winner for us.
Buddy warned that he was going to surprise us with a non-traditional meal. It was a pleasant surprise as we had spaghetti with meat sauce, grilled steaks -about 3 inches thick -and the same side dish of brussel sprouts that Cathy Davison made for the Holiday Cookbook in 2011.
My nephew, Barry, was flipping the brussel sprouts in the skillet just like I see celebrity chef Guy Fieri do on television. At one time, he wanted to open a restaurant, but now he is content with cooking gourmet-style for family and friends. And he grilled those steaks up proud with a homemade sauce to add extra flavor as well.
Just before Thanksgiving, Dragana Lazic, my cooking hero and a judge for the Holiday Cookbook Contest, had a wonderful array of foods that could be made for Thanksgiving in her cooking class. This is held at the Schiappa branch of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County once each month and is well attended by cooks from 11-year-olds to golden agers. Jessica Starkweather is the 11-year-old. I know her from the Holiday Cookbook. We learn new ideas and get to eat the great foods Dragana prepares.
There were Coconut Sweet Potato Balls, with a marshmallow surprise inside; Stuffed Shell Pasta Appetizers; a Chocolate-Peanut Candy; and Pecan Shortbread Bars.
There is another cooking class Monday, but reservations need to be made so Dragana knows how much food to prepare.
There was another dinner on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Purple Circle 4-H Club has practically adopted us as grandparents, and it is always a pleasure to attend their banquets. The food is great, and it is nice to see all the members get awards for good work during the club year. The entire Wood family takes part in being an adviser for the club, starting with Herk and Shirley Wood many years back.
We were joined by Janine and Frank Yeske and Mary Ellen Grafton at our end of our long table and had an enjoyable time.
Cliff Wood never forgets to invite me and whoever I might have with me on my search for stories and pictures at the Jefferson County Fair to come to their barn for a daily picnic.
I was not able to get to Buckeye Local High School for its Veterans Day program and between Coy Sudvary, principal, and Suzanne Smarrella, teacher, I was able to get a picture of the speaker and the list of Americanism winners in the four classes.
Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, a Vietnam veteran, was the guest speaker at the assembly organized and led by Charles Strizak, district 10 past commander. The Buckeye Local band played patriotic songs and Boys and Girls State students led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Americanism winners were:
Ninth grade, Robert Boyd and Ivy Weigle; 10th grade, Albert Barcus and Jocelyn Belon; 11th grade, Steven Sable and Miranda Buck; and 12th grade, Landon Partelli and Tara Whittaker.
Now on to the holiday at hand, at least the one where I have seen Christmas decorations in the yard since a few days before Halloween. I was amazed to see the home just off the George's Run exit decorated for Christmas when there were Halloween decorations on the house next door.
Our Maple Avenue street is usually one of the first to get decorated, but it was beat out this year.
As for me, our house is getting decorated in small segments at a time. Lamont and I rustled around in our basement trying to dig out things for the holiday. Along with smashed wreaths and melted candles, we found Star Wars figurines, G.I. Joe tanks and lots of Matchbox cars, all belonging to Darin in a time that seemed like just yesterday.
We have three choices of artificial Christmas trees to decorate - small, medium and large. Large was from a time when the kids were small, and we wanted something impressive; medium for the downstairs family room because that was all that would fit; and small when we didn't want to bother much with decorating.
It will be the medium one as there are small children still coming for Christmas and they like to look at all the ornaments their dad and uncles made, ones received as gifts or those bought on our travels. Looking at the tree is like traveling back in time, and how precious it seems now.
(McCoy, a resident of Smithfield, is food editor and a staff columnist for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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I have a Thinkpad E430 notebook, and the intel's USB 3.0 controller can not be recognized by Ubuntu 12.04.
The LED on my USB-HDD is white instead of blue (And in Windows 7, it is blue when connected to USB 3.0 port, and is white when connected to 2.0). And the transfer speed is around 25MB/s instead of 65MB/s in Windows 7.
I'm not familiar with Linux systems, so I've no clue about what's going wrong. I've searched the web, but got no solution.


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Well Pad Suffers New Slip
GLEN EASTON – Because of another soil slip at the Ray Baker well pad in southern Marshall County, Chesapeake Energy is still trying to meet West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection requirements to resume operations.
Citing an "imminent danger to persons," the DEP suspended Chesapeake from drilling and fracking at the pad last year. The company hoped environmental regulators would release the site along Valley Run Road from suspension last month after state inspectors evaluated the pad.
However, another setback caused by an additional Nov. 1 slip has Chesapeake still working to satisfy the DEP.
"There has been an additional small slip on the location. There is no threat to people or the environment from this slip," Chesapeake spokeswoman Jacque Bland said, noting remediation work has been ongoing since 2011.
"Throughout the process, we have kept the DEP fully informed of our approach and progress at this location – and we remain committed to continuous improvement in all of our processes," she added.
The environmental department originally cited Chesapeake for "pollution of the waters of the state" at the Baker site in February 2011. Additional citations for, among other violations, creating an "imminent danger" at the site came in October 2011. The slip also forced a person to relocate because of the danger to his home.
In order to resume operations at the pad, the department is requiring Chesapeake to properly secure all well heads; apply for new drilling permits for the three wells on the site, once the site is secure, in order to resume operations; submit a site construction plan to be certified by a professional engineer that details all future plans for the site; submit a new reclamation plan; and once the DEP approves the plans, Chesapeake must submit a progress update every two weeks;
"This order does not relieve Chesapeake from any potential future obligations and/or responsibilities it may have pertaining to additional permits or approval that may be necessary in order to remove any potential sediment and debris from the stream," stated James Martin in the order. He serves as chief of the DEP's Office of Oil and Gas.
This is the same pad the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers required Chesapeake to repair because of slipping soil and "discharging pollutants into the adjacent stream."


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18 Apr 2012 10:13 AM #1
Direct not working in Architect, but IS working in browser...
I have been using the Direct class system throughout the Architect 2 beta releases. At this point, I am unable to right click a store and "load data" (depending on the time of day, it is either grayed out or returns nothing). But, the stores are still working correctly when I look at the app in a browser, with no console errors.
Any ideas as to why a store would not work inside of Architect, but does work in a browser?
18 Apr 2012 10:32 AM #2
I am assuming you have direct API set correctly in project preferences and you get the message "Successfully updated Ext Direct API".
If that is true, then the directFn needs to be selected via the list of api available in the directFn config menu.Bharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
18 Apr 2012 10:41 AM #3
Sorry about the lack of details.
Your assumptions are correct. The API loads correctly and I get a list of directFn in the proxy drop down. After selecting the correct function and adding the correct extraparams, as well as fields in the store and the root in the reader, the store's "load data" still doesn't work within Architect. But, the grid loads just fine in a browser (outside of Architect).
18 Apr 2012 10:59 AM #4
Do you have url prefix defined? this is so api url can be resolved
Say if you have api.php which has relative url - 'url'=>'php/router.php'Bharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
18 Apr 2012 11:10 AM #5
Attaching a simple Direct project with Grid using DirectFn to read dataBharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
18 Apr 2012 11:52 AM #6
I am sad to report that I am experiencing the exact same result with your file. Please see my screenshots below. As you can see, the browser receives the data correctly, the settings are correct in the Architect file, but the "load data" option is still grayed out...
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18 Apr 2012 12:04 PM #7
That tells me your directFn in direct proxy is not getting eval'ed to a functionBharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
18 Apr 2012 12:20 PM #8
18 Apr 2012 12:32 PM #9
Whats your environment like - mac, windows.. and version? And your backend server that you use? It could be due to that. I can try to replicate here.
ThanksBharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
18 Apr 2012 12:59 PM #10
Win7. I have attempted this on both IIS, and a Virtual Machine running Turnkey LAMP. I get the same result.
I have tried deleting the Sencha folder from the [user]/AppData/local/Sencha, Inc/ directory and that does not seem to help.
I just had a co-worker replicate this issue by creating a new architect file and pointing it to the direct api file. Before saving the file, the 'load data' option is available and works. Upon saving the file, it reverts to the issue I've described. And this is using your files that you've provided on two different systems and server types.


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PEORIA, Ariz. — For the Seattle Mariners, spring training is about to kick into a higher gear.
Pitchers are stretching out their innings. Position players will soon begin to play back-to-back games. Roster battles are going to heat up.
"We're game-on now," manager Eric Wedge said after their 10-game winning streak ended with a 7-6 loss to Milwaukee.
Casper Wells is engaged in one of those dramas, competing to win a spot in the Mariners' crowded outfield picture. With Michael Morse, Raul Ibanez and Jason Bay all added during the offseason, Wells knows there's a logjam. In fact, most assessments have the final berth coming down to him or Bay, with Carlos Peguero remaining a much longer shot despite a hot start to spring.
"I think we have a lot of good players on the team, and the Mariners are probably in a good position for themselves," Wells said. "It's always better than not having enough. They're the ones that have to make decisions. I just go out and play."
And Wells hopes to keep playing for the Mariners, who acquired him on July 30, 2011, one of four players coming from Detroit in the Doug Fister trade.
Wells' situation is complicated by the fact he is out of minor-league options, meaning he must clear waivers to remain in the organization if he doesn't break camp with the team.
That status can often be a benefit to a player, giving him an edge because Seattle doesn't want to risk losing him to another team's waiver claim; but it can also be unsettling, because the possibility exists of changing teams at the end of camp.
"My goal is to be in the big leagues," Wells said. "I love the Mariners organization. I'd love to be with the Mariners for my whole career. I love it here. Whatever happens, happens.
"It is a business. I understand that. I've been traded over before, so I understand that. I'm not new to it. I just go out and take care of my business and let the chips fall where they may."
The only way it would seem possible to keep both Bay and Wells, barring an injury or unexpected trade, would be to go with a six-man bullpen. But with 30 games in 31 days to start the season, that doesn't appear likely.
Wells, 28, certainly made a positive statement on Monday when he drove in five runs with a single, double and triple against the Rockies.
Wells offers more defensive versatility than Bay and has shown flashes of offensive firepower in major-league stints over the past four seasons. The Mariners are looking for more consistency at the plate after a season in which he hit .228 in 93 games with 10 homers and 36 runs batted in.
Beginning in the second half of last season, which included a demotion to Tacoma in May, Wells has worked to shorten his swing while honing his stroke in other ways. His showing Monday was a welcome dose of positive reinforcement after few balls fell in early in the Cactus League, despite some of them being well-hit.
"It's kind of reassuring," he said. "I've tried to stick to a diligent plan, stay disciplined in my routines. I talk to Raul (Ibanez) and other veteran guys. It's all about routines and being consistent with those, outside the field and on the field. That way it can translate into game situations."
Wells underwent laser eye surgery in the offseason and also stayed in Peoria to work out all winter at the Mariners complex.
"Last year, I probably didn't swing as much as I should have," he said. "This year, I was up here at the facility. I was doing a lot of stuff off the tee. Videoing stuff so I could see, just visually, how it looks and how it felt that day, so I could translate it over to just having some swings that felt good in the cage."
Now he's trying to carry it over to spring, and after that, into the season. The key, Wells said, is to not let an occasional frustrating game be the impetus to changing his approach.
"Last year, if something wasn't working, I'd be quick to fix and do something else," he said. "I'm trying to be consistent with my swing and my approach. If you're always trying to change something, and switching stuff around, you're not going to be consistent."
One of the reasons Wells wants to stay around is the positive feeling he sees developing around the team.
"There's definitely a different comfort level," he said. "There's no kind of tension among any of the players. Everyone gets along. Even the players who came right in here, like Raul and Mike Morse, even Kendrys (Morales), my locker mate, it seems like they've been part of the team all along."
Now Wells will try to ensure that he will be here with them for the long haul.


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Blade Runner (30th Anniversary Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]: Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott: Movies… for $19.99
This is the best price I've seen for this 30th Anniversary three-disc version. I have been waiting for it to dip below $20,
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Crap, am I going to have to buy this yet again? Love love love the movie, but I've got various copies and versions coming out my ears! Seriously, the wife just doesn't understand...
I pre-ordered this for $23.99, so this is definitely a great price. Highly recommend this version as the artwork and case alone are worth it (for us BR freaks). I also own the 5disc blu-ray, but had to get this one, so sstaylor, I totally get where you're coming from :)
Sorry, I've bought this already on VHS and DVD. Not paying $20 for it again. Getting tired of high prices for something I've already bought several times already. No down-vote but I'll wait until it's on sale somewhere for $5.


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Former three-sport Warrior standout Rod Griffin was elected into the Del Norte High School Athletic Hall of Fame last September. Rod was a former teammate of mine.
Unfortunately, Rod passed away several years ago. Since we were unable to locate any of his family, I received the award for Rod at the induction ceremony.
Now, as a member of the Hall of Fame committee, I am asking for help in finding a family member to present Rod's award to. I know that after graduating from Del Norte, he went on to the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduating from Cal, I was told that he went into business somewhere in the Bay Area. If anyone that reads this column can give me help, I know his family would appreciate receiving the honor given to Rod.
He was a real part of Warrior history, not only as an athlete, but also as an outstanding student and all-around good guy.
I can be reached by phone at 954-8582. The phone is almost always in my pocket so I can be reached at any time.
I know Rod's family would really like to receive the award.
Dick Trone writes on his reflections and the history of Del Norte High Warrior sports. Trone, who played football for the Warriors and graduated in 1951, had an illustrious career on the gridiron at Humboldt State University. Trone was head football coach at Del Norte High for a number of years before retiring.


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5 Superhero Movies You Won't Believe Almost Got Made
It doesn't matter how much you love superhero movies, you have to admit Hollywood is getting close to running out of superheroes to adapt. That's what happens when you release five or six of them every summer. And what's even more amazing is that for every one that got made, there are countless more that died in development because they didn't meet Hollywood's high, high standards.
So it really is amazing to see how close we came to seeing ...
#5. Tim Burton's Superman Lives
Say what you will about Tim Burton, but he did give us two solid Batman pictures that helped the character move away from the campy ghost of the Adam West show (before Joel Schumacher ruined everything again). In the 90s, Warner Bros. hoped Burton would repeat the trick with Superman, and then they hired Kevin Smith to write a screenplay for him. What could possibly go wrong?
So What Was Wrong With It?
Look at it, kids. Take it allll in. WE SAID LOOK AT IT.
Yes, that's a long-haired Nicolas Cage dressed as Superman while posing for a police mugshot, apparently. The authenticity of that picture has been disputed, but the fact remains: Nicolas Cage had, at one point, signed up to play Superman ... and he got frighteningly close to actually doing it.
There are several stages to a movie. This is the "super happy rave party costume" stage.
In truth, Cage's involvement is only the tip of a very large iceberg. As we mentioned, Kevin Smith was brought in to write the screenplay, but he had to work with the ridiculous conditions imposed by producer Jon Peters: Superman could not be seen flying, couldn't wear the classic costume (Peters insisted on a black suit) and somehow, someway, had to fight a giant spider at the end. What was the reasoning behind changing Superman's costume, you ask? Peters thought the classic blue-and-red outfit looked "too faggy."
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This season, the heterosexual male is wearing tight, black leather.
There's more. Peters and Warner Bros. wanted the villain Brainiac to punch polar bears at Superman's Fortress of Solitude, presumably to work in a Coke sponsorship (apparently under the impression that Coca-Cola fucking hates those bears). Due to the success of the recent release of the original Star Wars Trilogy, Peters wanted Braniac to have a robot sidekick -- "a gay R2-D2 with attitude" -- and Lex Luthor to have a space dog, because "Chewie's [Chewbacca] cuddly, man. You could make a toy out of him, so you've got to give me a dog."
The Art Designer was appalled when Peters "would bring kids in, who would rate the drawings on the wall as if they were evaluating the toy possibilities." Director Tim Burton hired Wesley Strick to completely rewrite Smith's script, which at this point was a disfigured mess of gimmicks and toy commercials. Strick incorporated another one of Peters' suggestions: Brainiac and Lex Luthor would amalgamate into a mega-villain called "Lexiac" (which sounds like the name of a laxative).
An evil Laxative.
Warner Bros. would spend $30 million and go through several more scripts before Burton and Cage got fed up with all the stupidity and quit the project. Burton still describes Superman Lives as "one of the worst experiences in his life," while Kevin Smith made a popular comedy routine out of the whole thing.
#4. Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One
Ten years ago, Warner Bros. approached a hot independent director to bring some dignity back into the Batman franchise with a darker, more realistic take on the character. No, not Chris Nolan.We're talking about Black Swan's Darren Aronofsky.
Teaming up with comic legend Frank Miller, Aronofsky began developing an adaptation of Miller's classic Batman: Year One comic, and even talked with that guy from American Psycho about taking on the lead role ...
Hollywood doesn't have much imagination.
So What Was Wrong With It?
There's nothing wrong with an independent director doing a Batman movie: Nolan proved that. The problem was that this wasn't so much a Batman movie as it was an insane remake of Taxi Driver (if Travis Bickle wore a cape).
In the script by Frank Miller, with input by Aronofsky, Bruce Wayne becomes a street-dwelling orphan after his parents are killed, growing up into "a borderline psychotic who begins taking violent vengeance on street thugs." Instead of using high-tech gadgets, this lower-class Batman is equipped with whatever junk he can find, since obviously he's working on a budget: a hockey mask, a cape, brass knuckles and a knife. Oh, and instead of the Batmobile? He drives a pimped out Lincoln continental.
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We'd rather have the Adam West version.
Remember Alfred, the butler? In this version he's an auto mechanic called Big Al who takes in a young, raging Bruce Wayne ("more of a wild animal than a boy") and raises him. When the movie starts, Big Al has passed away and Bruce is living with his son, Little Al, described as "a gigantic, early middle-aged black man." Also, Catwoman is a sassy dominatrix working in a whore house across the street from Al's garage ... but that part actually is in the comic.
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Our theory is that someone saw this scene and thought: "What if the whole movie was like that?"
The Batcave, rather than being a hidden base with intricate technology lining stone walls, is an abandoned subway station. The Batcycle is a regular black motorbike. Robin is an old Jewish lady with an axe. (That last part isn't true, but only that last part.) Even the name is different: In this version he actually calls himself "The Bat-Man." That's how much Aronofsky wanted to distance himself from the comic.
"In fact, you know what, fuck it: Let's call him Hockey-Face Roger and have him lose an arm to heroin."
Aronofsky eventually moved away from the project ... because he was worried it would be too much like Rocky. That's what happens when you strip away all the unique elements in a superhero franchise, Darren -- you're eventually left with Rocky.
#3. Green Lantern Starring Jack Black
In DC's Green Lantern comics, the Green Lantern Corps is an interplanetary police force made up from pretty much every alien species in the universe (except Ewoks, because fuck those guys). Every Green Lantern is handed a power ring that can create literally any object they can imagine, but mostly big green fists. By now, you know there's a big budget Green Lantern movie coming out in June, starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan ... but it turns out that's not the first time Warner Bros. tried to make a movie out of this comic. A few years ago, they were considering doing something slightly different with the character ...
So What Was Wrong With It?
There were two things wrong with this particular version of Green Lantern: First, it would have starred Jack Black. Second, it was the kind of movie Jack Black would star in.
Something wacky.
This wasn't a superhero movie starring a comedy actor -- it was a gross-out comedy with a complex superhero mythology awkwardly thrown in, like Thor meets The Hangover. It was the feature film equivalent of a crazy mash-up trailer.
The script by Robert Smigel (the man behind Triumph the Insult Dog) was "influenced heavily" by Jim Carrey's The Mask, turning Green Lantern into an inept, overweight superhero who uses his power ring in comical ways (probably while showing copious amounts of butt crack). Instead of the fearless test pilot from the comic, Black would have played a furniture store employee who gets drunk and eats severed animal heads on TV. Yes, that's in the script.
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Right here.
In one scene, Black's character creates a green elf dressed like a housekeeper for his annoying nerd friend (David Spade?) to have sex with. Which he does. What's next, trapping criminals inside a giant condom? Oh wait, that's also in the script.
The merchandise for this film would've been problematic.
So, yeah, apparently the studio wanted the Green Lantern name only so they could shit all over it (because that worked out so well in Catwoman). That was apparently easier than simply creating a new superhero and making it as stupid as they wanted.
The extremely negative fan reaction reportedly led Warner's canceling the project. Jack Black seemed disappointed to learn that someone else would be playing Green Lantern -- though we still don't get why he doesn't just change the name of the character to "The Green Condom" or something and shoot the movie anyway.


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A few of the members of our gaming have had the probably-not-unique idea of statting ourselves as if we were player characters in a campaign. Our problem is trying to find a basis of comparison for each stat so we can properly assign our scores. Like, what would a STR of 10 indicate? Or a 10 in any other ability, since we're not messing with race.
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Instead of looking at what exactly a strength of 10 indicates (like being able to lift a certain amount of weight or so), try looking at it as a place within the population at large. A score of 10 in any stat means you're just about average; a score higher than 16 means you're in the top few percent of the population.
There are two approaches we could take here. One is to look at the distribution of ability scores in D&D and compare it to the distribution of that ability in the population at large. This is approach I'm taking here. The other approach is to use the correlating factors published in various different D&D sources. This is the approach many other people have taken (such as the fun quiz made by Kevin Haw).
Assuming you're using 3d6 for each stat, here's a rough guide for you:
To get these numbers, I'm looking at the results of rolling multiple 6-sided dice and adding them together. As you add more and more dice, the result gets closer to what's called a normal distribution. It's a curve that's well-populated in the middle and sparsely-populated on both ends. In other words, there are lots of people who are typical, some people who are either high or low, a few people who are very high or very low, and a few extreme examples at both ends.
So let's take a look at intelligence and see what these numbers would mean. IQ is calibrated so the average is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. This lets us correlate D&D stats with IQ scores, as well as some common terms (found here):
Unfortunately, not all stats can be quantified so easily. Information on intelligence is easy to look up; info on charisma or wisdom, less so. Hopefully you can use the ideas here to estimate the scores you're looking for.
The online survey What Kind of D&D Character Would You Be? calculates your ability scores based on answers to questions.
The trouble with basing character stats on the members of a D&D group is that it tends toward high Intelligence and lower physical attributes, so you often end up with an entire party of wizards. You can still do this: read Complete Arcane's section on how to run a balanced game when all players are arcane spellcasters.
Alternatively, you can use the following benchmarks to measure your attributes. It may not be entirely scientific, but for the purposes of a D&D game it should be sufficient.
A first level human barbarian can out-run Usain Bolt's fastest sprint.
Continuously for several minutes without getting so much as Fatigued.
While wearing a chain shirt, wielding a greataxe, and carrying nearly 100 lbs. of assorted other gear.
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 cannot model actual people. Even 1st-level human characters using the standard ability array (11, 11, 11, 10, 10, 10) and restricted to non-magic NPC classes cause problems. Maybe if you eliminated Feats, as well. Anything beyond that is patently unrealistic. Dungeons and Dragons is not the system for that.
If you merely want to play characters inspired by who you are, then it's easy: just imagine that you were growing up in Eberron or Faerûn or Greyhawk or wherever, and think about what sorts of things you would pursue. Not sure that'll be too interesting, though, if we're being honest: for me that would probably mean holing myself up in an arcane university and never leaving.
Here is my suggestion:
Talk with each other and figure out who would be best suited for each role in the party. Who seems like they would be a Wizard, who would be the fighter? And so on. Then stat the characters as normal DnD characters. You make small adjustments like: "Timmy would definitely be a rogue, but he would be almost as strong as he is quick. He's also not the nicest guy all the time so I'll dump-stat his CHA."
Don't try to get your "actual stats" down on paper. First of all, your characters will not be very successful statistically. If you "realistically" try to stat yourself, you are not going to be getting many, if any, stats over a 14 and you run the risk of having to tell your buddy that he really only has about an 8 in Wisdom (citing recent parties and youtube videos he was in). This can lead to some sad gameplay and hurt feelings.
Remember, in the end it's a game that is meant to be fun. If you want to play as yourselves, the most important thing to bring into the game is your personalities and your friendship. That will make the game fun.
I haven't played 3.5, so this is from 4e, but as far as I know the stats are pretty similar, but I have no knowledge on how stats are determined in 3.5.
What I would do is determine which player would have the highest of each stat. This person would get a 18 for that stat (I would avoid giving more than 1 or 2 to a single player). I would then determine which player would have the lowest for each stat, and they get 8's in those stats (again, I would avoid giving more than 1 or 2 to a single player). I would then rank the remaining 4 stats from highest to lowest for each player, and assign them (from highest to lowest): 14,11,10,10. I would allow players to modify these middle numbers up or down 1 point, but for each one they move up they should move another down one, and hopefully keep them in the same order. None of these should be less than their weakest stat.
What this does is it allow players to show off both their strengths and their weaknesses without having to try and quantify what each number represents in real life. I would really strive to try and avoid ties because this would make each character's skill set unique, and this would affect which class their character would best fit.
We decided to just have everyone rank the ability scores of the other players, then use a standard array.
For each other player, rank the ability scores from highest to lowest. Not compared to the others, but just against their own abilities. Are they stronger than they are smart? Are they more dextrous than charismatic? etc...
Once you get your scores ranked by the entire group, you get to add up the totals and figure out how you settle up.
Assign a value from 6–1 to each stat in descending order, 6 for the first and 1 for the last, then total the points that gives each stat.
After everyone goes through this ranking system, they get to assign their stats, which are from an array from the DM.
It's probably quite difficult to find now, and doesn't quite match your requirements, but...
The first edition of Timelords, by BTRC (and, according to the Wiki entry, the 2nd ed too) had the base assumption that players would play characters based on themselves. It had reasonably detailed rules for generating each of the stats used in the game, including skills. It was a system that used d20s (though long before the d20 system was trademarked), so it may well still work for you with a little tweaking. The only stat missing would be a Wisdom analog.
Note that the 3rd ed of the game appears to have done away with this idea, so likely won't be much use to you.
I suggest the following method:
Everyone should stat himself (or herself) and all other PCs. The DM will take the average for each stat, and can adjust it by +/- 2 max (per characteristic).
I stat myself as
the others 3 players think I am actually:
My resulting stats (averaged):
The DM can adjust each stat of up to 2 points upward or downwards.
Rationale: it's not a matter of what 10 "means" in real world. First of all it's too abstract, and also you lack any real terms of comparison (is the average D&D citizen a person who tills the fields all day, so it's much more strong than average modern human? is the average D&D person illiterate and therefore has less intellectual resources at his/her disposal?)
If you are perceived as "strong" or "dexterous" by other players, they know the game enough to "stat" you. And the DM has the final decision.
It works best if you have the initial statting done without communicating with other players (to avoid the risk to change your statting depending on how favourably the others treat you - this may be even subconscious, so it's better to do this "secretely").


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