text:
"Side Effects" reportedly might be the last movie that prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh directs. At least for a while.
It's not exactly a case of him going out with a bang.
"Side Effects"★ ★ ½
Starring: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Other: An Open Road Films release. Rated R for language, nudity, sexual situations, violence. 126 minutes
"Side Effects" works nicely as a taut thriller and an involving mystery that quietly keeps us off-balance until its final, unsettling finale.
But it left me with a bitter cinematic aftertaste.
The moment the movie ended, I felt slightly duped.
"Side Effects" is one of those unpredictably plotted movies that depends on misdirection to mislead viewers so we don't suspect what some of the characters are up to until the very end of the story.
(Spoiler alert! No, wait! Anti-spoiler alert! I'm not actually giving away any surprises in this review.)
When the closing credits came up and I went back over Soderbergh's thriller, I realized I'd been had.
After a crucial, shocking scene, a key character acts in a certain way that the character would not act unless the character knew it would ruin later plot twists for us, the viewers.
Of course, you don't realize any of this during the movie, which, up to the ending, works well as a tightly wound, satirical look at the culture of antidepressant pharmaceuticals before sneaking into homicidal territory.
"Side Effects" stars Jude Law as Jonathan Banks, an eminent New York City psychiatrist, author and occasional industry spokesman, who takes on a needy patient named Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara, the electrifying star of the American remake of Sweden's "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo").
Depressed and suicidal, Emily has spent four years waiting for her hunky hubby Martin (Channing Tatum) to be released from prison on an insider trading conviction.
Martin comes home and promises Emily that he will restore their happy marriage.
But there's something a little vacant about Emily's eyes, something a little dead about her spirit, her attitude.
Banks prescribes a new antidepressant drug for Emily, one that seems to liven her spirits, but place them in a foggy cloud of confusion. She appears to be happy, finally.
It ruins nothing to reveal that a murder occurs at about the half-hour mark (that part is exploited in the movie's trailers and TV commercials), prompting cops to cast a jaundiced eye on Banks' competence -- maybe even unethical conduct -- as a contributing factor to the crime.
Following a favorite Hollywood theme of "things are not what they seem," Banks' case gets complicated by Emily's former shrink, Victoria Siebert (the alluring Catherine Zeta-Jones in ultra-slink mode) who worries that the married Banks might be tempted to misuse his position with her.
Soderbergh directs "Side Effects" with a clinical detachment that deliberately bars us from emotionally glomming on to his aloof, hard-to-decipher characters.
Law, reunited with Soderbergh from their earlier medical-based thriller "Contagion" (shot partly in Elgin), plays Banks as an analytical intellect not given to emo influences, but highly effective at thinking out scenarios, a talent that comes into play during the movie's final act.
Mara employs her doe-eyed charisma and slight, otherworldly demeanor to excellent effect, creating Emily as a wounded bird who might be receiving treatment that actually harms her more than helps.
If "Side Effects" does indeed become Soderbergh's cinematic swan song, it will at least be, despite its narrative dishonesty and potential viewer backlash, a respectable, assured work.


text:
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Show #12-Selling The Drama
Or you can listen to the show through our flash player by hitting the play button below.
2 series wins against the division rival Tigers and the crosstown Cubs are just the beginning for Adam and Jeff at the Oral Sox Podcast. We'll cover the games in This Week In White Sox Baseball along with the usual segments, and have another session of Phone Sox with Jim Margalus of Soxmachine.com to talk about Kenny and Ozzie. Sox Bytes is overflowing with talks of the draft, Lou Piniella, the Hawks, the dismantling of the team, and Jake the Fake. It's a long one folks.
Follow us on twitterwww.twitter.com/whitesoxoralsox
Become our friend on facebook!www.facebook.com search for Oral Sox Podcast.
Let's not forget that you can leave a voicemail for the podcast on Googletalk! Download Googletalk, grab a microphone and bend our ears.
6 comments:
- David said...
awesome peavy rant; couldn't agree more.
CfS this week is Q. he's so depressing.
- June 14, 2010 at 9:32 AM
cfs = alex cintron
- June 14, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- June 14, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Cinch for stench: I gotta agree with David and take Quentin, I think I've reached my breaking point with him and I'm ready to call 2008 a fluke.
As for whose side I'm on, I was on Ozzie's side all the way up until Sunday with Andruw Jones leading off and Alexei batting second. We've put up with (and enjoyed) a lot of antics, but after that I believe I've reached my breaking point with him too.
- June 15, 2010 at 6:08 PM
I'm not sure what to think about facing Strasburg tonight. If we were facing a guy making his third career start whom I'd never heard of before I'd be completely terrified of him because those guys have destroyed the Sox for years now. But Strasburg is the complete opposite, he's hyped so much that I don't know what to think. That's probably weird, right?
- June 18, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Will be at the game today (6/20) in DC. Any chance I will be present for a sweep?
- June 20, 2010 at 5:26 AM

subset: commoncrawl


text:
We missed this back in July, thanks to mostintolerantreligion.com who posted it, via KFC fires worker in food mix-up – The Star | IOL.co.za.
KFC is being challenged to reinstate an employee who was dismissed for bringing non-halaal food to work.
The fast-food outlet in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, dismissed Jabulani Cele last month. He had been working for the restaurant for six years.
The franchise is owned by the Colefax Trading (Pty) Ltd and Yum Restaurants, which follows Islam.
According to a letter of suspension handed to Cele in March, his offence was to bring non-halaal food – uphutu and bean curry – onto the restaurant's premises.
Cele, 31, a father-of-two, said workers had been allowed to bring their own lunch and eat it in a demarcated staffroom. He said the staffroom was closed when the new employer took over last year. He said the employees were ordered to keep their lunchboxes outside the building.
He said that on the day he committed the offence, he arrived at work and entered the premises with his lunchbox. "The store manager accused me of breaching the company policy." He was given a letter of final warning, which he refused to sign.
Cele was suspended, then dismissed last month.
Cele has referred the matter to the United Chemical Industries Mining Electrical State Health and Aligned Workers unions. The matter has been taken to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
Yet there's always a few who comment after every post on halal food issues that it's a non-event, not a sign of sharia creeping into a society. The follow up: KFC told to back down over food rule
KFC has been forced to reinstate an Empangeni employee who was fired for bringing non-halaal food to work.
Jabulani Cele was to resume working at the KFC branch in the KZN town today after the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration overturned his employer's decision to fire him.
The CCMA made public its finding on Friday, ordering Colefax Trading and Yum Restaurants to allow Cele back to work before 1pm.
Colefax and Yum own a chain of KFC restaurants around the country and have a policy that restricts employees from bringing food to work as they follow Islamic laws.
The CCMA ordered that Cele be paid about R5 200 in back-pay for two months and that he be allowed to bring his own food to work.
KFC chief marketing officer Dave Timm confirmed Cele's reinstatement.
The trouble started in March when Cele, 31, refused to submit to the rule and brought his lunchbox, containing uphuthu and bean curry, into the KFC branch.
He was immediately handed a final written warning that he refused to sign, maintaining he had a right to bring his food to work.
He was suspended and later hauled to a disciplinary hearing that found him guilty of breaching the policy. He was fired from the job he had held for six years in June.
Cele, a father-of-two, said he was "ecstatic" to have his job back and that the CCMA ruling would benefit his colleagues who were restricted from bringing their food to work.
"But I'm also concerned that I will now be intimidated. I'm happy that, through my case, there will be changes to this oppressive policy."
Ya think?


text:
Police have clear the scene of a 10-car pileup that included a school bus on the 13600 block of Caledonia Road, just north of Dawson Lake Road.
No one was injured, although several cars were towed away from the scene.
Authorities said strong blowing and drifting snow caused the accident. WREX Meteorologist Joe Astolfi reported near white-out conditions at times and recommended drivers use caution.
Belvidere Central Middle School and Belvidere North High School students living near Caledonia and Dawson Lake roads are excused from school today because bus drivers cannot pick up students, according to the district's Facebook post.
Below are the routes affected:
- Routes 201 and 202: Bus drivers will be late picking up students, and those living close to the scene will not be picked up at all.
- Route 209: First Student cannot pick up students on this route because of road closures.
- Route 1601: Students will not arrive to Belvidere North High School on time.


text:
Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word:
In January, despite all the light imagery of the liturgical season of Epiphany, days can pass without any appreciable sunlight. We feel the lack of effulgence.
Effulgent (pronounced e-FUL-jent) means "radiant," "shining brightly," "brilliant." It's a direct steal from the Latin, deriving from effulgere, "to shine out."
When applied to a person, effulgent suggests "emanating joy or goodness."
Example: From W.C. Fields: "What a glorious day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe."


text:
Like I said...What are all of you basing that on ? I haven't missed a game since I was a kid so there are no smoke & mirrors. Worilds only missed 7 games out of 64. That is it...7. Played in more games than Woodley & Harrison when all 3 were on the roster. He missed 4 games in '11 because of his wrist injury but returned to finish the last 8 games of the season. Worilds had off season surgery to repair his injury & came back to play all 16 games of '12. Btw...18 sacks with only 21 starts is a pretty Dam good number to start with.
I said this 2 weeks ago in the "Worilds: What I don't understand" tread. But....Don't take my word for it. That was one question in Ray Fittipaldo's Steeler chat yesterday...See below.
Wild Bill: How many games has Worilds missed due to injury since he came to camp? His wrist set him back and it seems he had a lot of other injuries when he was needed to perform. Is he worth a Woodley like contract when he isn't very dependable either?
Ray Fittipaldo: Worilds did not play much as a rookie, only 43 snaps. He was active for all but two games and I'm not sure either was due to injury. He missed four games the following season when he had the wrist injury that held him back. He played in all 16 games last season. So he missed six games in three seasons and two of them (I don't think) were because of injury. Compare that to Woodley, who has missed significantly more time because of injuries, and I think it's safe to say Worilds is the safer bet from a health history standpoint.
Read more: [URL]http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2014/01/27/Ray-Fittipaldo-s-Steelers-chat-transcript-1-27-14/stories/201401270134#ixzz2riqkiqlp[/URL]


text:
LAWRENCE — Notre Dame went into Saturday's Non-Public South A semifinal against Paul VI hoping to add a state finals appearance to its list of accomplishments this season — which already included the Irish's first Mercer County Tournament title since 1988.
Unfortunately for coach Bob Turco and company, that didn't happen. After hanging tough with the fourth-seeded Eagles until halftime, the floodgates opened after the break. Notre Dame eventually lost 88-66 in front of a packed house in Lawrence.
"We're building a program," Turco said. "Step one was to win the Mercer County Tournament, and we wanted to be in at least the state final, but kids are kids. Sometimes good things happen and sometimes bad things happen."
The Irish came out of the gates quickly, with the school's all-time leading scorer Isaiah Johnson showing how he was able to scale the Notre Dame record books. Johnson knocked down three straight three-pointers.
"I've been doing this for eight years as a head coach, and Isaiah is flat out the best scorer I've ever had," Turco said. "He's the first to practice and the last to leave. He's just a tremendous kid."
Johnson picked up his third personal foul early in the second half, forcing him to the bench for the rest of the half. Big men Josh Williams and Steve Harris did a good job picking up the scoring slack, however, and the Irish went into the half within striking distance at 43-36.
"It had nothing to do with the refs," Turco said, dismissing the common sentiment from the bleachers about Johnson's foul trouble. "They were better than us today."
That's when things went south for Notre Dame. Paul VI scored the first seven points of the second half and never looked back, opening up a 19-point lead by the end of the quarter. Matt Risse and Jay Howard were especially effective, ending up with 14 and 17, respectively.
"They came out hot and we never had much of an answer," Harris said.
The Eagles were also able to limit Johnson after the break by going into a diamond-and-one defense, not giving him any room to operate.
"It was frustrating, because I didn't feel I could go as hard as I wanted to," Johnson said.
Johnson ended up with 15 points, 12 of which came in the first quarter. Williams had 27 and Harris finished with 15, each throwing down a bevy of emphatic dunks. Many of those dunks, however, came after the outcome of the game was already decided.
"That's who we are and who we try to be night in and night out," Turco said. "We showed some flashes of it, but not enough."
While the Irish were obviously disappointed by the loss, Turco made a point to praise the senior trio of Johnson, Williams and Harris, who have each played a huge part in turning the Irish program around.
"You know what? I don't really care what happened in the second half," Turco said. They put Notre Dame basketball on the map. We're on a whole different level. They have busted, worked hard as anybody, and they've shown these little kids how to work hard. It's a great step for us and we'll be around for many years to come.
For the players, it was emotional locker room after the game.
"It was the best year I've ever had with this team," Johnson said. "They are my brothers, each and ever one of them."
Howard 7-3-17, Risse 6-1-14, O'Keefe 6-1-14, Robinson 2-3-7, Green 6-4-19, Rosbia 5-1-11, Kennedy 1-0-3, Twyne 0-2-2, Dawko 0-0-0, Mosley 0-0-0, Monello 0-0-0. Totals: 33-15-88.
Williams 11-6-28, Harris 6-3-15, Johnson 5-2-15, Preston 1-1-3, Knorr 1-0-2, Minogue 0-1-1, O'Keefe 1-0-2. Totals: 25-13-66.
Paul VI (24-2) 24 19 23 22 — 88
Notre Dame (25-4) 21 15 11 19 — 66
3pt goals: PVI- Green 3, Risse, O'Keefe, Kennedy; ND- Johnson 3.


text:
FOXBOROUGH — If retiring linebacker Ray Lewis is the emotional ringleader of the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl-bound defense, then strong safety Bernard Pollard is its unabashed knockout artist.
When Stevan Ridley was knocked unconscious in the fourth quarter on a scary hit that left the Patriots running back crumpled on the turf, no one among the Gillette Stadium crowd of 68,756 was surprised to learn Pollard was responsible for the jarring collision.
The hit caused a controversial fumble that led to the final touchdown in Baltimore's 28-13 victory in Sunday's AFC Championship game.
"This is what we're about,'' said Pollard. "We're about hitting and we're about running to the football and guys playing hard for four quarters and I think we did a really good job as a team, coming into a hostile environment.
"We know what it felt like last year,'' Pollard said, referring to Baltimore's 23-20 loss to the Patriots in the AFC title game. "We didn't want to have that feeling again, walking off that field.''
So Pollard did what he does best, particularly against the Patriots. He brought the pain, even though it stands to cost him money if the league reviews his hit on Ridley and a third-quarter hit on Wes Welker that was flagged for a personal foul.
"They were good hits,'' Pollard said. "I mean, the league will look at it. Nevertheless, this is how I play. If they fine me, they fine me. I can't change my game.''
"Bernard Pollard, man, that guy is a hitter,'' said free safety Ed Reed. "He's a hitter, he's a thumper, we're going to have to do something about these rules.''
Pollard's hit on Ridley was the latest in the safety's punishing blows against the Patriots.
Who could forget how he maimed Tom Brady in the 2008 season opener when he was with Kansas City? How his mere presence in the Texans secondary caused Welker's knee to buckle while making a hard cut on Reliant Stadium's awful turf in the 2009 regular-season finale? Or how he rolled over Rob Gronkowski's ankle in last year's AFC Championship game?
When it comes to playing the Patriots, Pollard is a one-man wrecking crew.
"It's football,'' Pollard said. "This is how we play the game. First of all, we give all thanks and glory to God for allowing us to get through this game injury free. I mean, for us, we're just excited to be going to New Orleans.''
Pollard tried to downplay the impact made by his hit on Ridley. The Ravens recovered the fumble, and Joe Flacco found Anquan Boldin on an 11-yard touchdown pass that gave Baltimore a 15-point lead with 11:13 to go.
"It's just a tackle, it's football,'' Pollard said, when asked to describe his hit on Ridley. "He broke through a hole and us, as safeties, we have to fill in where needed, and that's fine. That's football. I hope he's OK.
"We as players are competitive in the moment, but when everything calms down you want that guy to be OK, because that is our brother, that is our brother.''
But does he relish his reputation as a Patriot Killer?
"I don't think about that,'' Pollard said. "This is football, man. Like I said, me as a player, I might laugh and do everything else in the moment and be excited and ready to go. But when it's all said and done, I just really hope their guys are OK, because they play in this game just like we do. It's a very physical game, a violent game, and I just hope he's OK.''Michael Vega can be reached at email@example.com.


text:
The problem with isometric is it's usually a bit difficult getting text and dims to look correct. You tend to have to modify individual dims/text to match the iso-pane you want them to "appear" in. E.g. using the DimEdit Oblique and draw a line in one of the ISO panes. Then you also might want the text to appear as if drawn isometrically (instead of orthogonally) by adjusting the Obliqueing property, but that requires some further mods for dims.
Whereas if you draw directly on the 3d objects then the text & dims will also be drawn correctly as well. And if it's just a few lines (instead of true solids) you can still draw them in 3d.
But it's up to you if you want 2d/3d drawings. And with something like those ISOtools you get around most of ISO's problems. You'll need some extras to get the text/dims things to work that way as well.


text:
Thread: How to Replace Obamacare
#1 How to Replace Obamacare08-25-2012, 06:19 PM
By Stephen Moore & Peter Ferrara from the July - Aug 2012 issue
Conservatives should articulate a vision for Patient Power.
A COMMON LIBERAL REFRAIN is that conservatives have no real health care agenda of their own— other than, of course, opposing Obamacare. For instance, in the midst of debate over the president's signature health "reform" bill, one progressive Florida congressman famously told the House that the GOP's plan was for sick Americans to "die quickly."
Baloney. Conservatives could probably stand to put more emphasis on the latter part of "repeal and replace," but the fact is that many free-market health care reforms enjoy broad consensus on the right.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare in late June—after this magazine hits the press. But while the court's decision could be explosive politically, it will not change the need for conservatives to articulate a strong alternative to state-centered health care. The answer is patient power.
EXPLODING HEALTH CARE COSTS in America stem ultimately from what is known as the thirdparty payment problem—that is to say, the great majority of health costs are not paid by the patients themselves. There is almost always some third party, whether it be an insurance company, an HMO, or the government, footing the bills. Indeed, in 2008, 84 percent of health expenses were paid for by private health insurance or government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP.
Consequently, the consumer has no incentive to control costs. To put it in formal economic terms, the consumer has an incentive to spend until the marginal benefit of additional spending is zero. For instance, if a $1,000 procedure costs you nothing, it's worth doing—at least in economic terms—for just $1 Of benefit. In an efficient market, consumers spend until the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost. That $1,000 procedure should only really be worth it for $1,001 of benefit.
In more colloquial terms, the problem is that consumers have an incentive to spend on health care until it hurts, and they have no incentive to shop around. Even worse, doctors and specialists not only have no incentive to control costs, but they actually have a direct financial interest in spending more. Health care providers have no incentive to compete on price, so they compete primarily on quality and secondarily on convenience.
That explains why the American health care system produces far and away the highest quality care in the world: The rewards go to he who creates the best new innovations and most effective new treatments. It also explains why new technology— which drives down costs in every other field—actually increases costs in medicine.
The only solution is to unite the decision over what health care services to purchase with the economic responsibility to pay for them, so costs can be weighed against benefits. And there are only two ways to do that: either the third-party payer (the government or insurance company) is given the power to decide what treatments the patient is allowed to consume, or the patient is given market incentives to consider the full costs of his health care.
Obamacare (and most foreign systems like Britain's National Health Service) effectively impose the first alternative. With 159 new bureaucracies, boards, agencies, commissions, and programs to govern American health care, plus the individual and employer mandates that require specific health insurance policies, Obamacare could be rightly Labeled "government-centered health care." The government takes primary responsibility for paying health expenses. The government takes primary responsibility for deciding what health care services its citizens are allowed to consume. The government, then, decides whether each individual's health care is worth the price. This is why the concept of the government "death panel" expresses a fundamental truth about Obamacare.
WHAT AMERICA NEEDS NOW is the opposite, a patient-centered alternative that maximizes consumer power, choice, and control over health care and its financing. The intellectual godfather of this approach is John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas and author of the 1991 book Patient Power published by the Cato Institute.
Central to this concept are Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which were first proposed in 1981. HSAs include an insurance policy with a high annual deductible, in the range of $2,000 to $6,000 (the higher the better). Such high deductibles reduce the cost of the insurance so much that the savings would mostly cover the deductible in the first year. The HSA funds earn interest tax-free and roll over year after year. After one healthy year with few or no medical expenses, the patient has enough money in the account to cover all expenses below the deductible.
Read More>http://spectator.org/archives/2012/0...lace-obamacareWoe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
|« Previous Thread | Next Thread »


text:
Online Instructional Materials for Students with Disabilities: Does it Work?
In the context of online instructional programs, numerous topics have been addressed. The purpose of this study was to explore the implementation of the Renzulli Learning System (RLS) in a large public school district in the southwest area of the United States as a measure of using online instructional materials toward increasing academic achievement for students with special needs. Specifically, the study explored the implementation of the RLS in support of students who have been identified as learning disabled. Moreover, the study comprised 2,750 students in Grades 6 through 8 and examined simultaneously high and low utilization of RLS with respect to state assessment reading and mathematics scaled scores through the use of a multivariate analysis of variance. Findings revealed that when the utilization of RLS was high by students with learning disabilities, the reading scaled scores (n = 1,212) tended to be higher, whereas the mathematics scaled scores (n = 1,269) tended to be lower. Implications of the findings are presented and recommendations for future research are provided.
Full Text:PDF
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/ije.v4i3.1866
To make sure that you can receive messages from us, please add the 'macrothink.org' domain to your e-mail 'safe list'. If you do not receive e-mail in your 'inbox', check your 'bulk mail' or 'junk mail' folders.
Copyright © Macrothink Institute ISSN 1948-5476


text:
It is the policy of the National Council of Teachers of English that it demonstrate sensitivity to the concerns of people of color and they be represented on all Council-sponsored programs. People of color refers to historically underrepresented groups--African American, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Latinos.
Cultural Caucuses & Committees
Caucuses are Special Interest Groups within NCTE and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) who come together on specific issues and actions. They hold meetings at the NCTE Annual Convention and/or at the CCCC Annual Convention. Click the links below to get involved.
NCTE approved funding in support of the implementation of Writing and Working for Change: A Digital Archive of Social Activism by Teachers of NCTE. A collection of video interviews, featuring caucus leaders, were developed to preserve and expand access to records documenting the collective work of English teachers and as a way of supporting NCTE's commitment to social justice and equality.
As we continue to increase awareness and participation of individuals and groups that represent cultural diversity, we remain committed to the development and ongoing support of policies, programs, groups, and special initiatives that address diversity.
National African American Read-In (AARI)Sponsored by the Black Caucus and NCTEJoin over a million readers and host your very own African American Read-In. Bring together friends to share a book, or arrange a public reading that features professional African American writers. Annual Event: February
Cultural Celebration and Social EventHosted by the Black and Latino Caucuses Social Event Sponsored by Michigan State University's Center for Applied Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Arts and Humanities.Friday, November 16, 20127:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. Cultural Celebration8:15 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Social EventMGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NevadaGrand Ballroom Room 113, Level One
Hear the call of drums, la música, festive colors, hip hop style, and talented students, as the Black and Latino Caucuses celebrate the children of Las Vegas. Spoken word poetry, mariachis, a drum line, dramatic monologues, and various dance groups, all performed by youth from Las Vegas schools. These young people will delight you and make you proud to live in our diverse world. After the performances, stay and relax with us, as we continue our celebration with dancing and head bopping to the rhythms of a DJ.
El día de los niños/El día de los libros is a celebration of childhood and multilingual literacy under the leadership of author Pat Mora.This celebration serves as a nationwide effort to observe a special day for promoting literacy for children of all ages and cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Host your very own celebration that focuses on linking children to books, languages, and cultures. Annual: April 30
NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award This award is given to an NCTE member of color who has made a significant contribution to NCTE and the development of our professional community. Deadline March 18, 2013.
NCTE Early Career Educator of Color Leadership AwardsThis award supports early career teachers of color who take part in a three-day summer leadership development conference that helps prepare them to carry out a leadership project in literacy education. Deadline March 18, 2013.
NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Award of DistinctionThis award provides early career teachers of color a national forum at the NCTE Annual Convention for professional collaboration and development as they build accomplished teaching careers as active NCTE members. Deadline March 18, 2013.
Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of ColorAdministered by the Research Foundation. The Cultivating New Voices program is designed to provide support, mentoring, and networking opportunities for early career scholars of color. The program aims to work with graduate students of color as they conceptualize, plan, conduct, and write their research. Deadline March 15, 2013.CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award Administered by the Conference on College Composition and CommunicationThis travel award is given to ten first-time CCCC Convention presenters who are members of a historically underrepresented group. Deadline October 10, 2012.
CEE Cultural Diversity GrantThis grant offers up to two $500 awards for first-time NCTE Conference presenters who are members of groups historically underrepresented in NCTE and CEE. Eligible NCTE members must indicate their desire to be considered for the Cultural Diversity Grant on their NCTE Conference Proposal Form and submit an application by the extended deadlineof May 31, 2012. Please click here for additional information. Deadline January 1, 2013.
Related Information That Is Really Long
Quisque ac ante id justo varius porta. Nulla augue neque, mollis quis, luctus at, varius hendrerit, arcu.
Nunc scelerisque orci sit amet metus mattis mollis. Nunc at sapien sed velit facilisis luctus.
Copyright © 1998-2018
National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved in all media.
1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096 Phone: 217-328-3870 or 877-369-6283
Looking for information? Browse our FAQs,
tour our sitemap
and store sitemap,
or contact NCTE
Read our Privacy Policy
Statement and Links Policy.
Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use
Visit us on:
This document was printed from http://www.ncte.org/diversity/contenthistory/2012109/39699/10/9/547.
NCTE - The National Council of Teachers Of English
A Professional Association of Educators in English Studies, Literacy, and Language Arts


text: If you've got other stuff you want to get rid of, list the frag on ebay with the other item, like a leather wallet you got as a gift and never used. This seems to help move it out at a reasonable price. Otherwise, I would say just list them as a lot on ebay and be done with them already! I just listed a lot of 8 new frags on ebay for $20 plus shipping, just to get rid of the stuff !


text:
Thursday, May 2
Baseball: Hall at Woodland, BV at Fulton, PHS at Manual, 4:30 p.m.
Boys tennis: PHS at St. Bede, 4:30 p.m.
Girls soccer: Hall at Mendota, 4:30 p.m.
Softball: Hall at Woodland, BV at Fulton, PHS at PC (F/S), 4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 3
Girls soccer: Hall at HBR, Princeton at Peoria Christian, 4:30 p.m.
Softball: L/O at Princeton, 4:30 p.m.
Track: Girls - Princeton, St. Bede at NCIC Meet at IVC, 4 p.m., Bureau Valley at Three Rivers Meet at Morrison, 4:30 p.m. Boys - Princeton at Geneseo Invite, 2 p.m.
Saturday, May 4
Baseball: Dunlap at PHS-DH, 10 a.m.
Special Olympics Spring Games, cancelled.
Track: IESA sectional at Princeton and Erie, 9 a.m., Wethersfield,10 a.m.
Monday, May 6
Baseball: PHS at St. Bede, Midland at Hall, BV at Newman, 4:30 p.m.
Boys tennis: L-P at PHS, 4:30 p.m.
Softball: BV at Newman, Midland at Hall, Ottawa at PHS (frosh), 4:30 p.m.
Track: Coed - Hall, SBA at Illinois Valley Meet at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, May 7
Baseball: BV at Henry, 4:30 p.m., PHS at PC, 6:30 p.m.
Boys tennis: PHS at Streator, 4:30 p.m.
Girls soccer: Alleman 1A sectional - Alleman vs. DePue, 5 p.m., Princeton vs. Hall, 7 p.m.
Softball: BV at Henry, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 8
Baseball: E/P at BV, Wethersfield at Hall, Marquette at SBA, 4:30 p,m.
Sottball: Wethersfield at Hall, 4:30 p,m.
Thursday, May 9
Baseball: Newman at PHS, Hall at Plano, SBA at Eureka, 4:30 p.m.
Boys tennis: SBA at PHS, NCIC Meet, 4:30 p.m.
Softball: Midland at PHS, Hall at Plano, Newman at SBA, 4:30 p.m.
Track: 1A Sectional at Erie, 2A Sectional at Princeton,
Friday, May 10
Baseball: Henry at L/O, 4:30 p.m., SBA at BCC Invite.
Girls soccer: Alleman 1A sectional finals, 6 p.m.
Softball: Princeton at IVC Tournament, 4 p.m., Henry at L/O, PC at SBA, 4:30 p.m.
Track: Boys - Princeton, St. Bede NCIC Meet at Princeton, 3 p.m., Three Rivers Meet at Bureau Valley, 4:30 p.m.


text:
Class 5A regional quarterfinals: Creekside at Baker County, 7:30 p.m.
Records: Creekside (4-6); Baker County (8-2)
Last week: Bartram Trail d. Creekside 44-24; Baker County d. Bradford 20-12
Winner gets: Winner of Ponte Vedra-Bishop Kenny. Creekside would travel to face either team. Baker County would host Bishop Kenny, but travel to face Ponte Vedra.
Players to watch: Creekside, QB Adam Sandin, sr. (11 rushing TDs); RB Livio Hoxha, sr. (758 rushing yards); WR Mitch Renda, (12.9 YPC); Baker County, RB Falon Lee, sr. (20 rushing TDs); QB Corey Lawler, sr. (1,009 rushing yards, 1,054 passing yards); WR Michael Boone, jr. (8 receiving TDs)
Glance: Creekside's manic regular season, ending with the team's record falling below .500 with a loss to Bartram Trail, only means that anything is possible for the Knights in the postseason. After starting off on a three-game losing streak, Creekside rattled off three wins against quality opponents. In its loss against Ponte Vedra, a 20-0 defeat, the Knights managed to stifle the Sharks potent rushing attack despite the lopsided score. Livio Hoxha hasn't returned to his 1,000-yard form from last season partially due to a leg injury early in the year. Quarterback Adam Sandin has tore up sloppy defenses on the ground, and Baker County has given up 268.6 yards per game. Offensively, the Wildcats finished the regular season as the First Coast's top offense with a pair of 1,000-yard rushers manning their backfield in Falon Lee and Corey Lawler. Baker hasn't been beat since its sixth game against Bolles, 42-18. A common opponent between the two teams - Palatka - lost to Creekside by a point and to Baker by five.


text:
"But why must it be regarded as unguided scientifically, when there's a more apt third option available: "Science can't determine whether it's guided or unguided."?"
On one hand I agree that science can't determine it- mainly because it has no way to measure anything supernatural.
On the other hand, any hypothesis has to be naturalistic- since that is the job of science: finding out the natural methodology behind everything, assuming a naturalistic explanation is out there. The more we look, the more it appears there are natural rules for everything. Progress comes in assuming it and looking for it; progress stops when you think God did it so there's no need to look further into it (if God did it, it would be stupid and pointless to look further into it, since it was a miracle).
From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Schwarzwald
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:40 AM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: RE: [asa] Interview with Denis Lamoureux
Heya Bernie,
Sure, I admit you don't demand it. On the other hand, Dick doesn't demand Adam be made out of dust either. You say being open to the possibility alone is enough to bar Dick from being viewed as accepting evolution - but then your being open to the possibility of evolution being guided would seem to put you in the same situation with quite a lot of pro-evolution types. (Probably not TEs - then again, you're the one who asked Miller about this.)
I also agree that science is utterly incapable of determining whether or not God was involved with evolution, or any particular event. But why must it be regarded as unguided scientifically, when there's a more apt third option available: "Science can't determine whether it's guided or unguided."? Science can be done without either assumption in play, so why make one? And if we're going to make any assumption, and neither view can be determined scientifically, why not go with guided? You no more have to put a miracle into your equations than an atheist has to assume intelligent/willful beings are a likely outcome of naturalistic evolution. (Indeed, evolution were viewed as likely to produce such beings, it would no longer really be naturalistic.)
Either way, I'm mostly saying that we shouldn't be so quick to demand people bow to our views of evolution lest they be accused of not really believing in it. Ken Miller of all people was essentially accused of this by Coyne, and I think it's clear he went too far in that case - and that it is, after all, possible to go too far. I also think it's important to know the difference (as you seem to) between "science cannot determine whether it is or isn't true" and "science has determined it is false". Far too many times the former gets magically turned into the latter, despite nothing - not even the power of deep time - being able to decide this question.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dehler, Bernie <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> wrote:
Hi Schwarzwald,
You said:
"I ask this because, frankly, I've seen people argue that what seems to be your own position (evolution is guided) is a rejection of evolution itself on the grounds that a key principle of evolution IS that it's unguided."
I don't demand that evolution be guided- I'm just open to the issue, as I don't think science can tell one way or the other. In other words, if you win the state lottto, there's no way to scientifically determine if you just randomly won or if God made it happen that way.
Pro for guided evolution: The complexity we see (brain, eye, etc).
Con for guided evolution: the incomprehensible power of deep time. We can't really grasp millions of years. It is beyond our sensory everyday experience.
Scientifically, by definition, it must be regarded as unguided because otherwise a miracle would be involved and science can't use miracles in equations, since they are indeterminate. But what is scientific and what is true can be too different things (evolution is scientifically unguided, but may be really guided in truth). And if God did guide it, He'd be twiddling DNA bits in the right way to make something new and useful, so it would look totally naturalistic. He may have to do it because it may be impossible to naturalistic get what we have today in humans, or to start biological life.
From: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>] On Behalf Of Schwarzwald
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:34 AM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>
Subject: Re: RE: [asa] Interview with Denis Lamoureux
What if Adam evolved biologically, but still was chosen for a particular relationship with God? Or if Adam had biological ancestors/precursors, but God intervened with his particular development? At what point does evolutionary creation become "special creation"?
I ask this because, frankly, I've seen people argue that what seems to be your own position (evolution is guided) is a rejection of evolution itself on the grounds that a key principle of evolution IS that it's unguided. Now, I disagree with that. I also disagree with one of the criticisms I've seen of Michael Behe - namely that he doesn't really believe in common descent, because if he believes that certain evolutionary events were controlled or intended [even if said events were 'natural'], then descent isn't really common because such intention/intervention breaks the common relationship. It makes me wonder what's happening in cases of animal husbandry.
If we're going to take classifications seriously, we should probably face the fact that probably every single person on this list would be considered by some to reject evolution, or key aspects of evolutionary theory, regardless of how we approach the question.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dehler, Bernie <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote:
Dick said:
"Whether he had natural parents or was created out of the dust is something I leave as an open question. "
Then you are not a firm evolutionist if you reject (or think the rejection is reasonable) the evolutionary biological origins for Adam and Eve.
If you accept that Adam did not evolve biologically, then there's no reason to understand the other animals also having been evolved. If God made man unique, He could have done the same for other animals.
A pillar of "evolutionary creation" is that biological evolution is true and special creation (by fiat) is false.
Your views sound closer to "Old Earth Creationism," or is "Old Earth Creationism" off the rails... a very liberal brand of OEC.
From: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:25 AM
To: Dehler, Bernie
Cc: email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: RE: [asa] Interview with Denis Lamoureux
Hi Bernie:
The historical Adam I accept lived about 7,000 years ago near the Euphrates River as delineated by Genesis. That is the man who Denis and others reject as having lived at all.
Whether he had natural parents or was created out of the dust is something I leave as an open question. When God "created" great sea creatures they were created out of an evolutionary process. They had precursors and Adam may have had forerunners too, but I wouldn't know how to confirm that. If Adam had natural parents and Eve derived from him she would have his genetic makeup, psudogenes, processed pseudogenes, retro viral sequences, the lot.
The mitochondrial issue presents no difficulty either way. There is a point in the Adamic line where the indigeonous population joins up. That would be either at Noah or the wives of his three sons or perhaps all four took wives genetically connected outside the Adamic line. So the mitochondrial DNA for all women would go back to the Eve of antiquity not Adam's wife. Jubilees names the wives of all four, and the names of the wives of the three sons are not Hebrew or Akkadian names.
Jun 8, 2009 11:13:17 AM, email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> wrote:
Hi Dick-
You accept a historical Adam, but it really isn't the Adam mentioned in Genesis, because that Adam was created by God scooping-up dirt and breathing life into it. On that score- Denis is right that EC by definition disallows a historical Adam, because evolutionists believe Adam evolved rather than being made uniquely by fiat. Same goes for Eve- evolved, not made from a rib. You are not fully evolutionary as you still consider Eve coming from the rib of Adam as a possibility. Evolutionists would not consider that a possibility for Eve at all. Such a action would have major ramifications for the human genome, which are absent (Mitochondrial Eve traceability would only be a few thousand years if she came unique from fiat- plus other things wouldn't make sense like pseudogenes and human chromosome #2).
But this is all playing with words (EC- and what it means)- and people make up new words and phrases all the time, like "Evolutionary Christian" and "Biologos." Why did Francis Collins have to make up a new word "Biologos?" If you find out why, and also agree with his reason for crating a new word, then you'll find yourself coming up with a new word or phrase for your position too.
-----Original Message-----
From: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>] On Behalf Of Dick Fischer
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 7:20 AM
To: 'Douglas Hayworth'
Cc: ASA
Subject: RE: [asa] Interview with Denis Lamoureux
Hi Douglas:
It's precisely this comment that riles me: "EC by definition rejects a
historical Adam, because this view of origins rejects scientific
Adam is only one of the Genesis patriarchs listed in Abraham's line of
ancestry. Since Denis eliminates Adam as a human being who once breathed
air I would be curious as to how many other patriarchs EC would eliminate.
Assuming Abraham was a real person at what point would Denis propose that
mythological forebears gave birth to live human beings.
Also, since I spent 27 years of my life searching for evidence that supports
the historicity of Genesis 2-11, naturally I am somewhat miffed by one who
rejects Genesis historicity out of hand without doing any relevant research.
Biological evolution looks to be on solid ground because we have an
abundance of data and evidence to confirm it. The central theme of
Christianity has support with biblical and historical evidence which upholds
it. And the historicity of the Genesis patriarchs likewise has evidence in
support. On the flip side, there is an absence of evidence that biological
evolution is untrue or that Jesus Christ had no ministry or that Adam didn't
live. So what I would suggest is that we support the things, all things,
for which we have we have a database of supporting evidence and avoid
signing on to things for which there is no evidence in support - such as the
historicity of Adam, for example.
Perhaps Douglas you'd be so kind to as to take a glance at what I've written
and conduct a similar interview?
Dick Fischer, author, lecturer
Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham
-----Original Message-----
From: email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> [mailto:email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>] On
Behalf Of Douglas Hayworth
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:06 PM
To: AmericanScientificAffiliation
Subject: [asa] Interview with Denis Lamoureux
Hi Everyone,
If you're interested in Denis Lamoureux's views and his book
Evolutionary Creation, you may be interested in reading an interview
that I did with him for my blog Becoming Creation
(http://becomingcreation.org). I invite you to leave comments and
questions (no long rants, please).
I don't join the conversations very often here on the ASA list -- I'm
always amazed at how much some of you are able to write! You're all
either very fast keyboarders or you've got a lot more time on your
hands than I do -- but I do lurk and follow most threads. I'm
especially interested in the discussions about education, especially
those relating to homeschooling. I mention this because I plan on
devoting most of my blogging efforts in the coming months to
developing content (short essays, etc.) for homeschooling students and
parents. If you are interested in that topic, please add Becoming
Creation to your RSS-feed and comment to provide corrections or
suggestions for improvement.
Doug Hayworth
ASA member
Rockford, IL
To unsubscribe, send a message to email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
To unsubscribe, send a message to email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
To unsubscribe, send a message to email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com> with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
To unsubscribe, send a message to firstname.lastname@example.com with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Tue Jun 9 14:01:39 2009
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jun 09 2009 - 14:01:39 EDT


text:
If the season started the way it ended, the Waynesboro boys' soccer team may have well been competing for a District 3 medal.
WAYNESBORO — If the season started the way it ended, the Waynesboro boys' soccer team may have well been competing for a District 3 medal.
And, let's face it, this wasn't just "another" season. It was a year of celebration as the team celebrated the 50th anniversary of boys' soccer at Waynesboro Area Senior High School.
"Our expectations were high," said Mid-Penn Colonial Division Coach of the Year Brian Stum, who completed his first year as the head coach and led the Tribe to a 9-9 record. "We started the season coming off a very positive team camp. We were exposed to several teams that went deep in the district playoffs and we beat them."
There might have been just a sprinkling of pressure on Stum, whose father, Bob Stum, started the boys' soccer program in 1963 and coached until 1996.
A pair of losses to perennial post-season contender Gettysburg coupled with a couple head-scratching setbacks took some of the luster off of an otherwise memorable campaign.
Waynesboro outshot opponents 315-205 but finished with a plus-1 in goals scored (32-31). The Indians ended the season wiuth a 62-45 advantage in corner kicks. Waynesboro goalkeepers, led by Ben Lochstampfor, finished with 142 saves.
Camry Huff, who was named to the MPC-Colonial First Team, led the Indians with 10 goals. He also had an assist. Quinton Perry, Mason Benchoff and Michael Ochoa each scored four goals. Perry recorded a team-high five assists, while Benchoff and Ochoa (MPC-Colonial Second Team) each had one assist.
Junior Conor Short joined Ochoa on the MPC-Colonial Second Team.
"We dominated the majority of our games this year from 20 to 20," Stum said. "It just seemed like when our offense worked, out defense broke down, and when our defense worked, our offense broke down."
There were some breakdowns early in the season that followed a season-opening 2-0 win against Big Spring as the Indians began their 50th season.
Waynesboro lost four consecutive games, including three by shutout before notching a 4-0 win against James Buchanan. Another shut-out loss was followed by a big 2-0 win against a Conestoga Valley that is playing for the PIAA Class AAA championship against Upper St. Clair on Saturday.
Three days later, the Tribe registered a 4-1 win against Big Spring to sweep the season series, then lost for the second time to Gettysburg, a 1-0 road loss. Waynesboro got to .500 after a 6-0 win against Spring Grove and a 1-0 victory against Greencastle-Antrim.
But just when Waynesboro started to kick things into high gear, the Indians lost back to back games before closing out the season with wins in three of the final four games, including a 2-0 triumph over Fairfield with Huff scoring both goals.
Waynesboro finished 30th in the final District 3 power rating, well out of the running for a post-season spot.
"We are leaving this season losing five seniors, two of which were starters. Looking forward to next season, I feel we have a great chance of doing well with those returning as well as some of our JVs that will have an opportunity to move up.
"We have some strong off-season workouts in place and our young men are very dedicated. The kids know they have something to prove that will be motivation enough. They understand to be successful it takes hard work and dedication."
Seniors on the 2013 team were Perry, Drew Barrett, Sawyer Clever, Kurt Schlosser and Cody Motz.
Stum gave his players credit for being named Coach of the Year.
"I dedicate that to my players. I think it's a testament to their hard work and their willingness not to give up when facing adversity," Stum said.
"We had a great group of young men this year, including those on our JV squad. My varsity team showed a great deal of character through some of the adversity we faced. They worked very hard to try to turn things around, knowing full well we were underachieving. It seemed we would get one thing fixed and something else would break down."


text:
Private firms and contractors that do at least $25,000 in City of Philadelphia-funded business or receive city financial assistance will have to agree to try to hire "first-time entry-level workers" from a list of city residents, to do city-funded work, instead of using out-of-town or suburban employees, under legislation passed unanimously in City Council today.
Firms are free to hire off the city list if they can't find city workers within 10 days of starting their search. The bill also requires contractors to list "job requirements" so the city can collect data on the kind of jobs employers want to fill.
The bill looks like a compromise between an early Bill Green (D-At Large)-backed bill that would require at least half of tradespeople and non-professional workers hired by city contractors to be city residents, and objections by critics, including Jim Kenney (D-At Large), who said it was unfair to apply such a blanket law to blue-collar workers but not to college-educated professional employees.
Green was lead sponsor of the revised bill, which awaits action by Mayor Nutter.


text:
Health Reform, Women and HIV: An Update
April 26, 2010
On March 23, 2010 President Obama signed comprehensive health care reform into law. What does the new bill mean for women living with and affected by HIV?
Join us on Wednesday May 5th for a conference call to featuring presentations and a Q & A by:
Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
When: Wednesday, May 5th. 10-11:30 PT/ 11-12:30 MT/ 12-1:30 CT/ 1-2:30 ET
How: RSVP to email@example.com for call info.
Talk to you soon!
In sisterhood,
This article was provided by Positive Women's Network of the United States of America. Visit PWN-USA's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
Add Your Comment:
(Please note: Your name and comment will be public, and may even show up in
Internet search results. Be careful when providing personal information! Before
adding your comment, please read TheBody.com's Comment Policy.)


text:
Get the Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle [ALL] Trailer off WP (85mb)
Written and developed by Steve Ince of 'Broken Sword' and 'So Blonde' fame, Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle is the epic tale of Morgane Castillo, the young daughter of the renowned Pirate Alessandro Castillo and how she grows up to become the most fearsome pirate of the Caribbean and her exciting journey to discover the mysterious treasure of the Golden Turtle.
We first meet Morgane when she is 8 years old, living with her mother on Bounty Island while her father is sailing the high-seas. But when her mother dies, her father, heartbroken, takes Morgane away with him on his adventures. Upon her 17th birthday, Morgane is told to find a crew of her own and a cargo to sail with. To the feisty and confident young woman, this sounds straight-forward, but in the dangerous waters of the 17th century Caribbean, this is more difficult than even she realises! However, along the way, we find out that her long lost uncle is still alive so she forges ahead and begins the journey for Turtle Island where both her uncle, and the treasure, awaits her.
Alessandro Castillo, Morgane's father, is both proud and protective of his daughter. A respected Pirate, he soon realises that he'll not always be around to look after her and decides to teach her his pirating ways and how to captain a ship of her own.
The merchant, Thomas Briscoe, hires Morgane to help him find something that he's been obsessed by for the last ten years – the fabled Golden Turtle. A pampered and overweight man in his fifties, Thomas has a greater ambition than being just a successful merchant. All his life he has dreamed of exploring for riches, but his wife tells him he's not the adventuring kind! Undaunted, his quest with the pirates is his one last chance of a real adventure.
More articles about Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle


text: i guess it was technically 2010, but "america: the story of us" was a really interesting and well done documentary series. it's on netflix instant. the series goes through major moments in american history, starting from when we first got here. there were a lot of things i'd either forgotten or didn't know.


text:
One By Land If None By Sea?
Iran is claiming once again to have captured a US drone. The YouTube above consists of a boring eleven minutes broadcast by PressTV of Iranian military types doing a poor impression of Vanna White running their hands over what is claimed to be a US ScanEagle drone. If true, this would be the second drone captured by Iran in just over a year. Early last December, Iran first claimed to have shot down and then changed their wording to claiming to have "brought" down a much larger RQ-170 Sentinel drone, prompting the question of whether Iran managed to hack the drone.
There has been considerable additional drone action of late regarding Iran, with Iran firing on a Predator drone in November over the Gulf (perhaps in Iranian airspace, perhaps not). Iran then said later in November that they were reporting the US to the UN for violating Iranian airspace at least 8 times during October, presumably with drones.
Interestingly, it appears that Iran is claiming once again to have hacked this drone. From Fars News Agency:
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced that his forces hunted a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over the Persian Gulf after the drone violated the country's airspace.
The UAV which had conducted several reconnaissance flights over the Persian Gulf general zone in the past few days was caught and brought under control by air defense units and control systems of the IRGC Navy.
We are now in the denial phase of the US response to this incident. The next bit in the Fars News article sets it up:
The IRGC navy commander announced that the haunted [sic] UAV was a ScanEagle drone, adding that "such drones are usually launched from large warships."
Seizing on this bit, the US has quickly trotted out a US Navy spokesman to say that all ScanEagles are accounted for and none are missing. This same article also suggests that other countries in the region have ScanEagles and posits that Iran may have salvaged a ScanEagle that went down in the Gulf long ago.
[Heh. I missed the Fars typo saying the drone was "haunted" instead of "hunted" on my first several readings. That puts an entirely different spin on the situation…]
Interstingly, at the end, the AP article does get around to pointing out that the US eventually changed its story on the RQ-170 [and see the update below the fold]: Read more →


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
Reality Store
The 4-H Reality Store will be held May 27 for all the LCMS eighth graders. Volunteers are needed to help with the various booths. If you are interested in volunteering, contact 4-H Agent Misty Wilmoth at 358-3401.
Dog Club
The 4-H Dog Club will meet 10-11:30 a.m. May 28 at the Extension Service office. You may bring your dog to the meeting. It must be on a leash.
Cooking Club
The 4-H Cooking Club will meet 3:30-5:30 p.m. May 31 at the Extension Service office.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The LaRue County Herald News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
If you are new to the award winning The LaRue County Herald News and wish to get a subscription or simply gain access to our online content then please enter your ZIP code below and continue to setup your account.
|ZIP Code:


text: Tim, > ... So, you tell LSF the following: bsub -R"select[io <= 10000] rusage[io=5000]" ... ... 2) The syntax Platform use only works well for jobs which use a resource throughout their life, or for a limited period at the beginning. For cases where it only does something for a limited period at the end, you *have* to reserve the resource for the entire lifetime of the job. This isn't optimal, but without a time machine it's hard to do it any other way. Tim. < This issue of reserving the IO resource for the lifetime of the job seems like a real annoyance; so I wonder if you could try something like this: I imaging splitting the job into three processes over it's lifetime; two will have resources posted to the scheduler, and one will be a child that intermediates. First, schedule a job with compute CPU/RAM resources but no IO (because that won't be needed for a long time). This job then forks a detached child, with parameters the address of a pointer variable and a size needed for working memory. The detached process allocates the memory, and then writes the address of that memory to the pointer variable, and then sleeps. Meanwhile, the parent process does it's many minutes of compute, and when it needs memory for intermediate results it writes to the address proveded by the pointer (that is, it uses the memory "owned" by the detached process). Eventually this parent is done computing and wants to write it's final results to the disk farm, and would need a ton of IO bandwidth. It posts the 3rd process as a job to the scheduler, this time with small CPU and memory needs but with a big request for bandwidth. Then it dies. The scheduler now has a new job to schedule, which wants to be on the same node where the detached child sleeps with the chunk of RAM, and wants IO. The RAM is idle until this job can be scheduled, but the CPU is freed for the next compute job in the queue. Eventually the scheduler has the bandwidth, spawns the write-to-farm process, which uses the sleeping child memory, writes to the farm, kills the child, and ends. This seems to trade a chunk of memory (which the OS can't give back to the scheduler until it gets consumed by the IO job) for CPU time (which gets freed up when the computation is done) and avoids locking IO resources for a longer time than just the life of the write job itself. Could something along these lines help? Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20070424/09f1955a/attachment.html>


text:
Dave White Profile
Dave White
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Le Family Nikita Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
out of 100
Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
The Family is a fish-out-of-water/buddy comedy/Mob flick. But most of all, it's a missed opportunity.
Read Full Review
Their inside jape is unfortunately not as much fun for the audience as it may have been for the filmmakers, though it does have its piquant moments. But it's not consistently entertaining enough either as a spoof or as a thriller.
This isn't vintage De Niro but at least there's more substance here than in a lot of his other recent projects. Michelle Pfeiffer, who flirted with this sort of a role 25 years ago in "Married to the Mob," is enjoying something of a renaissance after working only sparingly for more than a decade.
This is a deliberately off-kilter, cheerfully violent, hit-and-miss effort with just enough moments of inspiration to warrant a recommendation — especially if you know what you're getting into.
See all The Family reviews at Metacritic.com
Iffy for 15+
Funny but imperfect mob comedy has violence, language.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Family is a mix of comic hijinks, mobster violence, and, to a lesser extent, melancholy. Because it's about an ex-mob boss (now in the Witness Protection Program), there are many scenes filled with Mafia hit jobs, with varying degrees of violence, from smacks to beatdowns to fatal shootings and explosions. Expect plenty of strong language, too, particularly "f--k" (the word's supposed ability to express so much is a running theme), and a scene in which an adult beds a teenager (no sensitive body parts shown, but it's clear they're having sex). Some drinking, smoking, and product placement as well.
Messages: There's nothing like family to make things better, even if they're wacky (or just busy whacking somebody).
Role models: In truth, there are many reasons not to trust the Blake family. But it's amazing how much they have one another's back, love one another dearly, and aren't afraid to show it. A young woman stands up for herself and won't let boys take advantage of her (even if she does beat them to a pulp when they try to).
Violence: The movie's mood is often comic, but there's nearly an endless parade of scenes showing mobsters (and their families) avenging themselves or exacting punishment, including beating others with tennis rackets, bats, and other implements; dragging people down the street by a rope; shooting them point blank; blanketing them with bullets from semi-automatics; planting and exploding bombs; etc. The (rough) opening scene sets the tone: A family is sitting down for dinner when there's a knock at the door; when the father goes to open it, he's blasted across the floor. Then the man at the door walks in and point-blank shoots the mother and the two children.
Sex: One scene shows an older man having sex with a high school student; no sensitive body parts are visible, but it's clear that they're having intercourse. Sexual innuendoes between a married couple.
Language: Many uses of "f--k." Also "s--t," "hell," "a--hole," "ass," "damn," "goddamn," and "sonofabitch."
Consumerism: Products/brands seen include Peugeot, Citroen, and other French brands, plus Coca-Cola, BMW, Cadillac, and Brother.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some wine-drinking and cigarette smoking. Although one kid is said to run the cigarette concession at her school, she's not shown smoking. Giovanni's son fakes an injury to get to the school nurse's office. While there, he steals two vials of prescription drugs (pills) and deals them to a student.
An independent nonprofit dedicated to providing families the information they need to help kids thrive in a world of media and technology.
© Common Sense Media Inc. 2010. All rights reserved.
Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more! Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at Movies.com.
Copyright © 2018 FANDANGO MOVIES.


text:
Tall Order
Inside presence powers Titans past 'Canes in league opener
Toll Gate basketball coach Tom Rayko doesn't usually track rebounding statistics. He decided during Tuesday's season opener that he should do it this year.
With this Titans team, he almost has to.
Toll Gate visited rival Warwick Vets for its league opener on Tuesday night and used its height to full advantage, dominating the paint and the glass on its way to a 68-42 victory over the 'Canes. Seniors John Coleman and Tyler Inkley both had double-doubles, with Coleman scoring a game-high 21 and Inkley adding 14.
"I'm going to start keeping rebounding stats for them," Rayko said. "Normally we don't, because we haven't had guys like that. Those guys are going to get double-doubles all the time. They're huge."
The inside presence paved the way for an early statement. Toll Gate went 15-3 last year but lost a large senior class, including four starters. This year's team has a very different look, but if Tuesday's game is any indication, the Titans may have already found the perfect formula.
"I knew a lot of those kids could play, and given the opportunity to do their stuff, they would shine," Rayko said. "They were behind a team that was really, really talented. We knew coming in we had the height. We knew we wouldn't have as much speed. The talent's just different. We're not flashy. We don't run a lot of different presses and traps at you like we did last year, but we play good, solid, smart basketball."
And it was on display Tuesday night. Vets, a team with high hopes of its own, trotted out a starting lineup featuring three sophomores and two juniors. From the get-go, Toll Gate's bigger, more experienced front line had its way. The Titans used a pair of 10-0 runs to take a 16-point lead into the break. They pulled down 12 offensive rebounds in the first half, had 12 second-chance points and scored 24 of their 36 points in the paint.
"They're a tall, aggressive team and we're not," said Vets coach Chris LeBlanc. "We're young, but we've got to do a better job on the glass."
Vets scored the first points of the game, but Toll Gate responded with the first of its 10-0 runs. Inkley had two buckets inside, Coleman scored on a follow and hit a free throw and Kyle Toolin converted a three-point play on a drive to the basket as the Titans jumped in front 10-2.
Vets made it 10-9 thanks to three-pointers by Scott Camara and Josh Muto, but the Titans quickly scored five straight on a bucket by Inkley and a three by Derryck Anderson. After a Carter Thomas free throw cut it to 15-10, the Titans put together another 10-0 run.
Inkley and John Murphy scored on put-backs, with Murphy also hitting three free throws. Toolin capped the run with a three-pointer that made it 25-10 with 5:48 left in the first half.
During that run, Vets went almost four minutes without a field goal. That was doubly bad for the 'Canes, since they're a team that likes to press. Without baskets, they couldn't set it up.
"We shot 20 percent in the paint," LeBlanc said. "We were 7 for 35 in the paint. I don't know if we were intimidated by them or what. I'm hoping it's first-game jitters because we're better than this. We did okay outside the arc, but we had a lot of mental mistakes in the first half."
Toll Gate pushed the lead to 20 with a quick 7-0 spurt late in the half, capped by a Ben Mann layup. After Vets scored six in a row to cut it back to 14, Coleman scored twice inside to make it 36-18. Thomas scored in the final seconds for Vets, but the Titans still went to the locker room with a comfortable lead.
Inkley had 13 points in the first half, Coleman had seven and Murphy tallied five.
"The big men – not only being able to put the ball in the basket – but their interior passing was extremely good," Rayko said. "They played very well."
It continued after halftime, with Coleman carrying the torch. After an Inkley free throw, Coleman scored his team's next 13 points over a five-minute span. He scored twice on follows – turning one into a three-point play – and he also hit four jump shots.
"They're just great, because they can all step out and shoot the ball too," Rayko said. "It makes them really tough. They can score inside and they can hit jump shots."
Vets hit a pair of threes early in the second half, but Coleman's burst upped the Toll Gate lead to 22 at 50-28 with 9:21 left in the game.
The Titans could coast from there.
In addition to the big games from Coleman and Inkley, Toolin hit three three-pointers and tallied 16 points. Mann scored seven, while Murphy and Anderson had five each.
Toolin and Mann, two more seniors who have had to wait their turn, alternated point guard duties and ran the show effectively.
"Their chemistry is great," Rayko said. "They really work well together."
For Vets, Camara led the way with 11 points and Muto, a sophomore, tallied nine. Remak and Colby Menard had six each.
As expected, the 'Canes – with just two seniors on the roster – had some growing pains. LeBlanc would like his team to get through them quickly.
"I'm tired of using it as an excuse already, because these guys have played a lot," he said. "They've played more than many of the senior teams I've had. We should be doing better than this right now."
The 'Canes will return to action Friday when they visit Juanita Sanchez at 7 p.m. They'll return home Tuesday for another cross-town rivalry game, this one a 7 p.m. tilt against Pilgrim.
Toll Gate also has another big one coming, as Pilgrim visits the Titans on Friday at 7 p.m.
"I feel good," Rayko said. "I'll enjoy it for another couple of hours. Then we have another rivalry game against Pilgrim on Friday night, so I won't be sleeping for a few days until we get that done."


text:
When you have a loved one approaching the end, you feel like you're walking along the edge of a cliff in the dark, but at least you've got plenty of company.
I'm still sifting through hundreds of responses to my July 17 column about my dad, who took a fall a couple of months ago and landed in a nursing home.
Readers have sent heartfelt ruminations on death and dying; postcards from the abyss. I've gotten an education on hospice and palliative care from readers, many of them doctors. And I've heard from seniors who tell me they'd rather die with grace than be kept alive without mercy.
"My life has been very full, but now it is getting very bad and I really want to go to that other world rather than suffer the pain and see my children so worried," wrote one reader.
My father, meanwhile, was scheduled to move home this weekend from the nursing home, with all the inherent advantages and challenges, particularly for my elderly mother. At 82, she now has a full-time job as a primary caregiver.
As my siblings and I began to contemplate the meaning of that, I got an email from Albert Chin of St. Barnabas Senior Services in Los Angeles. Chin took a good rip at Gov. Jerry Brown for dismantling the state's Adult Day Healthcare Centers, which have been a godsend for people suffering from the same physical and cognitive decline as my dad.
"I still find it somewhat incredulous," wrote an angry Chin, who said programs like the St. Barnabas center serve 35,000 Californians who can't afford to go anywhere else.
Medi-Cal had paid for many of those seniors to spend four to six hours daily at the centers, providing social interaction for the participants and needed relief to family caregivers. But Brown has decided to eliminate that funding after Nov. 30 this year. What made Chin even angrier was that Brown signed legislation allowing such centers to keep their doors open for people who can pay their own way or use private insurance.
Brown told reporters last week that the state is working on finding alternative services for the 35,000 seniors who will soon have nowhere to spend their days. There's talk of in-home services or other community-based programs (which, by the way, have had their own recent cuts). But advocates like Chin were suspicious, and the Times reported last week that 17 centers had already indicated they would shut down because of funding uncertainties.
When I visited St. Barnabas last week, it was like walking in on a family gathering. Most of the clients have Alzheimer's or dementia, but although they go blank on some of the details of their life stories, they seemed engaged with each other and the staff.
As hard as it is to accept my father's decline, it would be nice to have such a place available to him, a place he could socialize several hours a day and give my mother a break at the same time. But I doubt he'd qualify for Medi-Cal, because he's in that cruel middle ground between having too much money to qualify for help and not enough to pay his own way for very long.
I could see him at St. Barnabas, though. When I was there, an elderly woman was cranking a little cage filled with the wooden balls for the Bingo game. My father would have wanted in on the game. At another table, 95-year-old Miss Emma was knitting a scarf with help from Miss Rebecca. The participants were black, white, Latino, Asian and then some, with 11 languages spoken, and daily activities that include word puzzles, physical therapy, exercise and singing.
These are frail people, though, physically and mentally. Maria Moreno, a certified nursing assistant who's been honored for her work at St. Barnabas by an L.A. County Alzheimer's group, said she fears that many of the gang here need the daily attention they get here and that without it they'll end up in emergency rooms or nursing homes.
Her boss, Lusine Nalbandyan, quoted sobering stats on the far greater cost of institutionalizing the elderly.
Which raises the question:
When the state no longer makes the $76 daily Medi-Cal payments for these clients, will there be any savings for taxpayers?
"If just 20% of the people currently in adult day healthcare go to nursing homes, we could wipe out the savings," said state Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills).
In other words, this is a penny-wise, dollar-foolish cut. And it's another example of incoherent, jumbled healthcare policies in a country of rapidly aging boomers. A country that spends billions keeping terminally ill patients alive with pacemakers and feeding tubes only to inflict more suffering on them.
Not all adult day healthcare centers are model operations; some have been accused of fraud and abuse. Those should of course be shut down. But Blumenfield said that on the whole the centers provide an invaluable service to thousands who can't afford any alternative.
He tried to salvage at least half the roughly $170-million program. But his bill to continue providing services to the most acutely ill clients was vetoed last week by Brown.
At St. Barnabas, Adina Mori-Holt arrived in the late afternoon to pick up her 95-year-old great-grandmother, Yayoi Oki, and take her home for the evening. Mori-Holt said that if the center closes, her mother might have to retire early to take care of Oki. Like many elders, Oki wants to live at home, not at a nursing center.
"I only live once," says the statement prepared for Oki by her family and St. Barnabas, which is planning to have several seniors testify at a hearing and protest the cuts. "Let me live my life now in dignity."
When you have a loved one approaching the end, you feel like you're walking along the edge of a cliff in the dark, but at least you've got plenty of company.


text:
Say you win six Grammys in a single evening, bring the world to tears (again) with a note-perfect comeback performance and then charm the snot out of every last one of your fans with your acceptance speech. If you're Adele, whatever do you do next?
The 21 singer's Vogue cover story seemed to hold the answer: "I am f*cking off four four or five years," said the 23-year-old, explaining she wants to cool her career and focus on building a relationship with boyfriend Simon Konecki, 36. "So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record," she continued. "And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch."
And Adele confirmed as much -- excellent news for anyone who's been tear-staining their copy of Vogue, bawling harder than the first time you heard "Someone Like You." She might not be mounting a world tour any time soon, but she's certainly not enjoying Freedom 23.
The singer's management refuted Vogue's report of early retirement, telling the BBC that Adele's quote in the magazine was "just an offhand comment." And a blog post written by Adele herself suggests she's still very much on the clock.
"I've a few days off now, and then it's the Brit Awards here at home and then I'm straight into the studio. BOYYAHH! 5 years? More like 5 days!" she wrote.
As the blog mentions, Adele is booked to play the BRIT Awards Feb. 21. Like her Grammy performance Sunday, her appearance at the UK award show is among her first since undergoing vocal cord surgery, and though reports -- and her Grammy performance -- suggest she's made a full recovery, if Adele seems to be freeing enough time in her schedule to tend to her veggie patch, go couples fan-boating, etc., it may be for the sake of those inimitable pipes.
In a 60 Minutes interview Sunday, Adele told Anderson Cooper that she's become more cautious about how she treats her voice since a polyp appeared on her vocal cords last year. "If I decide to go on a 200-date world tour, it would happen again," she said during the Q&A -- and her manager, Jonathan Dickins, seems to be approaching tour plans with caution.
"We have to ease her back," he told Billboard, discussing the possibility of future concert dates. According to the outlet, plans for 2012 have not yet been discussed. "While she's fully recovered, like any injury you need to build your strength back up. I'm mindful of that. I'm gonna let her enjoy this moment and not drive her mad. We'll sit down and work out what we're doing going forward. ... We all believe that she's an artist who will be around for a long time. There's absolutely no short-term approach to her recovery."
Even without a world tour, Adele continues to be the Queen of the charts. 21, the highest-selling album of 2011, continues to hold Billboard's No. 1 spot, and as of this week, it tied Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack and Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii for 20 weeks at the top.


text:
Voters casting ballots in the city election can decide whether to support a number of changes to the City Charter. The ballot questions reads:
Shall Ordinance No. 12677 to amend the Charter of the City of Chattanooga be approved pursuant to Article XI, Section 9 of the Constitution of Tennessee (Home Rule Amendment) so as to delete archaic provisions, modernize its provisions, to conform to state laws of general application, and to generally to improve the Charter?
- For the amendment
- Against the amendment
The changes to the City Charter can be found at www.chattanooga.gov/city-council/agendasminutes-by-date/9-city-council/816-agendas-2012. The changes can be found in the agenda of the Dec. 11, 2012, City Council meeting.
Early voting turnout has been very light with just over 800 people casting ballots by close of business on Thursday, according to the Hamilton County Election Commission.
Early voting will end Feb. 28.
Voters can cast ballots Monday through Saturday at the Election Commission, Northgate Mall and Brainerd Recreation Center.
Chattanooga residents are being asked to give up the idea of a city band or the authority to throw petty criminals in the workhouse.
You say Chattanooga doesn't have a city band or a workhouse now? That's the point, city officials say. They have placed a referendum on the March 5 ballot asking voters to update language in the City Charter.
But they haven't explained it well on the ballot, said Charlotte Mullis-Morgan, administrator for the Hamilton County Election Commission. Early voting for the Chattanooga mayor and City Council races began Wednesday and runs through Feb. 28.
Mullis-Morgan said the proposed charter amendment as written is "vague." She said more specific details about individual changes should have been included.
City Attorney Mike McMahan said the actual amendment could be no more than 200 words.
"I don't know how you would explicitly explain it," he said about the range of proposed changes.
Mullis-Morgan disagreed. She said the city could have printed a summary with as many words as needed as long as it fit on the ballot.
Tennessee law states that an amendment more than 300 words long should be condensed to a 200-word summary, McMahan said.
The ballot question is 53 words. There are about 26 proposed changes to charter language.
Besides eliminating a city band and workhouse, the proposed charter changes take out references to city judges' authority to levy criminal penalties. Those judges no longer handle criminal cases. The amendment also drops penalties for "Sabbath breaking" by means of disorderly assemblies, breaching the peace or creating a disturbance on Sundays.
McMahan said all the proposed changes are available online and will be printed soon.
"The last time we did a major change we printed the whole charter," he said.


text:
Sometimes this iPad makes me want to throw it out the windows!!
Sometimes this iPad makes me want to throw it out the windows!!
Spike C
"The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain."
See it now. Nice brass bolster!
Aesthetically- what do you guys like in a bolster? Contrast or a smooth transition between steel and handle? I'm wondering how much of a patina the O1 will take considering the pich grip will probably slightly polish it. Not enough to give a hard contrast, but perhaps aid in the transition style appearance. Dunno if that makes sense to you guys.
The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made out of atoms it might find useful for something else. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
That was my thought when I proposed an O1 bolster. I doubt it will patina in the same way as the blade, after all it should not be touching food right? But it should naturally complement the blade . I would imagine over time an O1 bolster will discolor and provide a nice transition between the handle and the blade, less dramatic than say brass, nickel silver or even black G10. I would almost use the word organic, but can't
Proteins and moisture (sweat/water) would affect the steel differently I would expect. The blade would turn blue purple, the bolster would grey over time, but initially turn yellow maybe.... Chefs, any thoughts?
Feel free to visit my website, http://www.rodrigueknives.com
Email email@example.com
I work in a pro kitchen, and I've yet to have any experience with carbon bolsters. I just brought it up because I've noticed the part of the blade close to the bolster/ferrule has a significantly different patina.
The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made out of atoms it might find useful for something else. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
here's my knives that's got a carbon bolster, bought used from another member on here...a pro chef i believe... have yet to use it in a pro environment
to help maybe imagine what would happen, to have an idea
the place where one pinches the blade does have a different color patina
although different carbon steel is used on this knife.... the bolster has greyed over time, the part that one would pinch the blade is lighter and the rest of the blade has a more uniform patina....
a different type? color? patina would form because of the oils from the skin and the food particles that would probably get trapped, in between the fingers and blade face, and smooshed, then of course the consistent rubbing of the fingers on the blade face....
Truth be told I like the G10/thin stainless spacer/cocobolo scheme myself.
oils and acids in your hand will have an impact. I like with mike9's opinion, but defer to Pierre regarding comfort , function and form.


text:
I've got a Hennessy Hyperlite rain fly and the underside of the fly sticks to itself something fierce.
When I take it out of the snake skins, parts of it are practically glued together and make an awful ripping noise when pulled apart (no damage however). i.e. when I take it out of the snake skins, a lot of it stays bunched up.
It has always been sticky, but I just put up with it...until I bought a big silnylon Guides Tarp from MEC and realized that the MEC silnylon didn't stick to itself nearly as much...and come to think of it, neither does the silnylon on my Big Agnes ground sleeping thingy.
I searched the forum with no luck, so I ask you, good peeps of HF, how sticky is too sticky and is there a way to keep my silnylon from sticking together so much?
(I think I read in the DIY silnylon thread and slipping grip-clips thread that different thicknesses of sil coating can have an effect on the grip/stickiness of the fabric)


text:
Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling 314
loladeutsch writes "What makes for a great story in a video game? Sometimes, with all the innovative development and cool graphics the actual story a game has to tell can get lost in the shuffle, or at least can seem to be an afterthought. When a game arrives on the shelves that presents one of the more engrossing stories we've seen in awhile, it's worth noting. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has been recognized by many people with their heads screwed on straight as a benchmark in video-game storytelling. "


text:
Sponsored by Softball
Luther won games 11 and 12 in a row after sweeping Cornell College 6-2, 8-7 this afternoon. The regular season Iowa Conference champions improved to 15-1, 34-4 overall.
In game one, Luther scored twice in the second and exploded for four in the third en route to the victory. Mallory Broderick got things started with a two-run home run to left in the second. Broderick also drove in a run with a double in the third and finished the game going 3-for-3 with two runs scored.
Becca Girvan (22-2) went the distance in the circle. Girvan spread four hits and allowed two runs, walked three and struck out eight.
Kayla Hatting, who pinch ran for Kelsey Kittleson who started the inning with a walk, scored from second base. Hatting advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Abby Christian.
Cornell tied the game in the top half of the final frame when Kari Martin hit a two-run home run to left-center field.
Kittleson, Broderick and Christian led the offensive attack with two RBI each. Kelsey Rose pitched the first four innings and gave up two runs on four hits and struck out four. Girvan was credited with the victory pitching the final three innings.
Luther will host the Iowa Conference Tournament May 3-5. The Norse are the No. 1 seed and will face the winner between #4 Coe and #5 Loras at 2:00 p.m. Thursday.
Thursday's Complete Schedule
Thursday, May 3
Game 1: #4 Coe vs. #5 Loras, 10 a.m.
Game 2: #3 Simpson vs. #6 Buena Vista, noon
Game 3: #1 Luther vs. Coe/Loras winner, 2 p.m.
Game 4: #2 Central vs. Simpson/Buena Vista winner, 4 p.m.
Questions? Contact David Blanchard, post_to_results, 563-387-1586


text:
As had been expected, a F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin PC demo is now available and can be downloaded from FileShack. An Xbox 360 demo has been released as well, now available from the console's online marketplace, with a PS3 demo due later today.
The demo is a 1.76GB download and offers a glimpse at what you can expect from Monolith's horror action game sequel, which hits stores February 10 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.