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There's a Right Way to Do Online Networking
A Key Skill: Knowing How to Ask for Help
After getting his M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary, Chris Perry knew he'd have to venture beyond Williamsburg, Va., to find a good job in marketing and branding.
The best jobs in his field are in big cities like New York, and industry recruiters weren't coming to his university. So, through the career website LinkedIn he started reaching out to people who worked at companies that he had an interest in. His first few introductions didn't get much response. Mr. Perry acknowledges that his notes were cordial but may have sounded too self-serving. So he softened his approach.
"I'd put in the title that I was a recent M.B.A. graduate looking for advice," says Mr. Perry. "I'd focus on talking about them during informational interviews and I'd mention any accomplishments of theirs that I may have read about."
He also participated in LinkedIn industry groups that allowed him to communicate directly with contacts he couldn't have reached without a chain of introductions.
One fellow group member worked for Reckitt Benckiser, a British consumer-goods company with a major office in Parsippany, N.J. The contact agreed to speak with Mr. Perry on condition that he not ask for a reference. After a pleasant conversation, the contact ended up forwarding Mr. Perry's résumé to the HR department, which helped him get an interview and a job. He's now a senior leader on Reckitt's e-commerce team.
Social-media websites like LinkedIn have made job hunting easier by automating many tasks. But one-click networking invitations fall short when trying to reach people, say experts. Instead, job hunters need to engage other professionals on a more personal level. This includes getting introductions to people outside of your network who can help you with your career. The trick is knowing how to ask.
Focus on your first- and second-degree connections. The former are contacts that have already accepted your invitation to join your network, or vice versa, and the latter are contacts known to your first-degree connection. Third-degree connections require more than one introduction and can be difficult to reach, as you may not have a mutual acquaintance.
Consider whom you want to get an introduction from. Do research on LinkedIn, Google and even Glassdoor to find out what kind of employee your chosen first-degree contact is, says Dan Schawbel, a workplace expert from Boston and author of "Promote Yourself: The New Rules of Career Success."
"You really don't want an endorsement from somebody that's not liked at work or who has a poor workplace reputation," says Mr. Schawbel. "How much do you really know about that person that you connected with at that trade show?"
When asking for an introduction, make it easy for your first-degree contact by mentioning how you'd like to be introduced and the reasons you need help, writing out the introduction to be forwarded and providing something in return for the effort. Networking works best when both parties can offer the other something useful.
You should also give your contact an easy way out in case he or she isn't comfortable making the introduction, says New York career coach Melissa Llarena. "Always be gracious, since at the very least they might offer useful advice or a referral to somebody else that can help you with an introduction," she says.
Groups are one way to contact second- and third-degree LinkedIn members directly. But don't join a group and start contacting individual members without making an earnest attempt to participate in community dialogue. You could get ejected from the group by the moderators.
Answer some questions and start new topics. Go beyond "liking" updates by making thoughtful comments on new posts or by sharing relevant links. You want to show regular engagement, says Mr. Schawbel. That includes answering any network requests promptly.
Preface any requests with regular status updates to show that you're active. It will also give you and your contact something to reference. Just don't share the same personal updates about your cats across all of your social-media accounts. Try to keep your LinkedIn updates on a more professional level.
You'll get a much better response if your profile is up-to-date and includes a photo. That includes making your profile relevant to the job that you want to get, says Ms. Llarena.
Once you've established a regular dialogue, take the relationship offline as soon as you can. Ask for 30 minutes and treat your contact to coffee or lunch.
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The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has announced there are four lifeguard exams scheduled in the Niagara Region for the 2013 season.
Testing, which is required for anyone wishing to work as a lifeguard at any New York State Park, will take place at Niagara University on the following days:
Saturday, March 16, at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday, April 20, at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 18, at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday, June 8, at 8:30 a.m.
Candidates may register for testing by calling the Niagara Region Administrative Headquarters at 716-531-0497. For specific information regarding the test, visit www.nysparks.com and, once in the site, click on the "Inside Our Agency" button.
Prior to employment, successful candidates must be at least 16 years of age and must furnish proof of completion of CPR for the professional and completion of the American Red Cross 1994 revised lifeguard training, which includes first-aid, with a certificate for the waterfront module or equivalent courses. Successful candidates will also need a physician's certification of adequate physical fitness, including a minimum of 20/40 uncorrected vision after receiving a conditional job offer.
Lifeguard positions in the Niagara Region will be available at Beaver Island, Evangola, Fort Niagara and Wilson-Tuscarora state parks.
For further information and to register for the test, call 716-531-0497 weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.


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3 Ways To Replace Invasive WeedsFebruary 13, 2017
Nature will fill the vacuum left by the removal of invasive weeds, so it's best to have a long-term plan for an empty space.
Nature will fill the vacuum left by the removal of invasive weeds, so it's best to have a long-term plan for an empty space.
Even if you're strapped for time, it's possible to grow food right in your backyard.
Put your non-recyclables to use to add greenery around your house this winter.
Add native plants to your urban landscape to remind yourself of your roots.
Pressure-treated lumber isn't made the same way it once was, so it could be time to reassess its place on the farm.
Because the growing season is winding down, now's the time to think about adding a raised bed—and this project makes quick work of it.
Planters for your container garden can weigh heavy on your pocketbook, but this DIY project offers an affordable—and lightweight—option.
If you've said goodbye to your hose and don't want to throw them in the trash, then use them in the garden.
Don't let your compost scrap container become a smelly nuisance in your kitchen.
Your yard doesn't have to become a brownfield just because you raise chickens—you can keep a flock and have green grass, too.


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amynkansas wrote:And since we can't name our favorite FanFiction (Emancipation Proclomation, With Teeth, Dead On My Feet, Wide Awake, Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Misapprehension of Bella Swan)
Holla! Most of those are on my fave list too! (Have you started Holding Out for You? It's fluffy sweetness, not the angsty UST/lemony goodness I normally go for, but it's not bad.)


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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: At The Museum, Date: 08 Sep 2010
Here's what one of our Australian Museum Members had to say about their Dinosnore experience.
"I've been meaning to give some feedback regarding Dinosnore, my apologies for taking so long. It was by far the best event I have ever taken my son to. I have told everyone I know how great it was and I hope you keep it going. Here are some reasons why I thought it was great:
We will come again for sure."
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STOCKTON - It was the summer of 1975, and Gary Dei Rossi and his wife, Kathy, were struggling to find a toehold in the teaching profession.
STOCKTON - It was the summer of 1975, and Gary Dei Rossi and his wife, Kathy, were struggling to find a toehold in the teaching profession.
The job market was tight, but the newlyweds learned of a Catholic school in Watsonville looking for a husband-and-wife teaching team. So the Dei Rossis typed out their applications, which required them to write brief essays detailing their educational philosophies.
After mailing the applications, they received an unusual request. The nun who ran the school said they would need their answers in longhand. Puzzled, the Dei Rossis nonetheless complied.
It turned out the nun moonlighted as a professional handwriting analyst. From the loops and lines in their writing, she concluded her job candidates were open, innovative and collaborative.
"That's how we got our first jobs," Gary Dei Rossi recalled last week.
Dei Rossi, the 61-year-old deputy superintendent at the San Joaquin County Office of Education, is spending a lot of time reflecting these days. After finishing work Friday, Dei Rossi will retire, completing a career in education that has spanned nearly 38 years, the past 22 at the county office.
He is retiring for a few reasons. Dei Rossi acknowledges he has reached the age where it is most advantageous for him to retire from the standpoint of the pension he will receive. Additionally, his wife is in her fourth year of retirement from her teaching career, and most of his friends have retired too. Dei Rossi also said the deaths of his parents within a few months of each other last year was another factor.
"You're not immortal," said Dei Rossi, whose position will be filled by Assistant Superintendent James Mousalimas. "You're not going to live forever."
Colleagues say he will be missed.
"Gary is a guy who has been selfless in his dedication to improving education in San Joaquin County," Stockton Unified Superintendent Steve Lowder said. "He's an everyday hero."
Bob Wallace, a former Escalon Unified superintendent who worked with Dei Rossi in Manteca Unified in the 1970s, added, "Gary was always looking for new ways to make school innovative and enjoyable for kids. You hate to see people like Gary, with his wealth of energy and knowledge, step aside. It's hard to replace that."
Dei Rossi grew up in San Carlos, 25 miles south of San Francisco, the son of an Italian immigrant father and an Oakland-born mother. His father and uncles owned an upscale Italian restaurant, The Gold Platter, and as a teen, Dei Rossi dreamed of attending college - a dream he sometimes doubted would be realized.
"They looked more at my dad and would see that he didn't speak English very well," Dei Rossi said. "Instead of looking at my abilities they just kind of did that. That's one of the reasons I went into teaching. I didn't want that to happen to other kids too."
He was student body president his senior year at Carlmont High. It was 1970, and against his school administration's wishes, Dei Rossi organized a student rally in support of the first Earth Day. That same year, he achieved his dream of college acceptance.
A talented soccer player, Dei Rossi spent his first two years of college playing at San Jose State University, before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA was the school he had always dreamed of attending, and his office today is a shrine to his alma mater. Posters, a coffee mug and a Christmas ornament make his allegiance clear.
One of his most memorable moments was a visit to the office of legendary basketball coach John Wooden, whose teams won seven consecutive NCAA men's basketball championships and 10 in a 12-year period - no college teams have come close to that incredible streak. The Wizard of Westwood autographed a copy of his book for Dei Rossi.
"I still have it," Dei Rossi said. "It's one of my prized possessions."
After a year teaching in Watsonville, the Dei Rossis renewed their search for public-school teaching jobs. Gary took a job teaching history at Lincoln Elementary in Manteca Unified, though he had to look at a map to find the town to which he and his wife were relocating.
A year later, Kathy also was hired in Manteca, to teach elementary school. The couple made friends and bought a house, and Gary worked his way up the administrative ladder in Manteca Unified. The original plan to eventually return to the Bay Area was shelved. They became Manteca lifers, and in 1990, Gary was hired by the county office as its director of state and federal programs.
Through the years, he provided support to struggling schools, worked on a statewide level on issues ranging from literacy to social-science instruction, and was instrumental in developing the county office's migrant education program - an effort as much personal as professional.
He said, "When you come from a background where you're not often given chances, that people look at you and say, 'Oh, you're an immigrant's son, you're not going to amount to anything,' and then you prove them wrong and you take advantage of the things you only get in the United States, I want to make sure that happens for other people too."
Dei Rossi said he is proudest of the advances students in the county have made through the years. His biggest disappointment, he said, has been an ongoing struggle to preserve funding for education.
On a personal level, Dei Rossi's passion is travel, and he and his wife plan to do plenty in retirement. He said a personal goal is to visit all seven continents and all 50 states. To reach his goal, he'll need to visit Australia, Antarctica and South Carolina.
But he will not disappear. Dei Rossi said he plans to be a mentor and coach to educational administrators. He and Kathy, parents of two children, also are looking forward to the birth of their first grandchild next month.
Still, making the leap to retirement wasn't easy.
"He struggled initially with trying to decide," Kathy said. "He really likes working, likes all the connections he's made and felt there was going to be a void in his life if he stopped working. People are assuring him he'll be fine."
As for the philosophy of education that (along with his handwriting) earned him his first job, Dei Rossi provided an abridged version.
"Making things come alive," he said, "is what makes education fun and makes people want to learn."
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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As a result, the regulatory pressure is mounting for the United States to convert to IFRS in order to simplify the world of accounting. But for U.S. corporations, the conversion isn't so simple. It amounts to a tectonic shift affecting the most fundamental ways they report their business, and raises a host of questions ranging from the need for re-education of accountants to what the change means for accounting standards.
This shift to the IFRS is the focus of the 2008 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation Conference: Cross-Border Issues to be held May 30-31 in London, England. The annual international conference is hosted by the University of Notre Dame's Center for Accounting Research and Education (CARE).
The conference features some of the foremost experts in financial statement analysis and valuation, with more than more than 100 university scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe and Asia expected to attend.
"The conferences provide an opportunity for continued conversation between accounting practitioners, investment professionals, leading accounting academics, and young scholars," said Peter D. Easton, Notre Dame accountancy professor and director of CARE. "Through these conversations, we ensure that the research work of the academics is relevant and worthwhile."
This year's practitioner sessions include Kenneth Lee, managing director of the Accounting and Valuation Team at Citi Investment Research; David Gascoigne, Transaction Services partner at KPMG UK; Leonie Bell and Agris Preimanis from Oxera; Susanne Leitterstorf and Christian Winkler from the Financial Services Authority; and Jing Zhang, head of research at Moody's KMV.
Since 2005, CARE conferences have provided a forum where renowned financial reporting experts explore contemporary valuation issues, such as trends in the debt market and short-selling practices. The conferences are guided by an active advisory board, which includes senior faculty, investment professionals and editors from three of the top four accounting journals, and offers a platform for younger faculty to highlight their work.
"We are gratified by the wide-spread recognition of the importance of the conferences in bridging the gap between academia and practice," said Easton. "More people, both practitioners and academics, ask to attend our conferences than can be accommodated."
The 2008 conference will take place at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business European Campus in London. Previous events were held in Braselton, Ga., and California's Napa Valley region. For more information about CARE or the conferences, including past conference video, visit http://www.nd.edu/~carecob/


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Catie Arrigoni's performance in cross country and track recently landed her the Everett Community College's Female Athlete of the Year honor.
The Oroville graduate also signed last week a full-tuition scholarship to attend Eastern Washington University starting this fall.
She won the 3K steeplechase (11:2 7.16) and finished third in the 5K (18:35.73) at the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges track championships May 20-21 at Spokane Falls Community College.
This spring, Arrigoni ran 17:54.40 in the 5K, the third best all-time Everett performance, track and field coach Matthew Koenigs said.
"She is ranked No. 2 nationally among junior college athletes in the steeple just three seconds behind the No. 1-ranked athlete, who posted her time with someone pushing her all the way to the line," Koenigs said. "Catie, by contrast, ran away from her field and had no reason to kick in the last lap. She has been untested this season in the steeple, winning the event at meets hosted at Western Washington University and the University of Washington in addition to the NWAACC Championship."
Arrigoni, a sophomore, was red-shirted a year ago to save a season for a four-year program, the coach said.
"During the cross country season, Catie ran 18:40.8 in the 5K, which is the all-time No. 8 time at Everett Community College," Koenigs said. "Catie was fourth at the Northern Region Championship in cross country. She was seventh at the NWAACC Championship where she earned All-American honors despite suffering from a severe head cold.
"At the Sundodger Invite she ran 22:37.42, which was the fourth best all-time performance — good for ninth place in the meet. A Top 10 finish at the Sundodger Invite is a big deal and helped her team to finish second in one of the largest collegiate races in the Pacific Northwest."
In a May 20 online story by Rich Myhre of the Herald in Everett, Arrigoni, 19, said she tried the steeplechase to take advantage of her 5-11 height.
Because she is tall, "she doesn't need to jump at all," Koenigs said in the Herald story. "She can almost (step) right over the barrier.
"Lots of people are 5-4 and 5-5, and they actually have to jump," Arrigoni said. "But I just go over real easy."
She set a WWU meet record earlier this year in winning the steeplechase in 10:59.7, which was 44 seconds better than the conference's second-best runner.
"She has gotten astronomically faster (since high school)," Koenigs said. As coaches, he went on, "we can only do so much to help kids get faster. We can teach them how to train, but we can't actually run the mileage for them. But everything we've asked Catie to do, she's done. She's got the Division I work ethic that it takes to become a runner of this caliber."
"She's just a great person and a testament that if you are willing to put in the work and do things the right way that there are very few limits to what you can accomplish."
Arrigoni originally went to Everett to compete in basketball. In her first and only season, she averaged about 3 points and 4 rebounds a game before focusing on running.
Chandler Smith of Brewster will play in the 20th annual Jack Blair Memorial Girls All-Star Basketball Classic at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at The Arena at Post Falls, Idaho.
She joins the Region team of Idaho players that includes four members of the Idaho state 5A champion Post Falls Trojans, four from the Coeur d'Alene Vikings and single players from Lake City and Lapwai.
Metro team, composed of girls from the Greater Spokane League, has won 18 of the 19 matchups with the Region team.
The Region's lone win came in 2009. Last year, the Metro eked out an 80-79 victory at University High.
"The reason the Metro is so good is they play such good defense — the entire league," Ron Adams, director of the Spokane Stars and organizer of the Jack Blair game, said in a Coeur d'Alene Press story May 23.
"There's probably 13, 14 D-I kids between the two teams," Adams said. "The Region team, their strength is their physical talent, from the guards all the way to the post players. And they have the most highly recruited player for both teams in Chandler Smith. She's a monster — good luck trying to defend her."
Smith, a 6-foot junior guard/forward, is the daughter of Dale Smith, who starred on Brewster's three straight Washington class B state titles in the mid-1970s. Chandler Smith was the Washington 1A Player of the Year.
Adams reminds fans that the players will be available for autographs before the game from 6:30 to 7:05 p.m.; after that; they won't be available until after the game.
Katie Wimpari of Curlew, a freshman on the University of Louisville women's track team, finished 10th in the 2013 Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 4 at the Bauer Track and Field Complex, Piscataway, N.J.
Wimpari tossed the javelin 38.67 meters (126 feet, 10.44 inches) at the Big East Championship meet.
The college javelin weighs more than a high school javelin.
She was track and field team co-captain at Curlew and was a two-time Panorama all-league team member (2009 and 2012). She took first places in the javelin at the 2012 Ezra Gordon Colville Invitational, the 2012 Eagle Home Mortgage Invitational and the District 7 meet.
Wimpari, who is enrolled in pre-dental classes, is the daughter of Pat and Nikki Wimpari.
"She competed in seven outdoor meets in the javelin" this spring, said Associate Sports Information Director Ira Green, who covers the university track team. "Her lone victory of the season came at the Border Battle, finishing first on a throw of 39.48m/129-6 at the Auburn Tiger Classic."
She did not compete in the winter track season.
Ryder Lewis of Omak signed an NCAA letter of intent to play for the Montana State Billings men's golf team next year.
"He's pretty exited," Omak coach Nick Popelier said. "He went on a trip over there about halfway through the season. He played with the team and had a great time. MSUB plays a great schedule, they are a very successful program and he will be able to be a big part of the team early on."
Lewis finished his senior season with a seventh-place finish at the state 1A tournament with a two-round score of 154.
Prior to state, Lewis used a 69 to win medalist honors in the Caribou Trail League Championships. He averaged a 73 score his four years in high school play.
Lewis was second at the 1A state tournament in 2012 and was among the Top 15 as a sophomore and freshman. He also won district and regional titles in 2011 and 2012.
"He's confident that if he keeps working hard, this is a great opportunity both athletically and academically," Popelier said.
Jacqueline O'Keefe of Liberty Bell and Neal Champagne of Cascade High School each recently received $1,500 college scholarships from the Wenatchee North Rotary.
They will be honored as scholar-athletes at the 43rd Wenatchee Valley Medical Center North-Central Washington Sports Awards banquet June 25 at the Wenatchee Convention Center, 121 N. Wenatchee Ave.
O'Keefe is headed to Colorado College while Champagne is going to attend Harvard.
"The achievement of excellence in academics while also fulfilling time commitments associated with developing skills, training and competing in athletics sets all scholar-athletes apart," Jeff Mertes with Wenatchee North Rotary said.
A $1,000 Sports Awards Outlying Grant will be presented to the Malaga Colockum Community Council to help pay for an irrigation system in the Phase 1 portion of the new Malaga 11-acre facility that will become the only park able to accommodate athletics and recreation in the area when completed.
In addition, the Sports Awards honors region's finest athletes, teams and coaches in eight categories. Finalists will be announced early in June.
Marco Azurdia, executive director/commissioner of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, will be the banquet's featured speaker. Azurdia was an eight-time finalist and two-time Sports Awards recipient as the highly successful coach of the Wenatchee Valley College women's basketball team, as well as a former Wenatchee Valley College athletic director.
Mazama and its wealth of hiking and climbing possibilities landed No. 4 of the Top 5 Climbing Towns in the U.S. under population of 10,000 in a May 16 story at splitterchoss.com.
"The residents of this small town on the east side of the Cascades named it after what they thought was the Greek name for 'mountain goat,'" the website said. "It turned out that they were looking in the wrong dictionary; 'Mazama' means mountain goat in Spanish, not Greek. Still, it is an apt name for the town, as it sits just below Washington Pass in the North Cascades.
"In addition to the roadside alpine rock and access to some of the best alpine lines in the lower 48, there is great cragging in the summer on several different rock types, and backcountry skiing in the winter. Mazama is truly a small rural town; there is no chain store or stoplights for 70 miles."
Notable areas: Washington Pass, Fun Rock, Goat Wall, Gate Creek, Prospector area
Worthwhile distractions: Goat's Beard, The Mazama Store, Old Schoolhouse Brewery, Kelly's at Wesola Polana, North Cascades Adventure Hostel.
The huge sockeye salmon run coming through the Columbia and Okanogan rivers last year could become routine with the addition of a 25,000-square-foot sockeye salmon hatchery opening next spring on Penticton Indian Band land.
The salmon rush up the Okanogan River and through Osoyoos Lake and the South Okanagan watercourse system.
A groundbreaking occurred a couple weeks ago for the new hatchery, which will produce eight million fry annually. The fish are expected to keep the historic run going from Washington State through Osoyoos Lake and up into Skaha Lake and Okanagan Lake.
Louis Zacherle, Omak, picked up his first two wins at Emerald Downs in Auburn over the weekend.
Zacherle, who rides for Omak's Preston Boyd, won his first race at the elite Northwest track on Austincitynights ($4.20) on Friday. The horse is jointly owned by Edward Marchand and Boyd.
Zacherle, 25, followed that up with a win on Chaching Pete ($18.20; owned by Boyd) on Saturday. Both races were 5 ½ furlongs.
Boyd trained both horses, which each won gate-to-wire.
Zacherle's success led to his signing with an agent, who plans future races in California.
Zacherle has raced all his adult life and just starting a career at the big tracks. He'd previous raced at Sun Downs in Kennewick.
Rachael Kraske of Omak, who is competing in track for George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., ran 1:04.06 in her heat of the 400-meter hurdles May 23 and did not make the finals at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field National Championships.
Kraske finished 19th overall in the qualifying races at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Roger Harring Stadium at Veterans Memorial Field.
She entered the meet ranked 13th nationally with a 1:01.96 in the St. Martin's University Last Chance meet on May 12. Kraske led the Northwest Conference and was No. 3 all-time at George Fox, but that would have only put her 11th on Thursday at nationals.
Roger Harnack of Tunk Creek competed at the Devils Lake Dash Jet Ski races presented by Chinook Winds Casino and Resort in Lincoln City, Ore., on May 18-19.
Harnack finished third in Vintage 550, third in the veteran ski and fourth in the novice ski limited the first day.
He finished third in the veteran ski and fifth in novice ski limited the second day.
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More information about the PlayStation 3 version of Blizzard's hack-and-slash RPG Diablo III has been unveiled. According to the PA Report, the PS3 version of the game will have an offline-mode; however, it will lack the real-money auction house.
So no micro-transactions and no "always online", they are turning out to be the best versions
To Diablo fans, Is the game fun and does it have beautiful levels? I plan on getting it.
At least PS gamers won't have to experience the steaming bullshit that is always online DRM.
Fuck off, Blizzard. You made your PC gamers, the group that made you what you are, suffer through that obnoxious DRM and Auction House bullshit, but console gamers get a pass? That's dirty. Just dirty.
The PC version is currently a steaming pile of shit. That being said, they got a new management team on the game that looks promising and through a couple more patches the game may be fun again.
The console version will benefit immensely from the lack of auction house. The PC version is built around micro transactions and everything from quality and drop rate is altered to benefit the real money auction house.
I do have hope that after the next few patches this philosophy ends but that will be yet to be seen.


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France and Turkey Feud
"A lose-lose situation", is how France's former ambassador to Turkey sees the effect on Franco-Turkish relations of a bill to penalise genocide denial. François Picard's panel looks at the timing and the trouble with politicians making laws about history.
- François DOPFFER. Former French Ambassador to Turkey;
- Bahadir KALEAGASI. International Coordinator, Turkish Industry & Business Europe (from Brussels);
- Nicolas TAVITIAN. Board member, AGBU Europe (from Brussels);
- Anne-Elisabeth MOUTET. Columnist, The Sunday Telegraph.


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Skip to comments.Obama Maintains Lead Over Romney In NH Poll (WMUR Granite State)
Posted on 04/24/2012 9:36:54 AM PDT by C19fan
A new poll shows President Barack Obama is maintaining his lead over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Obama leading Romney 51 to 42 percent. That's close to the 10-point lead Obama had over Romney in December.
(Excerpt) Read more at wmur.com ...
New Hampshire has become nothing more than Northern Massachusetts.
Sad but true. New England is gone.
Notice how the details of the poll are not published such as Dem vs Repub, likely voters or not, etc.
The Socialist Republic of New England.....
Lots of dumb voters in NH. I'm not sure what Republican candidate could cure that.
As to the poll, a grain of salt is advised. OTOH, there are scenarios where NH gets to pick the next President of the United States. NH is not a must win but it is worth working for.
What if he made Ayotte his running mate? A crucial 4 electoral votes.
by Joe Battenfeld
>>In his run for Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney picked an attractive, intelligent, 42-year-old mother of two with a background in criminal justice as his running mate. Now he should go back to the same playbook and pick Kelly Ayotte. Ayotte, the 43-year-old U.S. senator from New Hampshire, is a former attorney general who prosecuted some hideous murder cases. She comes from a crucial swing state, like Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, 40, only she is older and a lot more qualified than Rubio.
>> Ayotte also appears to be a lot smarter than Rubio or the rest of the cast of boring guys jostling to win the veepstakes. While Romney will be wrapping up his primary campaign in Manchester tonight, Ayotte will be back in the Senate wisely avoiding the embarrassing spectacle of a public audition.
>>This weekend, with vice presidential speculation at a fever pitch, Ayotte was at home playing with her two kids. Last night, she declined to talk to the Herald about the vice presidential speculation. An aide said she had a family engagement. Good answer.
Earlier in the day, she spoke to her hometown paper, the Nashua Telegraph, saying she wasnt paying too much attention to the pundits.
I couldnt get my kids to turn off the cartoons, she said. Another good answer.
Rubio, meanwhile, was stumbling, first saying he would turn down the No. 2 slot, then refusing to rule it out. Just what Romney needs, another flip-flopper.
>>And in case you hadnt heard, Romney hasnt endeared himself to many female voters. Choosing Ayotte would show that Romney is not the old-fashioned, dog-hating male chauvinist that Democrats have made him out to be.
In 2002, Romney picked a woman, Kerry Healey, as his lieutenant governor pick, and that race went pretty well. Healey also did not crash her state car in a mysterious 100-mile-an-hour accident.
>>Ayotte also would help Romney rally his support among social conservatives. She backs the death penalty and is against gay marriage and abortion, which isnt a popular stance in New Hampshire, but is a selling point in some parts of Ohio and Florida. Ayotte was endorsed by Sarah Palin in 2010, so conservatives will like that, too.
>>The pundits say Ayotte is a long shot, because she has been in the Senate for only two years and hails from a neighboring state of Romneys.
But the reality is that geographical balance is no longer important. U.S. Sen. John Kerry tried to balance his ticket with a southerner, John Edwards, in 2004. Howd that work out?
This poll is very hard to believe
Got to luv how a state won't even vote for the putrid GOP nomimee they foisted on the rest of the country for the past 2 elections: McPain and Willard.
Lots of communists, too...
Yes and Yes.
Polls are useless to democrats they just jimmy the ballot box,it's the only way they can win.
Lots of communists, too...
More like a lot of higher education drones taking advantage of same day registration
Don't forget, a year and a half ago, we wiped out a lot of liberal progress in the statehouse.
Only 24.6% registered Republicans in their sample, and 42% undeclared (but mostly Democrat leaners, as self-identified).
You can find a much more scientific poll here (Ind =38.1%, Dem = 27.2%, Rep = 33.7%; Romney +2)
Trust me: Obama is not widely liked here, except in faculty lounges, union halls and at WMUR.
I call BS on this poll. First of all is does not state the poll makeup. Did they poll likely voters ? What percentage ?
How come Obama's approval #'s are down but his lead over Romney has doubled. BS
The poll participants must have all been drunk or on drugs.
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If Colin Montgomerie had his way, a shot clock would be used in more sports than just basketball.
In fact, the newly inducted Hall of Famer thinks that a shot clock would cut down on the "biggest bugbear" in golf – slow play. The issue came under the spotlight again last week at the British Open, where first-year pro Hideki Matsuyama was slapped with a one-shot penalty during the third round.
Monty suggested Wednesday that there should be an allotted time to play a round of golf, and that each group would be monitored by an official wielding a stopwatch.
"They should be playing in no more than four hours for any round of golf on any course," Monty told reporters on the eve of the Senior British Open at Royal Birkdale. "Unfortunately they are given far too long. Why do you have to wait to be slow before you are put on the clock?
"There are 52 referees out there at major championships and they should all have a clock to be able to put them on the clock on the first tee to ensure they all get around in time. It has been mentioned about a shot clock, and that is interesting. There should be an allotted time to play the game, like chess, where you have a certain time to play.
"If the first two groups take five or more hours to go round then the day is gone, you can't make it up."
Interesting concept, and the former European No. 1 isn't the first to suggest the idea of a shot clock.
There are several flaws to consider, however.
Chief among them: What happens when there is a ruling, or a necessary club change? Is the shot clock paused? What about the difference in shooting 65, 73 and 81? Playing well takes less time.
Is the, say, 45-second rule to hit a shot extended when the degree of difficulty is increased? And shouldn't the shortest hitter in the group get more time, since he'll be playing first on most holes and have less time to calculate yardage and select a club?
Clearly, there is no simple fix to golf's slow-play issue. That it is no longer being completely ignored, however, at least represents progress.


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Grains powerhouse Argentina will jump-start soy exports over the weeks ahead as farmers, who have hoarded beans to protect themselves from the weakening peso and galloping inflation, are forced to sell by the time harvesting starts in March.
The country is the world's No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of soymeal at a time of booming Chinese demand. A wobbly currency and fast-rising consumer prices have prompted growers to save in soybeans rather than in pesos, drying up Argentine supply and providing a boon to U.S. exporters.
The official exchange rate is 18.5 percent weaker this month while the black market peso has slumped 22.5 percent. The Rosario soy market has virtually shut down in recent weeks as growers pile up beans on their farms to protect themselves from inflation fueled in part by the anemic peso.
With the March-May soy harvesting season approaching, farmers say they will be forced to re-start selling.
"You have structural expenses on any farm, so at some point you just have to sell your reserves," said Alexis de Noailles, a grower in the bread-basket province of Buenos Aires. "Most of us pay income taxes around March, for example, and they cannot be paid in soybeans," he said. "And you wouldn't want to wait until the last minute to sell your soybeans because there is a lot of soy in the world this year and the closer we get to March the lower prices are likely to be."
A resumption of farmer selling is expected once the harvest begins, but has not yet been fully priced into the futures market, said Rich Nelson, chief strategist with agricultural trade consultancy Allendale Inc.
March futures on the Chicago Board of Trade may fall to $12.50 a bushel by mid-February, about 17 cents below levels today, and July futures may sink to $11.75 a bushel by the peak of harvest, down about 65 cents from today, as export volumes from both Argentina and Brazil increase, he said.
Argentina's upcoming soy crop is seen at 53 million tons, up from 48.5 million in the previous season, according to the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange.
"The local soybean market will come back to life when the harvest starts coming in. Farmers will need to sell 20 percent of their 2014 soy crop to pay production costs that cannot be bartered for in beans," said farm consultant Pablo Adreani. "You will see at least 11 million tons of new soybeans hit the market between now and May," he said.
Over the months ahead big harvests are also expected in Brazil (89 million tons) and Paraguay (9.4 million), according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and private analysts. Demand is driven by China, where beans are crushed into cattle feed for the country's fast-growing beef industry.
Despite huge investments made by exporters in Argentine soymeal plants, idle capacity at the facilities is approaching 50 percent as growers pile beans into white, vacuum-packed plastic bags that serve as horizontal silos dotting the Pampas.
"They see soybeans as a kind of currency now, like the dollar or the euro, which represent a more reliable store of value than the peso," said Leandro Pierbattisti, an analyst with Argentina's grains warehousing chamber.
It is not only the farm sector that is feeling the pinch. Years of erratic policymaking in Argentina have created a gnarl of capital and price controls that have made simple transactions, like buying a refrigerator, impossible, as merchants are unsure what prices to charge.
"The fact that the economic team does not seem to have a comprehensive strategy, especially to deal with reducing fiscal spending, is likely to hurt the efforts to stem the decline in reserves and lower inflation," said a recent note from the Eurasia Group consultancy.
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, who engineered the 2012 nationalization of Argentina's top oil company, YPF, has warned merchants not to hike prices. He has hinted that the government will use central bank reserves to intervene in the foreign exchange market to keep the peso at 8 to the dollar, a level he calls "adequate."
Central bank reserves fell 29 percent last year to $31 billion. They stand at under $29 billion after the bank burned through $420 million over the last four days to hold the official peso at 8 per dollar.
Inflation is meanwhile likely to keep climbing, due in part to generous state energy and transportation subsidies at the heart of President Cristina Fernandez's populist policy model. Her policies, like high soybean export taxes and curbs on corn and wheat shipments aimed at ensuring ample domestic food supplies, tend to take money from sparsely-populated farm areas with crumbling infrastructure and funnel it toward her base in the vote-heavy suburbs surrounding capital city Buenos Aires.
She easily won re-election in 2011 and the race to replace her next year is wide open. Opposition candidates bet that discontent over the consequences of Fernandez's policies will pave the way for voters to embrace a more pro-investment candidate in the 2015 election. She is banned by law from running again.
Meanwhile, farmers like Alberto Pereyra in Buenos Aires province say they are preparing to take their soybeans back to market as costs mount and alternative financing runs dry.
"You can hoard crops as long as you have the financing to keep planting and producing," he said. "That's going to run out for most of us before March."
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Kyle Abbott took seven for 29 on his Test debut to send Pakistan crashing to 156 all out on the second day of the third and final Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on Saturday.
Pakistan, forced to follow on 253 runs behind, were 14 for one at the close, with Mohammad Hafeez bowled by Dale Steyn with the first ball of the second innings.
It left Pakistan facing an almost hopeless task as they tried to avoid a series whitewash although Hafeez vowed: "We will be trying to fight it out."
Abbott, 25, was called into the South African squad as cover for the fast bowlers when regular reserve Rory Kleinveldt was named to replace the injured Morne Morkel.
The Dolphins fast bowler, the leading wicket-taker in domestic first-class cricket, found himself in the team when all-rounder Jacques Kallis suffered a calf injury the day before the match.
Abbott's figures were second best on debut for South Africa only to Lance Klusener, his Dolphins franchise coach, who took eight for 64 against India in Calcutta in 1996/97.
"Lance has really helped me on the mental side of the game," said Abbott. "He hasn't tried to change my technique. We have worked on a slightly different mental approach to bowling, being more aggressive and hitting the deck harder."
He bowled a tight line at a lively pace to take two wickets in an initial Pakistan collapse, which saw them slip from 46 for no wicket to 75 for four, then had a spell of five for five as the lower order and tail crumbled.
Abbott said the pressure built by Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander, the two top ranked bowlers in Test cricket, had played a big part in his success.
"It's been a case of building pressure all day. The other seamers bowled just as well, maybe better than I did. It could have been anyone's day out there," he said.
Seven-wicket Abbott sends hapless Pakistan crashing
Kyle Abbott took seven for 29 on his Test debut to send Pakistan crashing to 156 all out on the second day of the third and final Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on Saturday.
Six of his wickets were to catches in the slip cordon before he finished off the innings by trapping Younis Khan leg before wicket after the Pakistan veteran had battled for two-and-a-half hours and 86 balls to make 33.
Younis barely had time to take his pads off before he had to face the second ball of the follow-on innings.
Imran Farhat, who made the top score of 30 in the first innings, did not open the batting in the second innings after being struck on the hand in the first innings.
X-rays showed no damage and he is expected to bat on Sunday.
Azhar Ali opened with Hafeez, with Younis moving up to number three.
AB de Villiers earlier reached his 16th Test century and his third against Pakistan.
He went on to make 121 before being caught in the deep off left-arm opening bowler Rahat Ali, who finished with six for 127 on his Test debut as South Africa were all out for 409.
Vernon Philander made a Test best score of 74 in helping De Villiers stretch their overnight partnership of 86 to 129 -- a record seventh wicket stand for South Africa against Pakistan -- before he was caught low down at first slip by Mohammad Hafeez off part-time bowler Younis Khan.
Pakistan were without fast bowler Ehsan Adil, who suffered a calf injury on Friday.
De Villiers made his runs off 215 balls with 15 fours, while Philander faced 113 balls and hit nine boundaries.
Rahat bowled a mixture of wicket-taking deliveries with some poorly directed balls, conceding close to five runs an over. His analysis included six no-balls and six wides.
Pakistan made easily their best start of the series as Farhat and Hafeez put on 46 for the first wicket.
But Pakistan were quickly back in perilous territory when Philander returned for his second spell as he and Abbott took three wickets in successive overs.
Abbott followed up with a second wicket when he dismissed Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq shortly before tea.
Philander trapped Farhat leg before for 30 before Abbott, with his sixth ball in Test cricket, had Hafeez caught low down at gully for 18.
Philander then bowled Azhar Ali for six, with the batsman edging a ball which kept low into his stumps.
Misbah fell to a superb diving catch by Alviro Petersen at second slip off the tall, strongly-built Abbott.


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Robierb's Bullet-Fly Effect Series presents a sharp criticism towards war and transformation. An innocent and beautiful butterfly carries a powerful weapon as a metaphor for the violence in the world. At the same time, the series alludes to the "butterfly effect" in the Chaos Theory where the flapping of a butterfly's wings in New York can create a tsunami in Japan, a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things.
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VANCOUVER, BC June 8, 2010 – Endeavor Snowboards has signed Torgeir Berre, a 22 year old from Elverum, Norway. Berre has turned heads with his street rail prowess but describes himself as an "all rounder" of snowboarding.
I started to skate in grade three and the year after that I got a board for Christmas. I have been snowboarding ever since," says Berre. "It's fun to ride a small streetrail or sketchy kinks, take laps in the park, cruise pow and hit big kickers. I just love all of it. I have so much fun trying everything on anything."
Berre films with Norway's Ducksjen and started a two year project this winter with Process Films. He has also filmed with Factorfilms and Isenseven. Kareem El Rafie, Endeavor pro rider, is stoked to have friend Berre join the International Team.
I first met 'Berry' when we filmed together for 'Over It' in 2006. As soon as we hit some street rails I knew this kid meant serious bizz," says El Rafie. "Torgeir is a huge talent and always impresses me. He is a wide ranging rider that kills anything he commits to. I really dig his style. He has yet to get the recognition he deserves but now that he has joined our new international Endeavor team, that will change!"
Endeavor is hyped at the addition of Torgeir Berre to our program," says Max Jenke, Endeavor's Managing Director. "His riding speaks for itself and being endorsed by someone as picky as Kareem means he'll be a great addition to our crew. Welcome to the team Torgeir!"
The Endeavor Snowboards International team consists of Kale Stephens, Kevin Griffin, Kareem El Rafie, Johnny Lyall, Jody Wachniak, and Torgeir Berre.
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Well I can't actually say what I wanted to become 5 years ago, because then I was only 11 <.<
But what I can say is what I think I will be doing 5 years from now.
I will most likely be in school studying either to become a Doctor (neurologist) or trying my hand at programming. Those two will probably be one of my first choices that I will focus on in school, there is also the chance that I will start reading more into physics, Astronomy, History, Philosophy, but I have almost given up on that at the moment, even though those things intrigue me more than becoming an Doctor and Programmer.
But that's where I get into the goals in life part.
My goals are rather large, I have this idea to make something that as we see it right now, is pretty much decades ahead of our technology, but I want to make it happen, I have my reasons for wanting to make this for personal use and for the money part, which would be something to change our world, I don't really wanna say what it is, but I think pretty much anyone would like the idea behind it. For this idea of mine I will have to become a doctor that specializes Neurology and an programmer <.< Well I guess that could give you sorta a hint what I'm going to do.
Another goal of mine would probably be something I could not accomplish if I chose the route of the goal above, because that is to become an astrophysicist, the reason I want to do this is just because I love space, I love how the world works, even though the math is too big for me to comprehend at this moment, but I love it nevertheless.
There are many things that I want to become, many goals I want to achieve in my life, but as I get older and older, I'm beginning to realize that I can only do so much, I need to choose, which depresses me. I have had these moods when I'm like "what do I do with my life" just because I can't figure out which path I want to take, I don't want to take the wrong one, but there is so much potential in all routes that I want to take. I wish my life was a Visual Novel I guess, I could replay it after I was done with one route, then try the other one, that would make this whole decision making a whole lot easier.
I can list more goals in my life that I would like to accomplish if anyone wants to know <.< *Which probably no one wants xD* But right now I'm just tired, sorry for typos, if there are any, I have no energy to read through it and correct -_- Laziness for the win
That's a cool goal. I'll be waiting for you to achieve it You could study neuroscience during your undergraduate studies as a minor or something too.
Hehe, thanks for the support
what is this cr stuff
Tell us about your goals. Where did you see yourself at your age, 5 years ago?
I can't remember. I was so different back then that trying to remember is like diving into a fog. -_-
In a fantasy world/alternate reality from your own; what would you be? Where would you go?
I'm not sure... I'll probably be a Funyarinpa.
Where do you think you messed up? What held/is holding you captive in your current reality?
I don't know. I don't think I ever messed up so seriously that it made everything go downhill. Even so, I believe things in the past could always have been better and that the present could still be better. I am rarely contented about what I have done and what I am doing. Also, I am what's holding myself captive in my current reality because if I don't, then I'm only going to delude myself and that will only lead to disappointment and frustration in the future.
Tell us about your goals. Where did you see yourself at your age, 5 years ago?
Five years ago I was in my sophmore year of college and still making awesome grades studying electrical engineering. I saw myself with a bachelors degree making 60k a year at a power company in Texas. Figured I'd find that special someone and be thinking about getting married. I'd also be doing my own as an inventor and maybe a mission trip to help out the radio nuts at HCJB Global from time to time. Maybe even make a difference in the world by picking up the people that have been trampled on.
In a fantasy world/alternate reality from your own; what would you be? Where would you go?
In a fantasy world, I'd definitely be a powerful mage and scholar. I'd devote my life to studying the arcane and doing my job to make sure that others don't abuse their power. I'd study magic with the zeal that I study electricity. Defend the weak and save the princess (even let the dragon live, cuase dragons are cool). Was this a serious question? I like my answer regardless.
Where do you think you messed up? What held/is holding you captive in your current reality?
I feel like one can learn from mistakes and I certainly have. I got depressed from overwork and feeling unfulfilled/unsatisfied with life in college so I took a break. I joined the Air Force to help pay off my school and have funding to finish. I'm 25 and I'm finally getting back to school after a two year break. I certainly made mistakes like letting myself feel down, letting my grades drop, and throwing my old life away. But, what I have gained is so much more. I now have a fulfilling job and I hope to retire from military service one day, even put in for officer once I finish my degree in a couple years. It's taking longer to finish my goals, but I feel satisfied in the life I live. If there was one thing holding me captive, maybe I'm a little lonely. Still haven't found that person to share life with.
Woot, I'm alive!
I like this thread, by the way. Nice to read other people's posts and see a little light in people's eyes on this community, even the young'ins.
Woot, I'm alive!
I'm glad this thread took off like it did. There are many thoughtful responses. I realise that this in an infinitely intimate discussion, everyone thus far has been respectful and supportive. It's good to see that.
But seriously guys - no one wanted to be a celebrity chef?
Even in the fantasy world? C'mon. I don't believe that for a second.
I would LOVE to be a celebrity chef. But not more than I would like to be a conductor. No neo-post-apocalyptic-magic-zombie dystopia for me. Lol.
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First: If I hadn't been in a meeting, navarre wouldn't have beat me to it!Jazz Girl wrote:GAH!!!!!! That man is an IDIOT!!!!!!!! How?!?!?! How can he let his brain get in the way of his heart!!!! Why?!?!?! Why can't he just believe his heart for once in his fracking life?!?! Why can't he believe that it is possible that, if he takes a chance, it just MIGHT work out for the best?!?!?! After what they just shared, REALLYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?! *Huffs & Puffs* *Pants* *Pants Some More* GGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! [/color]
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I can actually see where he's coming from, strangely enough. Here you have a man who's lived his life ruled by his mind and rationalizations. Emotions never really came into the picture, other than physical gratification. And then you introduce the one person able to elicit actual emotional responses from him.
For a guy so ruled by his head, the heart is a frickin' scary place to be. He thrives on controlled situations, contingency plans... He wouldn't know how to trust his heart and just let it be.


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Robot is such a broad term. I ponder the definition. The first definition in a dictionary states robots "sometimes resemble a human" although the second definition does not. The third entry actually refers to a type of person! I agree that it's hard to nail down but perhaps we should try and hack out some new terms.
I have a strong belief that robots must be capable of some kind of motion. A robotic assembly arm at a manufacturing plant, though it can not change it's origin, it is capable of swinging it's hand to and fro and arriving at some point specified. To me a "robot" that doesn't move is a computer, or if simple enough a sensor.
I submit for thought: SAR (Sound Activated Robot)*. At first I thought this didn't qualify as a robot, but when I looked up the definition, I realized it is so lax that it technically does. But then by that definition so could a computer. This lead me to question the difference between a computer and robot.
We all know what computers are (I hope) although the lines are blurring there as well. Computers, and PDAs (ex: palm pilot), cell phones with operating systems. But what's the difference between a computer that controls a factory machine (let's say a cookie making factory that has a computer controlled conveyor and stamping system), and a robot?
I guess this is an old discussion, much like what qualifies as life but there must be something more definitive people can agree on. More definitive than a definition that includes the word "sometimes", anyway.
I sincerely believe that mobility is at least one major point of defining a robot. I'll have to think some more on it to decide what else differentiates a robot from a computer.
- * Please Steven Frye don't be offended. I know that is probably the begining of a robot but I just use it as an example. No harm intended. I have to laugh anyway becuase it's more than I've ever made!


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It's really no surprise that on this list of the 99 most-raced vehicles in Forza 3, the pole position goes to the Bugatti Veyron and its 1,001 virtual horsepower. Right behind it? The Datsun 510, a 40-year-old compact Japanese car. Why?


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Easy feeling: Keegan Bradley sets course record with a 60 for first-round lead at Nelson
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IRVING, Texas – Keegan Bradley found his clubs spread out on the floor and an open umbrella near his empty golf bag in the champions' locker room before teeing off at the Byron Nelson Championship.
Just another prank by his good friend Jason Dufner, the defending Nelson champion he played with Thursday along with Matt Kuchar.
"It felt like a Saturday morning round with my buddies," Bradley said. "It felt easy."
Bradley made it look that way, shooting an opening 10-under 60 for the TPC Four Seasons course record even with consecutive bogeys in the middle of his round. He led by three strokes over Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion who had a bogey-free 63.
"The hole looked huge," Bradley said. "Even the putts I missed almost went in. ... I felt like all I needed to do was get it on the green and I was going to make it. And to top that, I was hitting the ball close a lot."
But Bradley wasn't thinking about the possibility of a 59, or even a course record, after missing the fairway at No. 18 and making a bogey. He then started his second nine by driving into a bunker at No. 1 before his par putt there lipped the hole.
The two lost strokes put Bradley at 3 under before his longest made putt, a 17-foot birdie at the 221-yard second hole. There were birdies at Nos. 4 and 5, then an eagle 3 at the 542-yard seventh hole and a birdie at the eighth before his wedge shot from about 136 yards on his final hole.
"It was going right at it. (A 59) crossed my mind for a second, and it would be unbelievable if I buried this," Bradley said. "But I had 3 feet to shoot 60. I was actually very nervous, uncomfortable over it and thank God I made it."
That short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole broke the TPC Four Seasons course record and matched the best round ever at the Nelson. He topped his career PGA Tour best by three strokes and equaled Phil Mickelson's opening 60 at Phoenix as the lowest round on the tour this season.
Arron Oberholser shot 60 in the second round of the 2006 Nelson on the Cottonwood Valley course across the street that used to be used the first two rounds. Sam Snead shot 60 in the 1957 tournament at Glen Lakes Country Club, which at the time tied the PGA Tour record.
Five players have since shot 59 in official PGA Tour events. Al Geiberger had the first in the 1977 Memphis Classic, while Paul Goydos and Stuart Appleby had the last three years ago. Ryo Ishikawa had the lowest round on a major tour, shooting a 12-under 58 on the Japan Tour in 2010.
Robert Karlsson, Harris English and Ted Potter Jr. had 64s, all playing morning rounds at the Nelson. Ryan Palmer, playing two days after the funeral of one of his best friends, was in another trio of players at 65, with two-time major champion Angel Cabrera and Camilo Villegas.
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old amateur from China, shot 70 in his second tournament since making the cut at the Masters. The eighth-grader also made the cut in New Orleans three weeks ago.
Guan was among 97 players at par or better — 76 were under par — on the 7,166-yard course after 1½ inches of rain fell on the course Wednesday night from a storm system that spawned at least 16 tornadoes and killed six people in North Texas. There was no significant damage to the course, where players were able to lift, clean and place balls in the fairways.
Palmer found out about Clay Aderholt's accident while at The Players Championship, where with a heavy heart and his friend's initials on his cap he tied for fifth.
"Trying to get back in the swing of things," said Palmer, who lives in nearby Colleyville. "Being at home is nice, my own bed, so that made it easier when I got back (from the funeral) Tuesday night."
Bradley, the nephew of LPGA Tour great Pat Bradley (31 victories with six majors), got his first PGA Tour victory in a one-hole playoff with Palmer at the Nelson as a tour rookie two years ago. Bradley had four consecutive top-10 finishes earlier this season, but missed the cuts in his last two tournaments.
"The course fits my eye really well and I feel comfortable out here," said Bradley, who finished tied for 24th last year even though he was only one stroke off his 2011 winning score of 3-under 277. "It's a lot of drivers, which I like, and I hit the ball in the fairway all day today, which is a bonus being able to touch the ball and having a good lie every time."


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R&B of 2013
Roll on.
R&B was the comeback genre of the year last year, HAVENT YOU HEARD!?
re-post from badmanreturns on the hip hop thread
New Ciara track, co-written by Future, prod. by Mike Will
Not overly impressed.
badmanreturns | 14 Jan '13, 13:21 | ^ This | Replybadmanreturns and vamos this'd this
...and the new Dawn Richards album is streaming:
Gonna listent after lunchxilia this'd this
Still getting into that new Future album
Kinds sits between R&B/Hip-hop for me, its pretty good. Pretty much on a par with that mixtape Astronaut Status at least.
Apart from that I've been on this: http://cassiecollective.tumblr.com/
The Future album is def a hybrid.
I love it, been listening quite a bit over the last couple months.
the mystique
"Ha, I knew you'd say that. Um, I've just been working really hard. I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times. I started work on this new record in 2007 and I only feel right now that it's coming together."
"I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions."
One of you enthusiasts needs to sift through these and provide some choice cuts
As much as I like Cassie, I'm not sitting through 3.5 hours of outtakes. That's impressive dedication to the cause.
cheers bud.
sure their must be a few killer tracks on there.
fyi, the website has been taken down
but they are still available through the tumblr user's sharebeast, if you do a bit googling (i didnt have the third one until today)
Chris turner
has a mixtape out you might remember his single liquid love from last year http://www.audiomack.com/album/chris-turner/lovelife-is-a-challenge
Chrisette michele has a new mix tape out which sounds really good esp the tracks with glasper & Bilalhttp://coast2coastmixtapes.com/mixtapes/mixtapedetail.aspx/chrisette-michele-audrey-hepburn-an-audiovisual-presentation
Look forward to the new Jose James record which is due around feb, feats Pino palledino & robert glasper so the bands gonna be pretty tight and his signed to blue note now which is pretty cool, widen his audience.
Jose James All Over Your Body
was one of the best songs from 2012 for sure. I know its been around since '11 but got an EP release last year so yeah.
He really went for a Voodoo vibe on that, interested to see if he keeps going that path or mixes it up. Sounds like he is trying to get that sound if he went and got Pino for a full length.
HAHA this video!
so bad. Cool song tho
Love the tune but yeah the vid is soooo bad.
What were they thinking? She used to be in Dirty Money right? I loved that album, totally underrated.I guess people just couldn't take Diddy making a 'house' influenced album seriously.
Yeah she is from DDM and Danity Kane before that.
Album is really good.
Not really r&b is it?
kinda flat, not really my kind of thing but thats a very popular sound at the mo
regular r&b IS bedroom r&b though!
Who made the "Window Seat" compilation that I picked out from a last year thread?
So good. We definitely need a new volume.:)
I made that one.
I'll make another mix at some point.cronenberg this'd this
No mention of the new Justin?
http://youtu.be/cJzRZ0T5ewc Timberland's definitely still got it.
It had its own thread n all
but its cool after the intro. Robin Thicke lite but still cool.vamos this'd this
I like the new Destiny's Child tune too.
Even if the beat is just breakbeat house rip off.
I think this had a thread too.
But I really love this song. Its very understated and not at all what I was expecting.
where you been man?
You like the Kelly Rowland single 'Ice'?
It's pretty meh.
The most positive thing I have to say about it is at least its produced by David Guetta.
semi-interesting mini-doc from Red Bull
deconstructing the whole 'indie r&b' thing a little. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SHHdJE7kMws
It's funny that nobody actually identifies themselves under that umbrella and are mostly really uncomfortable with it.
I really like HTDW and he was amazing live at Birthday's
Couldn't really get into the last album as much as the first, never really found there to be a time where I was in the mood for it.
This whole 'indie r&b' term needs to fuck off though.
The line is pretty thin between
stuff that I like and stuff that I can't stand.
Alicia sounds great on this, of course so does Maxwell
Also loving this new Tweet track
^^I really like this Alicia song
What was her album from last year like?
not v good, its ok-ish
The slower ballady stuff is the best on it.
This Jade Alston free EP is front to back great
I've been listening.
Hell, she even started following me on twitter cos last.fm automatically posted that all i'd listened too last week was her and Marvin Gaye. Such a great EP. Feel like I'm back in 2004 when I put it on. This is a good thing.
ha awesome!
Between that and this K Roosevelt http://www.earmilk.com/2013/01/10/k-roosevelt-rosegold-ep/ and the new Jose James I am set up for a while.
Oh I didn't know K. Roosevelt had anything out.
Read about him in some Hit-Boy interview last year. I'll get on it. I'm enjoying this trend of 'behind the scenes' songwriters finding success now R&B seems to be getting big. The Dream set the precedent I guess? But there's Ocean, BJ the Chicago Kid and a load of the Surf School guys. Crazy how much talent there is in such integral positions who never even get heard of.
What's your favourite track on that Alston EP? Can't get enough of 'You Do That' and 'Pioneer' at the moment.
new Autre Ne Veut album is good.
vaguely nsfw unofficial youtube link
Here's my problems with this record:
1) Counting is TOO good and nothing else really lives up to it.
2) Warning is actually painful to listen to, hate it.
3) He seems to sort of run out of ideas/lyrics in the second half of the album and just keeps whacking out the falsetto and saying 'baby' over and over again.
Point 3 may change given a few more listens. I've listened to the first half loads though and it's banging. Just a bit inconsistent.
Don't know how I missed Counting
Loved the last record, but I thought Play by Play was the first leak off of is. Just listened to Counting on YouTube and holy fuck.
Gonna get on the new album now.
Yeah I remember it coming out but didn't listen to it until the album leaked
It's just incredible. The strength of the best tracks really makes up for the flaws of the other songs on the record to be honest.
More excited for this than ever after listening to the album in full.
A lot of the R&B I've taken an interest in is slinky and pared down, so this is a refreshing counterpoint. Judging by the similarities to Channel Pressure (and the fact that Software are involved in the release), I'm guessing Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin had a lot to do with the production on Anxiety; I'm really looking forward to hearing a high quality version for the sonic flourishes that are lost in a shitty Youtube link. Good chance this will be my AOTY.
yeah it is, but it's definitely not the Climax
and I'm not a big fan of Diplo work.
That song is kinda special imo. Bulletproof. Just hooks on hooks on hooksbadmanreturns this'd this
Yeah Climax is Obvs. untouchable.
I thought maybe it'd be the start of Diplo making good music. But as this shows he's back to making boring knock offs.
I like that one off the Katy B ep
altho listening now I really only like it cos of Katys vocals.
Inc. album is leaked
stream it here:
This is nice
Can't say any tracks really stand out on first listen but it's really pleasant.
Sinking in now this record, really understated but keeps me coming back
Glad I got tickets to see them in a few months, seems like they could be pretty special live:
Juicy J ft. The Weeknd – One Of Those Nights
SO many good things happening.
Luke James, Tiffany Evans, Jose James (wow), Bilal (wow, streaming at NPR) and those other ones listed upthread.
Autre Ne Veut - Birthdays, 17th April:
Wrote a lil review of Anxiety over here as well:
This new Ciara song tho
Produced by Mike Will, co-written by Future.theShipment this'd this
Sounds a bit like 10cc
but with Ciara, Mike Will and Future.
made me wanna listen to this sensual omar-s joint
same ghost town djs sample innit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtWqAxeDeEk
but man... mike will knows how to make the late night a great nightKyle_ this'd this
oh yeah!
anyone like the new Bilal album?
interesting concept and decent enough, but doesn't get me particularly excited. bit '1 album a year your mum buys from tesco'.
enjoying it for now but can imagine in a week or so I'll never revisit it again
I love it.
I thought I too might loose interest quickly but if anything it's grown on me. The second half is really stunning.
any particular tracks?
I like the feel of it and production; washes over me in quite a pleasant way but in terms of hooks and memorable melodies etc can't really pick anything out.
Yeah thats kinda how it goes on this one
The subtlety is a major part of the attraction for me. There is so much beauty in the small sonic details, though. Love the mix overall, bass up high. That's something that really plagued his last album.
headed to lunch but I'll dive in with more details in a bit.
The-Dream - Slow It Down
I was really hoping this might restore my hopes for (the album eventually known as) IV Play. It hasn't. I mean people might think Love King and FILA were weak singles but they were so much better than this. Even Dope Bitch was better than this.
Its completely bleh.
I feel like its in the same class as FILA which is basically just Dream by numbers as well. Love King at least had a memorable hook and tons of memorable lines.
Speaking of Dream, you gonna fill out a ballot for the poll?
it's dumb as fuck
i love it
Cassie - Numb ft. Rick Ross
It's the first video from her upcoming mixtape "RockaByeBaby".
1. Intro
2. Paradise feat. Wiz Khalifa
3. Take Care of Me Baby feat. Pusha T
4. Addiction feat. French Montana
5. Numb feat. Rick Ross
6. Sound of Love feat. Jeremih
7. I Love It feat. Fabolous
8. RockaByeBaby
9. I Know Whatcha Want
10. Turn Up feat. Meek Millz
11. Do My Dance feat. Too Short
12. Bad Bitches feat. Ester Dean
13. All My Love
Austin Paul
new young artist from Miami released his debut EP on Symbols.
Harleighblu - Enough Now
Great new track from notts based Harleighblu.
Her voice seems kinda flat on it but I like the styling on the track,
seems like a good direction for her.
really like some tracks from sza's ep
Castles especially https://soundcloud.com/justsza/01-castles-prod-felix-snow?in=justsza/sets/s-ep some of it's kinda boring though, but there's two more eps on the way and i'm hopeful
This sounds very good.
DLing now. thanks
watched mtv base's slow jamz countdown yesterday
top 5 was a bit predicatble: burn, if i ain't got you, walked out of heaven, could it be and southside.
from it, though, i deduced that there simply is not enough compositing work in recent music videos. we need more fake highways and palm trees on fire. miguel take note.
oh yeah
not enough snowglobes either
The Walked Out Of Heaven wobbly bass
Totally forgot about that song.
Had a debate recently about Jagged Edge vs 112
I had to take 112 but it was hard.
Good call.
I like the addition of the awkwardly acted interlude in the new Body Party video
More of that please too
New 8 minute track from The Weeknd
It's not quite his Pyramids, but given his sound had worn itself a little thin over the Trilogy, I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would
Alice Smith - Be Easy
New album sounding good, been wondering what she'd been up too, what is it something like 8 years since her last record.
i really like this august alsina mixtape
these songs are good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrZk5PtF1I
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCbCuAzgNw
i'm a bit wary of white guy r&b, but this is alright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWWJ9W5300
drake signed this guy recently, this sounds kind of like 'marvin's room': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zabAzltSQc8
The August Alsina tape is pretty good.
I just cant get into that stuff like Lapalux. I think Rhye is the closest thing to that style that I like.
- littlebirds this'd this
also sounding good is his F for You remix
although that doesn't really fit in here.
drake - hold on, we're going home ft. majid jordan
- theShipment this'd this
reminds me a bit of a few songs off kaleidoscope dream
still drake though, cause of his bloody vocals
like this
but yeah, Miguel would've done it better.
This is SO GOOD
Been playing it all morning.chris_armo this'd this
can't stop
please send help
If anyone wants to see The-Dream at Koko tonight, hit me up
Got a spare ticket that I don't want to waste, buy me a pint or something.
the new blood orange is pretty damn good
bit weak in the middle but the first run of 5 tracks are solid gold
& that whole album
yeah really like this album now
I don't think anything reaches to the high of I Do Take but its a solid album front to back.
the new tinashe mixtape is really good.
this song in particular is gorgeous (it's also produced by ryan hemsworth):
https://soundcloud.com/tinashenow/tinashe-1-for-me/badmanreturns this'd this


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Guitar/Bass Guitar
Bass guitars have similar design features to other types of guitar but scaled up: thicker strings, longer neck and larger body, etc. This allows lower notes to be created when the strings are tuned to a playable tension. They are sometimes categorized as guitars but are also occasionally categorized as a separate instrument. Although there are many variations, the standard bass guitar has four strings tuned EADG, one octave lower than the bottom four strings of a guitar in standard tuning. Although the bass guitar can be played like an oversized guitar, it also draws much inspiration from double basses and the instrument has a vocabulary of playing styles and music all of its own.
Slapping And Popping[edit]
One of the distinguishing features of the bass guitar is the slap style. It is typically distinct to the bass guitar, although it has been used on acoustic guitars by skillful players.
Slapping is accomplished by percussively striking the string - usually E or A on a standard tuned bass - with the left hand side of the thumb (for a right-handed player). This is done towards the neck of the bass. The thumb is then pulled away as quickly as possible, to create a distinct, "fretty" noise.
Popping is accomplished by curling the fingertip of the index or middle finger under the string - usually the D or G string. The string is then plucked to create a similar sound to slapping on the thicker strings. This is, again, performed towards the neck of the bass.
Different Basses[edit]
The "standard" bass is a 4 string bass, tuned EADG (low to high). Other variations of this tuning include DADG and CGCF. These lower tunings are often used in metal and heavier music, as they extend the instrument's range lower. Altering the tuning of a bass to a lower range (or any other fretted instrumented) by reducing string tension can cause problems that new players should be aware of: looser strings are more prone to "fret buzz", in which a string rattles on the fretboard, producing a sound that is usually unwanted. Loosening strings also alters the tension on the neck, which can lead to warping the neck.
To achieve a clear tone on notes lower than standard tuning, a standard 5-string bass adds a low B string, with the bass normally tuned BEADG (low to high). It is also common to restring a 4-string bass as BEAD, leaving off the high G. There exist strings that go even lower in range, however these are typically found only on specialty instruments.
Bass Runs[edit]
Bass runs are particularly nice sounding. For example if one wants to change from a C chord to an Am chord, they could do a nifty bass run.
--C chord-- --Am Chord-- E A D G B E E A D G B E E A D G B E =========== ==> =========== ==> =========== | 3 2 | 1 | | 2 2 | 1 | | | 2 2 1 |


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Out of the box, BizTalk Server 2006 doesn't provide any tool for auto clearing and cleaning up database used by BizTalk, this cause problems like performance and data storage issues. While browsing BizTalk installation directory (\BizTalk Installation Folder\Schema) I've found out few sql scripts that can used to cleanup the MessageBox = BizTalkMsgBoxDb and Tracking = BizTalkDTADb database.
To clean MessageBox:
1) Stop all BizTalk related services.
2) Open Analyzer and open sql script: msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql, press F5 (this will create the sp) - be sure to use BizTalkMsgBoxDb.
3) run bts_CleanupMsgbox
4) Start services.
For Tracking:
1) Execute dtasp_CleanHMData sp from BizTalkDTADb
There are many sql script located in that Schema Directory and by reading and analyzing this scripts it will give us better understanding on how BizTalk stores the data.