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One week ago, I wrote that the theme of E3 2010 would be Innovation. I was wrong. The real theme was Schadenfreude, in every possible way.
It was slamming motion control on the Xbox and PS3 non-stop for a year, then finding one game that genuinely sold its potential. It was professional PS3 basher Gabe Newell stepping out on Sony's stage and thanking people for not punching him in the face. It was Shigeru Miyamoto unable to get a Wiimote to work live in front of a thousand chuckling people, and then blowing those same people away with the 3DS.
And more: It was admitting Treyarch may have stepped up to step into Infinity Ward's size-12 shoes. It was Dave Jaffe eating years of flat-out denials to unveil a high-def Twisted Metal. It was Nintendo passing out sacks of candy after years of broccoli. It was getting excited for Gears of War multiplayer again. It was Microsoft ignoring XBLA at its own press briefing, then unveiling an evolved Xbox. It was the PSP getting a ton of love and a new mascot, two years after many wrote it off. It was Epic producer Tanya Jessen dropping the s-bomb for Bulletstorm and Dead Space 2 scaring the dicks off people, and even giving Scribblenauts another chance. It was Grand Theft Auto V, Milo, the Vitality Sensor, Wii HD, The Last Guardian, Pikmin 3 and Resistance 3 all pulling no-shows and nobody even minding too much, because there was so much Awesome to wrap your brain around.
It has never been so satisfying for so many people to be proven so wrong.
WTF?: Pay attention, future generations. This is how you launch a major, if not revolutionary piece of electronics hardware: give it a silly (if copyright-friendly) name, surround it with French Canadian performance artists, then make every journalist covering the premiere event surrender their dignity by forcing them wear white ponchos with gimmick light-up shoulder pads, just to build up some extra good will. They even made Tomonobu Itagaki wear one That should've been somebody's ass right there.
I've paid to see Cirque du Soliel on several occasions and strange things happen with regularity at a typical E3, but "The Natal Experience as imagined by Cirque du Soliel" will be spoken of with derisive laughter and counted on "Worst Ever E3 Gaffes" lists for years to come. Man, I wish I'd been in on that meeting. "I've got it... ponchos! We'll make the whole presentation look just a few hoods shy of a backwoods meet-and-greet and have a jungle tribe pretend we've introduced them to fire! Oh! Oh! And we'll sneak into journalists' hotel rooms while they're on the show floor and put creepy Kinect ads on their bathroom mirrors!" Then Microsoft Entertainment Division President Robbie Bach and CEO James Allard stand up and say, in unison, "We quit." The End.
Most Awesome Moment: Microsoft brought Cirque du Soleil. Sony brought Kevin Butler. Advantage: Sony. While KB didn't host the entire event - hard to picture Jack Tretton giving that up - he did make an unannounced walk-on to take over from Peter Dille just as Sony's conference started dragging, and then he got a little something off his chest . Mr. Butler laid it down in less than four minutes. Walk-off homers and headshots. Drifting a turn at 100 mph and boss battles with a 600 ft. tall Greek god who may or may not be your father. A ridiculously huge TV in a tiny one-room apartment. Staying up 'til 3:00 a.m. to earn a trophy that isn't real. But IS. This is gaming.
Amen, KB. Swing by my house and I'll officially knight you with my Buster Sword.
Biggest Coup: Microsoft's exclusive deal with ESPN - and making that content free to Gold members - is nothing short of huge, and another big step towards the MS vision of convergence. A few people at IGN are already thinking of cancelling their cable packages. Special kudos to SportsCenter's Josh Elliot and Trey Wingo for showing up to show everybody how on-stage banter is done, and for taunting the Lakers mere yards away from Staples Center, where 19,000 screaming Lakers fans in playoff berserker mode waited to tear them to humorous shreds.
Genre to Watch: Oh yes, shooters were well represented, even over-represented, but turn your attention to all the driving games. You get a lot of overlap in all that gunplay, but the driving games this year are showing a lot more diversity... Joy Ride's causal kart racer, Need For Speed's arcade asphalt-ripper, Driver: San Francisco's car-hopping tactical fantasy, Twisted Metal's darker, flaming chainsaw fantasy, and big daddies Forza 4 and Gran Turismo 5's photo-real simulators. It's going to be a very good year for anyone who likes to burn rubber.
Dropped Kinections: After all the hype, it wouldn't be fair to say Kinect and Move hit with a thud, but they sure didn't nail the landing. Nobody's disputing the technology works, though maybe it's got a case of the hiccups. Rumors persist that Kinect has trouble tracking subjects who are sitting down; Microsoft reps insist you can "use" Kinect while seated, but it's unclear if "use" means motion control, voice control, or both. Regardless, of all the Kinect features demoed at Microsoft's conference, the coolest were all non-game related. Unless you count the insultingly canned "Girls can use it too, tee hee!" video phone feature as demoed by Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite.
Or maybe you heard the groans when Move was priced at a minimum $80 entry point. Sony released a back-pedaling statement days later pointing out you could just use half a Dualshock and save yourself thirty bucks on the navigation control. Why, thank you, Sony, for telling us half your new hardware is unnecessary. Of course, Microsoft didn't even price Kinect, the more sophisticated piece of technology.
That's not a cause for concern, right?
Best Reasons to Get Kinect or Move: That said, I laid out my ground rules for a good core Kinect/Move game a week ago, and a couple of titles at E3 actually met them. Child of Eden from Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi lets you play Kinect like you're conducting a symphony, instead of jumping and leaning and kicking like a maniac, and the result is magical. Over on the Move, Sorcerer is the Harry Potter game Harry Potter fans have wanted since they first enrolled in Hogwarts. I've been talking about motion-wanding for years, and Sony looks to be the one who will finally make it happen. Shame, Nintendo. Shame. And if you're skeptical about the Harmonix Kinect title Dance Central, rest assured. Several IGN editors who would normally never be caught dead dancing in front of a television had to be dragged away from the thing.
So, anyone else want to make a cool Kinect/Move game? Anyone?
I Expect You to Die, Mr. Bond: The return of GoldenEye is major. Popular shooters on Nintendo platforms are rare, but this one's the gold standard of shooters on any platform, and a contender for best motion control shooter in a suddenly crowded field. Oh, I'm sure somebody's willing to spend an extra $80 to play SOCOM 4 with Move, but I'm also sure they're in the minority.
The Matrix is All Around You: While body-swapping in the middle of a firefight for Square Enix's Mindjack opens up intriguing possibilities, I'm not feeling it nearly as much as the Shift feature in Ubisoft's Driver: San Francisco. Here's an entirely new way to play a driving game: pause it, leave your car, and instantly hop into any other car in range. That range expands as you level up, until it encompasses the entire city. So you can, say, shift out of a pursuit car, drop into an 18-wheeler a mile up the road, and steer into a head-on collision with the person you're chasing. That's how an Agent of the System rolls, baby.
Miss Manners: Kinectimals is cute enough to send weaker men into diabetic shock, but it's so much more insidious than that. Sure, I'll take a cute baby tiger named Skittles if I can order him to maim and devour my enemies, but lacking that, I'm going to have some fun with my furry little homunculus. Except you can't. See, you call out names until the Kinectimal you're adopting wiggles its ears in approval... meaning it can reject names you come up with. So after emptying your wallet to get an Xbox, a Kinect, and the game, you can't even name your new friend Hitler or Whorebags or [CENSORED]-Slurp. Way to suck the fun out of life, Microsoft.


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Throughout the centuries, great theologians have thought long and hard and deep about the wonders of God and the great gospel of Jesus Christ. If we are to be both far-sighted and refreshing today, we need to stand on the shoulders of these giants, with the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds.
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When Angelo Bruno headed the Philadelphia mob (it was he, not any New York gangster, who was the model for Mario Puzo's "The Godfather"), nearly every pizza joint in the city generously purchased its cheese from the same company.
"We call it the 'You Buy It From Us Or Else Cheese Co.,'" one Philly mobster told me at the time, with a big laugh. The mob's marketing approach, however, was no joke. On a regular basis, this or that pizza shop got burned down or blown up as Mayor Frank Rizzo's cops looked the other way.


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The Loyola University New Orleans Department of Languages and Cultures will present two lectures by leading scholar Kurt Raaflaub, Ph.D., later this month. Both events are free and open to the public.
The first lecture, "Peace as the Highest Good and End? The Role of Peace in Roman Thought and Politics," will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 12:30 p.m. in Mercy Hall, Room 313. Raaflaub will focus on early imperial history to address the importance of peace in Roman thought and politics, as well as the role it played in other Roman values in relation to attitudes towards war, conquest and empire.
The second lecture, "Ancient War as Spectacle," will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium on the third floor of Monroe Hall. Using texts from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Raaflaub will explore why war in antiquity was made to look like a spectacle. Topics will include an army's departure to war, the battle experience itself, watching the battle, the aftermath of battle, celebrations of victory, the re-enactment of war, the commemoration of the war dead and the spectacle of an entire war in one work of literature or art.
Raaflaub, a Swiss historian, is an emeritus professor of classics and history at Brown University. He is the Onassis Foundation senior visiting scholar. The University Seminars Program of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation sponsors eminent scholars to offer lectures, seminars and courses at university campuses in North and South America.
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Gov't Officials Leak Classified Info To Journalists To Discredit Snowden For Leaking Classified Info To Journalists
from the we're-from-the-government,-we-don't-do-irony dept
"It's ironic that officials are giving classified information to journalists in an effort to discredit me for giving classified information to journalists. The difference is that I did so to inform the public about the government's actions, and they're doing so to misinform the public about mine."Kinda puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?


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Quite recently, I purchased peanut butter after forgetting it existed for a couple of months. I was glad I did, because it came to the rescue the other night on an almost too-warm-to-cook, clean-out-the-fridge-for-dinner evening. I was grasping for ideas and near gasping for breath until I remembered that I had just enough odds and ends of vegetables and to lightly cook and pair with an easy peanut sauce. The sliced tofu was the last piece of Nasoya extra firm that had been marinating in a light fishy mixture of crumbled nori, soy sauce, vegetarian fish sauce, mirin, and fresh ginger.
The completed meal was reminiscent of Pra Ram, but served with buckwheat rice vermicelli, as opposed to a bed of greens or steamed rice. I dig this type of vermicelli because it's cheap, versatile, and remains sturdier vs. the traditional rice version – especially as leftovers.
Satisfyingly served at room temperature, and sprinkled with gomasio.
The extra peanut sauce is requesting some satay action. Dip party to commence.
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Basketball Bulldogs picked to win West
Once again Mississippi State will open the 2010-11 season as the favorite to hang another banner in Humphrey Coliseum.
According to the media poll that was released by the Southeastern Conference Monday afternoon, the Bulldogs men's basketball program is projected to win the Western Division.
State received received 18 of the 20 first-place votes to finish first, with the final two going to Ole Miss as the two teams that tied for the title last year were placed 1-2 in the preseason poll.
"Of course, my concern is where we are at the end of the year," Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury said via the school's release. "It's nice to be recognized. I like my team, but like I said, I'm more concerned with our standings come March."
MSU has three starters returning to the lineup but junior Dee Bost, the team's two-year starting point guard, will be out until the Southeastern Conference opener against Alabama on Jan. 8 in Starkville while he attempts to become academically eligible and after that serves a nine-game suspension for failing to withdraw from the NBA Draft in May.
State finished 24-12 with a trip to the NIT quarterfinals but have to replace the NCAA's career leader in blocked shots and one of their best perimeter defenders with the graduation of Jarvis Varnado and Barry Stewart.
"It's only about my team - absolutely and in every way," Stansbury said. "Our challenge is this: We're playing without Barry Stewart and Jarvis (Varnado)."
MSU, who has yet to release its official non-conference slate, is hoping to get sophomore forward Renardo Sidney eligible before they travel to the Bahamas to face Virginia Tech, play in the Diamond Head Classic tournament hosted by the University of Hawaii and finish up their holiday travel with a featured game against Saint Mary's in Las Vegas.
The former McDonald's All-American Sidney received a two-part penalty from the NCAA last spring that included losing eligibility of the 2009-10 season due to unethical conduct and being forced to sit out an additional 30 percent (an estimated nine games) of this upcoming season due to impermissible benefits received prior to signing and arriving on the Mississippi State campus.
"The challenge with Sid will be no secret – his conditioning," Stansbury said. "The speed of this game will be different for him and you can't expect from day one he steps on the floor to be where he'll be come March or April. Sometimes talent level can offset lack of experience."
The preseason poll had Florida as the projected overall winner of the league but the Gators failed to have a single player among the conference's five first-team selections.
The Gators were ahead of Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and South Carolina in the Eastern Division. State and Ole Miss were followed by Alabama, Arkansas, LSU and Auburn rounding out the West.
"People always say that perception is reality, and certainly when it comes to the case of competing, perception is never reality," Florida head coach Billy Donovan said during his team's media day on October 13. "When you have a team that went to the NCAA Tournament and returns all five starters, the expectation level, the perception is that you're going to be really, really good."
The league's preseason player of the year honor was handed to Georgia forward Trey Tompkins and the 6-foot-10, 245-pounder was joined on the first-team All-SEC list with junior teammate Travis Leslie, Kentucky freshman guard Brandon Knight, Ole Miss guard Chris Warren and Vanderbilt forward Jeffrey Taylor.
Mississippi State will open its regular season at Humphrey Coliseum on Nov. 12 against Tennessee State.


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future rs the watch low 50s savages mid single digits {nm} on Jun 10, 20:24
Tagging Future RS: [NEIBW] low 50s [SAVAG] mid single digits {nm} on Jun 10, 20:25
Not surprised by Watch, Stiller and Vaughn are two names that still are fairly reliable draws., the ALVH # seems high {nm} on Jun 10, 21:21
NO WAY "The Watch" opens mid-50's IMO. But that's ok, you guys go ahead and ramp it up so I can short it later. Thx. {nm} on Jun 10, 21:52
Step Brothers did 31 the weekend after Dark Knight and this has more star power, I certainly expect at least 40 to be realistic. on Jun 11, 01:28
There's a big difference between 40 and 55. If RS had said 40, I wouldn't have made comment. Ergo, I will be surprised if NEIBW makes 55. {nm} on Jun 11, 07:44
katy perry mid teens {nm} on Jun 10, 20:26
abe lincoln vampire hunter high 30s {nm} on Jun 10, 20:27
Tagging Future RS: [KP3D] mid teens [ALVH] high 30s {nm} on Jun 10, 20:29
BO.com has ALVH 18 and NEIBW 26 so someone's going to be embarrassed {nm} on Jun 10, 21:46
Unfortunately, we have not established a RS>BO rule yet... {nm} on Jun 10, 21:55
Oh god, poor Taylor Kitsch. I hope Savages does much better than that. {nm} on Jun 11, 06:12
And I hope The Watch does that well. More people need to know how awesome Richard Ayoade is! {nm} on Jun 11, 06:13


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Junk food junkie alert: Look for Twinkies on store shelves in July.
Four former Hostess snack cake bakeries around the country are scheduled to re-open within eight to 10 weeks.
"Hooray!" said Kent Heermann, president of the Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas, which includes Emporia, Kan., where one of the plants is located.
An investment group, which bought assets and rights to several products after Hostess Brands Inc. liquidated last year, confirmed this week that bakeries in Emporia; Columbus, Ga.; Schiller Park, Ill.; and Indianapolis will begin hiring soon.
The investor partnership of Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC paid $410 million for the bakeries and rights and to make Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Donettes, Zingers, Suzy Qs, Mini Muffins and Hostess Cup Cakes. The sale was supervised by a bankruptcy court after Hostess Brands Inc. filed for liquidation.
Lead investor C. Dean Metropoulos told The Wall Street Journal that the partnership intends to pour $60 million more in capital investments into four, perhaps five, plants and hire 1,500 workers to staff them.
The four plants, possibly plus one more in Los Angeles, were among 11 former Hostess bakeries acquired by Metropoulos and Apollo. The investors believe the re-opened plants can be run more efficiently and turn out as much product as the previous 11.
About 500 people lost their jobs at the Emporia bakery when Hostess Brands Inc. shut down the plant in bankruptcy last year. The new owners, doing business as a new company, Hostess Brands LLC, said Thursday that the plant will hire 250 initially and about 50 more as work progresses.
A small group of Emporia bakery employees is expected to begin work May 15.
"The city is delighted," said Emporia Mayor Bobbi Mlynar, who said that "making the best snack cakes in the world is something that Emporia-area workers know how to do well and are eager to resume doing."
Re-opening will boost the Emporia economy, but there will be only half the number of previous jobs and the plant's new owner has said it won't use union labor.
But Michael Cramer, an executive involved in the new Hostess Brands LCC operations, said the new jobs will pay "competitive wages and benefits, and I'm sure people will be pleased."
Employees who previously worked for Hostess under union contracts may apply for the new non-union jobs, he and another job recruiter confirmed.
"Experience helps," Cramer said. "We want people who are excited about working there and are energized about it."
Previously, about 15,000 of the 18,000 former Hostess plant workers around the country were represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union or by the Teamsters.
Cramer said the Emporia plant will begin making the products it previously made. Over time, it may add more brands as it assumes production of items previously made at some of the plants that won't be reopened.
Hostess Brands Inc., formerly Interstate Bakeries Corp., had its headquarters in Kansas City for decades before it moved some executive functions to the Dallas area after emerging from its first bankruptcy reorganization in 2009.
The company had been financially troubled for years. It filed its second bankruptcy petition in January 2012, blaming union contract disputes.
The bakery union walked out in November after the former Hostess owners sought cuts in wages, insurance and pension benefits after union members already had agreed to a series of concessions.
Spokesmen for the national bakery union were unavailable for comment Thursday. Conrad Boos, union representative in Missouri, said many members would like to return to the jobs they knew.
"I don't think they can stop them from reapplying, but can they discriminate against them because they were union members?" Boos said of the new owners. "It's hard to say what will happen. But in the end, it's up to employees if they choose to organize."
Linda Bartley, union representative in Kansas for the Emporia plant, was not available for comment on Thursday.
Metropoulos said in a news release announcing the Emporia re-opening that the new company already has upgraded some of the bakery facility, and he thanked the state of Kansas and the city of Emporia for being "extremely helpful throughout the redevelopment process."
Hostess Brands assets were sold piecemeal to bidders in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Flowers Foods, a publicly traded baking company based in Georgia, acquired 20 Hostess bakeries that made bread and buns, including plants in Lenexa and Boonville, Mo.
Flowers has declined to speak publicly about plans for its newly acquired bakeries because of an ongoing antitrust review by federal regulators. Flowers, which already operates 44 U.S. bakeries, expected the review, which could take several more months.
Flowers paid $360 million for the plants and rights to Wonder, Home Pride, Nature's Pride, Butternut and Merita brands. Its purchases included the Lenexa bakery, where nearly 200 workers formerly made Home Pride and Wonder bread and buns, and the Boonville bakery, where about 90 workers made buns.
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Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a six-week Friday series on the perceptions of beauty. Last week, we looked at body image issues for children and teens, focusing specifically on eating disorders. Next week, our stories will focus on self-acceptance.
(CNN) -- Jeff Romig kept putting it off.
He knew the doctor would give him bad news. He'd known it for years; he needed to lose weight.
But as he sat in the doctor's office a few weeks ago and listened to his numbers -- cholesterol and blood pressure, both too high -- he resolved to change. This time, he decided to do something different, something drastic.
After 10 years of talking about losing weight without much success, Romig decided to put his health and family first by leaving his high-pressure politics job.
"I knew I was doing the right thing, but I felt terrible," said Romig, 34, who lives in Georgia.
While the tactic might be unusual, Romig is hardly alone in his struggle with weight gain or his reluctance to try to lose it. More than 30% of men older than 20 are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Men face the issue at the same rate as women, but until recently, ads for weight loss products mostly featured female faces and voices. According to ad industry watchers, the female-centric advertising had the inadvertent effect of scaring men away.
Enter a slew of new ads from the biggest names in dieting: Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig.
Weight Watchers took a direct approach, with television spots that explicitly tell men it's OK to diet. One commercial proclaims "Weight Watchers online is for men, too," and, as a nod to the brand's more feminine advertising of yore: "It's not all rainbows and lollipops."
"Women really appreciate the fact that we are recognizing it as a widespread societal problem," said David Burwick, president of Weight Watchers North America.
Beyond the multimillion-dollar campaign lies the hope for company expansion. Burwick estimated that only one-quarter of men who have weight problems actively seek to lose weight. That means plenty aren't spending money on weight loss products and programs, at least not yet.
Aside from the attention paid by Madison Avenue, some men said they're learning they need more than just a plan; they need people to hold them accountable and to relate to their struggles.
Lloyd Dinwiddie, an entertainment correspondent who goes by the name Gyant, said men don't often talk about their diets with other men, something he said he wishes would change. Though his nickname comes from his 6-foot-8-inch frame, Dinwiddie said not everyone appreciates his desire to slim down, and after years of diets, he's trying new techniques.
"Women look at me like I'm crazy. They say, 'You're just big, Gyant,'" he said. "At 310 pounds, every book in the world is telling me I need to lose weight."
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Dinwiddie said he applauds Weight Watchers and other companies that focus on men's health, but an "average Joe"-style spokesman would work better than a Charles Barkley or Mariah Carey, who have trainers and chefs to keep them focused.
Dinwiddie's current dieting effort includes a lot more chicken salads and outdoor activities, with a goal of losing 80 pounds. He has turned to an online community, hoping the discussion will serve as communal motivation.
"It's actually been a collective support system in a roundabout way 'cause in six months, if I'm not following it, they are going to be like, 'Yo, what's going on?'"
Romig, the man who quit his politics job, said he started using Weight Watchers in 2003, after his weight grew to 225 pounds. He lost 30 pounds then, but the positive momentum slowed after a big move and a new, stressful job. Through a few more jobs and one more move, Romig kept his Weight Watchers account, although he wasn't using it much.
"Every month, there goes that $16.95," he joked.
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Work and volunteer commitments soaked up his time. To make decisions about lifestyle changes, he sat with his wife of nine years and ran through scenarios, including how to handle fatigue and soreness during weight loss, and questions about whether he could keep up the momentum.
It all added up to one thing: Making time to get healthy, even if it meant reducing his work hours and relying more heavily on the income of his wife, an attorney.
Social media has already proven to be helpful on the journey, he said. When he shared news of his resignation and intention to run in a 5K on Facebook, he got all positive comments, he said. Romig keeps himself honest with his phone and other technology that allows him to keep tabs on his progress; his goal is to go from 241 to 180 pounds.
But those hyper-masculine ads? Romig said they didn't have much effect on him. The real motivation came from his wife, who told him, "I worry that you're not going to be here."
Since last week, Romig has lost 9 pounds. He said everything else, even his job, is now secondary.


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How does that impact the REAL question at issue(answer it dosnt) you just want to pretend to have a victory.Explain how you think it makes ANY impact on the question we had at issue?(can you even remember any more)
you don't think that law should involve the law?
I think lawyers should have to memorise law yes, thats why its "law school"
then why not just give a one semester course followed by a one year internship, you could learn that in that much or less, why waste a full 3 years?
then why even have a bar exam?


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you just have to love the name of this amendment: "The Religious Freedom" bill. who could be against religious freedom? from the article:
"no individual or entity may be denied, on the basis of religious identity or belief, governmental benefits, funding or other support … and delet[es] the prohibition against using revenues from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
well then, that's nice and vague. in essence, this allows for the direct funding of religious schools via vouchers, a la the Louisiana model. yes, the same model that is about to go into affect where schools that deny evolution in favor of creationism will receive tax dollars at the expense of public school funding. wonderful!
and apparently, it's all being done to counter the effect of the militant secular humanists (whatever that means):
"If the secular humanists will sue over prison ministries, what's to stop them from challenging government contracts with the Catholic Charities, Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services or the YMCA? Are Catholic hospitals safe?"
ah yes, fear peddling. combine such rhetoric with the name "Religious Freedom" and you have the recipe for success. is there any doubt that this will receive the 60% support that it needs to pass?
two days ago, we saw the ultimate in fear based nonsensical foaming of the mouth in response to the HHS contraception mandate.
"I know in your mind, you can think of the times America was attacked. One is Dec. 7, that's Pearl Harbor Day. The other is Sept. 11, and that's the day the terrorists attacked. I want you to remember Aug. 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."
the power of religion to warp otherwise reasonable minds knows no limit.
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hey irony...
but indeed all corporate cover to do their anti union and anti american stuff imho... kids and fam suffer
they , mba's ceo's w/tithe ties (and tongue twisting bible stuff).. don't care
they just know money
not faith nor freedom.. it's man gone machine crazy imho but hey I'm just a little guy
Shelly Segal's got the lyrics btw.. greydonsquare what!? tombstone! and.. countless other artists on the map of reason imho cya
guess the cops, paramedics, nurses, firemen and any public workers.. will... what? pray? doubt it.
they have reps. they have ways. when one end of america frays the mainline is who get's next. left wing has had next since the cheat of 2000
in other words.. the faith based stuff will lose a. at court, b. on the streets and c. when the kids end up in the prison system(s) rebelling and standing up for the god rites stuff, watch. hello the kid (young adult?) was pentecostal? and that did not stop him from killing folks at movies in CO. ? ~!
oh well guess they love ruin that much.. the profit from it.. then cry about it when they figure 1st amendment is unbeatable with god gloves on nah mean? pfffft.. they're no fun either.. just hide here and cause abuse overseas imho.. those god romney lovers pfffft
shit look what's happened post 1980 ... ! it's like 80's again more nasties tho w/synthetics
Would this also work for Muslim schools in Louisiana that want to teach Shariah Law?
In all honesty, I'm split on this issue. Because if you look at it glass half full, these Christians are shooting themselves in the foot when they send their kids to college, and they don't understand -- or even worse, refuse to understand -- a lick of basic biology, physics, and perhaps math. This will ensure Christians for generations to come are glued to the bottom of the economic ladder, making them increasingly irrelevant as political constituents. One could only hope...
But they still get to vote.
get's way more jonestown that one would entertain nah mean?!
Man, i just got on the computer and found out the charter schools in Louisiana are doing all kinds of wacky stuff. They're teaching that god left a trail of tears to bring indians to christ, dinosaurs and humans coexisted, lochness is real, and they require a pregnancy test or they'll kick them out. This is going backwards, fullspeed. *excellent point jonathan. They will have a rude wake up call when it's college time. Hello, welcome to the real world.
The Louisiana school voucher program was just ruled unconstitutional under the state constitution:
A state judge on Friday shot down Louisiana's sweeping school voucher program, ruling that the state could not use funds set aside for public education to pay private-school tuition for thousands of low- and middle-income children.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ... a Republican, vowed to appeal.
... The 5,000 students currently receiving vouchers will be able to continue attending their private schools pending an appeal, state officials said. ...
About 5,000 students are currently receiving the vouchers, which cover tuition and fees at scores of private and parochial schools, including some small church-based schools that infuse all their classes with Biblical references and do not teach subjects such as evolution.
The use of state money to pay for religious education was not at issue in the case; the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vouchers can be used for religious education so long as the state is not promoting any one faith but letting parents choose where to enroll their children.
In a statement, Jindal didn't tip his hand about his tactics but did issue a forceful vow to defend his signature program. The opportunity to attend private schools, he said, "is a chance that every child deserves, and we will continue the fight to give it to them."
(Read the whole Reuters article)
How about every child deserving the chance to have a great education without indoctrination, in a nonsectarian public school?
In a statement, Jindal didn't tip his hand about his tactics but did issue a forceful vow to defend his signature program. The opportunity to attend private schools, he said, "is a chance that every child deserves, and we will continue the fight to give it to them."
that is such utter bullshit. you know he doesn't mean that. he wants kids to have free christian education, no more, no less.
and thanks for updating this. i noticed that news yesterday and it made my day.
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If you have ever developed some small database-driven web applications with MySQL, then certainly you'll know that performing CRUD operations (short for Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) on a few relational database tables is a pretty straightforward process. In theory, a decent knowledge of the most common SQL statements, backed up by an intermediate background in the server-side scripting language of your choice, should let you do anything that you want with your MySQL tables, especially if they use the fast MyISAM database engine, right?
Well, in reality things can be more difficult, even in the simplest case. Let me explain this a bit further with a typical example. Say that you're running a blog web site, where visitors are allowed to freely post their comments about each mind-blowing blog entry that you write every day.
In a case like this, your database schema would be comprised of at least two MyISAM tables: one that would store the pertinent blog entries, and another that would house comments for the entries in question. A one-to-many relationship between both tables should be properly established by defining a foreign key on the second table to maintain your database's integrity when updating or deleting rows.
While I'm not going to say that building an application that keeps the integrity of the two previous tables will be the most challenging task that you'll ever have to tackle, the truth is that the integrity must be maintained at the application level. This is often the approach taken during the development of most web projects that don't require using transactions, due to the excellent performance offered by MyISAM tables.
Of course, this comes at a cost too; as I said before, the application must take care of maintaining the integrity and consistency of the database, which naturally implies implementing more complex programming logic for adequately handling the relationships between tables. Even when database access can be simplified by using an abstraction layer and an ORM module, the more tables required by the application, the more complicated its logic will be, undoubtedly.
So, is there any way to handle foreign keys (and therefore to help maintain database integrity) at the database level with MySQL? Fortunately, the answer is a resounding yes! MySQL also supports InnoDB tables, which allow you to handle foreign key constraints in a really simple fashion. This powerful feature lets you trigger certain actions, such as updates and deletions of rows in tables that maintain a predefined relationship.
Quite possibly, the major drawback to using InnoDb tables is that they're slightly slower than their MyISAM sisters. This is especially evident in large-scale applications that have to query many tables. But, there's good news on the horizon, since at the time of this writing, support for foreign key constraints has been announced for MyISAM tables, too, in future releases of MySQL.
So, in this series of articles I'm going to take a closer look at using foreign key constraints with InnoDB tables. Thus you can discover (or rediscover) its numerous advantages. Also, it's worthwhile to clarify that I'm going to use a simple PHP-based MySQL abstraction class to create some of the corresponding code samples; naturally, you can use other server-side language or even plain SQL.
Now, after this long and hopefully insightful introduction, it's time to start using foreign key constraints with MySQL. Let's begin right now!
{mospagebreak title=When to use foreign key constraints}
Frankly speaking, it's not mandatory to use foreign key constraints when working with InnoDB tables in MySQL. However, to demonstrate how useful they can be in certain cases, I'm going to translate to functional code the example mentioned at the beginning. It involves two MyISAM tables which will be used for storing some blog entries and the comments on them respectively.
With that database schema defined, I'm going to set up a one-to-many relationship between these tables by creating a foreign key on the table that houses the comments, thus tying them to a particular blog entry.
Having explained that, here's the basic SQL code that roughly creates the sample MyISAM tables:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`blogs`;
CREATE TABLE `test`.`blogs` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` TEXT,
`content` TEXT,
`author` VARCHAR(45) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`comments`;
CREATE TABLE `test`.`comments` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,
`blog_id` INT(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL,
`comment` TEXT,
`author` VARCHAR(45) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
Well, at this point things are starting to look a bit more interesting. I've just defined the two MyISAM tables that will comprise the data layers of the blog application that I plan to build progressively.
As you can see above, the first table, called "blogs," is made up of a few intuitive fields that will be used for storing the ID of each blog entry, then its title and content, and finally the author that posted it. On the other hand, the "comments" table will hold the comments on each entry, and will use the entry's ID as its foreign key, in this way setting up the aforementioned one-to-many relationship.
So far, nothing special is happening here, since creating two simple MyISAM tables like the ones shown previously should be pretty easy to grasp for you. So, next we'll populate those tables with some trivial records, so you can see what operations need to be performed on the "comments" table when one blog entry is deleted in the other one.
To learn the full details of this process, click on the link below and read the following section, please.
{mospagebreak title=Updating blog entries and maintaining database integrity}
In the course of the previous segment, I created the two basic MyISAM tables that compose the data layer of a simple blog application, right? Certainly, this process doesn't bear any further discussion due to its simplicity. Therefore, I'm now going to fill in those tables with some records, at least to make myself feel comfortable that my blog posts have caught some attention. Using plain SQL, the insertion of those records can be performed like this:
INSERT INTO blogs (id, title, content, author) VALUES (NULL,'Title of the first blog entry', 'Content of the first blog entry', 'Alejandro Gervasio')
INSERT INTO comments (id, blog_id, comment, author) VALUES (NULL, 1, 'Commenting first blog entry', 'Susan Norton'), (NULL, 1, 'Commenting first blog entry', 'Mary Wilson')
By means of the above code sample, I'm simply simulating that my first blog post have been promptly commented by Susan and Mary, which makes me feel glad. Say that for whatever reasons, though, my entire post must be updated with another one. In a hypothetical situation, that might happen, right?
In a case like this, to maintain the consistency of the database, the "comments" table must also be updated either manually, which is not viable in practical terms, or by the application that handles the data layer. Since I'm using plain SQL for this particular example, these updates should be performed as follows:
UPDATE blogs SET id = 2, title = 'Title of the first blog entry', content = 'Content of the first blog entry', author = 'John Doe' WHERE id = 1
UPDATE comments SET blog_id = 2 WHERE blod_id = 1
Simple and illustrative. As shown before, since the content of the first blog entry (including its ID) has been updated, this change must be reflected by the "comments" table as well. Again, it's fair to say that in real conditions this update should be done at the application level, and not manually, which implies implementing the logic necessary to do this with any server-side language.
While achieving this, for instance with PHP, should be a straightforward procedure, the truth is that is that the entire update operation on the "comments" table could be completely delegated to the database, if foreign key constraints are used instead.
How can this be done at the present time? Well, as I expressed in the introduction, InnoDB MySQL tables support this feature seamlessly. So, in the upcoming section I'm going to rewrite the example developed earlier, this time using foreign key constraints with that type of table.
Now, go ahead and read the next few lines. I'll be there, waiting for you.
{mospagebreak title=Delegating update operations to the database}
As I explained at the end of the previous section, it's possible to rebuild the earlier example by using foreign key constraints and InnoDB tables, instead of the default MyISAM type that you saw before. Based on this idea, the first change that must be made is redefining the two sample tables, so they can use that specific database engine.
The following SQL code does that:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`blogs`;
CREATE TABLE `test`.`blogs` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` TEXT,
`content` TEXT,
`author` VARCHAR(45) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`comments`;
CREATE TABLE `test`.`comments` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT,
`blog_id` INT(10) UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL,
`comment` TEXT,
`author` VARCHAR(45) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `blog_ind` (`blog_id`),
CONSTRAINT `comments_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`blog_id`) REFERENCES `blogs` (`id`) ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
From the previous code sample, it's clear to see that the first difference is that the two tables now use the InnoDB storage engine, which supports foreign key constraints.
Other than that, you should pay close attention to the following line within the definition of the "comments" table:
CONSTRAINT `comments_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`blog_id`) REFERENCES `blogs` (`id`) ON UPDATE CASCADE
Actually, this statement instructs MySQL to update the values of the "blog_id" foreign key on the "comments" table, when the ID of the "blogs" table is updated. In other words, what I'm doing here is delegating the maintenance of the database integrity to MySQL, meaning that when a specific blog entry is updated, its associated comments also will reflect this change immediately, instead of implementing this functionality at the application level. Pretty neat, huh?
Now that the two sample MySQL tables have been defined that way, updating both of them would be as simple as running one single "UPDATE" SQL statement, like this:
"UPDATE blogs SET id = 2, title = 'Title of the first blog entry', content = 'Content of the first blog entry', author = 'John Doe' WHERE id = 1"
As I mentioned before, there's no need to update the "comments" table, since MySQL will take care of doing that for you automatically. In addition, it's possible to tell MySQL not to do anything when attempting to update rows on the "blogs" table either by removing the "ON UPDATE" part of the query, or by specifying "NO ACTION" and "RESTRICT." Other options are also available, but for now are out of the scope of this tutorial.
Now that you hopefully have a clear idea of how to work with foreign key constraints when using InnoDB tables in MySQL, I encourage you to develop your own examples to acquire a more solid background on this handy database feature.
Final thoughts
That's all for the moment. In this first part of the series, I provided you with a basic introduction to using foreign key constraints with InnoDB tables in MySQL. As you saw by the example created earlier, triggering a "cascading" update on the records of a child table when updating rows in a parent table is a breeze, which also helps to get rid of implementing this capability inside the application that handles the data layer.
Of course, it's also feasible to raise the same cascading effect when deleting rows on a parent table, but the full details of this process will be covered in the next tutorial. So, my suggestion is simple: don't miss that tutorial!


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THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1851). He was a contemporary and
acquaintance of numerous other notables such as Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Pierce,
and Herman Melville. Hawthorne's family heritage included
Salem sea captains and Puritan officials, including Judge John Hathorn,
one of the presiding judges of the infamous Salem witchcraft
trials of 1692. His new England roots and experiences, and his sense
of puritan morality and character profoundly colored his writing.
Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, while visiting his friend Franklin
Pierce in Plymouth, N.H.
The Phillips Library is a major hub of Hawthorne scholarship. In
addition to housing numerous original manuscripts, the library's
holdings include papers of Hawthorne's contemporaries and
commentors. The C. E. Fraser Clark Collection of Hawthorniana augments
the primary materials, and makes it possible to view all of the
American editions and literary criticism of this premier writer.
The museum is also home to the 1840 portrait by Charles Osgood of
Hawthorne, probably the best known of all the Hawthorne images (on
view in the main American Art galleries of the Peabody Essex Museum).
The Exhibition included a sampling of the museum's most important
Hawthorne holdings, including: a bust of the author, by Louisa Lander;
papers, portraits, and photographs of family members; original correspondence
by and to Hawthorne; a manuscript poem written by Hawthorne at age
12; "The Spectator" a hand-copied newspaper produced
in August and September 1820 by Hawthorne and his sister; personal
Hawthorne items, such as his wallet, card case, lamp and writing
utensils; and a large selection of rare editions of Hawthorne's
works. Hawthorne includes a multimedia kiosk and website focusing
on Hawthorne's boyhood writings.
Voice of Hawthorne: Matteo Pangallo
Producers: James Forrest, Carrie Ives Schluter,
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When hot weather has you sweating in your sheets, even the idea of watercolors can make you feel cooler. Soft strokes and mostly-pastel colors are the order of the day, and an easy home or party DIY for an afternoon.
Here are some recent decorative projects that channel summer.
1. Painted Votives from Once Wed
2. Watercolor linens from Camille Styles
2. Watercolor linens from Camille Styles
3. Flower Bud Blocks from Design*Sponge
4. Monogram Straw Toppers from Studio DIY
5. Paper Party Hats from Oh Happy Day
6. Plate Chargers from Hank and Hunt
7. Paper Flowers from Kelli Murray
8. Painted Latte Bowls from Style Me Pretty
9. Watercolor Paper Chandelier from Eye Heart Pretty Things
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September 17, 2012
Conceding that angry protests are likely to continue for days, the US defence department has sent extra troops to protect "personnel and property" at America's diplomatic outposts across the Muslim world.
The deployment was revealed as the Obama administration ordered an evacuation of all but emergency staff from Tunisia and Sudan. It advised citizens not to visit either country until anger over a controversial video mocking the Prophet Mohamed has died down.
Protests have spread to at least 20 Muslim nations and were reported in Pakistan yesterday, leaving US officials anxious to prevent a repeat of last week's tragedy in Libya, where the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three staff were killed at the American consulate in Benghazi. The Pentagon has "deployed forces to a number of areas in the region", said the Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta. "I think that we have to continue to be very vigilant because I suspect that … these demonstrations are likely to continue over the next few days, if not longer."
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About Moving Windmills Project
Inspired by the work of William Kamkwamba, Moving Windmills Project was founded in 2008 to pursue rural economic development and education projects in Malawi, Africa.
Our motto is, "African Solutions to African Problems." Rather than invest in top-down, externally imposed agendas, Moving Windmills works with local leaders to determine, organize and implement the appropriate solutions. Areas of focus include: food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, health, education, clean water and community building.
Tom Rielly
Founder, Executive Director and Board Member
Email: tom [at] movingwindmills.org
In addition to his work at Moving Windmills, Tom's day job as TED's Community Director includes managing the international TED Fellows program, which he created.
For his true vocation at TED, however, Tom hijacks the final session of the TED Conference for a whip-smart satire of all that year's speakers. Tom skewers the egos, mocks the flights of fancy, and imagines a world where Al Gore tells him, "I wish I knew how to quit you." Fearless and unfailingly funny, Tom's lightning performances bring a flash of brilliance to the closing session and draw a standing ovation every time.
A lifelong performer, Tom found a second love in personal computing. Recognizing early the incredible power of Macs and the Web, Tom co-founded Yale's Macintosh User Group in 1984, and later worked for SuperMac, Farallon and Voyager.
At TEDGlobal, Tom met our youngest TED Fellow, William Kamkwamba, whom he has mentored for the past two years. Rielly produced the Moving Windmills short film, with director/editors Ari Kushnir and Scott Thrift of m ss g p eces. Moving Windmills won Participant Media's North American Filmmaker's Award at the Pangea Day worldwide film festival. Currently, Tom is working to create a feature-length version of Moving Windmills.
Emeka Okafor
Board Member
Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Director of the TED Global Conference in 2007, titled Africa: The Next Chapter.
Emeka is passionately committed to the issues and ideas surrounding Africa's future. As the founder and author of the publicly acclaimed blog Timbuktu Chronicles, Emeka shares stories of entrepreneurship, science and technology in Africa, by Africans. An additional blog, Africa Unchained, examines issues including governance, policy, education and institution-building on the Continent.
Emeka sits on the global advisory board for Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), an organization that seeks to advance youth entrepreneurship and community service around the world. SAGE emphasizes ethical business practices, social responsibility, civic engagement and environmental awareness.
Emeka also serves as Director of Research for the Direct Expatriate Nationals Investment initiative, a poverty-reduction and external resource mobilization program for countries that have received massive debt cancellation.
He is a founding member of the IPEGroup, a volunteer group that promotes the role of private enterprise and capital markets with the goal of catalyzing economic development and collaboration among international projects.
Emeka is a partner in Caranda Fine Foods, a line of gourmet, naturally harvested fair trade beverages developed and produced in several African countries and distributed globally.
Born in the Stoke-on-Trent, U.K., Emeka grew up in Canada and Nigeria. In 1987, he earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Nigeria. He lives and works in New York City.
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Documentary Film Director and Producer
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Ben Nabors, founder of New York-based production company {group theory}, is a producer / director focused on documentaries, short narratives, and commercial storytelling.
In 2005, Ben served as Executive Producer to the Semi-Permanent Conference at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. This international, two-day creativity conference hosted thousands of designers and artists.
For two years, as Director of LVHRD, "a fight club for creatives" (Fast Company Magazine), Ben focused on live events and secret performances geared towards creative professionals in New York City. In addition to coordinating all live productions, Nabors oversaw the club's media initiatives, including a weekly video series and quarterly magazine.
In 2007, Ben shifted to focus on film production. Since then, he has produced more than 50 short films and documentaries, including collaborations with entertainment leaders the TED Conferences, The Sundance Channel, music producer Chris Blackwell, Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.
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Fire at 91 Gagne St.
Fire destroys Lewiston garage
Fire at 91 Gagne St.
LEWISTON, Maine —
Fire destroyed a garage at 91 Gagne St. in Lewiston Saturday afternoon.
Fire investigator Paul Ouellette said the initial call came in around noon and eventually became a two alarm fire before crews cleared the scene at 3 p.m.
The homeowner told News 8 he was jump-starting the 1998 Porsche he had in the garage so he could move the car to get to some wood when the car backfired. It is believed that is what started the fire.
Authorities said the wind prevented the fire from spreading to other homes, but strengthened the fire in the garage.


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RV Tranportation Problems Persist for Some
April 23, 2010 by Leanne Phillips · Comments Off on RV Tranportation Problems Persist for Some
Some RV manufacturers say the pressure on the industry's transportation channels continues to build and that backlogs of up to six weeks in delivering RVs from factories to dealers are common. But others claim the transportation situation is easing up.
Jayco Inc., Middlebury, Ind., and Gulf Stream Coach Inc., Nappanee, Ind., are facing up to six-week waits. "The situation has eased up to some extent, but it is still a tight situation," said Sid Johnson, Jayco's director of marketing.
As for dealers and customers, adds Johnson, they've been relatively patient thus far.
"As we are now into spring and better weather, there is going to be increasing pressure on trying to get the product to the dealership when needed," he said. "There is absolutely no doubt that the pressure will increase between now and the first of June unless we can provide a more timely service for them."
In addition to a four-to-six-week shipping backlog, said Phil Savari, executive vice president at Gulf Stream, the market is such that has company is facing a four-to-six-week backlog on manufacturing their towable RVs.
The upside to all of this: Business is good.
"It is the best backlog we've had at our company," he said. "But we are feeling the heat from dealers and customers. Looking at the seasonality of this industry, most of the manufacturing and shipping is happening between January and April. That is when the dealers/manufacturers/suppliers/transport companies gear up."
Savari would prefer a market that wasn't so seasonal, but realizes that this is the way things have always been. "What we are experiencing is a good sign right now because the demand is up and I believe more finance companies are going to be loosening up," he added. "This is the great U.S.A. and people are going to feel confident again."
Lazydays RV SuperCenter, Seffner, Fla., is also experiencing a backlog in the delivery of towables. "Lazydays has been able to minimize that impact by having a strong relationship with the drive services and even sending our own drivers when needed in order to best serve our customers," said Sharon Padly, inventory manager.
However, the situation at SunnyBrook RV, Middlebury, Ind., is more fluid.
"Star Fleet is our primary carrier and the most we are out is one week," said Elvie Fry, president. "Star Fleet is our carrier of choice so that helps. They do take good care of us, plus we are not shipping the higher number of units that some of the other larger companies are. We are shipping an average of 150 towable RV's a month."
From a carrier standpoint, Wave Express, Goshen, Ind., earlier this year had a three-week backlog — not as long as some other transport companies, but still more than part-owner Anita Carpenter would prefer. But she says the backlog has now decreased to two weeks.
Honestly it seems it is easing up a little bit," she said. "Part of that reason is we hired more drivers. We're still busy. There is plenty of work, but our dispatchers aren't wanting to pull their hair out. Considering where we were two years ago it is amazing how busy we are."
Wave Express is shipping 100-125 towables weekly in the U.S. and Canada.
RV Transport Service in Portland, Ore., is only three days backlogged for U.S. deliveries, about a week for Canadian deliveries.
"We're hiring about one driver a week," said Leah Dilgarde, general manager. "Our key to not getting backlogged is only accepting the work that we know will be covered in a timely manner. I have turned down work when we don't have the drivers available, which is probably different from other companies because they'll take every load they can get, even if they don't have the drivers available."


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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Feb. 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel prescription drugs targeting rare (orphan) neurological diseases and disorders, is pleased to announce the launch of its newly designed website. The site can be accessed at www.catalystpharma.com.
"As we continue to make progress and further our plans for the transformation of Catalyst to a company developing novel prescription drugs to treat rare neurological diseases, we felt that it was important to upgrade and revamp our website," said Patrick J. McEnany, Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst.
About the Website
The site provides an information platform for patients, physicians and investors in an easy to navigate format.
The aim of the site is to allow visitors to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Company's drug candidates. Patients and other interested parties can learn about Catalyst's drug candidates, related clinical trials and the science behind them. Website visitors will have an ability to follow the progress of the drug candidates and Company's development in the News and Events sections. Current and potential investors will have the ability to download the latest information on the Company in the Investors section.
In keeping with Catalyst's mission to provide treatment for rare neurological diseases through collaboration with patients, physicians, scientists and other constituencies, the new website also offers multiple ways of contacting the Company. All the inputs will be carefully reviewed and will serve as a basis for further development of the website. The ultimate goal is to eventually expand the website into a forum for patients, physicians and other stakeholders to share information, ideas and recommendations.
About Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners
Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc., is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of prescription drugs targeting rare (orphan) neurological diseases and disorders, including Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), infantile spasms, and Tourette's syndrome. Catalyst's lead candidate, FirdapseTM for the treatment of LEMS, is currently undergoing testing in a global, multi-center, pivotal phase III trial. Catalyst is also developing a potentially safer and more potent vigabatrin analog (designated CPP-115 by Catalyst) to treat infantile spasms, and epilepsy, as well as other neurological conditions associated with reduced GABAergic signaling, like post-traumatic stress disorder, Tourette's disorder, and movement disorders associated with the treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
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Earl Ward, one of McNamee's lawyers:
Roger Clemens has put himself in a position where his legacy as the greatest pitcher in baseball will depend less on his ERA and more on his DNA.McNamee's lawyers have asked Clemens for a DNA sample, which they believe, when tested, will link Fat Billy to the use of PEDs. Clemens has not yet provided a sample, but apparently will comply if requested by the feds.
McNamee did not tell George Mitchell (or federal investigators, initially) about this evidence. According to the New York Times, McNamee was "influenced by ongoing loyalty to a player with whom he had worked so closely".
That loyalty went out the window after Clemens played a tape of the phone conversation the two men had in early January at a press conference. At that point, McNamee decided: "It's war." McNamee gave his lawyers the vials and syringes the next morning and they turned them over to federal investigators on January 10.
Richard Emery, another lawyer for McNamee, says the trainer kept the items because he "had this inkling and gut feeling that he couldn't trust Roger and better keep something to protect himself in the future".
The Times states McNamee and his lawyers wanted Clemens "to testify under oath before revealing they had previously undisclosed evidence -- apparently the gauze pads and syringes now cited by the lawyers familiar with the case".
Clemens will likely raise the possibility that these syringes have become tainted while in McNamee's possession for the last six or seven years. It will be interesting to see how McNamee, a former New York City police officer who presumably knows the importance of the chain of custody when it comes to evidence, will respond.
Meanwhile, Clemens is now on a PR tour of Congress, meeting with various representatives and repeating his denials. Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland): "I don't know what his purpose was. I think he wanted to give me a sense of who he was as a person."
Recording and playing that phone conversation was a huge mistake by Clemens and his lawyers. It didn't do anything to bolster Billy's credibility and it effectively severed the last strand of loyalty McNamee had to his former client. Now McNamee is out for blood.
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Coastal North Carolinians can relate to the latest project by Sea Grant.
Coastal North Carolinians are all too familiar with the dangers of rip currents, those rushes of water that drag unsuspecting swimmers away from the shoreline and which are responsible for at least 100 deaths nationally each year. But new research being conducted here in our own backyard may eventually help save lives.
Scientific research often can seem lofty and inapproachable for the average non-scientist. But we can relate to the latest project by Sea Grant, in conjunction with the National Weather Service and UNCW's Center for Marine Science. For a few days in any given summer, lifeguards are kept busy rescuing swimmers who have been caught in rip currents. According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the currents are the reason for 80 percent of the 60,000 rescues performed annually off the nation's beaches.
Since 1999, the currents have been responsible for 62 deaths in North Carolina, many of them here in Southeastern North Carolina.
That statistic is significant when you consider that on most coastlines, rip currents create serious problems only a few days a summer. Although local residents may know to watch weather forecasts and flags at lifeguard stands signaling potentially perilous waters, many visitors from landlocked areas are not as familiar with the signs and dangers of rip currents.
A concerted effort by beach towns, the weather service and concerned civic groups has helped draw attention to the need for caution on days when the threat of rip currents is high. But while scientists know the basics of how rip currents form and behave, the Sea Grant-led endeavor could fine-tune that knowledge, leading to more accurate warnings and, potentially, better advice on how to steer clear of and get out of the unpredictable currents.
Research buoys launched Wednesday off Carolina Beach may help provide that information. The yellow-and-green floaters will only be sent out on days with moderate to high rip-current risk.
Folks around here will be interested in the findings, and whether they result in a different approach to avoiding and escaping the frightening grip of a rip current. Because panic is often a major factor in drownings attributed to rip currents, any information that leads to improved warnings and safety tips will be welcome.
But the most important tips don't need much tweaking: Be cautious. Pay attention. And if you are not a strong swimmer, don't wade in above the knees on days when rip currents are projected to be strong.


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Nathan Meckley
The VMan.com Ford Models Model Search 2008 is still going strong, and we have a new gent vying for your attention and affection. Nathan Meckley got a hold of us over the weekend and needs your help drumming up votes -- and we think he's definitely worthy!
Asked about why he's the right person for the title, Nathan said,
"Other than that I really think It's an amazing opportunity for all the models. I currently am a manager at the Soho Diesel store in NY and I really love it. But on the side I love to get the modeling side work, and especially the runway jobs! I really think people should vote for me because I love fashion and really think I can be an inspiration and a role model in the industry. I graduated from University Of Nevada Reno, packed two backpacks and purchased my one way ticket to the fashion capitol of the US... NY... I love to model, it's something I really enjoy doing and would love to have the opportunity to be on VMAN."
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Katy Perry receives TV apology from Barbara Walters
The I Kissed a Girl hitmaker recently revealed she had risked the wrath of the revered reporter after running behind schedule for the meeting, which occurred just weeks before her then-husband Russell Brand filed for divorce to end their one-year marriage.
She told Billboard magazine, "When I got there, I apologised immediately, but then she said to me, 'You know, I've only ever waited for one other person this long, and you know who that person was? Judy Garland. You know how she turned out, right?'
"I was like, 'Oh, snap! Yes, b**ch!' I think it's the coolest thing that Barbara Walters shaded (trashed) me."
Perry, who had kept her relationship woes a secret during the media chat, went on to admit that she should have pulled out of the Top 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011 interview altogether because she was facing such a tough time in her private life.
Her confessions have now prompted Walters to reach out to Perry to express her sympathies as she had no idea how much pressure the pop star had been under.
Addressing the singer's comments on her U.S. talk show The View on Monday (30Sep13), Walters said, "Katy, if I made you feel at all unhappy, during a time when you were obviously unhappy, and I didn't know, I'm sorry, but you can't always know!"