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|Mission 2-10: Good D
Your character is visited by the assassin contact from the original game. Before too many pleasantries can be exchanged, the Saints Hideout is overrun by Ronin members.
You'll have a few checkpoints here, as the Ronin teams are trying to bring down your hideout by blowing up the ceiling supports. Despite the urgency of the situation, it comes down to pure action: just run to the check point, kill everyone not wearing purple, and move on. Random gang members will help you out, so you can easily keep your follower count maxed out.
When the rockets start flying, if you have trouble figuring out where the shots are coming from, just look at your teammates. All your gang members, whether directly following you or not, will always fire in the direction of enemies even if they're too far away to register on your radar. Simply look in the direction your friends are firing, and you'll be able to find any stragglers.
After saving the second set of pillars, Akuji himself will arrive with a few more Ronin guards. Take them all out (you may even have one or two rockets available after taking out the demolition teams), and you'll finish the mission.
At this point, only one story mission remains. To clear it, you'll need to do the four Ronin Stronghold missions, all of which are located in various hoods of the northern island. You can take them in any order you darn well choose, of course, but all four must be done. Be sure to load up on ammo between every stronghold mission, as they all recover hundreds of rounds to complete!
|Mission 2-11: New Hennequet Rec Center
Located in New Hennequet, the Hennequet Rec Center has an underground gambling ring. Once you start the mission, it's a short dash to the stairs, and a shorter dash to the first gambling room. Once you find is, start shooting up everything: your main target is the games (the slot machines and game tables), but you may as well wipe out everyone while you're down there. This is especially true because members of the Ronin will materialize shortly to try to put a stop to your crackdown.
After you clear one gambling room, you'll have a second. Take it down the same way, then you get to move onto the counting rooms. Each room has a couple boxes of money which you must destroy. You'll encounter only one or two Ronin enemies in each room, which should be nothing to you now.
Take the marked elevator up to the first floor then, and you'll encounter a bunch of Ronin reinforcements. Take them out with whatever method you deem worthy, then bail from the rec center. Just like that, you'll take the hood!
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Drew Roy provides one of the creepier moments in Season 3 of "Falling Skies," which just four episodes in has delivered a number of creepy occurrences. (Stop reading if you're not caught up! Spoilers ahead!)
In the June 23 episode, "At All Costs," Roy freaked out fans when his character, Hal Mason—well, I'll let Roy explain the "fun" scene:
"[Hal] doesn't trust himself [and decides,] 'You've got to leave town,'" Roy said during a phone conversation. Hal finally realized that he had been compromised by the alien earbug and that he was under the influence of the Espheni aliens that are trying to conquer humankind.
"He goes into his room to sort of think things out and he's all worked up. And the next thing he knows somebody's talking to him in the mirror—which is never good."
The ensuing argument ends with Hal smashing the mirror, which only served to let Evil Hal and his sinister smile loose for good. After that mirror cracked, Evil Hal gave the Espheni intel on what's happening in Charleston and about his dad Tom's (Noah Wyle) meeting with the president (Stephen Collins). He also helped the Espheni kidnap Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood) and her baby, Alexis (his half sister).
Oh, and don't forget the steamy scene between Evil Hal and Maggie (Sarah Carter), Good Hal's girlfriend.
"That's how I like to play Evil Hal—as this very cunning, manipulative guy who was just as confident as he needed to be," Roy said, explaining that after Evil Hal took over, he had to find Maggie and show her that the months of doubt Good Hal had been feeling was long gone. "He gets her to forget all about it [with] one simple little walk and talk. And then he lays a kiss on her. Cut to them in the bed—a wild passionate moment—and that's how good Evil Hal is. He knows how to push her buttons.
"He knows how to push most of the top people in Charleston. So he's quite a dangerous threat to everyone that lives in that town."
Roy had fun playing an evil character this season, he said, but he was constantly checking himself to make sure Hal didn't become a caricature of evil. He wanted to make sure he always had a good reason for playing a moment with malice and not just to "twist my mustache."
"Between the writers writing me such fantastic stuff to play and then putting the work in and reading it with friends ... and the guidance of somebody like Noah Wyle on set really helps a lot," he said. Wyle not only offered advice when Roy sought it out, but he always had an encouraging word.
"That just instills such a confidence in you, which is a huge thing for an actor," he said. "When you start doubting yourself it gets really hard to stand up in front of a hundred people who are all working on a show knowing that millions of people watch the show and to have that confidence. So I feel like I'm surrounded by a very, very generous cast."
And just in case you think that smirk will leave Evil Hal's face any time soon, well, Roy said the mirror scene was just the beginning of "the good stuff."
"In the fifth episode we're going to watch him sort of stake out his prey and slowly put everyone at ease who had a suspicious look toward him," Roy teased. "But it all is going to culminate in the sixth episode. That is my favorite episode that I've ever shot. It doesn't have a whole lot of flash and bang, but you are on the edge of your seat the entire time.
"We're going to see the most evil Hal that we've seen ever."
The fifth episode, "Search and Recover," airs at 9 p.m. CT Sunday, June 30. The sixth episode, "Be Silent and Come Out," airs at the same time July 7, both on TNT.
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Water features can range from water slides to waterfalls. Waterfalls or Cascades add that extra something to every shape and style pool. Many companies offer natural-looking artificial stone waterfalls for a fraction of the price of natural stones. Fountain bubblers are great additions for pool owners with children. The mini-geysers can be built into a pools sun ledge.
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Comparisons were drawn with the Bread Wars of the 17th Century and the spirit of the Revolution of the 18th Century. For more than two weeks, the "Yellow Vests" disrupted France. They paralyzed highways and forced roads to close — causing shortages across the country – and blocked fuel stations from Lille in the North to Marseilles in the South. During protests in France's capital, Paris, the "Yellow Vests" were soon joined by a more violent element, who began torching cars, smashing windows and looting stores. 133 were injured, 412 were arrested and more than 10,000 tear gas and stun grenades were fired. One elderly lady was killed when she was struck by a stray grenade as she tried to shutter her windows against the melee. There was talk of imposing a State of Emergency. The "Yellow Vests" present the most significant opposition French President Emmanuel Macron has faced since coming to office in May 2017. Unlike previous protests in France, which have divided public opinion, these have widespread support – 72% according to a Harris Interactive Poll published December 1st. Fuel tax rises — announced in November before being retracted on December — were intended to help bring down France's carbon emissions by curbing the use of cars. Macron makes no secret of his wish to be seen as a global leader for environmental reform. He forgets that back at home, among the people who elected him, fuel prices really matter to those outside big cities, where four-fifths of commuters drive to work and a third of them cover more than 30km each week. The increases have incensed people in smaller communities, where they have already seen speed limits reduced to please the Greens and cuts to the local transport services. These additional costs-of-living increases come at an extremely bad time for ordinary French people working outside of Paris. Lower-middle class families are not poor enough to receive welfare benefits but have seen their income flat-line whilst cost-of-living and taxes have risen. An analysis by the Institut des Politiques Publiques think-tank shows that benefits cuts and tax changes in 2018 and 2019 will leave pensioners and the bottom fifth of households worse off, while the abolition of the wealth tax means that by far the biggest gains will go to the top 1% This is tough to swallow. Macron is seen as being out of touch with ordinary people and is unlikely to escape his new title, "the President of the Rich." "People have this feeling that the Paris technocrats are doing complicated things to screw them," said Charles Wyplosz, an economics professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. It is probably not as complex as that. The French people feel screwed. As employment and growth are slowing, Macron, for the first time in his presidency, is under serious pressure. Unemployment is at 9%; his efforts to reform Europe are stalling, and his approval rating has plummeted to just 23% according to a recent opinion poll by IFOP. Images of Macron at the Arc De Triomphe daubed in graffiti calling for him to step down, or worse, have done little to bolster his image abroad. So far, Macron had said he would not bow to street protests. To underline his point, in September 2017, he called protestors against French labour-market reform "slackers". The political U-Turn on the fuel tax is a turning point for the Macron presidency. The question is : What next, both for Macron and the "Yellow Vests"? Macron most likely needs to plough ahead with his reform agenda, and doubtless knows he has the support of a solid majority in the National Assembly to do so. France is crippled by debt (nearly 100% of GDP) and its grossly bloated public sector. There are 5.2 million civil servants in France, and their number has increased by 36% since 1983. These represent 22% of the workforce compared to an OCDE average of 15%. Tax-expert Jean-Philippe Delsol says France has 1.5 million too many "fonctionnaires [officials]. When you consider that public spending in France now accounts for 57 per cent of gross domestic product. Soon the system will no longer function as there will be less and less people working to support more and more people working less". Macron's mistake, in addition to a seeming inclination for arrogance, is not to have made national economic reform his absolute priority right from his initial grace period after his election. Lower public expenses would have made it possible to lower taxes, hence creating what economists call a virtuous circle. Instead, he waited. Now, at a time when he is deeply unpopular and social unrest is in full sway he is looking to make further reforms in unemployment benefits, scaling them back by reducing the payments and the length of time beneficiaries can receive the money. The "President of the Rich" strikes again. There is talk that he may also re-introduce the wealth tax to try to placate the protestors. Macron's presidential term lasts until May 13, 2022. Understandably, Macron will be focused on the elections to the European Parliament expected to be held May 23-26, 2019. Headlines have signalled that Marine Le Pen and the National Rally (formally National Front) are ahead in the polls at 20%, compared to Macron's En Marche at 19%. The shift is understandable, given the divide between the countryside, where Le Pen has solid support, and the cities, where Macron's centre-left prevail. In contrast, the "Yellow Vests" have galvanised support after standing up for the "impotent ordinary", and seem much buoyed by the solidarity they have been shown by both fire fighters and the police. There are images online of police removing their helmets and firefighters turning their backs on political authority to show their support for the protestors. Whilst Macron's political opposition may be fragmented, this new breed of coherent public opposition is something new. Leaderless, unstructured and organised online, the "Yellow Vests" have gained support from the left and right, yet resisted subjugation by either. Being leaderless makes them difficult to negotiate with, or to reason with in private. The "Yellow Vests" seem acutely aware of this strength, given their firm rebuttal of overtures for peace talks from the Macron government. Enjoying huge support from the public and with reforms to the social welfare system on the horizon, the "Yellow Vests" are not going away. For the first time in his Presidency, Macron is in trouble and Europe and America are looking on. After Macron rebuked nationalism during his speech at the armistice ceremony, Trump was quick to remind the French President of his low approval rating and unemployment rate near 10%. A stinging broadside from Trump on twitter suggests that Macron may well be relegated to Trump's list of global "Losers": "Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!" The "impotent ordinary" in the United Kingdom, who might feel betrayed over Brexit, and the nationalists in Germany, who have suffered under Merkel , are no doubt staring in wonder at the "Yellow Vests", wishing for the same moxie. The historian Thomas Carlyle, chronicler of the French Revolution, said the French were unrivaled practitioners in the "art of insurrection", and characterised the French mob as the "liveliest phenomena of our world". Mobs in other countries, by comparison, he argued were "dull masses" lacking audacity and inventiveness. 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The mid-size Honda Ridgeline is like no other pickup truck available. Now in its fifth season, it still vies for the title of most innovative pickup.
Honda's best attributes are here in a pickup: refinement, fit-and-finish and innovation. The Ridgeline features an easy-to-reach, locking storage box under its bed.
But the differences between the Ridgeline and more conventional pickups go all the way to the core.
The Ridgeline is the first mainstream pickup with fully independent rear suspension, which improves ride quality considerably. Other pickup trucks have traditionally been built with a separate nose section, cab section, and cargo bed, bolted to a separate ladder frame. Honda's pickup uses both a one-piece unit-body and a steel ladder frame welded together. Its cab and bed are built as one piece, with separate subframes for the engine, front suspension and rear suspension. Ridgeline's rigid design is more resistant to twisting and bending than traditional pickups.
We've found the Ridgeline to be one of the nicest pickups to drive when measured by comfort and ease of use. It's smooth, quiet and very maneuverable, with a load of useful features.
The Ridgeline cannot do the work of a full-size pickup, but its 1500-pound payload and 5000-pound towing capacity are enough for many buyers.
The Ridgeline has been around since 2006, but it was significantly updated for 2009 with a more powerful engine, several equipment upgrades, and freshened styling inside and out. A trailer hitch became standard on all models, and the optional navigation package was expanded to include Bluetooth and a rear-view camera. Other new features included the addition of a 115-volt power outlet on the RTL, an MP3/auxiliary input jack on the RTS and RTL, and MP3/WMA compatibility for all audio systems. Active front seat head restraints and daytime running lights were added to Ridgeline's already long list of safety features, and two more cargo tie-down points (for a total of eight) were added to the pickup bed. In all, Honda claimed to have made 50 significant changes. There have been no further revisions for 2010.
The Honda Ridgeline doesn't look or act like any other pickup truck we've driven, and it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to own or operate. It makes pleasant, comfortable daily transportation, and it's as much pickup as many drivers will ever need.
The 2010 Honda Ridgeline is sold in three different trim levels, RT, RTS, and RTL. All Ridgelines are powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine generating 250 horsepower, with a five-speed automatic transmission and Honda's VTM-4 all-wheel-drive system. This full-time all-wheel-drive normally proportions 60 percent of the power to the front wheels, but if conditions indicate it will automatically send as much as 70 percent of the engine torque to the rear wheels. Ridgeline also incorporates a limited-slip differential with lock feature.
Ridgeline RT ($28,450) comes standard with black door handles; 17-inch steel wheels; six-way manually adjusted driver's seat; air conditioning; power windows, mirrors, and locks; cruise control; outside temperature gauge; a trailer hitch; and a 100-watt, six-speaker, CD/MP3/WMA-capable stereo.
Ridgline RTS ($31,555) adds power front seats with power lumbar support; a160-watt, seven-speaker stereo with six-CD changer, auxiliary input and steering-wheel mounted controls; dual-zone automatic climate control; security system; body-color door handles; wiring for towing, and 17-inch machine-finish alloy wheels.
Ridgeline RTL ($34,430) upgrades to leather upholstery, heated front seats, power lumbar support for the driver, power moonroof, compass and HomeLink remote integrated into the rear-view mirror, heated side mirrors, 115-volt power outlet, XM Satellite Radio, and 18-inch machine-finish alloy wheels. The RTL is available with Honda's DVD-based navigation system with voice recognition, Bluetooth, and a rear-view camera ($36,780).
Dealer-installed accessories for all models include a motorcycle bed extender and a bed-mount bicycle attachment.
Safety equipment is comprehensive. It includes multi-stage front airbags and side-impact airbags for front passengers, front and rear side curtain airbags for head protection, active front head restraints, and LATCH child-seat anchors for the three rear seats. Anti-lock brakes (with Electronic Brake-force Distribution and Brake Assist), traction control, vehicle stability assist, and a tire-pressure monitoring system are standard.
The Honda Ridgeline's uniqueness starts with its appearance. With pickups, you need a cab and a cargo box, so form to a considerable extent follows function. Yet Ridgeline doesn't look quite like any pickup before it. The grille, the front end, the cab shape, the buttresses coming down off the rear of the roof to join the integrated pickup bed, all seem to have been deliberately designed to be different, and different can be good or bad. Styling has never been our favorite Ridgeline attribute, before or after the 2009 facelift.
At least the front end of the latest version has a bit more contour. The grille opening, once rigidly rectangular, now narrows a bit at the bottom as it dips into the top of the bumper; and is now boldly outlined in chrome instead of body-color plastic. The grille insert has been simplified: The Honda H still features prominently at the center, but rather than something that looked like an old television antenna, it is now flanked by a pair of flattened wings. These wings are black on the Ridgeline RT and show up against the black mesh grille mostly because of the difference in texture, a handsome, sophisticated touch. On Ridgeline RTS and RTL, however, the wings are painted silver, which to our eye spoils the effect, ultimately trading the previous weird grille for one that's just plain clunky.
Beneath that, the top bar of the bumper has narrowed (a necessity, given the deeper grille), and the bar below that is now recessed, emphasizing by default the bumper's corners. As before, each corner is opened by an air slot, but the new slots are much larger, more like rectangular scoops, and are half-filled by accessory lights on RT and RTS and filled up by fog lights on RTL.
At the rear, the taillights have been thankfully simplified; and a bold, black molding now defines the top of the bumper, dipping down under the license plate at the center in a way that suggests the business end of a Texas Longhorn. Honda calls the new look more chiseled. To us, it looks lighter, less bluff, less toy-like, more mature.
Ridgeline's unchanged profile still shows a lot of metal sculpting from end to end that conventional pickup trucks with separate beds don't have. The RT's wheel covers look reasonably like five-spoke alloys (at least from a distance) and don't detract from the Ridgeline's appearance. The RTL comes with real, rugged-looking 18-inch alloy wheels with two flattened machined surfaces on each of five spokes, while the RTS retains 17-inch alloys in a six-spoke pattern similar to what we've seen on Ridgelines since 2006.
The cargo bed is made of steel-reinforced SMC plastic, not steel with a sprayed-on or slipped-in liner. The bed is five feet long with the tailgate up, and six and a half feet long with the tailgate down, enabling it to carry two dirt bikes or a large ATV. A tubular aluminum cargo bed extender is available for longer loads. There are four large retaining chocks, one in each corner of the bed, to help secure large pieces of cargo; and a total of eight cargo tie-down points.
The two-way tailgate is unusual, but it works great. It will drop down in familiar fashion, top to bottom, and it also opens like a door, from right to left. There's a hidden latch on the lower right side and hinges on the left, so users don't have to lean across the tailgate to store or retrieve items in the bed or the storage trunk. The tailgate is retained by a conventional cable on the left and a patented, hidden retainer on the right.
The storage trunk, even more than the tailgate, distinguishes Ridgeline from other pickups. This covered, sealed and lockable bin beneath the bed works like the trunk in a sedan. It offers 8.5 cubic feet of secure storage, which according to Honda is enough space for a 72-quart cooler or three sets of golf clubs. The compact spare tire mounts forward of the storage trunk in a sliding, locking tray. The trunk is fitted with a drain plug for those times when ice turns to water, or when accumulated crud needs to be hosed out.
Inside the Ridgeline, Honda has turned down the brightness a bit, primarily by removing the bright metal ring from around the speedometer, as well as the bright ornament from the end of the column-mounted gear selector. The steering wheel hub is still outlined in bling, but has been subtly re-shaped so that the single down-spoke is both more narrow and slightly concave. Ridgeline's three-dimensional gauges now have a finer, lower-contrast look; there's also less contrast between the color of the climate control knobs and the plastic that surrounds them.
The Ridgeline offers as much comfort, space and convenience as any half-ton pickup available. Bucket seats come standard in front with a center console. We found the driver and front passenger seats to be roomy, comfortable and supportive, with plenty of adjustment range for rake and travel.
Anyone who has owned a late-model Honda will feel familiar with the layout inside the Ridgeline. We mean things such as nice, even seams throughout, good quality soft plastics, convenient switch placement and large, easily readable instrument graphics. All models feature illuminated vanity mirrors for the driver and front-seat passenger. The big, raised pull rings around Ridgeline's door-release levers are one of a kind and kind of cool. They're certainly effective for hefting the doors shut.
The navigation system, with its DVD data base and eight-inch screen, is a paradigm for size, brightness, contrast and overall ease of use. The voice commands work well; alternately, the menus are simple, effective and easy to master. Yet in the Ridgeline, one of our few gripes applies to the screen's placement. It's off center a bit toward the front passenger, and flat, so in certain light it can be difficult for the driver to read. The driver has to almost lean sideways toward the center of the vehicle for a better look.
The rear doors are shorter than the front doors, standard practice in this segment, but there's no problem getting in or out.
The back seats are quite comfortable for two adults, with a 24-degree backrest angle, more like a front seat. The rear seat is nearly as roomy and versatile as those in front. A six-foot male driver would be able to fit behind himself in the back seat with reasonable leg room and knee room.
The rear seat splits and folds, 60/40, to stash fairly large pieces of cargo in the cab. The under-seat storage space, something like an airliner's, is great for backpacks or briefcases.
The Ridgeline's unusual exterior design reduces outward visibility. The buttresses where the cargo box meets the cab create a blind spot for glancing over the shoulder.
The Honda Ridgeline delivers a truly pleasant driving experience, for a truck. The goodness flows from the stiffness of its unibody-on-ladder-frame construction. Factor in subframes that cradle the engine and suspension, helping isolate the cab from harsh road shocks, and Ridgeline can be a joy to operate when compared to other trucks.
The stiffness of the body and chassis contribute to crisp, sure handling over twisty two-lane roads. The combination of all-wheel-drive and vehicle stability electronics allows a driver to attack curves in spirited fashion with less worry about getting a wheel wrong. The Ridgeline feels lighter on its feet when compared with the Ford Explorer Sport Trac and Chevy Colorado.
The steering is surprisingly heavy but we like it. It's more responsive and communicative than that in most trucks. This pickup is quieter and more refined than the competition, which we drove on the same day over the same course, without a lot of jarring inputs reaching the driver's seat or palms. Independent suspension front and rear is a first in the pickup market and the ride over choppy surfaces and even off-road is excellent. The back end is less likely to feel like it's losing grip when bouncing over potholes and washboard surfaces.
The drivetrain, the combination of engine, transmission and all-wheel drive, is impressively smooth and quiet. With four doors, five seats, all-wheel drive, and independent front and rear suspension, the Ridgeline is a relatively heavy vehicle, but the 250-hp V6 engine is generally up to the task. Its power comes low enough in the revs to be useful in a loaded truck, and it's flexible overall, without the roughness at high rpm that you'll notice in some truck engines. Unladen, with only the driver inside, we never encountered an instance when we wished for more power. Yet one wonders if that might change when Ridgeline is loaded to its approximate 1500-pound payload (it varies slightly model-to-model), or pulling the allowed 5000 pounds.
More recent models do produce a bit more power (the figure was originally 247), and up to 10 more pound-feet of torque as low as 2500 rpm, thanks mainly to a new cam profile, larger intake valves, a deeper-breathing dual-stage intake manifold, and a fairly long list of other refinements, all of which were adopted for the 2009 model year.
Also for 2009, transmission gear ratios were revised (gears 3 and 4 were made approximately 5 percent lower) to take maximum advantage of the changes to the engine. The five-speed automatic works very well with the engine. It shifts up smoothly, and will run the engine to its redline during full-throttle acceleration. On occasion it was a tad slow to shift down two or three gears, but overall its performance did not prevent us from enjoying the drive.
The brakes were sure stoppers, and the ABS works unobtrusively. We haven't tried them with a heavy load or a trailer, however.
Overall, Ridgeline impresses with its tightness and smoothness. It's more maneuverable, more enjoyable to drive, than any full-size pickup.
If you're contemplating a multi-use or commuter pickup, the Honda Ridgeline should top the shopping list. From its styling to its tailgate and storage innovations to its combination of body-on-frame isolation and unibody stiffness, the Ridgeline borders on revolutionary. It's reasonably priced, and should be reasonably economical to operate. Ridgeline is pleasant to drive in all circumstances, and as much truck as many buyers will ever need.
NewCarTestDrive correspondent Jim McCraw filed this report from San Diego, with J.P. Vettraino reporting from Detroit, and John F. Katz commenting on Ridgeline's styling.
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Make Your Own Passport Photos
If you have a computer and a digital camera, there's no reason to ever pay a drugstore $8 for a couple of crummy passport photos and lousy customer service. This blogger discovered that he couldn't even get an in-focus photo from a local CVS: "When we pointed that out, he was like 'Oh really? don't worry all photos printed here look like that and no one ever came back because a photo was not accepted.'" If you're not Photoshop-savvy, just use the free epassportphoto.com website.
At epassportphoto you upload your photo, crop it according to your country's standard guidelines, and save the resulting 4×6″ image—that's six 2×2″ ID shots—to your computer to print wherever you like, whether it's at home, from an online service, or at that same CVS with the myopic camera operator.
Not only will you be able to control the photo lighting and quality (and retake the photo until you're happy with it), but you'll have four more 2×2″ shots than you get for $8 at CVS or Walgreens. And if you need any more incentive to cut the drugstore out of the process, consider that they also produce sets of six photos at a time—they just refuse to give you more than two unless you pay extra:
While we waited for the photos to print out, I saw (with my own eyes) that the photographs were printed on a 4? x 6? photo paper – and there were 6 copies on it. Then the dude coolly cut away 4 copies, disposed them, and handed us the remaining two copies.
"The Stupid Passport Photo Ripoff" [the tao of making money]
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How to Make Back to School Week Less Stressful
It's back to school week and getting back in to the rhythm of the school year can be stressful for you and the kids, so here are a few ways to make this week less stressful.
Bedtime Fun
Make a pre-bedtime routine so nothing gets forgotten, but make it fun. After playing outside after dinner and bath time, get ready for bed, but make it a race. Have a checklist for everything they need to get done like set out the backpack and include everything that needs to go in it like homework, books, permission slips, etc. Then set out the clothes and shoes for the next day, get into their pajamas and brush their teeth. If they can get it done within a certain amount of time, reward them with ten extra minutes of play time outside, or ten extra minutes on the computer. Don't forget the bedtime story! That was my favorite.
Get Up Fun
Trying to get the kids out of bed is probably going to be like pulling teeth. Either they're scared and nervous to go for the first time, or they just aren't used to the schedule quite yet. Well, make getting up fun! Just like Chad's mom used to chant, "School, school, school school!" Make a mix CD to wake them up with. Maybe use some of their favorite songs, or find a KidzBop CD with fun kid friendly songs.
Homework Fun
Generally the first week of school, we didn't have homework, but when we did, it was the most awful thing ever in life. Kids nowadays are getting more and more homework and they're getting it younger and younger, so make it fun. Make a little desk space that's more fun than their school desk. We always had a little play desk to sit at, or a lap desk we could use in our rooms, so at least we could be in a comfortable environment. Even better, for the younger ones who like to play school, if they need help with their homework, set it up like they're playing school where you can write things out on a marker board or a chalkboard and they can ask you for help.


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BJJDaniel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
The Dojo (http://www.bondidojo.com.au)
We are a brazilian jiu-jitsu ,muay thai martial arts dojo operating in Bondi Junction (Eastern Suburbs of Sydney Australia). The Dojo itself has been open for over a year as a Roots Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu association Dojo. (http://www.brazilianjiujitsu.com.au)
While we will have our own image, we will still be a Roots franchise and will need to include the logo discretely on all our marketing materials.
We are the only full time gym in Australia.
Our team is comprised of World Champions, Asian Champions, and Australian Champions.
We are real. We are what we teach. We live the lifestyle. We teach cutting edge techniques with the values of a traditional Dojo.
Our style of teaching is different, anyone can be a champion. We live clean, eat clean, and build character in our students.
Our nutritionist cooks meals that we share after class, we take care of every stage of development.
Respect. Honour. Family. Loyalty is the Roots motto.
Maximum efficient use of energy, and mutual prosperity for self and others is the old Judo motto.
I would like to work with a designer on other projects too after the logo is complete, flyers, websites, business cards, newsletters, T shirts.
More then targeting our audience, we want something that symbolises our team.
That being said...
Our primary market is males between 16 and 30. They typically work in the fitness, service and construction industry with many being students and travellers. Many have seen UFC and want to try training like these athletes.
Our secondary market is parents (for the children's classes ages 6-16). These are Eastern Suburbs parents with a high disposable income and an eye for quality. They see martial arts as a way to teach their children discipline and respect, as a fashionable after-school activity for their children and as a way to get their kids out of the house after school.
Our smallest market is females aged 16-30 looking for something different to do for their health and fitness. Most of these girls have done martial arts/boxing before and hence know what to expect. They come to us based on our reputation for quality instruction.
We want to develop a distinctive image not just for our logo, but also for each of our programs. We envisage the programs to become synonymous with our dojo – to the point where the design and presentation of the words/poster immediately identifies the program as belonging to our dojo. Our programs are JUNIOR JIU JITSU, BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU, MIXED MARTIAL ARTS and MUAY THAI.
Though, the focus for the gym is first and foremost Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, all other programs are secondary and are feeder programs to the Jiu Jitsu.
I would like to build an identity, not just a logo. I will most likely be using all sepia tone photographs for our websites and advertising, to try to get a synonymous feel for our brand.
The new name for our dojo will be THE DOJO
We want to keep the colours clean and earthy: white, black, earthy/rusty red, pale green tatami mats, have attached picture)
I have a company (dogi) the logo is attached. This feel is nice, I like it. But it needs to be able to stand alone on a T shirt and look great.
We want to keep the design modern but with an old school feel, perhaps a Japanese or western medieval influence.
Have also attached a picture of the Dojo, and of some of us competing and fighting to get a feel for our gym. These will most likely be used in our advertising or websites.
Need text based logo. Symbol is ok too.
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Kidney Transplant Surgery
Patients diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease or kidney failure have several options for treatment. They may be treated with hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis or have a kidney transplant. Patients interested in transplantation as a treatment option may ask their nephrologist to refer them to The Transplant Center for evaluation.
At the initial evaluation, patients and their families will have the opportunity to ask questions about all phases of transplantation care. Following the evaluation, the transplant nephrologist will develop and individual plan of care suitable to every patient's condition.
The evaluation that is performed for every patient includes, but is not limited to the following:
- A consultation with the transplant surgeon and transplant urologist
- Routine laboratory testing
- Chest X-ray and EKG
- Cardiac evaluation for all diabetic patients and patients older than 40 years
- Psycho-social evaluation performed by the transplant social worker
How long do patients wait for a transplant?
Patients who complete the evaluation process and choose to pursue transplantation as a treatment option can be transplanted quickly if they have a suitable living donor.
These donors may be relatives or close friends. The statistics show that transplants from living donors perform better than those from cadaveric donors. Those patients who do not have a potential living donor are placed on the national computer waiting list. When a suitable kidney becomes available, the transplant is performed at Gulf Coast Medical Center.
The transplant team also will follow the patients through the transplant hospitalization and provide intensive outpatient follow-up after the transplant. All through the process, patients and their family members are able to reach the transplant team 24 hours per day to answer any questions or concerns.
The transplant team includes the transplant surgeon, transplant nephrologists, transplant urologists, transplant cardiologists, as well as specially trained transplant nurses, coordinators, social workers and dietician.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – For a third consecutive year, the San Jose Earthquakes and Wells Fargo have teamed up to host a series of youth and adult soccer tournaments in the Bay Area. This summer, the two organizations will host events in East Palo Alto and Hayward.
Building on successful tournaments in 2011 and 2012, the first of two Earthquakes 4v4 Presented by Wells Fargo tournaments is set for Saturday, June 22 at Cesar Chavez Elementary in East Palo Alto. The final tournament of the summer will take place on Saturday, Aug. 10 at Alden E. Oliver Sports Park in Hayward.
Divisions for each event include: Boys and girls U-8 through U-19, men's and women's rec, adult coed and men's open. Prizes will be awarded to first- and second-place teams in all divisions. All participants receive an Earthquakes ticket voucher, event t-shirt, and sponsor gifts. Each event will also feature appearances by Earthquakes players. Participation fees are $150 for youth and adult rec divisions and $175 for the men's open division.
Over the last two years, over 3,000 youth and adults have participated in the Earthquakes' 4v4 tournaments around the Bay Area. The club and Wells Fargo also team up for the Wells Fargo Goals for Education program, which has raised $28,500 for local youth sports organizations.
Participants can register and find more information at: www.sjearthquakes.com/4v4.
2013 Earthquakes 4v4 Presented by Wells Fargo
Date Location
6/22 Cesar Chavez Elementary (East Palo Alto)
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Strong Advocacy & Positive School Relationships are not Mutually Exclusive
July 5, 2014 in Special Education Advisor Blog by Doug Goldberg
I don't understand why every time we post an article on Special Education Advisor regarding advocacy or relationships with your child's school we always get the same type of comments. If the article is discussing how to collaborate with your school or create a positive relationship I receive comments about how utilizing this philosophy would put you in a weak position. On the other hand, every time we post an article about being a strong advocate for your child we get comments about how this is counterproductive to the collaborative nature of the IEP Meeting. Since when did we start living in a universe where you can't have a positive relationship with your child's school and be a strong advocate for their needs? You absolutely can do both, but it requires finesse. Before we talk about how to do this I want you to see two of these comments we have received. On the article Top Ten Methods to Foster IEP Team Collaboration we received this comment: Read the rest of this entry →


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Judges: Shelton developer to stay in jail
NEW YORK -- A Shelton developer convicted of buying officials' approval for his multimillion dollar Bridgeport Avenue project lost a bid to clear his name and get out of prison when a three-judge panel rejected his appeal this week.
As a result, James Botti, 50, formerly of Maple Avenue, Shelton, remains one of 1,265 inmates at the federal correctional institution in Morgantown, W.Va. His scheduled release date after his six-year prison term is Feb. 19, 2016.
Botti was convicted in two separate trials before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles W. Haight Jr. The first resulted in his conviction on charges that he structured cash transactions in amounts under $10,000 to avoid having them reported to the IRS. A few months, later he was convicted of mail fraud by denying Shelton residents the right to honest services from their government officials by providing gifts and services to some members of the Planning and Zoning Commission and to Mayor Mark Lauretti.
However none of those officials were charged with any crimes and Lauretti has continually denied the allegations.
In appealing only the mail fraud conviction, George W. Ganim Jr., Botti's lawyer, argued that Haight committed reversible error by instructing the jury on the honest services section without advising them they had to find that a kickback or bribery scheme occurred. The jury deadlocked on the bribery counts.
As a result, Ganim, whose brother, former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim, was convicted of similar charges in 2003, advised the panel that Botti's 2010 conviction was in opposition to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a similar case and should be overturned.
In their 36-page ruling, U.S. Circuit Judges Robert Sack and Reena Raggi and U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl agreed Haight erred in his instruction, but determined it did not require overturning the conviction because "bribery was the only theory of honest services mail fraud available to the jury based on the arguments and evidence at trial."
During the mail fraud trial, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Schechter and Raul Kale accused Botti of parlaying a $58,000 investment in Shelton officials into an $8 million profit on the 828 Bridgeport Avenue development that now houses a hotel, two restaurants and a bank.
In writing the panel's decision, Koeltl cited trial evidence alleging Botti bought the mayor's support by paying for his Florida vacation and house repairs and hiring his brother. The judge also noted that Botti rewarded a reluctant Planning and Zoning Commission, by providing three members with expensive gift certificates. Initially it appeared the commission was leaning to denying the project. Botti also booked expensive Christmas parties at restaurants owned by a commissioner and another owned by the mayor.
Following the conviction on the mail fraud charge, Haight denied Botti's motion to reverse. The judge determined there was "ample evidence that Botti extended numerous favors to several Shelton public services for the purpose of obtaining in return favor actions on his development applications, particularly the 828 Bridgeport Avenue project, in derogation of the Shelton's citizenry's right to their public servants' honest services."
Nevertheless, in their verdict, the jury could not reach a decision on whether Botti conspired with and bribed Lauretti. Haight ordered a mistrial on that charge and the prosecution declined to retry the case.
In the ruling, the three-judge panel found Ganim was correct that a judge in instructing a jury in an honest services mail fraud case must require they find the defendant participated through bribery or kickbacks.
"However it does not follow that reversal is necessary in every case in which the District Court erred by failing to give the instruction," Koeltl wrote.
The panel determined that bribery was the only theory that the evidence would support and the prosecution argued, so Haight's error did not affect Botti's rights.
Ganim could not be reached for comment on the ruling or whether he intends to appeal it to the entire Circuit Court in New York or file a writ with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Whatever you are currently doing and whether you know it or not, you are living by some kind of myth. You are acting it out. You are a vehicle for it. A myth is a symbolic story of the relationship between your life and the world. It is a paradigm that is whole, coherent and forever unfolding. It can also be described as a psychological reality that moves without coincidences. It is laid out like a pattern or a track from start to finish, and your life follows it. If you could look at it from a bird's eye view, you would see the beginning and end simultaneously, as part of a unified movement.
A myth in itself is never right or wrong but is simply the reflection of your chosen relationship with the world. But that choice, which you have already made, may have you living your life uniquely and creatively or sleepwalking through it.
Absolutely no one, no parent, teacher, preacher or savior, is able to tell you what your myth is or should be. It is your dynamic, unique story that only you can stifle or help along to blossom like a flower. You may never be able to fully see and understand your myth because it lives beyond the borders of static concepts. It is in many ways paradoxical, but getting in touch with it may prove to be the most important thing you will ever do...
There are personal and collective myths and they may be local or global. Most of us live unaware of the myth we subscribe to, even though we have actually chosen it at the most fundamental level. Insofar as our story is not uniquely ours, or that we are mindlessly living the same story as countless others, our myth dictates an inauthentic life for us. It is a lie, an illusion and we know it in our depths. Our ignorance or lack of understanding makes it inauthentic and does not allow us to recognize or take responsibility for the choice we have already made. In that respect, we have the sense of living according to someone else's rules, being pushed around as victims, lacking some kind of purpose or meaning and not having the choice to live as we wish. We see ourselves as born into a society that already has its own laws and taboos, which we must follow. We are given a name, told how to behave, what to eat, what we should learn, how to judge and be judged, what god we should or shouldn't follow, when to work, who to trust, who to love and oftentimes how to feel.
It is indisputable that the paradigm that we live by today is full of competition, conflict, and corruption. Not knowing what else to do and not having the energy to change it, we repeat the pattern, perpetuate it and even vehemently protect it and pass it on to our children. We often persecute or put to death those that try to expose the myth by which we are living. From the beginning, we are never given the chance to recognize the inauthenticity in which we are immersed. But we continue to hurt others and to be hurt.
One of the myths or ideas we collectively live by, at least in certain areas of the West, involves fierce competition and the pursuit of happiness through wealth. Part of this pursuit involves sitting for hours in metal boxes on stretches of earth paved with hard asphalt, breathing toxic fumes from each other's vehicles or recycled, conditioned air. And if there is any question to the sanity of this behavior, most of us shrug it off and go on about our business. We scurry either to our jobs or our homes, the majority of which are enclosed by rigid, unnatural straight lines with virtual or fake lighting. Even the food we eat is becoming increasingly synthetic and the medicine we take is even more toxic to treat the effects of our unhealthy diets. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. All these things are reflections of the collective myth we are living. They are symbols or indicators of the insane relationship we have with ourselves, our environment and with each other. But we collectively ignore them.
At the heart of that collective paradigm is a common personal myth shared by countless people who have become mere reproductions of each other and whose uniqueness has been drowned out by ignorance. It is that of the modern individual with an inherited vision of his life. He marries and perhaps has children and pursues a career with dreams of owning a bigger home or a better car. He constantly hurries from place to place, working hard, sitting in an office or a factory day after day, doing something that he doesn't particularly enjoy but saving for his future retirement. He spends relatively little time with his family or friends in hopes that someday he will have all the time in the world. He checks his bank balance or investment accounts and his moods swing with them as he watches the numbers constantly rise and fall. Any free time that he has is spent as an escape from his work, in the form of a vacation or occasional sex, or on the maintenance of his life so that it can continue in full force at work. While he may have some hint of the neurotic state of his life, he thinks to himself that someday he'll be free, when he retires; but for now he must pay the price for that coveted future, which may never come. Ever since he was a child, his parents and teachers have always told him that he must prepare for this moment in the future and that he must give away his life now and be serious. He will gain his life later, he is told, when he is old and tired. Of course they were taught the same by their parents and teachers.
The modern individual is in fact mistaking the symbol for that which it represents. He is neurotically chasing after money, which is a symbol of wealth and happiness and security. But money in its pure and real form is nothing more than paper or coins or numbers in a bank account. It is worthless until it is spent. And there is always the risk that these numbers may dissipate into thin air or never get spent, but the modern individual continues to chase after them and hoard them like they were food. But this insatiable hunger leads him to utter starvation.
The psychologist Carl Jung wrote: "The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate." Most of us are caught up in propping up the myth that we unknowingly live by without ever pausing to question it, and we suffer the consequences of it in our lives. In fact, we exasperate the issue by masking it. We put our energies in projecting an image that we want others to see, even though it drives us to misery. We buy things that give us no real satisfaction but only short-lived pleasures. We take pills to numb the pain or drink alcohol to have a fleeting moment of inhibition. Worst of all, we lose hours upon hours staring into a box that emits two-dimensional images and sounds of other people's lives and problems. And strangely enough, that virtual image on a 25-inch screen is not big enough. We enlarge it by buying even bigger screens, perhaps 50 or 60 inches, as if we are trying to desperately get close to something real through that virtual image. It provides us with an array of virtual, emotional colors and needs including laughter, excitement, fear, horror, war and sentimental feelings. It tells us how to act, how we should dress, who we should follow, who we should hate, what to buy and eat among many other things. Certainly, there is a certain splendor in every myth and this one is no exception. It beautifully reflects the relationship we have with the world, no matter how dark and horrific it may be.
How do we escape this madness? How could we stop living by these myths? Simply, we cannot because our lives will always be symbols for the relationship we have with the world. Any resistance to the current myth is expressed in that relationship and serves only to affirm and strengthen it. Any attempts to measure or analyze ourselves or our ignorance are part of the very pattern that we are living. In other words, we are the result of the tension between the intended or real impulse to our life and who we think we are or should be. We cannot direct or control our myth. It directs us. Each myth is unique to each individual; therefore, we can never follow the myth of another, no matter how great we think that myth may be. Our rational mind is the greatest obstacle to recognizing our myth because the intellect's function is to compare, conceptualize, compartmentalize and seek security. In doing so, the mind places limits on the impulse of life. But myths are limitless and in some way magical. They come from a deeper realm, from the same place as dreams and they operate with the same energy that simultaneously digests our food and divides our cells and processes our bodily functions and wets our eyes accordingly when we blink, all without our conscious knowledge. The understanding of the choice for a myth has to be made at that level, in those depths and we cannot bring it about through rationalization or conscious, intellectual effort. Rather than fighting against its limitations, the challenge is to open up the mind and make it transparent to the myth. But no one can tell us how to do that. At best, we can try to put ourselves in situations that break habit, security and repetition and invite spontaneity and a certain amount of chaos. It is in those situations that this energy, which drives myths, comes forth and acts out of its own intelligence.
Your myth is much bigger than you. It cannot be found as you would find the nearest post office because it is a dynamic, living thing. But you can let it find you. You cannot create it, direct it or even fully see it with your linear-thinking mind because your myth is constantly unfolding. You can align yourself with it by coming to understand or clearly recognizing the paradigm that you may have been living. That recognition is the absence of ignorance, which is the root of inauthenticity. That recognition, in a most psychedelic way, is itself the blossoming of the myth that your life truly intends. The acceptance of the choice that you have already made to follow a certain myth, whatever it may be, is the beginning of authenticity. In other words, the act of recognizing and accepting the choice, or accepting the responsibility for your life as it is, transforms the relationship you have with the world. It is a heroic or symbolic act and the myth reflects it. Therefore, what makes a myth authentic is not something out there in the world or in a set of ideologies; rather, it is the convergence in you of the choice you have already made with your acceptance or understanding of it at the most fundamental level. The story out there merges with the story in you to form your unique story.
Each one of you knows in this very moment whether or not you are living by the myth that your life's impulse craves. As you begin to fully accept the life that you have been living, all aspects of it, inner and outer, start to come together as if they were pieces of a giant, mysterious puzzle. The world begins to move in the same ways as dreams do, with fluidity. That is to say, you start to recognize connections and meaningful patterns where you did not previously think to exist. People and events start to act in symbolic ways and you come to notice that there are no coincidences. All undulations in your life, pain and pleasure, sadness and joy, fear and desire, hate and love and all other dualities begin to move together towards some significance that you can feel but can't conceptualize. You begin to sense that there is somehow an interdependence in the mighty, opposing forces in you and the world. Through these forces a rhythm emerges that shapes your story and gives it its uniqueness and dynamic nature. You come to consciously realize that your life is a symbol for that rhythm; and while you can't grasp it completely, you can mysteriously put your finger on its pulse. It is something beyond pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, understanding and ignorance. You become a co-creator of your unique myth, without effort or control. You and your myth are like two fine gems that reflect each other in their glowing brilliance. You are it, through and through.


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LITTLE ROCK � Early voting for the Nov. 6 election has begun.
Voting began Monday and will end on Nov. 5 at locations across the state. Polls will be open on Election Day from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
By 5 p.m. Monday, with an hour to go before polls closed, 26,763 Arkansans had taken advantage of early voting, said Alex Reed, spokesman for Secretary of State Mark Martin. Reed said the turnout had already exceeded the turnout of 26,260 for the first day of early voting in 2008.
Voters can contact their local county clerk to ask about early voting locations and make sure they are registered to vote.
Secretary of State Mark Martin said voters can also go to the secretary of state�s website to check their registration status.
Voters should be prepared to show identification and verify their address to ensure they receive the correct ballot, Martin said.
Voters will cast ballots in the presidential race, congressional races and numerous legislative races. Republicans are seeking to win a majority in the state House and Senate while Democrats strive to maintain control of both chambers.
Also on the ballot are three ballot questions that would temporarily raise the state sales tax by half a cent to finance a $1.8 billion bond issue to build a statewide four-lane highway system; allow cities and counties to create districts for development and redevelopment projects, issue bonds payable from city and county sales taxes and retire unfunded liabilities of closed local police and fire pension plans; and legalize marijuana for medical use by people with certain medical conditions.
Two ballot questions on casino gambling are on the ballot, but votes for and against them will not be counted because the state Supreme Court ruled both measures were invalid.


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The Krewe of Hercules knows how important Mardi Gras and football is in south Louisiana.
When Hercules rolls through the streets of Houma on Feb. 1, revelers will get a chance to experience both.
S.P. LaRussa, parade captain and founding member of Hercules, said NFL player and Napoleonville native Brandon Jacobs will ride through the parade as a special guest. The parade will follow the traditional west Houma route and will begin at 6 p.m. Feb. 1.
The Krewe of Hercules knows how important Mardi Gras and football is in south Louisiana.
When Hercules rolls through the streets of Houma on Feb. 1, revelers will get a chance to experience both.
S.P. LaRussa, parade captain and founding member of Hercules, said NFL player and Napoleonville native Brandon Jacobs will ride through the parade as a special guest. The parade will follow the traditional west Houma route and will begin at 6 p.m. Feb. 1.
Jacobs, a running back, is a eighth-year NFL veteran who has spent time with the New York Giants (2005-11) and San Francisco 49ers (2012).
He was a member of two Super Bowl championship teams with the Giants.
LaRussa said Jacobs, who is a free agent, will have a big role during the parade.
"He'll be riding the floats, throwing footballs and signing autographs," LaRussa said. "He's been trying to come down for years. We've been trying to get him. It just so happen he had a break right now. That's why we are fortunate enough to get him."
The parade will also feature former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards as its grand marshal.
LaRussa said Hercules is going all out to entertain its loyal revelers with a famous local football player in Jacobs and a former governor in Edwards riding this year.
"It's an honor to have Brandon because the public is going to relate to it," LaRussa said. "With our grand marshal in Edwin Edwards, we are going to bring a lot of people out to the parades. We're just giving them the double treat."
Jacobs, who was born in Houma but raised in Napoleonville, said he is excited to come back home and take part in the parade.
"The Krewe of Hercules parade was one that we attended a lot when I was growing up," Jacobs said. "It's always been a good parade with a lot of people there. You always expected a lot and got a lot from that parade. I'm honored to be able to go back and be a part of it."
Jacobs, who prepped at Assumption and played collegiate ball at Coffeyville Community College, Auburn and Southern Illinois, said he is no stranger to riding in parades. He has participated in homecoming parades in high school and college, and he rode through the streets of New York to celebrate the Giants' two Super Bowl championships.
The 6-foot-4, 264-pound Jacobs knows how serious Mardi Gras is, so he said he will be prepared for the ride.
"I haven't practiced my throwing as of yet," Jacobs said. "I'm probably going to get started next week."
With the Hercules parade rolling two days before Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, Jacobs said it should be fun time for locals who love both football and Mardi Gras season.
"It's pretty cool that this is happening the same weekend that the Super Bowl is in New Orleans," Jacobs said. "It gives the fans a chance to experience something different. I know that it is not the Saints in the Super Bowl, but it's still the Super Bowl in New Orleans. It's great for the entire state and will bring a lot of revenue for the city and give the state of Louisiana a financial boost."
This year's Super Bowl, which will be held in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 3, will feature the San Francisco 49ers versus the Baltimore Ravens.
Jacobs signed with the 49ers before the season, but he was hampered by a knee injury and played in only two games this season, finishing with five carries for seven yards. Jacobs' tough season ended when he was suspended for the final three games of the season by the 49ers and was waived on Dec. 31. The official reason for Jacobs' suspension was unclear.
Despite the frustrating season, Jacobs said he holds no resentment toward the 49ers organization and players.
"There is no disappointment," Jacobs said. "I have respect for the team. I'm happy for the players. (San Francisco owner) Jed York has done a good job of putting the team together. I wish them the best."
The 30-year-old Jacobs, who has rushed for 4,856 career yards and 56 touchdowns, said he doesn't plan to hang up his football cleats yet. He hopes to continue his NFL career next season.
"I just want to go out and play and help my team win," Jacobs said. "I've got at least two years left in me personally. I'm going to go out and do what I got to do. I'm not ready to retire. I was born with a purpose and that's to play football. I haven't lost my passion or love for that yet."
Jacobs added that he has no preferences in a future team and wants to find a place where he will be able to contribute.
"I'm ready to ball," he said. "Whoever is going to let me do that, that's who I'm going to."
Sports editor Brent St. Germain contributed to this article.


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Reds see rally come up just short vs. Rays
CINCINNATI -- The season has only just started, but Reds ace Johnny Cueto and his lineup have already been like two ships passing in the night. Once again on Friday vs. the Rays, Cueto delivered a solid seven-inning outing only to find an offense unable to support him.
Rays ace David Price kept the bats in check as the Reds were handed a 2-1 loss at Great American Ball Park.View Full Game Coverage
CINCINNATI -- The season has only just started, but Reds ace Johnny Cueto and his lineup have already been like two ships passing in the night. Once again on Friday vs. the Rays, Cueto delivered a solid seven-inning outing only to find an offense unable to support him.
Rays ace David Price kept the bats in check as the Reds were handed a 2-1 loss at Great American Ball Park.View Full Game Coverage
Cueto gave up two earned runs and five hits over seven innings, with four walks and six strikeouts. Over 21 innings, he's allowed five earned runs for a 2.14 ERA, but he remains winless. Cincinnati has scored a total of one run when Cueto has been on the mound this season.
"That's something I can't control," Cueto said via translator Tomas Vera. "That's up to the other part of the team. I always say I have to do my job. I have to throw seven, eight innings. I have to do my job and they have to do their job."
For the third time this season, the Reds were on the wrong end of a one-run game, but they made it very interesting in the ninth. Trailing, 2-0, with Price working on a three-hit shutout, Joey Votto sent a 0-1 pitch the opposite way for a home run to left field. It was Votto's first homer of the season and it also was the final pitch of the night for Price, who gave way to closer Grant Balfour.
With two outs, Balfour walked the bases loaded before pinch-hitter Brayan Pena was called out on strikes by home-plate umpire D.J. Reyburn on a ball that appeared to be outside the strike zone.
"We've matched up with good pitching. In the end, we keep being the team on the losing end of it," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "You just hate to waste good pitching."
Cueto labored in the early going with three walks and 46 pitches through two innings. In the first, he issued back-to-back one-out walks before Evan Longoria slashed an RBI single into left field to score Desmond Jennings. Cueto appeared frustrated with Reyburn's strike zone but tried to compose himself.
"We're human beings. Pitchers act like that," Cueto said. "We have a body language, and maybe he doesn't like it. You have to be careful you don't show it to the umpire, but you know what? That's the way it is. The umpire is the one who knows if it's a ball or strike."
It became a 2-0 Rays lead in the third when Matt Joyce led off by hitting a 1-1 pitch to right field for his second homer of the season.
Cueto got it together and gave up only two singles -- including one blooper -- and a walk the rest of the night, and he retired eight of his last nine batters to end at 119 pitches.
"At first, I didn't feel like I was ready," Cueto said. "I felt too slow, too down on myself. I don't want to say I was tired, but I was kind of tired. Then after that, everything clicked in and that was good."
Rays manager Joe Maddon came away impressed with Cueto's work.
"He pitches off the edges on purpose," Maddon said. "He definitely knows what he's doing. He does not want to throw the ball over the plate. He will not do it unless he has to, and he can do it whenever he wants. That's what I saw."
Price was even more impressive this time, as he gave up four hits over 8 1/3 innings with one walk and 10 strikeouts.
The Reds now find themselves having lost seven of their first 10 games.
"Unfortunately, we've wasted some good pitching here," Price said. "We got another great start from Johnny. It's just unfortunate we haven't been able to win those games. He's given us three chances to win, and we haven't won a single game."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.