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This column is about an American institution. A medal. In fact, THE medal as far as military awards and decorations go. Monday will be a special day, especially for folks living in this area, although it is not a national holiday, nor any day the public will likely notice.
According to a trusty military-oriented calendar, March 25 is National Medal of Honor Day. I can't say what that means or what one should do to observe it. A recommended possibility would be to go to the two national cemeteries in Leavenworth and Mount Calvary Cemetery in Lansing and pay respects to the 20 or so recipients of our nation's highest award for valor who rest in the three cemeteries.
From the several history books I have about the Medal of Honor I couldn't find where the date March 25 came from. But since the medal had so many "birthdays," such as when Congress authorized it, when President Lincoln signed it into law, and when the first awards were presented, I suppose any date would be a fine one. I'm just glad there is such a date to honor the medal and its recipients.
Before I go further, let me clear up two continuing myths about the medal. Its name, in law and in the Associated Press Stylebook, is Medal of Honor. The stylebook says "There is no Congressional Medal of Honor."
Yes, it is awarded in the name of Congress, and the organization of living recipients is called The Congressional Medal of Honor Society, but that is because the society was chartered by Congress after WW II, making it a Congressional organization.
And a so far losing battle I've had with the Leavenworth Times is in getting folks there not to refer to recipients as "winners." None consider themselves as having awakened on the day of their award-winning deed to say "Well, I believe I'll go into battle and win the Medal of Honor today."
Those who have been awarded the medal refer to themselves as "recipients," military personnel who received the medal, but did not "win" it. You set out to win a political contest, or sporting event, or a battle, but not our highest award for battle.
Before I run out of space I need to mention the three recipients in this area, each of whom was a first in the annals of the medal. Two are in Leavenworth and one is in the Kansas City area.
Ret. Col. Roger Donlon of Leavenworth was the very first to receive the medal during the Vietnam War. The New York native opted to retire in Leavenworth when his 30 years of military dedication to his country ended.
Also in Leavenworth is Ret. Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Hagemeister, a Nebraska native who also opted for life in Leavenworth. He was the first recipient of the Vietnam War to not also receive a Purple Heart, as he was not wounded. And he says that is a fact that has never bothered him.
The sole Missouri recipient is Ret. Col. Don "Doc" Ballard, Kansas National Guard, who became the only recipient in history to receive the medal for jumping on a grenade that did not explode.
That, too, is a fact he's never been bothered by.
The three area recipients are almost never at the same place at the same time, so chances of you congratulating them simultaneously are very slim. Make that virtually nonexistent. But should you run across any of them Monday, it would be a good day to extend a hand and thank them for their service.
Barring the chance of actually seeing one of the living recipients in this area, a good other option would be to walk through the three area cemeteries seeking the tombstones of the 20 or so resting there. They are easy to find as each tombstone has an etching of the medal, the words "Medal of Honor," and all words are painted in gold wash. Only 80 living recipients are still among us.


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House T&I special panel to discuss freight transportation improvementsWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has put together a special panel tasked with examining the current state of freight transportation in the United States and how improving freight transportation can strengthen the U.S. economy.
The full committee's vice chairman, Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), will chair the "Panel on 21st Century Freight Transportation." Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) will serve as the panel's ranking member. By the rules of the committee adopted at the beginning of Congress, the special panel will serve for a period of six months, beginning with its first scheduled hearing on April 24, 2013.
The Republican members of the panel include John Duncan, Jr., TN, chairman; Gary Miller, CA; Rick Crawford, AR; Richard Hanna, NY; Daniel Webster, FL; Markwayne Mullin, OK; The Democratic members of the panel include Jerrold Nadler, NY, ranking member; Corrine Brown, FL; Daniel Lipinski, IL; Albio Sires, NJ and Janice Hahn, CA.
"Given that freight transportation cuts across many modes, this panel will play a critical role in providing recommendations on how to improve the efficient movement of goods between highways, ports, inland waterways, railroads, air carriers and pipelines," said Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). "I am confident Chairman Duncan and the members of the panel will provide the committee with valuable insights for the improvement of freight transportation and our nation's economy."


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TRAINING: Sparring or grappling in the morning, followed up at night by strength & conditioning or pad work.
When and why did you start training for fighting? After I finished my college wrestling career I still had the desire to compete and MMA seemed like the perfect option for me.
What ranks and titles have you held? 2x Division I All American for the University of Iowa and Ring of Combat MW champ
Do you have any heroes? My high school wrestling coach Jay Hoskey and my college wrestling coach Jim Zalesky.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's the biggest stage in the world. It has taken a lot of years and hard work to get here.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? BA in Health and Sports Studies
What was your job before you started fighting? I was a wrestling coach at the University at Buffalo and Indiana University. I am still a personal trainer for LA Fitness.
If any, list ranks in any martial arts styles: Blue belt in BJJ
Favorite grappling technique: North/South choke
Favorite Striking technique: Left Hook
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 12 Columbia women's squash team fell in the semifinals of the Kurtz Cup (B Division) at the 2013 College Squash Association National Team Championships to No. 9 Dartmouth, 9-0, Saturday afternoon.
Despite the final score, the Lions played tough and led in two of the matches early on and also forced five games in two. Catherine Jenkins led 1-0 and 2-1 in the No. 1 match, but Corey Schafer won the last two games by identical 11-4 scores for the win. Monica Stone took the opening game of the No. 6, but dropped the next three to Victoria Dewey.
In the No. 5 match, Leah Barnet came from behind to force a fifth game with an 11-4 win in the fourth, but her opponent, Katherine Nimmo took the decisive game, 11-6. Diya Kumar tied the No. 9 match at 1-1, winning the second game 12-10, but lost in four games.
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The Washington Post has published new revelations about the National Security Agency's electronic snooping, indicating that the intelligence branch gathers millions of contact lists from personal email accounts and instant messaging around the world.
The new information is attributed by The Post to "senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden."
"The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and 'buddy lists' from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online services often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information stored on remote servers.
"Rather than targeting individual users, the NSA is gathering contact lists in large numbers that amount to a sizable fraction of the world's e-mail and instant messaging accounts. Analysis of that data enables the agency to search for hidden connections and to map relationships within a much smaller universe of foreign intelligence targets."
According to the newspaper, in a single day last year the NSA harvested 444,743 email address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers.
The Post story quotes Yahoo as saying that in response to NSA efforts, the tech company would begin encrypting user connections using SSL technology in January.
However, last month, The Two-Way's Eyder Peralta wrote that The New York Times and The Guardian, relying on documents from Snowden, revealed that the NSA has the keys to crack most Internet encryption methods.
"In plain English, this means that many of the tools — like TLS, used by many banks and email providers — that people worldwide have come to believe protect them from snooping by criminals and governments are essentially worthless when it comes to the NSA."
There's more news from the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that the agency is gathering hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts. According to The Post report, the program collects more than a half million address books from Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, every day. For more on this, we're joined by Barton Gellman. He's with The Century Foundation, on assignment to The Washington Post, one of the two reporters who worked on this. Welcome to the program once again.
BARTON GELLMAN: Thank you.
SIEGEL: And how does the collection program work?
GELLMAN: Well, the NSA could not collect all these address books and contact lists if it did it in the United States because this is a bulk collection program, not targeted at individuals. So it uses 18 access points overseas, which it negotiates, for example, with foreign telephone companies or Internet switching companies. But there are probably tens of millions of Americans whose contacts have been harvested this way because it's the structure of the Internet. If you sign on to Gmail from Kansas, you may be served by a server in Finland. The big, big companies have data centers all over the world and they distribute their loads and work around outages that way. I mean, the Internet does not respect international borders.
SIEGEL: The quantity of what the NSA would be getting this way is a little mind-boggling, but what is the quality of it? How useful is this information?
GELLMAN: Well, it's hard to know exactly but the NSA very much likes to draw maps and social graphs of contacts and networks. That is to say, who are you in communication with? Who do you associate with? Which networks of communicants overlaps? You can learn an enormous amount from this kind of metadata. The stuff they're harvesting also includes content because they're getting your online address book, your chat buddy list, if that's separate, and they don't always coincide. And, because they want to know who you're currently in contact with, they're collecting what they call the inboxes of Webmail accounts. So it's that list you first see when you log on on the messages you've got. That tells them people you're communicating with who may or may not be in your address book.
SIEGEL: In the Washington Post story, you quoted a senior U.S. intelligence official saying that despite mass collection, the privacy of Americans is protected here because - this is a quote -"we have checks and balances built into our tools." What's he talking about?
GELLMAN: Well, he's talking about the so-called minimization rules, which means there are rules about masking your identity. There are rules about circumstances under which they can look at your contact list, whether they can chain from it. Chaining is a tool they use that maps the contacts - who, you know, who are your contacts, who are their contacts, who are the third-order contacts. So they have rules limiting all this but they're not releasing the rules. And we've seen in other cases in which the rules are a little stricter, that they leave a lot of room for the NSA to look anyway.
SIEGEL: You've been working on this for months. And the distinction between data and metadata is routinely asserted by the NSA. That is, we're not surveilling your communications. We're surveilling the architecture of your communications. I don't know how they would say it. I'm curious what you make of this distinction. Do you find it - I mean, are you struck by how strong the distinction is after all these months, how weak it is? What would you say?
GELLMAN: Everyone from President Obama on down has said, don't worry about some of these programs like collecting all your telephone calls. They're only metadata. Now, what I've found is that metadata can be as revealing - sometimes even more revealing - than the so-called content.
So, for example, I would much rather someone listen to my phone calls for a month than to have them map who I've talked to, where I went, all my connections for a month, because I can control what I say on the phone. You get a much more revealing picture of people, for example, who are my confidential sources, or whether I'm negotiating to leave my employer and take a new job or a secret business deal, whether I'm having an extramarital affair, whether I'm seeing a psychiatrist. Anything that I might not want to broadcast to the world will be revealed quite clearly from metadata. So in a lot of ways, it's more intrusive.
SIEGEL: Barton Gellman is senior fellow at the Century Foundation. He's also writing for the Washington Post and has reported on the Snowden documents from the NSA. Thanks for talking with us.
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Boyer Earns First Team All-Big Ten
Sophomores Dusty Boyer and Marc Herrmann took home awards from the Big Ten Banquet last Thursday in East Lansing, Mich. after the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. At the banquet, all members were announced for First and Second-Team All-Big Ten Conference as well as the Freshman of the Year, Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and all of the Sportsmanship Award winners.
Boyer received First-Team All-Big Ten Honors at the banquet for his performances this season in the conference. Boyer was a stronghold on the singles court, heading up the Huskers lineup at the No. 1 spot and moving his way into the ITA Top 125 singles rankings later in the season. Another Husker to receive an award was Herrmann, who took home Nebraska's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.
The criteria for the Sportsmanship Award is that the student-athletes chosen are individuals who have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. These student-athletes must also be in good academic standing and have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting.
See the complete lists of all conference winners below:
First-Team All-Big Ten
FARRIS GOSEA, Illinois
Jared Hiltzik, Illinois
Tim Kopinski, Illinois
Alex Petrone, Michigan
Drew Lied, Michigan State
LEANDRO TOLEDO, Minnesota
Dusty Boyer, Nebraska
Sam Shropshire, Northwestern
Raleigh Smith, Northwestern
PETER KOBELT, Ohio State
Herkko Pollanen, Ohio State
LEONARD STAKHOVSKY, Penn State
Second-Team All-Big Ten*
Sam Monette, Indiana
Jonas Dierckx, Iowa
John Patrick Mullane, Michigan State
Hunter Callahan, Ohio State
Kevin Metka, Ohio State
Ralf Steinbach, Ohio State
Russell Bader, Penn State
Mark Kovacs, Purdue
Ricky Medinilla, Purdue
Unanimous selections in CAPS
* Additional honorees due to a tie
Athlete of the Year: Farris Gosea, Illinois
Freshman of the Year: Sam Shropshire, Northwestern
Coach of the Year: Ty Tucker, Ohio State
Tim Kopinski, Illinois
Dimitrije Tasic, Indiana
Michael Swank, Iowa
Shaun Bernstein, Michigan
Aaron Pfister, Michigan State
Jack Hamburg, Minnesota
Marc Herrmann, Nebraska
Alex Pasareanu, Northwestern
Hunter Callahan, Ohio State
Matt Barry, Penn State
Aaron Dujovne, Purdue
John Zordani, Wisconsin


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Portland falls in final seconds of district title game
The Portland boys basketball team led for all but 44 seconds of its district title game against Hastings Friday night at home.
Unfortunately for the Raiders, that time included the last 34 seconds of the game.
Saxon senior Maxwell Clark hit a pair of free throws with 34.4 seconds left and the Raiders were unable to convert on two shot attempts in the final seconds as Hastings won the District 47 title by a score of 39-38.
Despite the heartbreaking loss, Portland coach Dave Pettit said he was happy with his team's effort.
"The kids executed the defensive game plan really well. We just needed to figure out a way to get one more basket," he said. "But the effort was tremendous from everybody that got in the game to everybody that didn't get in the game that prepared us. We had a good day of practice yesterday and today after school."
Portland raced out of the gate Friday, opening the game with a 10-2 run, then took a 14-7 advantage at the end of the first quarter. In the second, the teams played almost even as the Saxons made five of eight free-throw attempts and one field goal, while Portland's scoring came of two field goals and two makes at the line by Brodie VanRiper. At the half, The Raiders led 20-14.
"We talked about coming out and trying to get something in transition because they are so good in their half-court defense. So we tried to push the ball early," Pettit said. "We got a couple run-outs and a couple of layups in transition, so I was really happy with the start."
The second half started with Portland senior Jared Krausz hitting a 3-pointer, his first of the night, to extend the Raiders advantage to 23-14. Then, after Clark responded with a two-point basket, Krausz got open again from long range and buried another jumper to make it a 10-point game.
Clark again countered, but this time he drained back-to-back 3-point baskets to make it a 26-22 contest.
One minute later, Raider senior Drew Roe knocked down a made 3-pointer, giving Portland a seven-point lead with 3:08 in the quarter. Hastings scored the last three points of the period, cutting the Raiders' lead down to 29-25.
Ian Beck and Clark made back-to-back baskets to tie the game at 29-29 early in the fourth, but the Raiders countered with a 7-0 run to take a 36-29 lead with 5:22 left. However, Hastings scored the next eight points, giving them a 37-36 lead with 3:05 to play, its first advantage of the game.
Portland Junior Zach Gustafson scored with 2:55 left to put Portland back up by one, and the Raiders made three straight defensive stops to keep the advantage, until a foul call put Clark at the line with 34.4 seconds to go.
Clark made both free-throws to put Hastings up for good.
Raider senior Jared Krausz led Portland with 14 points in his final game in a Portland uniform. Gustafson scored nine points, while Seal finished with seven.
Clark paced Hastings with 18 points, while Beck finished with six.
Pettit said the team is going to miss their seniors next year, but he is happy with many of the underclassmen coming back next winter.
"We've got a good group of juniors and Sam Goodman, who is a sophomore, so those guys are going to have to step up," he said. "We've got Gustafson back and Brodie VanRiper, who played well tonight and has gotten better as the season went on. You throw them in with guys like Goodman and juniors Andrew Click, Auston Brandt and Jacob Pohl and we've got a nice group coming back.
"Our six seniors are six really good kids and I've appreciated all of them. I've had four of them for two years, Adam Goodman for three years and Krausz for four years, so we're really going to miss our seniors and their leadership."
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quote:Originally posted by fat_elvis_rockedI would venture that in the province of Quebec and particularly in the city of Montreal, the 'fandom', transcends mere team support, and gets in to more of the cultural identity thing. They are the only team in the NHL that have that cultural identity tagged to their team, whether they want it or not, and I'm sure they do. You often hear of players going there and being overwhelmed by not only the expectations placed on them by the fans for their athletic talent, but also to be able to immerse themselves in to not only the community, but the culture as well. No other team has that 'grass roots' level of fanaticism.To compare even the Leafs to this phenomenon, makes me laugh, much like Slozo's dismissal of a Canuck fan's comparison.The Montreal Canadiens, to me anyways, represent much more than just a city, just a team, just a bunch of fans. They represent the pride, and embrace the difference of a whole society of people. That, IMO, is what accounts for their supporters' 'over the top', allegiance.
quote:Alex116, I think you may just have to be a Habs or a Leafs fan to get it.
quote:Originally posted by slozoAlex, I'll take just a second then:When Vancouver is charging $50 for a nosebleed seat against a non-divisional / historical rival (Detroit) . . . for a preseason game . . . and the place is filled to capacity with a loud obnoxious and rousing fans . . . cheering on a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 7 years . . .. . . THEN you will get it.When you go to a smaller market Canadian team or a northern US team's city, and watch your Canucks play the home team and see a quarter to half the jerseys in the stands for the Canucks, THEN you will understand."Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug
quote:Originally posted by slozoI have to laugh at these Canuck fans comments, seriously . . . they are not even in the same league as Toronto or Montreal when it comes to fandom.
quote:Originally posted by Beans15quote:Originally posted by nuxfan[quote]All fans are delusional. Toronto fans are walking around talking about making the play-offs right now. So are Oiler fans. Flames fans are talking about a deep play-off run, and Canuck fans are talking about the Cup as a sure thing.
quote:Originally posted by nuxfan[quote]
quote:Originally posted by nuxfanquote:I have to laugh at these Canuck fans comments, seriously . . . they are not even in the same league as Toronto or Montreal when it comes to fandom.so you do think you have a monopoly on fandom. Thanks for verifying.
quote:I have to laugh at these Canuck fans comments, seriously . . . they are not even in the same league as Toronto or Montreal when it comes to fandom.
quote:Ok. So I moved to Montreal from Toronto a couple weeks ago. Now, I knew people in this city were serious about their hockey team, but I'm a bit shocked just HOW serious.
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Miley Cyrus had front row seats at opening night of Britney Spears' new Las Vegas show. She posted photos on her Instagram account writing "Dreams do come true!," and complimenting Spears for looking "BANGIN."
Cyrus also admitted "If u told me I'd be front row & center on @britneyspears opening night 10 years ago I would've never believed you."
Spears has signed up for a long term show at Planet Hollywood that runs through 2015. The show features extravagant sets, acrobatics and a ring of fire. Also in attendance on opening night were Selena Gomez and Katy Perry.


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The difference this time is a lot of folks are changing from DX to FX. I can only assume this will accelerate when the D600 and housings are available. After all, the D600 is really just a FX'd D7000...
It's my opinion Nikon is forcing this change on purpose. They have not released a successor to the D300s and as much as I like my D7000, the D300 had a better build and more "professional" features which Nikon has not duplicated in DX. The D400 is still just a rumor and after the D600 is out for a few months, what kind of market would there be for a D400? It would be too confusing for customers to pick between FX and DX where the price point difference is likely only $200-300.
Also, the D7000 is due for a refresh too, so I'm thinking Nikon is just going to ditch the D300s replacement entirely. It's my opinion Nikon will come out with a DX mirrorless to compete with Sony/Canon and the "traditional" DX cameras in Nikon's line will simply be sunsetted over the next couple of years.
Wetpixel's forum is just a micro-verse of the overall camera scene, but virtually all the camera sites on the 'net are buzzing about FX this and FX that; DX is totally on the back burner as far as "trends" go.
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Gail Fisher's Dog Tracks: Finding the prime time to bring a child and dog togetherGAIL FISHER March 23. 2013 3:05AM
In my last two columns, I've been addressing a reader who wrote to ask my feelings about whether the couple should adopt a dog before their first baby is due or after the baby arrives.
Although the reader didn't detail why they particularly want a dog at this time, reading between the lines - and after many years of talking with dog owners and prospective owners with families - I'm guessing that at least one of the goals for this young family is for their child to grow up with a dog to play with and love.
I well remember a dog food commercial you might call "Casey's Life." (I remember the commercial, but not the brand of food it was promoting). The commercial opened with a young boy playing with his adorable Irish setter puppy, Casey. Scene two was a teenage boy cavorting with the now full-grown Casey. Then finally, the grown man called to Casey, his beautiful, old white-faced setter who slowly made it up the stairs to him. Even now I get choked up thinking about this commercial. It certainly tugged at our heart strings.
What dog-loving family would not want their child to experience such a devoted, close relationship for the all the years the boy and dog spent together?
I had such a relationship with my neighbor's dog (also an Irish setter) from the time I was 9, when they moved in next door to us. My family didn't have a dog at that time, and I visited Shannon on a nearly daily basis to take her for a walk, play with her and love her.
The reader mentioned that the couple is is considering adopting a mature dog around 2 years old. Let's say they luck out - they find the perfect 2-year-old dog with no behavior issues that fits in perfectly with their life and lifestyle and is wonderful with the baby (always under supervision). For the first few years, no matter how perfect the dog is, the baby should not be playing alone with the dog.
By the time a child is old enough to learn what appropriate play with a dog involves and to follow rules such as not teasing the dog and not bothering the dog when it's sleeping or eating, the dog is going to be about 7 or 8 years old. As sad as it seems, the average 8-year-old dog is not going to be active enough for the average 7- or 8-year-old child.
Acknowledging that there are exceptions, generally speaking, the prime child-dog interactive years start when a child is around 6 or 7. A younger child won't be taking the dog for walks without an adult, and while a younger child can play appropriately with the dog, again, it should always be with adult supervision.
So getting a dog when a child is 6 or 7 gives the two plenty of years together to form that "Casey" kind of relationship that most families envision between their child and a dog.
Gail Fisher, author of "The Thinking Dog," runs All Dogs Gym & Inn in Manchester. If you would like a topic addressed in this column, email firstname.lastname@example.com or write to her c/o All Dogs Gym & Inn, 505 Sheffield Road, Manchester, NH 03103. You'll find past columns on her website, alldogsgym.com.


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Let The Gay Force Be With You
Let the gay force be with you.
Players who pick up in the new Star Wars computer game "The Rise of the Hutt Cartel," will encounter a special planet - one that may interest some gaymers, Forbesreports.
The role-playing game, which is an expansion pack for the game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" and hits stores in Spring 2013, allows players to choose their own adventure and even gives the option to have a same-sex relationship. The option for the relationship occurs on the gay planet Makeb, a land where it's not uncommon for its inhabitants to have same-sex partners.
"We are adding SGR [same gender romance] with some NPCs [non-player characters] on Makeb [a planet invaded by the Hutt Cartel] and do intend on pursuing more SGR options in the future," Jeff Hickman, executive producer of "Star Wars: The Old Republic," said.
Forbes notes, however, that that the game's main characters cannot engage in a same-sex relationship and only the game's NPCs can do so.
"I realize that we promised SGR to you guys and that many of you believed that this would be with a companion character," Hickman said. "Unfortunately, this will take a lot more work than we realized at the time and it (like some other pieces of content we talked about earlier in the year) has been delayed as we focused on the changes required to take the game free-to-play. As we have said in the past, allowing same-gender romance is something we are very supportive of."
Still, activists are pleased with the inclusion of gay relationships in the game. Toni Rocca, community director for GaymerConnect (an organization that runs the first LGBT gamer event called Gaymer X) said, "This has been a long time coming. We're excited to see the game companies recognizing the diversity of their fans and we expect to see this trend continue."
The U.K. newspaper the Sun reports that officials from BioWare, the Canadian studio behind "Cartel," said they added the same-sex relationship option after feeling pressured by gay fans. The article also points out that some gamers don't like the way the gay characters have been segregated and say the video game's developers created a "gay ghetto."
In related news, in May, it was revealed that there would be a gay sex scene in the action role-playing ame "Mass Effect 3." Players can make Commander Shepard gay, straight or have no sexual preference but if they do make him attracted to men, they will encounter a scandalous sex scene with a blue-eyed black man named Cortez, who recently lost his husband in a war.


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|Four of the Sullivan sisters
Back: Minnie Sullivan Breeden
Left to right: Pearl S. Strole,
Elta S. Farrar, Floral S. Merica
about 1901
|Left: My grandmother Lucille Rucker Davis
Right: Elta Sullivan Farrar
|Four of the Sullivan sisters
Back: Minnie Sullivan Breeden
Left to right: Pearl S. Strole,
Elta S. Farrar, Floral S. Merica
about 1901
|Left: My grandmother Lucille Rucker Davis
Right: Elta Sullivan Farrar
She looks like a sweetheart. I'm willing to bet your guess is correct. :)ReplyDelete
Thanx for the vote of confidence!Delete
She looks quite cute as a youngster and as someone who liked a good natter as a grown-up.ReplyDelete
I'm getting quite the lesson in British slang, Mike. And you're right -- she did enjoy a good natter. She was always very animated too.Delete
"Elta the Gazette" sats it all. I meet an old lady in our village who would qualify for a similar title. She tells me things I didn't know about myself and how I became know as 'Bob, The Bramble' to distinguish me from another man named Bob.ReplyDelete
Soooo, how DID you become known as Bob the Bramble?Delete
What a lovely graduation picture. It's lovely that you included a picture of Elta in her older years.ReplyDelete
Yeah, when I ran across that picture of my grandma and Elta in their last years, I was glad to have a reason to use it.Delete
I love seeing your grandmother and Elta together as older women. How wonderful that they remained close all those years!
It's funny you commented about "old" people. My grandparents (all four of them) lived in Fresno their entire adult lives and they had a bunch of friends there. My recollection of visiting them was that Fresno was just a city of old people because that's all we saw. I haven't been there in 30 years and I wonder if it's still filled with just old people.
It is funny how our perceptions are formed when we're kids. That moment of clarity in later years is like a paradigm shift.Delete
I love the gazette tag, and Elta looks as sweet in old age as at her graduation.ReplyDelete
We always thought Grandma was funny when she referred to Elta that way. It always made us laugh. Elta really was one of the sweetest people ever.Delete
Wonderful pictures and story. What a great reporter would Miss Elta have been.ReplyDelete
Something to think about!Delete
I'm betting all your guesses are right! You are so lucky to have these photos and all the stories of their lives together.ReplyDelete
I am lucky. I wish I knew more stories or at least had a better memory about some of my older relatives and ancestors.Delete
I'm guessing those who went to Elta for the latest gossip gave as much as they got. That pfirst portrait of Elta is so characteristic of the period between the wars. The shade os sepia and the way which it is mounted was peculiar to those decades, although it was far more common in the US than in the UK.ReplyDelete
I love the style of portraits then. Maybe it's the clothes. They look so cool and whispy. I can see ladies of that time sipping lemonade on a porch swing, baskets of fern dotted around nearby.Delete
Ella sounds lovely. I thought the same way as Titania. Nowadays Ella would probably be like a CNN personality.ReplyDelete
Ha -- I was thinking more like "Entertainment Tonight."Delete
Love those photos!
I have a similar grad photo of my father from 1927. Such lovely photos- proud of an accomplishment, compared to today's grad photos.
Yes, there was a lot of pride in getting that diploma.Delete
A sweet memento that really captured the essence of Elta. The girl's expressions in the second photo are priceless. My grandmother was a similar hub in the social network of the old analog days. She kept notes of every telephone conversation on a stenographer pad that recorded all the details of every call. I still have dozens of these pads, each a history of family and neighborhood news.ReplyDelete
Those notepads must be fun to read. It's amazing that someone didn't just roll their eyes and send them to the dumpster years ago.Delete
Elta must have been known as a good listener also in order to gather all the news..ReplyDelete
I hadn't thought of that, but you're probably right.Delete
What a fun post. "Elta the Gazette." That's priceless. Now I have to know. Did Elta know about her nickname?
And speaking of priceless, those are priceless photos you've shared with us. Elta sounds like a very sweet and special lady.
No, I doubt Grandma called her "the Gazette" to her face.
I love the last picture of Elta visiting Grandma at the nursing home.
That dress is so pretty! Wouldn't you love to still have it? Etta sounds like a special lady.ReplyDelete
I bet the dress was so soft and light.Delete
I bet Etta would have made a brilliant blogger. We are probably the inheritors of the informal news sharing operation that used to be undertaken by people like EttaReplyDelete
Now I'm wondering what kind of nickname people will slap on me.Delete
Nice when you have some stories to go along with the old pictures - and also photos of people both when they were young and as they grew older!ReplyDelete
I wish I could say that for more of my ancestors.Delete
Never a dull moment with people like Elta, what a nice pictorial record of her life.ReplyDelete
You have such a wonderful sense of humor and it seems to be a family trait - Etta the Gazette... Love the story and pictures. Bet she was delightful.ReplyDelete
She was delightful. Some old people don't want to be bothered with kids, but she always made a point of chatting a little with me.Delete
Wendy, this was such a sweet post. I love Elta's nickname. We have a family member on my Dad's side known as "My Hell", because that was her favorite phrase.
Kathy M.
"My Hell" sounds like a nickname I could expect based on other stories I've read about your family. That's hilarious.Delete
What wonderful ladies. I love people that always know what is going on.ReplyDelete
Keeps everyone on their toes!Delete
What a lovely memorial to a sweet lady. I bet she is remembered by a lot of people who came in contact with her. Great photos. Love the one of the 4 sisters.ReplyDelete
I bet she is too.Delete
I know my mom could spend hours on the phone, gossiping with a friend or cousin about the folks from her hometown. And then she'd give my father an update on the "situation[s]"...
Elta looked very pretty in her graduation picture.
I've also enjoyed your two "fearless women" chronicles above.
Such lovely photos all of which tell a story. Congratulations, too, on managing to reply to so many comments - you are kept very busy!ReplyDelete


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NEWARK � The Newark School District, in conjunction with the Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce, have teamed up once again to bring the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra here to perform at Newark High School Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
�Newark High School is both proud and privileged to host the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for the thirteenth consecutive year. These holiday concerts here in our community are a wonderful annual holiday tradition that so many look forward to,� said Dave Schwind, Newark school district music supervisor and NHS instrumental music teacher.
�The Newark Central School District would again like to thank the many sponsors who have enabled us to present this performance at a very affordable price,� Schwind said. �We are especially grateful to Wegmans and Lyons National Bank for their generous support of this event.�
This year, Dr. Gerard Floriano, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo will conduct the RPO.
Floriano has conducted in many of America's premier concert halls, including NYC's Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, as well as abroad in both Spain and Italy, most notably as Conductor at the prestigious Artist Alliance International Choral Festival in Vicenza, Italy.
A one-time conducting assistant to Maestro John Nelson with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and at the Caramoor Festival, Dr. Floriano has been Guest Conductor with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, the Finger Lakes Symphony, and he has spent nine years at the Brevard Summer Music Festival as Resident Conductor for this renowned orchestral training institute.
Learn more about him at www.gerardfloriano.com
Elena O�Connor will be featured soprano soloist at the concert.
A Rochester native, O�Connor studied at the Eastman School of Music and graduated from the University of Miami�s School of Music, where she sang one of the lead roles in the American premiere of Luigi Mancinelli�s Paola e Francesca. She also was noted by the New York Times for her standout performance at Lincoln Center�s Alice Tully Hall in Scott Joplin�s Treemonisha. O�Connor was a multi-year prizewinner in the Palm Beach Opera International Vocal Competition, as well as a winner of the Aspen Music Festival�s Vocal Concerto Competition. After her performance with the Cincinnati May Festival, the Cincinnati Enquirer touted her as a young star to watch.
She has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under the batons of Michael Butterman and Jeff Tyzik, and was among many artists invited to take part in Christopher Seaman�s farewell concert. Also in Rochester, she was featured as Musetta in Mercury Opera�s production of La Boheme with Maestro Floriano.
Ticket prices for the RPO concert will be $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students and will be available at the Newark Wegmans customer service desk and at the main office at Newark High School.
As in other years, the school district will provide shuttle bus service from the Woodlane Community Church parking lot so people won�t have to walk great distances to their cars.
The auditorium doors at NHS will open at 7:15 p.m. Dec. 6 for the RPO concert.
�All concert goers will be asked to sit in the gymnasium until RPO staff open the doors,� Schwind said. �The Newark High School Jazz Ensemble will be performing holiday music in the gym during that time.�
Anyone with questions can call Schwind at 332-3200 ext. 2251.
RPO coming to Newark High School December 6
NEWARK � The Newark School District, in conjunction with the Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce, have teamed up once again to bring the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra here to perform at Newark High School Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Website Wednesday: SPEEDtv.com's NASCAR Section
Do you still use SPEEDtv.com? Back when SPEED first started, it was a favorite destination of mine for all kinds of things. I was a member of the forum and enjoyed the articles and news sections. Then, the website was re-designed.
Since that time, I rarely visit SPEEDtv.com and tend to get my NASCAR information from other websites, even when I am looking up something on SPEED. This is no knock on SPEED, as my interests tend to be NASCAR-related and that is just one category on the website.
Rather than welcome SPEED TV's NASCAR viewers to the website, I found it very hard to even locate the show pages that contained email information for various programs without resorting to the search function.
Just like many TDP readers mentioned about NASCAR.com, the SPEED website also contains a video that opens and plays with audio on when the user enters the site. One recent positive move is making access to portions of SPEED's NASCAR programming easily available in the video player. But, it should be a user option to start.
Users of the SPEEDtv.com website will also find their experience interrupted by full screen ads that block the entire site for fifteen seconds. Unlike ads inserted into the beginning of a video player or ones that require a mouse click to open, this full screen insert really serves to chase users away.
Once click on the NASCAR button will bring users to the world of the little red arrows. They are everywhere on the new site and are supposed to be directing users to stories or drop-down panels or something. The vast majority of the red arrows do nothing, and users must click on the text link to open the next page.
Since SPEED re-vamped the network's website, do you go there for NASCAR information?
If you do, what functions do you like and what would you like to see improved?
Finally, what would you like to see added to the site to make it more responsive to your Internet motorsports needs?
This is a good opportunity to get any frustrations from this season off your chest while the off-season gives SPEED an opportunity to make changes. Please take a moment and tell us about your experiences with the SPEEDtv.com website this year?
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thank you for taking the time to drop by.
37 comments:
- Kyle said...
I go there to read Kenny's and Jimmy's blog postings and that's about it. Since I am a member of the media I get the TV schedules months in advance, and I get the news from the teams or sources 99% of the time.
The 15-sec ads scared me away instantly. The site design is pretty cool, but the ads have got to go. Any site that has video should do away with autostart. I can figure out how to press "Play" if I fell like watching a clip.
- November 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM
- diane said...
I rarely go there anymore. Too busy looking, too many ads and TV listings much harder to find and search than before. If you wanted to simply see when and if V8 Supercars were going to be on during the next month its a pain.
I like Robin Miller's mailbag so I do read that, although sometimes its hard to find.
Their forums were a complete mess for about 6 months and are slowly getting better. I don't read the Nascar section as much as I used to because there are a few people who feel it is their role to display their "knowledge" and cut off regular discussion and interplay. I can go elsewhere and do.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- AMS fan said...
I quit going there unless I cannot find what I want to know elsewhere.
After the update, I tried to locate a feedback section. After a long time of searching, I did find it. That only made me more frustrated. By that time I wrote a respectful comment expressing my displeasure. Upon sending the message I got an error that said I had sent my limit for the day. I had not sent any messages. After 2 more attempts I gave up.
I did try 2 other days with the same results.
One thing that is useless now is the TV listing page. I still don't use it. I went to the old one every day.
I did not find anything that was user friendly, the things I used to look for were gone or I couldn't find them.
I don't have any comments to fix the site, except for the same one every upgraded site needs to know.
Some of us cannot afford or do not want to get a new faster updated computer every time a website upgrades.
Just because the site can afford to get fancy, with all the new and best bells and whistles doesn't mean the users can.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- TexasRaceLady said...
I avoid SPEEDtv.com like the plague.
Will not go there under any circumstances.
If I want the TV schedule I use racefantv.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- Newracefan said...
I use to go to Speedtv.com frequently, not so much anymore. Again it's way too busy, doesn't even get me started on the ads. JD I basically agree with everything that you said, it's a mess. Have you ever tried to email a question to Nascar Performance or to obtain the TWIN picture of the week. Unless the show is on at the time and you can use the quick link in the upper right corner it's like a maze. First you need to search for the show and then for where you can email (I've found a link in the small print down near the bottom of the show's page), it should not be that hard to acomplish this task. I've heard Larry Mac (I think) beg for emails, no wonder it's so darn hard to find a way to do it.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
I've subscribed to the folks I'm aware of so I get an email when they have something new up. And I go to the forums through the back door so I don't have to mess with the homepage.
I agree diane trying to find something that should be simple is like a scavenger hunt on that site!
- November 11, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- AMS fan said...
Oh and another thing,somehow I signed up for the SPEEDTV.com newsletter. I don't know how I did, it but I did. It was so confusing I don't even want to try to unsubscribe. I just delete them from my inbox.
That's pretty bad, huh?
- November 11, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- Robyn said...
I hardly ever go, unless I hear something. For me the pages load V E R Y S L O W L Y. Sometimes they don't load at all. (Yes, I do clean out all the stuff you are supposed to clean out on a regular basis - since you have to to lessen the chance of Race View crashing.)
It's a also a pain to find things. I would also like to see the e-mail addresses listed and not linked. Depending on where I am, when I click on a feedback address it may not open in the mail program I want to use. (I'm sure that I could probably fix that, but I shouldn't have to.) But the only way to get the address, is to click on it and wait for it to show up in the to: line.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you! Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for months. That site is an absolute mess and drives me crazy because it loads every video in the world and takes forever!
And the message boards were a mess for a while too but the worst of it was that it was basically taken over by a noisy clique of KyBu fans who drove just about any non-KyBu fans away. Of course they've settled down now that he's come back to earth but a lot of good posters got disgusted and were driven away. Unfortunately, you no longer see too many fans of other drivers post there and it's become very slow. It used to be my first NASCAR stop and now it's an after-thought. How to wreck a good thing!
Love your column! It's a must-read for me.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:35 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
I very, very seldom go to SPEEDtv.com because it operates so slowly. Occasionally I do go to check the TV schedule for Tradin' Paint or some F1 show or to see if Varsha, Hobbs, Michette, or Robin Miller have an article - and sometimes check it if I see there is an article by Spencer or K. Wallace. However, I can seldom put up with it for more than just a few minutes because it operates so slowly.
Sure am sorry the word verification has to be back, but I really do appreciate the characters being more readable than on some sites.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- drpep said...
I went once to see what the weekend schedule was. The site was to busy and full of ads and it took forever to find the schedule. Never been back.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 9:35PM,
Thanks for the good words. Anyone who would like to be a regular can just take a moment and sign-up with Google for a blue nick.
- November 11, 2008 at 10:11 PM
- Sophia said...
I haven't gone to SPEED site since they 'upgraded' with the horrible black and gray background...tough on the eyes.
I do try to go there to find robin millers articles and mailbag and it is NO EASY feat. a bookmark only gives me his OLD mailbag article...
but the place is a mess, you used to be able to log on on the forums but now that takes you to the overly cluttered home page that makes NASCAR seem "almost" streamlined. Whew boy. You have to be a real fan of Robin Miller's to go to the site.
But I don't use Nascar.com much except for the TWIN out takes and when I hear of an article there...
- November 11, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- bryanh said...
When I first went to the site, I was on dial-up, and finally gave up. Better connection now, its still slow, and a mess. I now go to Jayski, TV Guide.com, and now to TDP (thanks), for tv times, qial., prac.,ect.. The only articles I read are from links at Jayski to Speed tv. In order to add, they need to take away a lot of junk, to improve the site.
- November 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- Dot said...
I haven't been to SPEED.com in forever. I just went there before posting for a look. Not impressed. I access articles from them via Jayski.
If I want direct info on a racing series, (I like ALMS), I just add it to my favorites.
- November 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- alex said...
I used to be a member of the speedtv.com message boards, and visited them regularly until last season. Much of the Nascar news was up there right after jayski, usually with good discussion. The Nascar technical forum was a favorite of mine, as I didn't know a whole lot of the engineering aspects of making the cars run, and tweaking them, etc. I found that some of the moderators on the site took themselves a little too seriously, and I said something to get banned from the forums. Right after that was the famous redesign, and the message boards changed colors so they were much tougher on the eyes. Looking at it now, they've changed to message boards again so they are easier to read.
My main criticism of the site is the front page. I just went to check out the Nascar section (probably for the first time ever), so I could write a comment here. As I did, the full screen ad came up that promised to leave in 10 seconds. That right there means I probably won't go back to SPEED's Nascar page. I would argue that once I get to the page, the layout is very disjointed, with columns and rows of links across 4 or 5 different parts of the page.
Normally, the only time I use SPEEDtv.com is to look at the program tv schedule, but I can't even find that most of the time I go to the site. It's easier to use tvguide.com instead. My suggestion to SPEED would be to "dumb it down" and get rid of the clutter.
- November 11, 2008 at 11:59 PM
- Dot said...
I went back to SPEED.com and searched TWIN. I got the messgae board dated May 13th!!!! I'm not sure what I did wrong, but wouldn't you think it would show the latest one? I'm confused and will probably not be going back.
I also want to mention that the site is cluttered. I said the same thing about N.com too. Glad to know it's not just me.
- November 12, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Those 15 sec ads are awful & need to go. Or at least give us a clear X to make it close.
The red arrows don't usually do much - so I just click the links anyway now & ignore the arrows.
My pet peeve is the sign in & boards. I quit doing either when it decided I had to keep signing in, every time I changed pages. I hope they fixed that.
I used to go there daily, now its just to hard to find the TV listings and they can no longer be printed out a week at a time. So why should I bother?
The self starting audios scare the crap out of me. One minute I'm listening to music at a moderate level, the next thing is music, voices or car engines revving. Ummm no not good.
I still go there to read blogs once a week and read up on other racing series. But I know longer hang there like I used to. Its to much hassle to go every day.
- November 12, 2008 at 1:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
;) OK -JD heres my Blue name! Its too hard to keep using my Open ID - google won't remember it!
Thanks for the work on this blog!
- November 12, 2008 at 1:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
The only time I go to the Speed web site is on weekends to confirm the television schedule. A simple thing like a quick link to the various Speed programs is complicated.
- November 12, 2008 at 3:31 AM
- Tom said...
I still visit daily, primarily for news and opinions outside of NASCAR, although I do like their stock car columnists (except for ill-informed, misogynist, jingoistic Jimmie Spencer). The change in the website was and is terrible, although daily use has made it managable. Still very hard to find things sometimes. As Diane pointed out, Miller's Mailbag (required reading for anyone remotely interested in ICS) has been difficult to find since the season ended. The F1 guys write great stuff (especially Hobbe's rememberances). So, although they TRIED to get me to stop going there by mucking up the front page, I still visit daily in spite of that. Content wise, it is hard to find a place to get race news and opinions for ALL forms of racing, and SPEEDTV.com still has that at least.
Inverness, FL
- November 12, 2008 at 6:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am really old school.....I miss Ben Blake - he was my favorite with his take on NASCAR.
- November 12, 2008 at 9:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
Same problem as NASCAR.com: autostart video with full audio.
When will they learn? Don't do this.
And it's a very busy site. Too busy. In fact, so busy that the staff apparently can't keep up with updating it in a timely fashion.
Don't offer a map with info abou tracks where SPEED will be set up if you dont' want to keep it current.
- November 12, 2008 at 9:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Whether I'm on my laptop with wireless card or whether I'm at work connected to the network, when I open Speedtv.com it briefly shows the page and then fades to black and I can't access the page. It then times out and I get a not responding message and have to close the explorer window. Used to love the website and go there pretty regularly for Robin Miller's columns, as well as commentary by the F1 guys. Now I can't even access the site......
- November 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
I was very disappointed when I went there to find out the taping schedule for the live shows at the Texas Speedway. My boyfriend and I have attended the tapings of Raceday in the past, but I really wanted to see a live taping of Trackside on Friday. I thought we should be able to find out before we left for the track on Friday AM.
Unfortunately, they don't post that info anywhere. At the track on Friday early in the day,I asked one of the production guys who was working on the equipment at the stage if he knew the schedule - he said they hadn't given it to them yet. They want fans to attend, but I guess you need to be just lucky enough to walk by when the shows are taping. Since my boyfrend is in a wheelchair, it is difficult to keep walking back over there, so we were frustrated and disappointed.
- November 12, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
Quite honestly I never go to the Speed.com site. I can never find anything. I won't waste my time trying to find information I can easily find at another site. They have lost at least one fan.
- November 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM
- Tracy said...
What texasracelady said.
I'm pretty web-savvy, and the Speed web site is just too busy, too hard to navigate, and too hard to read the print.
Gee, sounds like Nascar.com. Why, oh why, do we fans keep getting the short end?
- November 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thier site locks up my computer. I have a fairly new machine and this is the ONLY site that I have problems with.
Obviously, they don't want me there.
- November 12, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
On occasion I used to go there for scheduling type stuff, but it was always such a pain that I now go elsewhere. Thanks God for TDP's TV schedule as of late. It's a real lifesaver, John. Keep up the great work!
The only other time I try to use it is to enter for the picture of the week from TWIN. And even though I do it every week, it still takes me forever to figure out how to enter. Just plain frustrating. But I figure that improves my chances to win, since I'm sure most people just give up, and cull the population that manages to enter.
- November 12, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
I was very disappointed when I went there to find out the taping schedule for the live shows at the Texas Speedway. My boyfriend and I have attended the tapings of Raceday in the past, but I really wanted to see a live taping of Trackside on Friday. I thought we should be able to find out before we left for the track on Friday AM.
Same problem with Phoenix.
They just don't seem to care about updating the site.
- November 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
Well said, JD.
This is another website that I was once a heavy user and now am a seldom user.
This website was going downhill and the redesign was the final bell.
The few times that I have recently tried to use the site, I get locked PC on pages or if I get to a page, it is out-of-date.
- November 12, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- BruSimm said...
They have a website? Just fooling. I stopped going there because it's hard to find things in an easy, intuitive nature. Huh? Kind of like the NASCAR site. Did they hire the same programmer?
I can't speak to the ads.
I run with a Java / Script blocker so I never encounter them and I live a life of ignorant bliss on most sites that I visit!
- November 12, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- red said...
when speed "re-did" the website the last time, i deleted it from my bookmarked sites. just too cluttered and rarely anything that i can't find somewhere else. it's not as bad as nascar.com -- but then, nothing is!
i visit once a week, on tuesdays only, so i can touch base with jade gurss' blog over there. while i'm there, i'll bounce around a few other folks but i'm generally there less than 30 minutes all told.
i don't go on the boards b/c i have little patience with the "your driver is a jerk" sorts of discussions that most boards descend into on a regular basis. while that is certainly part of the nascar world, it is tiring to have it overwhelm all other discussion points. as i've noted before: a truly excellent board has ACTIVE moderation (thak you very much, jd!) and speed's board fails miserably in that regard.
hate autostart on ads with a passion. actually tracking down information is a challenge, at best. i get the newsletter, scan it briefly and hit delete. there is rarely anything of interest.
and if i want to know what's coming on tv on a daily basis, i stick with TDP! the info is accurate and corrected as needed so i know i can depend upon it. in fact, now that election season is over, i've returned my homepage to TDP (sorry, jd: had to switch over to my candidate's website for campaign volunteer purposes . . .)
anyway, speedtv.com is a "No," and nascar.com is a "Hell, NO!" can't wait for next wednesday!
- November 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- kbaskins said...
The SPEEDtv.com website is a complete mess. It's very difficult to navigate and the videos drive me crazy. I don't even bother trying to access information via their website. I just use the RSS feed. Sure, I don't get some of the blogs, but Robin Miller's and Tom Jensen's weekly Q&A columns are posted on RSS, as well as all the headlines.
Actually, I access NASCAR.com, SPEED.com, Frontstretch, Scene Daily, SI, FOX, The Daly Planet, and about 20 other NASCAR websites (and more than 300 total websites) via RSS.
Do yourself a favour, folks. Avoid resource-hungry websites by downloading a newsreader program (like NetNewsWire or NewsGator) and using it to read racing news stories that way instead. Many browsers will also handle RSS feeds. You simply "subscribe" to a website in the newsreader, and headlines will be delivered to the newsreader whenever the website publishes them. Life is nicer when you don't have to wade through a bunch of ads and auto-start videos to get your news (whatever the source).
- November 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm with Anon 10:14 am 11/12/08
I used to be a regular on the site and the forums.
The relaunch was a mess, my registration was lost. Re-registered still no joy, can;t get in. Gave up.
Now when I click on the site The main page flashes on then fade to black.
Forget it. it's not worth the trouble
- November 12, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm so glad you brought this subject up.
I used to go to the blog section all the time and actually joined, so I could add my thoughts and comments -- then something happened, it took forever to get in and sometimes, I can't get in at all.
I eventually gave up the site!
- November 12, 2008 at 5:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ahem-m-m-m...I am glad that you brought it up. :) I gave up trying to use speedtv.com shortly after they 'upgraded'. My pc also stalls out waiting for something to come up. I use to regularly go there for their weekly schedule page printed out on a single sheet. They dropped it. Now when I just try to go to their schedule, it is a 50/50 chance it will come up. I have learned not to even try to use speedtv.com anymore.
- November 12, 2008 at 7:01 PM


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Two are dead following a five-vehicle crash Monday on Route 90 in the town of Mendon, according to New York state Police. Both lanes are blocked between Victor exit 45 and Henrietta exit 46, and all westbound traffic will be detoured off at Victor exit 45.
Two are dead following a five-vehicle crash Monday on Route 90 in the town of Mendon, according to New York state Police.
On June 30 at about 4:30 p.m., State Police in Canandaigua received a report of a multi-vehicle crash on the New York State Thruway at mile marker 355, between Victor exit 45 and Henrietta exit 46. The crash, in westbound lanes near the West Bloomfield Road overpass, involved five vehicles, including a tractor trailer which was reported to be on fire, police said.
Officers said a car was traveling east when it crossed the median and hit at least one car and a tractor trailer. The impact caused the cars and truck to catch on fire, they said.
State Police, fire departments, emergency medical services and Thruway Authority personnel responded to the scene. The State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Collision Reconstruction Units have also responded.
Details of the crash, names of those involved, and extent of injuries on the survivors were not available at press time Monday night. The westbound lanes of the Thruway from Exit 45 to Exit 46 remained closed as of about 10:30 p.m. Monday. Motorists familiar with the area may wish to seek alternate routes.
"I was basically just driving when I saw the dump truck over there lose control," motorist Mark Mahanger told the Messenger's news partner, News 10NBC. "The second it happened and I immediately slammed on my brakes." Mahanger was able to stop, but says a tractor trailer couldn't.
"While the guardrail was hitting my car, I basically saw an 18 wheeler come flying by in this lane," Mahanger said. He said he called 911 right away. He says the tractor trailer went up in flames.
That was something that Peter Floramo heard while working on a home nearby the Thruway.
"Next thing we know, we heard a loud explosion," Floramo said. "It was something I had never heard before. So we ran through the field and got to the Thruway and that is when we saw a truck completely engulfed in flames."
Mahanger said he prays for the families of those who were killed and is thankful for his quick reaction.
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Friends of a man fatally shot in his Longmont-area home Sunday by a deputy who was checking on his welfare are grappling this week to make sense of the situation.
Christopher George died Sunday afternoon at Denver Health Medical Center, where he was taken after the shooting.
According to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office, George's mother called the sheriff's office for help, reporting that her son had been holed up in his room for several days. When asked, she told them he did not have weapons.
Boulder County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Cmdr. Heidi Prentup said George had reportedly made "vaguely suicidal" statements. Deputies Brandon Bussard and Gary Robinson responded to the home at 8309 N. 95th St. and went to the room to speak with George. The sheriff's office reported Monday that George was sitting on the bed partially covered with blankets when he reached behind his back.
One of the deputies advanced on George to try to control his arm, but George reportedly pulled out a 9 mm handgun and pointed it at the deputies. The sheriff's office reported the deputies saw the gun, heard it being manipulated and "feared for their life."
Bussard fired three times, hitting George twice in the torso.
The scenario has left George's friends baffled.
Stephanie Hensley said he was her best friend
"He was always there to give me advice or just lend an ear to listen," she wrote in an email. "He wanted to start his own counseling website because he cared for people and wanted to give back. I don't understand why this happened. This has completely shocked me."
Machelle Lang of Albuquerque, N.M., said she and George have been friends since 1990 when they were students at Fort Lewis College. She said he occasionally had "bouts" where he would lose his way, but she never worried he would commit suicide. She heard from him on Christmas. He texted to her that he and his family were opening presents and having a great time. She said his dream was to travel and live in South America. On the interim, they were plotting a possible move to New Mexico, where she lives with her family.
"He had such a big heart," she said.
Juanita Ward said she worked with George at IBM for four years and the two became close friends.
"I talked to him on Christmas Day. He gave no indication anything was wrong with his life," she said. "Never, never, never would anyone expect this. He has a lot of friends at IBM and everyone is just shocked."
She said he left the job a few months ago and wanted to become a math teacher.
Ward said George enjoyed hiking, loved animals, and was always helpful and supportive of his friends.
"He was really confident," she said. "He was just a great guy. He was positive all the time."
George shared photos of his hikes on his Facebook page and frequently took photos of animals. In some cases, he would respond to posts in Spanish.
Ashley Lopez-Kulick also worked with him at IBM.
"He was always happy with a smile on his face," she wrote in an email exchange, adding that he was intelligent. "He would never hurt anyone. Let alone an officer. I am just confused why they shot to kill instead of detaining."
She said he was a very caring person and helped people out as much as possible. She recalled he would always serve as a designated driver for friends and offered her a place to stay when she needed one.
It is unlikely that details about what happened in George's room Sunday will be aired publicly until a full investigative report is presented to Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle and Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett in six to eight weeks.
Initial reports do not include any information about what, if anything, George said to the deputies or what they said to him during the encounter. The sheriff's office reported on Monday that further investigation of the gun George had revealed that the weapon was jammed.
Bussard is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which will be used to determine whether the deputy followed the sheriff's office's use-of-force policies and the law. Ward said she doubted the existence of the gun at all when she first heard about it.
"He wasn't a sad person at all," she said. "He was not a person who was troubled by drugs or alcohol at all."
George did not have a criminal record, according to a court records search.
His Facebook page noted he studied at Arizona State University and featured a few photos of him smiling alone or at gatherings with friends. He joined the social networking site in July and shared affirmative memes and offered positive words in his status updates.
"Was hiking Rabbit Mountain today with a couple of friends from work and feeling thankful for their friendship," he posted in August. "What a difference friends make in our lives, eh?"
A neighbor said Monday that George and his brother did a lot of the manual labor at his mother's home, which is just outside the city of Longmont in Boulder County.
"He was always right there to hold everybody up," Ward said.
According to his obituary, he served for four years in the U.S. Navy, earned a communications degree from Arizona State University, and a teaching certificate. He is survived by his mother, Dixie George, father, David George, a sister and two brothers.
A private memorial is scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, at his sister's Lafayette home. His family suggests memorial contributions to Families for Depression Awareness at familyaware.org. Arrangements are being handed by Carroll-Lewellen Funeral & Cremation Services.
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http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/...#axzz2YMMwCgaiLawrence Timmons arrived at the Steelers' training facility earlier this month without the burden of logging a heavy chip on his shoulder.
The seventh-year inside linebacker appeared remarkably calm during mini-camp, in part, because of a solid 2012 season that helped lift the shroud of doubt cast by his critics. He even allowed himself to laugh out loud a seismic change in attitude for the usually stoic Timmons.
No one, though, should expect Timmons to smile much when training camp begins July 26 at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. Besides, the pressures may be considerably greater than last year when he felt compelled to prove himself after an uneven 2011 season.
Timmons had the numbers: 106 solo tackles, three interceptions and six sacks. Far more impressive was his ability to make big plays when it mattered most.
He returned an interception deep into Kansas City's territory to set up Shaun Suisham's game-winning field goal in overtime. He scored after picking off a Brandon Weeden pass in Cleveland.
I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game, Timmons said. I look forward to those opportunities, because I want to live up to those expectations.
When no one else on defense was making plays, Timmons got it done. Dick LeBeau, the team's venerable defensive coordinator, gave Timmons the freedom to take risks against both the run and pass.
(LeBeau) puts me in positions to maximize my opportunities to make plays, said Timmons, who often draws some of the league's best tight ends in pass coverage. I have to assert myself in a certain way. I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.
Timmons played well enough to be considered a Pro Bowl starter, but he was chosen as an alternate. Perhaps surprisingly, he wasn't MVP for a team that relied heavily on the defense to keep it close in most games (Heath Miller won the award).
I felt like I had a helluva year, but other guys had good years and deserved it, Timmons said.
We can get back to the playoffs if we continue to play well defensively, and that's what really matters.
Considering we lost to teams we should have beaten, it's not surprising we didn't make the playoffs, Timmons added.
We have to finish off opponents to get to where we want to be.
While veteran linebacker Larry Foote returns to anchor the middle of the NFL's reigning No. 1 defense, lofty expectations remain for Timmons. The Steelers will need the Florida State product to step up his game even more with the departure of former All-Pro linebacker James Harrison, who bolted for AFC North rival Cincinnati.
It's a testament to Lawrence's character. It's the type of person he is that he's a selfless guy, outside linebacker Jason Worilds said. He always put the team first. He's always the one with his helmet on first and the last to leave the practice field.
He leads by example, and it resonates with a lot of people. He's always running toward the ball. He's always trying to strip the ball. It speaks volume when you see that on film.
Also, it's clear that Timmons is expected to fill a leadership void created by the absence of nose tackle Casey Hampton and Harrison.
It'll change things a lot, because James was a big part of our defense, Timmons said. He brought the part of the game that reminded everyone of the Steel Curtain.
There's no question they are going to be missed. But we'll have to keep that intensity.
We've got all the parts of the defense to make it a great one, Timmons added. I know we're going to be just fine.
However, the linebacker corps was largely unsettled before Harrison explored free agency. Worilds and No. 1 draft pick Jarvis Jones are expected to contend for a starting outside linebacker job opposite the oft-injured LaMarr Woodley.
We have some unknown guys who need to step up and play big roles for us next year, Foote said. We're counting on them.
On paper, the Steelers appear to have depth at linebacker including Chris Carter and Stevenson Sylvester. Yet injuries have slowed their progress the past two seasons.
They all have the potential to be great players, Timmons said.
They play hard, and I know they are going to make plays for us because they are playmakers
This is a team that's only as good as our defense. So there's lot being put on our shoulders to make it easier for our offense. We want to be the No. 1 defense and cause more turnovers.
If the Steelers are to make a run at the playoffs, Timmons acknowledged he'll have to start the season with a greater sense of urgency.
I came out kind of slow last year, he said. I want to come out hot this year, but it's always about how we finish.
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