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This week's episode of Gamertag Radio - Michael Pachter Interview:
*Playstation 4 Reaction
*Next Xbox might cost more than PS4
*Both next gen consoles launching the same day in Nov 2013?
*Nintendo Wii U
*Rumor: Next Xbox announcement in April
Interview starts at 34:25.
All this and more on GTR!
Our site is down, but should be back up hopefully soon. You can listen to the full interview here: http://directory.libsyn.com...
So that means it will cost less than PS4
Next Xbox might cost more than PS4
Next Xbox might less more than PS4
FFS where are the real analyst at? Jeez my 12yr nephew could told me this.
Wait... did he say that they're trying to include a TV tuner in the next xbox?
That's kind of borderline in my opinion.
Let's go for the unexpected option. Imagine it retailed for EXACTLY THE SAME price? Then everybody would be wrong.
Michael Pachter = The Kardashians of gaming and the ghandi of superstitions.
why does that surprise you?
the business model of making a loss on the box and profit on software is dead!!!
Just look at that troll face of his in the video. And the Internet buys into it.
A TV Tuner would get a lot more people using media center... i agree though. probably not going to happen. speaking of media center, hopefully they speed it up on the next xbox (if they include it at all). I have my xbox and pc wired with 100 mbps ethernet, and it is so laggy.
If that's true MS has lost. I doubt it is though. MS isn't dumb enough to enter a battle with a more expensive, less powerful, suckier games line up console.
@zeal0us that was hilarious man, and so true.
I'd like to see both launch same day and same price... That'd be a first for the industry and it'd allow people to pick based truly on specs and games, that's real competition right there.
I predict that Michael Pachter will soon make another useless prediction/analysis.
Actually, his predictions are useful. We can predict the opposite of his prediction to be true XD
Not all of his predictions are wrong but yeah hahaha. How nuts would it be if both released on the same day? That would be anarchy x100000 especially if I am trying to grab both systems at the same time hahhah
It's just a games console people will not invest big money in buying one nextgen ?
Well balanced hardware that can keep up with the best is the way forward i think.
indeed and that guy is a silent troll he's fabricating shit to let the ps4 look bad check this out
The x86 CPU, incidentally, is a 64-bit, 8-core Jaguar CPU made by AMD, probably clocked at around 2GHz. Jaguar is the next step up after Bobcat, and is targeted at low-power (and low-cost) laptops. Jaguar is expected to be around 10% faster than Bobcat — and the core count is quite impressive, if developers can make use of them all —
Overall, the PS4′s CPU isn't spectacular. but at the same time its no slouch its a good mid range CPU yo dig
@link "It's just a games console people will not invest big money in buying one nextgen ?"
Then why the hell would anyone spend $350 + tax for a wiiu + 2 or 3 games to play. How do you make that statement as a gamer.
"Well balanced hardware that can keep up with the best" If it's well balanced it isn't anywhere near the best, especially if we are talking about nintendo's hardware preferences.
Best is a $900+ dollar gpu or a $1000 cpu ect, not a low or mid range hardware, but this is the same guy expecting port of need for speed to match a high end pc version.
He maybe right...
We know Microsoft will make Kinect 2, and it self cost a lot. So... there are 2 way Microsoft will sell console.
1)Xbox720(Kinect 2 built in) and console is weaker than PS4 = Same price as PS4
2)Xbox720(Kinect 2 built in) and console is strong or stronger than PS4 = higher price than PS4
If they built just Xbox720, and same strong as PS4, price could be same, but we know that Kinect 2 will be built in Xbox 720 which means cost alot, this means they put higher price in market, or same price and weaker console.
PS4 has a similar camera included. DDR5 is a lot more expensive than DDR3. Kinect 1 was never as expensive as people thought it would be. Next Xbox might be using a cheaper GPU which is a lot less. They may be using two of them but it still would be less than the one in the PS4. No One knows the price until we see the actual parts. But there are plenty of reasons to believe the Xbox will still cost less to manufacture.
Pachter did at least get it right when he said the new consoles wouldn't appear until 2013-14.
@dc gddr5 cost more ddr3 but no one knows to what extent and to compensate for ddr3 low bandwidth Ms had to add 32MB of esrsm and those move engines,this could make the cost for both systems similar. The ps4 camera is just two 720p camera duck taped together.
True enough, but until we see the final parts we don't know. Overall I don't think Microsoft's goal is to save a ton of money. The 720 might be more expensive to produce. Though probably not by much. I think MSs goal is performance. And the differences in their design are based on things they've figured out.
Please. Sit down. MS can have Kinect built in and it can be the same price as PS4. I'm not sure why any of you are adding the price of Kinect as if MS gave you the "discounted" version and just took a loss on it. Its just a camera....
They priced it like that to get sales, period. Its nothing more then a fancy camera (if that).
Its like saying, the same company that made the iphone screen is making a screen for a GPS, "oh man its going to COST A LOT cause iphone cost a lot"
So....are we forgetting this is Apple? Are we forgetting that the SG3's screen is actually HD! Just cause a company sells something at a certain price, doesn't make it really "worth" that price, just to them. Its like saying PS4 will be 440 (cause I'm adding in the price of the eyetoy LMFAO)
8GB of DDR3-1333 has a wholesale cost of about $30 right now.
8GB of GDDR5 is around $140.
Microsoft basically knows that 360's Upper Hand this generation were 2 things....
1. They were out earlier so they had a year headstart to gain a strong ground.
2. It was cheaper than the PS3 so if anyone tried to decide based on pricetag and not Friendslist of Games, they went 360. Especially the arcade model.
I'd find it, even though I don't have much trust or faith in Microsoft as a company, that they'd be STUPID enough to fuck over their Price-advantage that people may have come to recognize for their console brand in a way..... If the tech isn't greater, than the price should most DEFINITELY be lower.
Don't forget #3. That RROD 54.2% failure rate boosted sales of the 360 drastically!
Don't forget #3. That RROD 54.2% failure rate boosted sales of the 360 drastically!
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LOL! That was my first thought when I read the headline. The opposite of what Pachter says comes true.
both ps4 and next xbox will cost around the same price, i can't wait for E3 so all the hate on ps4 and xbox can die down. people are never happy so ms and sony shouldn't worry about the very small number of people who are impossible to please and cater towards us who actually like gaming
gaming journalist has gone down the gutter in last 2-4 years
I might eat breakfast in a little while.... wait I might not eat breakfast in a little while.
Lol, I really wanna give you a bubble for "Helpful" but I'll give you one for "Funny" just because I assume that's what most people will give you also.
Has any of the people that complain about Sony not showing their console thought that perhaps if they DO show their console it will give something away?
LOL you guys actually listened to the interview??!! you should know better by now
If MS makes the next xbox with improved kinect 2.0 they will sell a lot!
But then their Old hardcore fans will get pissed. Im sure MS doesn't care. Kinect was a big success for them and i think it will cost less than PS4.
Here is the problem their hardcore fans ie 1st-2nd yr buyers, will likely not give a rat's ass about kinect 2.0.
They want exclusive triple AAA games, and good arcade games, like the 360's library was the first 3 or 4 yrs. Not like the last 3 or 4 yrs, where 1st party support was marginalized and ms was chasing nintendo's wii crowd.
Don't fuck over your core/hardcore market for casuals, because you need the hardcore crowd to save your ass, by buying it early on and help spread the system's reputation.
Kinect appealed to the casual market @300+ they won't be biting, not for the same concept in better graphics. We already saw that with the wiiu, failing to attract the wii crowd.
The 720 will have to appeal to the hardcore 360 crowd, if they want to be remotely successful.
I don't know why this pachter character still has a job, the entire gameing comunity can't stand him.
Because he drives traffic. Hate him or not, condemn what he say or not, he still got your attention, what other analyst can you say that about?
That's why he has a job.
The thing is, literally ANYONE in his position could do the EXACT same thing. There is nothing special about him other than the fact that for some reason, his voice is louder than anyone else's.
Cause he work for Wedbush Securities as a video game, social media, digital media and electronics analyst. So no matter how annoying he is & continue's to be he will remain employed.
It would be interesting to see Microsoft announce their price and then get trolled by Sony later on with a lower price for the PS4.
But i really dont think thats possible, in my opinion the PS4 will be priced the same or higher than the 720 but not lower.
Higher or lower, I'm not paying more than $400 bucks. I'll wait for a price drop or a good bundle or incentive.
If Patchers say's so it must be true!!!
I don't think this guy has ever nailed it.
Analysts usually hit one out of the park now and again, but this cat is batting 0 for his last hundred.
He is irrelevant.
Both consoles will be similarly priced @ 450.00 US dollars.
I hope it comes with a Credit program
and an Option to Lease.
Very deep analysis, i would say it may cost more or less than ps4...
I think it'll either cost more, less or be exactly the same price.
Shame thousands of job losses everyday and this reject is still employed and throws out his toilet sitting made up predictions every month. He's the one who said only one next gen console will come out in 2013.
Btw I'm writing this in my toilet on my S3.
Of course the next XBOX will cost more than the PS4. The XBOX is a gaming machine while the PS4 is a blu ray player. It's not fair to compare them.
Wow! Aa weaker console thats more expensive not a good business move.
Hows the future? What are the announced specs of the Nextbox? I really want to know.
They haven't announced it yet. So far, everything that's been said about the new Xbox is pure speculation. Even with the developers, they're going by current dev kit technology that MS has put out. They could upgrade their dev kits just like Sony did. We just don't know yet. I would say hold off until possibly April when MS officially announces their console, and hopefully shows off the specs for it.
86x + PAE = more ram than limit, altho it would still be around 4gb per app max while the rest can be used for other stuff like system or so, im guessing having 8 allows for all those extra functions done while playing
If the PS4 is a better quality product, I really don't care if it costs more or less. I'd just get the PS4.
I get the impression from comments I read here that you all seem to think price is dictated by just the specs so next box should be cheaper because its weaker than the ps4.
PAUSE: Now look at the tech of the Kinnect and what tech they push into a controller. This is why the Wii U cost so much even though it will be weaker compared to the other two systems and they are making a loss on each machine sold.
We want more and more and more but then when it comes to coughing up the ££££ and $$$ you all start the grumble.
It's not built out of thin air.
Why is this Wii U news?
They talk about the Wii U in the interview, hence the "Wii U" tag.
Sony: "We've never been first and we've never been the cheapest". Technically this is still true... the Wii U was first and PS4 is sure to cost more than the Wii U. I'm picking one up day one... $600 or not.


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PARK CITY, Utah — The stars have gone home. Or, that's what they tell me.
It's the sixth day of 2011's 11-day Sundance Film Festival, and the preening, posing, promoting magazine faces have returned to the Los Angeles smog to troll for their next scripts. Those of us remaining just want to see some movies.
But then I'm walking up quaint and sloping Main Street, colored lights strung above and a dusting of snow on the roofs, when I spy a man with salt-and-pepper hair being interviewed by a television crew. Onlookers start snapping photos. You know, just in case.
"Who is that?" someone asks.
I shrug.
"Is it someone famous?" someone else asks.
I shrug.
A woman tells me he is Denis Villeneuve, a French Canadian director whose film, "Incendies," was nominated for a foreign language Academy Award that very morning. So that's sort of a star. I guess. But then that's the second half of Sundance; you take your celebrity where you can get it. Or, better still, you don't get it at all.
The nation's most iconic film festival is well-known for its North Face-clad starlets, but after a few days those pretty folk go home and are replaced with a less-forbidding, less-chaotic and less-expensive Sundance. Hotels slash prices. Restaurant waits drop below two hours or disappear altogether. Movie tickets become easier to find.
For the second half of Sundance, Park City returns from LA East to charming mountain town of 7,500. Because those movie folk apparently aren't so good on the snow, it also is among the best times of year to ski here, making Sundance's second half an ideal winter escape.
Sundance's back half is so mellow that I arrived in Park City with no movie tickets but a simple plan: stand in line to buy last-minute seats to as many films as I could. And when I needed a break, I'd ski those empty slopes.
On my first day, a Tuesday, I began by heading to The Egyptian, the lone participating theater in downtown Park City (nine theaters in town participate in the festival). Moviegoers already were in line for "A Few Days of Respite," a story of two gay Iranian men who flee to France.
Like most Sundance movies, "A Few Days of Respite" was sold out, which left me to embark on a festival tradition: the wait list. Almost every showing of every movie has one, and it's among Sundance's highest-stakes games. Here's how it works: At least two hours before showtime (up to three for movies in high demand), line up at the theater. Two hours before the movie begins, festival workers pass out numbers based on your place in line.
You're free to leave, but you must be back 30 minutes before the screening to line up again by number (a minute late and you're out). Then you wait while the remaining tickets are sold for $15 apiece. Either you get one or word slowly trickles back that the show is sold out.
For "A Few Days of Respite," I got No. 16.
"Will that get me in?" I asked a Sundance worker.
"It should," he said. "Over the weekend, we were filling up pretty quick. People were bringing entourages of 30, which squeezed a lot of people out."
I took a place behind seven others in an underground gangway. We waited for 40 minutes before another Sundance worker announced she had 10 tickets that the film's director, who would join us in the screening, didn't need. We all got in — free.
"Best wait list ever!" she said. And unlikely to have happened a few days earlier.
Though I never was lucky enough to see another movie free, the wait list became a way of life. It worked (in the city library doubling as a private school, I saw "Martha Marcy May Marlene," an expert thriller about life inside a cult), it didn't work (No. 36 did me no good for a 9 a.m. showing of New York Times documentary "Page One") and a couple times I got lucky.
For "Being Elmo," a documentary about the man who voices the ubiquitous "Sesame Street" puppet Elmo, I arrived almost two hours early. But the movie was so in demand that I scored No. 62. Knowing such a high number was worthless, I instead did what I have for so many concerts and baseball games: I stood out front and mumbled, "Anyone got an extra ticket?" until someone did (and the spirit of camaraderie prevents scalping here).
After seeing three movies and striking out once, I was ready for snow. There are three resorts in town, and the most in-town of all is Park City Mountain Resort. It's so in-town that one of the lifts is in the heart of Park City.
I was primed to warm up on a simple run, but on the chairlift I met 10-year-old Jared from New York, who insisted I ski with him. He tried talking me into something called Widowmaker. We compromised at the slightly less harrowing Payday, the top of which looks upon miles of jagged, snowcapped Rocky Mountain peaks. Payday mostly mocked me as the clumsy flatlander I am, but so what? There wasn't a soul on the slopes beneath us.
Back up top, I met a retirement-age man named Jim, who, as a concierge of sorts, was directing skiers to appropriate runs. I mentioned how clear the slopes were.
"Who doesn't love Sundance week?" he said. "You ski by yourself! No lines, no waiting! All the Sundancers have all the rooms! They don't ski!"
I had planned to walk back to town by midday to wait for "I Saw the Devil," a bloody Korean revenge tale of a man who chases, catches, tortures and releases his wife's murderer (so he can chase, catch, torture and release him again). But I was having too much fun; I skied an extra two hours and gambled on buying a ticket outside the theater.
Muscles aching and lungs flush with mountain air, I lucked into that ticket just before showtime, bought a bottle of local beer in the lobby and eased into a cramped midrow seat in the back of the packed theater. About 30 minutes in, at the movie's first decapitation, a couple on the aisle several rows ahead grumbled about the gore and left. In true second-half-of-Sundance spirit, I gladly moved up and stretched out.
If you go
When and where
Sundance will be Jan. 19-29.
Park City is about 30 miles east of Salt Lake City, which is served by several major airlines. There are shuttles between the Salt Lake airport and Park City and buses in town — which are free — so a car is not a requirement, but it is helpful.
Park City hotel rates dip significantly and availability increases after the first few days of the festival. Options are wide, from rooms as cheap as $135 or dorm room beds for $45 per night at Chateau Apres (800-357-3556, chateauapres.com) to entire two-bedroom condos for about $400 per night (listings at visitparkcity.org). Also a possibility is a single room in a condo (check craigslist.org) because industry folk vacate space rented for a week.
For more festival information: sundance.org.


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The next time you talk to a police officer, you might find yourself staring into a lens. Companies such as Taser and Vievu are making small, durable cameras designed to be worn on police officer's uniforms. The idea is to capture video from the officer's point of view, for use as evidence against suspects, as well as to help monitor officers' behavior toward the public.
The concept is catching on. The cameras have been adopted by big city police departments, such as Cincinnati and Oakland, Calif., as well as dozens of smaller cities, such as Bainbridge Island, Wash., where the Vievu camera was initially tested by Officer Ben Sias.
"The only thing that really was different about doing business is that I'd tell the person that we're being recorded," Sias says. He sees the camera as a kind of insurance policy.
"In this job, we're frequently accused of things we haven't done, or things were kind of embellished, as far as contact," he says. "And the cameras show a pretty unbiased opinion of what actually did happen."
That makes the cameras particularly appealing in cities where the police have been accused of misconduct.
In Seattle, for example, the police department is being investigated by the Justice Department after a series of amateur videos showed police officers punching or kicking suspects. The problem with some of those videos, says Seattle City Councilman Bruce Harrell, is that they often capture only part of an incident.
"What we have now are videos after the fact — the 'second punch' kind of situation," Harrell says.
That's why Harrell wants Seattle police to start wearing cameras, too. He has asked the mayor to include money in next year's budget for a pilot project, equipping a handful of Seattle police with the cameras. He says he hopes the result will be a more complete view of police encounters with the public, as well as better behavior across the board.
"People behave differently when they are on camera," Harrell says, "so these cameras I believe can restore trust."
Harrell's enthusiasm is not shared by Sgt. Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild. O'Neill doesn't like the fact that many of the departments that have adopted wearable cameras have given their officers little discretion: They're required to record every contact with the public, and can't stop recording until it's over — even if a citizen asks them to.
O'Neill says people should think hard about what it will mean to have police officers show up at the front door with a camera rolling.
"Maybe I'm there for something as small as a noise complaint," O'Neill says. "Maybe I'm at your home for something much more serious, maybe it's a terribly traumatic event, domestic violence victim, child abuse victim, and I'm going to be walking into that home, videotaping."
Before police departments adopt the wearable cameras, they usually have to negotiate the ground rules with the local police union. One especially contentious issue is access: The unions generally want guarantees that superiors won't be able to use the videos to monitor officers' daily routine, or troll through the videos in search of minor infractions.
At the same time, police officers want to make sure they have access to their own tapes. In Oakland recently, a police officer who shot a suspect wanted to view his own video before making a formal statement; his request was denied, even though Oakland rules allow police to see the tapes. Department officials have now called that decision a "mistake," and the Oakland Police Officers Association has secured assurances that officers in similar situations will be able to see their own tapes.
Rocky Lucia, the association's lawyer, says nobody has recollection that's as accurate as a video — not even a cop. "There's going to be inconsistencies," he says. "It's our job, as the union, or the association representing the police officers, to make sure the officer isn't held accountable for inconsistencies that could lead one to believe that the officer is not being truthful."
But some people worry about the opposite problem — that the only ones with easy access to the videos will be the authorities. In Seattle, Eric Rachner won a $60,000 judgment against the city because of its reluctance to turn over police videos. Rachner wanted the videos — shot from squad car dashboard cameras — because he believed they would prove that he'd been the victim of an illegal arrest in 2008.
"They really don't want to give it out unless it is just a clear-cut example of something that supports what the officer said, or tends to show that the arrestee is guilty," Rachner says.
Rachner says it took months before the city even acknowledged the existence of some of the videos he requested. He subsequently demanded and received a log of all Seattle police dash cam videos shot in the past three years, which he posted to the Seattle Police Video Project online. The idea is to make it easier for other people to check whether the police have videos of them. He plans to keep updating the site, and if Seattle police start wearing cameras, those videos should be searchable, too.
"Events that occur in public and are recorded, especially in the course of a public officer doing his public duty — that's fair game," Rachner says.
While police videos are generally considered public records, in practice, they're often difficult to obtain. Most cities refuse to turn over footage that is part of an investigation, and some are now instituting restrictions based on privacy concerns.
For example, Oakland will no longer turn over videos of traffic stops in which the officer's camera captures an image of a driver's license or insurance card. Department officials say they'd like to release the video with the private data blacked out, but they say they don't have the necessary video editing gear.
Despite these restrictions, public interest in the footage is likely to intensify, as wearable cameras capture more and more of what police officers see every day.
Around the country, police are being accused of excessive force in dealing with Occupy Wall Street protests. That's the case in Oakland, California, where a protestor was seriously injured, allegedly by a police tear gas canister.
These types of complaints are nothing new, but now a growing number of police are arming themselves with technology to document their side of the story. NPR's Martin Kaste reports some officers are now wearing mini-video cameras, something that's creating thorny new disputes.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: You've seen police videos, but maybe not quite from this angle. In this footage, recorded in Texas, you see the suspect from the point of view of the officer holding the gun.
KASTE: No one got shot in that scene, just tasered.
This recording is on the website of VIEVU, one of a handful of companies now making wearable cameras for cops. VIEVU's $900 device looks like a clip-on pager. Officer Ben Sias tested it for the Bainbridge Island Police Department in Washington State.
BEN SIAS: It's mounted either in the car or I can wear it on my uniform. And normally when I would go on a traffic stop or make a contact, I would flip it on. And the only thing that really was different as far as doing business would be that I'd tell the person that we were being recorded.
KASTE: Most of the time, Sias says, people don't even seem to register the presence of the camera. They have other things on their minds. Sias sees the cameras as a kind of insurance.
SIAS: In this job we're frequently accused of things that we haven't done or things are kind of embellished. Sometimes people's perception or what they report may not be what happened. And the cameras show a pretty unbiased opinion of what actually did happen.
KASTE: That's the hope, anyway. On the other side of Puget Sound, the Seattle Police Department is looking for ways to handle the fallout from other people's videos. For instance, this one, last year, showing a Seattle cop punching a teenage girl.
KASTE: Seattle City Council member Bruce Harrell says images like this have undermined community confidence in Seattle police.
BRUCE HARRELL: What we have now are videos after the fact, you know, the second punch kind of situation.
KASTE: So Harrell is pushing for Seattle police to wear cameras too. He wants a more complete view of some of these controversial encounters between police and the public, and he's also hoping to get a calming effect from the camera's very presence.
HARRELL: People behave differently when they are on camera. I'm behaving differently, because you have a microphone in front of my face. That's what human beings do - both the public and the officers. So these cameras, I believe, can restore trust.
KASTE: Harrell's enthusiasm is not shared by Sergeant Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild. He doesn't like the fact that many of the departments that have adopted the wearable cameras have given their officers little discretion. They're required to record every contact with the public, and they can't stop recording until it's over, even if a citizen asks them to. Sergeant O'Neill says people should think hard about what it'll mean to have police officers show up at the front door with a camera rolling.
SERGEANT RICH O'NEILL: Now I'm bringing the camera into your home. And maybe I'm there for something as small as a noise complaint. Maybe I'm at your home for something much more serious. Maybe it's a terribly traumatic event, domestic violence victim, a child abuse victim. And I'm going to be walking in that home, videotaping.
KASTE: Of course, in public, there's no escaping cameras anymore.
KASTE: This is YouTube video of the mayhem that broke out recently between Occupy protestors and police in Oakland, California. Some of it was posted with running commentary.
KASTE: It can get pretty forensic.
KASTE: What these YouTube sleuths may not realize is the fact that Oakland police are equipped with wearable cameras, so they may very well have a recording of their perspective on that very same scene. If they do, you won't be seeing it on TV any time soon. Oakland doesn't release police footage that's part of an active investigation. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, says Rocky Lucia.
ROCKY LUCIA: Facts don't come out on a 30-second YouTube video.
KASTE: Lucia is the lawyer for the Police Officers Association in Oakland. Departments generally negotiate with their police unions before they adopt the cameras. And the unions push for rules that limit access. For instance, police don't want supervisors trolling through the videos, looking for infractions.
At the same time, officers also want access to their own tapes. In Oakland, Lucia has made sure that cops get to see their own recordings before writing reports or making official statements.
LUCIA: There's going to be inconsistencies. It's our job, as the union, or the association representing the police officers, to make sure that the officer isn't held accountable for inconsistencies that could lead one to believe that the officer is not being truthful.
KASTE: But some people worry about the opposite problem, that the only ones with easy access to the videos will be the authorities.
ERIC RACHNER: My name is Eric Rachner, and we're standing at the corner where three years ago last week the Seattle Police arrested me illegally.
KASTE: The reason for Rachner's arrest doesn't really matter here. Suffice it to say that it had something to do with a sidewalk game of something called Nerf golf. What's significant here is that Rachner believed he'd be exonerated by police videos, footage from dashboard cameras in this case. But when he tried to get the videos, the city dragged its feet, for months. He says for a while the city wouldn't even acknowledge that some of the videos existed.
RACHNER: They really just don't want to give it out unless it is just a clear-cut example of something that supports what the officer said or tends to show that the arrestee is guilty.
KASTE: Rachner eventually received a $60,000 public disclosure judgment. He also demanded, and got, a log of all Seattle police videos shot in the last three years. And he's now posted that on a searchable website to make it easier for people to find out if police have recordings of them. He plans to keep updating the site. And if Seattle cops start wearing cameras, those videos should be searchable too.
RACHNER: Events that occur in public and are recorded, especially in the course of a public officer doing his public duty, that's fair game.
KASTE: Police videos are generally considered public records. But in practice, departments are giving new reasons not to release them. For instance, Oakland is now withholding some footage on privacy grounds. Still, public interest in those recordings is likely to intensify, as wearable cameras capture more and more of what police officers see every day.
Martin Kaste, NPR News, Seattle. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Enough Top-Secret Characters, Hollywood, We've Been Khan-ed Out
Just tell us who Benicio Del Toro is playing in <i>Guardians of the Galaxy</i> already.
On Monday it was announced that Benicio Del Toro had signed on to star in Guardians of the Galaxy and to also appear in several other Marvel films. It's not a surprising arrangement for the comic book and film company, which has secured many of its characters to play the same role across multiple movies. What is surprising is the fact that his role is not being revealed. Most signs point to Thanos, the Marvel villain who made his film debut in The Avengers' post-credit teaser, appeared in both Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers comic books recently, and whose presence in Guardians was alluded to when Dave Bautista's Drax the Destroyer character was described as "a human resurrected as a green warrior for the sole purpose of killing Thanos." Sure, it's possible that Del Toro won't be playing Thanos. But we likely won't know until the information leaks, at which point Marvel will continue to deny it, and so on. It's unnecessary cloak-and-dagger stuff. Cut the shit, Hollywood.
(Spoiler Alert: A few well-known "big reveals" are alluded to below.)
From our perspective, there are two genuine reasons to withhold casting info: (1) To generate buzz. (2) To not ruin a big story reveal or plot twist. However, there is motivation and there is execution, and sometimes the two don't meet.
1) Somewhere between 2008's Cloverfield and this year's Star Trek Into Darkness, buzz marketing started to feel as hacky, manipulative, and sweaty as regular marketing. By buzz marketing we're referring to the process of supplanting traditional promotion (i.e. TV ads, actor interviews) with Internet-driven publicity, in which fans share news and talk about a movie. Basically every movie, like every junk food, soft drink, and adult diaper, incorporates it into their ad campaign now. And Star Trek Into Darkness's whole "it's not Khan, it's John Harrison" thing was simply the worst we've seen in a while. From before he was even cast, there was a ton of evidence indicating that Benedict Cumberbatch would play classic Trek villain Khan (a role, coincidentally, that Benicio Del Toro was initially offered), but J.J. Abrams & Co. danced around it, knowing that they could rely on movie blogs and message boards to dissect any smidgen of evidence that was accidentally (or not) dropped.
And while such an approach totally succeeded in getting people to endlessly discuss the possibility of Khan, it failed to build genuine excitement or goodwill around the reveal. At some point, needless obstruction and misdirection just feels like lying and people (especially film bloggers and fan boys) don't like being lied to. But you know what would've gotten a lot of people pumped? This headline: "Benedict Cumberbatch Signs on to Play Khan in Star Trek sequel!" We know you like surprises, J.J., but sometimes anticipation is much more powerful than obfuscation.
2) We get it: If you've got a twist, you want it to twist, particularly if the character is pretending to be someone else at first. In the months leading up to the release of The Dark Knight Rises, for example, Marion Cotillard consistently lied to the press about not playing Talia al Ghul so that her big third act reveal would remain unspoiled. Okay, look, we're not killjoy savages. It's not like we're saying that Lucasfilm should have sent out a press release for The Empire Strikes Back that read, "James Earl Jones will return as as the voice of Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker's enemy and father." But this is the Internet Age, and things work differently now. Try as you might, you cannot control the flow of news the way you used to be able to. Information wants to be free, and word — especially on big blockbusters and superhero movies — will get out, either through set photos (like these, which indicated, early on, what Cotillard's role would actually be), script leaks, or movie critics who reveal the reveal because they didn't even realize it was supposed to be a twist.
So, come on, Marvel. Come. On. You know whom he's going to play. He's signed a multi-picture deal to play a character. Who is that character!? Is he Thanos or is he not? If he's not, tell us if he's voicing that cool raccoon guy or that sentient tree-monster or if he'll dye his hair blond to play Adam Warlock (and his evil alter ego Magus). Tell us now! What's the harm?


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The mindset in postmodernism is that objective truth does not exist. But in post-truth, the person believes that objective truth exists, but they subordinate truth to their preferences, or their comfort. In other words, one doesn't care that truth exists or what the truth is if it doesn't line up with one's preferences. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" - George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. Faith in Jesus Christ is our response to God's elective purpose in our life. These two truths--God's initiative and man's response--co-exist throughout the Bible. The gospel is "the message of truth" because truth is its predominant characteristic. Salvation was conceived by the God of truth (Ps. 31:5); purchased by the Son, who is the truth (John 14:6); and is applied by the Spirit of truth (John 16:13). To know it is to know the truth that sets men free (John 8:32). Believers are people of the truth (John 18:37), who worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24), and who obey the Word of truth (John 17:17). People have rejected, neglected, redefined, and opposed God's truth for centuries. Some cynically deny that truth even exists or that it can be known by men (John 18:38). Others foolishly think that denying truth will somehow make it go away. Truth determines the validity of one's belief. Believing a lie doesn't make it true. Conversely, failing to believe the truth doesn't make it a lie. The gospel is true because Jesus is true, not simply because Christians believe in Him. His resurrection proved the truth of His claims and constitutes the objective basis of our faith (Rom. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:3). Truth is our protection and strength (Eph. 6:14). Throughout history, people have tried everything imaginable to gain favor with God. Most turn to religion, but religion apart from Christ is merely a satanic counterfeit of the truth. At the heart of every false religion is the notion that man can come to God by any means he chooses--by meditating, doing good deeds, and so on. But Scripture says, "There is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). That name is Jesus Christ, and we come to Him by confessing and repenting of our sin, trusting in His atoning death on the cross, and affirming His bodily resurrection from the grave (cf. Rom. 10:9-10). There is no other way to God. False religious leaders and teachers talk much about God's love, but not His wrath and holiness; much about how deprived of good things people are, but not about their depravity; much about God's universal fatherhood toward everyone, but not much about his unique fatherhood toward all who believe in His Son; much about what God wants to give to us, but nothing about the necessity of obedience to Him; much about health and happiness, but nothing about holiness and sacrifice. Their message is full of gaps, the greatest of which leaves out a biblical worldview of the saving gospel and replaces it with the worldview of postmodernism with its dominant ethical system of relativism. The Bible describes mankind in the end times: "always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7). Spiritual answers cannot be deduced by human reason alone (1 Cor. 2:14). It's not that spiritual truth is irrational or illogical, but that human wisdom is defective, because it's tainted by man's sinfulness, and unable to perceive the things of God. That is why the Bible is so important. It gives us the answers we can't find on our own. It is God's Word to mankind. Scripture is divinely revealed truth that fills the vacuum of spiritual ignorance in all of us. Post-truth is the word of the year for 2016 and also the philosophy of the day, According to the dictionary, "post-truth" means, "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. In a "post-truth" world, people make choices based on emotion and experience rather than objective fact. So in a post-truth world, truth is irrelevant. What exactly is a post-truth culture? It's a culture where truth is no longer an objective reality. It has become subjective. It's what's true for me—my beliefs, my opinions, determine my truth. So in our post-truth culture, man determines truth. Man makes himself the ultimate authority. This starting point, which rejects God's Word and the idea of moral absolutes, makes truth subjective. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Christianity is grounded in objective truth. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). Objective truth exists because we have God's Word. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, "Sanctify them by Your truth. Thy word is truth" (John 17:17), and Paul and James describe the Bible as "the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15; James 1:18). The Psalmist says, "The entirety of your word is truth" (Psalm 119:160). Jesus Himself said, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice" (John 18:37). When Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by me" (John 14:6), He wasn't expressing His personal belief or opinion. He was speaking the truth, a fundamental reality that doesn't change from person to person. It doesn't matter if our culture thinks all roads lead to God. The truth of the matter is "no one comes to the Father but by [Jesus]." This blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell
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text: Zumba and Kismet 12 February 2013 jennifer Jenny I woke up this morning not really sure what I was going to do for my cardio. I knew I was going to do yoga at 10am, but between 9am-10am, I was wide open. I asked my sounding board AKA, The Trio and gave them the list of options: run on the treadmill elliptical swim Spinning Zumba We talked about the pros and cons of each activity while we were frantically getting breakfast made, lunches packed, getting dressed, you know the normal hustle and bustle of a busy school morning. Finally my oldest said "mama, you haven't talked about Zumba in FOREVER and we did it once together when I was like 6, do you remember that? We had fun when we did it, right?" And I had to stop and think back since that was 3 years ago!! Yes, we did have fun when we did it together, but it was more for their benefit than mine, and I had already worked out earlier in the day so I wasn't obsessing over getting in a good workout; I was just there to have fun with my kids. See, I have had issues with Zumba in the past. I love cardio. I love the feeling of getting my heart beating fast, and keeping it up for a short while, and then bringing it back down, and then back up, and then back down, etc.; basically interval training. In previous Zumba classes they were too low impact for me. I could never get my heart rate up, and I would get frustrated. Nothing worse than feeling you wasted your time in a workout. Seriously, I hate wasting time. I went to the gym torn between spending an hour on the dreadmill treadmill and Zumba. I checked in, and noticed right away the distinct Zumba attire that a woman was wearing a few feet ahead of me. I zoomed up to her and asked very nicely "excuse me, are you the instructor for today's Zumba class?" Because honestly, a lot of people that take Zumba also wear those Zumba clothes, so you can never be sure Her back was to me, so I couldn't see her face when I asked. She turned to face me, and we both just looked at each other like "HEY, I KNOW YOU!!" and she said "yes, I am the instructor, are you taking the class today?" I am STARING at this woman, and it's seriously freaking me out, because I KNOW THAT I KNOW HER. And I can tell that she's thinking the same thing about me. We head up the stairs together and I explain to her my reservations about the class, and she tells me that a lot of it depends on the instructor and that she can show some more advanced options. We talk about music, and I think to myself "okay, I am going to take this class." I don't know why TODAY of all days I decide to take Zumba, but I'm doing it. I'm at the lockers outside the group fitness room and I'm struggling with the lock. I see the instructor just a few feet away and I call her over for help, and then I just HAVE to ask "what is your name, I know that I know you." And she tells me the same thing, she knows she knows me. Then she tells me her name is Caroline and BAM...IT ALL CLICKS. Don't you love it when that happens?? LOL. And here is the connection: her husband and my husband worked together 13 YEARS AGO!! I think the last time I saw her I was pregnant with Haley, so it had to have been 2003. And I was fat Jenny then. She says to me "you didn't look like this the last time I saw you." I love it when that happens I quickly told her that I had lost 212 pounds and then it was time for class to almost start. I ran to the bathroom, put on my HRM, filled up my water bottle and I was READY TO GO!! When I first started group fitness all those years ago, I was always in the back of the room. No longer. Now I like to be as close as I can. This class was packed, and I could tell that there were a lot of Zumba enthusiasts in the room. I got as close to the front as I could and off we went. And guys...I LOVED IT!! The high options were great. Sure, there were lots of times when I felt I could have gone higher b/c my HR dropped to like 74% and I like to keep it about 85% for a cardio workout, but maybe if I actually KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING I could have pushed myself a little bit harder. There were times when I felt like a fish out of water, flopping around on the group fitness floor. So, I am going to try it again next Monday. Same instructor. I'm not ready to step outside that "comfort zone" and try a different instructor. Stick with who I know for now. I dashed out of Zumba and went and did yoga. I left my HRM on so I could see a total calorie burn for both classes. I was not disappointed. Without further ado: PROOF!! What would I like to see for next Monday's class??? Dancing to some PIT BULL!!! He's Latin, that should totally work!! So Caroline, if you are reading this, can you please throw in some Mr. 305, some Mr. International, PLEASE?? It was Kismet that drew me to Zumba today, but it's a great instructor that will keep bringing me back. Adios. Have you ever taken Zumba before? Love it, hate it, leave it? What's your favorite Zumba "song??" Does the instructor really make a difference???


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With the area receiving one of its first significant snowfalls of the season on Sunday, road officials are reminding motorists to use caution when they encounter a snow plow.
With the area receiving one of its first significant snowfalls of the season on Sunday, road officials are reminding motorists to use caution when they encounter a snow plow.
The Michigan Department of Transportation and the County Road Association of Michigan have begun their annual education campaign, "Snowplows need room to groom!" Its intent is to remind motorists to remember good driving habits in winter weather conditions.
"Road crews put their lives on the line every day to keep Michigan roads safe for everyone," said State Transportation Director Kirk T. Steudle in a press release. "Motorists must remember to drive with caution no matter how much salt we use or how often the roads are plowed."
Road crews must have ample room in order to safely clear the roadways of snow and ice, according to MDOT officials.
CRAM Director John Niemela agreed, noting the danger that can result from a lack of focus.
"Motorists must do their best to minimize distractions and focus on driving and changes in road conditions," Niemela said in a release. "Every year, despite the flashing lights on snowplow trucks, poor driver behavior near snowplows leads to collisions that can be deadly."
Cheboygan County Road Commission Managing Director Mike Roper said years of serving on a liability pool board have led him to learn of the many serious accidents that happen between plows and drivers.
"A lot of them occur when plows are backing up at an intersection, and people pull up too close behind them and don't realize that the truck drivers can't see them," Roper noted.
Roper stressed that motorists should be far enough behind a plow truck so they can see the truck's side mirrors.
"Don't pull up too close," Roper said. "When a plow truck backs over a car, it's not funny."
Roper said snow plows are legally allowed to use the crossovers between the lanes of a freeway, so motorists who are traveling behind one should know that plows could make left turn to do so.
Motorists attempting to pass a snow plow on the right could hit the plow's wing, and the clouds of snow that plows kick up can reduce visibility.
"Drivers should be very careful if they are coming past a plow," Roper said.


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A 46-year-old Daisetta man that became knows as the "Tall, Dark and Handsome Bandit" has been sentenced to federal prison for a string of bank robberies, including two in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
John Steven Stark pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery and was sentenced to 169 months (more than 14 years) in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark. Stark was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,390.17.
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SPMG4840-A Problem Solving In Sport/Recre (Spring 2018)
Course Details
Course Description
About The Instructor(s)
Session, Dates: 1 (01/08/2018 - 04/28/2018)
Days: M W F
Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: Business School 106
Seats Available: 4 Seats
Credits: 3
This course is a discussion-based approach to developing skills necessary for analyzing problems related to the management of today's sport or recreation organizations. Students will prepare a series of assigned case analyses and a comprehensive research paper on a topic of their choice. Class readings, discussions, cases, and research assignments will all examine the adaptation of fundamental business principles in the specialized sport setting.
John S. Clark, Ph.D.
University Professor of Sport Management
Sport Management
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This picture was taken on January 19, 2013. I was 32 weeks pregnant with the twins. It was the day that Stephanie and Carrie threw me a baby shower. So many people came and showered me with love and gifts and made me feel so much more prepared for the twins to come. It was such a fantastic day! However, by the end of the day I was feeling awful. I was so incredibly swollen and my body just hurt. That night something was different though, I couldn't tell you how but I was just feeling really awful. I tried to go to church the next day and I couldn't stay. I came home early. I was getting more uncomfortable, swollen, sore, tired, and not to mention grumpy. Monday was a holiday and everyone had plans except for me. Tyson was coming down with a nasty cold so he and I stayed home. My stubbornness got the best of me and even though I felt awful I was so tired of looking at the laundry that needed to be done, that I spent the entire day doing laundry. I way over did it, and by the end of Monday I was feeling even more awful and grumpy.
Sleeping at night was impossible. I couldn't get comfortable, I couldn't relax enough to fall asleep. 3-4 hours a night was about it. Going to sleep on Monday night I really hoped since I was so exhausted I would actually sleep. Well, by 3 or so in the morning and still wide awake, I decided that I would go sleep on the couch. I finally fell asleep somewhere around 4.
January 22 at 5:00am I was woken to my water breaking. It was the scariest moment of my life. I was 32 weeks along, I didn't know what to expect, but I knew babies weren't supposed to be born 8 weeks before their due date. I woke up Trevor and my parents and rushed to the hospital.
The plan was to give me the steroid shot to help develop the babies' lungs and keep me pregnant for at least another week. I wasn't having any signs of labor so they thought that would be best. The plans changed a few hours later when the doctor thought it would be best to wait no more than 48 hours and scheduled my c-section for then. He was afraid of infection.
No more than a few minutes after we had that conversation with the doctor, I started having contractions. For some reason they weren't being picked up on the monitor so I'm not sure the nurse believed me that they were getting really bad. She walked in one time, less than an hour after they started, and I was in so much pain I couldn't breathe. She checked things out, YEP I was in active labor! I was dilated to a 4 and contracting every 3-5 minutes. This is when everything happened so fast. The nurse came in and said I was scheduled for the next c-section and 10 minutes later I had an epidural. An hour later I was being wheeled to the OR to have my babies. I couldn't stop crying. I was so scared for the babies. I didn't know if they would be ok or how everything was going to play out.
I had never had a c-section before, but this was planned. I had an appointment the Friday before all this happened and the doctor and I had a conversation about what could happen when you have a normal birth with twins. The first baby could be totally fine, but then some pretty scary things could happen with the second baby. We talked about it and planned for me to have a c-section. I didn't know at the time how huge that decision was but it saved my little baby B from what could have been a terrible delivery.
January 22, 2013 at 2:54pm Maysen Lynne was born. She weighed in at 4lbs 3ozs and 17 1/2 inches long. I didn't get to see her before they hurried her into the NICU. I prayed like I had never prayed before that they would be alright. The second I heard her cry while being worked on in the NICU, just through the window, I could tell she was a fighter and that she would be ok. I still had one more baby to go. I could feel the doctor struggling to get her out. The comments he was making were making me a little nervous. Before she was even born he made the comment that if we hadn't chosen to have a c-section it would have been an emergency c-section to get her out. He struggled for a bit more, she was VERY high up, doing the splits and breech. He finally pulled her out, butt first. So at 2:56 Maddilyn Ann was born at 4lbs 4ozs and 18 inches long. They held her up for me to see her for just a split second before they handed her through the window to the NICU. I looked in her eyes and I could see she too was going to be a fighter, just like her sister.
I felt so much peace after they were born. I could hear them crying. The nurses were making comments that they didn't even need oxygen and were breathing room air. This was a shock to all and a testament that they were going to be fine.
A few hours later I got to see them for about 10 minutes on my way to the recovery room. I could only touch their hands. They were so incredibly tiny. I looked at them and couldn't believe they were here. It sort of seemed like a dream, but they were healthy and they were going to be ok. We had a long road ahead while they had to stay in the NICU but my prayers were being answered.
Looking back I can see the hands of the Lord in so many events that led up the their birth and after. It just adds to the proof that they have a purpose on this Earth. Part of the purpose is their story. The story of how I got pregnant. They story of being born 8 weeks early. The story of being 4lb preemies. The story of being in the NICU. Who knows what is next, but I feel so blessed to have them here. Healthy, and happy. They are pretty sweet little girls!
I will continue to document their story with more posts.
These pictures were taken a few days after they were born. I will post pictures from the first time I got to see them. These were just ones that I had here right now.
Maysen (she's almost always in purple)
Maddilyn (she's almost always in pink)


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Financials: Mar. Bonds are currently 8 higher at 142'28 and the 10 Yr. Note 1 higher at 131'06.This morning's Weekly Jobless Claims showed a decline of 27,000 vs. expectations of a drop of 8,000. My short term target of 142'30 for recent long positions from the 142'19 area was reached early this morning (the market traded as high as 143'04). If you chose to remain long raise your protective sell stop from the 142'03 level to 142'16. Resistance is currently 144'14.
Grains: Mar. corn is currently 1'4 lower at 694'0, Mar. Beans 11'0 lower at 1412'0, Mar. Wheat 2'4 higher at 738'0 and Dec. Wheat 2'0 higher at 771'0. We remain long out-of-the-money call spreads in Dec. Wheat as a long term trade. I will look to be a buyer in Mar. Corn between 680'0-685'0 if the market allows with a 12'0 cent risk.
Cattle: Apr. LC are currently 85 lower at 128.55 and Mar.FC 65 lower at 140.70 as the market continues its recent slide. Short hedgers should consider buying out of the money calls against short futures positions as a protective measure against price increases. Apr. LC are approaching support in the 127.00 area.
Silver: Mar. Silver is currently $0.09 higher at $30.96 and Apr. Gold is $1.00 higher at 1,646.00. We remain long a small position in Silver. Gold remains in a downtrend as the market is coming close to testing support in the $1,629.00 area (this morning's low was $1,636.50). Resistance is currently $1,672.00.
S&Ps: Mar. S&Ps are currently 5.00 lower at 1512.50. The markets in Europe are lower based on disappointing GDP figures which pose the possibility of slipping into recession. We remain short futures and short out of the money puts (strike price of 1480).
Currencies: As of this writing the Mar. Euro is currently 123 lower at 1.3327, the Swiss 56 lower at 1.0845, the Yen 30 higher at 1.0731 and the Pound 40 lower at 1.5499. The possibility of European recession has the Euro sharply lower this morning against both the Dollar and the Yen. Technically this market will once again generate a sell signal with a close below the 133.70 level and show confirmation of this signal if the market trades below 1.3260. For the moment I am a seller on small rallies in the Euro for short term trading and will keep a small short position if the market closes below 1.3370 with a protective buy stop at 1.3490. Recent volatility dictates greater risk and a reason to trade smaller sized positions.


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I figured it was time to start a pegwarmers thread, since I've started to see a lot of the following since 7/26:Obi-Wan Kenobi (3D)Anakin Skywalker (3D)General Obi-Wan KenobiIG Lancer DroidObi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter (Blue)Evolutions Fett LegacyEvolutions Padme The Quad Cannon Trooper, Sandstorm Luke, and the Wokling are the only three figures I still haven't seen anywhere at this point.Anyone else noticing any trends where they live?
I don't even pay attention, but I usually see everything everywhere. Just looking for the blue eyes to finish out my final two from w3.
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City officials confirmed Wednesday they are not moving forward in contract negotiations with Larkin Aquatics. Larkin Aquatics was the first choice to help design a new city pool to be finished by 2014.
City officials confirmed Wednesday they are not moving forward in contract negotiations with Larkin Aquatics. Larkin Aquatics was the first choice to help design a new city pool to be finished by 2014.
"We've tried our best to get a contract with them, and I'm ready to move on," Director of Operations James Bryce said.
The issue stemmed from the wording of the contract, he said. The company wanted a word deleted from the contract, and it was not something the city was willing to leave out.
The News-Star previously reported that the issue had to do with safety of those using the pool, however Bryce explained that it was more of a legal issue to protect the city.
City Attorney Mary Ann Karns said the typical wording in such contracts would require the architect or engineer to agree to "indemnify, defend and hold the City harmless," if a lawsuit arose over the design or during construction of the pool.
Karns explained that this protects the city from a lawsuit in which they would not be at fault. It does not however, transfer liability to the company if a lawsuit occurred due to the maintenance and operation of the pool, she said.
Karns further explained that the company wanted the word "defend" deleted from the contract. This would open the city up for liability when they may not be at fault, she said.
Karns added that she has never encountered a situation in which an entity wanted the word deleted.
Because the city and the company could not come to an agreement, Bryce said he will be contacting Waters Edge "first thing" Thursday, to hopefully begin contract negotiations with them.
The current pool cannot be used due to a need for renovations. The pool was built before World War II and did not have many renovations up to now. It was closed several times last summer due to sand leaking in and cracks at the bottom of the pool.


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With some of his first-choice team sidelined by injury and other issues, U.S. national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann called up only 20 players Sunday for the final two World Cup qualifiers.
In the past Klinsmann has typically summoned 23 players to training camp. Left off the roster this time were three players who took part in the last U.S. game, a 2-0 win over Mexico in September that earned the Americans an automatic berth in next summer's World Cup in Brazil. Fabian Johnson (ankle) and Clint Dempsey (hamstring) did not dress for their club teams this week, nor did Michael Parkhurst, who hasn't played for Bundesliga's Ausburg for eight months. Also left off the team was midfielder Michael Bradley, who continues to deal with a severely sprained ankle.
Still, 17 of the 20 players selected Sunday were also in the national team camp in August. Of those asked back, eight play in Major League Soccer, including forward Landon Donovan and defender Omar Gonzalez of the two-time defending league champion Galaxy.
The U.S. finishes its 10-game regional qualifying schedule against winless Jamaica on Friday in Kansas City and Panama four days later in Central America.
"We want to finish qualifying on a high note and prove a point in our region," said Klinsmann, whose team is ranked 13th in the world in the latest FIFA rankings. "We don't view these games as the end of World Cup qualifying. For us, it's the start of preparations for the World Cup, and therefore we have to continue to raise the bar. We have had such amazing support from our fans throughout the last two years, and we owe it to them to put our best foot forward."
The roster:
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City) Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Edgar Castillo (Club Tijuana), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (Galaxy)
Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Jermaine Jones (Schalke), Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna), Landon Donovan (Galaxy), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders FC)
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It remains open season on Donovan McNabb, who didn't know last week than an NFL game could end in a tie. The latest comments come from Warren Sapp, speaking on Showtime's "Inside the NFL" along with Phil Simms. The show airs Wednesday night at 9 pm. The transcript was provided by Showtime.
WARREN SAPP: "…when I heard him say it I almost passed out. I thought, 'This will follow you for the rest of your career.' Your legacy in the league, Donovan, will be throwing up in the Super Bowl, Rush Limbaugh and now 'I didn't know they were ties in the NFL.'"
PHIL SIMMS: "It makes me sad; I can't even laugh about it because he is a tough player, a good player. I believe, and a lot of people get mad when I say this, I think he is going to go to the Hall of Fame one day. He is probably going to throw for over 40,000 yards…. But you are right, you know how we are in life now and with TV, it's perception. And these perceptions that have been put out there are going to stay with him until he wins a Super Bowl."
Then the topic turned to whether or not this would be McNabb's last year in Philadelphia.
SAPP: "It's going to be tough. It's going to be tough, unless he gets them into a playoff run."
SIMMS: "Unless he turns it around and they have really good success in the playoffs, for once I actually believe this could be the end."
And so it goes. Maybe it will stop by Sunday, after the pre-game shows have finished chewing on it. Maybe.