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It's a crime so senseless and despicable that it challenges the Christian tenet of forgiveness to its core. The robbery and desecration of Westport's St. John the Baptist Church on March 1 is so troubling that, for many, it creates a visceral reaction.
It's a crime so senseless and despicable that it challenges the Christian tenet of forgiveness to its core. The robbery and desecration of Westport's St. John the Baptist Church on March 1 is so troubling that, for many, it creates a visceral reaction.
As if the allegations of desecrating and robbing the church weren't bad enough, Westport Police allege that Martin Cutler, 29 — who police say has an infectious disease, hepatitis C — had urinated in the holy water and around the church's altar, then cursed God and the Catholic Church as he left. He faces nine charges, including using infected bodily fluids to injure another, which carries a penalty of life in prison. Police also charged him with intimidation of a witness.
Jessie Cutler, 27, of Bourne is also in custody. The Cutler brothers face a litany of charges: breaking and entering in the nighttime, malicious damage, larceny, civil rights violations, desecrating a place of worship, conspiracy and committing a hate crime. Police say Cutler's mother and brother also hid items stolen from the church. They suspect those implicated may have been involved in other church robberies around the region as well.
As the Christian faithful victimized by this heinous crime try to make sense of such a senseless act, many have surely found themselves asking: "What would Jesus do?" It's a question that St. John's pastor — perhaps the person most affected by the crime — has certainly asked himself.
The Rev. Leonard Hindsley has clearly wrestled with reconciling his own personal pain and disgust stemming from the crime with the Christian values that he believes and teaches. "It was horrible," Hindsley said of discovering the vandalism. "The tabernacle was gone, things were strewn about."
As he tried to minister to the needs of his grieving flock — unable to serve Mass with the sacred objects that had been used for years — he took comfort in the help of a Swansea parish that had come to their rescue. "This has made us stronger," Hindsley said of the church's reconsecration and its resilience after the crime.
The timing of the incident — a month before Easter, a time of redemption, forgiveness and eternal hope – may be another source of strength and comfort. "I preached that we need to forgive him," Hindlsey said. The priest was clear that he wants the perpetrators to pay a price. "That doesn't mean you don't arrest him and put him in jail," the pastor said. "I hope this impresses upon him what he's done to a lot of people."
While police and prosecutors want the punishment to fit the nature of the crime, some of the charges — particularly hate crime charges — may be difficult to prove. Martin Cutler's attorney claims that the case is weak and "the police report is rife with hearsay." According to Cutler's court-appointed attorney, "There are a lot of names in this (police) report. Not a lot of them are Martin Cutler."
It's still unclear what circumstances may have motivated the crime. But the deeply troubling incident has spurred a call from many observers in the community for "justice to be served." Yet in a situation like this, how can justice truly be served for the many victims? While some may relish the thought of a perpetrator rotting away in a cell or spending an eternity in Hell, such thoughts may be cold comfort people of faith. Even if prosecutors are successful in securing a conviction, it may not truly serve the interests of justice to those involved.
The unique circumstances of this crime call out for a different approach that could provide an opportunity for true healing and forgiveness, rather than exacting vengeance and more pain. Through a "restorative justice" approach applied in certain cases, it might be possible for the criminal justice system to facilitate real healing for the victims and offenders.
A different approach to serving the interests of justice in this case could foster a sense of real accountability on the part of the offenders and a chance for those responsible to truly make amends. In the interest of serving the Christian values of healing and forgiveness, a restorative justice approach could help repair broken lives and heal the tremendous pain these crimes have caused to St. John the Baptist's parishioners and our community.


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Holy crap, it's a good thing I have wrought-iron abs, a steel-trap mind, and eyes like the rainforest at dusk, because otherwise With Leather would be getting too sexy for me to handle. The latest development in the exploding "sexy fan" news angle is FHM's search for the sexiest sports fan.
Now, me personally, I don't think I've ever actually seen a woman wear panties and a sports jersey in person. But scrolling through the photos over at FHM makes it pretty easy to imagine. There's all sorts of good stuff there, from gorgeously be-thonged Bear fan ass to imagery that can fuel your favorite Yankee fan hate-fuck fantasy.
Does it rival Internet heroes Heather Rothstein or Sarah Spain? Well, no, not story-wise. But there are tits. And most of the girls washed their hair and put on makeup for their pictures, so it's worth your time. If you have the time to masturbate, that is.
For all you sexy ladies out there: good news: they're still accepting photos. If anyone needs a photographer, I totally have my own digital camera. I can be anywhere in the greater NYC area by the end of the day. Just don't expect me to wear pants.

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Well it seems we once again have no Knick on the all star team. Not to say they are all especially deserving of it when considered in a vacuum, but if you look at who was selected it seems that maybe one or two knicks could have been there instead of who was picked;
Jamaal Magloire - I think Kurt or Dikembe could have taken this spot, although I see the reason they picked this guy, Magloire's team has a winning record, and Mutumbo aint what he used to be.
Michael Redd - Although Redd is having a stellar season, I think Marbury could have been picked ahead of this guy, Marbury is a legitimate star and has automatically made the knicks a contender in the east. Before the knicks got Marbury the Bucks were clearly considered a better team, and now people would pick the Knicks to beat Milawaukee in a 7 game series, to me that signals Stephon is a step above Michael Redd.
And as a side note, although no Knick forward deserves to be there more then him, I dont like kenyon Martin. He is overated and is only good because of Kidd. I think i would have to search for good power forwards in th east but Im sure they could have found someone better then K-Mart. Ill just name a few.... Mehmet Okur, Shareef Abdur Rahim, Carlos Boozer, Lamar Odom, Tim Thomas, & Glenn Robinson. I would pick any of these players for my team any day over Kenyon Martin. Id even take our own Keith Van Horn over KMart. Chalk Van Horn up on the list of overlooked Knicks.


text: Re: TNG: The Persistence of Memory by David Mack Review Thread (Spoile One thing about this novel that I appreciated was the sense of humour, some of it approaching the level of meta-humour. The example of Galor IV, with its governor wondering whether it was the mere presence of the Enterprise that triggered planetary emergencies, was one example. Spoiler: Huge spoilers here! Huge ones! Just saying. Two meta-jokes that stood out for me involved Soong's failure to determine a consensus among the locals whether the actual name of Alpha Centauri IV is a Velestus, Centaurus or Al Rijil IV, or his purchase of a class-M moon called Yutani IIIa presumably named after the android-making Weyland-Yutani Corporation] of Alien fame, or--for that matter--his discussion of how incredibly difficult it is to amass the funds necessary to buy a world outright (sorry quark). Later, in a different sort of meta-joke Faur warns Picard that taking the Enterprise to hide in the atmosphere of a gas giant could have calamitous results--why, look at what happened to the Da Vinci when it entered the atmosphere of Galvan VI. There are other, non-meta, bits of humour, too. There's Soong's complete surprise when the Borg open fire on his Yutani IIIa in 2381 without communicating a word, and then there's the Breen reaction to the surprise of the Enterprise landing party when they offer them prisoner of war status (basically, that they had to change things a bit when they signed onto the Typhon Pact, but they still retain the right to execute spies). I liked this. There's nothing quite like reading a good book that's also incidentally funny.


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I love all the reminisce products, the making the grade collection is great to school the new school year.
I plan to use this in my next school book album, love the color and print.
Love this paper. Finally getting the kids school pictures organized.
cant wait to start the project using these school pages


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Puppets are featured in the current exhibition at Lyons Limited Antique Prints, along with magicians, musicians, dancers and actors. Called "Playwrights, Pirouettes & Pianissimos," the new show looks at the history of the performing arts through lithographs, watercolors, woodcuts, engravings and other period graphics.
Featured prints include a detailed 16th-century woodcut of the Verona amphitheatre in Italy, by Sebastian Munster; and a Robert Cane watercolor of a 19th-century Drury Lane stage set in London.
The display will be up through Aug. 15. Lyons Limited is at 10 Town & Country Village at 855 El Camino Real in Palo Alto.
For more information, go to lyonsltd.com or call 650-325-9010.
'Tongue of a Bird'
The hunt at the heart of Ellen McLaughlin's play "Tongue of a Bird" is more than just search-and-rescue pilot Maxine's (Kateri Rose) hunt for a kidnapped child. Maxine is also searching for her lost mother, Evie (Kerry Michelle Smith), through memories and nightmares.
It's a dark and verbose story that originally starred Cherry Jones and Sharon Lawrence in an off-Broadway production. The tale comes to Palo Alto next week, presented by Dragon Productions Theatre Company at its downtown theater at 535 Alma St.
Lessa Bouchard directs the production, which has a pay-what-you-can preview on Thursday, May 26, and then opens May 27. The show runs through June 19, with performances at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Opening-night tickets are $30 general, $25 for seniors and $20 for students; on all other days, admission is $25/$18/$16. Go to dragonproductions.net or call 650-493-2006.
A vacation to Buenos Aires could take months to plan and also be quite expensive. But QuinTango, a touring quintet, brings live tango and dance to Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium on May 20.
The touring quintet, composed of two violins and a cello, bass and piano, will be performing tango music accompanied by professional tango dancers from Buenos Aires.
"QuinTango presents a concert of music and dance, full of nostalgia and poignancy ... It takes you right into Buenos Aires," Anne Gazenbeek said in a press release. She's a board member of Friends of Music at Stanford, which is sponsoring the event.
The quintet performs at the annual Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, where it has often been voted an audience favorite, and has also given a concert at the White House.
The Stanford concert will be at 8 p.m. on Friday. General admission is $30 ($50 premium) and $10 for Stanford students. For more information, go to music.stanford.edu or call 650-725-2787.
Quartetto Sugoi
The sounds of Stanford Hospital's music program can be soothing for patients — and also provide a creative outlet for doctors and others. The program has also started up a caregivers' concert series, featuring physicians, therapists and others taking the stage.
On Thursday, May 26, the second free concert in the series is scheduled at the Cantor Arts Center auditorium at 328 Lomita Drive at Stanford University. The Quartetto Sugoi is set to perform music by Mendelssohn and Mozart.
The players in the quartet met a decade ago as music students and came back together this year through their Stanford affiliations, said Greg Kaufman, the hospital's music-program coordinator.
Violinists Charlene Chen and Ian Bledsoe are medical doctors in Stanford's neurology department, while violist Shana Goldin-Perschbacher teaches feminist studies and music. Cellist Edward Wu has two master's degrees from Stanford in engineering and has founded a fund to support the humanities at the university.
For more about the concert, call 650-725-2892, or go to stanfordhospital.org and click on "Services for Guests" and then "Music Program."
Music and dance
'Free the Children' benefit concert
A group of enterprising local students has organized a benefit concert for the international nonprofit organization Free the Children, which seeks to help underprivileged kids through education.
This Saturday, May 21, students from schools including Gunn and Palo Alto high schools; Terman, Jordan and J.L. Stanford middle schools; and the Castilleja and Keys schools will perform at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at 3921 Fabian Way in Palo Alto.
The event goes from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, and will include a variety of bands, dance groups, singers and classical musicians, said Eleanor Su, a seventh-grader at Terman.
"Our goal is to build a school in Sierra Leone," she said. "We have previously fundraised through several bake sales."
The suggested donation for audience members is $10. For more information about the event, call 650-815-1880. Free the Children's website is freethechildren.com.
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It is amazingly quiet here today. As of 4PM there is no wind, and while it has been overcast all day, we have yet to have even a drop of rain.
The NOAA forecast track is, as you might expect, beginning to narrow, (and here is a cool animated tracking map on MSNBC) hand has been moved more to the south with landfall right at Naples. However, the main wind field comes off the eye like a giant egg shape with the widest end going out to the northeast. That is going to bring sustained tropical storm force winds through Tampa. The NOAA forecast models still seem to have some disagreement on the forward speed of the storm. Landfall looks like it will happen around 7AM or 8AM tomorrow, and will probably be a category two storm (although some of the NOAA models say there's a chance it will minimally be a category 3 storm). Most forecasts say we'll start seeing increased winds during the late evening and continuing through noon tomorrow.
I had put everything away earlier this week, and we have water, food and gas for the generator. I'm going out in a few minutes to gas up the car. That will serve as a "reserve" gas tank for the generator. I'll pull the generator out later. It is very heavy and cumbersome, so you would not want to be wrestling with that during a downpour. I have a tarp to cover it, and will use one of those bungee straps to hold it on.
Otherwise, it is a very quiet afternoon. Along with a stop at the gas station, I'm going to make a run to the grocery store. We've had so much warning, I'm hoping it won't be a zoo there. Its not that we need much of anything, but they have Coke products on sell at the Albertson's.
Lay is napping, and I'm watching the San Diego vs. Philadelphia football game.
UPDATED: 10PM — It finally started raining right at 7PM tonight. It has poured rain several time, and been a steady shower in-between. The latest forecast says the increasing intensity will be there, but it will be slower than first expected, so probably a category 2 on landfall tomorrow morning.


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After two years, Oracle and Google are finally ready to go face to face in the courtroom over whether Google infringed on Oracle's Android copyrights. Jury selection for the trial begins today.
Oracle first filed suit against Google in 2010, claiming the Internet company used Android software for mobile devices, infringing on Oracle's Android copyrights and patents. Oracle acquired the copyrights and patents on the technology in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems Inc. Oracle is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
The trial will be separated into three phases: copyright claims, patent claims and damages. U.S. District Judge William Alsup expects that each phase will last two weeks but has allotted eight weeks for the entire trial, allowing time for unexpected delays. The last phase will not be necessary if Google wins the first two.


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The creative species is evolving. Where the lone illustrator, animator or graphic designer once toiled away at a drawing board or Mac screen, putting in the hours until the delivery of a final project, the new breed is venturing into the live arena.
The ideas of live art and performed design are not new, but these days big?brand marketing and ad campaigns are catching on, increasingly showcasing the creative process as well as the final work. Campaigns are no longer just about high-production-value 'a-ha!' moments, but about the 'making of'. And whether showcased live or in behind-the-scenes videos, the creator often features in front of the lens.
YouTube is full of such clips – snappily edited and slickly produced in time-lapse or real-time, and disseminated by content-hungry fans via social media.
Earlier this year, Coca-Cola launched its London 2012 Olympic Games campaign with a YouTube video featuring street artists Neil Edwards and Hadley Ever painting a giant mural, while Nike Tennis' Roland Garros campaign, created by Wieden + Kennedy, included the live, interactive painting of large-scale portraits of tennis stars Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal.
Design lab Monorex has been using the 'live art' vehicle to drive its work and brand for nearly a decade. Recent projects include Coca-Cola's Live Beat campaign, and live painting for Hugo boss by artists Alfa and Stika. "Over the past eight years, we've found ourselves at the front of the bus with regards to live art entertainment advertising, and this is something we are very proud of," says founder Terry Guy. "Only after various collectives, artists and independent brands tried and tested it did the big brands get involved."
Technology has played a huge part in moving the creative process centre stage. The internet has brought great transparency to consumers, reckons Adrian Stannard, partner and creative strategist at agency Guided. Advances in technology allow brands to showcase processes more effectively, via live streaming and social media platforms, so customers can watch, comment and share.
Creative partnership Good Wives and Warriors, aka Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell, have readily responded to the increasing demand for performed creativity, and are nowadays more often than not asked to record their process as part of illustration commissions. "Most campaigns seem to want to have the 'making of' alongside the finished product," they explain. In fact, much of their work gets painted over quite quickly, "as people seem to rate the performance more highly" than the finished piece, they add.
Their recent poster campaign for Tiger Beer included a slick video of its creation, and the duo also contributed to Absolute Vodka's Absolute Blank campaign last year, which showed designers and artists customising large-scale vodka bottle-shaped canvases.
Illustrator Dale Edwin Murray, on the other hand, has only recently ventured into live illustration – his vector-style of work doesn't obviously lend itself to the live medium. But he did some live doodling for Google's Think Quarterly publication, and in March he was one of 11 illustrators involved in Ted's Drawing Room, an interactive, live-streamed illustration project for fashion brand Ted Baker, created by Guided.
The experience was "completely opposite of what I usually do", says Dale. "I was a little bit self-conscious at the beginning, but once I was half-way through the first illustration, I was in my own little world."
He believes the shift towards showcasing the creative process marks a departure from the slick, computer-generated imagery of the 1980s and 1990s. "There was very little of the human hand that you could see in most of those images," explains Dale.
"As time progressed, there's a lot more naive drawn imagery where the artist's hand is very visible. [Showcasing the creative process] is almost an extension of that. It's probably a bit grand to call it a democratisation of art, but there is a sense of trying to bring art to more of a mass market."
Showcasing creative processes also ties into the popularity of 'lifestyle marketing', with brands often focusing on 'real life' trendsetters and creative professionals, believe Becky and Louise. "Using us in the 'performance side' is the same sort of idea," they say. "Brands really want to associate with the creative process."
One example is a recent project by live painter and illustrator Miss Led. She conceived and created a 'making of' video for Lynx. The film featured her creating a large scale poster, and narrating a personal story for the brand's Angels Will Fall campaign. "Lynx was trying to widen its target market, branching out to a more 'edgy and cool' consumer group," she explains. "Each of my proposed ideas involved a performance element as I felt that the street art style would translate well for this project."


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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Candlelight, Feb 12, 2013.
Just the latin names then?
I don't see why not. Just like the other planets.
Voted for Persephone and Cerberus.
I speak French, so I'm already calling them "la Terre" and "la Lune". Adding an "a" at the end doesn't quite have the same ring for me. In fact, it sounds a bit ridiculous.
I voted for Cerberus and Persephone.
That's fine, as long as the definition is consistent. The reason the current definition of planet is so stupid is that it was chosen not for scientific reasons, but for a political one-- to limit the number of planets in the solar system. But what difference does it make how many there are?
I think it discounts most, if not all, planets. Certainly all gas giants.
Went with Lethe and Obol, since for some reason saying "Pluto, Lethe and Obol" out loud just sounded right.
And I speak Italian, which means I call them "la Terra" and "la Luna". I just like the idea of everybody calling them the same.
Mass Effect is one of the few sci-fi settings (or at least one of the few recent ones) I can think of that avoids this trope. Humans are from Earth, obviously, and then there are the asari from Thessia, the turians from Palaven, and the salarians from Sur'Kesh, among others. Alien names are also treated as common nouns and not capitalized, as is the case with the word 'human.' Maybe it's not as unique as I'm thinking, but I found it kind of refreshing.
Ah now that's completely different. I don't want to speak latin, but forcing everyone to speak italian sounds perfect.
Humus Prime. I always go with Humus Prime.
Interesting that in both your languages both nouns are female. In German, Earth is female but the moon is male =)
And while in Italian (and in French, too, I believe) the sun is male, our German one is female
I think there are symbolic reasons why one would associate the moon with the female gender, but maybe it's just my linguistic bias showing.
Yeah, I've thought about it as well, and I think there must be some kind of climate-related reason at work here.
I think this calls for an extra thread as we need a lot of feedback from members from other countries so that we can compare.
Not really. See the article I linked above. "Terra" is just the Latin word for earth, as in "terra firma;" it's not the name of a deity like the other planet names. As I said, Tellus would be the correct name if you wanted Earth to be named per the same Roman-deity convention as the other planets.
I think the best solution is to keep the dwarf planet category, because it's useful, but to eliminate the paradoxical notion that a dwarf planet is not a planet. A dwarf star is still a star, a dwarf galaxy is still a galaxy, and so on, so that just doesn't make sense. And we have other subdivisions of "planet" as a category, such as giant planets and terrestrial planets. We just need to treat "planet" as a class that has numerous subdivisions.
I went with Persephone and Styx.
Cool. I didn't know Tellus preceded Terra for the name of the deity. I thought they were used as synonymous.
The very reason for having a definition of "planet" is political: what to put on science books for primary schools. Scientists don't need a definition or a list: students do.
Well, that's not entirely true. The idea behind the 2006 IAU conference was to finally come up with a real scientific definition for the term "planet," one that would be based on meaningful physical parameters rather than historical convention and that would be useful as a classification for scientists. I don't think they succeeded very well at meeting those goals, because the decision-making process was rushed and ultimately the result of compromise rather than scientific consensus, but it's incorrect to say that they weren't even trying to come up with a scientific definition, because that was the entire purpose of the exercise.
That's what they wanted you to think.
As Spock would say... fascinating.
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Firstly, I guess I should introduce myself as I haven't posted on this forum before. I'm from Brisbane, Australia and a mad cricket fan. I've been programming on and off for over 30 years and have always wanted to write a decent cricket program.
I've been starting/stopping work over the years on what I want to write, but have decided to really give it a decent shot this year. The game is based on a program called "Test Match & Limited Overs Cricket" which was originally (I believe) released for the Sinclair home computer. I had the game in the early 80's but it was a rewrite for use on the Amstrad 464 home computer.
Anyway, in an attempt to keep myself motivated, I've decided to Blog the development process. Hopefully if a few people get interested then it will inspire me not to quit writing this after a few weeks like I've done so many times in the past.
For anyone that is interested, the blog is here: Test Match Cricket | An Amstrad CPC Remake. You can either post comments at the blog, or just post comments/suggestions in here. At this stage, I'm looking to more or less just make this a PC remake of the original version, if/when this is completed then I'll move onto expanding the game into what I'd always hoped this game could be - but more about that down the track.
There's not much on the blog at present, but I hope to add to it every day or two and get some early stuff uploaded shortly for feedback. In the first post I give a basic idea of how to play the original game using an Amstrad Emulator - if you've never played this game, I'd suggest at least having a look at the original as even 30+ years after it was released I still find it a fun game to play. I may post more comprehensive instructions in this thread later tonight or tomorrow on how to get the game going using the emulator in case it wasn't clear enough on my Blog.
Well that's enough for now, hope there is some interest :)


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Portion of Ticket Sales for Annual Charity Event to Benefit Shriners Hospital;
Ticket for Charity Match Also Valid for RSL vs. Wizards Contest that Evening
SANDY, Utah (Thursday, May 27, 2010) – For the third consecutive year, Real Salt Lake and XINSURANCE are proud to host the annual "Guns and Hoses" Charity Soccer Match. This year's contest pitting local police and fire department personnel against each other on the soccer field will take place this Saturday, May 29 at 10:00 a.m. at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Tickets for this special community event are available for $15, a price that also secures a seat at Saturday night's MLS match between Real Salt Lake and the Kansas City Wizards match at 7:00 p.m., also being presented by XINSURANCE. Guns and Hoses tickets for Saturday's "doubleheader" in Sandy can be purchased through the RSL Ticketing Department by contacting Mitchell Diaz at 801-727-2853 or firstname.lastname@example.com or online by visiting www.utahgunsandhoses.com.
"At XINSURANCE we want every Police Officer
and Firefighter to be aware of the risks that they have out there in the line
of duty. We want to make sure they are covered on and off duty. By
participating in this year's Guns and Hoses game, we are going to be able to
raise awareness for our Police Officers and Firefighters everywhere."
As in the last two years, a portion of each ticket sold for the Guns and Hoses match will be donated to a local charity, with Shriners Hospital serving as the beneficiary of this year's game. In last year's contest, the Guns won a hotly-contested match 4-3, but more importantly, more than $1,800 was raised on behalf of the Police and Firefighter Distress Fund.
For this year's third edition of the charity
match, the "Guns" side will combine members of the Utah Highway Patrol, Unified
Police Department, Salt Lake County Sheriffs Department, and the Adult
Probation and Parole Department to take on the "Hoses" side, which will
feature members from the Salt Lake City Fire Department and Unified
Fire Authority. To carry over the spirit of the Guns and Hoses match, fire
and police response vehicles will be housed at Saturday's Carnival Real
pre-game festival on the Stadium's East lawn beginning at 5:00 p.m., when fans
will be able to take photos with the first responder vehicles and personally thank
these heroes of the local community.
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[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][FONT="Bradley Hand ITC"][b][size=4]Basic Information[/size][/b] [/FONT][/COLOR][INDENT][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][b]Name:[/b][/COLOR]Kimimaro Kaguya
[COLOR="royalblue"][B]Nickname:[/B][/COLOR] Mr.Boner
[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Gender:[/COLOR][/B] Male (♂)
[COLOR="royalblue"][b]Age:[/b][/COLOR] Unknown
[COLOR="royalblue"][b]Clan:[/b][/COLOR] Kaguya[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]Kimimaro was characterised by his pale skin, vivid green eyes, masculine facial features, two dots on his forehead which all the members of his clan possessed, and shoulder-length white hair, which he wore divided down the middle on his head (distinguished by an atypical 'zigzag' hair parting) with two separate partings on either side of his face. As a child, Kimimaro's hair is longer, which is tied in a loose pony-tail near the middle of his back, though the initial style was very similar to his later one.
Under the wing of Orochimaru, Kimimaro wore a specialised version of the traditional Oto-nin ensemble, consisting of a light lavender, loose-fitting, long-sleeved, zip-up shirt, black pants cut off around mid-calf, bandages wrapped around his ankles, traditional shinobi sandals, and a purple, rope-like belt tied in an inverted bow around his waist. He also wore two red, tube-like hair ornaments; one on either side of his head, securing two locks of his silvery-white hair. He did not wear a Sound headband, despite his extreme loyalty to Orochimaru. His Cursed Seal of Earth is applied at the base of his throat, where it is a circular pattern of three curved lines.
Apparently, as a user of the Shikotsumyaku abilities, Kimimaro was given a different bodily structure from others, as Kabuto Yakushi claimed that there had been too little information on his body to give any medical treatment for his terminal illness.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]Unlike the rest of his clan, the battle loving Kaguya clan, Kimimaro didn't have a particular interest in fighting or killing. He merely saw it as a means to be of use to others. He was a calm and quiet individual who would dedicate himself to whatever mission was at hand. As a child, he was more gentle despite his natural talent for combat and unique abilities which made him the strongest of his clan, as seen from him not wanting to hurt others he had no involvement with, and his interest in flowers. His gentleness is also reinforced by how empathetic and kind he was to Jūgo.
After meeting Orochimaru, Kimimaro developed a strong devotion towards him, bordering on religious zeal or considering him a father figure (the manga suggesting the former, and the anime suggesting the latter), as Orochimaru was the only person to seemingly care for and inspire him. Kimimaro's relationship with Orochimaru was similar to Haku's relationship with Zabuza, both having similar backgrounds, and both found a purpose in living for their respective master; though unlike Zabuza and Haku, Orochimaru ultimately lost interest in Kimimaro when the latter was fatally ill and lost his purpose. His dedication to Orochimaru was so great, that, despite his body's failing strength, he was able to will himself into battle, and still proved himself as an extremely dangerous opponent for the likes of Naruto Uzumaki, Rock Lee and Gaara. Kimimaro believed that his purpose was to serve and protect Orochimaru, and that the only reason for him to exist was to serve the one who rescued him from a life of despair and loneliness. Gaara compared the eyes of Kimimaro to those of Sasuke Uchiha's, the eyes of those who only sought to prove their own existence, nothing more; even after death and reincarnation, Kimimaro retains his loyalty to Orochimaru. But he is shown to be patient, as seen during his battle with Lee, where he waited for him to take his medicine.
Gaara commented on Kimimaro to be hasty, as he suddenly attacks after he saved Rock Lee from his attack. Aside from that, he demonstrated extreme distaste for "trash" ninja, as he put it. He generally attempted to "clean them up", by killing the people who were the "trash" ninja, even if they were his allies (he plotted to kill Tayuya after she defeated Shikamaru, because she was unable to deliver Sasuke by sunset). Despite his verbal disrespect of his opponents, Kimimaro had been shown to have a sense of honour in battle, as demonstrated when he stopped the battle to allow Rock Lee to take his "medicine". He also had a habit of underestimating more powerful opponents, as he underestimated Gaara multiple times during their battle, though to be fair, Kimimaro himself did not suffer any true repercussions from his mistake.
The most notable trait that separated him from his four colleagues was that he rarely showed emotions, other than surprise, until Gaara insulted his faith in Orochimaru, causing him to become enraged before his death. It was also shown that Kimimaro was crying silently when he discovered he was no longer useful to Orochimaru.[/INDENT]
[FONT="Bradley Hand ITC"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][b][size=4]Village Info.[/size][/b][/COLOR] [/FONT][INDENT][COLOR="royalblue"][b]Village of Birth:[/b][/COLOR] o_o
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][b]Village of Alliance:[/b][/COLOR] Konohagure[/INDENT]
[COLOR="royalblue"][FONT="Bradley Hand ITC"][b][size=4]Rank//Chakra Info.[/size][/b] [/FONT][/COLOR][INDENT][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][b]Ninja Rank:[/b][/COLOR] Sannin
[COLOR="royalblue"][B]Your ninjutsu:[/B][/COLOR] [INDENT][FONT="Century Gothic"][justify][B](Bunshin No Jutsu) - Clone Technique[/B]
Chakra Cost:5
Damage Points:N/A
Description:A clone made of the user that can move but(cannot use any jutsu)This clone is merely an illusionary projection of the user.
Note:The clone jutsu can be made with different elements and is a D-Rank jutsu under its own element(Mizu/Water Tsuchi/Earth Sumi/Ink)
[B](Bikoku Ninjutsu) - Shadow Stealth Technique[/B]
Chakra Cost:5
Damage Points:N/A
Description:This jutsu lets the user follow the target covert by concealing the users presence.
[B](Henge no Jutsu) - Transformation Technique[/B]
Damage Points:N/A
Description: Henge no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique, which every ninja learns at the Ninja Academy. Henge allows the ninja to transform themselves into any person or object. This allows the ninja to move with stealth or to trick their opponents.
[B](Gokan Sakusou) - 5 Senses Confusion Disorder[/B]
Chakra Cost:N/A
Damage Points:N/A
The user throws an explosive kunai at their target and the mist spreads threw the air.This jutsu causes the opponent to be hit by attacks even though they think they dodged it or countered it.This effect lasts for 2 turns.
[B](Kawarimi no Jutsu) - Change of Body Stance Technique[/B]
Chakra Cost:5
Damage Points:N/A
Description: Kawarimi no Jutsu is a basic Ninjutsu technique. When in danger the ninja will quickly substitute themselves with another nearby object. This can be a block of wood or even another person. This allows the ninja to quickly flee and hide while the original object takes the brunt of their opponents attack.
[B](Nawanuke No Jutsu) - Escape Skill[/B]
Chakra Cost:5
Damage Points:N/A
Description:Using chakra the user can escape from being tied down(only works with non-chakra ropes).
[B](Kakuremino No Jutsu) - Magic Cloak Of Invisibility Technique[/B]
Chakra Cost:5
Damage Points:N/A
Description:The user will pull out a cloak that is pre designed for their use.Then by using ninjutsu they make the cloth blend into the background(Konohamaru used this to follow Naruto in episode 2 and got caught because he was holding the cloak wrong).Skilled ninja can see through this jutsu(Rank c and above)[/justify][/FONT][/INDENT]
[FONT="Bradley Hand ITC"][COLOR="royalblue"][b][size=4]Background Info.[/size][/b][/COLOR][/FONT] [INDENT][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][b]History:[/b][/COLOR]When the Sound Four took too long, Kabuto decided to wake Kimimaro to send him to aid them. Kimimaro, after being manipulated, forced his body up and decided to bring his replacement, Sasuke Uchiha back, deciding that was his new purpose, so as to prove his loyalty to Orochimaru. Prior to leaving, Kimimaro went to see Jūgo one more time. Despite Jūgo's protest of Kimimaro's ill body, Kimimaro assured him that Sasuke was his successor, and he thanked Jūgo for their friendship before continuing his mission.
Kimimaro vs. Naruto.
He found and took the barrel Sasuke was in, and threatened to kill Tayuya if she didn't kill some of the Konoha ninja, saying he only let her live because she had a duty to complete. He then left with the barrel, but Naruto Uzumaki caught up with him to take Sasuke back. Kimimaro easily held off Naruto until Sasuke could get away on his own by using his deadly dances. Kimimaro then tried to kill Naruto while he was distracted by an ignoring Sasuke, but Rock Lee saved Naruto seconds before Kimimaro could land a hit on him by kicking him away. Kimimaro saw Lee as a stronger opponent than Naruto.
Lee arrives to fight Kimimaro.
When Kimimaro chased after Naruto when he started to go after Sasuke, Lee caught his bone, allowing Naruto to leave. Kimimaro proved to be more than a match for Lee at first, but after Lee started using the Drunken Fist he gained the upper hand, Kimimaro being unable to react to his unusual movements even after he had figured out what Lee was using. After Lee managed to land an attack on him, Kimimaro admitted he couldn't read his movements. He then activated the first stage of his cursed seal to overpower Lee. He then used his bones to cut Lee's face and knock him down.
When Lee started to sober up, Kimimaro gained the upper hand again and struck Lee down. Believing he had killed Lee, he started to go after Naruto, but Lee stood up again in time. He caught Lee's kick with his bones and almost killed him. Gaara arrived at that moment, saved Lee, and began fighting Kimimaro instead. Kimmimaro then turned off his cursed seal and retracted his bones then acknowledged Gaara as a stronger opponent, his sand being a strong defence. He guessed Gaara wasn't a close combat fighter, recognising the difficulty of bringing Gaara to close range. When Gaara started to attack him, Kimimaro tried to use his Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets while dodging Gaara's attacks. Noting that all of Gaara's techniques involved sand, he pointed out it was foolish for Gaara to fight somewhere where there wasn't sand. Gaara brought Kimimaro's attention above to distract him while he caught hold of Kimimaro by his feet, and proceeded to explain that as long as he had his sand, he could use it to make more.
Kimimaro vs. Gaara.
Kimimaro was then trapped and crushed by Gaara's sand, but survived by creating a layer of bone under his skin. He then activated the first stage of the Cursed Seal of Earth and broke out. Kimimaro admitted that he had underestimated Gaara, but claimed that he would not be caught in his sand again. Gaara then buried him completely and tried to crush him again. Kimimaro survived this assault, and activated the second level of his cursed seal. He tried to land a hit on Gaara, but his Armour of Sand blocked it. He then used another one of his dances to try and kill Gaara, but it couldn't break his ultimate defence.[/INDENT]
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Note: Why didn't you include elemental jutsu ranks + can you give me the version without the "*" in it Iforgot how to do it


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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Mary Ann, Aug 10, 2012.
Beautiful! You look lovely in that shade of pink.
Thanks! I do love the color pink.
Get ready for 1.21 jigabytes of wedding photos.
You're very pretty, Kestra!
Thank you! I always feel prettier in Indian clothes.
Girl, you are stunning!
Day 50!
Only 130 more to go....
You are a bear!
Thank you.
Impressive! Do you like it or is it annoying?
Not annoying at all. I prefer to have it trimmed back a little shorter, but I honestly don't even notice that it's there.
Here are a few pictures from the devastation to my Mother-in-Laws apartment in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn.
My girlfriend when I was in my early 20s is named Noel. She's a redhead, had a dress very much like that one, and considers herself to be Queen of the Fucking Universe, so the crown makes sense. I am now very frightened.
Here I am doing homework:
How the hell do I manage to be both skinny and fat at the same time like that?
DAMN. I hope she had some kind of renter's insurance, or at least some kind of nest egg to help out.
What the hell is a jigabyte?!??
I've heard that some insurance companies aren't paying anything because they're classifying it as a flood, and most people don't have flood insurance as part of their homeowner's insurance.
Oh, you're so pretty!
I want your hair. And your dress.
Well she does have insurance but not flood. She wasn't in a flood zone, so she never had it. However the insurance adjuster is going out on Tuesday to have a look but we're pretty sure nothing will come of it. She has a little bit of savings but looks like she's going to be living with us permanently at this point. We are moving up to Syracuse in March and now she is coming with us. So this has changed our house search significantly. So now it looks like we're gonna build a house to fit our needs.
Oh man, this is heavy.
I think this is my favorite. Your wife is beautiful! How's married life?
Thank you! I actually had my hair chopped off less than a week after that pic was taken. It took entirely too long to wash and dry. You are welcome to borrow the sari if you're ever in the area, though!
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Happy New Year! I am so glad to be back! How were the holidays at your house? Did you make any New Year resolutions? If you resolved to craft more (I did) and try a new crafting technique (or two), then today's Felted Snow Bunny by Debra Quartermain is for you. This adorable Snow Bunny is a sweet alternative to making a wintertime snowman. The Bunny is made by placing wool roving on the shapes of STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam, and then punching into the foam with a felting needle. It's not hard, and I can't imagine a cuter way to learn how to needle felt.
To make a Felted Snow Bunny, you'll need:
- STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam: 4-7/8" x 3-½" egg; 1-½" & 2″ balls; 3" disc; small scrap of 1" sheet
- Wool roving: 2 oz. each of natural and cotton candy pink
- Felt, 6" x 18" in cotton candy pink
- Wood skewer
- Embroidery floss, 2 yds. in ivory
- Crystal glitter
- Hair spray
- Round toothpicks, two
- Brads: two black & one pink
- Pink chalk or blush
- Acrylic craft paint in white
- Thick white craft glue
- Tools needed: Felting needle; embroidery needle; scissors; serrated knife; pencil; ruler
To make the Felted Snow Bunny:
A note about needle felting: Felting needles are extremely sharp and should be handled with care. To felt, place wool roving onto your foam shape and then punch the felting needling into the foam shape. The needle will bind together the wool fibers and the foam shapes. Continue punching the needle into the foam until the roving is completely "attached" to the foam shape.
1. Flatten the wide end of the foam egg and one side of the 2″ ball by pressing against the tabletop.
2. Squeeze a dab of glue onto both ends of a toothpick. Insert toothpick into narrow end of the egg and flat side of the ball. Press firmly together.
3. Loosely cover the head and body with natural roving. To felt the wool, punch the needle through the wool roving and into the foam. Start felting where the head is joined to the body, creating a neck. The needle will bind together the wool fibers and the foam shapes. Continue felting the body and the head.
4. Place small amount of natural roving onto the foam scrap. Using the felting needle, felt fibers together to create a piece of felted fabric. Cut two ears from felted fabric. Gently apply a small amount of blush to insides of ears.
5. Needle felt ears to top of head, and slightly curve the tip of each ear.
6. For the arms, make two small, 2-1/2" long ovals from natural wool. Place on either side of the body where the head and neck join together. Needle felt arms to the body along the edges, and do not needle felt the centers. Make two small balls of pink wool and needle felt around the edges at the end of each arm and do not felt the centers.
7. Cut a 2" x 16" scarf from pink felt. Cut 1" fringe into each end. Randomly felt very small dots on the scarf.
8. Cut a 7-1/2" x 3" strip of felt for the hat. Turn under ¾" along each long edge so the strip measures 7-1/2" x 1-1/2". Using three strands of floss, add French knots to the hat.
9. Cut skewer to 8", paint it white, and let it dry. Cover foam disc with natural wool felt and needle felt both sides and edges. Cut six 2" thin strands of pink wool. Place one at a time on disc, needle felting into snowflake. Take tiny pieces of pink wool to needle felt pink dots around snowflake.
10. Felt a smaller snowflake on the bunny's body, following Step 10.
12. Cover 1-1/2″ ball with natural wool and needle felt in place. Add glue to both ends of a toothpick, and insert the toothpick into the ball and then into the back of the bunny. Position the tail to help the bunny stand.
11. Blush bunny's cheeks. Wrap hat around head and glue at the back or pin. Tie scarf around neck. Press black brads into head for eyes. Press pink brad into place for nose. Insert skewer into disc and insert other end through the mitten and into body. Spray with hair spray and sprinkle with glitter.
I'm going to share another cutie by Debra tomorrow, so you don't want to miss Friday on Crafts 'n Coffee.
Does anyone care to share their New Year resolutions?
Happy crafting!


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PERRYVILLE - The Pottsville Junior High Lady Apaches defeated the Perryville Junior High Lady Mustangs 38-33 in non-conference action to open the season with a victory.
The Lady Apaches took a 17-16 lead into halftime and didn't let up.
Andrea Willingham led Pottsville with 13 points and added eight rebounds. Stacie Murders recorded a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Britney Nealy added nine points, three steals and five assists.
Brooke Simmons added six rebounds, five steals and two assists.
"It was a good first win to start the year," coach Matt Lee said. "I thought defensively we played very well."
The Lady Apaches will be back in action tonight at Ola.
OLA - The Jessieville Lions swept the Ola Mustangs Tuesday in junior high basketball action.
In the ninth-grade game, the Lions defeated the Mustangs 47-12.
Tylor King led Ola with four points. Tyler Carne and Chase Pack were right behind with three and two points respectively.
King added four rebounds.
The Lady Mustangs barely fell with a 32-31 loss to Jessieville.
Whitney Walker led the way with nine points, with Sue Green following with eight, Amanda Minnie seven and Rachel Hunt six.
Walker led in rebounds with 12 and Green added six.
In the seventh-grade matchups, the Lions defeated Ola 39-11.
Tyler Folger led the scoring for the Mustangs with four. William Achley and Dimas Aguirre each added two.
The Lady Lions defeated the Lady Mustangs 25-6.
Aubrey Parish, Megan Morrison and Brooke Adams each chipped in with two points each for the Ola scoring.


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Kasten brings vast experience to Dodgers
By Richard Justice / MLB.com
"You know, I don't just call the winning coach," Obama said. "I try to call the losing coach as well."
The president hadn't been able to get Celtics coach Doc Rivers on the phone, and he mentioned to Kasten, a former NBA executive, how badly he felt about that.
"I have a high regard for Doc," the president said.
Kasten whipped out his phone and dialed a number.
"I love you, Stan," the voice on the other end of the line said in answering.
Kasten smiled.
"Doc, I'd love to talk," Kasten said, "but would you hold for the President of the United States?"
With that, Kasten handed the phone to Obama.
"Admit it," Kasten said a few weeks later, "you've always wanted to tell someone to hold for the President of the United States."
Kasten was proud of that story, because he knew it spoke volumes about his years as an executive in the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball.
Rivers had played for the Hawks at a time when Kasten served as the team's chief executive, and all these years later, they remain close.
"I love my players," Kasten said. "OK, maybe I should say I love some of my players."
This is the man who could end up with a vital management position with the Dodgers if a group that includes Magic Johnson and Kasten is approved by MLB owners in their $2 billion purchase of the club from Frank McCourt.
Few sports executives have a broader range of experience than Kasten, who at one time was in charge of the NBA Hawks, NHL Thrashers and MLB Braves. Later, he served as a top executive with the Nationals.
During Kasten's time with the four teams, he gained the trust of people ranging from players to office staffers to executives with other teams.
John Schuerholz and Bobby Cox have praised him effusively for his role in putting together the front-office structure that was in place when the Braves went to the postseason 14 seasons in a row.
Under Kasten's presidency, the Braves were transformed from losers to winners, from being a franchise that drew 800,000 some seasons to one that drew more than 3 million six times. He was one of the guiding voices in the construction of Turner Field.
With the Nationals, Kasten hired a traditional baseball man, Mike Rizzo, to be his general manager, but also set up a team of data-driven analysts to assist in the decision-making process.
Kasten is smart, tough and occasionally combative. Many of the reporters who've covered him through the years have had the pleasure of an early-morning telephone call detailing the shortcomings in their most recent article.
Yet, virtually all of them have, like Rivers, remained close to him even after their time covering his team passed.
Kasten got his start in sports when he met Ted Turner at a Braves-Cardinals game in 1976.
"I liked him, he liked me," Kasten recalled.
He was hired to serve as a lawyer for Turner's sports counsel and sprinted up the corporate ladder, becoming an assistant GM for the Hawks at 27.
Kasten has some unshakeable core beliefs about running a baseball team. He believes the fan experience should be pleasant, that teams must be accountable to their customers. And he believes teams should be built from the inside through scouting and player development.
If Kasten is approved, he'll surely use the work done by Cox and Schuerholz with the Braves as a blueprint for how to run the Dodgers.
He's also a student of the game's history and will almost certainly both understand and tap into the things that have made the Dodgers special, from the former players who created the team's aura to the ballpark that is one of the signature destinations in Major League Baseball.
In both Atlanta and Washington, Kasten told his employees that there really was no magic formula to succeeding. It was a matter of doing things right and getting better every single day.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity baseball team special season continued this week with a handful of wins to improve to 11-1 on the season.
The Seahawks beat Pocomoke, 28-1, and Mardela, 10-0, last week to stay on a major roll. Decatur hit the road on Tuesday and beat Crisfield, 14-5. Mike O'Neill was strong on the mound, pitching six innings to record the win and also helped his own cause with two hits. Steve Ruggiere tripled and drove in two runs, while Connor Molloy added two hits.
With the wins, Decatur improved its record to 11-1, its only blemish coming on a 4-0 loss to conference rival back on April 11. The Seahawks will have a chance to avenge that loss next Wednesday when they face the Clippers at home, likely with a share of the conference title on the line.


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A suspect was arraigned Thursday in the strangulation death of a Pontiac woman -- which had ignited a national media frenzy on the "Nancy Grace" show from a celebrity associated with the victim.
Bobby Lee Taylor, 42, was charged with one count of first-degree murder of 32-year-old Pontiac resident Rosaline Ransom-Lee, as well as one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
He also was charged in a separate case, the home invasion, assault with intent to commit sexual penetration and larceny for stealing another victim's phone in a separate case on Sept. 15, 2012, on the 300 block of Baldwin.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office discovered Ransom-Lee's body on the morning of May 26 in Terry Lake, east of Baldwin and north of Montcalm. The 32-year-old's 2001 white Dodge Caravan was found around 6:30 a.m. May 27 -- less than a mile away from the lake -- on Burt Street, by a neighbor who called in the tip.
The case gained national exposure after a friend of Ransom-Lee's family -- Star Jones, former co-host of television show "The View" and a frequent contributor at "The Today Show" -- used her celebrity as a platform in a case that she feels could've otherwise fallen by the wayside.
Jones, a former homicide prosecutor and close friend of Rosaline Ransom Lee's sister, Richelle, said she sent 180 emails to friends in the media upon hearing about the murder to help in any way she could.
Taylor, a Pontiac resident, became a person of interest in the case when DNA evidence collected during an autopsy confirmed his involvement in the case. He was questioned by Sheriff's Office detectives and the FBI on June 5 and was at that time arrested and lodged for a parole violation unrelated to the homicide.
"I am extremely proud of our team, including the investigators and our crime lab professionals," Oakland County Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard said in a statement released Thursday. "This was great old-fashioned police work merged with current high-tech capabilities."
Taylor is believed to have acted alone in the abduction, sexual assault and murder.
Both murder charges could, with conviction, carry a mandatory life sentence without parole, while the sexual assault charge carries a potential life sentence.
A pre-exam for Taylor is set for June 27.
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"Things like that happen in the game. There was a battle in the corner and it escalated. You've got to do what you've got to do."
"You are still at or slightly below the hottest waterfront properties in Florida. Among the one or two highest escalation in price all around Florida is Naples and soon after there's Cape Coral and Fort Myers."
"If we could get into the end zone, if we can do it one time, things could escalate. I don't know what the deal is. We are not doing a good job on offense and that's my fault."
"Changes in the projected mix of the models offered, coupled with a lower price-escalation trend reduced revenue estimates for the first 400 units [of the next-generation 737s]."
"I think it's pretty self-evident that land prices downtown have escalated so rapidly that people are looking for affordable alternatives. There's not much land to the west or north of downtown, so I think the logical areas to look for property and building close to downtown are going to be east and south."
"What we find is we get mad at kids. Instead of helping guide them, things sometimes escalate. Kids lose TV, they get grounded. Parents think that will help change behavior. But, kids can't connect the dots."
"Political tensions will probably escalate as the ruling party is trying to fill 500 House seats by dubious means."


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A feature available in the Apps Search experiment is added to Gmail "spell checker for your queries". For example, if you search for [anounced], Gmail will show a message above the results: "did you mean announced". Gmail doesn't have a special query spell checker, so it gets the suggestions from Google Search.
Gmail's search feature is a lot less sophisticated than Google's Web search engine, which replaces some of your words with synonyms or similar terms and sorts the results by relevance. Google could use the importance flags and other signals to find results that are likely to be important, the search engine could index attachments and it could become a module from a more comprehensive search engine that shows results from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Buzz, Google Contacts and much more.
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In the early days, Northstar-at-Tahoe was little more than a sleepy day resort for the park-and-pipe set. That was so 2006. Last winter, a 150,000-square-foot overhaul completed the Village at Northstar, and now comes the biggest upgrade of all: In December, the 170-room Ritz Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe, will open mid-mountain, with a connection to the Village via a new gondola (doubles from $249; ritzcarlton.com/laketahoe). Aside from its 17,000-square-foot on-site spa, the hotel's premium attraction promises to be Manzanita restaurant, which will add dishes like pancetta pizza and duck meatballs to the resort's burgers-and-fries-heavy menu. Just don't expect the skiing to go soft. The same combination of woody steeps and deep Sierra snows that made Northstar a hit with the hard core remains, including those underestimated tree stashes beneath the Martis Camp Express, which dip through and around massive, lichen-covered ponderosa pines. Thankfully, some things never change (northstarattahoe.com).
Mama always said you get what you pay for. Unless, of course, you pay for a full day of skiing but wind up in the lodge by noon soaked with rain. This winter, Mount Bachelor gives skiers and boarders a break on those less than stellar days with the most revolutionary offer of the year: The resort will reduce the price of daily lift tickets to match snow conditions, visibility, and the amount of available terrain, and charge $49, $59, or $69 depending. It's not just the low-snow days that could land you a deal. Too much fluff will also do the trick if avalanche safety crews are forced to delay openings or close certain areas. Translation: Play the weather right and you could nab some of Oregon's finest skiing—think rolling volcanic terrain, above-tree-line bowls, deep maritime powder—for 50 bucks (mtbachelor.com).
Contrary to popular belief, Whistler Blackcomb will stay open—and skiable—when the Olympics hit this February. Only 10 percent of the mountain will close to the public, leaving, oh, 7,500 acres for non-elite athletes. "Most of the major chain hotels are already near capacity," says Breton Murphy of Tourism Whistler. "Look for condos and town houses, or lesser known chalets. Everything in Whistler Village is within walking distance of the lifts." A good thing, given all that's in store: Downtown events will range from ceremonial (performances at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Center) to crazy (concerts every day). And if you've ever wanted to party with the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team, they've named the Savage Beagle their official headquarters for the Games (whistlerblackcomb.com).
Want in on the newest Olympic sport? Ski cross—the exhilarating, high-crash-quotient race event that hurtles four skiers through banked turns and jumps—will make its Whistler debut this year. And Sugar Bowl is hosting the ultimate pregame show. February 1–17, watch gold-medal hopefuls take their final practice runs on the resort's new course before giving it a whirl yourself: After the athletes depart, Sugar Bowl will open its ski cross terrain to the public. Of course, there's also the rest of the mountain, which has everything from groomers to high-alpine steeps. And 461 inches of snow a year (sugarbowl.com).


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Useless flavor items have become an odd duck item in the MMO sphere. While we toil about in our virtual lives, amassing virtual goods in virtual storage, we also collect dumb trinkets and items that do nothing but look cool, make sounds, or annoy our friends. Why is it that we love virtual toys as much as our real life avatars do?
I can deal with most of the fun vanity items out there and even proudly proclaim that the best item in the entire game of World of Warcraft is the Tol Barad Searchlight. However, I cannot stand the train emotes. Train sets sounded like a fantastic idea, complete with a funtastic toy shop in Dalaran. What we got instead, during raiding at least, was a nightmare.
While combing through my emails a few days ago, I was in a particularly grumpy mood with no real pointed hatred or contempt for /train, but when my eyes finally rested on Edymnion's words, I was stirred to action. Trains need to be stopped. In his email, Edymnion recommended two addons that are designed to not only disable the /train emote completely but to find, capture, try, judge, and execute the perpetrators of train-on-ear violence.


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Felons Seeking Bush Pardon Near a Record
By CHARLIE SAVAGE; Sarah Abruzzese contributed reporting.
Published: July 19, 2008
Felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests.
Among the petitioners is Michael Milken, the billionaire former junk bond king turned philanthropist, who is seeking a pardon for his 1990 conviction for securities fraud, the Justice Department said. Mr. Milken sought a pardon eight years ago from President Bill Clinton, and submitted a new petition in June.
In addition, prominent federal inmates are asking Mr. Bush to commute their sentences. Among them are Randy Cunningham, the former Republican congressman from California; Edwin W. Edwards, a former Democratic governor of Louisiana; John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban; and Marion Jones, the former Olympic sprinter.
The requests are adding to a backlog of nearly 2,300 pending petitions, most from ''ordinary people who committed garden-variety crimes,'' said Margaret Colgate Love, a clemency lawyer.
Ms. Love, who was the United States pardon attorney from 1990 to 1997, said the backlog was overwhelming the vetting system, meaning that many petitions might not reach Mr. Bush's desk before he leaves office.
''I have cases that date from the Clinton administration,'' Ms. Love said. ''I have cases that I filed in the last two or three years and have not even gotten any word about the first step of the investigation being authorized. It's unbelievable.''
A Justice Department office with about half a dozen officials reviews petitions and recommends whether requests should be granted, although presidents are free to disregard its views. Under the Constitution, Mr. Bush can issue a commutation, which reduces a sentence, or a pardon, which forgives an offense and erases the criminal record, to anyone.
But even if a felon's petition reaches the Oval Office, legal specialists said that most of those seeking mercy from Mr. Bush should expect to be disappointed.
The Bush administration took office amid heavy criticism of Mr. Clinton's last-minute pardons, most notably to Marc Rich, the fugitive financier whose ex-wife had donated to Mr. Clinton's presidential library.
Against that backdrop, Mr. Bush has made little use of his clemency powers, granting just 44 pardons and two commutations. By comparison, over eight years in office President Ronald Reagan granted clemency 409 times and Mr. Clinton 459 times. More than half of Mr. Clinton's grants came in his final three months.
Fred F. Fielding, the White House counsel, declined to be interviewed about clemency plans.
Erik Ablin, a Justice Department spokesman, said the administration was committed to ''giving each clemency petition received the careful review that is necessary to make an appropriate recommendation.'' Mr. Ablin noted that any cases left unresolved by Mr. Bush would stay open for his successor.
As the administration wrestles with the cascade of petitions, some lawyers and law professors are raising a related question: Will Mr. Bush grant pre-emptive pardons to officials involved in controversial counterterrorism programs?
Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance.
Some legal analysts said Mr. Bush might be reluctant to issue such pardons because they could be construed as an implicit admission of guilt. But several members of the conservative legal community in Washington said in interviews that they hoped Mr. Bush would issue such pardons -- whether or not anyone made a specific request for one. They said people who carried out the president's orders should not be exposed even to the risk of an investigation and expensive legal bills.
''The president should pre-empt any long-term investigations,'' said Victoria Toensing, who was a Justice Department counterterrorism official in the Reagan administration. ''If we don't protect these people who are proceeding in good faith, no one will ever take chances.''
Emily Lawrimore, a White House spokeswoman, would not say whether the administration was considering pre-emptive pardons, nor whether it would rule them out.
''We are going to decline to comment on that question since it is regarding internal matters,'' Ms. Lawrimore wrote in an e-mail message.
The administration would also not disclose any views submitted on petitions. The first time Mr. Milken sought a pardon, for example, prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission opposed it.
New petitions for clemency are on pace to surpass 2,100 this fiscal year, which ends in September. The record is the 1,827 petitions filed in 2001, which included Mr. Clinton's final months.
P. S. Ruckman Jr., a political science professor at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., said records of annual clemency petitions dated only to 1860. However, Mr. Ruckman said, it is virtually certain this year's mark will be the most in history because the population was smaller and there were fewer federal criminal laws in the country's early years.


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Dead Island drops us into an open world nightmare, a tropical paradise overrun with zombies. We're not talking about the lovable, shuffling Romero-style breed of zombies, either; the buggers at the Palms Resort have more in common with the fleet-footed Infected of 28 Days Later.
It's a great concept for an action RPG, but as soon as you start playing a new horror comes to light: bewilderingly clumsy handling. Your survivor's awkward movement suggest that their arms and legs have been heavily anaesthetised. Even basic navigation seems problematic, and if you attempt a melee strike your weapon of choice will flap across the screen in an ungainly swipe.
I'm not sure if this is a deliberate affectation on the part of developer Techland, but it's certainly off-putting. Tilt your gaze downwards and you'll see your legs - a rare feature for an FPS game - and yet your feet skitter across the scenery as if they're barely touching the ground. More worryingly, it seems hard to judge when an enemy is in range of your attacks, with blows occasionally missing when it feels like they should connect, and vice versa. These issues seem particularly severe when fighting on an incline; at one point in my recent demo I found myself battling a trio of zombies on a flight of stairs, and here both sides wound up clawing at the air with no apparent effect.
Weirdly, the throwing mechanics are extremely reliable, to the point where it seems that you will always hit your target, unless someone pops up to bite you first. You can only equip two weapons at a time, so after a couple of lobs you'll have to delve into a menu to select another two projectiles, but even so throwing seems to be the combat tactic of choice, in the early game at least.
It's a shame that the core action seems so wonky, because aside from its central concept - and it really is a good one - there's a lot of potential in what Techland is trying to do. Blades that are thrown into the walking dead remain lodged there, so if you're quick you can retrieve a weapon from wounded enemy and then use it again. Stray too close to an explosion, and you won't just get hurt: the force will knock you off your feet, forcing you to struggle back up as your rotting foes close in on you.
The skill trees for each of the four classes are also promising, suggesting that there's no shortage of depth to the combat system. Certain abilities unlock critical hits or temporary speed increases, while others poison your targets (can you poison a zombie?) or make them bleed over time. Mind you, none of this will do much good if it's hard to hit the zombies in the first place.
The four-player co-op and class system is clearly inspired by Borderlands, which is no bad thing. However, Dead Island also appears to have pinched the latter game's respawn system, to the extent that death is just a minor inconvenience that costs you money. While this certainly gets you back into the action swiftly, it somewhat removes the sense of risk from your adventures.
Despite all these obvious problems I'll admit that I did find myself getting drawn into the action, dashing about a beach, securing a new base for other survivors, then hunting for car parts to fix up a beefy-looking truck - sadly I didn't get this running before the close of the demo. While the voice acting is a mixed bag, the rest of the audio design is very slick. And while the game suffers from pop-up and a number of other graphical issues, the Palms Resort looks an environment that will be fun to explore.
Whether this will be enough to save Dead Island from its apparent clumsiness remains to be seen. Release day is a month away, and it's hard to imagine that the game we'll get then will have any more finesse than the graceless one we've just played.


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I don't really plan on blogging—not, at least, the way serious bloggers do. Partly it's because I'm too slow a writer, too painstaking. It would be a slog, and the other things I love to do are too important to me.
But now and then—sure. Maybe then I'll tell you about my chickens or the weather or the condition of my larder. Or what my tracking club found out by the marsh or what Lilia—my granddaughter, all of four months old, is up to.
Or how to … oh dear, I feel it coming on again. Too many stories, too little time.


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This is just a discussion on characters that you dislike in the manga.
#1 rule. No hating on other members and no cussing or vile/rude statements. If you disregard this rule you will be reported. This is a civilized thread where people discuss their disliked characters in an orderly manner. Nobody is going to listen to you if you insult other members.
If your here to post a one word answer then this thread isn't for you, post reasons and explain why.
Remember these are just fictional characters so there is no need to get touchy feely over it.
Anyway I am going to start this off:
Obito: Wants "peace" by hacking everyone's brain and overtaking the world. All because he got friendzoned.. like, have a bit of dignity. Also he ruins the Uchiha name and I don't even care for Uchiha's to start off with.
Kabuto: hate him. Wants to be like Orochimaru when clearly is just a fodder that took his DNA. Thinks he is a genius at everything and is arrogant but fails to live up to this standard which just makes me facepalm. Also he is just... gross
Hinata: Can't stand her. I like how she inherited Naruto's ninja way and all but every time she is shown in the manga she is always talking about him and how awesome she thinks he is and how she wants to be like him. Obsession much? Didn't like how she jumped out in a stupid attempt to "save" him. It was pretty much her telling him she loves him and committing suicide in the process.. the thought behind it justifies it slightly.
Anyway this is just my opinion feel free to disagree and tell me if and why you like these characters.


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Quote:I' trying to decide if I should do wing chun a ninjitsu. It seems very difficult to find information on ninjitsu so I just found these videos, and I would like to know if they accurately describe the art.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4o6AimRi2Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhhkgMu7adk&mode=related&search=Also, more importantly, what do you think are the advantages/disadvatages of both arts on the street?
Quote: Best defence for the "street" is awareness, common sense and some strong legs to take you away from any danger.
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I'm hoping the mapping is similar to the Source engine's Hammer. If it is I might try some modding. If it isn't I'm still gonna try modding.
I'm hoping the mapping is similar to the Source engine's Hammer. If it is I might try some modding. If it isn't I'm still gonna try modding.
What is the console command for changing the player race? I want to play through as a draugr.
Cant be a draugr, yet. Only custom races I've seen are Daedra and kids.
its showracemenu thou and changing race erases all your skills back to level 1
The new update seems to have "fixed" my being unable to enter certain areas on my larger save files.I still have the feeling they will come back.Has anyone else been able to enter recently inaccessible areas do to CTD since the new patch?
"Fixed issue where killing guards in Cidhna Mine would block progression for "No One Escapes Cidhna Mine"
I seem to have gotten more crashes (once it quietly died behind a loading screen), though i'm guessing that's caused by mod problems with the newest patch.
Framerate is amazing, though; gonna crank up the settings now.
its was laggy all the time
I have never had any lag in Markarth.
I also have killed every single person/guard in that city, as a werewolf.
It would be interesting if people expanded on cidhna mine, and also added more npcs to cities. So after the Markarth conspiracy quest there'd be a giant fight between Markarth citizens and cidhna escapees. Maybe even progress the Forsworn storyline so's there's actually an end to it other than "you'll see us again".
At the start of the game, when the horse thief said he was from Rorikstead, I expected it to be a decent sized village, I was dissapointed to find that there was only like 2 buildings in there.
3 buildings and a ruin.
While Skyrim has a very large world compared to most games, it's still to small to feasibly support properly large towns. I sincerely doubt there's more than 100 actual people living in Skyrim's towns and villages.
It's like the population of Nirn is in the thousands.
I think I've mentioned this before, but Skyrim really does deserve Oblivions "Crowded Cities" and "Crowded Roads" mods.
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So how will using the steam workshop work if you use SKSE? Will you need to run the launcher first to update then launch SKSE?
This should be in the OP
Despite this, I have poured many hours into the game in a desperate attempt to find the "perfect" character for me, only to delete the character when I blaze to level 40, have all of the best gear/nigh-endless money, and still have a shipload of quests to do. Not to mention an inventory that refuses to empty up so I can actually loot things.
Oh, and mods. Kind of sad when a game's saving grace is its non-multiplayer community.
So, if I take my savegame and copy it to the desktop then completely reinstall my skyrim, will that remove my mods without blowing anything important up?
If you downloaded Tytanis, you're fucked either way.


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Even so, the company's senior director of external communications, Pamela Meek, points out that the difference between a No. 3 spot and a No. 2 spot isn't that big.
"When you get to even the top five, the choice gets really difficult," she says.
Medical staffing firm CHG Healthcare Services needn't be quite so humble this year, however. It jumped from the No. 9 slot in the 2012 list to No. 3 this time around.
"Our people immediately organized parades to help spread the cheer in every office," CEO Michael Weinholtz said of the in-house celebrations after the ranking announcement.
Just how did the two companies paw their way up the list? With wellness programs, lots of new training initiatives, and, perhaps most important, lots of open communication.
Cultures of openness
"Starting with our company intranet, our people are encouraged to interact and comment on company news and employee stories that are posted hourly by a dedicated communications team," Weinholtz says. "I've also made a commitment to keep a direct communication line open through my blog, Open Mike, where I encourage employees to post comments and ask questions as often as they'd like."
He also points to CHG's culture website, CHG Pulse, which serves as a community for employees as well as a recruiting tool.
SAS Senior Director of Internal Communications Karen Lee says the company's CEO, Jim Goodnight, shares a similar view of employee interaction. He delivers three quarterly webcasts on the state of the company and welcomes feedback from employees.
"They are given the opportunity to be heard and respect that," Lee says. "Open blogging, social media, and the ability to go out on the external Web to access Facebook, Twitter, or other sites that help our business is a huge plus."
2012 additions
Of course, those cultures have been part of both companies for years. What elevated both in 2012 were their respective commitments to helping employees improve their lives.
For example, SAS opened a new on-campus pharmacy "that provides cost savings to the company and the employee," Meek says.
Lee adds that SAS communicated with employees about the new pharmacy via the intranet and email. Then communicators opened up comments on the internal social network, The Hub.
"Employees were able to put their comments about the new pharmacy at the bottom of the story which then were automatically posted on the corporate intranet and social media platform," she says.
Weinholtz says CHG opened on-site healthcare centers at two of its largest offices and began offering health coaching at every one of its offices. In addition, the company provides insurance discounts to employees who earn points in a company wellness program.
SAS also began offering performance training and support networks for managers and other leaders in the company.
"If you're a leader, you're being pulled in a lot of different directions," Meek says.
The nine-week training program helped leaders figure out how they want to balance work and life and home. Groups worked out together. They heard from nutritionists. They talked about priorities. No one pushed them to live a certain way, though, Meek stresses.
Alumni groups from those courses stayed connected, she says.
"We added a 'Leaders Leading Leaders' program to our other leadership development offerings, designed to help our people continuously improve their talents, skills, and knowledge," Weinholtz says of CHG's training efforts.
Another big step this year for SAS was the addition of R&D Innovation Day, which was focused on having teams around the world collaborate to look at the broader picture.
"The pieces all have to work together," Meek says. "The challenge is you've got small teams working on different pieces of it. How do you make sure that these folks are getting together on a regular basis?"
Lee says The Hub was where all the ideas were collected.
"An article on Innovation Day was featured on our corporate intranet and followed-through by our CTO with an email to encourage innovators across the company to take Innovation Day and be creative," she says.
Major effects
The biggest effect of being near the top of the 100 Best Places to Work For list again this year, Meek says, is that it drives people to maintain the culture that got SAS there.
"It's a virtuous circle," she says.
Weinholtz says CHG couldn't have the culture it does—one in which employees readily share suggestions through an online suggestion box—without a "We're all in this together" mentality.
"Every employee has the responsibility to help build and maintain our culture," he says.
Top 10 comparison, year to year
See how Fortune and the Great Place to Work Institute's top 10 companies to work for changed in the past year:
1. Google
3. CHG Healthcare Services
4. Boston Consulting Group
5. Wegmans Food Markets
6. NetApp
7. Hilcorp Energy*
8. Edward Jones
9. Ultimate Software*
10. Camden Property Trust
1. Google
2. Boston Consulting Group
4. Wegmans Food Markets
5. Edward Jones
7. Camden Property Trust
8. Recreational Equipment (REI)
9. CHG Healthcare Services
10. Quicken Loans
*New to the top 10 for 2013
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