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Open Source boardgames, better on a screen or on a table?Sunday, December 30th, 2012
Staying with the theme of the festive season, how can FreeGamer help you prevent that awkward silence when you sit down with your relatives and realize you have nothing really to talk about? Well, open-source board games to the rescue… and you can spice up that quality family time by introducing some FOSS concepts 😉
A rather interesting concept is d0x3d! (a network security game):
It is actually intended to be a sort of teaching aid (ideas how to use it in class here), but it seems interesting enough to play with friends and relatives too.
You can order a full version of the game or download the sources under the sadly more restrictive CC-by-NC-SA here.
A similar concept of combining teaching with playing is the trading card game Phylo. Sadly it is even more restrictive in licensing (CC-BY-NC-ND), thus I am stretching it a bit to mention it here.
Much more open (and mentioned a few times before on FG) is Wtactics:
|Wtactics card examples
Not much updates for it lately, but I am still looking forward to have in playable in their under development web-based client or Wagic.
Another nicely licensed (CC-by-SA) but update-lacking open-source board game is Sovereign:
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It's a RISK like, but hexagon based strategy game. Oh and while we are at it… check out again this great post on Settlers of Catan implementations we had a while back; which leads us again to screen-based implementations of board-games.
One such general system is VASSAL, a FOSS engine to build and play online adaptations of board games and card games. It makes it possible to play live on the Internet or by email and has a quite extensive library of (mostly propitiatory) game modules.
|VASSAL game module example
Another recently developed and graphically quite amazing "on screen" board game system is Desperate Gods. Again, sadly not FOSS (only shared source) but as explained on their GIT account, they are open to license parts of it for mods etc. under more liberal licenses (upon individual request).
Definitely also worth mentioning in this context is TripleA, also a RISK like game that recently had a rather big update and now includes a new map-creator for example.
|TripleA, new WWII worldmap
And last but not least, MegaMek has to be mentioned too, as it is probably the most fully featured BattleTech online implementation.
But if you know of more cool examples of these kind of crossovers between FOSS computer gaming and table-top games, please comment below!


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A Broward County motor deputy lost his life in an accident with a Mercedes Wednesday, the bike looks like everything is damaged, the Mercedes has bad front end damage. Investigation continues, many of our intersections here have surveillance cameras to help regulate traffic, I am sure they are looking at these tapes closely.
Link- http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/bro...,2221390.story

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text: I would like to hear people's opinions on the level of skill difference required to overcome the difference in equipment between two players. For example, let's imagine a perfectly average 3.5 player with a modern racquet against someone playing with a classic would racquet. What level would the other player need to be to win most of the time? My impression is that 4.0 would be enough to win the majority of meetings. And a 4.5 would never lose.


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What WSJ Canada Is Reading Tuesday
By Karen Johnson
Margaret Thatcher's legacy, Ron Johnson's ouster, and the debate over carbon taxes. These are a few of the things we're reading about Tuesday.
Margaret Thatcher profoundly changed Britain's economy. To what extent those changes were for the better is still debated.
The man who brought Joe Fresh in is now out at JC Penney. The struggling retailer parted ways on Monday with CEO Ron Johnson, midway through his overhaul of the chain.
Vermont environment officials are concerned that the proposed reversal of an Enbridge pipeline, which would bring 300,000 barrels of Alberta oil to Quebec refineries, could damage air quality in the New England state.
Before the economic crisis, the $45-billion buyout for energy giant TXU was the biggest private equity buyout on record. It could wind up being one of the biggest busts.
Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz and Nobel Laureate Gary S. Baker, in a WSJ op-ed, say a revenue-neutral carbon tax, if combined with the end of costly energy subsidies, would encourage competition. They cite British Columbia as a model.


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The Battle Pets By Zone page does not list any pets in any zone when only "Wanted" is selected.
http://www.warcraftpets.com/guides/pets ... Y&wanted=Y
should show at least "Baby Ape" for me, but instead is empty.
Yeah, Weena caught this bug right after everything went live and hotfixed it shortly thereafter.Jonrock wrote:I must have caught it during a later behind-the-scenes changeover. Everything's back to normal now.
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Dolce & Gabbana gray sweater from The Giver seen with Brenton Thwaites (Jonas)
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Running Away: Clad in simple monochrome tees and practical jackets, Jonas (Brenton Thawaites) is about to acquire information unknown to all but one in his Utopian society. He is about to inherit the place of The Giver (Jeff Bridges), the caretaker of all memories past. But the process is hardly easy and triggers a fight to show his fellow citizens the true cost of their Utopian society--a fight that the government is determine to quash no matter the cost.
Jonas (Brenton Thawaites) is a fan of easy to wear pieces like soft slub tees and comfortable jackets. But when you're on the run from the most powerful government entity around, a no fuss wardrobe is a key requirement. Another plus? Having the ability to see into the future. Now that's an advantage.
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Most baking resources I have suggest limiting whole grain to 20% of total dough. I have 3 recipes that have worked for me and gotten good feedback from family and friends. Whole wheat whole grain flour mixed with a high gluten flour works well. You may also add semolina if you prefer.
You can do 50% Ultragrain and still get a very nice crust that is almost indistinguishable to a regular crust. Always mix with high gluten flour or even better would be Tipo 00 pizza flour. To keep the Ultragrain at 20% is just not worth it. It's just not enough whole grain to make the crust healthy - if making a healthy crust is your goal. I understand that ConAgra advises a 30%/70% ratio (not 20%), yet this is a starting point to introduce customers who are used to eating Wonderbread type white breads. The flavor and texture difference at 30% is indeed exactly the same as 100% white, yet the difference with 50% is so minuscule that I assure you it won't be a problem and may even inspire you to push it to 60%. Here is a link to my first (failed) Ultragrain trial. Read the 'Update' at the very end for a important note regarding the two types of Ultragrain flour.https://www.facebook.com/notes/casa-robles-kitchen/ultragrain-pizza-trial-1/319040508159471Here is my second Ultragrain trial using a 50/50 blend:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.320944607969061.75590.131547070242150&type=1
Guys: I made legendary Pizza Dough this weekend with 100% Whole Wheat Flour(KA Organic) with NO White Flour whatsoever and it was Yummy, tossed and stretched like a dream. The Key is using a Whole Meal Soaker! Which is essentially a mixture of your whole grain flour and water that you let sit for 12 hrs. All of the bran and germ that make whole meal flour healthy will rip your gluten to shreds. So you need to fully hydrate everything before kneading! Essentially you do an autolyze at 80-90% Hydration, nothing but flour and water and let it go 12 hrs! After that you add your other ingredients, yeast, salt, oil, malt syrup and the last 10% of your flour. Then you do a cool rise overnight and the dough is wonderful! The final dough was at 72.6% Hydration....whole meal flour soaks up water like a sponge!!!


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Breanni wrote:How do other people feel about making the "Manage" link (that's found under the pet collection progress bar) jump directly to the page where you can view your collection (rather than the page to update it?)
I too got thrown by this change, this used to be my go-to link to my collection. That said, I do see the benefit of having a quick link to the update section. Perhaps a compromise could be to turn the "My Pet Collection" title right above that into a link to your collection.


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There's a squall out there, or you're about to drop a 50-footer. Either way, don't take chances; secure your GoPro with the GoPro Camera Tethers that attach your camera backdoor to your gear. Because if you stuck that baby but lost your camera, you'd be swearing instead of sharing.
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Good for a water ski
I use these on my slalom waterski. They work great as a backup if you use 2 or 3 on the same camera!
I would strongly advise everyone to not mount the tether as pictured.
If you mount the adhesive mount as pictured and the camera breaks it will swing into your face when the camera mount breaks.
I'd strongly recommend mounting the adhesive mount so that the mount is on the center of the crown of the helmet far enough back to reduce the excess length in the tether.
Save the camera, but save your face too!
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Serve their purpose well
I never thought I'd need something like this but after nearly losing my GoPro last year while canyoneering I thought I'd make the investment.
They serve their purpose well and I have a little more peace of mind when I feel the camera bang against some canyon wall that I'm squeezing through.
I gave them 4 stars because they're kind of a pain to use.


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After more than an hour of being run ragged at Rio Tinto Stadium on Thursday night, the dazed Houston Dynamo looked up at the clock and realized they were in a very strange place.
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Real Salt Lake struck early in this one, putting Houston down a goal after three minutes, then kept their foot on the gas and dictated the entire pace of the match. With brilliant combination play from Javier Morales, Robbie Findley and Alvaro Saborio—who nearly had a hat trick—the defending champs had struck three times by the 61st-minute mark.
And Houston couldn't cope, couldn't muster much rhythm and looked out and out sloppy. In fact, they looked a lot like a team that played four games in 13 games, and even more like a team that was headed for its most lopsided loss in regular-season play since March of 2008.
"It was a strange feeling I hadn't felt in awhile," midfielder Richard Mulrooney told MLSsoccer.com after the match. "I didn't really know we were three down. But we were."
A team this exhausted and this taxed by heaps and heaps of injuries could be forgiven if it had dropped back and maybe just looked for a concession goal to save some face. But that's not how Dominic Kinnear coaches.
Despite the 3-0 deficit, Kinnear replaced defender Craig Waibel with Brian Ching—who made his first appearance since injuring his hamstring on April 1—and went to a very un-Kinnear-like 3-5-2 formation to apply some pressure. And it worked.
Houston created their best sequence of the game in the 72nd minute, showing that even though they were the latest road team to fall victim to the Rio Tinto hex, they weren't about to hang their heads. With numbers on their side, Brad Davis danced across the top of the box and slotted the ball through the Brian Mullan on the left, who cut back to his right and fired it to the far post past Nick Rimando.
There was little celebrating and, in the end, not enough to prevent the loss. But it made the result look a lot less lopsided.
"They've been through [big deficits] before," coach Dominic Kinnear said of his players. "It happened down in Pachuca [in the 2007 CONCACAF Champions' Cup], and we came back and tied it up there. These guys—I know they won't quit."
Houston have yet to win two games in a row this season and, with their litany of injury problems, Thursday night was only the second time this season Kinnear was able to field the same lineup in two consecutive games.
But the Dynamo are a deep team with experience and, this season especially, have proven their versatility. Now they've got to prove they can put all those things together at once. And that starts with finding a way to prevent letdowns after victories, no matter the opponent.
"We're 4-4-1 and that's pretty much as dead even as you can get," said Mulrooney. "It's always good to get on a streak, whether it's two wins in a row, two wins and a tie, whatever. We haven't had chance to do that yet. I wouldn't say we were at our best tonight. We need to be more focused."


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NEW ORLEANS — The Women's Final Four last year was, to be generous, an imbalanced foursome.
It was the Big One and the Little Three, with uber-dominant Baylor slicing through the pack like an icebreaker en route to the championship and an unprecedented 40-0 record.
Baylor fell far short of the big show this year, though a ghost image of the Bears still had a presence in New Orleans Arena as Brittney Griner came to town to pick up what must be a hollow national player of the year award.
If Louisville's Sweet 16 upset of Baylor brushed some of the glitter off this year's event — UL coaches were seen here Saturday sporting T-shirts with the battle cry "#partycrashers" on the back — the rock that the Cardinals launched from their slingshot was a Griner-sized slab of parity for women's basketball's biggest party.
No offense to Baylor, but it's a welcome change for these proceedings.
There are still familiar names here. Connecticut is in the Final Four for the sixth straight year, breaking a record it shared with LSU and Stanford for most consecutive appearances. UConn plays Notre Dame in a semifinal for the third straight year, like two old and contentious friends (Bobby Knight and Digger Phelps, perhaps) sharing a table in their favorite restaurant.
Louisville has been here once before, in 2009, though its opponent, California, has not. Cal coach Lindsey Gottlieb jokingly referred to their semifinal as the undercard for what has the look and feel of a main event between the Fighting Irish and Huskies, but the Golden Bears and Cardinals have every right to feel they belong here.
And that they can win.
What Louisville did to Baylor in Oklahoma City in the regional semifinals was historic and perhaps a game-changer. Though it deprived the Final Four of the game's biggest star — and arguably the best player ever to suit up in women's college basketball in any era — it was probably for the best.
The women's tournament has long been short on the kind of madness that the men's tournament markets itself on each spring. If name-brand recognition has to take a hit just this once, that's the price of what will hopefully soon pass for more parity in the women's game.
Not to discredit Louisville's ability or to credit coach Jeff Walz for turning water into wine for conjuring up his hack-and-hurl game plan against Baylor — hack Griner and hurl up an unconscionable number of 3-pointers — but if the Cardinals can beat the Bears, anything can happen in this here Final Four.
It would have been natural to count Louisville as spent after that monumental upset, but it came back two nights later to trounce Tennessee 86-78 to reach New Orleans. So two more wins wouldn't be as stunning as what Louisville accomplished two games ago.
It would be natural to count Cal out, too.
Women's Final Four first-timers rarely succeed, though Texas A&M shattered that illusion two years ago. But the Bears bring to the big stage the kind of poise you usually see in baseball teams, not basketball squads.
This is a team that was thrilled to get a round of Easter Sunday smoothies on the way to practice the day before the Spokane Regional final against Georgia. It's a team that comes here jonesing almost as much for a good plate of beignets as a national championship trophy.
But Cal is good enough to claim the first and spread powdered sugar all over the second. The Bears, led by forward Gennifer Brandon and center Talia Caldwell, rebound like no laid-back West Coast squad you could imagine. If Louisville thinks it found the key in being able to tranquilize Griner, it had better be ready to bring a similar kind of intensity against Cal.
If anyone in the post-Baylor world is a favorite around here, it's Notre Dame. The Irish have the best record (35-1) and are 3-for-3 in games against UConn this season.
Notre Dame may virtually brim with confidence, but the crown of great expectations seems to lie uneasily on Irish heads.
While Louisville is brash and Cal is loose and UConn's Geno Auriemma is caustic and occasionally profane (he dropped a surprising four-letter word during his news conference), Notre Dame preaches a business-like approach. But it seems to be a mask for a team that's tight, a team that knows it's tumbling dice against inevitable odds that say it can't keep beating UConn — by slim margins — forever.
"Notre Dame should be playing with the confidence of knowing, 'Hey, we beat them three times,' " Walz said. "But at the same time, I'd be going, 'Dang, I wish we wouldn't have beat them three times.' I mean, it's tough to beat somebody four times in a year."
Especially that somebody.
UConn plays vice-grip defense, but offensively this isn't the best Huskies team ever to come down the Connecticut Turnpike. UConn's scoring can tank at critical times, and such a breakdown could be the ultimate letdown against Notre Dame.
Personally, I'm predicting a Cal-UConn final Tuesday night, but I'm probably wrong. This year's Women's Final Four is that hard to predict.
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Samardzija relieves at charity event
Cubs righty fills in for Dempster thanks to Ike's rescheduling
Jeff Samardzija added a new dimension to his role as a reliever earlier this week when he stepped in for teammate Ryan Dempster to perform in a comedy act at a charity event in Northbrook, Ill.
The event was put on Monday night by Lou Malnati's restaurant chain and benefited the fight against cancer. When Dempster, who dabbles in comedy, had a start rescheduled to Tuesday due to Hurricane Ike, Samardzija took his place and joined in with the improv cast of Second City.
"I heard he was awesome," Dempster told the Chicago Tribune. "I knew he would be. He handles everything really well, has a good sense of humor and is used to being in the spotlight a little bit. [Emcee] Dave Kaplan said he did a great job. I felt terrible, because we had been planning this for a couple of months."
Samardzija says he's not sure how funny he was. "I don't know if they were jokes," he said with a smile. "I don't know if people laughed, but I was up there saying stuff."
Roberts leading doubles parade in Baltimore: Brian Roberts, Aubrey Huff and Nick Markakis could become the first trio of teammates to each top 50 doubles in a season.
"To go and possibly do something that has never been done in the history of the game, that's very cool," Roberts told the Baltimore Sun. "It's been fun for all of us. We have a realistic shot at it. It would be cool if we did it."
As of Thursday night, Roberts has 49 doubles, Huff has 48 and Markakis has 47.
Lewis glad to be put on the spot: Jensen Lewis is in the perfect spot as the stopper in Cleveland, and he's already learned a thing or two about how to keep himself ready to pitch every day, if called upon.
"The key is controlling your body and not trying to do too much," Lewis told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You've got to focus on staying on top of the ball."
And, he says, he loves the job.
"This is a pretty good gig," he said. "It's exciting. I like having a lot of responsibility."
Happ impressive in earning first victory: J.A. Happ picked up his first Major League win this week with six scoreless innings in the Phillies' 6-1 win over the Braves. After being sent to the Minors at the beginning of the year, Happ posted a 3.60 ERA and 151 strikeouts over 135 innings at Triple-A.
In a pennant race, his road to victory was enough to make manager Charlie Manuel very happy.
"I don't see how you can ask for any better than that," Manuel told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He did a heck of a job."
Freddy Garcia just like old times in return: In his first Major League outing in 15 months -- and since shoulder surgery last year -- Freddy Garcia worked five innings on Wednesday night in the Tigers' 17-4 win over Texas. He gave up just two hits and no earned runs.
"He was calm like nothing was going on," Tigers manager Jim Leyland told the Detroit News. "You could see that with his mound presence. He doesn't get excited, doesn't panic, stays confident. He knew what he was doing and actually had better velocity than I expected.
"He's a pitcher. But once again, we're not going to get carried away. As far as one night, though, I was very impressed. I was shocked, to be honest with you."
Smoltz gets extended play with TV gig: An injury may have cut short John Smoltz's 2008 season, but the veteran pitcher will still be performing in the postseason. TBS announced that Smoltz will be an announcer for the network for their Division Series coverage.
"I'm just going to approach it like an ongoing interview," Smoltz told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I'm not afraid to make mistakes. I'm not afraid to talk about the game [while] I hope to continue in it. I would try to be at a level where you're removed from the game, but you're trying to bring insight."
McPherson gets plaudits from ex-mate Erstad: Darin Erstad was an established Major Leaguer with the Angels when the club drafted Dallas McPherson. He quickly identified McPherson as a player with a future and offered him some guidance, and the two became friends. Erstad is thrilled that McPherson battled back from injury problems, had a big year at Triple-A Albuquerque and made it back to the Majors with the Marlins this year.
"My dad is real good about sending me e-mails about guys he knows I'm friends with or played with, so I kept track [that way]," Erstad told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "It looked like he was playing a video game in Albuquerque. I couldn't be any happier for him. That man has been through the ringer a few times. His perseverance has been awesome."
Ichiro makes early hitting plans for season: When Ichiro Suzuki smacked his 200th hit of the season for a record-tying eighth consecutive year on Wednesday, it capped a year of preparation.
"I was talking with our interpreter on what's Ichiro's general plan for the offseason, and he said last year Ichiro took about five or six days off and then reported down to the stadium and started working out," Seattle manager Jim Riggleman told the Seattle Times. "He was hitting, running in the outfield at the stadium. It was a year-round preparation to play.
"When you are talking about Ichiro you are talking about one of the greatest players in the game. To get 200 hits eight years in a row is unheard of."
Everett an unlikely hero with double: Adam Everett pulled off one of the more memorable at-bats in the Twins' season on Thursday night in an improbable 11-8 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. With the score tied at eight in the top of the ninth, Everett, a pinch-hitter, had squared to bunt. With runners on first and second bases, a sacrifice was in order.
Instead, Everett was part of a play called "butcher boy," which gives him the option to pull the bat back and swing if the defense makes a charge toward home plate.
"I'm like, they're gonna charge here, and if they charge, I'm just gonna swing and see what happens," Everett told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "I'm like, 'You know what? Hero or goat, here we go.' "
Hero it was. His game-winning double was his first extra-base hit since Aug. 11.
Fuentes turns to strikeouts: Brian Fuentes continued his stellar second half of the season en route to his 28th save on Wednesday. Since July 3, Fuentes has allowed just two earned runs in 27 2/3 innings for a 0.65 ERA in that stretch. His 48 strikeouts in that span give him 15.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
"This is the best he's ever pitched for us since he's been here," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle told the Denver Post. "His fastball command has never been this good. He's covering both sides of the plate. He's throwing strikes. He's ahead in counts. The slider is very, very effective. You look at the way his strikeouts per innings has just spiked in the second half of the season. So it's strike one, and then he's just going and cutting them up."
Maybin handles leadoff spot with ease: Cameron Maybin is getting a jumpstart to his 2009 season with the Marlins. Batting leadoff, the rookie reached base five times in the Marlins' 8-1 win over the Astros on Thursday. He twice scored from first base on doubles.
"Maybin did a terrific job of getting on base and creating havoc at the top of the lineup. I don't think he's going to hit .800 the rest of his career, but it's a good start," manager Fredi Gonzalez told the Miami Herald.
Mussina hears the roar: Mike Mussina made his final start at Yankee Stadium a memorable one on Thursday, and kept a 20-win season within reach after a 9-2 victory over the White Sox. Mussina, 38, was appreciative of the salute from the fans as he won his 286th game, tied with Hall of Famer Jim Palmer on the all-time wins list. He faced one batter in the seventh inning.
"I'm glad they let me go out there and face one guy," Mussina told Newsday. "That's the last time I'm going to get to pitch here. It's tough to describe when you're walking off and having the people appreciate what you do. I won the last game I pitched at Yankee Stadium. I just think everybody appreciated what I was able to do, and I just wanted to tell them I appreciated them standing up and cheering for me all year."
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1. As usual, the preface hints that Bella is facing death. Did you think she would escape again, or did you think this time would be for real?
I thought that, once again, she would escape.
2. Bella says that she loves the person killing her. Who did you think she was talking about?
I thought that she was either talking about Jake killing her for being changed or Edward actually changing her.


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Fifth Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons said the report has not yet been reviewed by his office. The typical process when reports are submitted to his office is for either himself or a deputy prosecutor to review the file and determine if there is enough facts to decide whether charges should be filed.
If there is not enough information, the file is returned to law enforcement to gather additional facts, or a conference between law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney's office is set up. Once facts are gathered, a determination on what or if charges should be filed is made.
Gibbons said the process can be relatively short or long, depending on the facts of each individual case.
RPD Public Information Officer Drew Latch stated police responded to the 2409 E. Main St. (Walmart) at approximately 11:04 a.m. Saturday in reference to a possible shooting. Upon arrival, officers witnessed a man who had injuries to his back. After further investigation, it was determined the man had accidentally been shot by his child.
While attempting to enter the vehicle, the child — whom Latch said was less than 10 years of age and being helped into the vehicle by an older child — accidentally grabbed hold of a loaded shotgun that had not been secured to pull himself into the vehicle (truck).
While grabbing the shotgun, the child accidentally pulled the trigger and caused the shotgun to discharge and strike the man, identified as Monty Wheeler, in the back.
No one else was injured, including the child, police stated.
Latch said the investigative file has been turned over to Gibbons' office, which will determine if charges would be filed. Possible charges that may be considered would be felony endangering the welfare of a minor, Latch said.
Wheeler was transported to Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center by Pope County EMS. His condition was stable at the time of the release.


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Most video professionals have either seen or at least know about G-Technology and the company's various hard drive and RAID systems. When G-Tech announced that it was coming out with the G-DRIVE Slim, a diminutive USB-powered drive, I jumped at the opportunity to try it out because I had some special tasks I wanted to throw at it. We all know about the value of backing up, and any external hard drive can do that just fine. But for mobile professionals, an external drive can offer more functionality, and capability, than you might at first expect. Many pro video users are tower-based, but more and more laptops are getting enough desktop horsepower to make short work of HD material and editing with ease. A friend recently replaced his eight-core Mac Pro with a new Core i7 laptop, which was obviously easier to transport to location gigs, but it also ended up being considerably faster in compression and editing. What's not to love?
Well, the limitation of the single internal drive is one inherent shortcoming of editing with laptops, and our tendency to multitask with our mobile computers is another. I, for one, feel that clean installed setups are critical to optimum performance, and over time, systems get bogged down. With the ability to carry along a G-Tech external drive so easily for mobile production, I saw several opportunities:
• I could create a clean, working install of my base setup that I could reclone to my internal drive whenever things started to not work right. • I could also create alternate installs for specific tasks: For instance, I used my laptop specifically for media wrangling and needed to directly access AVCHD, P2, XDCAM, and more to test footage coming off the cameras. Another job had me working with 4K RED for several days in a row. For optimum efficiency, I used a second partition for a clean install of core components and drivers specifically for this task. • I could use my laptop as my main computer for other tasks at home. There, I have Roxio Toast set up to automatically download shows from my TiVo and leverage an external Elgato Turbo.264 to compress programs for my iPhone when I'm traveling. I can also use it for blogging and other tasks that seem to slow the computer down for video editing.
What's more, by partitioning the drive, I can separate these tasks and ensure that when I'm on location managing the client's footage, I have a clean, optimized system.
That was the theory, anyway. Here's what I found out about the G-DRIVE Slim in my testing.
HardwareThe G-DRIVE Slim is simple enough. It's a small, USB-powered drive in a textured case that doesn't slip around on the table. For external mobile drives that I've had in the past, I've used an external case from Macally that has both USB and FireWire ports. But as the need for FireWire is diminishing, there's no real reason to use such a big case anymore. Soon enough, this will all be USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt.
The cable that comes with the drive is 23" long-an average length for a drive of this sort, but I ended up wishing it were longer or shorter. When I went to stack the Slim on top of my other external peripherals, they were all further away than 23", so I had to bring them closer to neaten up my workspace. When I went to attach the drive to the lid of my laptop, I needed only a 6" cable, and 23" was way too much.
The real little issue I had with the Slim was a personal one: The LED power/activity light is on the back, where the cable plugs in, instead of on the front, where most drives have a clean face. So while the rest of my drives were happily informing me of their activity with all their cables tucked away behind the stack, the G-DRIVE Slim's LED was blinking away in the back, where I couldn't see it. Again, this could be a nonissue for many, but it bugged me. As for noise, I had the drive right next to my work laptop, which I use in very quiet office rooms, and I found that I had to focus my attention to hear it. It's basically inaudible when it comes to drive noise, even at less than a foot away from my ear with the laptop's fans off. If there is any activity or video editing going on in the room, you'll never know the Slim is there.
I've used the G-DRIVE Slim for a good month as both an alternative startup drive and as a backup to my primary drive when undergoing the ever-insistent system updates. In both scenarios, it performed well, and I've felt better overall knowing that my primary operating setup was either not disturbed by the special needs of a job or safely backed up on the G-DRIVE Slim. This way, if I suddenly started having all kinds of issues with software or crashing, I could easily boot from the backup and reclone my internal drive back from the external.
What is the value of a backup? What is the value of peace of mind?
PerformanceIn terms of performance, the G-DRIVE Slim performed adequately. It was hampered only by the now-pokey high-speed USB 2.0 throughput. Read speed is 38MB/sec (megabytes per second). Write speed is 28MB/sec. My internal laptop's 1.5Gbps (gigabits per second) SATA drive tops out at about 55MB/sec., read and write speeds, so performance over USB isn't too sluggish for me. If you're equipped with a speedy internal solid-state drive, you'll definitely notice a slowdown when using USB 2.0.
But in terms of what you expect from a backup drive-getting you back up and running quickly—it's still plenty faster than digging out all the install DVDs and going through the software updates over the internet again.
ValueAt $80 MSRP, the 320GB G-DRIVE Slim is a good value. It's not the cheapest USB drive you can buy, but you have a solid company such as G-Technology standing behind it, and that should give you additional peace of mind.
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New Englander Included in First-Ever EPA Agricultural Advisory Committee
Release Date: 02/28/2008
Contact Information: Paula Ballentine, (617) 918-1027
(Boston, Mass. - Feb. 28, 2008) - Continuing efforts to strengthen relations with the agriculture community, EPA has named the new members of the first-ever Federal Agricultural Advisory Committee (FACA) - including a New England representative from the town of Methuen, Massachusetts.
The committee is an important part of EPA's ongoing effort to strengthen relations with the agriculture community. It will advise EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on environmental policy issues impacting farms, ranches, and rural communities, and will operate under the rules of the FACA. The first meeting of the committee will take place March 13 and 14, 2008 at The Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C.
"Agriculture is a crucial component of our society, and of our efforts to be good stewards of the nation's land, air and water," said Robert Varney, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "The new agricultural advisory committee will play an important role advising EPA."
The New England representative to the advisory committee, Dr. Richard Bonanno of Methuen, is a specialty crop producer who owns and operates a fresh market vegetable and greenhouse called Pleasant Valley Gardens. He also serves as a Senior Extension Specialist at the University of Massachusetts Extension with responsibilities for vegetable and small fruit weed management recommendations.
"As the sole representative from Region 1, I look forward to the opportunity to represent and discuss the many diverse agricultural issues within New England as well as the issues of specialty crop growers everywhere," said Dr. Richard Bonanno. "I applaud the efforts of the Administrator to improve communications between EPA and the agricultural, forest, and rural communities. It is important that EPA weigh the needs of both producers and the environment, to protect the environment while still encouraging and sustaining domestic production of food and fiber."
Initially, EPA will ask the committee to focus on the following three issues:
-- How EPA's policies and regulations on climate change and renewable energy will affect the agriculture community. The agricultural industry -- through the development of renewable energy sources -- can play a significant role in the nation's ability to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and its dependence on oil imports.
-- An environmental strategy for managing waste from livestock operations that considers regulatory and voluntary approaches, and provides tools for producers to attain superior environmental performance.
-- Development of a constructive approach to advancing sustainable agriculture, protecting the environment, and addressing communication between environmental and agricultural interests.
Members were selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants generated from a request for nominations published Nov. 15 in the Federal Register. The new members represent: large and small farmers, ranchers, and rural communities; rural suppliers, marketers, and processors; academics and researchers who study environmental issues impacting agriculture; and, environmental and conservation groups.
The committee is being developed as part of a comprehensive National Agriculture Strategy that began in May of 2006. That strategy seeks to engage agriculture in cooperative, collaborative, and innovative ways, in addition to the traditional regulatory programs the agency administers.
More information:
Agriculture in New England ( http://epa.gov/region1/agriculture/index.html )
National EPA Agriculture Web site, including information on the advisory committee and EPA's Agricultural Strategy (http://www.epa.gov/agriculture)
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Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti deflects Gareth Bale talk amid ongoing speculation
Carlo Ancelotti would not be drawn into discussing Gareth Bale as he kept his focus on Real Madrid's next game.
Last Updated: 25/08/13 10:45pm
Real have been in pursuit of the Tottenham Hotspur star all summer and a record-breaking deal is reportedly close to being finalised.
However, Ancelotti declined to shed any light on whether there had been further developments as he addressed the media ahead of Real's Primera Liga game at Granada on Monday.
"I don't like to speak for two reasons, first of all because Gareth Bale is not a player of Real Madrid at this moment, and also because I need to have respect for my players," said Ancelotti.
"They are here and we are focusing on our game tomorrow.
"I know that at this moment it is easy to talk about the market because it is very close to the end.
"I do hope the Monday deadline will arrive very soon."
Real have also been linked with a late move for Liverpool's Luis Suarez but Ancelotti refused to answer when asked whether Bale would be the final player to arrive at the Santiago Bernabeu before the deadline.
Bale is understood to be in Spain ahead of a €100million (£86m) switch to Real, which would beat the €94m they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.
And Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino has accused Real of sending out a bad signal with such a fee at a time of economic crisis.
"How I feel about Madrid signing Bale for about €100m? He is an excellent player, but the fee that's being mentioned shows a lack of respect for the world we live in," Martino said.


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Talks between the NHL and NHL Players' Association over a new collective-bargaining agreement continued last week. But last week also saw the league cancel another set of games, and the NHL lockout moved closer to entering its fourth month. Games through Dec. 30 now have been canceled, meaning a total of 526 games have been called off—nearly 43 percent of the original regular season—and players have gone without six of the 13 paychecks they normally would have received during the course of the season.
(Ed.'s note: On Sunday, players started voting on whether to have the union give up collective bargaining rights, a "disclaimer of interest" that could be a precursor to an antitrust suit. The league filed a 43-page suit last Friday in federal court in Manhattan arguing that the union's actions were a bargaining maneuver and asked that the lockout be declared legal.)
— SPECTOR: Go ahead, tear up every single contract
With so many issues unsettled, and with the season seemingly hanging in the balance, the following offers a look at where things stand and, perhaps more critically, where they may be headed in the coming weeks.
How much longer can negotiations go before Gary Bettman cancels the season?
The answer to that question can perhaps best be found by working backward. In recent interviews, Bettman has said he could not envision the league playing a schedule with fewer than 48 games. In order to play a 48-game regular season and not have the playoffs extended deep into July, a deal would have to be done no later than mid-January.
There's precedent for that, looking back to the first of the league's three lockouts over the past 18 years. In the 1994-95 season, a CBA was not completed until Jan. 11, 1995. A 48-game schedule subsequently was played between Jan. 20 and May 3, and a full postseason followed, with the New Jersey Devils winning the Stanley Cup on June 24. The NHL draft was then held July 8, two weeks later than usual.
In 2004-05, the full year lost to a lockout, that season was not canceled in its entirety until Feb. 16. It is believed that Bettman will not wait that long this time around to cancel the season if a deal cannot be reached. He seems determined to have at least a 48-game schedule and does not want to have the season extend to July. Time is running out.
Why is 48 the magic number?
No one in 1994-95 knew that future lockouts would lie ahead for the league, so the game was largely embraced upon its return. Only a minority of league observers view the Devils' Stanley Cup win as tainted in any way as a result of coming after a shortened season. But now, with the 2004-05 lost season still a relatively fresh memory for most, fans are less likely to be as forgiving about a significantly abbreviated season.
Some NHL die-hards might settle for even the tiniest of schedules, but many more season-ticket holders would rather have a full year refunded than pay for a fraction of a compromised season. It's a long shot that the league would consider a season shorter than 48 games.
If a deal is done, how much time would be needed until the first game?
A minimum of two weeks would best serve the NHL. More than 100 NHLers are playing in Europe, so a brief transition would be necessary. An unhurried training camp would help lessen the chance of early-season injuries. With such a tight schedule—say, 48 games in 14 weeks—a severe groin strain or hip flexor could keep a star off the ice for almost half the season. After another long lockout, the NHL will want to produce high-quality hockey.
What is the state of employment around the NHL?
Want a bright side? Considering that 526 games have been canceled, things on the employment front could be a lot more grim than they are. (OK, so "bright" is a relative term.)
The NHL on Oct. 1 went to a four-day workweek and corresponding 20 percent pay cut for its employees. Some teams—including the Montreal Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks—have taken similar steps.
In Calgary, the Flames on Dec. 1 implemented a 40 percent pay cut for top executives while holding the line on salaries for employees making $50,000 or less.
Many teams, including the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers, have retained employees at full scale. Only the Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers and NHL-owned Phoenix Coyotes have announced layoffs.
If the season were to begin next month, current employees could be expected to be restored at full salary. However, if the season is canceled, layoffs and severe pay cuts would follow—as they did in 2005.
At what point does the NHL start to owe money to NBC?
A canceled season would simply result in a year being added to the back end of NBC's 10-year contract with the NHL. That deal is set to run through the 2021-22 season.
An abbreviated season would not be so cut and dried. Besides missing the Winter Classic and a Thanksgiving Friday matinee between the Rangers and Boston Bruins, NBC's slate of weekend games had not been scheduled to kick in until Jan. 20. For NBC Sports Network, however, by Dec. 30, 33 games will have been lost from the channel's schedule. Some compensation will be due the network.
One broadcast industry source said that if the league were to play a shorter schedule, network officials would meet with the NHL about the matter after the lockout ended.
It is also worth noting that NBC's NHL talent—including its top announcing team of play-by-play man Mike Emrick and analyst Pierre McGuire—have continued to be compensated in full during the lockout while being used sporadically on broadcasts of college games.
What about NHL Network?
Primarily owned by the league, the network has opted not to be a news-gathering service for its viewers. When Bettman held a news conference Dec. 6 to explain why that week's round of CBA talks had broken off, it was shown live on TSN and Sportsnet in Canada, but not the NHL Network. Instead, NHL Network has continued its offseason programming—a combination of old games and countdown shows—and its daily talk shows have been scrapped. The league has used NHL.com as its only in-house news provider.
NHL Network's plans to move its studios from Toronto to Connecticut in 2013 are also indefinitely on hold.
How about arenas? Don't arena managers need to start filling dates?
They do, but it has been nearly impossible when the NHL has, in most cases, canceled games only two weeks at a time and with little lead time. For example, the scrapping of Dec. 15-30 games came on Dec. 10; games scheduled for Dec. 1-14 were canceled only on Nov. 23. The biggest cut came Oct. 26, when the first 326 games of the season, through Nov. 30 were called off.
But even a month's lead time is not sufficient time to book, promote and sell a concert or family show. PNC Arena in Raleigh, for example, would have hosted 11 Carolina Hurricanes games by now, according to the team's original schedule (the Hurricanes would have already played 20 on the road). None of those dates opened up by the lockout were filled with substitute events.
What is the latest with the league and its sponsors?
While league partners aren't happy with the NHL's second lengthy lockout in eight years, it is still too early to get a clear picture of any long-term damage. Kraft Canada pulled its sponsorship of Hockeyville—in which a small Canadian town wins money for its youth hockey programs and hosts an NHL preseason game—but Kraft plans to relaunch the program in 2014. The NHL has yet to lose any major sponsors.
If the league plays a shortened schedule, advertisers will be entitled to partial refunds.
An agency marketer, whose group administers local and national NHL sponsorships, said there are various thresholds—everything from adding elements and make-goods to a handshake on a full extension.
"It's not as simple as, 'We miss X, you get Y,'" said the marketer, who requested anonymity.
Michael Neuman, managing partner of Scout Sports and Entertainment, which is the agency for Geico and other league and team partners, said a season with integrity is important to sponsors.
"What we'd like to see is for them to salvage a season of 40 to 50 games, but the key is the playoffs," Neuman said. "Anything less than 40 to 50 games would make it hard for the avid hockey fan to take the season seriously."
The NHL declined to comment.
What will the NHLPA do if the season is canceled?
A couple of NHL agents, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said they believe the NHLPA will decertify as a union if the league cancels the season. The agents requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on behalf of the union. These agents added that the potential threat of decertification may be something that causes the NHL to think twice before canceling the season.
"I think Bettman knows that if they cancel the season, the NHLPA decertifies, and they have a mess on their hands," said one agent. What's likely to follow in that case, as seen last year with the NFL and NBA battles, is antitrust litigation, and labor talks turning into legal briefs.
Not all agents interviewed last week were of the same mind on what might happen, though. Some thought it very likely that a deal would be struck within two weeks.
So what is Bettman's endgame?
If talks remain fruitless as Christmas nears, expect the commissioner soon after to announce a deadline for a CBA to be completed in order to save the season.
SportsBusiness Journal is a sister publication of Sporting News. This story originally appeared in the Dec. 17 edition. Follow on Twitter @SBJSBD and @ChrisBottaNHL. Staff writers Terry Lefton and Liz Mullen contributed to this report.


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Centrica plc
1 April 2014
Share Repurchase Programme
Centrica plc announces that on 31 March 2014, it purchased (through UBS Limited) 1,000,000 (one million) Centrica plc ordinary shares at an average price of 329.003 pence per share. The highest price and the lowest price paid for these shares were 331.00 pence and 325.50 pence respectively.
The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares. As at the date of this announcement, Centrica plc holds 61,912,003 ordinary shares in treasury and has 5,059,506,754 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer spoke on the House floor today in opposition to the flawed and fiscally irresponsible Republican FSC/ETI Conference Report. Instead of aiding American manufacturers and protecting American jobs, the bill is loaded down with billions of dollars for special interests and tax loopholes. The following is Rep. Hoyer's statement as prepared for delivery:
"Mr. Speaker, like most of my colleagues, I agree that we must address the underlying problems with our international tax rules, but I must voice my opposition to this Conference Report, a product that has not improved with age. In fact, as this has been drawn out over time, it gets further and further away from the problem it was supposed to address.
"There are more narrowly-crafted tax breaks in the Conference Report than when it left the House in June. And today we learned that tax credits for the movie industry were dropped from the conference report because the Motion Picture Association of America had the audacity to hire a Democrat to head the group.
"There are fewer incentives to keep jobs in this country and just as many incentives that will continue to move jobs overseas. On whole, the balance of this measure has absolutely nothing to do with fixing international tax rules, and were it not for some extraneous provisions that are vital in several states, I doubt we would be debating this conference report now, because it would have never passed the House in the first place.
"So once again, after a decade of rhetoric on tax reform and increased calls by leaders on the other side of the aisle for action on tax simplification, a product has been brought before this House that only serves to complicate and carve up the tax code even more. U.S. Treasury Secretary Snow agrees, indicating earlier this week that its content 'went far beyond the bill's core objective,' which was to resolve a $4 billion trade dispute with the European Union.
"At a time of record job loss, especially in the manufacturing sector, Republican leaders rejected a bipartisan solution that could have passed well over a year ago, at far less cost to the country, and without the delaying tactics that allowed 12 percent tariffs on our exports.
To date, businesses across this country have been harmed to the tune of nearly $187 million to date. After having ignored fiscal discipline this entire session of Congress, the majority has miraculously rediscovered the principal of revenue-neutrality, but are using gimmicks, phase-outs and controversial revenue raisers that punish working families, small businesses taxpayers and charitable organizations, to do so.
"True, hidden among the largess are a few deserving provisions, but no one should be fooled into thinking that this bill, on the whole, is good tax or trade policy, or good tax practice, and most assuredly not good for the American taxpayer."


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After some urging from his New Edition bandmates, Bobby Brown returns to rehab for alcohol addiction.
The boy band, which is currently touring, felt Bobby's drinking was becoming a concern and advised him to enter treatment for his addiction, reported Radar Online.
Bobby was arrested in California for a DUI in March, one month after the death of his ex-wife, Whitney Houston. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation and ordered to complete a 90-day alcohol education program. The singer has had numerous run-ins with the law because of his alcohol and substance abuse problems including a 2004 arrest in Georgia for drunk driving.
His manager and wife, Alicia Etheredge, who he married in June, confirmed to the website that Bobby was in treatment telling them, "He's doing great."
The current New Edition tour is scheduled to pick up again in Long Island, NY on September 19.
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Climate Change Decadal Pause Study – Accidental Climate Mitigation
Professors Jesse Thé and Roydon Fraser from the University of Waterloo are initiating a study on the potential cause of the decade long pause on global warming. This is an interview with Prof. Thé, as a disclosure is also ENN's Editor-in-Chief. .
ENN: What is causing this decade long pause on the average global temperature increase?
Prof. Thé: First of all, note that the last decade was the warmest on record. While the maximum temperatures are not increasing as fast, we are not seeing a real pause on temperature increase, just a significant reduction on its growth rate. Second, researchers are not certain, and our work at this stage can only be placed in the scientific method as a hypothesis. Until we develop the full analysis, all my views in this interview are based on our hypothesis that the pause in the temperature increase is caused by aerosol formation form the massive burning of coal in China (50% of global consumption of coal) and India.
ENN: Please explain to our readers why the burning of coal in China and India is reducing the growth in temperature globally. Isn't this burning injecting more CO2 in the atmosphere?
Prof. Thé: The additional burning of coal in China injects sulfur in the atmosphere (SO2), which turns into reflective aerosols. This causes higher reflectivity of solar radiation back to space. This is a cooling effect that more than counter balances the additional CO2 emitted from the burning of coal. In our research we will attempt to demonstrate a reduction of thermal load from the sun caused by increased this increased aerosol reflectivity. Note that if our demonstration fails to prove this cooling effect it will at least eliminate these aerosols as a significant contributor to the decadal climate change pause.
ENN: Why did you and Prof. Fraser came out with this aerosol cooling hypothesis? What are the present explanations for the pause in global temperature growth?
Prof. Thé: Unfortunately there are no definitive answers to the slowdown in temperature increase. One of the main hypotheses is that the additional heat is going into the oceans. However, as I already stated, this is not universally accepted, and it might not fully account for the reduction in the atmospheric energy budget. Prof. Fraser and I understand the cooling effect from burning of coal SO2 emissions over the USA in the 1970s. This cooling effect almost disappeared after the large reduction in sulfur emissions over North America.
ENN: Do you mean to say that if China and India clean the emissions of SO2 the accelerated temperature increase will return?
Prof. Thé: Yes, if our hypothesis is correct. Note that China is already implementing desulfurization of their emissions (using scrubbers) due to poor air quality on their coastal areas. Consider that this is an unplanned mitigation of global warming. It is not all good, since if we prove this hypothesis, we might see a reduction in the evaporation rates over the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, areas downwind should see significant reduction in precipitation. The theme is complex and any additional conclusion would be on the realm of speculation. One might speculate, but not assert, that the US Southwest could potentially experience more severe droughts due to this increase aerosol issue over the Pacific Ocean.
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The Joe Martin Stage Race kicked off near Fayettsville, Arkansas, Thursday with the opening Devil's Den Hill Climb Time Trial, a 2.5-mile test.
Andrew Talansky (California Giant-Specialized), the best young rider at last week's SRAM Tour of the Gila, is continuing to turn heads, this time by winning the men's race in 7.54, about 8 seconds ahead of Ben Day (Fly V Australia). Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) was third, just a quarter of a second behind Day.
Webcor's Kathryn Curi Mattis won the women's race in 9:38, less than a second ahead of Joe Martin's defending women's overall champ, Alison Powers of Vera Bradly Foundation. Alison Starnes (Tibco-To the Top) was third. Last year Powers won the TT and Curi Mattis was second.
The race continues with road races Friday and Saturday and a criterium Sunday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Rick Scott is launching a $2.2 million television ad buy for his re-election that aims to reintroduce the Republican incumbent to the state's voters.
Scott's 30-second ad features the governor mentioning his poor upbringing and how his dad's car was once repossessed.
The themes of the ad mirror Scott's recent speeches, including his State of the State address last week before the Florida Legislature.
Scott narrowly won the governor's election in 2010, and he is trailing in recent polls to former Gov. Charlie Crist. Crist is seeking his old job as a Democrat.
Sen. John Thrasher, chairman of Scott's re-election campaign, said the ad is intended to tell voters "who this man really is."
But Florida Democrats called the ad an attempt to mislead voters about his record.
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by JacksonArcher, Oct 4, 2010.
Thank God, someone who isn't afraid of the fantastic and won't make it some minimalist crime drama.
I never saw "Watchmen" or "300"...so I dunno.
Hopefully we will get news on who will play Superman in the coming weeks.
Bloodiest Superman movie EVER.
The Heat Vision blog at The Hollywood Reporter also confirms the story. Snyder is one of the more high profile directors who was in the mix and Warners is still very keen on him despite lukewarm box office for his last couple of films, so I guess it was a matter of him stepping up to the plate and agreeing to sign on with Chris Nolan's vision. We're likely to get the most spectacular superhero action scenes in any Superman film to date. The question beyond that is whether Synder gets the tone and casting right. I'm a big fan of his work to date and I'm intrigued to see what he comes up with to say the least.
Hopefully, this means Superman will finally throw a punch in the movie.
Exciting tidbit of information from the Heat Vision article:
From Deadline Hollywood:
It's bad form to just post a link like this. Content. Give us some content!
I don't want Zod. He was already done to perfection in Superman II by Terence Stamp.
I want Brainiac, the robotic computer version from Superman the animated series, to be the Big Bad.
Best news I've seen connected with this movie. Cool.
I'm still mulling over this. Not sure what opinion I have yet.
My guess is the film will have three major villains: Lex Luthor, Brainiac and Zod.
Okay, now that that's out of the way... I like the choice, Snyder's got a good visual eye and I enjoyed all of his movies that I've seen (Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Watchmen). With Nolan producing and Goyer writing, I'm sure this will go well. Now hopefully they back it up with an equally solid cast.
As long as it's not Chris Nolan, I'm happy. That guy really sucks the fun out of superhero movies.
I'm fine with this choice. Snyder knows how to direct action. I'm less thrilled with the villain choice, though. This will be the sixth Superman film, and we still have yet to see Brainiac. That's just ridiculous.
Either Brainiac, Doomsday, or Darkseid. Zod has already been done perfectly.
I hope he's a very involved producer.
Let's hope not.
The only time the multiple villains idea has worked was in Superman II, Batman Returns and X2. Every other superhero movie later on has suffered because of there being too many villains. Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Spider-Man 3, and Iron Man 2 were too crowded for the story to work.
Both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight had multiple villains and both of those films worked. You just have to be able to juggle the villains thematically speaking so they work within the confines of the story.
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The room was full of wealthy men
And one of them was Mitt
He felt he could speak freely there,
And lighten up a bit.
He thought his friends would have his back;
That wasn't how it went.
And now we know how Romney feels
For the forty-seven percent.
The poor among us always thought
That Mitt was unaware—
It seems we're wrong; he knows, all right
He simply doesn't care
It's not his job to care about
The folks who don't have much;
Who don't have yachts, or second homes,
Or Cadillacs and such
It's not his job to give a damn
About the working poor
Which Mitt said, to the wealthy men
He's really working for.
The wealthy play by different rules—
Why can't we just admit?
The room was full of wealthy men…
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OCEAN CITY – The future of the Ocean City Marathon remains uncertain this week with no firm dates for the 2008 event on the calendar yet with just a few short months until the time of year when the race is normally held.
Just three years into what has become a popular annual spectacle in the resort area each April, no official word on a date for the 2008 Ocean City Marathon has been announced and it appears, at least on the surface, that the event might have run its course. City officials have reportedly had cursory meetings with the marathon's producer, Extreme Dream Events, although the results of those discussions are not known.
What is known is that the Extreme Dream Events website, which each year in the past has listed tons of information on the upcoming race months in advance and even included a countdown clock for the start of the next Ocean City Marathon well in advance of the date, makes no mention of a 2008 marathon in Ocean City. In fact, the event producer's website shows only a handful of pictures from last year's snowy marathon with no information or links about this year's event.
A check of several websites that track marathon schedules around the country and the rest of the world, including marathonguide.com and Runners World, list hundreds of events for 2008 but none make any mention of a marathon in Ocean City next year. The Extreme Dream Events organizers could not be reached for comment.
In addition, the Ocean City Marathon's main sponsor last year, Ocean City Factory Outlets, has not signed on for an anticipated 2008 event, according to sources, and neither has the beneficiary of last year's charitable fundraiser, Agape of Berlin.
"It's the weirdest thing," said Agape Director Leigh Sandifer. "We haven't heard a single word from them. They came to us last year seeking a charity for the event, but we haven't been in contact with them since last year's race."
If race organizers are still hoping to bring back the Ocean City Marathon next spring, they haven't yet gone through the usual channels with the town of Ocean City. In the marathon's first year, it was an exclusively West Ocean City event with the start and finish line at Sunset Grille, but the start was moved to the Ocean City Inlet in the second year with the runner's starting in Ocean City and crossing the Route 50 Bridge for the rest of the course.
Because the race started in Ocean City the last two years, Extreme Dream Events applied for and received a special event permit from the town including the approval of the Ocean City Mayor and Council and various departments in the city government such as the police and public works, for example. This year, however, with the anticipated race date just a few months away, town officials have not heard anything from race organizers, according to Public Relations Director Donna Abbott.
"We haven't heard a thing," she said. "Usually, they would have filed for a special permit by now, especially considering the logistics involved with putting on the event, but we haven't received a request. I've looked at what has been scheduled for 2008 thus far and there is no marathon listed anywhere. Sooner is better than later, but I guess there still could be time."
City Manager Dennis Dare said he nor the town's elected officials would see any plans for a return of the marathon until they had been through the special events permit process.
"They would have likely had to file for a special events permit by now if they were considering bringing it back, but I don't recall seeing anything on it," he said. "A lot of times on an event like this, they'll make a reservation in advance for the same time next year, but I don't think they did that in this case."


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Dont you just love those helpful hints about what to do when youre caught in a jam while out hiking miles from the nearest rural road? Your first response is probably hopeless despair the outback is, by definition, a long way from a hospital. Fortunately, a recent issue of Backpacker magazine offers reasonable solutions for some of the unpleasant things that can happen when youre in the backcountry.
An example: What should you do if a fishhook snags in your cheek? Clip the barb, sterilize with an alcohol wipe (something were sure every hiker carries) and slide it out. If the barb lands in your eye, though, hurry to the nearest emergency room, no matter how far away.
Then theres the shock of losing traction on a steep slope of scree; how do you arrest your slide, before its too late? Do what seems unnatural: stop leaning in and stand up straight.
If, for some reason, you find the odd leech attached to your body and sucking blood: Dont panic. Slide your fingernail along your skin toward the leechs small end and push sideways to dislodge. If you find a leech in your ear, however, youre allowed to panic; then try puncturing it with a pin and dragging it out.
Should you get caught in an inescapable wildfire, run for the nearest lake, ditch or rocky spot, into which you should lower yourself and hope for the best, which in this case would be a low-intensity blaze.
But there are some things that cant be remedied by a helpful hint, and number one is blundering into a bruin (presumably without bear spray): Theres no sugarcoating it; this will suck. Playing dead while rolling yourself into a ball might work, but if it doesnt give up on you within a minute, fight back with everything you have.
For columnist Todd Wilkinson, writing in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the claim didnt compute: Three years ago, a group called Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd predicted that wolves would cause the largest migrating elk herd on Earth to become extinct in three years, while also turning the Yellowstone ecosystem into a biological desert a wasteland. Neither had happened the last anyone looked, though the then-chairman of the group, Robert T. Fanning Jr., continues to rail against wolves as he runs for governor of Montana on an anti-wolf platform.
Wilkinson says he spent several days reading 50 different outfitter Internet sites to get a current picture of life for both elk herds and wolves living from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming to the Canadian border. The result: Not a single proprietor of guided hunts mentions anything remotely suggesting that wolves are annihilating elk herds or jeopardizing the quality of hunts. In fact, elk hunting seems to be as good as ever, with outfitters competing to lure hunters with fabulous tales of success in the still-wild wild.
Either clients are being fibbed to, or the public is. Which is it?
Meanwhile, the Ravalli Republic reports that mountain lions are targeting radio-collared wolves in the Bitterroot. Last year, two wolves with tracking collars were killed by lions that punctured their skulls, and since January, lions killed two more collared wolves in similar fashion.
When outdoor writer Peter Anderson took his young daughter backpacking a summer or so ago, he tells Colorado Central, they did not end up going alone. Strapped to his daughters pack were some of her dearest friends, two, out-of-their-element Barbie dolls. The first indignity: The dolls were stripped of their finery and set afloat to bump down a mountain stream.
How strange this must be for the Barbies, Anderson mused, to be without their usual closets full of Barbie clothes, without their pink Corvettes and mini cellphones, hundreds of miles from the nearest mall. Even more demoralizing, the dolls spent a cold night dressed only in pink evening gowns, their bed a woolen mitten: We didnt like sign up for this, they seemed to complain to him. Yet the morning sun found them smiling, you know, as usual.
After Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi proposed making the bison the countrys official mammal, the Casper Star-Tribune expressed delight, tongue firmly in cheek: America is dangerously short of official animals, official soft drinks, official products and sponsors for professional sports leagues. As for Congress being alarmingly out of touch these days, If there is a move less critical, more symbolic than adopting a mammal, its probably second only to Congress most-cherished election-year summer activity naming federal post offices. Only this year, the paper added, those are the same post offices probably slated for closure.
Breathless news from Aspen: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia finally unloaded his mega-mansion on Red Mountain, selling the 56,000-square-foot, 15-bedroom, 16-bathroom house on 130 acres to hedge fund manager John A. Paulson, the man who bet against the rampant real estate boom that crashed in 2008. The price: $49 million. The sale ranks as one of the priciest real estate transactions in Aspens history, says the Aspen Daily News.
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I will care about Randy Moss and the 49ers for exactly one week: September 24-30. After that, who cares? Aside from the pulled hamstring game, Darrelle Revis has in large part shut down Moss and I expect the same thing to happen on September 30th, so long as Revis moves around with him (as he didn't do in the 2010 Minnesota game and Antonio Cromartie became burnt toast).
However, I do believe Moss will contribute to the 49ers. They reached the NFC Championship Game, and should have won it if it weren't for Kyle Williams, with really only one receiving threat (Vernon Davis). Now players like Davis and Michael Crabtree will have more room to work underneath while Moss takes the top off the defense. Mario Manningham is a nice addition as well who will make plays out of the slot.


text: I used to be very big on the Byrne version of things, but I've come to see its flaws. Something that I thought SR got right, completely against Byrne's take on things, was the idea of Superman thinking of himself as an alien. I'd never liked how that idea was portrayed in the Silver/Bronze Age comics, but I've come to think that Byrne went too far to the opposite extreme, to the point of being overly simplistic in making Clark such a perfect, idyllic individual. For example, Byrne seemed to think that if Superman hadn't played football in high school, he couldn't have been psychologically normal...but lots of kids don't play football in high school, and Clark abstaining from sports could be seen as a character-building experience. Superman may wish he were a normal person, but he never could or should be one, IMO. Being Superman should be an awesome responsibility and a heavy burden, and I'm glad that MoS also went with this take on the character.


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LAKEWOOD RANCH — President Obama saluted the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps' drum major.
Security, lining both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, encouraged the marchers to keep moving forward, even though some felt their fingers go numb from the cold.
A television camera zoomed in on Matt Vaadi, Lakewood Ranch High School band captain. He smiled at the lens, though he couldn't feel his face.
Vaadi, Greta Curry and Sammy Hyatt performed Jan. 21, in the 57th Inaugural Day Parade with the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, marching 1.5 miles along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
The day began at 8 a.m. and started with a lot of waiting. Some would stand at attention, instruments held high, as the Crusaders waited their turn in the parade.
Finally, at 5:15 p.m., the Crusaders began their 45-minute march, getting as close to 50 feet from President Obama, who smiled at the group.
The Lakewood Ranch trio hopes the exposure leads to a 10,000-mile summer tour across 26 states with the Crusaders, the third-oldest drum and bugle corps in the nation comprised of brass players, percussionists and color guard members younger than 22 years old.
Greta Curry, a 17-year-old senior who plays the trumpet, toured with the Crusaders last summer, while Vaadi, an 18-year-old senior baritone player, and Sammy Hyatt, a 15-year-old sophomore in the color guard, auditioned last summer.
They've been participating in winter camps held in Lakewood Ranch, and they find out if they made the 2013 summer tour before February.
The Crusaders tradition includes a performance in the Inaugural Day Parade for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
John F. Kennedy was the corps' first honorary member, after getting uniforms for the group decades ago.
More recently, the Crusaders earned a seventh-place finish in the annual Drum Corps International Competition last summer in Indianapolis.
In his first time in uniform with the Crusaders, albeit wearing long Johns, long sleeves, and a thin wool beanie under his red-and-white hat and fluffy feathery plume, Vaadi wished the showing extended beyond the day.
"It's pretty cool in my first time in uniform for the Crusaders I'm playing for the president," Vaadi said. "If the Crusaders picked me to perform on national TV in a national parade, there is a good chance I will be marching with them this summer. That would be really cool."
The Crusaders didn't need the "March of a Lifetime," as the corps calls it, to entice the three Lakewood Ranch bandmates to audition.
But it didn't hurt.
During November auditions, the Crusaders hinted at the march as a possibility.
Still, it seemed like a distant possibility.
By early December, at a winter camp, the Crusaders' assistant director said the march in Washington, D.C., would happen.
Vaadi, Curry and Hyatt hastily sent in online applications to the Crusaders, vying to be one of 150 to march for the president.
Then, Dec. 23, Vaadi's birthday, they got the call.
"It was an awesome gift," Vaadi said.
The trip started like any other, with packing.
The usually mundane task of stuffing clothes and toiletries into bags became an adventure for the life-long Florida residents, who bought mittens, long socks and other items they'd never worn before.
Curry and Vaadi flew to Washington, D.C., the Friday before the parade, in time to prepare with other horn and percussionists at Bladensburg High School, where they also slept on blow-up mattresses and sleeping bags on the gym floor.
They saw landmarks such as the Capital building and the Library of Congress.
Hyatt, the flag waver, flew up with the color guard Saturday.
On Saturday and Sunday before the parade, the trio kept to a strict schedule, marching and reading notes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with no free time to explore.
The performance came Monday, Martin Luther King Day, well after President Obama delivered his second inaugural address from the Capitol just after noon, in front about 600,000 people assembled on the National Mall.
Prior to the trip, Curry, whose sister, Ilsa, a music major at the University of Central Florida, played trumpet for the Crusaders at the parade, spoke about the challenges the weather would bring.
"There's a level of nerves," Greta Curry said. "You want to make a good impression on the world, because they will be watching."
After the performance, Greta Curry said the nerves never came.
But the cold did.
"It was unbearably cold," Vaadi said. "My fingers were frozen solid."
They fought off the cold with hand warmers and said it didn't affect how they played.
The trio also got an extra push from some fans.
"The security guards were weirdly encouraging," Vaadi said. "It was kind of intimidating."
The trip ended with a giant sleepover Monday night at the airport.
Unsure of when the parade would end Monday, the Crusaders requested participants to fly out Tuesday morning.
As the march wound down and a television camera caught him, Vaadi thought to himself, "I look pretty good."
Contact Josh Siegel at [email protected].
LAKEWOOD RANCH — President Obama saluted the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps' drum major.


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Lowestoft Town swoop for Needham Market striker
PUBLISHED: 10:31 03 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:02 03 December 2012
Lowestoft Town have signed Sam Newson from Needham Market in a three-month loan deal.
The 24-year-old agreed terms over the weekend after scoring twice in Needham's 4-1 win over Redbridge on Saturday and will go straight into the squad for the Blues' trip to Cray Wanderers on Wednesday night.
Lowestoft director of football Craig Fleming was delighted to strengthen his squad after an injury crisis at Crown Meadow had threatened to derail their promotion drive.
"Sam is a proven goalscorer and it will be the highest level he's played at, but the loan move allows us to have a look at him and for him to have a look at us and our set up," said Fleming, whose side came from 2-0 down to beat Enfield on Saturday. "Obviously with the squad a little depleted at the moment it will also help us on that front and gives us options."


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It was approximately 10 inches long ,a marine fish possibly Pacific .Can anyone help with an ID please ?
The fish looks like Lutjanus sebae, the Emperor red snapper to me.


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Freshmen get a taste of chemistry — through chocolate
From the April 9, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
Stefan Bernhard passes around another small dish covered with shards of a familiar dusky substance and directs his 12 freshmen to make a scientific observation about them.
"Let a piece dissolve in your mouth, and compare how the residue feels and tastes," he says — a bit indistinctly, for he is already making his own observations along with the group. A baker's dozen mouths swirl first with melting confection, then with words to describe it.
"It's not as grainy as the first one," someone volunteers. "Denser too, and it breaks more crisply," another says. "Ah, that's the 'snap,' that's what we want," says Bernhard, who then launches into a tasty disquisition on a few details of chocolate-making, a process he learned intimately while growing up in Switzerland, years before joining Princeton's chemistry department.
"I worked in a chocolate factory for three years as a teenager, and discovered there is a lot of chemistry involved in producing high-quality chocolate," said Bernhard, now an assistant professor. "When my colleague Rob L'Esperance heard about my background, he said, 'You have to teach a course on this.'"
Bernhard is now teaching a Richard L. Smith '70 Freshman Seminar on "The Chemistry of Chocolate" for the second time, leading first-year students through many of the same scientific tests he performed when he was about their age. Each Wednesday, after spending a few minutes in the lab placing flasks of solid chocolate into a heater for melting, the group gathers in a classroom to attune their taste buds to one aspect of chocolate's character — how evenly its fats have crystallized, for example, or how large the solid particles it contains are — before returning to the lab to explore the chemistry behind this aspect of their favorite food.
"I'm basically a chocoholic," said freshman Julie Dickerson. "But since I know I want to go into the humanities, this is a good way to learn some science."
On this particular day, she and her classmates dissolved the fats in the melted chocolate with liquid hexane, then poured the solution through a sieve to determine the size of its particles of cacao — the South American bean from which chocolate is made. The smaller the particles, Bernhard explained, the less gritty the chocolate feels on the tongue.
"I'm trying to provide an attraction to science for students who might not otherwise be interested," he said. Indeed, nearly all of the students are leaning toward nonscientific majors, but the attraction is definitely working: The course has had several times as many applicants as he has had seats available.
Bernhard said he tries to provide just the right mix of hard science and fun, which naturally includes the finer points of chocolate tasting. Though he enforces a no-snacking rule in the lab and only provides about half a bar per week for tasting, he knows he needs to issue a disclaimer.
"I tell them right at the beginning I'm not responsible for any pounds they gain from taking the class," he said.