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Internet warning as victim gagged and held at gunpoint after meeting man on mobile chat site
Internet users are taking too many risks by sharing their personal details online, police have warned, as they renewed their appeal for information about a violent home robbery in Surry Hills in which the victim was gagged and held at gunpoint.
Detectives on Friday released an image of a man wanted for questioning over the attack in September, which occurred after the 25-year-old victim invited a man he had met on an internet chat site over to his home.
Once inside the unit in Surry Hills, the visitor assaulted the victim before a second man entered the home and they forced the victim onto the bed, where he was gagged and threatened with a gun.
The men stole property from the unit before running away.
Detective Inspector Craig Middleton, from Surry Hills police, said the victim had communicated with his attacker on a mobile phone internet chat site before the attack.
The photo of the man wanted for questioning over the attack shows him sitting on a motorcycle, smoking a cigarette.
Detective Inspector Middleton said the amount of information web users were sharing online was concerning.
"One of the big things to come from this inquiry and the subsequent lines of inquiry generated by it are the risks people are willing to take when online," he said.
"I can only urge people to be cautious online, particularly when using internet chat sites.
"People need to be aware that what they are looking at or who they are speaking to on the internet may not always be what it seems.
"One of the most important things to remember is that how a person portrays themselves on the internet can be very different from their real life persona."
Detective Inspector Middleton advised internet users not to meet up with a person they had only met online, or if they did decide to meet up, to always do it in a public place and take a friend.
Police have urged anyone who knows the man in the photo to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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SANTA ANA – A lawyer for the family of the doctor shot to death in his Newport Beach offices said the man accused of killing him has fraudulently transferred roughly $2 million in property to hide his assets from a wrongful death lawsuit.
An Orange County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order Thursday to block Stanwood Fred Elkus from transferring his remaining Lake Forest home to relatives. Elkus, who is accused of killing Dr. Ronald Gilbert, had already given away seven other properties in Orange and Riverside counties to family members, said Edward Susolik, an attorney for Gilbert's wife and 20-year-old and 15-year-old sons.
"We have effectively frozen all eight of the properties," Susolik said.
The Gilbert family learned of the property transfers over the weekend, Susolik said, and filed a fraudulent conveyance suit Tuesday. The family also filed a wrongful death suit March 28.
"It was a shock, especially in light of the fact that the family was already grieving so profoundly," he said.
Elkus is accused of shooting Gilbert, a urologist, as the doctor walked into an exam room at a Newport Beach medical office Jan. 28. Authorities said it was the first time Elkus had an appointment with Gilbert, and no motive was known. According to the complaint in the wrongful death suit, Gilbert's partner rushed into the exam room after hearing shots. There he found Elkus, the complaint said, who told him he was insane and to call the police.
Elkus was arrested at the scene and booked into Orange County Jail. A week later, he signed documents transferring seven properties over to his relatives, a Los Angeles couple. In addition to his primary residence in Lake Elsinore, Elkus owned small homes or condos in Lake Forest, Huntington Beach, Lake Elsinore and Wildomar.
In all, the properties are likely worth $2 million, Susolik said. In a complaint to the court, Susolik said the transfer of the properties effectively left Elkus without assets. The Gilbert family is seeking civil damages from Elkus in addition to the criminal case against him. Elkus has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder.
Susolik said the family is seeking Elkus' assets for their emotional and psychological losses after Gilbert's death as well as the economic hit the family took at losing the doctor's income. He expected the wrongful death case would result in a judgment of more than $25 million for the family.
The civil cases will likely move more quickly than the criminal case, Susolik added.
"His day of judgment is going to come very soon in the civil court," he said.
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Tackling the Nursing Shortage Veterans Affairs Secretary Unveils Education Initiative at Eisenhower
In May, Thomas Johnson, Secretary, California Department of Veterans Affairs, briefed a group of area health and education leaders at Eisenhower Medical Center on the Governor's Nurse Education Initiative.The initiative is part of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to provide $90 million over five years through a public-private partnership to reduce the severe nursing shortage in California.
"Nurses are people of compassion and courage. Their profession is a labor of love, and without them, we simply could not deliver quality care for patients," the Governor has said. Currently, in California, there are 14,000 vacancies for registered nurses in hospitals.
Currently, in California, there are 14,000 vacancies for registered nurses in hospitals. Meanwhile, the state's nursing schools are filled to capacity and have long waiting lists.There are acute faculty shortages, as well. Forty percent of nursing school applicants are turned away each year due to lack of program capacity. In addition, more than 50 percent of the state's registered nurses are over age 50 and could be retiring in the next 10 years. "The Governor has recognized the challenges in nursing in California." - Louise White Chief Nursing Officer Eisenhower Medical Center
"This creates a mega-challenge.We don't have enough people being trained to fill the vacancies," explains Louise White, Chief Nursing Officer, Eisenhower Medical Center.
Governor Schwarzenegger's Five-Point Plan includes providing $90 million funding, in partnership with schools and health facilities, to build more nurse education programs, recruit more qualified instructors, develop new avenues to nursing careers with high school and college nursing academies and apprenticeships, and seek additional funding for nurse education from federal and other funding sources. "The Governor has recognized the challenges in nursing in California,"White says. "He has established a way to address it through legislative funding to increase the capacity to train more nurses."


text: MW 11:15am-12:30pm "War" magnifies the fundamental problem of representation: It is a phenomena that can only truly be understood by those who have experienced it, but that experience can never be communicated in any exacting way. The implications of this dilemma lash back and forth throughout the history of the rhetoric of war (and peace), leading in the later part of the 19th-century to the conclusion that photography provides a clear record of the nature of war. From the middle of the 19th century forward, photography has been one of the primary media of communication employed to report and remember events designated as "wars." Indeed, from the Civil War forward, each subsequent war has been dubbed by someone as "the" visual war, as advancing technologies have increased the ease with which the "reality" of war can be visually recorded and "experienced." One might even argue that with the events of 9/11 we have come full circle as war is literally experienced visually in the here-and-now by an entire nation. The goal of this course is to explore the dilemmas and paradoxes of war rhetoric, especially for liberal-democratic polity, as they are engaged and negotiated in and through the visualization of war. We will begin with consideration of the photographic representations of the Civil War and work our way forward to considerations of the ways in which wars are visually constituted in a variety of visual media, including photojournalism, film (both documentary and fiction), television, poster art, various forms of animation, sculpture and statuary (including memorials), and the "new technologies" made available through web-casting and the like. Course "readings" will draw from a wide variety of sources including journal articles and book chapters by historians, rhetoricians, and art/photography/film critics, as well as a wide range of visual texts, including paintings, cartoons, photographs, video/film, and computer graphics. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the course is to help evaluate the semiotic and rhetorical complexities and complicities of visual texts with the same kind of intensity that is typically reserved for written or oral texts. Course assignments will include : (1) journal entries on class readings, writings, and discussions; (2) three or four short essays (3-5 pp.) analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating specific visual representations or war; and (3) a group project addressed to an audience outside of the class and designed to communicate the problems and paradoxes posed by the visual representation of war in a liberal- democratic polity.


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Bucs recast bullpen to build depth elsewhere
Pirates make three deals involving relievers to fill other needs
By Jennifer Langosch / MLB.com
After releasing Brendan Donnelly on Thursday and dealing D.J. Carrasco earlier in the day, general manager Neal Huntington traded his two other veteran relievers -- Javier Lopez and Octavio Dotel -- just before Saturday's 4 p.m. ET Trade Deadline.
The subtraction left a considerable void in the bullpen for the immediate time being. But looking past the 2010 season -- which is already a lost one in terms of results -- Huntington expressed plenty of enthusiasm in the players snagged in return.
The final two deals on Saturday gave the Pirates four young players. Right-hander James McDonald, 26, and outfielder Andrew Lambo, 21, came from the Dodgers in exchange for Dotel. The Giants sent over right-hander Joseph Martinez, 27, and outfielder John Bowker, 27, to acquire Lopez.
McDonald is the only one of the four immediately headed to Pittsburgh, where it appears he'll eventually work into a starting role.
"Obviously with [Daniel] McCutchen, [Zach] Duke, [Ross] Ohlendorf, [Paul] Maholm and [Jeff] Karstens, we've got five guys in the rotation," Huntington said. "We'll make evaluations as we move forward, but we acquired James McDonald because we believe he can be a quality Major League starting pitcher."
McDonald spent most of 2009 with the Dodgers, though that hasn't been the case this season. He went 6-1 with a 4.41 ERA in 12 starts with Triple-A Albuquerque this season and had been called up just 12 days ago.
In 53 career big league appearances (five starts) with Los Angeles, McDonald was 5-6 with a 4.11 ERA. He struck out 63 and walked 40 in 76 2/3 innings.
Martinez, the other right-hander acquired by the Pirates, is headed to Triple-A Indianapolis, where he will be stretched back out to be a starter after being used recently as a reliever with the Giants.
This year, Martinez made four appearances with San Francisco and spent the rest of the time in the Triple-A rotation. With Triple-A Fresno, Martinez went 5-3 with a 3.32 ERA in 14 games (13 starts).
Pittsburgh's other two pickups improved the organization's outfielder depth. Bowker, who made his Major League debut with the Giants in 2008, has been sent to Triple-A. Andrew Lambo, once a prospect in the Dodgers' system, will report to Double-A Altoona.
Lambo's stock has dropped a bit since he was a fourth-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, but the fact that Lambo is just shy of his 22nd birthday has the Pirates believing he can still tap into that potential.
He entered the 2010 season as the Dodgers' top outfield prospect and seventh-best prospect overall, according to Baseball America. He was hitting .271 with 11 doubles, four homers and 25 RBIs in 47 games with Los Angeles' Double-A team.
Lambo missed 50 games earlier this season after testing positive for drug abuse.
"We did our due diligence, and we do feel comfortable that it's a mistake that a young man made and he's ready to move beyond it and tackle bigger and better challenges," Huntington said. "[He] got off to a great start this year ... It's a sweet left-handed swing, it's a quality hitter, and we think there's some developing power in there to go along with it."
Bowker has appeared in the Majors in parts of the last three seasons, though most of his big league at-bats came in 2008. He hit .255 with 10 homers and 43 RBIs in 11 games that season.
This year, Bowker was batting .310 with 14 homers and 36 RBIs in 51 games at the Triple-A level. He struggled in his time with the Giants, hitting only .207 with three homers and eight RBIs in 82 at-bats.
"It's a good bat that we wanted to add to the system," Huntington said. "Brandon Moss has swung the bat very well, and we've added another quality left-handed-hitting outfielder that could fit on the club as an extra outfielder. But we also have scouting reports not too long ago that have John Bowker as a potential everyday player."
Of these four acquisitions, all but Lambo were added to Pittsburgh's 40-man roster, which is now full.
While it could take years for the Pirates to evaluate the packages they received for a pair of late-inning relievers, the Pirates' current bullpen is likely to suffer during the final two months of the season as a result of Saturday's transactions. Three Pirates relievers combined to allow nine hits and seven runs in the 11-1 loss to the Cardinals on Saturday.
Dotel had converted 21-of-26 save opportunities this season, and his presence had allowed Joel Hanrahan and Evan Meek to thrive in setup roles. Lopez was the team's primary left-hander in the 'pen all year.
Both Dotel and Lopez will now try and help contending teams make a push toward the playoffs. Hanrahan and Meek, meanwhile, will compete for the Pirates' closer role.
"I'm going to go to the Dodgers and try to keep doing what I have done to help them to the playoffs," said Dotel, who learned he had been dealt by hearing the announcement on TV. "It's really, really nice. My last two months, I'm going to be on a contending team. I'm going to have a chance to go to the playoffs. Being in a pennant race is something I always like. I think where I'm going, that's a pretty good team to be [with]."
Though the bullpen entered Saturday ranked 11th in the National League with a 4.18 ERA, the veteran presence of the relievers traded away on Saturday wasn't to be understated. They had a significant influence on some of the club's younger bullpen arms, and the back end of the Pirates' bullpen could stand against many of the league's best.
That would explain why the rapid departure of more than half of the team's relief staff in the past week wasn't taken lightly.
"It's very disappointing," Meek said. "Geez, it's frustrating. Again, it's the business side of the game. All you can do is wish them the best and hope that they adapt and are happy with where they're at. I'm going to miss them very much."
"We had pride in our bullpen," added Hanrahan. "We were a close-knit group. We felt that we were one of the best ones in the league in doing our job. It's tough to see all the guys leave, and you lose a lot of experience, but, obviously, Neal has an idea of what he's doing. We've got to continue to go out there and get people out."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Please could you ID what I believe to be a bee mimic
No, I don't think it is a bee mimic. The wing venation points to it being a bee.
Specifically, I think it is Melecta albifrons, one of the two British 'cuckoo bees'.
M. luctuosa is similar, but considered likely to be extict in the UK
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Becky Wiegel, a WCI Corporate Division employee owner has been given additional management responsibilities in the Human Resources Department. In her new role, Becky will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the HR administrative employee owners, Amy Wagner, Judy Timmerman, Mark Koehler, and Emily Mashak. Pat Tobin will continue to report to Dan Marcue. Becky will also continue responsibilities for benefits and compensation functions and take on other high level managerial functions, while reporting to Dan Marcue.
"Becky has excelled in her role as the Benefits/Compensation Manager since joining WCI two and a half years ago. This promotion will allow her to take on a supervisory role and become even more valuable to the company. Becky has been a great addition to the Human Resources Department and I look forward to coaching her in her new role," stated Dan Marcue, Human Resources Director.
Prior to joining WCI she worked as the Employment/Benefits Specialist for Capital Newspapers in Madison, WI and had over 9 years of human resources experience. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse and maintains a Professional Human Resources certification from the Society of Human Resources Management.
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Following a nomination from a Two Rivers Marketing associate, The Des Moines Register partnered with Workplace Dynamics to survey associates and determine whether the Top Workplaces designation was warranted. Two Rivers Marketing placed in the top 25 in Iowa, for the small company division (50 to 149 employees). The recognition is not based on business volume or profits, but rather employee satisfaction with the organization. The program is designed to reward top employers that create environments where people want to work, and where employees become passionate about what they do. One, Two Rivers Marketing associates wrote "There is a very good mix of stability with good clients, strong parent-company backing, and proven strategies, along with a willingness to see new ideas and seek strong growth."
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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of today's defeat of the balanced budget amendment, the Concord Coalition Citizens Council is challenging the president and Congress to enact legislation that would balance the budget by 2002, even with out being forced to by a constitutional mandate.
"The last thing we need is another year of partisan demagoguery," said Concord Co-Chair Warren Rudman. "That's no substitute for action. Opponents of the amendment said they don't need a Constitutional mandate to achieve a balanced budget, and now they have a chance to prove it."
"With or without a Constitutional amendment, tough choices must be made on the budget," said Concord Executive Director Martha Phillips. "Unfortunately neither the president nor the Congressional leadership have proposed a plan that convinces us it would achieve balance by 2002, much less solve the far more severe long term problems looming ahead in coming decades when the baby boom generation retires."
While President Clinton sent a budget to Congress, it would fall significantly short of reaching balance by 2002, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO reported yesterday that under the President's basic policy proposals, the deficit would climb from $107 billion last year to $145 billion in 1998 and would show a $69 billion deficit in 2002.
For their part, Congressional Republicans have introduced tax cut legislation but have yet to announce even a schedule for developing a balanced budget plan. Instead they are concen- trating on exposing flaws in the president's budget.
"Partisan attacks and deceptive packaging won't help solve the problem," said Timothy Penny (D-MN), Policy Chairman of Concord's Board of Directors. "The time has come for the hard political work of developing a substantive plan on which both sides can agree. Otherwise the current window of opportunity afforded us by low deficit projections and a healthy economy will slam shut with people still talking about the shape of the bargaining table."
If Congress and the president fail to reach a balanced budget agreement this year, Concord plans to challenge members who opposed the balanced budget amendment to reconsider their position and take another vote on the constitutional amendment next year.


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Discussion in 'Junior League & Tournament Talk' started by jgmellor, Jan 11, 2013.
From Russia With Topspin
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what do we have here:
the older kids playing with Dunlop FORT a ball that is designed for red clay, it is heavy and hard, while playing on Hard court
the younger kids are playing with babolat Mid, which is the same as dunlop green ball. They are also using foam balls, no red no orange. which is what I did.
SO there you have it,,,,,,,,,,
Good read, and video, like this line......
"An Audi, a Lexus and a BMW are parked in one of Spartak's lots. An Acura approaches the gate and unloads three kids, all of whom sling Babolat bags over their shoulders. The promised cold front has arrived, but so has the sun, which is reflecting brightly off the hood ornaments, making these new-model cars impossible to ignore"
as tennis becomes more expensive in Russia will be interesting to see what effect it has on their tennis talent at the top.
Agreed. Great read and thanks for posting. I suspect the expensive of tennis will likely have the same impact as it does in the U.S., hence why tennis is generally not an equal opportunity sport.
When I read that I thought the same thing.
yep kids already playing with phones and ipads in the photos
What effect? Right now there are no Russian boys or girls in Top-25 ITF rankings. Kazakhstan meanwhile is introducing tennis training in elementary and middle schools.
The feeling is that hunger builds champions. When co$t$ keep the most driven kids out, You fail to find your best players. Also, as other outlets are available to young athletes, fewer choose tennis.
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CARSON, Calif. -- A few notes and observations from Monday's 4-0 Reserve League victory for the LA Galaxy over the Portland Timbers.
*The big news was of course, Landon Donovan's impressive 33 minute appearance. Donovan went into further detail about his Reserve League "debut" on the Insider blog.
*With his goal in the 82nd minute, Jack McBean became the Galaxy's Reserve League leading scorer with three goals and one assist in seven appearances. McBean is in a three-way tie for the overall goal scoring lead with Chad Barrett and Jose Villarreal.
*Christian Wilhelmsson went 57 minutes in his second Reserve League match, picking up his second yellow card in a solid performance, playing primarily at left midfield.
*Once again, Rafael Garcia and Kenney Walker formed an accomplished partnership in the center of the midfield for the Galaxy. Should the Galaxy give the two rookie midfielders another look in next week's CONCACAF Champions League match in Puerto Rico? Perhaps.
*Portland's Kris Boyd struggled to get going against Galaxy defenders Andrew Boyens and Tommy Meyer, who blanketed the Scot forward. Curious to see if he stays with the Timbers next season as he seems out of favor at the moment.
*Brian Rowe made his first Reserve League start in goal for the Galaxy and was solid, going 90 minutes and earning a shutout.
*The Timbers featured a pair of guest players, Uruguayan midfielder Pablo Di Fiori and forward Cam Vickers.
*With their win, the Galaxy are just one point behind the San Jose Earthquakes in the West Division standings with 16 and 17 points respectively. Both sides play one more match with the Earthquakes playing their last reserve match against the Seattle Sounders on September 25th at StarFire Sports Complex, while the Galaxy play their final Reserve League match of the season on October 12th against the Vancouver Whitecaps at The Home Depot Center.


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so what's everyone got on their radars for 2013?
I've got some Arrow, Last Resort, and Elementary. And of course waiting on old favs to restart like BB, GoT, Walking Dead, etc
but is there anything totally new not happening in Aus yet worth looking at?
I'm not sold on any of the 'new' stuff, but aside from Game Of Thrones, I've got Californication (which is a little bit like flogging a dead horse) and Sons of Anarchy on my radar for '13.
I've just finished watching Walking Dead S2... man it was much s***tier than S1 was. and I hope 3 picks up quite a bit.
Last Resort got cancelled so you won't be watching it for long. I'm looking forward to seeing the final seasons of Breaking Bad and Dexter.
I'm not sure on Elementary, will give it a look to see what the yanks can do, just don't think it will be as good as Sherlock.
Banshee starts in a week or two, might be worth a look, its from the guys who made True Blood and Six Feet Under
Last Resort
there's only like 3 episodes of that left. it got canned.
I've just finished watching Walking Dead S2... man it was much s***tier than S1 was. and I hope 3 picks up quite a bit.
just skip to season 3 if you're not liking season 2. season 3 is f*****g awesome.
i'll be watching arrow, being human, community, doctor who, elementary, game of thrones, spartacus, fringe (only 3 eps left), person of interest, revenge, revolution, vampire diaries, walking dead, true blood, HIMYM, big bang, tron uprising and falling skies.
also the following and cult look kind of cool
and bates motel may be good too
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Sickbeard says I'll be watching Archer, Arrow, Being Human, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Californication, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Grimm, Homeland, Justified, Mad Men, Magic City, Modern Family, Mrs Brown's Boys, Parks and Recreation, Sons of Anarchy, South Park, Spartacus, The Borgias, The League, and The Walking Dead.
Ooh Bates Motel looks great, like Smallville but about the villain. And the guy playing Norman Bates looks like the Sandy Hook school shooter.
Last Resort got cancelled ? -_-
Andre Braugher is a great Actor.
That Kevin Bacon show looks good, The Following.
Breaking Bad jumped the shark after Gus got killed.
Homeland and the Walking Dead for me.
Boardwalk Empire
Sons of Anarchy
Mad Men
Game of Thrones
Last Resort there's only like 3 episodes of that left. it got canned.
oh right. i only watched EP1 so far anyway. wasn't totally taken but was prepared to give it a few more eps to see.
i started SoA but it didn't grab me either. but from what i've heard it really gets going so i may revisit this one.
Others I've started and not followed through on are, Fringe, Boardwalk Empire, Warehouse 13. not because of interest just slackness. oh and another i liked was The Tudors, it's also in the not followed up cat but looked good the eps i did watch.
i really like Person of Interest, Homeland, WD 3, Dex, all up to date so will definitely be following the new seasons of these.
an oldy on our radar is The Sopranos. never really watched it in full so me and the wife have this scheduled in for 2013.
oh an Grimm gets an honourable mention, we enjoy it.
I'm not sure on Elementary, will give it a look to see what the yanks can do, just don't think it will be as good as Sherlock.
Theres already about six or seven episodes of it out if you want to check it out. Its not as good as Sherlock, but I still liked it. It probably took a couple of episodes for the characters to grow on me a bit and for me to stop comparing it to the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes, but after that I enjoyed it, I'm keen to see more of it. Has a completely different feel to the british one though, its more like a police procedural type show with Sherlock Holmes solving the cases.
Game of Thrones is probably top of my list, along with Arrow (which turned out so much better than I was expecting), and the final episodes of Breaking Bad and Fringe. Sons of Anarchy I'm a bit on the fence about, I thought the last season was a bit hit and miss. Had some really good bits, but other parts of the show are just starting to get stale, so hopefully they really mix it up a bit and keep it fresh next season. Also was disappointed they never found an excuse to have Pope scream out "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTT"
Oh and I'm kinda curious to see how that Sci-fi show with the MMO tie-in works too, Defiance I think its called?
Lost Girl
mmm, first show I've wanted to pound the side lick more than the star....
season 3 of walking dead is awesome, blue balling for the next ep in february
Ripper Street featuring everyone's the bamf Bronn. Has a similar feel to Copper, based in Whitechapel just after the Jack the Ripper murders
Lost Girl
Is there a new Spartacus?
Suits is definitely what I'm hanging out for the most, followed by Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead.
I'm also enjoying Grimm and Go On
Is there a new Spartacus?
yeah it's the final season called war of the damned.
Lost Girl
I'd do them both, menage....I think the side kick would squeal and the lead moan.....
Oh and the Doc, a troika
Breaking Bad and Seinfeld and Simpsons repeats.
I'll be watching sweet f*** all because every time I try to download an ISO I get
Is it downloading to a temp folder or something without enough space on it?
How I met your mother
Burn Notice
Mad Men
Big Bang Theory
Criminal Minds
fpot - no just everything has been ripped from newsgroups. I need spook to come through with his invite.
tried manually extracting ticman? i was getting blocks short on shows but they would manually extract fine.
Nah haven't bothered, it's massive chunks of data missing like a few hundred MB.
Only show I was really having that problem with was Arrow, everything else was fine for me. Guess it might depend how quickly it gets taken down too I spose.
Just watched first ep of 1600 Penn and it was alright
oh, i didn't realise that was available. will check it out.
i sent you an invite already ticcles my man!
ill send you another one.
(check your spams bro)
arrested development
been meaning to watch it for a while, getting on it now during down time.
f*** spook, you are behind the times with that!! AD is all sorts of awesome
get onto Better off Ted is good too, no idea why it was canned :/
there is talk of a new season of ad!
they're already filming the new season of arrested development.
If you like AD get into Bored to Death it is also very awesome. Ted Danson is great in it.
Just a heads up that "Bates Motel" (mentioned earlier in the thread) has started.
The Vikings is pretty good.
Elementary is ok, nothing on Sherlock, but I enjoy watching it, same as arrow, nothing special but not too bad.
Both are awesome
The Americans -
Centers on Russian deep-cover spies operating in the United States in the 1980s.
House of Cards -
Francis Underwood is Majority Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become President.
Falling Skies
Game of Thrones
Walking Dead
SUITS!!! <-- Can't wait for this!
Still Breaking Bad and Simpsons and Seinfeld reruns (mainly Seinfeld).
Why is Suits so awesome? One show simply doesn't deserve to be as awesome as Suits is.
Adding to our communal list
8 out of 10 cats
Top Gear
The biggest loser, the block and my kitchen rules.
Mkr is the only cooking show I half watch, mostly because the judges aren't nasty, but editing is really pushing it with the contestants, hey 'babes'.
game of thrones in less than 2 weeks!
Really need to start watching Game of Thrones properly, been putting it off in hopes of someday reading the books but I think that just won't happen.
Other shows I'm currently watching:
Community (heartily recommend, greatest comedy ever (besides Arrested Development))
Breaking Bad
Some random anime I need to catch up on
Tempted to watch this Merlin show, apparently its okay
Just a heads up that "Bates Motel" (mentioned earlier in the thread) has started.
First ep was great and not exactly what I was expecting, but still very entertaining.
It doesn't capture the tension of pyscho but it's looking to still be a decent origin story.
Mkr is the only cooking show I half watch, mostly because the judges aren't nasty, but editing is really pushing it with the contestants, hey 'babes'.
that s*** is out of control. mkr production got super greedy and they've pretty much ruined it.
i'm pretty sure the editing isn't somehow exaggerating how often those Asian birds say babes...
Lol, no she says it a lot, but the cattiness is going too far :(
I was going to say, hadn't seen Community mentioned much but it came up towards the end, I heartily recommend it. One of the funniest shows on TV.
Other then that, Walking Dead, Homeland, HIMYM, Futurama - I haven't had time to get into anything else.
I still need to watch Breaking Bad, Broadwalk Empire, Bored to Death, then get into the rest.
Why is no-one watching psych? that show is awesome
also hell on wheels by amc is a very good show
psych is better than the f*****g mentalist ripoff
I was going to say, hadn't seen Community mentioned much but it came up towards the end, I heartily recommend it. One of the funniest shows on TV.
let me guess, you've only watched season 1 and the first couple of eps of season 2
Well that was weird, was just listening to Tron legacy, the game has changed on winamp, closed it to watch that GoT Trailer #2. Its the same song. Thought my sound was glitching.
Bored to Death
This is one of the funniest shows ever!
its all changed
Viper119 - You should be watching Archer.
Yeah, it sucks Bored to Death was canceled, it was great.
Person of Interest
Chicago Fire
Justified (last few eps have been awesome)
Parks and Rec
The Office (got to see it through now)
Can't wait for Game of Thrones to start back up.
@Spook No I've seen all seasons, 1 to 3. Waiting for S4 to get quite a few eps in before I start. Still think its pretty tops!
@Mantorok Yes! I have been watching Archer, totally forgot it. It's awesome, I need to start on S4.
I also left out Party Down which I thought was pretty funny, only 2 seasons.
haha, yer we watched partydown, pretty weird show;
had funny bits.
didnt know there was a second season, will go grab it;
let me guess, you've only watched season 1 and the first couple of eps of season 2
Not sure what you are getting at here? From season 1 through to the all new season 4 episodes it s a great comedy, definitely a lot better then Big Bang Theory.
Not sure what you are getting at here? From season 1 through to the all new season 4 episodes it s a great comedy, definitely a lot better then Big Bang Theory.
talking about community?
how about it completely lost its way and the funny?
the first season was awesome, some of the best sitcom ive watched.
season two started out strong, finished completely wtf.
season three was s***, it barely survived being cancelled.
season 4 has been ok, it wont be back for season 5 unless they can pick it up though is my prediction.
season 3 of community was the best. season 4 has been pretty good even without dan harmon.
season 3 of community was the best
you're on durgs bro
Top of the Lake looks good: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/03/top-lake-and-bates-motel-review/63291/
don't get the web-dl though, the nudity and swearing are censored and apparently that's very off putting
been briefly mentioned by a couple of people in this thread but the new history channel show, vikings, is pretty rad. rape and pillage a plenty.
very loosely based on the viking hero Ragnar Lothbrok who was pretty boss, he actually raided and captured Paris in 845.
my first thoughts were "vikings and history channel, ugh," but it's actually quite good. main guy is australian too.
Hell on wheels is not bad
I enjoyed Hell on Wheels.
We met Colin Ferguson (Eureka) in the Virgin Lounge in Adelaide on Monday. Cool dude we had a good chat.
I told him we'd "bought" the series and were only up to Season 3, he reckons 4 & 5 were their best.
He was heading back to LA for a casting call. Also told us the guys from Warehouse 13 were there doing some promo.
Was a fun experience except not many friends or rellies know who he is so the story falls flat. Heathens!
it's kind of cool that eureka, warehouse 13 and alphas share the same universe. also they need to do a warehouse 13 and haven crossover imo.


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Hello ladies and gentlemen.
I have been playing with the idea of writing a simple BASIC parser/interpreter, something that would somewhat like Dartmouth BASIC in terms of supported commands, functions, syntax and operators. I've previously had experience writing expression parsers for math(and logic) expressions written in infix notation. I've also implemented a few data structures along the way(singly/doubly linked list, queues, stacks, circular buffers etc.)
So I'm in not new to C++, I'm just clueless as to what I'm supposed to look at to get started with this. I know about recursive decent parsers, but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for this application. Could anyone give me some pointers?
Obviously I know there are a million different BASIC dialects out there, so I could just use any of these if I wanted to write something in BASIC, but this is mainly for my own entertainment/learning. So therefore I'm not looking for a parser generator either, I'm looking for information on how to go about this, on my own.(Possibly with help from this forum if I get stuck)
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The crime happened on Saturday near the San Jacinto Mall on Garth Road. Police said a man approached three others, pointed a gun at them, and demanded them to open their trunk.
According to reports, the man had followed them across the street from the mall where they'd just purchased two pairs of new basketball shoes.
The victims said they identified the suspect's license plate, which led police to a house in Channelview.
"Ultimately, [we] got a search warrant for the residence and were able to identify the folks inside," said Lt. Eric Freed with the Baytown Police Department. "[We were able to] recover the victims' shoes and cell phones, which were taken during the robbery."
Police arrested 18 year-old Ellmean Wolfe at the house and charged him with robbery.
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|2011-07-22, 23:07
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Was it just one guy with a gun, or were explosives involved? Cause from what shooting I've done...that's a lot of bullets to try and get out...plus moving targets...plus the chance that people are going to be attempting to stop you (and you needing to prevent them from stopping you, which means either lots of loaded guns, lots of clips, or really good intimidation skills).
|2011-07-22, 23:26
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Location: Philadelphia, Pa
It's like they don't use anything that the government provides like the highway, public transportation, garbage collection, etc. A lot of people contribute to program that they themselves will never benefit from. That is part of being a society.
I think teachers get a bad rap. Certainly there are a few with some issues but the do a decent job for piss poor pay. If you think teachers are making bank you're delusional. If you cut their pay more down all your going to do is lose more of the qualified ones who will find better paying jobs not that we already aren't. And in the end of it they get treated like shit and everything that goes wrong with a children has to do with them, not the apathetic parents who spend most of their days more concerned with making a buck than rearing their children.
|2011-07-22, 23:56
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apparently, it was a guy with a gun, lots of ammo, and an almost completely isolated environment to operate in for a prolonged period of time.
how good your intimidation skills are rarely a factor when your victims are children.
|2011-07-23, 00:10
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Hi, I'm from Norway, and I've been doing pretty much nothing except following this story today, so I'll tell you what I know.
Explosives were planted at the camp, but were not detonated. All of the killings were done with guns. He's known to own a rifle, a handgun and a shotgun, but I've not seen reports on which of these he used, except for the handgun. Witnesses have also said that they saw an automatic weapon.
I'll just give a brief description of the situation for those who don't know, and perhaps to shed some light on why he was able to carry it out on such a large scale.
The people at the camp were almost exclusively teenagers or very young adults. The perpetrator came disguised as a police officer, using the explosion in Oslo as an excuse to perform a routine security procedure. It should also be stated that most people in Norway do not own guns, and certainly one would not bring one to a summer camp. The act of murder, and even violent crime, is incredibly low; people are not used to it, and do not expect it. It is also important to understand that this was a tiny, tiny island, used almost exclusively for camp activities. There were not many places to run. He is not known to have any military training, except for the mandatory 1 year military service that is mandatory (though fairly easy to get out of if you really want to) in Norway. I've read that he enjoyed hunting, but strangely only on English-speaking news sites, so I cannot vouch for its veracity.
He was motivated by an extreme right-wing nationalistic ideology. More specifically, he is said to be an anti-internationalist. Norway's current government is liberal, and the youth political camp he attacked was organized by The Norwegian Labor Party (Arbeiderpartiet; AP for short.)
The eye-witness testimonies that have been released thus far are almost unbelievable. He is said to have acted in a very calm and composed manner, showing no mercy. At one point he was situated on top of a cliff, firing at people who had thrown themselves into the ocean, attempting to swim away from the island. People were running over corpses and hiding desperately under rocks, seaside caverns and so forth.
It goes without saying that this is an unprecedented event in Norwegian history, but this will also be, if I'm not mistaken, the largest killing spree by any individual in modern history. And that's without accounting for the fact that the number will probably rise through the night as the waters are searched for corpses. This cowardly butchering of innocent youngsters will go down in history.
Lastly, I have some personal information about the shooter, if anyone for some reason want to know. He plays World of Warcraft, likes classical music. He also started his own ecological farm a couple of years ago, and it is suspected that he used this business as a way to get his hands on high quantities of fertilizers (I'm not sure if this is the correct term in English) which he might have used to assemble the explosives. Lastly, he admired Winston Churchill and Max Manus. (The latter is a Norwegian war hero famous for his resistance and sabotage operations during World War II.) A friend of his has reported that he became a right-wing extremist in his late twenties. He is now 32. He was also seen in Oslo when the explosion went off, and the police see clear links between the two events. It is at this point unknown (or unreleased, at least) if he had assistance or acted alone.
If you got any questions, feel free to ask.
|2011-07-23, 00:16
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All I can say is that this sociopath used the Columbine solution for his personal problems, and looks more like he installed the bombs before making the run to the camp. More likely the police or the army might have to put him out of his misery with bullets, but I prefer him to be alive and needed to face the scrutiny of the world.
|2011-07-23, 00:18
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how the fuck does a guy who's supposedly extremely nationalistic justify murdering nearly 100 of his own nations children ?
|2011-07-23, 00:22
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|2011-07-23, 00:29
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Are the speculations regarding the link between the two incidents coming from only the media or from police statements?
And if it means anything, please be safe.
|2011-07-23, 00:46
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but still, thats not the same as killing your own country's children on mass.
|2011-07-23, 00:46
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Not surprised that you would show up and be responding to my posts. Considering you and I are complete opposites on our view of America and it's citizens.
|2011-07-23, 00:49
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It does mean a lot to know that people care. Thanks.
|2011-07-23, 00:57
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"I've got it"
"i'll promote MY ideals in the public eye by murdering dozens of Norwegian children"
"thats BOUND to make people understand how wrong the Liberals are"
I know its been said that Norway has no death sentence, but can't they make an exception just this once ?
|2011-07-23, 01:01
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So is this guy the Norwegian equivalent of Timothy McVeigh?
Also note that most victims of Islamic terrorism are Moslems.
Terrorists always strike their own people the hardest.
|2011-07-23, 01:02
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blinded by blood
You do realize that it's in this country's best interest to have me as an economic asset rather than an economic burden, right? An engineer is a lot more useful to the economy of the nation than a burger-flipper.
Trust and believe if I could put myself through school, I would be doing so. Trust and believe that if I could be working a full-time job right now, I would be doing so.
I cannot. I have spent THREE YEARS LOOKING FOR WORK. I have found nothing. So I do what I can. I root Android devices and jailbreak iPhones and do spyware removal for grocery money, but that's not enough to even pay rent, much less my books, tuition, campus fees, transportation, etc.
I bust my fucking ass just to stay alive so idiots like you can scream and holler about tax cuts for people who spend more money on an Armani suit than I spend in an entire year.
If you don't want to be part of society, then leave society. Go live in the woods like the fucking Unabomber. And you do understand that what I'm getting are loans, right? They have to be paid back, with interest.
Holy doodoo you and your teabagger buddies are such d-bags it makes my ears burn.
"SCREW YOU, I GOT MINE" amirite?
|2011-07-23, 01:06
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Edit: Against the death penalty in general, but yes, exceptions are tempting when dealing with monsters who indiscriminately slaughter over 80 young people.
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|2011-07-23, 01:10
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I work 60 hours a week or more, depending on the work load. I've had one vacation in over 6 years, and have one day off a week through-out. Hell I was working before I had my driver's license 15 years ago. And I'll be working until I'm 80 the way our Government is fucking everything up for the rest of us. So pardon me if I don't feel sorry for you and your story. Yes keep calling us names if it makes you feel better. Must make you feel like a big man using the words tea baggers, douche-bags, etc. Meanwhile, the people you support keep ripping the rest of us off, then keep wanting more of what we've worked for every year. Because you obviously are entitled to our labor.
Yes sir master. Let me work another 10 hours this week for you. Whatever you say Master. I'm just a worker who exists for you. No Master, I don't need that over-time pay, you can have it for whatever you think is worthy.
|2011-07-23, 01:13
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 40
Can I laugh at the contrast in opinions on the system within just a single State in the Union? A state I live in no less. I don't think any other state can even come close to understanding California.
Funny thing is I can and do see both sides of the arguement and both are valid. All depends on ones own situation. (And prehaps point of view)
Also I'm starting to think this is actually the plan, to make us argue with each other more than unify against any common cause. Whatever that cause might be.
But then Americans do have problems unifying on anything that isn't an external threat...internal threats are much more difficult for us to combat due to our extreme differences of opinion that we have every right to have.
|2011-07-23, 01:29
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blinded by blood
I'm sure plenty of countries would love to have an EE they didn't even have to pay to educate!
Wouldn't that be awesome? I could stick you guys with the bill for my education and you wouldn't even benefit from it!
Edit: Oh yeah, I'm not a man. That just makes you even more pissed-off, doesn't it?
|2011-07-23, 01:44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
It's great you did all those things. Take pride it in but I don't see the point of using it to look down on others. We all have different life situations. Things aren't simple in which we are all born with the same challenges and follow the same road but I think society should contribute to helping everyone and their is a moral obligation for those who are in a situation to help uplift others to do so.
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Peres: Ahmadinejad is a "joke"
Israeli President Shimon Peres, in a radio interview on Monday, called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "joke" and added the Iranian leader appeared to worship "the bomb more than he's worshipping the God in heaven."
Peres told U.S. National Public Radio that a united front by the international community could stop Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.
Peres said Ahmadinejad was "an unbelievable joke", adding the Iranian president "claims he's religious." "My impression is that in his eyes the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah, than the God in heaven. He's worshipping the bomb more than he's worshipping the God in heaven," Peres said.
According to Peres, Iran has high unemployment and inflation. "All the attention is about the bomb, but people cannot live on a bomb," he said.


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The Drama of Jimmy Connors
New York
There he was, Jimmy Connors, and to be truthful, it was a little strange, to find the raffish tennis icon looking so refined—dignified, really—in the upstairs lounge of the Peninsula Hotel, a posh fortress of decorum off Fifth Avenue. He was dressed in a blazer, a tie and sharply-ironed slacks, and he was sipping an afternoon iced tea, calling no attention to himself. He politely introduced himself and summoned a waiter. Over more than an hour he never cursed or crudely gestured or spoke harshly of others. When his phone rang, he apologized for it ringing. When it rang again, he apologized again. He was a beacon of civility. Yeah: Jimmy Bleeping Connors, one of the best and brashest who ever was.
It is probably not accurate to say that Connors has found serenity—that word and Connors should never mix—but there is clearly a comfort, or at least a decompression that has come with aging. At 60 (60!), Connors is not the bowl-haircutted thumper who once stalked baselines at the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and elsewhere en route to eight career singles grand slams. But the hair is still brown, lightly parted, and there was a little simmer that lurked beneath those fine clothes, a competitive spirit that never really went away. Yes: Connors wishes he could still play professional tennis. He says he'd love to play Novak Djokovic, currently the world No. 1. Of course he would. "I like the way he plays, the effort he gives," Connors said of the Serbian champion. "He would be the one guy I would have loved to have played."
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If you saw Connors play tennis—furious, relentless, like a dog after a stick—you'd give him a chance. You'd probably give him much better than a chance.
Now there is an autobiography, in stores this week, called "The Outsider," and the title tells you everything in two words, how a man who is on every all-time list and helped define the sport still considers himself on the margins, of the club but not quite in the club. It's a chip that clung to Connors his whole career, from his upbringing in East St. Louis to his long stretch as world No. 1 to that magical stunner in Queens when a 39-year-old Connors clawed through five sets to beat Aaron Krickstein on his way to the Open semifinals. He viewed himself as an entertainer, which is an entirely different thing from being a crowd-pleaser. He could be rude and unlikable, but in his view, that dramatic tension helped lift tennis out of its country club cobwebs and into a brilliant stadium spectacle. To Connors, it didn't matter if you were for or against him—as long as you were up on your feet, spending that money, satisfied. "We had to be more than just tennis," Connors said, sipping at his iced tea. "We had to be something special, to get that fan to come watch what we did."
His style was not for everyone, and he knew this. Connors had already taken a public scolding for a personal detail in his book about his youthful relationship with the great women's champion Chris Evert, and there was something very Connors-ian about this episode, the barreling forward, and to heck with the blowback. At times, "The Outsider" reads both like a memoir and a riposte, a sharp two-handed backhand down the line from a champ who freely cops to selfishness, stubbornness and shortcomings as a husband. But the book is also curt and funny, a blast of golden-era detail. Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others—a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000). There are comical episodes of partying and mischief with characters like Ilie Nastase; admiration societies with everyone from John Wayne to Marlene Dietrich, even the jarring tidbit that Merv Griffin once considered Connors as Pat Sajak's replacement on Wheel of Fortune.
Not long ago, Andre Agassi published a thoughtful autobiography in which he revealed his simmering childhood hatred for the sport that propelled him to fame. Connors, a young star ushered into the sport by his late mother/adviser/coach, Gloria, carries no such regrets. The passion for tennis lingers. Fiercely. Late in "The Outsider," Connors offers that "writing this book almost pisses me off, because I have to go back and remember how I spent my life doing something that I loved, and now it's over."
There was that old edge, a hint of that memorable Connors growl. Connors was respectful about today's great players, admiring their talents and paychecks and athleticism (he had particular praise for Spain's David Ferrer, knocking at the door of the Big Four of Djokovic/Federer/Nadal/Murray.) But tennis is different now. Everybody knows it's different. It's polished. Pretty. Slick. Safe. Manicured for corporate suites. There was plenty of beautiful tennis today, but a wild and maddening and triumphant career like Jimmy Connors's will never happen again.
"Ain't it a shame?" Connors asked.
And it kind of was.
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Organic Valley today announced that Paul and Maureen Knapp of Cobblestone Valley Farm in Preble, NY, were recently named the 2012 Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) Farmers of the Year for their outstanding stewardship of the land and their contributions to the New York organic community. The couple and their three sons were recognized at the NOFA-NY Winter Conference on January 22nd in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Before heading to his home country of Ghana to spend his offseason, Crew forward Dominic Oduro sat down with TheCrew.com's Cody Sharrett for an exclusive Q&A after re-signing with the Black & Gold.
Cody Sharrett: The negotiation process really started as soon as the season ended and I'm sure there were other offers to consider, but what made Columbus and the Crew the right place to continue your career?
Dominic Oduro: First of all, the fans. They've been really supportive. I had a good run here last year. I want to continue what we did as a team last year and I think we have a good coach that will help us going forward.
We have a great team. It's unfortunate that we couldn't get to where we wanted to last year, but I feel like if the same guys are coming back, I want to be part of it. I think we'll have a strong case this year. I want to be a part of that, a part of that history.
CS: You've played various places throughout your MLS career, starting in Dallas, then New York, Houston and Chicago before landing with the Crew last year. What's been different about Columbus?
DO: I think we have a great locker room. That's one thing, as a player, you always feel good when the locker room is great. The guys are fantastic. We joke around a lot, but when it comes to soccer, everyone is serious. Everyone is competitive. We're a team that can compete. We had our ups and downs last season, but I think in the end we played better soccer. We finished really strong. Not the way we wanted, but I thought the soccer was great. And again, the fans were fantastic.
I also had a great season. If things are going your way, you want to continue that. These are a few of things that made it easy to come back with the Crew for the long run.
CS: Some may say "Oduro was in a contract year last year. Of course he's going to score a career-high in goals." How do you keep that momentum going now that you don't have the pressure of playing for a contract?
DO:[laughs] It means I'll be more focused. You're always competing for your job, every day. Obviously, I've set a high standard and I have to live up to it. It's going to be hard work. I just have to do what I have to do and help the team win games. Whatever I achieve will come through that process, but the team is always first.
It's all about the team. Individual achievement will come if I help the team.
CS: What kind of goals do you have, personally and with the team, with the Crew?
DO: As a team, we have to make the playoffs. That was our goal last year and we couldn't achieve it. The fans want it. As a team that has won MLS Cup before, I think it is our duty to make the playoffs every season. That is really key. Every team wants to make the playoffs. We have the guys. Hopefully we bring in a couple of guys to make the team even stronger. I'm here to help the team win games, make the playoffs and hopefully make a run at the championship. It starts with preparation: how we do in preseason, how we deal with games in season and everything else will follow. Winning should be a mentality that is there all the time.
CS: When Josh Williams re-signed, he said his first few meetings with Gregg Berhalter reassured him of wanting to return to Columbus. What are your impressions of Gregg and his vision for the Crew?
DO: It's always good to have a player's coach. He was a player, he knows the system. He played in MLS. He knows how it is. He played soccer his whole life. He has the idea of what it takes to get into games, to get prepared. I sat down with him not too long ago talking about gameplans and my role and his role with the team going forward. It was really positive. It's reassuring as a player knowing a coach has an idea of where he wants to team to go and your role as part of the team.
Stuff like that gives you confidence. It really motivates you. You know things are going in the right direction. I'll re-emphasize, he was a player before, so he knows that winning should be a must all of the time. Also, the experience he's had coaching in Europe, you see that as a positive. I think he'll push us forward, but us players have to work with him.
CS: You're versatile, able to play on the wing or up top. Where do you see yourself playing? Or does it really matter as long as you're on the field?
DO: [laughs] I think if you ask any player he'll say he wants to play all the time, no matter where. I want to play up top, but I've had success on the wing. It's something Gregg and I have talked about. I'm ready, wherever he wants me to play. I'll be ready. If he wants me to play rightback, for example. If he wants me to learn the position to help the team win. I'll be good to go. I'm here. I'll be ready where ever the coach needs me to go. He'll show me the right direction and I'll work as hard as possible to get there.


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I am having some difficulties with the little orange banners labelled "Neu" ( = new) on my new website.
It seems that IE8 can't read the :after pseudo class properly, so the banners appear behind the images. Can anybody help me with that?
Thanks for any help.
P.S: In all other browsers it looks fine, as usual.
IE8 shoudl render BOTH before and after pseudo elements correctly and w/o the need for .js. If the "neu" banners are generated pseudo elements, and they are THERE , then IE has already done it's job.
I believe what you actually are seeing is a stacking order issue. I suggest you give the pseudo element a z-index:999 ; or something like that, and that should help bring that banners forward.
Though, I would prolly still call this a bug on IE8's part, cause normally any abso-po'd child of a rel-po'd container should automagically have a higher stacking context than any other child in the container.
The image child, who comes before the fake :after child, should not be able to stack higher than the :after child anyways. In fact, in the recent CSSOff contest, where I needed a :before child to sit underneath all the other children who came later in the container, I had to give all those other children pos-rel and a z-index just to keep them on top. Which makes sense. It worked in IE8 too.
Hmm strange, I still can't get this to work. I've already tried z-index on various parent and child elements, but nothing changes...
the orange ribbons that I have on my new website are not displayed properly in Internet Explorer 8. I am using
to put them on top of my images but they appear behind them! This is clearly a fault on IE's side, but I don't know how to fix it. I've already tried using
position: relative;
and z-index on all the related elements, but to no avail
Can anybody help me with this?
That's a nasty IE8 bug and it always puts the image on top of the pseudo contents background (not its foreground content like text).
Here's the reduced demo.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
a.new:after {
background: red;
content: " ";
display: block;
height: 32px;
position: absolute;
right: -2px;
top: -2px;
width: 32px;
z-index: 999;
a.new {
/*a.new img{position:relative;z-index:-1}*/

You could set the image to a negative z-index and it will work in that small example above but not in your page as it puts the image under the background so can't be used.
You could instead supply a uri for the image rather than use as background image and stacking issues should be rectified although you won't be able to use your sprite.
a.new:after {
display: block;
height: 32px;
position: absolute;
right: -5px;
top: -5px;
width: 32px;
z-index: 999;
Just a suggestion, but instead of
content: ' ';
content: " ";
Not working
Hey Paul,
Thanks for your help. So are you saying that this problem can't be solved in IE8 at all?
I played with negative z-indices, set a URI for the image, and also used the clip-property to crop the image. But nothing really works... :-(((( Do you have any more ideas?
This is why on elements like that I suck it up and throw in a sandbag span. :after can't be trusted so long as IE8 and lower are still on the table... and even then I've had headaches with it in FF too, so it doesn't get a lot of use for overlapping elements from me.
Of course with the bloated train wreck html 5 shiv nonsense, nonsensical/nonexistant headings, STRONG tags around elements that shouldn't be recieving emphasis, and a general ice-skating uphill with things that just aren't ready for use on production websites, I'm a little surprised that's your biggest issue with the page... the whitespace compression to hide how bad the markup is just making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong with it too.
My advice: pitch it in the trash and use RECOMMENDATION technologies with semantic markup to build the page -- probably shave 2k off the markup in the process even with white-space added back in.
If you had just invested two minutes of your time you would have seen that [my site does in fact validate perfectly in all sorts of [URL="http://validator.w3.org/"]validators](http://2012.designbits.de). This proves that my markup is clearly not "wrong".
If the headings don't make sense to you, that's probably because they're in German. Sorry about that, but my audience is based in Germany. I can't really build the entire site from scratch just because you don't understand it.
The whitespace bothers me too, but it's largely down to the XSLT content management system behind it. I am still looking for ways to solve this. I never claimed that this site is ready yet, that's why I am still using a subdomain for it. I hope this makes things more clear to you.
The uri for the image worked for me. I tried it with firebug on your live site using the code I gave you and it worked fine. What problems do you have with it apart from creating a new image?
There was no other solution for IE8 as it seems to render the replacement image element always on top of the background of the generated content no matter what you do. That's why the uri worked because it is effectively foreground content. If you add some text to the generated content you van see that the text stays on top. Only the background goes under.
ok, I am using this code now (I had some difficulties getting the clip property to work):
a.new:after {
display: block;
position: absolute;
width: 330px;
height: 160px;
top: -122px;
right: -120px;
content: url(../images/sprite.png);
clip: rect(120px, 220px, 160px, 180px);
z-index: 999;
It works across all browsers, except in IE8. So it's just like before.
Why do you think it's necessary to create a new image for it? Shouldn't it be working with my sprite and the clip property as well?
Also just because it's valid doesn't make it right... Validation is just the FIRST STEP towards good practices.
No, it's because you have broken heading orders; REGARDLESS of what language the content is... mostly due to the element being the h1 not looking like the parent heading for all content on the page... though did you edit it; you appear to have h2 tags where FF's web dev toolbar was saying missing headings...
Another technology I'd never use... Solution, don't use XSLT, it's slow, wasteful and inefficient in most cases. Much like the pointless HTML 5...
NOT that there's any reason for XSLT to be whitespace stripping...
It's fine by me if you hate HTML5. But you make it look like I invented HTML5. I didn't! Neither am I the first person to actually use it.
According to my stats only 2% of my visitors are using IE7 or below. 97% are using Webkit browsers or Firefox or Opera. So there's no need to cater for too many legacy browsers. If I was to build the next Facebook I would probably do so in HTML4. At least we agree on that one.
As for XSLT, you should check out Symphony CMS. I've already built a number of sites with it and it's actually pretty cool. It's definitely not slow!
OK, I think I've got the solution. It's a bit ugly but it degrades beautifully.
Instead of this
I am simply using this
The double colon notation is implemented by all "good" browsers. Only IE8 and lower can't read them.
This means that the ribbon is simply hidden in those browsers. But that's no problem at all since the ribbon is not strictly necessary from the reader's point of view.
Thanks for your help everybody.
P.S: If anybody comes up with a better solution, please let me know!!
Edit: I just figured that the z-index is still necessary with the double colon notation to make it work in good browsers:
a.new::after {
z-index: 99;
Seems I may have lead you up the garden path here as I can no longer get it to work either and unfortunately I deleted the previous code I was testing with so I don't know if it was me or something has changed. I'll keep testing but what I tried before doesn't seem to be working so it looks like you'll have to add an element in the htm for IE8. (Ie8 does't use CSS expressions or you could polyfill it quite easily.)
Sorry if I delayed you.
Look above, I just posted the solution. In fact it makes me a little proud that I found it before the grand-master himself this time
Thanks very much for your help.
I just realised why the code wasn't working and I had this rule in place also.
a.new img.frame{position:static}
That will allow the content uri to sit on top of the image but I couldn't make clip work with it also.


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Rox rally from nine down to sweep Braves
By Joey Nowak / MLB.com
Insurmountable becomes expected. A matter of "if" simply becomes "when?"
At this point, just add Wednesday's improbable 12-10 sweep-clinching win against Atlanta to the list.
Unthinkable. Thrilling. Record book material. Check, check and check.
A team that had already set multiple franchise and big league records with some incredible home scoring displays this season added one for the record books when it stormed back from nine runs down.
"Who knows," outfielder Ryan Spilborghs said, "especially here at Coors Field, what type of magic we can get?"
It seems there's nothing the Rockies can't do at home. The club is 41-20 at Coors Field, having won 16 games in its final at-bat, having scored nine runs in the ninth inning while also plating 12 in a single frame in Denver.
Simply put, what conventional baseball wisdom tells you should be impossible becomes probable when Colorado plays at home.
"What an effort," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "What I've fallen in love with about these players is they just don't quit. They just don't quit."
Trailing, 10-8, with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Rockies left fielder Carlos Gonzalez smoked a 0-1 fastball from Braves reliever Jonny Venters into center field, plating two to complete the furious comeback.
He was followed by shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who drove a seeing-eye grounder into left field to plate Dexter Fowler from third. Before all was said and done, first baseman Todd Helton drove another two-out RBI single up the middle to cap the offensive outburst and give the Rockies 11 unanswered runs. There, they would stay.
Reliever Matt Belisle, who came on in the eighth, earned the victory. He joined fellow 'pen mates Joe Beimel and rookie Matt Reynolds to combine for six scoreless innings.
"We went from, 'How are we going to get through this?' in the bullpen to, 'Oh, now we've got to keep this thing close,'" Beimel said.
The rally erased dismal performances by Colorado starter Esmil Rogers and reliever Manuel Corpas, who were hammered for 10 runs and 12 hits over the first three innings.
"It was just one of those things -- you've got to kind of bear down and throw up zeroes every inning," Reynolds said. "When we started scoring runs, you knew you couldn't give up any more or you'd lose the momentum. I was going to go as long and as hard as I could, and it worked out."
The performance tied a franchise record for largest comeback to victory, matching a nine-run effort on July 4, 2008. In that game, Colorado trailed, 13-4, before coming back to win 18-17.
It was Colorado's first sweep since it took three in a row from the Cubs from July 31-Aug. 1 and just its second since the All-Star break. It's also the first time the National League East-leading Braves have been swept since June 22-24.
"I don't know what to say," Braves third baseman Martin Prado said. "It was unbelievable. It seemed like every single ball they hit, they found a hole or hit it hard somewhere. It's going to be one of the hardest losses we're going to have this year."
And don't look now, but the Rockies have re-emerged in the playoff conversation. A team that was all but out of it after a dismal road trip has been reinvigorated in Denver.
The 11 runs Colorado scored after finding itself down 10-1 early? Three more than the eight the Rockies scored on that six-game road trip.
"Going into it, we knew it was a game we had to win," Helton said. "Falling behind so quick, it didn't look like it was going to work out, but we kept hammering away."
Joey Nowak is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.